The Metallica Lyric Lounge

Just a Bullet Away Lyrics Metallica

2011-12-13T22:28:00.000-08:00

Just a Bullet Away Lyrics Metallica

Just A Bullet Away was performed by Metallica at their 30th Anniversary Shows at the Fillmore in San Francisco on December 6, 2011.

The song was a left over from the Death Magnetic recording sessions.

Lyrics

All roads they lead to shame
All drowning in the blame
all reflections look the same
In the shine of the midnight revolver

All hide beneath a skin
A hope so paper thin
I’m at the door again and the shine of the midnight revolver

Even the promise of danger has gone dull
Staring down the barrel of a 45

Suck on the barrel
Suck on the barrel
Suck it ’til it’s gone dry

for all reflections look the same
in the shine of the midnight revolver

redemption purify
will nothing satisfy
the scars just multiply
in the shine of the midnight revolver

twisting in apocalypse
death upon the fingertips
frigid metal touches lips
and the shine of the midnight revolver

because you lied

just a bullet away
just a bullet away from leavin’ you
just a bullet away
stop the voices in my head

caressing death again
becomes the heroin
forbidden medicine
puts a shine on the midnight revolver

eternal borderline
all the faces intertwine
oh god… now i see mine
in the shine of the midnight revolver

even the promise of danger has gone dull
staring down the barrel of a 45

suck on the barrel
suck on the barrel
suck… suck till it’s dry

for all reflections look the same
in the shine of the midnight revolver

down in misery
down in misery

just a bullet away
just a bullet away from leavin’ you
just a bullet away
stop the voices in my head

all roads they lead to shame
all drowning in the blame
reflections look the same
in the shine of the midnight revolver

all hide beneath a skin
a hope so paper thin
i’m at the door again
and the shine of the midnight revolver

even the promise of danger has gone dull
staring down the barrel of a 45

suck on the barrel
suck on the barrel
suck… suck till it’s dry

do all reflections look the same
in the shine of the midnight revolver

because you lied
yes you lied

just a bullet away
just a bullet away from leavin’ you
just a bullet away
stop the voices in my head

Metallica also played new song Rebel of Babylon at one of the 30th Anniversary Shows.

Rebel of Babylon Lyrics Metallica

2011-12-12T14:34:00.001-08:00

Rebel of Babylon Lyrics Metallica

Rebel of Babylon is an unreleased track from the Death Magnetic album recording sessions. It was debuted as part of the 30th Anniversary Set List at the Fillmore.

Lyrics

Rebel grip your bottle tight
Just float away
Rebel is it hard to leave
What makes you stay?

Go take your poison ink
Sign life away
Then take your dirty spoon
And dig your grave
Dig your grave

Rebel grips the bottle tight
Just floats away
Rebel finds it hard to leave
What makes you stay?

He takes the poison ink
Signing life away
Then takes the dirty spoon
And digs his grave

Let this dark shine
Let this dark shine
Let it shine bright
Don’t let it burn out tonight

Kill me one more time
Stigmata
Kill me one more time
Neo martyr

Gonna die young
Gonna live forever
Kill me one more time
Rise up
Rebel of Babylon

Renegade fights the fight
That no one wins
He claims a crown of thorns
To pierce the skin

He climbs his crucifix
And waits for dawn
Thinks they’ll remember him
After he’s gone

Let this dark shine
Let this dark shine
Let it shine bright
Don’t let it burn out tonight

Kill me one more time
Stigmata
Kill me one more time
Neo martyr

Gonna die young
Gonna live forever
Kill me one more time
Rise up
Rebel of Babylon

Rise up
Rise up
Resurrection

The rebel fights the fight
That no one wins
To claim a crown of thorns
To pierce his skin

Climbs his crucifix
And waits for dawn
He looses consciousness
The myth lives on

Let this dark shine
Let this dark shine
Let it shine bright
Don’t let it burn out tonight
Tonight

Kill me one more time
Stigmata
Kill me one more time
Neo martyr

Gonna die young
Gonna live forever
Kill me one more time
Rise up
Rebel of Babylon

Rise up
Rise up
Resurrection

Iced Honey lyrics by Lou Reed and Metallica

2011-09-06T13:40:00.000-07:00

Iced Honey lyrics by Lou Reed and Metallica

The Metal Masters of Music Mayhem in Lou 'talks some walks' Reed have collaborated on an album called Lulu - it's a pretty strange affair..... Iced Honey is a concept song of sorts about a troubled ballet dancer called Lulu.

Iced Honey Lyrics

You can’t put a butterfly in a jar
If the effort’s too high no matter who you are
You can’t catch the moon, or the sun or the stars
It doesn’t matter who you are
Iced honey

Now me I’ve tried a million tricks
To make life cold and make it stick
Not running heat that flames then out
But the proud piece of ice that always floats
Iced honey

If I can’t trap a butterfly or a bee
If I can’t keep my heart where I want it to be
If no matter how much soul and heart
I put to the wood
If a flaming heart is not that good
Iced honey

If you can’t put a butterfly in a jar
If violence mars your final hour
If you make others feel like jam
Poured on a piece of charbroiled lamb

If it’s all mixed up and you cannot shout
And your oxygen starts to run out
If your final gasp has the recipe wrong
And instead of hello you say so long

If your energy starts to leak out
And people wonder what you’re all about
A heartbreaker with an unattached heart
The story of love gives them all a start

And me, I’ve always been this way
Not by choice, just this way
I can’t put my honey pot in a jar
Or a heart or a fist of some young boy

If you can’t put a butterfly in a jar
No wonder no need to wonder where you are
It might seem like hell, the River Styx
Your affection never sticks

No matter what you say, no matter what you do
A butterfly heart flies right past you
There’s nothing to say, nothing to do
See if the ice will melt for you
Iced honey

Check out the lyrics to Dragon and Cheat On My from Lulu.

Dragon Lyrics by Lou Reed and Metallica for Lulu

2011-09-04T17:41:00.001-07:00

Dragon Lyrics by Lou Reed and Metallica for Lulu

Check out the epic in length lyrics to Dragon from the Lulu album, a joint effort Lou 'Perfect Day' Reed and Metal Masters Metallica.

Dragon Lyrics

You don’t actually care
Love for you is no beginning
You’re not really there
Hallucination

I thought you were listening
Hallucination
I thought you were listening
Hallucination

I understand you think you’re above it
The adolescent sense of the sky
The feeling of billowing heartbeats
The fingertips run through your hair

They run through your hair
Hallucination
Hallucination

Oh you think you’re so special
That there’s no law meant for you
You come and go like the goddess you are
We’re mere mortals below
Fingertips run through your hair
We are mere mortals below

Are meant to be peons
Are meant to be servants
Are meant to be dismissible objects
One fucks with
One fucks with

Poor pitiful creature

The winner in heartbreak
The winner in caring
The winner in every miniscule method of wearing
Your heart on your sleeve
A red star of idiocy

An idiot’s idiocy
My, my caring for you
Caring for you
Do you think we’re a book
Some kind of a table
You can rest your feet on when you’re able
Red star of idiocy
An idiot’s idiocy
My caring for you
Poor pitiful creature

To notice the pining
The self deprivation
The self flagellation of you
Dear worshippers

We do like you regal
We do like you haughty
We do love to look upon your perfect body

The hair on your shoulders
The smell of your armpit
The taste of your vulva and everything on it
We all really love you
And you have no meaning
You don’t even see us
You were never caring

You go do what you do
You do it for you
No one exists with you
You’re way above caring
Leave a trail upon the wake
That no one ever tries to take
Because waiting for you
Thinking of you
Is another way of dying
Is another way of dying

I’m clawing your chest
‘Til your collarbone bleeds
Piercing your nipples ‘til I bite them off
I scratch your face and bite your shoulders
Way above caring
Way above caring
And your Kotex jukebox
Your Kotex jukebox

I’m doomed, I’m swearing
Waiting for you
In your high heels and nightie
Your leather dress squeaking
Latex now sweating, waiting for you
In your tincture
Your opium white bathrobe
Your white tiles run red now
Are we both dead now?

The liquid exchange of our heart
The liquid exchange of our heart
Are we both dead now?

You’re way above caring
Your heart on your sleeve
A red star of idiocy
An idiot’s idiocy
My caring
My caring for you
My caring for you
You’re way beyond caring
Your heart on your sleeve
A red star of idiocy
An idiot’s idiocy

My caring for you
Oblivious to caring
Oblivious to caring
Oblivious to caring
Leave a trail upon the wake
That no one ever tries to take
Because waiting for you
Because thinking of you
Is another way of dying

You’re way above caring
Oblivious to caring
Oblivious to caring
You poor pitiful creature
The mistake of feeling
The one who rejects you is the winner,
It’s true
The winner in heartbreak
The winner in caring
The winner in every miniscule method of wearing
Your heart on your sleeve
A red star of idiocy
An idiot’s idiocy
Your heart on your fuckin’ sleeve
My caring for you
We were meant to be peons
We’re meant to be peons
Mere mortals below
Meant to be servants

Meant to be dismissible objects one fucks with
Oh, oh, oh you’re so special
No law meant for you
You come and go like the goddess you are

The fingertips run through your hair
A billowing heart beats
Feeling
Feeling
What a glorious feeling
To be so rejected
So rejected

An idiot’s idiocy
My caring for you
You think I’m a book or a table
You can rest your fuckin’ feet on
When you’re able

The taste of your vulva, everything on it
The hair on your shoulders
The smell of your armpit
We do love you, to look upon your perfect body
We love you regal
We love you haughty
Oblivious to caring
Oblivious to caring
Caring

Oh my dear
Oh my dear
Oh my dear
Oblivious to caring

Are we really dead now?
Are we both dead now?

Check out lyrics to The View or Brandenburg Gate.

Cheat on Me Lyrics by Lou Reed Metallica from Lulu

2011-09-03T13:55:00.001-07:00

Cheat on Me Lyrics

Cheat on Me is a song from the Lulu album which Metallica did with the legendary Lou Reed. It would seem the band and Reed had a perfect day when they got together for the recording sessions as Cheat on Me hits the mark!

Cheat on Me Lyrics

Why do you cheat on me
Why do I cheat on thee
Why do I cheat on me
Why do I cheat on me

I have a passionate heart
It can tear us apart
I have the loves of many men
But I don’t love any of them

Why do I cheat on me

You have your feelings
I have mine
I spit upon you and change my mind
I have many hearts to break
And many, many, many more to take

Let the light of stars pour out
Like a candle in a spout
Let the wick recede and break
Let the starlight radiate
Why do you cheat on me
Why do I cheat on me
Why do I cheat on thee
Why do I desecrate me
Why do I piss my dreams
That’s because that’s what it is

I have the drive
I got the scope
If I, if I, if I, could I give you a rope

Your love means zero to me
I’m a passionateless wave upon the sea
Passionateless wave upon the sea
Why, why, why
Do you cheat on me
Why, why, why
Do I cheat on thee
Oh why, do I cheat on me
Why do I cheat on myself
Well I got nobody else

I’m only young once
I want to taste it all and have fun
I have no real feelings in my soul
Where most have passion I got a hole
I really got nobody else

I want lovers like the rain
So many of them, so much the same
You say you love me, I know it’s true
But I, I, I don’t love you

Why do I cheat on me
Why do you cheat on me
Your love means zero to me
A passionateless wave

Why do I cheat on myself?/Well I got nobody else"

Want to read more about Lulu and her adventure? Check out album opener Brandenburg Gate or the lyrics to The View.

The View Lyrics by Lou Reed and Metallica

2011-09-02T19:18:00.001-07:00

The View Lyrics by Lou Reed and Metallica

The View is from the Lulu album that was written by Lou Reed with Metallica being his 'backing band' of sorts - as Metallica aint no one's bitch!

The View Lyrics

I AM A CHORUS OF THE VOICES
THAT GATHER UP THE MAGNETS
SET BEFORE ME

I ATTRACT YOU AND REPEL YOU
A SCIENCE OF THE HEART
AND BLOOD AND MEANING

THE COLDNESS OF MOST BEAUTIES
IS A CHALLENGE THAT OUR YOUTH
MUST QUICKLY CONQUER

THERE IS NO TIME FOR GUILT
OR SECOND GUESSING, SECOND GUESSING
BASED ON FEELING

I AM THE TRUTH, THE BEAUTY
THAT CAUSES YOU TO CROSS
YOUR SACRED BOUNDARIES

I HAVE NO MORALS
SOME THINK ME CHEAP
AND SOMEONE WHO DESPISES
THE NORMALCY OF HEARTBREAK
THE PURITY OF LOVE

BUT I WORSHIP THE YOUNG
AND JUST FORMED ANGEL

WHO SITS UPON THE PIN OF LUST
EVERYTHING ELSE
BORES ME

I WANT TO SEE YOUR SUICIDE
I WANT TO SEE YOU GIVE IT UP
YOUR LIFE OF REASON
I WANT YOU ON THE FLOOR
AND IN A COFFIN YOUR SOUL SHAKING
I WANT TO HAVE YOU DOUBTING
EVERY MEANING YOU’VE AMASSED
LIKE A FORTUNE

OH THROW IT AWAY

FOR WORSHIP SOMEONE
WHO ACTIVELY DESPISES YOU

FOR WORSHIP SOMEONE
WHO ACTIVELY DESPISES YOU

I AM THE ROOT
I AM THE PROGRESS
I’M THE AGGRESSOR
I AM THE TABLET
THESE TEN STORIES

WORSHIP
WORSHIP

PAIN AND EVIL HAVE THEIR PLACE
SITTING HERE BESIDE ME
I OFFER THEM TO YOU AS SERVANTS
OF THE GOLD THAT YOU MUST GIVE

PAIN AND EVIL HAVE THEIR PLACE
SITTING HERE BESIDE ME
AND I’LL OFFER THEM, I OFFER THEM TO YOU
AS SERVANTS OF THE GOLD
THAT YOU MUST GIVE TO ME

I WANT TO SEE YOUR SUICIDE
I WANT TO SEE YOU GIVE IT UP, GIVE IT UP
YOUR YOUR LIFE OF REASON

I WANT TO SEE YOU ON THE FLOOR

AND IN A COFFIN, SOUL SHAKING
SOUL SHAKING
I WANT TO HAVE YOU DOUBTING
EVERY MEANING YOU’VE AMASSED
LIKE A FORTUNE, LIKE A FORTUNE
THROW IT AWAY

FOR WORSHIP OF SOMEONE WHO ACTIVELY DESPISES YOU

Check out Junior Dad lyrics and Little Dog

Brandenburg Gate lyrics by Metallica and Lou Reed

2011-09-02T19:14:00.001-07:00

Brandenburg Gate lyrics by Metallica and Lou Reed

Brandenburg Gate is from the joint efforts of Metallica and Lou Reed that produced Lulu.

Brandenburg Gate Lyrics:

I would cut my legs and tits off

When I think of Boris Karloff and Kinski

In the dark of the moon

It made me dream of Nosferatu

Trapped on the isle of Doctor Moreau

Oh wouldn’t it be lovely

I was thinking Peter Lorre

When things got pretty gory as I

Crossed to the Brandenburg Gate

I was feeling snappy perhaps I’d been napping

And I’d just ate

A following heart can tear you apart

On a midnight to 8 shift

A graveyard romance can only give one chance

As the tombstones weave and breathe

Feeling happy when my heart got beating

On a Sunday afternoon

I dreamt of breezes going through the treeses

And stars were still illumed

I have three hearts that I keep apart

Trying to relate

To normal feelings and the nightime reelings

And some absynthe drunk so late

The cook got drunk and all the whores they shrunk

Onto the size of dessert plates

But me I’m happy cause I got my little nappy

And some opium to set me straight

I’m just a small town girl who wants to give it a whirl

While my looks still hold me straight

Straight up to illusion and fantasy’s fusion

Of reality mixed with drink

I’m just a small town girl who’s gonna give life a whirl

Looking at the Brandenburg Gate

Check out the lyrics to Frustration from Lulu.

Frustration lyrics Lou Reed and Metallica

2011-09-01T16:25:00.000-07:00

Frustration Lyrics by Metallica and Lou Reed from the Lulu album

Frustration Lyrics

Frustration
In my lexicon of hate
I see you with your portraiture
Does he love you?
Does he love you too?

The brush strokes
Kiss your breasts and toes
I cry icicles in my stein
The heartbeats flutter
With an abnormal rhythm

The pain shoots through my body
A sword between my thighs
I wish that I could kill you
But I too love your eyes

You’re feeling less whore but you stimulate
The hatred smolders in your eyes
I’d drop to my knees in a second
To salivate in your thighs

But all I do is fall over
I don’t have the strength I once had
In you and your prickless lover
And his easel in his eyes

I feel the pain creep up my leg
Blood runs from my nose
I puke my guts out at your feet
You’re more man than I
To be dead to have no feeling
To be dry and spermless like a girl

I want so much to hurt you
I want so much to hurt you
I want so much to hurt you
Marry me
I want you as my wife

Spermless like a girl
More man than I
More man than I

Frustration
In my lexicon of hate
You’re feeling less like a whore but you
Stimulate

All I do is fall over
I don’t have the strength I once had
All I do is fall over
I don’t have the strength I once had

I want you so much to hurt you
I want so much to hurt you
I want so much to hurt you
I want you as a wife

Frustration is my lexicon of hate
Frustration is my lexicon of hate
Fruu… fruu… frustration, my lexicon of hate

I cry icicles
Heartbeats flutter
Abnormal rhythm

I wish that I could kill you
But I too love your eyes
I want you as my wife
I want you as my wife
Spermless like a girl

Lucky in feeling
More man than I
Marry me, marry me, marry me
I want you as a wife
Spermless like a girl
Puking my guts at your feet
More man than I
Fruu… fruu… fruu… frustration
Frustration

Check out Junior Dad lyrics and Little Dog.

Lulu album cover revealed Lou Reed Metallica

2011-09-01T16:23:00.000-07:00

Here's the cover of Lulu from Lou Reed and Metallica's collaboration featuring Mistress Dread

Turn the Page Lyrics Metallica

2011-08-27T00:33:00.000-07:00

Turn the Page is a cover by Metallica of Bob Seger's hit. The lyrics of the song reflect on the ups and downs of a singer whose spent years travelling and living the rock and roll lifestyle - I'm sure Metallica saw a bit of themselves in those lyrics and chose to cover the song.

Turn the Page was featured as a single from the Garage Days Inc album.

Turn The Page Lyrics

On a long and lonesome highway, east of Omaha
You can listen to the engine moanin' out it's one note song
You can think about the woman, or the girl you knew the night before
But your thoughts will soon be wandering, the way they always do
When you're riding sixteen hours and there's nothing there to do
And you don't feel much like riding, you just wish the trip was through

Here I am, on the road again
There I am, on the stage
Here I go, playing star again
There I go, turn the page

Well you walk into a restaurant all strung out from the road
And you feel the eyes upon you as you're shaking off the cold
You pretend it doesn't bother you, but you just want to explode

Most times you can't hear 'em talk, other times you can
All the same old cliches, is it woman is it man?
You always seem outnumbered, so you don't dare make a stand

Here I am, on the road again
There I am, on the stage
Here I go, playing star again
There I go, turn the page

Out there in the spotlight, you're a million miles away
Every ounce of energy, you try to give away
As the sweat pours out your body like the music that you play

Later in the evening as you lie awake in bed
With the echoes from the amplifiers ringin' in your head
You smoke the days last cigarette, remembering what she said

Here I am, on the road again
There I am, up on the stage
Here I go, playing star again
There I go, turn the page

Here I am, on the road again
There I am, on the stage yeah
Here I go, playing star again
There I go, there I go

Here's the youtube video of Metallic's Turn the Page which features as a prostitute struggling to raise her daughter. The mother was played by famous porn actress, Ginger Lynn.

Little Dog Lyrics Metallica Lou Reed

2011-08-26T15:49:00.000-07:00

James and Lou

Little Dog is from the collaborative album that Lou Reed and Metallica have put together. It's called Lulu and it's inspired by some plays written by Frank Wededkind - the plays so named "Earth Spirit" and "Pandora's Box".

Little Dog Lyrics

Little dog who can’t get in
Moaning at the bed side
Moaning from each limb

Little dog who can’t get in
Can only cry but
Can not swim

Pony legs, little trot
Little dog has to wait a lot

The bigger dog has got his spot
And elbowed him away

Listen to him barking
Listen to him call
Little dog don’t have much at all

A puny body and a tiny dick
A little dog can make you sick

If you got the money you can go to the top
The female dog don’t care what you got
As long as you can raise that
Little doggie face to a cold hearted pussy
You could have a taste

A taste of what the big dog got
A taste of what the big dog got
The little dog with the one hundred dollar spot
Can run his tongue over the hot in trot
Hot in trot
Run his tongue over the hot in trot

Money can do anything
Money can do anything
Money can do anything
Tell me what you want

My small dog, he want what I got

Wants to run his tongue over my hot spot

Pathetic little dog

Pathetic little dog
The little man follows his nose
Counts his fingers and his toes
He still got those
Pathetic little dog
Pathetic little dog
Following his nose
But it needs my money to buy

I’m an up while you’re a down
I am an up while you’re a down
The spring and the will follow me around
While you sniff your shit in the wind
Sniff your shit in the wind
Money can do anything
Money can do anything
Tell me what it is you want
Just tell me what it is you want
I’m an up while you’re a down
The spring and the will follow me around

Tell me what it is you want
Tell me what it is you want

You sniff your shit in the wind
Follow me around

Pathetic little dog
Pathetic little dog
Pathetic little dog

Check out some more lyrics from Lulu such as Pumping Blood and Junior Dad

Lulu Lyrics by Metallica and Lou Reed

2011-08-24T01:33:00.000-07:00

Metallica and Lou Reed looking cool as fuck

Check out out lyrics from 'Loutellica's' album Lulu. Lou Reed and Metallica have teamed up to produce a collaborative effort that explores the work of Frank Wedekind. Lulu will tell the story of a a young and nubile abused dancer’s life and relationships as found in Wedekind's plays “Earth Spirit” and “Pandora’s Box”

Lulu features the following songs. Click on the links will take you to the lyrics for the song.

Brandenburg Gate
Cheat on Me

Frustration
Dragon
Junior Dad
Little Dog
Mistress Dread
Iced Honey
Pumping Blood
The View

Junior Dad Lyrics Metallica Lou Reed Lulu

2011-08-23T21:40:00.000-07:00

Junior Dad Lyrics Metallica Lou Reed Lulu

Junior Dad is a song from the collaborative effort of Metallica and Lou Reed that has produced the album Lulu. Lulu's lyrics will tell a "story of a young abused dancer's life and relationships".

Junior Dad Lyrics:

Would you come to me
If I was half drowning
An arm above the last wave

Would you come to me
Would you pull me up
Would the effort really hurt you
Is it unfair to ask you
To help pull me up

The window broke the silence of the matches
The smoke effortlessly floating

Pull me up
Would you be my lord and savior
Pull me up by my hair
Now would you kiss me, on my lips

Burning fever burning on my forehead
The brain that once was listening now
Shoots out its tiresome message

Won’t you pull me up
Scalding, my dead father
Has the motor and he’s driving towards
An island of lost souls

Sunny, a monkey then to monkey
I will teach you meanness, fear and blindness
No social redeeming kindness
Or – oh, state of grace

Would you pull me up
Would you drop the mental bullet
Would you pull me by the arm up
Would you still kiss my lips
Hiccup, the dream is over
Get the coffee, turn the lights on
Say hello to junior dad
The greatest disappointment
Age withered him and changed him
Into junior dad
Psychic savagery

The greatest disappointment
The greatest disappointment
Age withered him and changed him
Into junior dad

Check out out lyrics from 'Loutellica's' album Mistress Dread and Pumping Blood.

Mistress Dread Lyrics Lou Reed Metallica

2011-06-20T01:46:00.000-07:00

Mistress Dread Lyrics by Metallica and Lou Reed

Following Pumping Blood, Mistress Dead has been revealed as a new song recorded by Lou Reed and Metallica as part of a 'secret project which has been revealed as being called 'Lulu'. The music has been described as a cross between Metallica's Master of Puppets and Reed's classic album, Berlin. Th

Mistress Blood LyricsI’m built like you areI have a dress and a trainYour snake cold lips Make a harsh straight lineThat echoes through my brainYou’re perfectLet me lift a glass highLet me follow in your footstepsLet me follow in your sighLet me follow in your sighI’m a woman who likes menBut this is something elseI’ve never felt such stirringsI feel like I Was someone elseI wish you’d tie me up and beat meCrush me like a kickA bleeding strap across my backSome blood that you could kissOh kiss away, oh kiss awayI wish there was a strap of bloodThat you could kiss awayI wish there was a strap of bloodThat you could kiss awayTie me with a scarf and jewelsPut a bloody gag to my teethI beg you to degrade meIs there waste that I could eatI am a secret loverI am your little girlPlease spit into my mouthI’m forever in your swirlYou’re heartless and I love thatYou have no use of meBut I open the sticks, sticky legs I bearAnd then insert a fist, an arm Some lost appendagePlease open me I begYou are my goliathYou are my goliathAnd I am mistress dreadOh I am mistress dreadOh I am mistress dreadOpen and release meI love you in my headOh kiss away kiss awayKiss away kiss awayAll I ask my baby Kiss awayAll I ask my babyKiss away

Pumping Blood Lyrics Metallica Lou Reed

2011-06-20T01:38:00.000-07:00

Pumping Blood Lyrics

Pumping Blood is a new song that came about as a result of the collaboration with the original Transformerhimself, Lou Reed and the Masters of Metal, Metallica. The rockers performed with each other during the 25th Anniversary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame concerts in New York in 2009.

Pumping Blood was one of the songs that 'was cut live in one take' according to Metallica's James Hetfield and the lyrics were written quickly.

Pumping Blood Lyrics from album Lulu:

If I pump out blood in the sunshine
Oil on the wheel
That is blasted and busted away

A nail or a little piece of glass
A little piece of glass
A little piece of glass
Swarming like bees over the air
Off the pump off the thing
The blood that I’m pumping away

Like bees over the air
Off the pump
Off the thing
The blood that I’m pumping away

Off the pump
Off the thing
The blood that I’m pumping away

If I pump blood in the sunshine
And you wear a leather box with azaleas
And I pump more blood
And it seeps through my skin
Will you adore the river
The stream, the trickle
The tributary of my heart

As I pump more blood
And it seeps through my skin

Will you adore the river
The stream, the trickle
The tributary of my heart

If I’m pumping blood
Like a common state worker
If I waggle my ass like a dark prostitute
Would you think less of me

And my coagulating heart

Waggle my ass like a dark prostitute
Coagulating heart
Pumping blood

Would you top me off
Would you top me off as I deepen a curtsy
While you yell out, “mercy”
We grow apart
Would you rip and cut me

Use a knife on me

Be shocked at the boldness
The coldness of this little heart
Tied up in leather
Would you take the measure
Of the blood that I pump
In the manic confusion of love

Supreme violation
Supreme violation
“Oh, ah, ah, ah Jack I beseech you”

“Oh Jack I beseech you”
Supreme violation

Blood in the foyer
The bathroom
The tea room
The kitchen, with her knives splayed

I will swallow your sharpest cutter
Like a colored man’s dick

Blood spurting from me
“Oh Jack, Jack I beseech…”
“Jack, I beseech you, I beseech…”
In the end it was an ordinary heart

“Oh Jack I beseech you”
As I scream out my pain
In the end it was an ordinary heart

In the end, in the end, in the end
It was an ordinary heart

“Jack, Jack, Jack, Jack, Jack I beseech you”
Supreme violation . . . Oh

“Jack, Jack, Jack I beseech you”
I call out your name

Blood in the foyer, the bathroom,
The tea room, the kitchen
And knives splayed
I swallow your sharpest cutter
Like a colored man’s dick
Blood spurting from me
Blood spurting from me

Check out the lyrics to Mistress Dread from the same sessions.

Metallica Set List Zurich, Switzerland

2010-06-18T23:35:00.000-07:00

Metallica Set List Zurich, Switzerland

Metallica played the following set list in Zurich on June 18th, 2010

Creeping Death

For Whom The Bell Tolls

Ride The Lightning

No Remorse (lyrics)

Fade To Black

That Was Just Your Life

The End Of The Line

Sad But True

Welcome Home (Sanitarium)

Broken, Beat and Scarred

One (lyrics)

Master Of Puppets

Fight Fire With Fire

Nothing Else Matters

Enter Sandman

Metallica's Set Encore:

Breadfan

Whiplash

Seek and Destroy

SXSW Set List Metallica

2010-03-18T23:54:00.000-07:00

James Hetfield

SXSW Set List Metallica:
Austin, USA

Metallica played a “surprise” (read: completely not a surprise) concert in Stubb’s backyard last Friday night, to promote the new Guitar Hero: Metallica game at South by Southwest. Prior to the show, three winners had to play Guitar Hero while Metallica looked on, laughing someplace offstage. James then walked out and said, “Hey, thanks for letting us crash your party.”

Et voila, here’s Metallica’s South By Southwest set list:

Creeping Death

For Whom the Bell Tolls

Harvester of Sorrows

One

Broken, Beat and Scarred

Cyanide

Sad But True

Welcome Home (Sanitarium)

Master of Puppets

Blackened

Metallica's encore

Breadfan

Whiplash

Metallica's second set encore

Seek and Destroy

Sauce: The Spaghetti Incident?

'The Unforgiven III' 3 / Death Magnetic / Metallica Lyric

2009-08-25T03:26:00.000-07:00

'The Unforgiven III' 3 / Death Magnetic / Metallica Lyric

This is the third 'Unforgiven' song, it features a soft piano introduction which is kind of like the introduction to the song that Metallica open their concerts with The Ecstacy of Gold.

Unforgiven Three also features a ferocious end solo from Kirk Hammet, possibly his best in years.... what do you think?

If you had to criticize the song, it would be in its lyrics. Exhibit A: "How can I be lost?
If I’ve got nowhere to go?" which is kind of Cheese Factor 10.

The Unforgiven III Lyrics

How could he know this new dawn’s light
Would change his life forever?
Set sail to sea but pulled off course
By the light of golden treasure
Was he the one causing pain
With his careless dreaming?
Been afraid, always afraid
Of the things he’s feeling
He could just be gone
He would just sail on
He would just sail on

How can I be lost?
If I’ve got nowhere to go?
Searched for seas of gold
How come it’s got so cold?
How can I be lost?
In remembrance I relive
And how can I blame you
When it’s me I can’t forgive?
These days drift on inside a fog
It’s thick and suffocating
This seeking life outside its hell
Inside intoxicating
He’s run aground like his life
Water’s much too shallow
Slipping fast down with the ship
Fading in the shadows now
A castaway
Blame all gone away
Blame gone away
How can I be lost
If I’ve got nowhere to go?
Searched for seas of gold
How come it’s got so cold?
How can I be lost?
In remembrance I relive
And how can I blame you
When it’s me I can’t forgive?
Forgive me, forgive me not
Forgive me, forgive me not
Forgive me, forgive me not
Forgive me, forgive me
Why can’t I forgive me?
Set sail to sea but pulled off course
By the light of golden treasure
How could he know this new dawn’s light
Would change his life forever
How can I be lost
If I’ve got nowhere to go?
Searched for seas of gold
How come it’s got so cold?
How can I be lost?
In remembrance I relive
So how can I blame you
When it’s me I can’t forgive?

Here's the lyrics to the other songs in Metallica's Unforgiven Trilogy:

The Unforgiven II lyrics

The Unforgiven Lyrics

More Death Magnetic Lyrics on The Metallica Lyric Lounge

3 / III/ Three / Third / Trois

Rollingstone Review Death Magnetic

2009-07-24T01:09:00.001-07:00

Brian Hiatt of the Rolling Stone Magazine gives an assessment of Metallica's Death Magnetic:

In the Eighties, thrash metal wasn't a scene, it was an arms race: riffs kept speeding up, drum kits got bigger. But with 1991's Black Album, Metallica opted for unilateral disarmament, slowing their tempos, shortening their songs and smelting their chugging guitars and piston-powered drums into armor-plated pop hooks. After that, the band rushed from one reinvention to another, starting with the Southern-rock infusion of 1996's Load and culminating in the muddled, bizarrely produced group-therapy session of 2003's St. Anger. No longer: Death Magnetic is the musical equivalent of Russia's invasion of Georgia — a sudden act of aggression from a sleeping giant.

Just as U2 re-embraced their essential U2-ness post-Pop, this album is Metallica becoming Metallica again — specifically, the epic, speed-obsessed version from the band's template-setting trilogy of mid-Eighties albums: Master of Puppets, Ride the Lightning and, especially, the progged-out ...And Justice for All. That much is clear from the 90-second mark of Death Magnetic's first track, "That Was Just Your Life," where the band unleashes a barrage of James Hetfield's dutta-duh-duhnt riffing and Lars Ulrich's octuple-time double-bass-and-snare smashing. That long-vanished sound, as essential to Metallica as variations on the "Start Me Up" riff are to the Stones, is all over the album —you wonder how these fortysomething dudes are going to handle playing it live night after night. (Enter chiropractor.)

Death Magnetic marks the group's split with producer Bob Rock, who helmed every Metallica album from 1991 to 2004 and pushed them toward concision and immediacy — until St. Anger, when he seemed to throw up his hands altogether. (As the 2004 documentary Some Kind of Monster demonstrates, Rock deserved credit for getting any music at all out of a band determined to self-destruct.) New producer Rick Rubin shoves Metallica in the opposite direction: Half of Death Magnetic's tracks are over seven minutes long, with song structures that are not so much "verse/chorus/verse" as "long intro/heavy jam/verse/even heavier jam/chorus/bridge/wild solo/outro."

This feels like the right move for an era where Guitar Hero is the new rock radio. (Appropriately, the full album will be downloadable for GH play.) And it's not as if Top 40 stations were going to slip in Metallica between Chris Brown and the Jonas Brothers, anyway. These songs rarely feel too long: At their best, they combine the melodic smarts of Metallica's mature work with the fully armed-and-operational battle power of their early days. "The End of the Line" is a freight-train rocker with a ricocheting riff and lyrics about a doomed, drug-addicted star. It builds to a frantic guitar duel between Kirk Hammett and Hetfield, a wah-wah-crazed solo and, finally, a bridge that feels like an entirely new song. And the spectacular "All Nightmare Long" — a thematic sequel of sorts to "Enter Sandman" — combines relentless Master of Puppets guitars with a Black Album-worthy chorus.

St. Anger was a misguided attempt to recapture the band's mojo by sounding "raw" — but Death Magnetic manages to sound huge, polished and tough. The musicianship feels thrillingly live throughout, and nimble new bassist Robert Trujillo helps, even though he's mostly heard as a distant, ominous rumble. (Has there ever been a more bass-averse band in rock?)

