Set The World Afire

Set The World Afire
"Set the World Afire" is the first songDave Mustaine wrote for Megadeth after being fired from Metallica. He was a member of Metallica from 1982–83, and was dismissed just before Metallica recorded its debut album Kill 'Em All. He later said that he wrote the lyrics during his journey home from the departure. Inspiration for the song came from a newspaper he read while on the bus back to California. Originally intended to be titled "Megadeath", Mustaine later decided to use the name, minus the "a" in "death," for the band instead.

Lyrics
Red flash cloud's choking out the morning sky

They said it'd never come, we knew it was a lie

All forms of life die now the humans all succumb

Time to kiss your ass goodbye the end has just begun

Distorted figures walk the street, it's 1989

Weeds once underneath your feet have grown to vines

Bodies melted like a candies, a land without a face

No time to change your fate, no time left, it's too late

The arsenal of megadeth can't be rid they said

And if it comes, the living will envy the dead

Racing for power, and all come in last

No winning first stone cast

This falsehood worldly peace

It's treaties soon will cease

No one will be left to prove that humans existed

Maybe soon the children will be born open-fisted

We all live on one planet it will all go up in smoke

Too bad they couldn't see this lethal energy

And now the final scene, a global darkening

Dig deep piles of rubble and ruins

Towering overhead both far and wide

There's unknown tools for World War III

Einstein said ' We'll use rocks on the other side '

No survivors

Set the world afire!