Great song. If the song is chronological, the anti-hero breaks out from jail, fires a gun, and makes his getaway in a stolen car at night. He stops to place roses on a grave (the song addresses a dead loved one?) but can't linger because the authorities and his enemies are after him.
I draw a parallel between his opinion of himself as being invincible and others viewing him as dispicable to the punishment being reciprocal. Maybe he lives a violent life of crime as a mob boss and his punishment is solitary confinement.
My favorite lines are "I'm unbeatable, my mind is untreatable, crimes unrepeatable, public enemy number one." It mirror's the "invincible" lines. His view of himself, other's view of him, and crime/punishment. I don't know that there is a treatment for psychopathy or sociopathy, if he is one. I view "crimes unrepeatable" as having a double meaning. He commits crimes that others could not repeat and crimes that are unspeakable.
A criminal who repeatedly thwarts the authorities in stand-offs makes the authorities crazy, come undone. He may be a thrill-seeker, flirting with death just for fun.
I read that Dave Mustaine said this song is about Al Capone. I don't think Al Capone's father was a fugitive, but maybe the line means he was born a fugitive and also born his father's son. I also take the next line to have double meanings. A criminal committing a crime brings trouble upon himself in the form of the law coming after him, but this criminal is likely to keep committing crimes until he's caught or dies, so he is going to continue to cause trouble for the law.
Some historical Wanted posters used the phrase "Wanted dead or alive". This public enemy number one is so dangerous that he is wanted dead or dead and is so dangerous that those have tried have themselves ended up dead with a bullet in their head.
Great song. If the song is chronological, the anti-hero breaks out from jail, fires a gun, and makes his getaway in a stolen car at night. He stops to place roses on a grave (the song addresses a dead loved one?) but can't linger because the authorities and his enemies are after him.
I draw a parallel between his opinion of himself as being invincible and others viewing him as dispicable to the punishment being reciprocal. Maybe he lives a violent life of crime as a mob boss and his punishment is solitary confinement.
My favorite lines are "I'm unbeatable, my mind is untreatable, crimes unrepeatable, public enemy number one." It mirror's the "invincible" lines. His view of himself, other's view of him, and crime/punishment. I don't know that there is a treatment for psychopathy or sociopathy, if he is one. I view "crimes unrepeatable" as having a double meaning. He commits crimes that others could not repeat and crimes that are unspeakable.
A criminal who repeatedly thwarts the authorities in stand-offs makes the authorities crazy, come undone. He may be a thrill-seeker, flirting with death just for fun.
I read that Dave Mustaine said this song is about Al Capone. I don't think Al Capone's father was a fugitive, but maybe the line means he was born a fugitive and also born his father's son. I also take the next line to have double meanings. A criminal committing a crime brings trouble upon himself in the form of the law coming after him, but this criminal is likely to keep committing crimes until he's caught or dies, so he is going to continue to cause trouble for the law.
Some historical Wanted posters used the phrase "Wanted dead or alive". This public enemy number one is so dangerous that he is wanted dead or dead and is so dangerous that those have tried have themselves ended up dead with a bullet in their head.