Looking Down the Cross - Intellectual

[Guitar Solo: Dave Mustaine]

Woah, yeah

Now before they take me and my blessed life

Now you'll know why death was summoned here tonight

I'll recall my perils, they'll kill me in pride

No, I can't run away, there's no place to hide

Woah

Though too much to live for, I owe enough to die

Ask not for salvation, my death shall mean their lives

Hatred and guilt, the altar they've built, high priests of sin

Destiny, fate, the wicked one's gate beckoning you in

Beckoning you in

Down the walkways, through the blood-stained town

Looking down the cross, bleeding from the crown

Led to stay, to die beside the thieves

Kill the king of the world to be

And now to you, this will come a putrefying pestilence

More noxious than the serpent's breath, malevolently destined

More corrupt than the malice of Choronzon

More disease than the wind of the moonlight sun

Putrefaction you have caused, no need for confession

Now you wish you had a god to stop your demolition

Crushing the bones of the hundred-folds, swingin' the judgement hammer

Man, woman, child, no one is safe, the heads of the dead are the banner

And this was all you got so don these broken wings

The sands of time run out, the bells of Hades ring

Is this a nightmare to unhallow thy name?

Smell of brimstone dancin' in the flame

No help now as you fulfil his task

The chief of evil has got you by the ass

Set free to sit upon the throne

Just a dream? You're weepin' all alone

Lookin' down the cross, speak no evil

I'm lookin' down the cross, speak no evil

Lookin' down the cross, speak no evil

I'm lookin' down the cross, speak no evil

Woah