Song of the day: Forget to Remember

This is one of my favorite tracks on the new Megadeth album "Super Collider". I thought this was a really good track, it's heavy(D tuning), but at the same time it has a kind of...how should I put it..."Hard-rock"? feel to it? I dunno. But also combined with a sad feel. I like it. I almost thought I'd heard the song before while I was listening to it...
Also, I thought the chorus was catchy, like ALL choruses should be, in my opinion. :D

The song starts with a single solitary guitar plunking away with distortion for the first 15 seconds, then all guitars bass and drums burst into a big epic sounding wave of awesomeness! WHOO!!!! YEA!!!! *calms down* Anyway, then at 0:30 the vocals start, with a simple palm-muted guitar riff behind the vocals:

"Sands in the hourglass fall for us all

You don't answer me anymore when I call

So much is trapped inside, tangled in your brain

It's getting cold outside and it looks like rain

The sky is falling and my heart is caving in"

 Now, Dave Mustaine the vocalist is over 50 years old now, so his singing is quite low and gruff. But that's okay, doesn't effect me too much, but it might make you guys roll your eyes, I dunno. :D Then at 1:00 a little bridge cuts off the verse, and then it goes into the chorus at 1:04:

"So, now the time has come to say the long goodbye

The setting of the sun reflecting in your eyes

Day after day after day the world will pass you by

You forget to remember"

Then at 1:29 after the chorus, it goes into a short solo by Dave Mustaine, which wasn't bad, and then goes back into the verse riff:

"If this is living, what the h*** is living for?

You've boarded up your eyes, you mind has locked the door

I'm just a stranger now with an unfamiliar face 

You can't recall me at all,

There's not a trace...not a trace...not a trace

I don't know where you are and my world is crumbling in"

And then it goes into the chorus again:

"So, now the time has come to say the long goodbye

The setting of the sun reflecting in your eyes

Day after day after day the world is passing you by

You forget to remember"

After that, at 2:40, a new riff starts, with Chris Broderick on lead guitar soloing in the background, and Dave Mustaine saying a new vocal line, conversing with some girl, by the sound of it...

Dave: "I just wanna talk..." Girl: "What do you want?"

Dave: "But you've got nothing to say..." Girl: "Leave me alone"

Dave: "I beg you to come" Girl: "Get away from me..."

Dave: "And you just walk away..." Girl: "I have no idea who you are!"

"I curse the day that your smile fades away, till then I pray"

Then the song gets kind of quiet, with one of the guitars sustaining a note, while the other guitar is riffing, with Dave Mustaine saying:

"A burning candle in-between and at both ends

With all that we've learned, yet we still pretend

I just wish you could say my name again"

Then starts singing again, with the guitars bass and drums back in full force:

"They made the lock and broke the key,

The culprit was the mercury

The vaccine wipes your memories

Till you forget even how to breathe

A tangled web they weave, when they practice to deceive"

And then back to the chorus!!!

"So now the time has come to say the long goodbye

the setting of the sun reflecting in your eyes

day after day after day the world has passed you by

I said that I'd be strong, but you know I had to lie

You forget...to remember...you forget...to remember...It's time to say the long goodbye."

And that ends a great track off Megadeth's new album "Super Collider". My thanx to Megadeth for continuing their writing of great music!!! :D

And here's the song: