99 Ways To Die

Album: Hidden Treasures (1995)
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Songfacts®:

  • This song is about Gun Violence in America. "A playground of illusion... No one plays they only die" Could mean that children could bring a gun to a park and shoot everyone.
  • The Music Video demonstrates the meaning of the song, for it shows facts about guns, and how dangerous they are to children. >>>
    Suggestion credit:
    Nicholos - Farmville, VA, for above 2

Comments: 3

  • Steve from Phoenix, AzIt is definitely not about gun violence. It is about suicide, and the epidemic of it. Dave is on record saying the video was not his idea, and he did not like the song being used to push a political agenda/pov.
  • Cody from Kansas City, MoI don't think the song is about gun violence, but about trying to commit suicide. I mean, just look at the lyrics. "The gun in my mouth was real, and the taste, it blew my mind," (Which, as Derek mentioned, is genius) "In a black tie and straight jacket, man, I'm gonna try again," "Down another glass of courage and a shot of thorazine," "Taunting rigor mortis, I feel it draw in me," etc.
  • Derek from Flin Flon, MbGreat example of mustaines lyrical talent...

    "The gun in my mouth was real, and the taste blew my mind"

    Genius!
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