Metallica

Metallica

KILL'EM ALL (1983)

Hit The Lights

No life till leather
We are gonna kick some ass tonight
We got the metal madness
When our fans start screaming
It's right well alright
When we start to rock
We never want to stop again
Hit the lights
Hit the lights
Hit the lights
You know our fans are insane
We are gonna blow this place away
with volume higher
Than anything today the only way
When we start to rock
We never want to stop again
Hit the lights
Hit the lights
Hit the lights
With all our screaming
We are gonna rip right through your brain
We got the lethal power
It is causing you sweet pain Oh sweet pain
When we start to rock
We never want to stop again
Hit the lights
Hit the lights
Hit the lights

The Four Horsemen

By the last breath of the fourth winds blow
Better raise your ears
The sound of hooves knocks at your door
Lock up your wife and children now
It's time to wield the blade
For now you have got some company
The Horsemen are drawing nearer
On the leather steeds they ride
They have come to take your life
On through the dead of night
With the four Horsemen ride
or choose your fate and die
You have been dying since the day
You were born
You know it has all been planned
The quartet of deliverance rides
A sinner once a sinner twice
No need for confession now
Cause now you have got the fight of your life
The Horsemen are drawing nearer
On the leather steeds they ride
They have come to take your life
On through the dead of night
With the four Horsemen ride
or choose your fate and die
Time
has taken its toll on you
The lines that crack your face
Famine
Your body it has torn through
Withered in every place
Pestilence
For what you have had to endure
And what you have put others through
Death
Deliverance for you for sure
There is nothing you can do
So gather round young warriors now
and saddle up your steeds
Killing scores with demon swords
Now is the death of doers of wrong
Swing the judgment hammer down
Safely inside armor blood guts and sweat
The Horsemen are drawing nearer
On the leather steeds they ride
They have come to take your life
On through the dead of night
With the four Horsemen ride
or choose your fate and die

Motorbreath

Living and dying laughing and crying
Once you have seen it you will never be the same
Life in the fast lane is just how it seems
Hard and it is heavy dirty and mean
Motorbreath
Its how I live my life
I can't take it any other way
Motorbreath
The sign of living fast
It is going to take
Your breath away
Don't stop for nothing its full speed or nothing
I am taking down you know whatever is in my way
Getting your kicks as you are shooting the line
Sending the shivers up and down your spine
Motorbreath
Its how I live my life
I can't take it any other way
Motorbreath
The sign of living fast
It is going to take
Your breath away
Those people who tell you not to take chances
They are all missing on what life is about
You only live once so take hold of the chance
Don't end up like others the same song and dance
Motorbreath
Its how I live my life
I can't take it any other way
Motorbreath
The sign of living fast
It is going to take
Your breath away

Jump In The Fire

Down in the depths of my fiery home
The summons bell will chime
Tempting you and all the earth
to join our sinful kind
There is a job to be done and I'm the one
You people make me do it
Now it is time for your fate and I won't hesitate
to pull you down into this pit
So come on
Jump in the Fire
So come on
Jump in the Fire
With hell in my eyes and with death in my veins
The end is closing in
Feeding on the minds of man
and from their souls within
My disciples all shout to search out
And they always shall obey
Follow me now my child not the meek or the mild
But do just as I say
So come on
Jump in the Fire
So come on
Jump in the Fire
Jump by your will or be taken by force
I'll get you either way
Trying to keep the hellfire lit
I am stalking you as prey
Living your life as me I am you you see
So reach down grab my hand walk with me through the land
Come home where you belong
So come on
Jump in the Fire
So come on
Jump in the Fire

Anesthesia - Pulling Teeth

(Bass instrumental)

Whiplash

Late at night all systems go
You have come to see the show
We do our best You're the rest
You make it real you know
There is a feeling deep inside
That drives you fuckin' mad
A feeling of a hammerhead
You need it oh so bad
Adrenaline starts to flow
You're thrashing all around
Acting like a maniac
Whiplash
Bang your head against the stage
Like you never did before
Make it ring Make it bleed
Make it really sore
In a frenzied madness
with your leather and your spikes
Heads are bobbing all around
It is hot as hell tonight
Adrenaline starts to flow
You're thrashing all around
Acting like a maniac
Whiplash
Here on the stage the Marshal noise
is piercing through your ears
It kicks your ass kick your face
Exploding feeling nears
Now is the time to let it rip
To let it fuckin' loose
We are gathered here to maim and kill
Cause this is what we choose
Adrenaline starts to flow
You're thrashing all around
Acting like a maniac
Whiplash
The show is through the metal is gone
It is time to hit the road
Another town Another gig
Again we will explode
Hotel rooms and motorways
Life out here is raw
But we will never stop
We will never quit
cause we are Metallica
Adrenaline starts to flow
You're thrashing all around
Acting like a maniac
Whiplash

