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Megadeth

Mastermind

Release date: 17th June 1997

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'Mastermind' by Megadeth is a 1997 track from the album 'Cryptic Writings'. The lyrics sketch a bleak, mechanised inner life, with the speaker describing anonymous existence, a controlled thought process, and a forced mental collapse. The chorus crystallises that coercive attitude, with the refrain 'I tell you what to think' driving home the song’s cold, prosecutorial insistence on domination of the mind.

"Mastermind" is a track by Megadeth, from the album Cryptic Writings, released 17th June 1997. Full lyrics are available below.

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Lyrics

Mastermind

[Verse 1]

Anonymous existence

Rendered useless to mankind

Destroy the logic volume

In the confines of the mind

Enmassed and purposeless

Marching in a perfect line

Neo-neuro torture

Mental meltdown, a heinous crime

[Chorus]

Mastermind, I tell you what to think

Mastermind, I tell you what you need

Mastermind, I tell you what to feel

Mastermind

[Verse 2]

Invade the core of souls

To wipe the lives away

Design vacant beings

Welcome the inhuman race

Encrypted horror codes

Directive psyche overwrite

Processing brains to pabulum

Delete and format living drives

[Chorus]

Mastermind, I tell you what to think

Mastermind, I tell you what you need

Mastermind, I tell you what to feel

Mastermind, I tell you what's real

[Guitar Solo: Marty Friedman]

[Guitar Solo: Dave Mustaine]

[Verse 3]

Hail to the power age

Lest the viral hour comes

Raise the flag of voltage

Bow to circuitry unknown

Kneel before the processor

Lords of static laugh

Electrons in submission

You must know who I am

[Bridge]

I tell you what to think

I don't care what you thought

I tell you what to get

I don't care what you got

I tell you what to think

I don't care what you thought

I tell you what to get

I don't care, I don't care what you got

[Outro]

Mastermind, I tell you what to think

(I don't care what you got)

Mastermind, I tell you what you need

Mastermind, I tell you what to feel

(I don't care, I don't care what you got)

Mastermind, subject!

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From Cryptic Writings

1997
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Cryptic Writings
Cryptic Writings
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1997
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  2. —Vortex
  3. —Trust (Spanish Version)
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  5. —Bullprick
  6. —Evil That's Within
  7. —Have Cool, Will Travel
  8. —FFF
  9. —Mastermind
  10. —She-Wolf
  11. —The Disintegrators
  12. —Sin
  13. —One Thing

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