The View Lyrics by Lou Reed and Metallica

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 am 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

Who actively despises you

Check out Junior Dad lyrics and Little Dog

Brandenburg Gate lyrics by Metallica and Lou Reed

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

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

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

Little Dog Lyrics Metallica Lou Reed

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

Pumping Blood Lyrics Metallica Lou Reed

Pumping Blood Lyrics by Lou Reed

Pumping Blood is a new song that came about as a result of the collaboration with the original Transformer himself, 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. Randonly, I just wanted to say that Darth Maul has three lines in the Phantom Menace. 

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. Dark lyrics indeed, so to take your mind of things, how about looking at a battery powered grass mower. Let the grass grow, or cut. What would Lou do?

SXSW Set List Metallica

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?

Rolling Stone Review Death Magnetic

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.

Metallica BBC Radio 1 Concert Set List

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

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.

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

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.

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

'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


More lyrics from Death Magnetic

'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' 

More Death Magnetic Lyrics on The Metallica Lyric Lounge

Reload Album Lyrics Metallica

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

The Memory Remains / Reload / Metallica Lyrics

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 song lyrics by Metallica from ReLoad

Fuel song lyrics by Metallica from ReLoad

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 favourite 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.

You might be interested in checking out the lyrics to The Memory Remains or checkout out this propane fuel burner.

Metallica's Load Album Lyrics

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'. Regardless, the album was hugely popular.


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's Black Album.

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 Metallica's traditional 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 style and a lot of minor chords.

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, this resulted in a more 'modern' sounding album.

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 and was deeply more personal to him. It's nothing like the pure do the lyrics by the numbers effort of Hardwired.

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. While it was considered a 'leftovers' album, it was the best kind of left overs where some of the songs, tasted better the morning after!

The Outlaw Torn song lyrics from Metallica's Load

"The Outlaw Torn" lyrics

As taken from Metallica's Load album

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

More of Metallica's Load album song lyrics.

Speaking of Outlaw, check out Green Day's 'Outlaws' song lyrics from Revolution Radio.

Bleeding Me lyrics from Metallica's Load album

Bleeding Me lyrics from Metallica's Load album

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 of Metallica's Load album song lyrics.

Hero Of The Day Lyrics by Metallica

Hero Of The Day Lyrics by Metallica

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


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 of Metallica's Load album song lyrics.

King Nothing lyrics from Metallica's Load

King Nothing lyrics from Metallica's Load album

What is the meaning of the song?

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 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 which probably explains the beginning of the song.

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 of Metallica's Load album song lyrics.