Phantom Lord

Sound is ripping through your ears
The deafening sound of metal nears
Your bodies waiting for his whips
The taste of leather on your lips
Hear the cry of War
Louder than before
With his sword in hand
to control the land
Crushing metal strikes
on this frightening night
Fall onto your knees
For the Phantom Lord
Victims falling under chains
You hear them crying death pains
The fists of terrors breaking through
Now there's nothing you can do
Hear the cry of War
Louder than before
With his sword in ha o
to control the land
Crushing metal strikes
on this frightening night
Fall onto your knees
For the Phantom Lord
The leather armies have prevailed
The Phantom Lord has never failed
Smoke is lifting from the ground
The rising volume metal sound
Hear the cry of War
Louder than before
With his sword in hand
to control the land
Crushing metal strikes
on this frightening night
Fall onto your knees
For the Phantom Lord
Fall to your knees
and bow to the Phantom Lord

No Remorse

No mercy for what we are doing
No thought to even what we have done
We don't need to feel the sorrow
No remorse for the helpless one
War without end
No remorse No repent
We don't care what it meant
Another day Another death
Another sorrow Another breath
No remorse No repent
We don't care what it meant
Another day Another death
Another sorrow Another breath
Blood feeds the war machine
as it eats its way across the land
We don't need the feel the sorrow
No remorse is the one command
War without end
No remorse No repent
We don't care what it meant
Another day Another death
Another sorrow Another breath
No remorse No repent
We don't care what it meant
Another day Another death
Another sorrow Another breath
Only the strong survive
No one to save the weaker race
We are ready to kill all comers
Like a loaded gun right at your face
War without end
No remorse No repent
We don't care what it meant
Another day Another death
Another sorrow Another breath
No remorse No repent
We don't care what it meant
Another day Another death
Another sorrow Another breath
Attack
Bullets are flying
People are dying
with madness surrounding all hell's breaking loose
Soldiers are hounding
Bodies are mounting
cannons are shouting to take their abuse
With war machines going
Blood starts to flowing
No mercy given to anyone hear
The furious fighting
Swords are like lighting
It all becomes frightening to you
Know death is near
No remorse

Seek & Destroy

We are scanning the scene in the city tonight
We are looking for you to start up a fight
There is an evil feeling in our brains
But it is nothing new you know it drives us insane
Running, On our way
Hiding, You will pay
Dying, One thousand deaths
Running, On our way
Hiding, You will pay
Dying, One thousand deaths
Searching, Seek and Destroy
Searching, Seek and Destroy
Searching, Seek and Destroy
Searching, Seek and Destroy
There is no escape and that is for sure
This is the end we won't take any more
Say goodbye to the world you live in
You have always been taking but now you're giving
Running, On our way
Hiding, You will pay
Dying, One thousand deaths
Running, On our way
Hiding, You will pay
Dying, One thousand deaths
Searching, Seek and Destroy
Searching, Seek and Destroy
Searching, Seek and Destroy
Searching, Seek and Destroy
Our brains are on fire with the feeling to kill
And it will not go away until our dreams are fulfilled
There is only one thing on our minds
Don't try running away `cause you're the one we will find
Running, On our way
Hiding, You will pay
Dying, One thousand deaths
Running, On our way
Hiding, You will pay
Dying, One thousand deaths
Searching, Seek and Destroy
Searching, Seek and Destroy
Searching, Seek and Destroy
Searching, Seek and Destroy

Metal Militia

Thunder and lightning the gods take revenge
Senseless destruction
Victims of fury are cowardly now
Running for safety
Stabbing the harlot to pay for her sins
Leaving the virgin
Suicide running as if it were free
Ripping and tearing
On through the mist and the madness
We are trying to get the message to you
Metal Militia
Metal Militia
Metal Militia
Chained and shadowed to be left behind
nine and one thousand
Metal militia for your sacrifice
iron clad soldiers
Join or be conquered the law of the land
What will befall you
The metallization of your inner soul
twisting and turning
On through the mist and the madness
We are trying to get the message to you
Metal Militia
Metal Militia
Metal Militia
We are as one as we all are the same
fighting for one cause
Leather and metal are our uniforms
protecting what we are
Joining together to take on the world
with our heavy metal
Spreading the message to everyone here
Come let yourself go
On through the mist and the madness
We are trying to get the message to you
Metal Militia
Metal Militia
Metal Militia

* RIDE THE LIGHTNING (1984)

Fight Fire With Fire

Do unto others as they have done unto you
But what in the hell is this world coming to?
Blow the universe into nothingness
Nuclear warfare shall lay us to rest
Fight fire with fire
Ending is near
Fight fire with fire
Bursting with fear
We shall die
Time is like a fuse, short and burning fast
Armageddon is here, like said in the past
Fight fire with fire
Ending is near
Fight fire with fire
Bursting with fear
Soon to fill our lungs the hot winds of death
The gods are laughing, so take your last breath
Fight fire with fire
Ending is near
Fight fire with fire
Bursting with fear

Ride The Lightning

Guilty as charged
But damn it, it ain't right
There is someone else controlling me
Death in the air
Strapped in the electric chair
This can't be happening to me
Who made you God to say
"I'll take your life from you!"
Flash before my eyes
Now it's time to die
Burning in my brain
I can feel the flames
Wait for the sign
To flick the switch of death
It's the beginning of the end
Sweat, chilling cold
As I watch death unfold
Consciousness my only friend
My fingers grip with fear
What I am doing here?
Flash before my eyes
Now it's time to die
Burning in my brain
I can feel the flames
Someone help me
Oh please God help me
They are trying to take it all away
I don't want to die
Time moving slowly
The minutes seem like hours
The final curtain call I see
How true is this?
Just get it over with
If this is true, just let it be
Wakened by the horrid cream
Freed from the frightening dream
Flash before my eyes
Now it's time to die
Burning in my brain
I can feel the flames

For Whom The Bell Tolls

Make his fight on the hill in the early day
Constant chill deep inside
Shouting gun, on they run through the endless grey
On the fight, for they are right, yes, by who's to say?
For a hill men would kill, why? They do not know
Suffered wounds test there their pride
Men of five, still alive through the raging glow
Gone insane from the pain that they surely know
For whom the bell tolls
Time marches on
For whom the bell tolls
Take a look to the sky just before you die
It is the last time you will
Blackened roar massive roar fills the crumbling sky
Shattered goal fills his soul with a ruthless cry
Stranger now, are his eyes, to this mystery
He hears the silence so loud
Crack of dawn, all is gone except the will to be
Now the will see what will be, blinded eyes to see
For whom the bell tolls
Time marches on
For whom the bell tolls

Fade To Black

Life it seems, will fade away
Drifting further every day
Getting lost within myself
Nothing matters no one else
I have lost the will to live
Simply nothing more to give
There is nothing more for me
Need the end to set me free
Things are not what they used to be
Missing one inside of me
Deathly lost, this can't be real
Cannot stand this hell I feel
Emptiness is filing me
To the point of agony
Growing darkness taking dawn
I was me, but now He's gone
No one but me can save myself, but it to late
Now I can't think, think why I should even try
Yesterday seems as though it never existed
Death Greets me warm, now I will just say good-bye

Trapped Under Ice

I don't know how to live trough this hell
Woken up, I'm still locked in this shell
Frozen soul, frozen down to the core
Break the ice, I can't take anymore
Freezing
Can't move at all
Screaming
Can't hear my call
I am dying to live
Cry out
I'm trapped under the ice
Crystallized, as I lay here and rest
Eyes of glass stare directly at death
From deep sleep I have broken away
No one knows, no one hears what I say
Freezing
Can't move at all
Screaming
Can't hear my call
I am dying to live
Cry out
I'm trapped under the ice
Scream from my soul
Fate, mystified
Hell, forever more
No release from my cryonic state
What is this? I've been stricken by fate
Wrapped up tight, cannot move, can't break free
Hand of doom has a tight grip on me
Freezing
Can't move at all
Screaming
Can't hear my call
I am dying to live
Cry out
I'm trapped under the ice

Escape

Fell no pain, but my life ain't easy
I know I'm my best friend
No one cares, but I'm so much stronger
I'll fight until the end
To escape from the true false world
Undamaged destiny
Can't get caught in the endless circle
Ring of stupidity
Out of my own, out to be free
One with my mind, they just can't see
No need to hear things that they say
Life is for my own to live my own way
Rape my mind and destroy my feelings
Don't tell my what to do
I don't care now, 'cause I'm on my side
And I can see through you
Feed my brain with your so called standards
Who says that I ain't right
Break away from your common fashion
See through your blurry sight
Out of my own, out to be free
One with my mind, they just can't see
No need to hear things that they say
Life is for my own to live my own way
See they try to bring the hammer down
No damn chains can hold me to the ground
Life is for my own to live my own way

Creeping Death

Slaves
Hebrews born to serve, to the pharaoh
Heed
To his every word, live in fear
Faith
Of the unknown one, the deliverer
Wait
Something must be done, four hundred years
So let it be written
So let it be done
I'm sent here by the chosen one
So let it be written
So let it be done
To kill the first born pharaoh son
I'm creeping death
Now
Let my people go, land of goshen
Go
I will be with thee, bush of fire
Blood
Running red and strong, down the nil
Plague
Darkness three days long, hail to fire
So let it be written
So let it be done
I'm sent here by the chosen one
So let it be written
So let it be done
To kill the first born pharaoh son
I'm creeping death
Die by my hand
I creep across the land
Killing first born man
Die by my hand
I creep across the land
Killing first born man

I

Rule the midnight air the destroyer
Born
I shall soon be there, deadly mass

I

Creep the steps and flood final darkness
Blood
Lambs blood painted door, I shall pass
So let it be written
So let it be done
I'm sent here by the chosen one
So let it be written
So let it be done
To kill the first born pharaoh son
I'm creeping death

