Sweating Bullets

"Sweating Bullets"
Single by Megadeth
from the album Countdown to Extinction
Released	January, 1993
Recorded	Between January 6 and April 28, 1992
Genre	Heavy metal, thrash metal
Length	4:29
Label	Capitol Records
Writer(s)	Dave Mustaine
Producer	Max Norman and Dave Mustaine
Megadeth singles chronology
"Angry Again" (1993) "Sweating Bullets" (1993) "Skin o' My Teeth" (1993)
Countdown to Extinction track listing "Foreclosure of a Dream" (4) "Sweating Bullets" (5) "This Was My Life" (6)

"Sweating Bullets" is a song written by Dave Mustaine from the 1992 Megadeth album Countdown to Extinction. The song was released as a single in 1993, and charted at #29 on the US Mainstream Rock chart and at #26 in the UK.

The term "to sweat bullets" means to be very nervous or anxious about something.^[1] Lyrically, the song is about dissociative identity disorder.

The song was one of the many songs deemed inappropriate after the September 11th terrorist attacks.

"Sweating Bullets" is a playable track in the music video game Guitar Hero 5.

Music video

The music video for "Sweating Bullets" features Dave Mustaine living in an insane asylum. While looking at a mirror, someone grabs him, revealed to be himself. As the other Dave Mustaine talks to him, more Dave Mustaines appear and interact with the original. The other band members are also represented visually to have the same dissociative identity disorder.

Track listing

Disc 1

1. Sweating Bullets (Anxiety Edit) (Mustaine) 4:11
2. Symphony of Destruction (Live) (Mustaine) 4:03
3. Countdown to Extinction (Live) (Mustaine/Menza/Ellefson/Friedman) 4:21
4. Symphony of Destruction (Edited Gristle Mix) (Mustaine) 3:49

Disc 2

1. Sweating Bullets (Live) (Mustaine) 5:00
2. Ashes in Your Mouth (Live) (Mustaine/Menza/Ellefson/Friedman) 6:27
3. Symphony of Destruction (Gristle Mix) (Mustaine) 9:52

References

1. ^ http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sweat_bullets