There's supposed to be a lyrical theme here — something about death — but it's hard to discern. After expanding his lyrical palette on previous albums, Hetfield is now so determined to re-metallize that he pushes toward self-parody: "Venom of a life insane/Bites into your fragile vein," he barks on "The Judas Kiss." The "One"-style half-ballad, half-thrasher "The Day That Never Comes" appears to be yet another tale from Hetfield's rough childhood, complete with the awful pun "son shine."

But if you ignore the lyrics, Death Magnetic sounds more like it's about coming back to life. Everything comes together on the fan-favorite-to-be "Broken, Beat and Scarred," which manages to channel the full force of Metallica behind a positive message: "What don't kill ya make ya more strong," Hetfield sings, with enough power to make the cliché feel fresh. The aphorism he paraphrases happens to come from Nietzsche's Twilight of the Idols, which is subtitled How to Philosophize With a Hammer. Metallica's philosophizing may get shaky — but long may that hammer strike.

Do Metallica like Axl Rose?

2008-10-18T14:02:00.001-07:00

Metallica fans are probably Guns N Roses fans - so for those interested in Chinese Democracy:

Here's the lyrics for Chinese Democracy by Axl Rose.

Also here's Chinese Democracy's cover art

Metallica Is Number One in America

2008-09-23T02:10:00.000-07:00

Metallica's American fans have spoken. Death Magnetic debuted at number on on the Bill Board Charts having sold over 490,000 albums in three days of release. This is the fifth number one debut that Metallica has had on the Bill Board charts - a feat matched by no one! Not even Paul McCartney and the Beatles....

Metallica BBC Radio 1 Concert Set List

2008-09-16T01:16:00.000-07:00

Metallica BBC Radio 1 Concert Set List

As part of promo for their new Death Magnetic album Metallica did a gig for the BBC Radio 1 station. If you want you can listen to the show BBC Radio 1 website until Monday 22nd of September. Metallica played five songs off Death Magnetic. The show was played at the BBC Radio Theatre.

Metallica' s BBC Radio 1 set list:

That Was Just Your Life
The End Of The Line
Until It Sleeps
Broken, Beat And Scarred
Cyanide
Frantic
For Whom The Bell Tolls
The Day That Never Comes
Master Of Puppets
Blackened

The following night Metallica did a show at the O2 Arena.

The Sauce

Metallica 02 World Berlin Concert Set List, Berlin

2008-09-13T16:45:00.000-07:00

Metallica 02 World Berlin Concert Set List, Berlin

Metallica kicked off the O2 World Berlin Festival at a sold out 17,000-capacity arena. Metallica performed several new songs from "Death Magnetic".

The set list:

That Was Just Your Life / The End Of The Line / The Thing That Should Not Be / Of Wolf Of Man / One / Broken, Beat, and Scarred / Cyanide / Frantic / Until It Sleeps / Wherever I May Roam / For Whom The Bells Tolls / The Day That Never Comes / Master Of Puppets / Blackened / Blitzkrieg / Jump In The Fire / Seek and Destroy

The Spaghetti Incident? was the sauce for the set.

Death Magnetic Album Review Chris Schulz

2008-09-11T16:14:00.000-07:00

Death Magnetic CD Review by Chris Schulz

Oh, how the mighty have fallen. All it took was one brilliant doco - 2004's Some Kind of Monster - for the world to see just how far Metallica had come from their days as an unstoppable metal juggernaut.

As Monster showed, the band had become a bloated mess weighed down by their collective history, existing in a black hole of infighting, petty egos, private jets and - for singer James Hetfield - a stint in rehabilitation for alcoholism.

It culminated with 2003's rubbish record St Anger, a timid album created under a psychiatrist's watchful eye which is almost universally unloved by the band's millions of fans. And rightfully so.
Five years on, Death Magnetic - their ninth studio album - is Metallica's last chance to reclaim their metal crown.

The good news is that it's an album of firsts - the first they've recorded with producer Rick Rubin, the first to feature bassist Robert Trujillo, and the first with a new record label.
They should be re-energised and Death Magnetic starts with intent, as the raw riffs of That Was Just Your Life blister the speakers in a way that St Anger failed to do - even if Hetfield, now 45, sounds like he's struggling to keep up with Lars Ulrich's frenetic drumming and Kirk Hammet's blistering riffs.

They keep the pace up with Broken, Beat & Scarred, All Nightmare Long and The Judas Kiss, tracks that fly by in a flurry of ridiculously fast riffs and guitar solos reminiscent of their classic 80s trilogy: 1984's Ride the Lightning, 1986's Master of Puppets and 1988's ... And Justice For All.

But that's the problem, and this is where the good news ends. Metallica sound so desperate to recapture past glories they've started sounding like a pastiche of themselves.
Just listen to The End of the Line. Do those riffs sound familiar? They should to any '80s Metallica fan.

Then there's The Unforgiven III, the culmination of a trilogy that began on the Black Album. Anyone who wants to hear Hetfield sing properly should play it immediately. Everyone else, hit the delete button.

It doesn't help that Hetfield's lyrics are all over the place, an incohesive mess supposedly based around the theme of death. They are at best forgettable, at worst cringe-worthy.
"Love is a four-letter word," he sings on first single The Day That Never Comes. Er, yes it is, James. What's your point?

And Broken, Beat & Scarred's hook of, "What don't kill ya make ya more strong" would have linguists throwing their pens in disgust. [Here's the Broken, Beat and Scarred lyrics]

Ironically, Death Magnetic's saving grace is Suicide & Redemption, a nine minute-plus instrumental in which Metallica sound like they're trying to cram an entire career's worth of riffs into one song.

It's urgent, vibrant, and Hetfield doesn't get the chance to ruin it with his poor rhyme schemes. Most importantly, it kicks serious ass.

Like Death Magnetic, it's a small reminder of what Metallica once did better than anyone.

You kept your copy of the Black Album, right?

-

Death Magenetic was reviewed by Chris Schulz on the Stuff Website

Death Magnetic Reviews

2008-09-11T03:29:00.000-07:00

Metallica's new studio album Death Magnetic is out tomorrow! Ride the Lightning!

Here's some review round ups:

Rolling Stone Stone:

"In the Eighties, thrash metal wasn't a scene, it was an arms race: riffs kept speeding up, drum kits got bigger. But with 1991's Black Album, Metallica opted for unilateral disarmament, slowing their tempos, shortening their songs and smelting their chugging guitars and piston-powered drums into armor-plated pop hooks. After that, the band rushed from one reinvention to another, starting with the Southern-rock infusion of 1996's Load and culminating in the muddled, bizarrely produced group-therapy session of 2003's St. Anger. No longer: Death Magnetic is the musical equivalent of Russia's invasion of Georgia — a sudden act of aggression from a sleeping giant."

Speed Thrash Metal Review:

"Hammett has not held back whatsoever this time around, with blisteringly fast solos. Many songs contain several solos, rather than just being restrained to one. Hetfield, on the other hand, may have lost the timber in his voice from the 80s, but his singing is still brilliant, though the lyrics aren't exactly the best. Lars Ulrich never seems to slow down either, but at times his drumming interferes with the solos.

Death Magnetic is arguably the best Metallica album since ...And Justice For All. From the top level singing from Hetfield, to the powerful solos from Hammett, this is the album all Metallica fans have been waiting for since the early 90s. Welcome back Metallica...we missed you."

Rocksound:

"There are solos in abundance throughout, including some great Thin Lizzy-esque twin solos too, and given that all tracks aside from the closer, ‘My Apocalypse’, clock in between six and nine-and-a-half minutes long, there are plenty of time changes and musical explorations. ‘My Apocalypse’ – with lyrics that lend themselves to the album title – closes proceedings in a five-minute galloping flurry of metal, reminiscent of ‘Battery’ and ‘Damage Inc’. ‘Suicide & Redemption’ sees the quartet partake in a nine-minute instrumental; and while it may not be a ‘Call Of Ktulu’ or ‘Orion’, it’s an immense chug fest, displaying a real sense of epicness for a band who’ve rediscovererd the art and enjoyment of jamming again."

St Anger Album Lyrics Metallica

2008-09-06T21:50:00.001-07:00

St Anger Album Lyrics Metallica

Here's the lyrics to Metallica's 'difficult' album. Making it turned out to being Some Kind of Monster where the band nearly destroyed themselves. Metallica's egos finally smashed into one another longer than any time in their history so much so they called in a conusellor to help them get thorugh it all.

Drummer Lars Ulrich has said if it wasn't for St Anger, then Death Magnetic could not have been made. So we have to take the good with the bad!

"St. Anger" is the eighth studio album by Metallica. It was released on June 5, 2003 after much build up. It was originally scheduled for release on June 10, 2003, but because of Lars Ulrich's fears of extended music piracy over filesharing networks, St. Anger was released five days earlier.

The album broke number one in 30 countries, including the

U.S.

Billboard 200 and Canadian Albums Chart.

In 2004, the lead single from the album, "St. Anger", won a Grammy Award for "Best Metal Performance".

Playing live in recent times, Metallica have not played many songs from the album, preferring to go with songs from Death Magnetic and their back catalogue.

St Anger Lyrics:

1. Frantic
If I could have my wasted days back
Would I use them to get back on track?
Stop to warm at Karma's burning
Or look ahead, but keep on turning?

Do I have the strength
To know how I'll go?
Can I find it inside
To deal with what I shouldn't know?

Could I have my wasted days back
Would I use them to get back on track?

You live it or lie it!

My lifestyle determines my death style

Keep searching, Keep on searching
This search goes on, This search goes on

Frantic tick tick tick tick tick tick tock
Frantic tick tick tick tick tick tick tock

I've worn out always being afraid
An endless stream of fear that I've made
Treading water full of worry
This frantic tick tick talk of hurry

Do I have the strength
To know how I'll go?
Can I find inside
To deal with what I shouldn't know?

Worn out always being afraid
An endless stream of fear that I've made

You live it or lie it!

My lifestyle determines my death style

Keep searching, Keep on searching
This search goes on, This search goes on
Frantic tick tick tick tick tick tick tock
Frantic tick tick tick tick tick tick tock

My lifestyle (Birth Is Pain)
Determines my death style (Life Is Pain)
A rising tide (Death Is Pain)
That pushes to the other side (It's All The Same)

2. St Anger

Saint Anger 'round my neck

He never gets respect

Saint Anger 'round my neck

You flush it out, You flush it out
Saint Anger 'round my neck
You flush it out, You flush it out
He never gets respect

Fuck it all and no regrets
I hit the lights on these dark sets

I need a voice to let myself
To let myself go free
Fuck it all and fuckin' no regrets
I hit the lights on these dark sets
Medallion noose, I hang myself
Saint Anger 'round my neck

I feel my world shake
Like an earth quake
Hard to see clear
Is it me? Is it fear?

I'm madly in anger with you

And I want my anger to be healthy
And I want my anger just for me
And I need my anger not to control me
And I want my anger to be me

And I need to set my anger free

Set it free!

3. Some Kind Of Monster
These are the eyes that can't see me
These are the hands that drop your trust
These are the boot s that kick you around
This is the tongue that speaks on the inside
These are the ears that ring with hate
This is the face that I'll never change
This is the fist that grinds you down
This is the voice of silence no more

These are the legs in circles run
This is the beating you'll never know
These are the lips that taste no freedom
This is the feel that's not safe
This is the face you'll never change
This is the god that ain't so pure
This is the god that is not pure
This is the voice of silence no more

We the people
Are we the people?

Some kind of monster
The monster lives

This is the face that stones you cold
This is the moment that needs to breathe
These are the claws that scratch these wounds
This is the pain that never leaves
This is the tongue that whips you down
This is the burden of every man
These are the screams that pierce your skin
This is the voice of silence no more

This is the test of flesh and soul
This is the trap that smells so good
This is the flood that drains these eyes
These are the looks that chill to the bone
These are the fears that swing over head
These are the weights that hold you down
This is the end that will never end
This is the voice of silence no more

We the people
Are we the people?

Some kind of monster
The monster lives

This is the cloud that swallows trust
This is the black that uncolors us
This is the face that you hide from
This is the mask that comes undone
Ominous,
I'm in us

4. Dirty Window
I see my reflection in the window
It looks different, so different than what you see
Projecting Judgement on the world
This house is clean baby
This house is clean

Am I who I think I am?
Am I who I think I am?
Am I who I think I am?
Look out my window and see it's gone wrong
Court is in session and I slam my gavel down

I'm judge and I'm jury and I'm executioner too

Projector, Protector, Rejector, Infector, Projector
Infrector, Injector, Defector, Rejector

I see my reflection in the window
This window clean inside, dirty on the out
I'm looking different than me
This house is clean baby
This house is clean

Am I who I think I am?
Am I who I think I am?
Am I who I think I am?
Look out my window and see it's gone wrong
Court is in session and I slam my gavel down

I'm judge and I'm jury and I'm executioner too

Projector, Protector, Rejector, Infector, Projector
Infrector, Injector, Defector, Rejector

I drink from the cup of denial
I'm judging the world from my throne
I drink from the cup of denial
I'm judging the world from my throne

5. Invisible Kid Lyrics
Invisible kid
Never see what he did
Got stuck where he hid
Fallen through the grid

Invisible kid
Got a place of his own
Where he'll never be known
Inward he's grown

Invisible kid
Locked away in his brain
From the shame and the pain
World down the drain

Invisible kid
Suspicious of your touch
Don't want no crutch
But it's all too much

I hide inside
I hurt inside
I hide inside, bull I'll show you...

I'm OK, just go away
Into distance let me fade
I'm OK, just go away
I'm OK, but please don't stray too far

Open your heart
I'm beating right here
Open your mind
I'm beating right here
Open your heart
I'm beating right here
Open your mind
I'm beating right here

Ooh, what a good boy you are
Out of the way and you're kept to yourself
Ooh, can't you see that he's not here
He doesn't want the attention you give
Ooh, unplugging from it all
Invisible kid floats alone in his room
Ooh, what a quiet boy you are
He looks so calm floating 'round and around himself

6. My World
The motherfuckers got in my head
Trying to make me someone else instead

It's my world now

Mama, why's it rainin' in my room
Cheer up boy clouds will move on soon
Heavy fog got me lost inside
Gonna sit right back and enjoy this ride

It's my world now
You can't have it
It's my world, It's my world
It's my world

I'm out of my head, out of my head
Get 'em out of my head, out of my head
Get 'em out

Who's in charge of my head today
Dancin' devils in angels way

It's my time now

Look out motherfuckers here I come
Gonna make my head home
The sons of bitches tried to take my head
Tried to make me someone else instead

It's my world now
You can't have it
It's my world, It's my world
It's my world

I'm out of my head, out of my head
Get 'em out of my head, out of my head
Get 'em out

Not only do I not know the answer
I don't even know what the question is

God it feels like it only rains on me

Not only do I not know the answer
I don't even know what the question is

I'm out of my head, out of my head
Get 'em out of my head, out of my head
Get 'em out

Enough's enough

7. Shoot Me Again Lyrics
I won't go away
Right here I'll stay

Stand silent in flames
Stand tall 'till it fades

Shoot me again
I ain't dead yet

Shoot me again

All these shots I take
I spit back at you
All the shit you fake
Comes back to haunt you

All the shots

All the shots I take
What difference did I make?
All the shots I take
I spit back at you

I won't go away, with a bullet in my back
Right here I'll stay, with a bullet in my back

Shoot me take a shot

I'll stand on my own, with a bullet in my back
I'm stranded and sold, with a bullet in my back

I bite my tongue
Trying not to shoot back
No compromise
My heart won't pump the other way

Wake the sleeping giant
Wake the beast
Wake the sleeping dog
No, Let him sleep

8. Sweet Amber Lyrics
[x2]
Wash your back so you won't stab mine
Get in bed with your own kind
Live your life so you don't see mine
Drape your back so you won't shine

[x2]
Oh then she holds my hand
And I lie to get a smile

[x4]
Using what I want
To get what you want

Oh Sweet Amber
How sweet are you?
How sweet does it get?
How sweet are you?
How sweet does it get?

[x2]
Chase the rabbit, fetch the stick
She rolls me over 'til I'm sick
She deals in habits, deals in pain
I run away but I'm back again

Oh then she holds my hand
And I lie to get a smile
And she squeezes tighter
I still lie to get a smile

[x4]
Using what I want
To get what you want

Oh Sweet Amber
How sweet are you?
How sweet does it get?
How sweet are you?
How sweet does it get?

[x2]
She holds the pen that spells the end
She traces me and draws me in

Ooh Sweet Amber
Ooh Sweet Amber

How sweet are you?
How sweet does it get?
How sweet are you?
How sweet does it get?

(It's never as sweet as it seems)

9. Unnamed Feeling

Been here before
Been here before couldn't say I liked it
Do I start writing this down?
Just let me plug you into my world
Can't you help me be uncrazy?

Name this for me, heat the cold air
Take the chill off of my life
And if I could I'd turn my eyes
To look inside and see what's comin'

It comes alive, It comes alive, It comes alive
And I die a little more
It comes alive, It comes alive, It comes alive
Each moment here I die a little more

Then the unnamed feeling
It comes alive
The the unnamed feeling
Takes me away

I'm frantic in your soothing arms
I can not sleep in this down filled world
I've found safety in this loneliness
But I can not stand it anymore

Cross my heart hope not to die
Swallow evil, ride the sky
Lose myself in a crowded room
You fool, you fool, it will be here soon

It comes alive, It comes alive, It comes alive
And I die a little more
It comes alive, It comes alive, It comes A-live
Each moment And I die a little more

Then the unnamed feeling
It comes alive
The the unnamed feeling
Treats me this way
And I wait for this train
Toes over the line
And then the unnamed feeling
Takes me away

Get the fuck out of here
I just wanna get the fuck away from Me
I rage, I glaze, I hurt, I hate
I hate it all, why? Why? Why me?

