List of SSBN Music (Metal Gear series)

This is a list of the new music tracks in Super Smash Bros. Nexus pertaining to the Metal Gear universe. As all music tracks from previous games return, returning music tracks will not be listed. The new track list is entirely made up of music from Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance.

## Tracklist

 It Has to Be This Way | Ripped directly from MGR:R. It is the theme that plays during the final boss fight against Senator Armstrong. The vocals will not play until at least one fighter has reached their final stock.

## Lyrics

\***Bolded** lyrics are where music transitions to upon reaching the final stock.

### A Soul Can't Be Cut

Have you ever slashed a soul to ribbons?

Have you ever believed in a mirage?

My ears are ringing with a sound

Feel the vibrations – my hearts starts to pound (pound, pound)

Give in to darkness, bodies melt

How do we play the cards we’ve been dealt (dealt, dealt)

Beauty – it’s humanity’s greatest sin

Beauty – hiding the beast that lies within

For all our righteous crimes we compensate

But as for me it’s far too late

I can’t deny the voices inside my brain

It’s not a dream – we’re one and the same

You should know that a soul can’t be cut

(Can’t be cut)

No matter what blade you wield

If you follow your own path to justice

(Path to justice)

The brutal truth will be revealed

(Yeah!)

The sound’s getting louder

And louder and louder

And louder and louder

You should know

### Rules of Nature

The time has come to an end

Yeah – this is what nature planned

Being tracked by a starving beast

Looking for its daily feast

A predator on the verge of death

Close to its last breath

Getting close to its last breath

**RULES OF NATURE**

And they run when the sun comes up

With their lives on the line

(Alive)

For a while

(No choice)

Gotta follow the laws of the wild

(Alive)

With their lives on the line

(No choice)

Out here only the strong survive

What’s done is done

Survived to see another day

The game of life

The hunter and the agile prey

No guarantee

Which of them will succeed

Strong or weak

(yell)

Rules of Nature

Rules of Nature

### I'm My Own Master Now

Born

Into a pack

There’s no choice

But take orders to attack

Locked up in chains

I get fed

But the hunger still remains

Not content to live this way

Being led by the blind

Got to plan my dispersal

**Time to leave them all behind**

Breaking out of my pain

Nothing ventured – nothing gained

I’m my own master now

Bear the mark of my scars

Shedding blood underneath the stars

But I will survive somehow

Oooooooo

Oooooooo

Hear me howl

Time to leave them all behind

I’m my own master now

### A Stranger I Remain

I've come here from nowhere

Across the unforgiving sea

Drifting further and further

It's all becoming clear to me

The violent winds are upon us and I can't sleep

Internal temperatures rising

And all the voices won't recede

I've finally found what I was looking for

A place where I can be without remorse

Because I am a stranger who has found

An even stranger war

**I've finally found what I was looking for**

Here I come

I sharpen the knife

And look down upon the bay

For all of my life

A stranger I remain

A stranger I remain

A stranger I remain

### The Stains of Time

Wash away the anger

Here I stand beneath the warm and soothing rain

The droplets falling gently down on the terrain

Wash away the sorrow all the stains of time

But there’s no memory it’s only dry inside

In the mud and sinking deeper

Into a peaceful life

**And it will come like a flood of pain**

Pouring down on me

And it will not let up

Until the end is here

And it will come through the darkest day

In my final hour

And it will never rest until the clouds are clear

Until it finds my dreams have disappeared

My dreams disappear

### Red Sun

Red sun

Red sun over paradise

Red sun

Red sun over paradise

Golden rays of the glorious sunshine

Setting down, such a blood-red light

Now the animals slowly retreat

To the shadows – out of sight

Arid winds blow across the mountains

Giving flight to the birds of prey

In the distance machines come

To transform Eden – day by day

Only love is with us now

Something warm and pure

Find the peace within ourselves

No need for a cure

**When the wind is slow**

And the fire’s hot

The vulture waits to see what rots

Oh how pretty

All the scenery

This is nature’s sacrifice

When the air blows through

With a brisk attack

The reptile tail ripped from its back

When the sun sets

We will not forget the

Red sun over paradise

Red sun

### The Only Thing I Know For Real

Memories broken

The truth goes unspoken

I’ve even forgotten my name

I don’t know the season

Or what is the reason

I’m standing here holding my blade

A desolate place

Without any trace

It’s only the cold wind I feel

It’s me that I spite

As I stand up and fight

The only thing I know for real

**There will be blood-shed**

The man in the mirror nods his head

The only one left

Will ride upon the dragon’s back

Because the mountains don’t give back what they take

Oh no

There will be blood-shed

It’s the only thing I’ve ever known

Losing my identity

Wondering have I gone insane

To find the truth in front of me

I must climb this mountain range

Looking downward from this deadly height

And never realizing why I fight

### Collective Consciousness

**The unenlightened masses**

They cannot make the judgment call

Give up free will forever, their voices won’t be heard at all

Display obedience

While never stepping out of line

And blindly swear allegiance

Let your country control your mind

(Let your country control your soul)

Live in ignorance

And purchase your happiness

When blood and sweat is the real cost

Thinking ceases, the truth is lost

Don’t you worry

You’ll be told exactly what to do

I give my people the lives they need

The righteous will succeed

The fires of greed will burn the weak

So we’ll make freedom obsolete

Making whole the fabric of society

Collective consciousness controlled as you will see

MIND CONTROL

Let your country control your soul

Let your country control your soul

Let your country control your soul

Let your country control your soul

### It Has To Be This Way

**Standing here**

I realize

You are just like me

Trying to make history

But who’s to judge

The right from wrong

When our guard is down

I think we’ll both agree

That violence breeds violence

But in the end it has to be this way

I’ve carved my own path

You followed your wrath

But maybe we’re both the same

The world has turned

And so many have burned

But nobody is to blame

Yet staring across this barren wasted land

I feel new life will be born

Beneath the blood stained sand

Beneath the blood stained sand