Megadeth - Symphony of Destruction [Remastered 2012]
Time: 1:13
Its metal brain corrodes
You try to take its pulse
![Megadeth - Symphony of Destruction [Remastered 2012]](https://img.youtube.com/vi/wEPKIulCEhQ/maxresdefault.jpg)
wear away; cause to deteriorate due to the action of water, air, or an acid
Heard in 39 songs (84M+ combined views) — most famously in "Symphony of Destruction [Remastered 2012]" by Megadeth.
Updated August 23, 2026
Time: 1:13
Its metal brain corrodes
You try to take its pulse
![Megadeth - Symphony of Destruction [Remastered 2012]](https://img.youtube.com/vi/wEPKIulCEhQ/maxresdefault.jpg)
Time: 0:19
You're the one that I need, I'm the one that you loathe
You can watch me corrode like a beast in repose
'Cause I love all the poison, away with the boys in the band

Time: 1:19
In my head the flesh seems thicker
Sandpaper tears corrode the film
And I need you now somehow

Time: 0:50
The tainted paint that's on the wall
Crumbles and corrodes rumbling softly as it hits the floor
It's time to say goodbye

Time: 6:12
My Madonna, she still has not showed
We see this empty cage now corrode
Where her cape of the stage once had flowed

Time: 1:18
Bleed, battle scars, chemical affinity
Reign, legacy, innocence corrode
Stain, rot away, catatonic overload

Time: 7:16
♪
Life begins as I corrode
♪

Time: 1:59
Emotionless, my meal a delicacy in this place
The chamber doors close, my mind corrodes
This seems to be a diabolical plan for extinction

Time: 1:30
Since then I've been on a mission
To be down with rap until my mind corrodes
I'm dedicated with my life and soul

Time: 3:00
Maraud the façade 'cause the children want answers
Corrode from the inside like a good type of cancer
Oh, piss on the clergy, the new age heathens

Time: 1:03
The seat of true power holds, beyond the throne
The seed that in man corrodes, beyond the throne
The crown of supreme control, beyond the throne

Time: 2:13
Parts of the dead are never to rest
Lymphatic nodes implode, while the brain corrodes
Bodies sold to science, profiting from the dead

Time: 1:56
I'll break out of this cage and try to cut that muthafucka up
I curl up in the corner, my body will corrode
My teeth are turnin' into dust, skin is growin' mold

Time: 3:10
And force fed lies
The black and white societies corrode
Warring, hating, blind, a rage explodes

Time: 1:25
Conceive sorcery
Corrodes disbelief
Confirm who I am

Time: 0:34
The world was painted gold
Before the hope began to corrode
And all the people awoke to the cold

Time: 0:42
There's no light and there's no air
The rose's smell corrodes me
A deep agony possesses me

Time: 3:27
You'll wait for 'your' hell, I wish you hell...
In time the hate corrodes
Our brains are desolate

Time: 2:41
Bullet (Do it, man!) Fuck that, damn
Broken like glass, I corrode with the mold (With the mold)
Wither like tree bark, slowly I implode

Time: 1:34
Detonate and prosper
Corrode and bathe yourself in gold
Throw away forever

Time: 0:34
Make a symbol of yourself, now
When will our wisdom corrode?
Decline and die

Time: 1:29
Erase
Your innards I corrode
This process you will loathe

Time: 1:03
Breathing night born of magic in astral flight (astral flight)
Wings corrode air of heaven that once was strong (once was strong)
♪

Time: 1:16
And I cut and I killed and was lost in a field,
And I soon did rust, corrode to dust,
Oh my.

Time: 0:32
Control your thoughts and mind
Corrode your thoughts and mind
Feel nothing at all

Time: 2:23
With braggadocio to go from mostly jokey to gross
Corrode a homie til his probity is notably ghost
Before the hobby was a job he was a manager, Hell

Time: 3:47
'Cause all the punks are doing loads
Our arteries and veins corrode
'Cause all the punks are doing loads

Time: 0:58
All the dream that you once rode
Now your vision is so corroded
You're the world that sent me

Time: 7:40
And Madonna, she still has not showed
We see this empty cage now corrode
Where her cape of the stage once had flowed
![Jerry Garcia - Visions of Johanna [Previously Unreleased Track]](https://img.youtube.com/vi/C3Yas54eKP0/maxresdefault.jpg)
Time: 1:42
(Burn all the empires and face what you fear)
As the day passes we watch the world corrode
Vampires in daylight, the condemned are here to stay

Time: 0:06
The coffin is sealed on your rotten corpse
You lie in darkness, death corrodes your face
You are rotting, maggots in your coffin

Time: 0:41
I took your life from you
Collapsed organs now rot and corrode
Your empty body - bloated

Time: 0:30
Holy ghost
I'll corrode
Lips explode

Time: 0:14
The road, a yellow line unfolds
Jagged then corrodes, Pomona first of all
Machines they rush in a trance

Time: 0:54
Ceremony rape machine
Love won't corrode you
Ceremony rape machine

Time: 1:09
We say goodbye
Silence corrodes the air, I guess we can't repair
The cracks that run right through our lives

Time: 2:40
Once I thanked God for our treasure
Now like rust it corrodes
And I can't help but blaming your going

Time: 1:36
Saint Barbara, don't let me explode
I can feel the whole scene starting to corrode
When we're fooling around on the frontage roads

Time: 0:16
In this greater battle
Where tanks corrode and airplanes dissolve
The Indians race on foot