I cannot sleep with a head like this
I wanna cry, I wanna scream
I rage, I glaze, I hurt, I hate I wanna hate it all away

10. Purify

Tear it down
Strip the layers off
My turpentine
Old paint, old looks
Cover up the past
White heat, white light
Super white bones
Bones of you and I

Pure if I... can't you help me?
Pure if I... won't you help me?
Purify you and I
Purify you and I
Pure if I... can't you help me?
Pure if I... won't you help me?
Purify you and I
Purify you and I

Truth and dare
Peeling back the skin
Acid wash
Ghost white
Ultra clean
Wanna be skeleton
Clear eyes
Diamond eyes
Strip the past of mine
My sweet turpentine

I can find the dirt on anything
I can find the dirt on anything

I ain't dancing with your skeletons
I ain't dancing with what might have been

St Anger Lyrics

2. St. Anger

11. All Within My Hands
All within my hands
Squeeze it in, crush it down
All within my hands
Hold it dear, hold it suffocate

All within my hands
Love to death, smack you 'round and 'round and
All within my hands
Beware

Love is control
I'll die if I let go

Hate me now
Kill all within my hands
Hate me now
Crush all within my hands
Squeeze all within my hands
Choke all within my hands
Hate me now
Trap all within my hands
Hurry up and hate me now
Kill all within my hands

All within my hands
Take your fear, pump me up
All within my hands
Let you run, then I pull your leash

All within my hands
Under thumb, under to myself
All within my hands
Beware

Hate me now
Kill all within my hands
Hate me now
Crush all within my hands
Squeeze all within my hands
Choke all within my hands
Hate me now
Trap all within my hands
Hurry up and hate me now
Kill all within my hands again

I'll die if I let go
Control is love, love is control
I'll die if I let go
Control is love, love is control

I will only let you breath
My air that you receive
Then we'll see if I let you love me
Kill Kill Kill Kill Kill

Check out the lyrics to Turn the Page or Pumping Blood's lyrics.

Lars and Metallica 'happy' about Death Magnetic album leak.

2008-09-03T20:25:00.001-07:00

Lars and Metallica 'happy' about Death Magnetic album leak.

Death Magnetic - the long-awaited studio album by hard metal act Metallica - has leaked onto the internetz, but the Lars says it is "happy" about it.

The metal album, featuring first single The Day That Never Comes, was leaked when a French record store supposedly began selling Death Magnetic before the September 12 release date.

As a result of the leak, here's the Death Magnetic Lyrics

Metallica Drummer Lars Ulrich - who infamously took the evil online file-sharing site Napster to court in 2000 and beat them into a bloody pulp of computer bits and bytes - told the American radio station Live 105 Metallica was not worried about the early release.

"I mean, from here, we're golden. If this thing leaks all over the world today or tomorrow, happy days. Happy days. Trust me. It's 2008 and it's part of how it is these days, so it's fine. We're happy."

Lars further added:

"Ten days out and it hasn't quote-unquote fallen off the truck yet? Everybody's happy.

Metallica has announced that it will release their Death Magnetic album on Friday, September 12.

2008-08-07T00:50:00.000-07:00

Metallica has announced that it will release their Death Magnetic album on Friday, September 12.

Metallica's announced it on their website with a post titled The Last Piece of the Puzzle

Metallica has filmed a rockin video near Los Angeles for the first single of Death Magnetic, The Day That Never Comes. It was directed by drummer Lars Ulrich's Danish compatriot Thomas Vinterberg.

James Hetfield has discussed what Death Magnetic refers:

"Death Magnetic, at least the title, to me [...] started out as kind of a tribute to people that have fallen in our business, like Layne Staley and a lot of the people that have died, basically rock and roll martyrs of sorts. And then it kind of grew from there, Thinking about death€¦ some people are drawn towards it, and just like a magnet, [and] other people are afraid of it and push away. And the concept that we're all gonna die sometimes is over-talked about and then a lot of times never talked about no one wants to bring it up; it's the big white elephant in the living room. But we all have to deal with it at some point."

The Metallica Lyric Lounge will have the lyrics for The Day That Never Comes and all of Death Magnetic as soon as its released.

Metallica's Death Magnetic Album Track Listing and Lyrics

2008-08-07T00:36:00.000-07:00

Metallica's Death Magnetic Album Track Listing and Lyrics and Cover

Click on the song title for the Death Magnetic album lyrics!

'That Was Just Your Life'
'The End Of The Line'
'Broken, Beat & Scarred'
'The Day That Never Comes'
'All Nightmare Long'
'Cyanide'
'The Unforgiven III'
'The Judas Kiss'
'Suicide & Redemption'
'My Apocalypse'

Metallica singer James Hetfield has talked about what the title of 'Death Magnetic' refers to:

"Death Magnetic, at least the title, to me [...] started out as kind of a tribute to people that have fallen in our business, like Layne Staley and a lot of the people that have died, basically rock and roll martyrs of sorts. And then it kind of grew from there, Thinking about death, some people are drawn towards it, and just like a magnet, [and] other people are afraid of it and push away. And the concept that we're all gonna die sometimes is over-talked about and then a lot of times never talked about no one wants to bring it up; it's the big white elephant in the living room. But we all have to deal with it at some point."

Death Magnetic is the ninth studio album by metallers Metallica. It was released on 10 September, 2008. It is the first studio album to feature bassist Robert Trujillo

Death Magnetic is Metallica's fifth album release to debut at number one on the American Billboard 200, making Metallica the first band ever to achieve five number one album debuts.

Metallica followed up with the Lulu album, a collaboration with Lou Reed.

'My Apocalypse' / Death Magnetic / Metallica Album Lyric

2008-08-07T00:34:00.000-07:00

'My Apocalypse' / Death Magnetic / Metallica Lyric

"My Apocalypse" is the forty-first single by American heavy metal band Metallica, and the second from their ninth studio album, Death Magnetic.

Suffer My Apocalypse!

My Apocalypse Lyrics:

Claustrophobic
Crawl out of this skin
Hard explosive Reaching for that pin
Feel thy name extermination
Desecrating, Hail of Fire
So we cross that line
Into the crypt
Total eclipse
Suffer unto my apocalypse!
Deadly vision
Prophecy revealed
Death magnetic
Pulling closer still
Feel thy name annihilation
Desolating, Hail of Fire
So we cross that line
Into the crypt
Total eclipse
Suffer unto my apocalypse!
My apocalypse… Go!
Crushing metal, Ripping Skin
Tossing body mannequin
Spilling Blood, Bleeding Gas
Mangle flesh, Snapping spine
Dripping bloody valentine
Shattered face, spitting glass

Split apart
Split apart
Split apart
Split
Spit it out!

What makes me drift a litter bit closer
Dead man takes the steering wheel
What makes me know it’s time to cross over
Words you repeat until I feel
See through the skin the bones they all rattle
Future and past they disagree
Flesh falls away the bones they all shatter
I start to see the end in me
See the end in me…
Claustrophobic
Climb out of this skin
Hard explosive
Waiting for that pin
Violate, annihilate
A loser to my eyes
Obliterate, exterminate
At last accept, deny
Feel thy name as hell awakens
Destiny, Inhale the Fire
But we cross that line
Into the crypt
Total eclipse

Suffer unto my apocalypse!
Tyrants awaken my apocalypse!
Demon awaken my apocalypse!
Heaven awaken my apocalypse!
Suffer forever my apocalypse!

IGN described My Apocalypse as being "5:01 of absolutely blistering thrash metal. Not only does the song bring back the fierce, unrelenting speed that made Metallica famous in the first place, but it takes aggression to another level altogether. There is not a weak spot in the entire song. For the first time in a long while James Hetfield's vocals display the unrestrained rage that made millions of heavy metal fans worldwide stomp and thrash and jump around.

More Death Magnetic Lyrics on The Metallica Lyric Lounge

'That Was Just Your Life'
'The End Of The Line'
'Broken, Beat & Scarred'
'The Day That Never Comes'
'All Nightmare Long'
'Cyanide'
'The Unforgiven III'
'The Judas Kiss'
'Suicide & Redemption'
'My Apocalypse'

'Suicide & Redemption' / Death Magnetic / Metallica Lyric

2008-08-07T00:33:00.000-07:00

'Suicide & Redemption' / Death Magnetic / Metallica Lyric

This song is an instrumental so it has no lyrics. On their first few albums Metallica included long and complex instrumentals, this is the first Metallica instrumental to be included on an album since ...and justice for all

Listen to Suicide and Redemption on Youtube:

Call of the Klutu is also one of Metallica's more well known instrumentals and obviously does not have any lyrics!

'That Was Just Your Life'
'The End Of The Line'
'Broken, Beat & Scarred'
'The Day That Never Comes'
'All Nightmare Long'
'Cyanide'
'The Unforgiven III'
'The Judas Kiss'
'Suicide & Redemption'
'My Apocalypse'

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'The Judas Kiss' / Death Magnetic / Metallica Lyric

2008-08-07T00:32:00.001-07:00

'The Judas Kiss' / Death Magnetic / Metallica Lyric

The Judas Kiss refers to when, according to the Bible, the apostle Judas pointed out Jesus to those he led to arrest him by means of a kiss and thus betraying him. The term 'Judas' is thus commonly meant to mean someone who betrays another person or cause.

The Judas Kiss Lyrics

When the world has turned its back
When the days have turned pitch black
When the fear abducts your tongue
When the fire's dead and gone

So what now?
Where do I head?

When you think it's all said and done
When you are the ostracized
Selfish written, dead goodbyes
Twisting of the tourniquet
When the pieces never fit

So what now?
Where do I head?

When you think it's all said and done

Bow down
Sell your soul to me
I will set you free
Pacify your demons

Bow down
Surrender unto me
Submit infectiously
Sanctify your demons

Into abyss
You don't exist
Cannot resist
The Judas kiss

When the storm has blacked your sky
Intuition crucify
When the ego strips your reign
Assasinate the living flame

So what now?
Where do I head?

When you think it's all said and done
Venom of a life insane
Bites into your fragile veins
Internalize and decimate
Pitting it as complicate

So what now?
Where do I head?

When you think it's all said and done

Bow down
Sell your soul to me
I will set you free
Pacify your demons

Bow down
Surrender unto me
Submit infectiously
Sanctify your demons

Into abyss
You don't exist
Cannot resist
The Judas kiss

Judas lives recite this vow
I've become your new god now

Follow you from dawn of time
Whisper thoughts into your mind
Watched your towers hit the ground
Lured the children never found
Helped your kings abuse their crown

In the heart of evil man
Plant the seeds of my own plan
Strong and powerful will fall
Find a piece of me in all
Inside you all

So bow down
Sell your soul to me
I will set you free
Pacify your demons

Bow down
Surrender unto me
Submit infectiously
Sanctify your demons

Into abyss
You don't exist
Cannot resist
The Judas kiss

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'That Was Just Your Life'
'The End Of The Line'
'Broken, Beat & Scarred'
'The Day That Never Comes'
'All Nightmare Long'
'Cyanide'
'The Unforgiven III'
'The Judas Kiss'
'Suicide & Redemption'
'My Apocalypse'

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'Cyanide' / Death Magnetic / Metallica Lyric

2008-08-07T00:30:00.001-07:00

'Cyanide' / Death Magnetic / Metallica Lyrics

Cyanide is from Metallica's album, Death Magnetic - their fifth number one album in America!

Cyanide Lyrics:

Sleep, and dream of this
Death angel's kiss
Brings final bliss
Come believe me!

Empty they say
Death, won't you let me stay?
Empty they say
Death, won't you call your name?
Oh, call your name!

Suicide, I've already died
You're just the funeral I've been waiting for
Cyanide, living dead inside
Break this empty shell forevermore

Wait, wait patiently
Your death-black wings
Unfolding sleep
Spreading on me

Empty they say
Death, won't you let me stay?
Empty they say
Death, hear me call your name
Oh, call your name!

Suicide, I've already died
You're just the funeral I've been waiting for
Cyanide, living dead inside
Break this empty shell forevermore

Say, is that rain or are they tears?
That stained your concrete face for years
Crying, weeping, shedding strife
Year after year, life after life

A narrow freshly broken ground
A concrete angel laid right down
Upon the grave which swallows fast
It's peace at last
Oh, peace at last

Empty they say
Death, won't you let me stay?
Empty they say
Death, hear me call your name
Oh, call your name

Suicide, I've already died
You're just the funeral I've been waiting for
Cyanide, living dead inside
Break this empty shell forevermore

Forevermore!
Forevermore!
It's the funeral I've been waiting for!

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'All Nightmare Long' / Death Magnetic / Metallica Lyric

2008-08-07T00:29:00.000-07:00

'All Nightmare Long' / Death Magnetic / Metallica Lyric

All Nightmare Long is a track from Metallica's album Death Magnetic. It was released as the 5th single from the album. Lyrically, its a cousin of sorts to Metallica's cross over hit, Enter Sandman with its references to dreaming. Jame Hetfeild took the song further though and commented:

It was an attempt to get back to the H.P. Lovecraft mythos with Thing that Should Not Be, Call of Kthulu. This was about the hounds of Tindalos, which was another crazy mindfuck about these wolves that hunt through their nightmares and the only way you can get away from them is stay with angels. You can't even escape through sleep.

All Nightmare Long Lyrics:

Luck. Runs. Out.
Crawl from the wreckage one more time
Horrific memory twists the mind
Dark, rugged, cold and hard to turn
Path of destruction, feel it burn
Still life
Incarnation
Still life
Infamy

Hallucination
Heresy
Still you run, what's to come?
What's today?

'Cause we hunt you down without mercy
Hunt you down all nightmare long
Feel us breathe upon your face
Feel us shift, every move we trace
Hunt you down without mercy
Hunt you down all nightmare long, yeah
Luck. Runs.

You crawl back in
But your luck runs out

1.2.

Luck. Runs. Out.

The light that is not light is here
To flush you out with your own fear
You hide, you hide, but will be found
Release your crypt without a sound

Still life
Immolation
Still life
Infamy

Hallucination
Heresy
Still you run, what's to come?
What's today?

'Cause we hunt you down without mercy
Hunt you down all nightmare long
Feel us breathe upon your face
Feel us shift, every move we trace
Hunt you down without mercy
Hunt you down all nightmare long
Luck. Runs.

You crawl back in
But your luck runs out

Then you crawl back in
Into your obsession
Never to return
This is your confession

Hunt you down without mercy
Hunt you down all nightmare long
Feel us breathe upon your face
Feel us shift, every move we trace
Hunt you down without mercy
Hunt you down all nightmare long, yeah
Luck. Runs.

You crawl back in
But your luck runs out

Your luck runs out

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'The Day That Never Comes' / Death Magnetic / Metallica Lyric

2008-08-07T00:28:00.000-07:00

'The Day That Never Comes' / Death Magnetic album / Metallica Lyric

This song was the lead single from Death Magnetic.

Born to push you around
You better just stay down
You pull away
He hits the flesh
You hit the ground
Mouths so full of lies
Tend to black your eyes
Just keep them closed
Keep praying
Just keep waiting

Waiting for the one
The day that never comes
When you stand up and feel the warmth
but the sunshine never comes
No the sunshine never comes

Push you cross that line
Just stay down this time
Hide in yourself
Crawl in yourself
You'll have your time
God I'll make them pay
Take it back one day
I'll end this day
I'll splatter color on this grave

Waiting for the one
The day that never comes
When you stand up and feel the warmth
but the sunshine never comes
No the sunshine never comes

Love is a four letter word
And never spoken here
Love is a four letter word
Here in this prison
I suffer this no longer
I put it into
This I swear!
This I swear!
The sun will shine
This I swear!
This I swear!
This I swear!

Wikipedia has some good nuggets of info on The Day That Never Comes.

It was Metallica's fortieth single - when they do a 'best of' album this is sure to be on! It's also marks the first studio release the new bassist Robert Trujillo has recorded with the band.

Metallica mainstay James Hetfield has said of The Day That Never Comes:

"That's the beauty, I think, of writing vague but powerful lyrics — that someone like a movie director can interpret it in his own way and obviously, someone creative is able to take the metaphors and apply them to whatever he needs in his own life," the singer explained. "The main [theme of the video] is the human element of forgiveness and someone doing you wrong, you feeling resentment and you being able to see through that in the next situation that might be similar and not take your rage or resentment out on the next person and basically keep spreading the disease of that through life...

The one thing that I wasn't keen on here was Metallica plugging into a modern war or a current event [that] might be construed as some sort of political statement on our part...

There are so many celebrities that soapbox their opinions, and people believe it's more valid because they're popular.

For us, people are people — you should all have your own opinion. We are hopefully putting the human element in what is an unfortunate part of life. There are people over there dealing with situations like this, and we're showing the human part of being there."

Them, seem pretty grown up words, eat your heart out Sean Penn!

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'Broken, Beat & Scarred' / Death Magnetic Lyrics / Metallica Album

2008-08-07T00:27:00.001-07:00

'Broken, Beat & Scarred' Lyrics / Death Magnetic / Metallica Album

Broken, Beat & Scarred" is the forty-fifth single by Metallica, and the sixth from their ninth studio album, Death Magnetic.

Hetfield and Lars Ulrich argued at length over the title of this song. Hetfield said that he didn't like the title, but Ulrich was "very adamant" that it should be called "Broken, Beat & Scarred". And Mr I Hate Napster always gets his way so the song was given its name.

Broken, Beat and Scarred Lyrics

You rise, you fall, you’re down then you rise again
What don’t kill you make you more strong
You rise, you fall, you’re down then you rise again
What don’t kill you make you more strong
Rise, fall, down, rise again
What don’t kill you make you more strong
Rise, fall, down, rise again
What don’t kill you make you more strong

Through black days
Through black nights
Through pitch black insights
Breaking your teeth on the hard life coming
Show your scars
Cutting your feet on the hard earth running
Show your scars
Breaking your life, broken beat and scarred
But we die hard
The dawn, the death, the fight to the final breath
What don’t kill you make you more strong
The dawn, the death, the fight to the final breath
What don’t kill you make you more strong
Dawn, death, fight, final breath
What don’t kill you make you more strong
Dawn, death, fight, final breath
What don’t kill you make you more strong
They scratched me
They scraped me
They couldn’t rape me
Breaking your teeth on the hard life coming
Show your scars
Cutting your feet on the hard earth running
Show your scars
Breaking your life, broken beat and scarred
But we die hard
Breaking your teeth on the hard life coming
Show your scars
Cutting your feet on the hard earth running
Show your scars
Braiding your soul in a hard luck story
Show your scars
Spilling your blood in a hot suns foray
Breaking your life, broken, beat and scarred

We die hard
We die hard
We die hard

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'The End Of The Line' / Death Magnetic / Metallica Album

2008-08-07T00:24:00.000-07:00

'The End Of The Line' / Death Magnetic / Metallica Album

Need... More and more

Tainted misery.

Bleed... Battle scars

Chemical affinity.

Reign... Legacy

Innocence corrode.

Stain... Rot away

Catatonic overload.

Choke... Asphyxia

Snuff reality.

Scorch... Kill the light

Incinerate celebrity.

Reaper... Butchery

Karma amputee.

Bloodline... Redefine

Death contagious deity.

Hooked into this deceiver

Need more and more

Into the endless fever

Need more and more

New consequence machine

You burn through all your gasoline.

Asylum overtime

Nevermind...

You've reached the end of the line.

Time... Choke the clock

Steal another day.

Die... Faithfully

Narcissistic fade away.

Twisted... Jump the rail

Shatter the crowd below.

Breaker... Chase the ghost

From latest high to alltime low.

Hooked into this deceiver

Need more and more

Into the endless fever

Need more and more

New consequence machine

You burn through all your gasoline.

Asylum overtime

Nevermind...

You've reached the end of the line.

Drop the hourglass of time

Spilling sand we will not find

As we gather here today

We bid farewell...

The slave becomes the master.

The slave becomes the master

Need more and more

Right now and everafter

Need more and more

New consequence machine

You burn through all your gasoline.

Asylum overtime

Nevermind...

Dead hourglass of time

Sand we will not ever find

We gather here today

Say goodbye

Cause you've reached the end of the line.

The end of the line.

You've reached the end of the line.

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'That Was Just Your Life' / Death Magnetic / Metallica Lyric

2008-08-07T00:01:00.000-07:00

'That Was Just Your Life' / Death Magnetic / Metallica Lyrics

With this song, James Hetfield displays his love for using similes...

That Was Just Your Life by Metallica

Like a siren in my head that I was placed to repeat,
Like a blind man that was shoved into the speeding driver's seat,
Like a face that learned to speak, when all it knew was how to fight,
Like a misery that keeps me from just going out astray,
Like an illness that I'm about to waken from its state.

Contradiction,
A premonition,
Now are the aids who i deny,
I deny.

I blind my eyes and try to force it all into place,
I stitch them up, see not my fall from grace.
I blind my eyes, i hardly feel it passing me by,
I open just in time to say goodbye.

Almost like your life,
Almost like your endless fight,
Cursed, the day is long,
Realize you don't belong,
Disconnect somehow,
Never stop complaining now,
Almost like your fight,
And there it went,
Almost like your life.

[Guitar Solo]

Like a bullet, keeps on bleeding to remind me not to think,
Like a raging river, drowning when I only need a drink,
Like a poison that I swallow, but I want the world to die.

Like a release from a prison that I didn't know I was in, "Like a fight to live the past I prayed to leave from ,
Like a general without a mission until the wars start again,
Start again.

I blind my eyes and try and force it all into place,
I stitch them up, see not my fall from grace.
I blind my eyes, i hardly feel it passing me by,
I open just in time to say goodbye.

Almost like your life,
Almost like your endless fight,
Cursed, the day is long,
Realize you don't belong,
Disconnect somehow,
Never stop complaining now,
Almost like your fight,
And there it went,
Almost like your life.

Like a touch from hell,
I feel how hot that it can get if you get caught,
Like a strike from heaven that turns that key,
That brings you straight down to your knees,
Like a touch from hell,
I feel how hot that it can get if I get caught,
Like a strike from heaven to reprieve,
That brings you straight down to your knees.

Almost like your life,
Almost like your endless fight,
Cursed, the day is long,
Realize you don't belong,
Disconnect somehow,
Never stop complaining now,
Almost like your fight,
And there it went,
Almost like your life.
That was just your life.

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Reload Album Lyrics Metallica

2008-07-21T02:33:00.000-07:00

Metallica's Reload Lyrics

ReLoad is the seventh album by American heavy metal band Metallica. It was released in 1997. It is the direct companion / counterpart to Metallica's 1996 album, Load. Over 3 million copies have been sold in the US as certified by the RIAA.

In addition to heavy grooves like "Fuel" and "Devil's Dance," ReLoad continues the experimentation seen on Load, with the use of violin and hurdy gurdy on "Low Man's Lyric" and Marianne Faithfull's haunting lyric on "The Memory Remains." It also bears a sequel of sorts in "The Unforgiven II," referencing a single from 1991's Metallica playing on the original's lyrical theme.

The cover of the album is original artwork depicting urine and blood. It is one of three photographic studies by Andres Serrano created in 1990 by mingling the artist's own urine and bovine blood between two sheets of Plexiglas. As with Load, ReLoad included a booklet containing band photos and select lyrics for each song.

The following links will take you to the lyrics of each song from Reload.

Fuel
The Memory Remains
Devil's Dance
The Unforgiven II
Better Than You
Slither
Carpe Diem Baby
Bad Seed
Where The Wild Things Are
Prince Charming
Low Man's Lyric
Attitude
Fixxxer

Here's the video for The Unforgiven II from Reload

Fixxxer / Reload / Metallica Lyrics

2008-07-21T02:29:00.000-07:00

Fixxxer / Reload / Metallica Lyrics

Dolls of voodoo all stuck with pins
One for each of us and our sins
So you lay us in a line
Push your pins they make us humble
Only you can tell in time
If we fall or mearly stumble

But tell me
Can you heal what father's done?
Or fix this hole in mother's son?
Can you heal the broken worlds within?
Can you strip away so we may start again?

Tell me
Can you heal what father's done?
Or cut this rope and let us run?
Just when all seems fine
And I'm pain free
You jab another pin
Jab another pin in me

Mirror, mirror upon the wall
Break the spell or become the doll
See you sharpening the pins
So the holes will remind us
We're just the toys in the hands of another
And in time, the needles turn from shine to rust

But tell me
Can you heal what father's done?
Or fix this hole in mother's son?
Can you heal the broken worlds within?
Can you strip away so we may start again?

Tell me
Can you heal what father's done?
Or cut this rope and let us run?
Just when all seems fine
And I'm pain free
You jab another pin
Jab another pin in me

Jab it
Here come the pins

Blood for face
Sweat for dirt
Three X's for the stone
To break this curse
A ritual's due
I believe I'm not alone
Shell of shotgun
Pint of gin
Numb us up to shield the pins
Renew our faith
Which way we can
To fall in love with life again
To fall in love with life again
To fall in love with life again
To fall in love
To fall in love
To fall in love with life again

So tell me
Can you heal what father's done?
Or fix this hole in mother's son?
Can you heal the broken worlds within?
Can you strip away so we may start again?

Tell me
Can you heal what father's done?
Or cut this rope and let us run?
Just when all seems fine
And I'm pain free
You jab another pin
Jab another pin in me

No more pins in me
No more, no more pins in me
No more, no more pins in me
No more, no more, no more
No, no, no

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Attitude / Reload / Metallica Lyrics

2008-07-21T02:28:00.000-07:00

Attitude / Reload / Metallica Lyrics

Suppose I say
I'm never satisfied
Suppose I say
You cut some root
To make the tree survive

Just let me kill you for a while
Just let me kill you for a smile
Just let me kill you once
I'm oh so bored to death

Ohhhh, I hunger
I hunger
I eat

Born Into Attitude
Asleep at the wheel
Throw all your bullets in the fire
And run like hell
Why cure the fever?
What ever happened to sweat?

Suppose I say
the vultures smile at me
Suppose I say
I've sent them down
And they plan to pick you clean

And satifaction this way comes
And satifaction this way comes
And satifaction's here and gone, gone
Yeah gone again

Oooh, I hunger
Ooh I hunger
I eat

Born Into Attitude
Asleep at the wheel
Throw all your bullets in the fire
And stand there

Born Into Attitude
Twist mother tongue
Throw all your bullets in the fire
And run like hell
Why cure the fever?
What ever happened to sweat?

[Solo]

Just let me kill you for a while
Just let me kill you for a smile
Just let me kill you once for me
I'm bored to death

And satifaction this way comes
And satifaction this way comes
And satifaction's here and gone, gone
gone again

Yeah I hunger
Oooh I hunger
I eat

Born Into Attitude
Asleep at the wheel
Throw all your bullets in the fire
And stand there

Born Into Attitude
Twist mother tongue
Throwing all your bullets in the fire
And run like hell
Why cure the fever?
What ever happened to sweat?

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Low Man's Lyric / Reload / Metallica Lyrics

2008-07-21T02:27:00.000-07:00

Low Man's Lyric / Reload / Metallica Lyrics

My eyes seek reality
My fingers seek my veins
Theres a dog at your back step
He must come in from the rain

I fall cause I let go
The net below has rot away
So my eyes seek reality
And my fingers seek my veins

The trash fire is warm
But nowhere safe from the storm
And I can't bare to see
What I've let me be
So wicked and worn

So as I write to you
Of what is done and to do
Maybe you'll understand
And won't cry for this man
'Cause low man is due

Please forgive me

My eyes seek reality
My fingers feel for faith
Touch clean with a dirty hand
I touched the clean to the waste

The trash fire is warm
But nowhere safe from the storm
And I can't bare to see
What I've let me be
So wicked and worn

So as I write to you
Of what is done and to do
Maybe you'll understand
And won't cry for this man
'Cause low man is due

Please forgive me
Please forgive me
Please forgive me

So low the sky is all I see
All I want from you is forgive me
So you bring this poor dog in from the rain
Though he just wants right back out again

And I cry, to the alley way
Confess all to the rain
But I lie, lie straight to the mirror
The one I've broken, to match my face

The trash fire is warm
But nowhere safe from the storm
And I can't bare to see
What I've let me be
So wicked and worn

So as I write to you (yeah)
Of what is done and to do (yeah)
Maybe you'll understand
And won't cry for this man
'Cause low man is due

Please forgive me
Please forgive me

So low the sky is all I see
All I want from you is forgive me
So you bring this poor dog in from the rain
Though he just wants right back out again

My eyes seek reality
My fingers seek my veins

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Prince Charming / Reload / Metallica Lyrics

2008-07-21T02:26:00.000-07:00

Prince Charming / Reload / Metallica Lyrics

It's a black cloud over head
That's me
And the poison ivy chokes the tree
Again it's me
I'm the filthy one on Bourbon Street
You walk on by
I'm the little boy that pushes hard
And makes him cry

There's a dirty needle in your child
Ha ha, stick me
An empty bottles still in hand still dead
Still me
I'm the suit and tie that bleeds the street
And still wants more
I'm the 45 that's in your mouth
I'm a dirty, dirty whore

Yeah look it's me
The one who can't be free
Much too young to focus
But to old to see

Hey look it's me
What no one wants to see
See what you brought this world
Just what you want you want to see
Hey ma, hey ma look it's me

Yeah, he wants to become father now
Me again me
The marks inside your arms, spell me
Spell only me
I'm a nothing face that plants the bomb
And stroles away
I'm the one who doesn't look quite right
As children play

Yeah look it's me
The one who can't be free
Much too young to focus
But to old to see

Hey look it's me
What no one wants to see
See what you brought this world
Just what you want you want to see
Hey ma, hey ma look it's me

It's me...
[Solo 1]

Look up to me,
What to be and what to fear
Look up to me
Look it's me, at what you hear
See right through me
See the one who can't be free
See right through me
Look it's me what no one wants to see

Hmmm, now, see the black cloud up ahead
that's me
And this poison ivy chokes the tree
Again it's me
And I'm the filthy one on Bourbon Street
You walk on by
I'm the little boy that pushes, pushes
Makes him cry

Yeah look it's me
The one who can't be free
Much too young to focus
But to old to see

Hey, hey, look it's me
What no one wants to see
See what you brought this world
Just what you want you want to see
Hey ma, hey ma look it's me

Hey ma, hey ma look it's me
[Solo 2]

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Where The Wild Things Are / Reload / Metallica Lyrics

2008-07-21T02:24:00.000-07:00

Where The Wild Things Are / Reload / Metallica Lyrics

So wake up sleepy one...
It's time to save your world...

Steal dreams and give to you
Shoplift a thought or two
All children touch the sun
Burn fingers one by one, by one...

Will this earth be good to you
Keep you clean or stain through....

So wake up sleepy one...
It's time to save your world...
You're where the wild things are...
Yeah, toy soldiers off to war...

Big eyes to open soon
Believing all under sun and moon
But does heaven know you're here?
And did they give you smiles or tears?
No, no tears

Will this earth be good to you?
Keep you clean or stain through....

So wake up sleepy one...
It's time to save your world...
You're where the wild things are...
Yeah, toy soldiers off to war...

[Solo]

[Backing Vocals]
You swing your ?ass all down?
Call to arms the trumpets sound
Toy horses start the charge
Robots, chessmen standing guard
We Shall Never Surrender!!!!
Hand puppets storm the base
Flags up now cannons rage
Hand puppets storm the base
Flags up now cannons rage
All clowns head for the rear
Slingshots fire to the air
All clowns head for the rear
Slingshots fire to the air
Slip into the edge of death
Crossfire to the marionettes
Slip into the edge of death
Crossfire to the marionettes
We Shall Never Surrender!!!!

All children touch the sun
Burn your fingers one by one
Will this earth be good to you?
Keep you clean or stain through....

So wake up sleepy one...
It's time to save your world...
You're where the wild things are...
Yeah, toy soldiers off to war...

So close your little eyes...

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Bad Seed / Reload / Metallica Lyrics

2008-07-21T02:23:00.000-07:00

Bad Seed / Reload / Metallica Lyrics

Lyrics:

Yeah Yeah
Yeah Yeah
Ooooohhhh Yeah

Bad

Yeah
Come clean, 'fess up
Tell all, spill gut
Off the veil, stand revealed
Show the cards
Bring it on
Break the seal

(Ladies and Gentleman, step right up and
see the man who told the truth)

Swing the noose again
Peirce the apple skin
You bit more than you need
Now you're choking
On a bad seed
On a bad seed
Ahhh choking

Let on, load off
Confess, cast off
At the mercy, the cat is out
Drop the disguise
Spit it up,
Spit it out

(And now, what you've all been waiting for,
I give you He Who Suffers The Truth)

Swing the noose again
Peirce the apple skin
Yeah, you bit more than you need
Now you're chokin'
On the bad seed
Chokin' on the bad seed, Yeah

Off the vieil
Stand revealed
Bring it on
Break the Seal
At the mercy
Cat is out
Spit it up
Spit it out
Spit it up
Spit it out
Spit it out NOW

At the mercy

[Solo]
(Swing the noose again, Peirce the apple skin, you bit more than you need, choking on the seed)

Swing the noose again
Peirce the apple skin
Yeah you bit more than you need
Ohhh you're chokin' on a
Chokin', chokin', chokin' on a bad seed
Chokin' on a bad seed, Yeah

Off the vieil
Stand revealed
Bring it on
Break the Seal
At the mercy
Cat is out
Spit it up
Spit it out
Spit it up
Spit it out
Spit it out NOW

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Carpe Diem Baby / Reload / Metallica Lyrics

2008-07-21T02:19:00.000-07:00

Carpe Diem Baby / Reload / Metallica Lyrics

Hit dirt
Shake tree
Split sky
Part sea

Strip smile
Lose cool
Bleed the day
And break the rule

Live win
Dare fail
Eat the dirt
And bite the nail

Then make me miss you...
Then make me miss you...

So wash your face away with dirt
It don't feel good until it hurts
So take this world and shake it
Come squeeze and suck the day
Come carpe diem, baby

Draw Lead
Piss wine
Sink teeth
All mine

Stoke fire
Break neck
Suffer through this
Cheat on death

Hug the curve
Lose the time
Tear the map
And shoot the sign

Then make me miss you...
Then make me miss you...