The Call Of Ktulu

(Instrumental)
* MASTER OF PUPPETS (1986)
Battery
Lashing out the action, returning the reaction
Weak are ripped and torn away
Hypnotizing power, crushing all that cower
Battery is here to stay
Smashing through the boundaries
lunacy has found me
cannot stop the Battery
Pounding out aggression
turns into obsession
cannot kill the Battery
Cannot kill the family
Battery is found in me
Battery
Crushing all deceivers, mashing non-believers
Never ending potency
Hungry violence seeker, feeding off the weaker
Breeding on insanity
Smashing through the boundaries
lunacy has found me
cannot stop the Battery
Pounding out aggression
turns into obsession
cannot kill the Battery
Cannot kill the family
Battery is found in me
Battery
Circle of Destruction, Hammer comes crushing
Powerhouse of energy
Whipping up a fury, Dominating flurry
We create the Battery
Smashing through the boundaries
lunacy has found me
cannot stop the Battery
Pounding out aggression
turns into obsession
cannot kill the Battery
Cannot kill the family
Battery is found in me
Battery

Master Of Puppets

End of passion play, crumbling away
I'm your source of self-destruction
Veins that pump with fear, sucking darkest clear
Leading on your deaths construction
Taste me you will see
more is all you need
you're dedicated to
how I'm killing you
Come crawling faster
obey your Master
your life burns faster
obey your Master
Master
Master of Puppets I'm pulling your strings
twisting your mind and smashing your dreams
Blinded by me, you can't see a thing
Just call my name, `cause I'll hear you scream
Master
Master
Just call my name, `cause I'll hear you scream
Master
Master
Needlework the way, never you betray
life of death becoming clearer
Pain monopoly, ritual misery
chop your breakfast on a mirror
Taste me you will see
more is all you need
you're dedicated to
how I'm killing you
Come crawling faster
obey your Master
your life burns faster
obey your Master
Master
Master of Puppets I'm pulling your strings
twisting your mind and smashing your dreams
Blinded by me, you can't see a thing
Just call my name, `cause I'll hear you scream
Master
Master
Just call my name, `cause I'll hear you scream
Master
Master
Master, Master, Where's the dreams that I've been after?
Master, Master, You promised only lies
Laughter, Laughter, All I hear and see is laughter
Laughter, Laughter, laughing at my cries
Hell is worth all that, natural habitat
just a rhyme without a reason
Neverending maze, drift on numbered days
now your life is out of season
Taste me you will see
more is all you need
you're dedicated to
how I'm killing you
Come crawling faster
obey your Master
your life burns faster
obey your Master
Master
Master of Puppets I'm pulling your strings
twisting your mind and smashing your dreams
Blinded by me, you can't see a thing
Just call my name, `cause I'll hear you scream
Master
Master
Just call my name, `cause I'll hear you scream
Master
Master
ha ha ha ha

The Thing That Should Not Be

Messenger of Fear in sight
Dark deception kills the light
Hybrid children watch the sea
Pray for Father, roaming free
fearless Wretch
insanity
He watches
lurking beneath the sea
great Old One
forbidden site
He searches
Hunter of the Shadows is rising
immortal
in madness You dwell
Crawling Chaos, underground
cult has summoned, twisted sound
Out from ruins once possessed
fallen city, living death
fearless Wretch
insanity
He watches
lurking beneath the sea
timeless sleep
has been upset
He awakens
Hunter of the Shadows is rising
immortal
in madness You dwell
Not dead which eternal lie
stranger eons Death may die
drain you of your sanity
face The Thing That Should Not Be
fearless Wretch
insanity
He watches
lurking beneath the sea
great Old One
forbidden site
He searches
Hunter of the Shadows is rising
immortal
in madness You dwell.

Welcome Home (Sanitarium)

Welcome to where time stands still
no one leaves and no one will
Moon is full, never seems to change
just labeled mentally deranged
Dream the same thing every night
I see our freedom in my sight
No locked doors, No windows barred
No things to make my brain seem scarred
Sleep my friend and you will see
that dream is my reality
They keep me locked up in this cage
can't they see it's why my brain says Rage
Sanitarium, leave me be
Sanitarium, just leave me alone
Build my fear of what's out there
and cannot breathe the open air
Whisper things into my brain
assuring me that I'm insane
They think our heads are in their hands
but violent use brings violent plans
Keep him tied, it makes him well
he's getting better, can't you tell?
No more can they keep us in
Listen, damn it, we will win
They see it right, they see it well
but they think this saves us from our Hell
Sanitarium, leave me be
Sanitarium, just leave me alone
Sanitarium, just leave me alone
Fear of living on
natives getting restless now
Mutiny in the air
got some death to do
Mirror stares back hard
Kill, it's such a friendly word
seems the only way
for reaching out again.

