The World Needs A Hero - Songs

Songs

The album's lead single was "Moto Psycho", and a video was also made for this song. "Dread and the Fugitive Mind" was previously released as a new track on the Capitol Punishment compilation a year earlier, at the insistence of Megadeth's former label, Capitol Records.

The album's opener, "Disconnect", is explained by Mustaine as being about living a double life and "the person I want you to think that I am and the person inside that I really know I am." "Coming Home" was only available on the Japanese pressing as a bonus track, but has since been released on the Warchest box set. Mustaine has stated that concept for "Promises" is "prejudiced relationships," such as those between a Catholic and a Protestant in Ireland, interracial and same-sex relationships, "it could be about a guy and a sheep for all I care. It just means that if we can't be together in this life, maybe we'll make it in the next. When asked if "Recipe for Hate... Warhorse" was written about any particular person, Mustaine said that there were "a whole bunch of people that'd probably deserve that song," but didn't single out anyone in particular. "Silent Scorn" is an instrumental song which is often played over the sound system at concerts; this can be heard on the band's live albums Rude Awakening That One Night: Live in Buenos Aires right after the final song in the band's set, "Holy Wars... The Punishment Due". "Return to Hangar" is a sequel to "Hangar 18" from Rust in Peace; the captive aliens from the first song escape and kill their captors. On the live albums Rude Awakening and That One Night it is even played back-to-back with "Hangar 18". The main riff and structure of "When", the album's closing number, is reminiscent of "Am I Evil?" by Diamond Head, which Mustaine has said was intentional.