The Threat Is Real

Album: Dystopia (2016)
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  • Justified obliteration, no one cares anymore
    The Messiah part mass murderer
    No controlling who comes through the door
    A culture made have covered us
    Where leprosy touch their flesh
    Fall back with meetings and rendezvous
    The vultures have come home to nest
    The clock runs out, the weakest link
    A deadly strike, the threat is real

    Seen the bird as a machism
    A crest fallen nation see
    Violent conditioning, cause the nature of the enemy
    You're terminal lack of vision
    Blinded, I see no light
    A quiet lack of perspective
    Their cancer now eats us alive
    A fatal shot, a lust for blood
    The final act, the threat is real

    Justified obliteration, no one cares anymore
    The Messiah part mass murderer
    No controlling who comes through the door
    A culture made have covered us
    Where leprosy touch their flesh
    Fall back with meetings and rendezvous
    The vultures have come home to nest
    The clock runs out, the weakest link
    A deadly strike, the threat is real
    A fatal shot, a lust for blood
    The final act, the threat is real Writer/s: DAVE MUSTAINE
    Publisher: Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 1

  • Newfie Boy from Newfoundland, CanadaThis song is the first song in the two-song series in dystopia aswell. The two music videos for "the threat is real" and "dystopia" match up perfectly with a blood splatter forming and flowING off the screen at the beginning of dystopia.
    The threat is real - dystopia
    Hope somebody changes the meaning of this song accordingly
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