Disposables Herous

Bodies fill the fields I see, hungry heroes end
No one to play soldier now, no one to pretend
running blind through killing fields, bred to kill them all
Victim of what said should be
a servant `til I fall
Soldier boy, made of clay
now an empty shell
twenty one, only son
but he served us well
Bred to kill, not to care
just do as we say
finished here, Greeting Death
he's yours to take away
Back to the front
you will do what I say, when I say
Back to the front
you will die when I say, you must die
Back to the front
you coward
you servant
you blindman
Barking of machinegun fire, does nothing to me now
sounding of the clock that ticks, get used to it somehow
More a man, more stripes you bare, glory seeker trends
bodies fill the fields I see
the slaughter never ends
Soldier boy, made of clay
now an empty shell
twenty one, only son
but he served us well
Bred to kill, not to care
just do as we say
finished here, Greeting Death
he's yours to take away
Back to the front
you will do what I say, when I say
Back to the front
you will die when I say, you must die
Back to the front
you coward
you servant
you blindman
Why, Am I dying?
Kill, have no fear
Lie, live off lying
Hell, Hell is here
I was born for dying
Life planned out before my birth, nothing could I say
had no chance to see myself, molded day by day
Looking back I realize, nothing have I done
left to die with only friend
Alone I clench my gun
Soldier boy, made of clay
now an empty shell
twenty one, only son
but he served us well
Bred to kill, not to care
just do as we say
finished here, Greeting Death
he's yours to take away
Back to the front
you will do what I say, when I say
Back to the front
you will die when I say, you must die
Back to the front
you coward
you servant
you blindman
Back to the front.

Leper Messiah

Spineless from the start, sucked into the part
circus comes to town, you play the lead clown
Please, please
spreading his disease, living by his story
Knees, knees
falling to your knees, suffer for his glory
You will
Time for lust, time for lie
time to kiss your life goodbye
Send me money, send me green
Heaven you will meet
Make a contribution
and you'll get a better seat
Bow to Leper Messiah
Marvel at his tricks, need your Sunday fix
blind devotion came, rotting your brain
Chain, chain
Join the endless chain
Fame, Fame
Infection is the game, stinking drunk with power
We see
Time for lust, time for lie
time to kiss your life goodbye
Send me money, send me green
Heaven you will meet
Make a contribution
and you'll get a better seat
Bow to Leper Messiah
Witchery, weakening
Sees the sheep are gathering
set the trap, hypnotize
now you follow
Time for lust, time for lie
time to kiss your life goodbye
Send me money, send me green
Heaven you will meet
Make a contribution
and you'll get a better seat
Lie.

Orion

(Instrumental)

Damage Inc.

Dealing out the agony within
charging hard and no one's gonna give in
Living on your knees, conformity
or dying on your feet for honesty
Inbred, our bodies work as one
bloody, but never cry submission
Following our instinct not a trend
go against the grain until the end
Blood will follow blood
Dying time is here
Damage Incorporated
Slamming through, don't fuck with razorback
stepping out? You'll feel our hell on your back
Blood follows blood and we make sure
life ain't for you and we're the cure
Honesty is my only excuse
Try to rob us of it, but it's no use
Steamroller action crushing all
Victim is your name and you shall fall
Blood will follow blood
Dying time is here
Damage Incorporated
We chew and spit you out
we laugh, you scream and shout
All flee, with fear you run
You'll know just where we come from
Damage Incorporated
Damage jackals ripping right through you
sight and smell of this, it gets me goin'
Know just how to get just what we want
tear it from your soul in nightly hunt
Fuck it all and fucking no regrets
Never happy ending on these dark sets
All's fair for Damage Inc. you see
step a little closer if you please
Blood will follow blood
Dying time is here
Damage Incorporated
* GARAGE DAYS (1987)
Helpless
I gotta see you moving fast
See you come my way
See the dreams, I hope they last
Never fade away.
Gotta see the lights above
Make it loud tonight
Gotta set it all a-fire
Set it all a-light
See the flashing lights
Hear the thunder roar
I am gonna set you all a-light
Gotta make it man
I ain't got a choice
Gotta fill this hall tonight
Helpless
Helpless
Helpless
Helpless
I don't what I'm gonna do
Maybe not tonight
Gotta set you all a-fire
Gotta treat you right.
I can see the flashing lights
Lit before your love, oh
Gotta hear the thunder roar
Coming from above.
See the flashing lights
Hear the thunder roar
I'm gonna set you all alight
Gotta make it man
I ain't got no choice
Gotta fill this hall tonight
Helpless
Helpless
Helpless
Helpless
I can see the stars
I can see what's going on
Every night alone
I sing my song just for fun.
Only time will tell
If I'll make it myself someday
This stage is mine
Music is my destiny.
Cannot squeeze the life from me!
I can see the lights
But I can see what's going on
Every night alone
I sing my song just for fun.
Business in collapse
Some men don't like it so
Helpless maybe babe,
But you can leave or join the show.
Cannot squeeze the life from me!

The Small Hours

Look out at the darkness,
And you will see,
Just call my name and I'll be there.
You cannot touch me,
You would not dare,
I am the chill that's in the air.
And I try to get through to you,
In my own special way,
As the barriers crumble,
At the end of the day.
Dark rivers are flowing,
Back into the past,
You are the fish for which I cast.
And what of the future,
What is to be,
As the rivers flow into the sea.
And I try to get through to you,
In my own special way,
As the barriers crumble,
At the end of the day.
Do not take for granted,
Powers out there,
Don't step into the demon's lair.
Time is an illusion,
Rising from time,
Steep is the mountain which we climb.

The Wait

Motives changing
Day to day
The fire increases
Masks decay
I look at the river
White foam floats down
The body's poisoned
Got to sit tight
The wait
The wait
The wait
The wait
After awakening
The silence grows
The screams subside
Distortion shows
Mutant thoughts
Of bad mouthed news
Just another birth
Of distorted views
The wait
The wait
The wait
The wait

Crash Course In Brain Surgery

Look inside and you will see
The words are cutting deep inside my brain
Thunder burnin' quickly burning
Knife of words is driving me insane, insane yeah
Raven black is on my track
He shows me how to neutralize the knife
Show to me in surgery
The art of fighting words to conquer life, conquer life yeah
Now the wicked lance of fear
Is driven from my heady mountain brain
Crash course in brain surgery
Has stopped the bloody knife of words
again yeah, yeah, yeah

Last Caress/ Green Hell

I got something to say
I killed your baby today
And it doesn't matter much to me
As long as it's dead
I got something to say
I raped your mother today
And it doesn't matter much to me
As long as she's spread
Sweet lovely death
I am waiting for your breath
Come sweet death, one last caress
Sweet lovely death
I am waiting for your breath
Come sweet death, one last caress
Well, I got something to say
I killed your baby today
And it doesn't matter much to me
As long as it's dead
Sweet lovely death
I am waiting for your breath
Come sweet death
One last caress
---(Green Hell)---
Here in this place lies the genie of death
Touch it, see it
Whoa
Here in this place is a means to your end
Touch it, feel it
Green hell
You've come to this like no one could
I bet you never knew you woke it
And don't you run away from anything
I bet you thought you really could in Hell
We're gonna burn in Hell
Green hell
Like every hell but kind of green
In Hell, green hell
We're gonna face the mess we're
In Hell, green hell
I think I'd rather be up here
In Hell, green hell
You know I fuckin' shake apart
In Hell, green hell
Gotta find a way that you will stay
Green hell
Cannot forget about the heat
In Hell, green hell
Hell is green I need a flame
In Hell, green hell
Gonna burn in Hell
Green hell
You've come to this like no one could
I bet you never knew you woke it
And don't you run from anything
I bet you thought you really could take it
Here in this place is the genie of death
Touch it, see it
Whoa
Here in this place is the way to your end
Touch it, see it
Green hell
You've come to this like no one could
I bet you never knew you woke it
And don't you run away from anything
I bet you thought you really could
You've come to this like no one could
I bet you never knew you woke it
We're gonna burn in Hell
Green hell
* ...AND JUSTICE FOR ALL (1988)
Blackened
Blackened is the end
Winter it will send
Throwing all you see
Into obscurity
Death of Mother Earth
Never a rebirth
Evolution's End
Never will it mend
Never
Fire
To begin whipping dance of the dead
Blackened is the end
To begin whipping dance of the dead
Color our world blackened
Blistering of Earth
Terminate its worth
Deadly nicotine
Kill what might have been
Callous frigid chill
Nothing left to kill
Never seen before
Breathing nevermore
Never
Fire
To begin whipping dance of the dead
Blackened is the end
To begin whipping dance of the dead
Color our world blackened
Blackened
Opposition...Contradiction...Premonition...Compromise
Agitation...Violation......Mutilation...Planet Dies
Darkest color
Blistered Earth
True death of life
Termination...Expiration...Cancellation...Human Race
Expectation...Liberation...Population...Lay to waste
See our mother
Put to death
See our mother die
Smoldering decay
Take her breath away
Millions of our years
In minutes disappears
Darkening in vain
Decadence remains
All is said and done
Never is the sun
Never
Fire
To begin whipping dance of the dead
Blackened is the end
To begin whipping dance of the dead
Fire
Is the outcome of hypocrisy
Darkest potency
In the exit of humanity
Color our world blackened
Blackened
.

..And Justice For All

Halls of justice painted green
Money talking
Power wolves beset your door
Hear them stalking
Soon you'll please their appetite
They devour
Hammer of justice crushes you
Overpower
The ultimate in vanity
Exploiting their supremacy
I can't believe the things you say
I can't believe
I can't believe the price you pay
Nothing can save you
Justice is lost
Justice is raped
Justice is gone
Pulling your strings
Justice is done
Seeking no truth
Winning is all
Find it so grim
So true
So real
Apathy their stepping stone
So unfeeling
Hidden deep animosity
So deceiving
Through your eyes their light burns
Hoping to find
Inquisition sinking you
With prying minds
The ultimate in vanity
Exploiting their supremacy
I can't believe the things you say
I can't believe
I can't believe the price you pay
Nothing can save you
Justice is lost
Justice is raped
Justice is gone
Pulling your strings
Justice is done
Seeking no truth
Winning is all
Find it so grim
So true
So real
Lady Justice has been raped
Truth assassin
Rolls of red tape seal your lips
Now you're done in
Their money tips her scales again
Make your deal
Just what is truth? I cannot tell
Cannot feel
The ultimate in vanity
Exploiting their supremacy
I can't believe the things you say
I can't believe
I can't believe the price you pay
Nothing can save you
Justice is lost
Justice is raped
Justice is gone
Pulling your strings
Justice is done
Seeking no truth
Winning is all
Find it so grim
So true
So real
Seeking no truth
Winning is all
Find it so grim
So true
So real

