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