So wash your face away with dirt
It don't feel good until it hurts
So take this world and shake it
Come squeeze and suck the day
Come carpe diem, baby

Yeah, Suck it!
[Solo]

Live win
Dare fail
Eat dirt
Bite the nail

Strip smile
Lose cool
Bleed the day
And break the rule

Hug the curve
Lose the time
Tear the map
And shoot the sign

Then make me miss you... (Come on, Come on)
Then make me miss you...

So wash your face away with dirt
It don't feel good until it hurts
So take this world and shake it
Come squeeze and suck the day

Come make me miss you...
Come carpe diem baby
Come carpe diem baby

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Slither / Reload / Metallica Lyrics

2008-07-21T02:18:00.000-07:00

Slither / Reload / Metallica Lyrics

Don't go looking for snakes you might find them
Don't send your eyes to the sun you might blind them
Haven't I seen you here before ?

Ohhh, watch the puppets dancin'
Yeah, see the clowns fall down
Hey, tie your tap shoes tightly
Yeah, and wear them into town

See you crawlin'...
See you crawlin' in...

Don't go looking for snakes you might find them
Don't send your eyes to the sun you might blind them
Haven't I seen you here before ?
There ain't no heroes here...no....no more

Hey hey hey
Oooh, play the game so nicely
Oh, check, its your move now
Yeah, we're standing in this jungle
Yeah, with serpents I have found

See you crawlin'...
See you crawlin' in...

Don't go looking for snakes you might find them
Don't send your eyes to the sun you might blind them
Haven't I seen you here before ?
Have your heroes disappeared?

[Solo]

See you crawlin'....
See you crawlin' in....

So don't go looking for snakes you might find them
Don't send your eyes to the sun you might blind them
Haven't I seen you here before ?
No there ain't no heroes here.......no no

Haven't I seen you here before ?
No there ain't no heroes here.

Don't go looking for snakes you might find them...
Haven't I seen you here before?
Have your heroes disappeared?

Don't send your eyes to the sun you might blind them...

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Better Than You / Reload / Metallica Lyrics

2008-07-21T02:15:00.000-07:00

Better Than You / Reload / Metallica Lyrics

I look at you, then you me
Hungry and thirsty are we
Holding the lion's share
Holding the key
Holding me back 'cause I'm striving to be

Better than you
Better than you [Jason]
Better than you
Better than you [Jason]

Lock horns, I push and I strive
Some how I feel more alive
Bury the need for it
Bury the seed
Bury me deep when there's no will to be

Better than you
Better than you [Jason]
Better than you
Better than you [Jason]

Oh, can't stop this train from rollin'
Oh, nothing brings me down
No, can't stop this train from rollin', no, no, no, no, no,
No, no, forever only no...

[solo 1]

Oh, can't stop this train from rollin'
Oh, you can't take it down
No, never stop this locomotion, no, no, no, no, no, no,
No, you can't bring it down 'cause I'm

Better Than You
Better Than You [Jason]
Better Than You
Better Than You [Jason]
Oooh Better Than You
Better Than You [Jason]
Better Than You
Better Than You [Jason]
Much Better Than You

Better Than You
Better Than You [Jason]
Oh Better Than You
Better Than You [Jason]
Better Than You
Better Than You [Jason]
Better Than
Better Than
Better Than
Better Than You

[solo 2]

Can't stop this train from rollin'

Forever on and on and on
Forever on and on, on

Better Than You
Yeah
Better Than You

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The Unforgiven II / Reload / Metallica Lyric Lounge

2008-07-21T02:13:00.000-07:00

The Unforgiven II Lyrics / Reload / Metallica Lyric Lounge

It's a sequel of sorts to Metallica's original The Unforgiven. The name might be a pun on the lyric as in"you're unforgiven too.Metallica has performed the song only once, at the 1997 Billboard Music awards (Metallica played because they won Artist of the Year).

The Unforgiven II Lyrics

Lay beside me, tell me what they've done
Speak the words I wanna hear, to make my demons run
The door is locked now, but it's open if you're true
If you can understand the me, than I can understand the you

Lay beside me, under wicked sky
The black of day, dark of night, we share this paralyze
The door cracks open, but there's no sun shining through
Black heart scarring darker still, but there's no sun shining through
No, there's no sun shining through
No, there's no sun shining...

What I've felt, what I've known
Turn the pages, turn the stone
Behind the door, should I open it for you....

What I've felt, what I've known
Sick and tired, I stand alone
Could you be there, 'cause I'm the one who waits for you
Or are you unforgiven too?

Lay beside me, this won't hurt I swear
She loves me not, she loves me still, but she'll never love again
She lay beside me, But she'll be there when I'm gone
Black heart scarring darker still, yes she'll be there when I'm gone
Yes, she'll be there when I'm gone
Dead sure she'll be there...

What I've felt, what I've known
Turn the pages, turn the stone
Behind the door, should I open it for you....

What I've felt, what I've known
Sick and tired, I stand alone
Could you be there, 'cause I'm the one who waits for you
Or are you unforgiven too?

Lay beside me, tell me what I've done
The door is closed, so are you're eyes
But now I see the sun, now I see the sun
Yes now I see it

What I've felt, what I've known
Turn the pages, turn the stone
Behind the door, should I open it for you....

What I've felt, what I've known
Sick and tired, I stand alone
Could you be there, 'cause I'm the one who waits,
The one who waits for you....

Oh what I've felt, what I've known
Turn the pages, turn the stone
Behind the door, should I open it for you.... (So I dub thee unforgiven....)

Oh, what I've felt....
Oh, what I've known....

I take this key (never free...)
And I bury it (never me...) in you
Because you're unforgiven too....

Never free....
Never me....
'Cause you're unforgiven too....
Oh

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Here's the video for The Unforgiven II.

Here's the Lyrics to the third Unforgiven song, The Unforgiven III (3) which is from Death Magnetic Add here's the original Unforgiven lyric.

Devil's Dance / Reload / Metallica Lyrics

2008-07-21T02:08:00.000-07:00

Devil's Dance / Reload / Metallica Lyrics

Yeah, I feel you too
Feel, those things you do
In your eyes I see a fire that burns
To free the you
That's wanting through
Deep inside you know,
The seeds I plant will grow

One day you will see
And dare to come down to me
Yeah c'mon, c'mon now take the chance
That's right
Lets dance

Snake, I am the snake
Tempting, that bite you take
Let me make your mind
leave yourself behind
Be not afraid
I've got what you need
hunger I will feed

One day you will see
And dare to come down to me
Yeah c'mon, c'mon now take the chance
That's right
Lets dance

Yeah Come dancin'

[solo]

One day you will see
And dare to come down to me
Yeah c'mon, c'mon now take the chance
That's right
Lets dance

Yeah, I feel you too
Feel, those things you do
In your eyes I see a fire that burns
To free the you
That's running through
Deep inside you know
seeds I plant will grow

One day you will see
And dare to come down to me
Yeah c'mon, c'mon now take the chance
That's right
Let's dance!

It's nice to see you here

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The Memory Remains / Reload / Metallica Lyrics

2008-07-21T02:02:00.000-07:00

The Memory Remains lyrics by Metallica

The Memory Remains was the feature single from Metallica's ReLoad album. A classic pairing with Marianne Faithful meant for a extremely strong response to the glories of the initial load album e.g. Hero of the Day.

The Memory Remains Lyrics

Fortune, fame
Mirror vain
Gone insane
But the memory remains

Heavy rings on fingers wave
Another star denies the grave
See the nowhere crowd, cry the nowhere tears of honor

Like twisted vines that grow
That hide and swallow mansions whole
And dim the light of an already faded prima donna

Fortune, fame
Mirror vain
Gone insane...
Fortune, fame
Mirror vain
Gone insane...
But the memory remains

Heavy rings hold cigarettes
Up to lips that time forgets
While the Hollywood sun sets behind your back

And can't the band play on?
Just listen, they play my song
Ash to ash
Dust to dust
Fade to black

Fortune, fame
Mirror vain
Gone insane...
Fortune, fame
Mirror vain
Gone insane...
Dance little tin goddess

na-na-na

Drift away
Fade away
Little tin goddess

Ash to ash
Dust to dust
Fade to black

Fortune, fame
Mirror vain
Gone insane...
Fortune, fame
Mirror vain
Gone insane...
But the memory remains

Ash to ash
Dust to dust
Fade to black...
But the memory remains

Yeah
Faded prima donna yeah, yeah

[solo]
Dance little tin goddess dance

The song's lyrics evoke similar sentiments to Turn the Page which was another weary reflection of stardom and fame.

Fuel / Reload / Metallica Lyrics

2008-07-21T01:50:00.000-07:00

Fuel Lyrics by Metallica

Fuel was a single from Metallica's ReLoad album. You could call it their 'boy racer' song.....

"Fuel" opens the ReLoad album. It's lyrics reflect the thrill of fast driving and street racing. The song could also be applied to the fact that people like to drive their lives (like their cars) too fast. It is one of James Hetfield's favorite songs as he later said before a concert played at an Oakland Raiders game,"We have to play Fuel...'cause it gets me pumped up." (taped on Some Kind of Monster)

Fuel lyrics

Gimme Fuel,
Gimme Fire,
Gimme that which I desire,
Ooh!

Turn on...I see red
Adrenaline crash & crash my head
Nitro Junkie, Paint me dead
And I see red

One hundred plus through Black and White
War Horse, Warhead
Fuck 'Em Man, white knuckles tight
Through Black & White

Ohhh, On I Burn,
Fuel is pumping engines,
Burning hard, loose & clean

And I burn,
Churning my direction,
Quench my thirst with Gasoline

So Gimme Fuel,
Gimme Fire,
Gimme that which I desire,

Hey

Turn on beyond the bone
Swallow future, spit out home
Burn your face upon the crome
Yeah!

Take the corner, join the crash,
Headlights, Headlines
Another Junkie lives too fast
Yeah lives way too fast, fast, fast, oohh-aye

Ohhh, On I Burn
Fuel is pumping engines
Burning hard, loose & clean

And On I burn
Churning my direction,
Quench my thirst with Gasoline

So Gimme Fuel
Gimme Fire
Gimme that which I desire

Yeah-Heah

White Knuckle Tight!
[solo]

Gimmie Fuel.... On I burn, on and on
Gimmie Fire.... On I burn, on and on
My Desire....

Ohhh, On I Burn
Fuel is pumping engines
Burning hard, loose & clean

And I burn
Churning my direction
Quench my thirst with Gasoline

Gimme Fuel
Gimme Fire
Gimme that which I desire
Ooh

On I Burn!

Here's a video of Fuel being played live:

Another interpretation of this song's lyrics, is that they reflect the external struggles of the band members themselves as well as the personal lyric style James Hetfield adopted beginning with The Black Album - that is to say one could suggest that the song is about addiction.

Specifically the addiction may be Hetfield's alcoholism, but it could be a reference to any sort of addiction. It is a reference to whatever it may be that fuels a person. Further, it may reflect Hetfield's decision to substitute his love of cars and racing for his love of alcohol. This is evidenced throughout the entire song and survives interpretation; the song may get the band and the crowd "pumped up," but it is by no means as simple a song as it appears.

You might be interested in checking out the lyrics to The Memory Remains.

Metallica's Load Album Lyrics

2008-06-28T20:39:00.001-07:00

Metallica's Load Album Lyrics

The Load album signaled the Metallica's re-entry to the musical landscape, approximately five years after the release of their international smash success, Metallica (informally known as the Black Album). Load saw the band embrace a collective sound and identity far removed from their thrash metal roots, again some fans cried 'sell out'. Mama Said proved to a lyrical highlight from James Hetfield.

As on previous releases, the fourteen songs that would eventually make up the album began as rough demos created by principal lyric and music writers James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich in Ulrich's basement recording studio, "The Dungeon." The band took over 30 demos into The Plant Studios in the spring of 1995 where they would work for approximately the next year. Once again, Metallica teamed up with famed producer Bob Rock, who had been at the helm during the recording process for Metallica.

Metallica's Load Lyrics

Ain't My Bitch
2 x 4
The House Jack Built
Until It Sleeps
King Nothing
Hero Of The Day
Bleeding Me
Cure
Poor Twisted Me
Wasting My Hate
Mama Said
Thorn Within
Ronnie
The Outlaw Torn

The songwriting dispenses almost entirely with the thrash metal style that characterized the band's sound in the 1980s. In place of staccato riffs, Hetfield and lead guitarist Kirk Hammett experimented with more blues based tones and styles. As the group had become friends with country star Waylon Jennings prior to the recording of Load, he is often credited as influential to the album's new sound, particularly songs like "Mama Said." Additionally, Ulrich adopted a minimalist approach to his drum recording, abandoning the speed and complex double bass patterns of previous albums.

James Hetfield displayed a lyrical evolution as well, writing what many feel to be his most personal and introspective lyrics. "Until it Sleeps," the album's lead single, addressed his father's losing battle with cancer, while "Mama Said" explored his relationship with his mother. This was a clear a departure from the political and social overtones of albums like ...And Justice for All and Master of Puppets.

The album also marked the first appearance of a new Metallica logo, rounding off the stabbing edges of the first and last letters of the band's earlier 1980s logo. The M from the original logo was used to make a shaken-like symbol known as the "ninja star" which was used as an alternate logo on this and future albums as well as other related artwork. The album featured an expansive booklet which contained many photos of the band.

The cover of the album is original artwork entitled "Semen and Blood III." It is one of three photographic studies by Andres Serrano created in 1990 by mingling the artist's own semen and bovine blood between two sheets of Plexiglas.

Here's the lyrics to the partner album to Load, Reload.

The Outlaw Torn / Load / Metallica Lyrics

2008-06-28T20:34:00.000-07:00

The Outlaw Torn / Load / Metallica Lyrics

And now I wait my whole lifetime
For you
And now I wait my whole lifetime
For you

I ride the dirt, I ride the tide
For you
I search the outside, search inside
For you

To take back what you left me
I know I'll always burn to be
The one who seeks so I may find
And now I wait my whole lifetime

My outlaw torn
My outlaw torn
And I'm torn

So on I wait my whole lifetime
For you
So on I wait my whole lifetime
For you

The more I search, the more my need
For you
The more I bless, the more I bleed
For you

You make me smash the clock and feel
I'd rather die behind the wheel
Time was never on my side
So on I wait my whole lifetime

My outlaw torn
My outlaw torn
My outlaw torn
And I'm torn

Hear me
And if close my mind in fear
Please pry it open
See me
And if my face becomes sincere
Beware
Hold me
And when I start to come undone
Stitch me together
Save me
And when you see me strut
Remind me of what left this outlaw torn

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Ronnie / Load / Metallica Lyrics

2008-06-28T20:33:00.000-07:00

Ronnie / Load / Metallica Lyrics

Story starts, quiet town
Small town boy, big time frown
Never talks, never plays
Different path, lost his way

Dead streets are red, red I'm afraid
No confetti, no parade
Nothing happens in this boring place
But oh my god, how that all did change
Now they all pray
Blood stains wash away

He said "lost my way"
This bloody day
Lost my way
I heard him, he said "lost my way"
This bloody day
Lost my way
All things wash away
But blood stained the sun red today

I always said, somethin' wrong
With little strange Ronnie Long
Never laughed, never smiled
Talked alone, for miles and miles and miles

Gallow calls, son I say
Keep your smile, and laugh all day
Think once again, in this boring place
For little boys, how they soon change

Now they all pray
Blood stains wash away

He said "lost my way"
This bloody day
Lost my way
Yeah, I heard him, he said "lost my way"
This bloody day
Lost my way
All things wash away
But blood stained the sun red today

Yeah, well all the green things died
When Ronnie moved to this place
He said, "Don't you dare ask why
I'm cursed to wear this face"

Now we all know why children called him
Ronnie Frown
When he pulled that gun from his pocket
And they'd all fall down down down

He said "lost my way"
This bloody day
Lost my way
Yeah, I heard him, he screamed "lost my way"
This bloody day
Lost my way
All things wash away
But blood stained the sun red today

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Thorn Within / Load / Metallica Lyrics

2008-06-28T20:31:00.000-07:00

Thorn Within / Load / Metallica Lyrics

Forgive me father
For I have sinned
Find me guilty of the life I feel within
And when I'm branded
This mark of shame
Should I look down disgraced
Or straight ahead
And know that you must blame

I am the secret
I am the sin
I am the guilty
And I, I am the thorn within

Forgive me father
For I have sinned
Find me guilty when true guilt is from within
So point your fingers
Point right at me
For I am shadows and will follow me
One and the same are we

I do your time
I take your fall
I'm branded guilty
For us all

So point your fingers
Point right at me
For I am shadows and will follow you
One and the same are we

More Load Album Lyrics Here

Mama Said Lyrics / Load / Metallica

2008-06-28T20:28:00.000-07:00

Mama Said Lyrics

"Mama Said" is a Metallica song on the band's sixth album, Load. The lyrics, written by James Hetfield, represent a man or boy who is learning to find his own way in life away from his mother. The song is almost directly written about James' difficult relationship with his mother, who died of cancer. The lyrics of song Until It Sleeps also reflects on cancer and the death of James' father.

