When today’s music video was first released, it was banned by MTV.  MTV claimed that the song and the video glorified suicide, which was certainly not the case when it came to either one.  As Dave Mustaine explained in interviews at the time, the song was about what Mustaine would say to his friends if he learned that he only had a few minutes left to live.  Mustaine sings that he would want to say, “I love you all and now I must go.”

(Some of the misunderstanding probably came from the song appearing on an album entitled Youthanasia.  Megadeth’s lyrics could certainly be dark and serious but they were just as often misunderstood, even by people who should have known better.)

Most only sources list Justin Keith as the director of this video.  In an interview with a German site, Mustaine explained that Justin Keith was actually the incredibly prolific Wayne Isham and that MTV apparently told Megadeth not to use Isham as their director because the channel was already “saturated” with videos that Isham had directed.  So, when Megadeth submitted the video, the listed Isham as being “Justin Keith.”  According to Mustaine, this — and not the the video’s content — is what actually caused MTV to ban the music video.

Mustaine later rerecorded this song for 2007’s United Abominations.

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