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Megadeth - Take No Prisoners

This is a song in two parts: the intro and the outro have pro-war call and return gang vocals, but the meat of the song is very clearly anti-war. I'm not entirely sure what the purpose of the juxtaposition was, but it works IMO.


Got one chance (infiltrate them) 
\ Get it right (terminate them) 
\ The Panzers will (permeate them) 
\ Break their pride (denigrate them)
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\ And their people (retrograde them) 
\ Typhus (deteriorate them) 
\ Epidemic (devastate them) 
\ Take no prisoners (cremate them) 
\ (Burn!)
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\ Going to war, give 'em hell 
\ D-Day, next stop Normandy 
\ Beginning of the end 
\ We know how to, and sure as shit, we'll win
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\ "War is peace", sure man 
\ A retreat for the damned 
\ A playground for the demented 
\ A haven for those who walk this world 
\ Bereft of heart and soul
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\ Love and war, they say all is fair 
\ Take his life, but won't take his hair 
\ Your body parts, your country spares 
\ By the way son, here's your wheelchair
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\ He once had to be all he could be 
\ Now he's nothing for no one, nowhere to see 
\ Funny thing, he's like you and me 
\ It's a funny thing, a funny thing 
\ Tears streak his solemn stare 
\ Abandoned for wreckage, nobody cares
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\ No one knew what would happen there 
\ No one spoke, no one even cared 
\ Don't ask what you can do for your country 
\ Ask what your country can do for you
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\ Take no prisoners (take no shit) 
\ Take no prisoners (take no shit) 
\ Take no prisoners (take no shit) 
\ Take no prisoners (take no-) 
\ (Shit)

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