In My World

With lines like "I'm a walking razor blade" and "laugh when others tear," Anthrax is exorcising their demons on this track, which was a single from their fifth album, Persistence of Time. In a Songfacts interview with drummer Charlie Benante, he explained the meaning: "'In My World' is another one of those songs where it is a very introspective type of thing: What we were seeing and what we were dealing with. Sometimes, in people's worlds, things aren't great - things are dark. There's no comedy in certain people's worlds. And the one thing I am going to say about being a musician and being in a band, believe me, it's not glamorous - it does have a lot of darkness to deal with. I guess that goes with everything, but you can use it in a cathartic type of way. It always sounds so cliché when people say, 'Oh, thank you for writing this song, it really helped me through a hard time,' but it's the truth. That's just the way it is. I think everybody in their life will have a situation where they deal with a death in the family or a death of a friend or a loved one, and it hits you in such a way that sometimes music is the only thing that does help you through it."

The band performed this on the 1992 episode of Married With Children, "My Dinner with Anthrax," where Bud and Kelly Bundy win a contest, bringing the band to their home. The band does some commendable acting in the episode, where they get hungry and eat the "mystery pack" in the refrigerator, causing hallucinations.