Mama Said

Mama she has taught me well
Told me when I was young
Son, your life's an open book
Don't close it fore it's done
The brightest flame burns quickest
Is what I heard they say
A son's heart's owned to mother
But I must find my way

Let my heart go
Let your son grow
Mama let my heart go
Or let this heart be still

Rebel my new last name
Wild blood in my veins
Apron strings around my neck
The mark that still remains
Left home at an early age
Of what I heard was wrong
I never asked forgiveness
But what I said is done

Never I ask you
But never I gave
But you gave me your emptiness
I now take to my grave
Never I ask of you
But never I gave
But you gave me your emptiness
I now take to my grave
So let this heart be still

Mama now I'm coming home
I'm not all you wished of me
But a mother's love for her son
Unspoken, Help me be
I took your love for granted
And all the things you said to me
I need your arms to welcome me
But a cold stone's all I see

Let my heart go
Mama let my heart go
You never let my heart go
So let this heart be still

More Load Album Lyrics Here

Wasting My Hate / Load / Metallica Lyric Lounge

2008-06-28T20:26:00.002-07:00

Wasting My Hate / Load / Metallica Lyric Lounge

Good day, how do
And I send a smile to you
Don't waste, waste your breath
And I won't waste my hate on you

Ain't gonna waste my hate
Ain't gonna waste my hate on you
I think I'll keep it for myself
Ain't gonna give no more
Ain't got the time to help you score
I think it's time ya pleased yourself

Think you're worthy now
Think enough to even raise the brow
And to laugh and tip that two pronged crown

I see my hands, I see my feet
I feel that blood that pumps in beat
But where the hell's my mind goin' now?

Ain't gonna waste mt hate
But I'm so greedy when they say
(It's) better to give than to receive

Ain't gonna waste my hate
No, no ain't got time to waste my hate on you
Yea, I think I'm gonna keep it all for myself

Hate

More Load Album Lyrics Here

Poor Twisted Me / Load / Metallica Lyric Lounge

2008-06-28T20:26:00.001-07:00

Poor Twisted Me / Load / Metallica Lyric Lounge

The lyrics for Metallica's Poor Twisted Me, from the Load album.

Oh poor twisted me
Oh poor twisted me
I feast on sympathy
I chew on suffer, I chew on agony
Swallow whole the pain
Oh it's too good to be
That all this misery
Is just for oh poor twisted me

Poor mistreated me
Poor mistreated me
I drown without a sea
Lung fills with sorrow, lungs fill with misery
Inhaling the deep dark blue
Oh woah is me
Such a burden to be
The poor mistreated me

To finally reach the shore
Survive the storm
Now you're bare and cold
The sea was warm
So warm, you bathe your soul again

Good to feel my friend
Oh woah is me
Such a burden to be
Oh poor twisted me

More Load Album Lyrics Here

Cure / Load / Metallica Lyric

2008-06-28T20:24:00.000-07:00

Cure / Load / Metallica Lyric Lounge

Cure is from Metallica's album Load.

Lyrics:

The man takes another bullet

He keeps them all within
He must seek, no matter how it hurts
So don't fool again

He thinks the answer is cold and in his hand
He takes his medicine
The man take another bullet
He's been fooled again

*Uncross your arms and take
And throw them to the cure, say...
I do believe
Uncross your arms now
Take 'em to it, say...
I do believe

The lies tempt her and she follows
Again she lets him in
She must believe to fill the hollow
She's been fooled again

[* ]

Betting on the cure
Cause it must get better than this
Betting on the cure
Yeah everyone's got to have the sickness
'Cause everyone seems to need the cure
Precious cure

I do believe

Betting on the cure
Yeah, it must get better than this
Need to feel secure
Yeah, it's gonna get better than this
It must get better than this
Betting on the cure

Yeah, everyone's got to have the sickness
'Cause everyone seems to need the cure

I do believe

More Load Album Lyrics Here

Bleeding Me / Load / Metallica Lyrics Lounge

2008-06-28T20:23:00.000-07:00

Bleeding Me / Load / Metallica Lyrics Lounge

*I'm diggin' my way
I'm diggin' my way to something
I'm diggin' my way to somethin' better

**I'm pushin' to stay
I'm pushin' to stay with something
I'm pushin' to stay with something better

I'm sowing the seeds
I'm sowing the seeds I've taken
I'm sowing the seeds I take for granted

This thorn in my side
This thorn in my side is from the tree
This thorn in my side is from the tree I've planted

It tears me and I bleed
Caught under wheels roll
I take the leech I'm bleeding me
Can't stop to save my soul
I take the leash that's leading me
I'm bleeding me I can't take it
Caught under wheel's roll
The bleeding of me

I am the beast that feeds the beast
I am the blood, I am the release
Come make me pure
Bleed me a cure
I'm caught under

More Load Album Lyrics Here

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Hero Of The Day / Load / Metallica Lyrics

2008-06-28T20:21:00.000-07:00

Hero Of The Day Lyrics by Metallica

Hero of the Day was a popular single of Metallica's Load album along with King Nothing, Mama Said and Until It Sleeps.

Hero of the Day Lyrics:

Mama they try and break me

The window burns to light the way back home
A light that warms no matter where they've gone

They're off to find the hero of the day
But what if they should fall by someone's wicked way

Still the window burns
Time so slowly turns
And someone there is sighing
Keepers of the flames
Do ya feel your name?
Can't you hear your babies crying?

Mama they try and break me
Still they try and break me

'Scuze me while I tend to how I feel
These things return to me that still seem real

Now deservingly this easy chair
But the rocking stopped by wheels of despair

Don't want your aid
But the first I've make
For years can't hold or feel
No, I'm not all me
So please excuse me
While I tend to how I feel

But now the screams and waking dreams
That never last the night
So build the wall, behind the crawl
And hide until it's light
So can you hear your babies crying now?

Still the window burns
Time so slowly turns
And someone there is sighing
Keepers of the flames
Do ya feel your name?
Can't you hear your babies crying?

Mama they try and break me

More Load Album Lyrics Here

King Nothing / Load / Metallica Lyrics

2008-06-28T20:20:00.000-07:00

King Nothing / Load / Metallica Lyrics

The "King Nothing" lyrics refer to people who devote their whole lives to earning money or fame or celebrity, until one day they realize ("Then it all crashes down") that all the money has gotten them nothing worthwhile. A second meaning may refer to people who have spent their lives wishing ("Wish I might/Wish I may/You wish your life away") rather than earning the things they desire.

At the end of the song, the words "Off to never-never land" can be heard. This is a nod to one of Metallica's most famous songs, "Enter Sandman", which also features this lyric. The song also features a similar structure and riff.

King Nothing Lyrics:

Wish I may
Wish I might
Have this I wish tonight
Are you satisfied?

Dig for gold
Dig for fame
You dig to make your name
Are you pacified?

All the wants you waste
All the things you've chased

And it all crashes down
And you break your crown
And you point your finger
But there's no one around

Just want one thing
Just to play the king
But the castle crumbled
And you've left with just a name

Where's your crown?
King Nothing

Hard and cold
Bought and sold
A heart as hard as gold
Are you satisfied

Wish I might
Wish I may
You wish your life away
Are you pacified

All the wants you waste
All the things you've chased

Where's Your Crown?
King Nothing

I wish I may
I wish I might
Have this wish I wish tonight

I want that star
I want it now
I want it all and I don't care how

Careful what you wish
Careful what you say
Careful what you wish
You may regret it

Careful what you wish
You just might get it

Then it all crashes down
And you break your crown
And you point your finger
But there's no one around

Nothin'
No, you're just nothin'
Where's your crown, King Nothing?
No, you're just nothin'
Absolutely nothin'

More Load Album Lyrics Here

Until It Sleeps / Load / Metallica Lyrics

2008-06-28T20:19:00.000-07:00

Until It Sleeps Lyrics by Metallica

Until It Sleeps is from Metallica's popular Load album. Whilst the song's lyrics may interpreted as dealing with anger issues, it's acknowledged by James Hetfield that they are about his father's death of cancer and thus mirrors the song Mama Said which is about James' mother dying of cancer as well.

Until It Sleeps Lyrics:

Where do I take this pain of mine
I run, but it stays right my side

So tear me open, pour me out
There's things inside that scream and shout
And the pain still hates me
So hold me, until it sleeps

Just like the curse, just like the stray
You feed it once, and now it stays

So tear me open, but beware
There's things inside without a care
And the dirt still stains me
So wash me, until I'm clean

*It grips you, so hold me
It stains you, so hold me
It hates you, so hold me
It holds you, so hold me

Until it sleeps**

So tell me why you've choosen me
Don't want your grip, don't want your greed

I'll tear me open, make you gone
No more can you hurt anyone
And the fear still shakes me
So hold me, until it sleeps

[*--** Repeat]

I don't want it

So tear me open, but beware
The things inside without a care
And the dirt still stains me
So wash me, 'till I'm clean...

I'll tear me open, make you gone
No longer will you hurt anyone
And the hate still shapes me
So hold me, until it sleeps...

Until it sleeps...

More Load Album Lyrics Here

The House Jack Built / Load / Metallica Lyrics

2008-06-28T20:17:00.000-07:00

The House Jack Built / Load / Metallica Lyrics

*Opens door so i walk inside
Close my eyes
Find my place to hide
And i shake as I take it in
Let the show begin

Open my eyes
Just to have them close again
Well on my way
But on my way where I've been

It swallows me
As it takes me in it's fog
I twist away
As I give this world the nod

[*Repeat]

Open my eyes
Just to have them close once again
Don't want control
As it takes me down and down and down again

Is that the moon
Or just the light that lights this dead end street?
Is that you there?
Or just another demon that i meet?

**The higher you are
The farther you fall
The longer the walk
The farther you crawl
My body, my temple
This temple it tilts
Step into the house that Jack built

[**Repeat]

Open door so I walk inside
Swallow me so the pain subsides
And I shake as I take the sin
Let the show begin

[*Repeat x 2]

Open my eyes
It swallows me
Is that you there?
I twist away
Away
Away
Away

More Load Album Lyrics Here

2 x 4 / Load / Metallica Lyrics

2008-06-28T20:15:00.000-07:00

2 x 4 / Load / Metallica Lyrics

I'm gonna make you, shake you, take you
I'm gonna be the one who breaks you
Put the screws to ya my way
Yeah, come on come on, come, make my day

Got some hell at pay, I steal your thunder
The joy of violent movements pulls you under
Bite the bullet well hard
Yeah, but i die harder, so go too far

*Friction, fusion
Retribution
I can't hear ya talk ta me
I can't hear ya so talk ta me
I can't hear ya are you talkin' ta me
I can't hear ya are you talkin' ta me
I can't hear ya time ta meet my lord
I can't hear ya talk ta 2x4

I'm gonna make you, shake you, take you
I'm gonna be the one who breaks you
Put the screws to ya my way
Yeah, come on come on, come, make and my day

[*Repeat]

More Load Album Lyrics Here

Ain't My Bitch / Load / Metallica Lyrics

2008-06-28T20:14:00.000-07:00

Ain't My Bitch / Load / Metallica Lyrics

Outta my way, outta my day
Outta your mind and into mine
Into no one, into no one
Into your step but outta time

Head strong, what's wrong?
I've already heard this song
Before... you arrived
But now it's time
To kiss your ass good-bye

*Draggin me down, why you around?
So useless
It ain't my fall, it ain't my call!
It ain't my bitch

Down on the sun, down and no fun
Down and out, where the hell ya been
Damn it all down, damn it unbound
Damn it all down to hell again

Stand tall, can't fall
Never even bend at all
Before... you arrived
But now it's time
To kiss your ass good-bye

[* Repeat]

No way but down, why you around?
No foolin'
It ain't my smile, it ain't my style
It ain't my bitch

Ain't mine, your kind
Your steepin outta time
Ain't mine, your kind
Your steppin outta time

Draggin me down, why you around?
No foolin'
It ain't my fall, it ain't my call
It ain't my...

Bitch... you ain't mine

The Struggle Within lyrics by Metallica

2008-06-21T21:42:00.000-07:00

The Struggle Within lyrics Metallica

The Struggle Within is from Metallica's epic The Black Album which featured Nothing Else Matters and Enter Sandman.

Lyrics

Reaching out for something you've got to feel
While clutching to what you had thought was real

Kicking at a dead horse pleases you
No way of showing your gratitude
So many things you don't want to do
What is it? what have you got ot lose

What the hell
What is you think you're gonna find?
Hypocrite
Boredom sets into the boring mind

Struggle within it suits you fine
Struggle within your ruin
Struggle within you seal your own coffin
Struggle within the struggling within

Home is not a home it becomes a hell
Turning it into your prison cell
Advantages are taken, not handed out
While you struggle inside your hell

Reaching out
Grabbing for something tou've got to feel
Closing in
The pressure upon you is so real

Struggle within it suits you fine
Struggle within your ruin
Struggle within you seal your own coffin
Struggle within the struggling within

Reaching out for something you've got to feel
While clutching to what you had thought was real
What the hell

What is you think you're gonna find
Hypocrite
Boredom sets into the boring mind

Struggle within it suits you fine
Struggle within your ruin
Struggle within you seal your own coffin
Struggle within the struggling within

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My Friend Of Misery / The Black Album / Metallica Lyrics

2008-06-21T21:41:00.000-07:00

My Friend Of Misery / The Black Album / Metallica Lyrics

You just stood there screaming
Fearing no one was listening to you
They say the empty can rattles the most
The sound of your voice must soothe you
Hearing only what you want to hear
And knowing only what you've heard
You you're smothered in tragedy
You're out to save the world

Misery
You insist that the weight of the world
Should be on your shoulders
Misery
There's much more to life than what you see
My friend of misery

You still stood there screaming
No one caring about these words you tell
My friend before your voice is gone
One man's fun is another's hell
These times are sent to try men's souls
But something's wrong with all you see
You you'll take it on all yourself
Remember, misery loves company

Misery
You insist that the weight of the world
Should be on your shoulders
Misery
There's much more to life than what you see
My friend of misery

You just stood there creaming
My friend of misery

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The God That Failed / The Black Album / Metallica Lyrics

2008-06-21T21:38:00.000-07:00

The God That Failed / The Black Album / Metallica Lyrics

This song is about the death of James Hetfield's mother and belief in christian principles which lead to her not seeking treatment for her illness.

The God that Failed

Pride you took
Pride you feel
Pride that you felt when you'd kneel

Not the word
Not the love
Not what you thought from above

It feeds
It grows
It clouds all that you will know
Deceit
Deceive
Decide just what you believe

I see faith in your eyes
Never your hear the discouraging lies
I hear faith in your cries
Broken is the promise, betrayal
The healing hand held back by the deepened nail

Follow the god that failed

Find your peace
Find your say
Find the smooth road in your way

Trust you gave
A child to save
Left you cold and him in grave

It feeds
It grows
It clouds all that you will know
Deceit
Deceive
Decide just what you believe

I see faith in your eyes
Never you hear the discouraging lies
I hear faith in your cries
Broken is the promise, betrayal
The healing hand held back by the deepened nail

Follow the god that failed

I see faith in your eyes
Broken is the promise, betrayal
The healing hand held back by the deepened nail

Follow the god that failed

Pride you took
Pride you feel
Pride that you felt when you'd kneel

Trust you gave
A child to save
Left you cold and him in grave

I see faith in your eyes
Never you hear the discouraging lies
I hear faith in your cries
Broken is the promise, betrayal
The healing hand held back by deepened nail

Follow the god that failed

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Of Wolf And Man / The Black Album / Metallica Lyrics

2008-06-21T21:36:00.000-07:00

Of Wolf And Man / The Black Album / Metallica Lyrics

Off through the new day's mist I run
Off from the new day's mist I have come
I hunt
Therefore I am
Harvest the land
Taking of the fallen lamb

Off thruogh the new day's mist I run
Off from the new day'smist I have come
We shift
Pulsing with the earth
Company we keep
Roaming the land while you sleep

Shape shift nose to the wind
Shape shift feeling I've been
Move swift all senses clean
Earth's gift back to the meaning of life

Bright is the moon high in starlight
Chill is the air cold as steel tonight
We shift
Call of the wild
Fear in your eyes
It's later than you realized

Shape shift nose to the wind
Shape shift feeling I've been
Move swift all senses clean
Earth's gift back to the meaning of life

I feel I change
Back to a better day
Hair stands on the back of my neck
In wildness is the preservation of the world

So seek the wolf in thyself

Shape shift nose to the wind
Shape shift feeling I've been
Move swift all senses clean
Earth's gift
Back to the meaning of wolf and man

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Don't tread on me / The Black Album / Metallica Lyrics

2008-06-21T21:34:00.000-07:00

Don't tread on me / The Black Album / Metallica Lyrics

Liberty or death, what we so proudly hail
Once you provoke her, rattling of her tail
Never begins it, never, but once engaged...
Never surrenders, showing the fangs of rage

Don't tread on me

So be it
Threaten no more
To secure peace is to prepare for war
So be it
Settle the score
Touch me again for the words that you'll hear evermore...

Don't tread on me

Love it or live it, she with the deadly bite
Quick is the blue tongue, forked as lighting strike
Shining with brightness, always on surveillance
The eyes, they never close, emblem of vigilance

Don't tread on me

So be it
Threaten no more
To secure peace is to prepare for war
So be it
Settle the score
Touch me again for the words that you'll hear evermore...

Don't tread on me

So be it
Threaten no more
To secure peace is to prepare for war

Liberty or death, what we so proudly hail
Once you provoke her, rattling on her tail

So be it
Threaten no more
To secure peace is to prepare for war
So be it
Settle the score
Touch me again for the words that you'll hear evermore...