Eye Of The Beholder

Do you see what I see?
Truth is an offence
You silence for your confidence
Do you hear what I hear?
Doors are slamming shut
Limit your imagination, keep you where they must
Do you feel what I feel?
Bittering distress
Who decides what you express?
Do you take what I take?
Endurance is the word
Moving back instead of forward seems to me absurd
Doesn't matter what you see
Or into it what you read
You can do it your own way
If it's done just how I say
Independence limited
Freedom of choice
Choice is made for you my friend
Freedom of speech
Speech is words that they will bend
Freedom with their exception
Do you fear what I fear?
Living properly
Truths to you are lies to me
Do you choose what I choose?
More alternatives
Energy derives from both the plus and negative
Do you need what I need?
Boundaries overthrown
Look inside, to each his won
Do you trust what I trust?
Me, myself, and I
Penetrate the smoke screen, I see through the
Selfish lie
Doesn't matter what you see
Or into it what you read
You can do it your own way
If it's done just how I say
Independence limited
Freedom of choice
Choice is made for you my friend
Freedom of speech
Speech is words that they will bend
Freedom with their exception
Do you know what I know?
Your money and your wealth
You silence just to hear yourself
Do you want what I want?
Desire not a thing
I hunger after independence, lengthen freedom's
ring
Doesn't matter what you see
Or into it what you read
You can do it your own way
If it's done just how I say
Independence limited
Freedom of choice
Choice is made for you my friend
Freedom of speech
Speech is words that they will bend
Freedom with their exception
Doesn't matter what you see
Or into it what you read
You can do it your own way
If it's done just how I say

One

I can't remember anything
Can't tell if this is true or dream
Deep down inside I feel to scream
This terrible silence stops me
Now that the war is through with me
I'm waking up, I cannot see
That there's not much left of me
Nothing is real but pain now
Hold my breath as I wish for death
Oh please God, wake me
Back in the womb it's much too real
In pumps life that I must feel
But can't look forward to reveal
Look to the time when I'll live
Fed through the tube that sticks in me
Just like a wartime novelty
Tied to machines that make me be
Cut this life off from me
Hold my breath as I wish for death
Oh please God, wake me
Now the world is gone I'm just one
Oh God help me Hold my breath as I wish for
Death
Oh please God, help me
Darkness Imprisoning me
All that I see
Absolute horror
I cannot live
I cannot die
Trapped in myself
Body my holding cell
Landmine Has taken my sight
Taken my speech
Taken my hearing
Taken my arms
Taken my legs
Taken my soul
Left me with a life in Hell

The Shortest Straw

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 doth bring
Shortest straw
Challenge liberty
Downed by law
Live in infamy
Rub you raw
Witchhunt riding through
Shortest straw
This 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
You're living catch-22
Deluding
A mass hysteria
A megalomania
Reveal dementia
Reveal
Secretly
Silently
Certainly
In vertigo you will be
Shortest straw
Challenge liberty
Downed by law
Live in infamy
Rub you raw
Witchhunt riding through
Shortest straw
This 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
Shortest straw
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
Shortest straw
Challenge liberty
Downed by law
Live in infamy
Rub you raw
Witchhunt riding through
Shortest straw
This shortest straw has been pulled for you

Harvester Of Sorrow

My life suffocates
Planting seeds of hate
I've loved, turned to hate
Trapped far beyond my fate
I give
You take
This life that 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
My 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
Harvester of sorrow
Language of the mad
Harvester of sorrow
Language of the mad
Harvester of sorrow

The Frayed Ends Of Sanity

Never hunger
Never prosper
I haven fallen prey to failure
Struggle within
Triggered again
Now the candle burns at both ends
Twisting under schizophrenia
Falling deep into dementia
Old habits reappear
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 reappear
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 reappear
Fighting the fear of fear
Growing conspiracy
Myself is after me
Frayed ends of sanity
Hear them calling
Frayed ends of sanity
Hear them calling
Hear them calling me

To Live Is To Die

When a man lies he murders
Some 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

Dyers Eve

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 outgrown 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 your 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
* METALLICA (1991)
Enter Sandman
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

Sad But True

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 here
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

Holier Than Thou

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

The Unforgiven

New blood joins this earth
and quikly he's subdued
through constant pain 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 the unforgiven
you labeled me
I'll label you
so I dub the unforgiven

Wherever I May Roam

...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

Don't Tread On Me

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

Through The Never

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 trhuth 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

Nothing Else Matters

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
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

Of Wolf And Man

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

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

My Friend Of Misery

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

The Struggle Within

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
* LOAD (1996)
Ain't My Bich
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
Draggin me down, why you around
So useless
It ain't my fall, it ain't my call
It ain't my bitch
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

