- Skin o' My Teeth
Infobox Single
Name = Skin O' My Teeth
Artist =Megadeth
from Album =Countdown to Extinction
Released = January, 1993
Format =
Recorded = Between January 6 and April 28, 1992
Genre = Heavy metal
Length = 3:14
Label = Capitol
Writer =Dave Mustaine
Producer =Max Norman andDave Mustaine
Certification =
Chart position =
Last single = "Sweating Bullets"
(1993)
This single = "Skin O' My Teeth"
(1993)
Next single = "Train of Consequences "
(1994)
Misc = Extra tracklisting
Album =Countdown to Extinction
Type = studio
this_track = "Skin O' My Teeth"
track_no = 1
next_track =Symphony of Destruction
next_no = 2"Skin O' My Teeth" is the third single fromMegadeth 's multi-platinum album "Countdown to Extinction ". The song, written byDave Mustaine deals with the theme of suicide and the failure of reaching that goal. Mustaine once said that "This song is about how many times I've tried to kill myself but just couldn't get the fuckin' job done."It's one of the fastest songs of the album, with a pace of 196
bpm . Fact|date=June 2008This song was played in the
Argentina concert that would appear on the DVD "", but didn't make it into the final cut for the DVD. It appears in the iTunes version of the concertThe title is a reference to the popular
Thornton Wilder play "The Skin Of Our Teeth ".The song also appears in the "" compilation of 2005.
Kalmah covered it on their second studio album,They Will Return .A drum sample from this song appears in the Pendulum track "Another Planet" on the album
Hold Your Colour
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