Don't tread on me

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Nothing Else Matters / The Black Album / Metallica Lyrics

2008-06-21T21:28:00.000-07:00

Nothing Else Matters Lyrics by Metallia

The Metallica song from the Black Album that everyone knows. From black t-shit wearing bogans to wanna be guitarists learning the simply one handed picked intro to FM radio station listeners every where they know this song. On its release in 1991, loud complaints came from long time Metallica fans, who were used to the 'severe' lyrical content of the first few Metallica ballads, did not appreciate the inclusion of an apparent love song. Those fans name check Nothing Else Matters when accusing Metallica of selling out. Funny that it's one of Metallica's most popular songs then eh?

Nothing Else Matters Lyrics

So close no matter how far
Couldn't be much more from the heart
Forever trusting who we are
And nothing else matters

Never opened myself this way
Life is ours, we live it our way
All these words I don't just say
And nothing else matters

Trust I seek and I find in you
Every day for us something new
Open mind for a different view
And nothing else matters

Never cared for what they do
Never cared for what they know
But I know

So close no matter how far
Couldn't be much more from the heart
Forever trusting who we are
And nothing else matters

Never cared for what they do
Never cared for what they know
But I know

Never opened myself this way
Life is ours, we live it our way
All these words I don't just say
And nothing else matters

Trust I seek and I find in you
Every day for us something new
Open mind for a different view
And nothing else matters

Never cared for what they say
Never cared for games they play
Never cared for what they do
Never cared for what they know
And I know

So close no matter how far
Couldn't be much more from the heart
Forever trusting who we are
No nothing else matters

Follow here for the entire Black album lyrics. Other big radio friendly singles from the album were The Unforgiven and Enter Sandman.

Through The Never / The Black Album / Metallica Lyrics

2008-06-21T21:27:00.000-07:00

Through The Never / The Black Album / Metallica Lyrics

All that is, was and will be
Universe much too big to see

Time and space never ending
Disturbing thoughts, questions pending
Limitations of human understanding
Too quick to criticize
Obligation to survive
We hunger to be alive

All that is, ever
Ever was
Will be ever
Twisting
Turning
Through the never

In the dark, see past our eyes
Pursuit of truth no matter where it lies

Gazing up to the breeze of the heavens
On a quest, meaning, reason
Came to be, how it begun
All alone in the family of the sun
Curiosity teasing everyone
On our home, third stone from the sun

All that is, ever
Ever was
Will be ever
Twisting
Turning
Through the never

On through the never
We must go
On through the never
Out of the
Edge of forever
We must go
On through the never
Then ever comes

All that is, ever
Ever was
Will be ever
Who we are
Ask forever
Twisting
Turning
Through the never

Never

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Wherever I May Roam / The Black Album / Metallica Lyrics

2008-06-21T21:25:00.000-07:00

Wherever I May Roam / The Black Album / Metallica Lyrics

...and the road becomes my bride
I have stripped of all but pride
So in her I do confide
And she keeps me satisfied
Gives me all I need

...and with dust in throat I crave
Only knowledge will I save
To the game you stay a slave
Rover wanderer
Nomad vagabond
Call me what you will

But I'll take my time anywhere
Free to speak my mind anywhere
And I'll redefine anywhere
Anywhere I may roam
Where I lay my head is home

...and the earth becomes my throne
I adapt to the unknown
Under wandering stars I've grown
By myself but not alone
I ask no one

...and my ties are severed clean
The less I have the more I gain
Off the beaten path I reign
Rover wanderer
Nomad vagabond
Call me what you will

But I'll take my time anywhere
I'm free to speak my mind anywhere
And I'll never mind anywhere
Anywhere I may roam
Where I lay my head is home

But i'll take my time anywhere
Free to speak my mind
And I'll take my find anywhere
Anywhere I may roam
Where I lay my head is home

Carved upon my stone
My body lie, but still I roam
Wherever I may roam

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The Unforgiven / The Black Album / Metallica Lyrics

2008-06-21T21:18:00.000-07:00

The Unforgiven / The Black Album / Metallica Lyrics

"The Unforgiven" is probably the slowest song on Metallica's self-titled album. THe song has a sequel, in the form of "The Unforgiven II", from the album ReLoad.

Drummer Lars Ulrich is noted for saying that the band wanted to try something novel (for them) with the idea of a ballad - instead of the standard melodic verse and heavy chorus the band opted to reverse the structure, with heavy, distorted verses and a softer, more melodic pop chorus, recorded with classical guitars and James Hetfield's surprise crooning "So I dub thee unforgiven."

The Unforgiven

New blood joins this earth
And quikly he's subdued
Through constant pained disgrace
The young boy learns their rules

With time the child draws in
This whipping boy done wrong
Deprived of all his thoughts
The young man struggles on and on he's known
A vow unto his own
That never from this day
His will they'll take away

What I've felt
What I've known
Never shined through in what I've shown
Never be
Never see
Won't see what might have been

What I've felt
What I've known
Never shined through in what I've shown
Never free
Never me
So I dub thee unforgiven

They dedicate their lives
To running all of his
He tries to please them all
This bitter man he is
Throughout his life the same
He's battled constantly
This fight he cannot win
A tired man they see no longer cares
The old man then prepares
To die regretfully
That old man here is me

What I've felt
What I've known
Never shined through in what I've shown
Never be
Never see
Won't see what might have been

What I've felt
What I've known
Never shined through in what I've shown
Never free
Never me
So I dub thee unforgiven

You labeled me
I'll label you
So I dub thee unforgiven

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Holier Than Thou / The Black Album / Metallica Lyrics

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Holier Than Thou / The Black Album / Metallica Lyrics

No more!
The craps rolls out your mouth again
Haven't changed, your brain is still gelatin
Little whispers circle around your head
Why don't you worry about yourself instead

Who are you? where ya been? where ya from?
Gossip is burning on the tip of your tongue
You lie so much you believe yourself
Judge not lest ye be judged yourself

Holier than thou
You are
Holier than thou
You are

You know not

Before you judge me take a look at you
Can't you find somethig better to do
Point the finger, slow to understand
Arrogance and ignorance go hand in hand

It's not who you are it's who you know
Others lives are the basis of your own
Burn your bridges build them back with wealth
Judge not lest ye be judged yourself

Holier than thou
You are
Holier than thou
You are

You know not

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Sad but True / The Black Album / Metallica Lyrics

2008-06-21T21:13:00.000-07:00

Sad but True / The Black Album / Metallica Lyrics

Hey
I'm your life
I'm the one who takes you there
Hey
I'm your life
I'm the one who cares
They
They betray
I'm your only true friend now
They
They'll betray
I'm forever there

I'm your dream, make you real
I'm your eyes when you must steal
I'm your pain when you can't feel
Sad but true

I'm your dream, mind astray
I'm your eyes while you're away
I'm your pain while you repay
You know it's sad but true

You
You're my mask
You're my cover, my shelter
You
You're my mask
You're the one who's blamed
Do
Do my work
Do my dirty work, scapegoat
Do
Do my deeds
For you're the one who's shamed

I'm your dream, make you real
I'm your eyes when you must steal
I'm your pain when you can't feel
Sad but true

I'm your dream, mind astray
I'm your eyes while you're away
I'm your pain while you repay
You know it's sad but true

Hate
I'm your hate
I'm your hate when you want love
Pay
Pay the price
Pay, for nothing's fair

Hey
I'm your life
I'm the one who took you there
Hey
I'm your life
And I no longer care

I'm your dream, make you real
I'm your eyes when you must steal
I'm your pain when you can't feel
Sad but true

I'm your truth, telling lies
I'm your reasoned alibis
I'm inside open your eyes
I'm you

Sad But True

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Metallica, The Black Album, Lyrics All on one page

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The Black Album Lyrics Metallica.

Black Album is Metallica's commercial cross over into popular culture. A massive album with many hit singles. Lyrically it dealt with fear, death by cancer, nightmares and injustice.

Lyrics:

1. Enter Sandman
2. Sad But True
3. Holier Than Thou
4. The Unforgiven
5. Wherever I May Roam
6. Don't Tread On Me
7. Through The Never
8. Nothing Else Matters
9. Of Wolf And Man
10. The God That Failed
11. My Friend Of Misery
12. The Struggle Within

JAMES HETFIELD - GUITAR, VOCALS
LARS ULRICH - DRUMS
KIRK HAMMET - LEAD GUITAR AWESOME RIFFS
JASON NEWSTED - BASS GUITAR

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Enter Sandman / Metallica, The Black Album / Metallica

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Enter Sandman / Metallica, The Black Album / Metallica

Say your prayers little one
Don't forget, my son
To include everyone

Tuck you in, warm within
Keep you free from sin
Till the sandman he comes

Sleep with one eye open
Gripping your pillow tight

Exit light
Enter night
Take my hand
Off to never never land

Something's wrong, shut the light
Heavy thoughts tonight
And they aren't of snow white

Dreams of war, dreams of liars
Dreams of dragon's fire
And of things that will bite

Sleep with one eye open
Gripping your pillow tight

Exit light
Enter night
Take my hand
Off to never never land

Now I lay me down to sleep
Pray the lord my soul to keep
If I die before I wake
Pray the lord my soul to take

Hush little baby, don't say a word
And never mind that noise you heard
It's just the beast under your bed,
In your closet, in your head

Exit light
Enter night
Grain of sand

Exit light
Enter night
Take my hand
We're off to never never land

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And Justice for All Lyrics By Metallica

2008-06-16T02:30:00.000-07:00

And Justice for All Lyrics by Metallica

Here are Metallica's lyrics for their ..And Justice for All album. It's considered by many Metallica fans to be a 'true' Metallica album*, featuring epic in length songs that are fuel by hungry and fiery guitar solos.

Lyrics:

Blackend
And Justice for All
Eye of the Beholder
One
The Shortest Straw
Harvester of Sorrow
The Frayed Ends of Sanity
To Live is to Die
Dyers Eve

...And Justice for All is Metallica's fourth studio album which they released August 25, 1988, by Elektra Records.

It is the first studio album to feature bassist Jason Newsted and without former bassist Cliff Burton after he died in a vehicle crash. The front cover of ...And Justice for All depicts the statue of Lady Justice cracked and bound by ropes, with both of her scales filled with dollars and both of her breasts exposed to the world. Clearly, Lady Gaga was inspired by this idea.....

"...And Justice for All" is written in poor graffiti to Lady Justice's right. This was used to symbolize that Justice had been desecrated. This theme is lyrically run throughout the album as expressed in tracks such as "Eye of the Beholder" and "...And Justice for All".

The album has sold over 8 million copies in America alone according to the RIAA.

*As opposed to say St Anger.

Dyers Eve / And Justice For All / Metallica Lyrics

2008-06-16T02:27:00.000-07:00

Dyers Eve / And Justice For All / Metallica Lyrics

Lyrics

Dear Mother, Dear Father,
What is this hell you have put me through,
Believer, Deceiver,
Day in day out live my life through you,
Pushed onto me what's wrong or right,
Hidden from this thing that they call life

Dear Mother, Dear Father,
Every thought I'd think you'd disapprove,
Curator, Dictator,
Always censoring my every move,
Children are seen but are not heard,
Tear out everything inspired

Innocence,
Torn from me without your shelter,
Barred reality,
I'm living blindly

Dear Mother, Dear Father,
Time has frozen still what's left to be,
Hear Nothing, Say Nothing,
Cannot face the fact I think for me,
No guarantee, it's life as is,
But damn you for not giving me my chance

Dear Mother, Dear Father,
You've clipped my wings before I learned to fly,
Unspoiled, Unspoken,
I've out grown that fucking lullaby,
Same thing I've always heard from you,
Do as I say not as I do

Innocence,
Torn from me without your shelter,
Barred reality,
I'm living blindly

I'm in hell without you,
Cannot cope without you two,
Shocked at the world that I see,
Innocent victim please rescue me

Dear Mother, Dear Father,
Hidden in this world you've made for me,
I'm Seething, I'm Bleeding,
Ripping wounds in me that never heal,
Undying spite I feel for you,
Living out this hell you always knew

Check out the lyrics to The Frayed ends of Insanity or Harvester of Sorrow

To Live is to Die / And Justice For All / Metallica Lyrics

2008-06-16T02:26:00.001-07:00

To Live is to Die Lyrics / And Justice For All / Metallica

To Live is to Die is mostly an instrumental. The song contains a few spoken lyrics near the end of the song that were written by Paul Gerhardt, a German poet. They were popularized in the film Excalibur. The song was written as a tribute to the Metallica's late bassist Cliff Burton.

Lyrics

When a man lies he murders a part of the world,
These are the pale deaths which men miscall their lives,
All this I cannot bear to witness any longer,
Cannot the kingdom of salvation take me home

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The Frayed Ends of Sanity / And Justice for All / Metallica Lyrics

2008-06-16T02:24:00.000-07:00

The Frayed Ends of Sanity / And Justice for All / Metallica Lyrics

Lyrics

Never hunger,
Never prosper,
I have fallen prey to failure,
Struggle within,
Triggered again,
Now the candle burns at both ends

Twisting under schizophrenia,
Falling deep into dementia

Old habits reapear,
Fighting the fear of fear,
Growing conspiracy,
Everyone's after me,
Frayed ends of sanity,
Hear them calling,
Hear them calling me

Birth of terror,
Death of much more,
I'm the slave of fear, my captor,
Never warnings,
Spreading its wings,
As I wait for the horror she brings,
Loss of interest, question, wonder,
Waves of fear they pull me under

Old habits reapear,
Fighting the fear of fear,
Growing conspiracy,
Everyone's after me,
Frayed ends of sanity,
Hear them calling,
Hear them calling me

Into ruin,
I am sinking,
Hostage of this nameless feeling,
Hell is set free,
Flooded I'll be,
Feel the undertow inside me

Height, Hell, Time, Haste, Terror, Tension,
Life, Death, Want, Waste, Mass depression

Old habits reapear,
Fighting the fear of fear,
Growing conspiracy,
Everyone's after me,
Frayed ends of sanity,
Hear them calling,
Hear them calling me

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Harvester of sorrow / and justice for all / metallica lyrics

2008-06-16T02:22:00.000-07:00

Harvester of Sorrow lyrics from the ...and justice for all album by Metallica

The song's lyrics refers to a man who descends into madness, subjecting his family to his anger and rage. At the end of the song, it is hinted his sanity snaps and he murders his loved ones.

The single cover art has a fist exploding through a skull featuring a set of scales. This is probably a reference to the issues addressed across the entire album and in particular the song, and justice for all.

Lyrics

My life suffocates,
Planting the seeds of hate,
I've loved, turned to hate,
Trapped far beyond my fate

I give,
You take,
This life taht I forsake,
Been cheated of my youth,
You turned this lie to truth

Anger, Misery, You'll suffer unto me

Harvester of sorrow,
Language of the mad,
Harvester of sorrow

Pure black looking clear,
Your work is done soon here,
Try getting back to me,
Get back which used to be

Drink up,
Shoot in,
Let the beatings begin

Distributor of pain,
Your loss becomes my gain

Anger, Misery, You'll suffer unto me

Harvester of sorrow,
Language of the mad,
Harvester of sorrow

All have said their prayers,
Invade their nightmares,
To see into my eyes,
You'll find where murder lies,

Infanticide

Harvestor of sorrow,
Language of the mad,
Harvester of sorrow,
Langauge of the mad,
Harvester of sorrow

Check out the lyrics to Eye of the Beholder or maybe the lyrics to Metallica's One.

The Shortest Straw Lyrics And Justice For All / Metallica Lyrics

2008-06-16T02:20:00.000-07:00

The Shortest Straw is from Metallica's hugely popular ...and justic for all album.

Lyrics

Suspicion is your name,
Your honesty to blame,
Put dignity to shame,
Dishonor,
Witchhunt, modern day,
Determining decay,
The blatant disarray,
Disfigure,
The public eyes' disgrace,
Defying common place,
Unending paper chase,
Unending

Deafening,
Painstaking,
Reckoning,
This vertigo it does bring

Shorstest straw,
Challenge liberty,
Downed by law,
Live in infamy,
Rub you raw,
Witchhunt riding through,
Shortest straw,
The shortest straw has been pulled for you

Pulled for you,
Shortest straw,
Pulled for you,
Shortest straw,
Pulled for you,
Shortest straw,
Shortest straw has been pulled for you

The accusations fly,
Discrimination, why?
Your inner self to die,
Intruding,
Doubt sunk itself in you,
It's teeth and talons through,
Your living catch-22,
Deluding

A mass hysteria,
A megalomania,
Reveal dementia,
Reveal

Secretly,
Silently,
Certainly,
In vertigo you will be

Shorstest straw,
Challenge liberty,
Downed by law,
Live in infamy,
Rub you raw,
Witchhunt riding through,
Shortest straw,
The shortest straw has been pulled for you

Pulled for you,
Shortest straw,
Pulled for you,
Shortest straw,
Pulled for you,
Shortest straw,
Shortest straw has been pulled for you

Pulled for you,
Shortest straw,
Pulled for you,
Shortest straw,
Pulled for you,
Shortest straw,
Shortest straw has been pulled for you

Behind you, hands are tied,
Your being, ostracized,
YOur hell is multiplied,
Upending,
The fallout has begun,
Oppressive damage done,
Your many turned to none,
To nothing,
You're reaching your nadir,
Your will has disappeared,
The lie is crystal clear,
Defending

Channels red,
One word said,
Blacklisted,
With vertigo make you dead

Shorstest straw,
Challenge liberty,
Downed by law,
Live in infamy,
Rub you raw,
Witchhunt riding through,
Shortest straw,
The shortest straw has been pulled for you,
Pulled for you

Check out the lyrics to Eye of the Beholder.