2 x 4

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

The House Jack Built

Open 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 closed again
Well on my way, but on my way to where I've been
It follows me as it takes me in its fog
I twist away as I give this world the nod
Open 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 closed once again
Don't want control
As it takes me down and down and down again
Is that the moon
Or just a 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
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
Open door as I walk inside
Swallow me so the pain subsides
And I shake as I take it in
Let the show begin
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
The higher you are, the farther you fall
The longer the walk, the farther you crawl
My body, my temple, this temple it tilts
Yes I am...
Open my eyes
It swallows me
Is that you there
I twist away

Until It Sleeps

Where do I take this pain of mine?
I run but it stays right by 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
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 chosen me
Don't want your grip, don't want your greed
Don't want it
I'll tear you open, make you gone
No more can you hurt anyone
And the fear still shakes me
So hold me, until it sleeps
It grips you, so hold me
It stains you, so hold me
It hates you, so hold me
It holds you, holds you, holds you
Until it sleeps
I don't want it, want it, want it, want it, want it, no!
So tear me open but beware
There's things inside without a care
And the dirt still stains me
So wash me 'til I'm clean
I'll tear me open, make you gone
No longer will you hurt anyone
And the hate still shakes me
So hold me, until it sleeps
Until it sleeps
Until it sleeps
Until it sleeps

King Nothing

Wish I may
Wish I might
Have this 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 hard as gold
Are you satisfied
Wish I may
Wish I might
You wish your life away
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
I wish I may
I wish I might
Have this wish I wish tonight
I want the 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
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
(We're off to never never land)

Hero Of The Day

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 fist 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 dreams and waking screams
That ever last the night
So build the wall, behind the crawl
And hide until it's light
So can you hear your babies cryin' 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?
But now the dreams and waking screams
That ever last the night
So build the wall, behind the crawl
And hide until it's light
So can you hear your babies cryin' now?
Mama they try and break me

Bleeding Me

I'm diggin' my way
I'm diggin' my way to something
I'm diggin' my way to somethin' better
I'm pushin' my stay
I'm pushin' my stay to something
I'm pushin' my stay to 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
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
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'm diggin' my way
I'm diggin' my way to something
I'm diggin' my way to somethin' better
I'm pushin' my stay
I'm pushin' my stay to something
I'm pushin' my stay to something better

Cure

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
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
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 be better than this
Need to feel secure
Yeah, it's gonna better than this
It must be 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

Poor Twisted Me

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

Wasting My Hate

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
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
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?
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
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
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
Hate

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 before 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 your 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 ask forgiveness
For what I said is done
Let my heart go
Let your son grow
Mama let your heart go
Or let this heart be still
Never I ask you
But never I gave
But you gave me your emptiness
And now take to my grave
Never I ask you
But never I gave
But you gave me your emptiness
And 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, hear me be
Yeah 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
Let your son grow
Mama let your heart go
Or let this heart be still
Let my heart go
Mama let my heart go
You never let my heart go
So let this heart be still
Never I ask you
But never I gave
But you gave me your emptiness
And now take to my grave
Never I ask you
But never I gave
But you gave me your emptiness
And now take to my grave
So let this heart be still

Thorn Within

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

Ronnie

Story starts, quiet town
Small town boy, big time frown
Never talks, never plays
Different path, lost his way
Then streets of 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 smile
Talked alone, 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 the soon 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
Yeah, well all the green things die
When Ronnie go to the place
He said, "Don't you dare ask why
I'm cursed to wear this name"
Now we all know why children called him
Ronnie Frown
When he pulled that gun from his pocket
They'd all fall down
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

The Outlaw Torn

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
Outlaw of 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
Outlaw of torn
And I'm torn
Hear me
And if I 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
* LOAD (1997)
Fuel
Gimmie fuel
Gimmie fire
Gimmie that which I desire Ooh
Turn on, I see red
Adrenaline crash and crack my head
Nitro junkie paint me dead
One hundred plus through black and white
War horse
Warhead
Fuck 'em man, white knuckle tight
Ooh
On I burn
Fuel is pumping engines
Burning hard, loose and clean
And on I burn
Churning my direction
Quench my thirst with gasoline
Gimmie fuel
Gimmie fire
Gimmie that which I desire
Turn on beyond the bone
Swallow future
Spit out home
Burn your face upon the chrome
Take the corner, join the crash
Head lights
Headlines
Another junkie lives too fast
Lives way too fast
Fast, fast, ooh whoa
Ooh
On I burn
Fuel is pumping engines
Burning hard, loose and clean
And on I burn
Churning my direction
Quench my thirst with gasoline
Gimmie fuel
Gimmie fire
Gimmie that which I desire
White knuckle tight
Gimmie fuel, gimmie fire, my desire
Ooh
On I burn
Fuel is pumping engines
Burning hard, loose and clean
And on I burn
Churning my direction
Quench my thirst with gasoline
Gimmie fuel
Gimmie fire
Gimmie that which I desire
Ooh
On I burn

The Memory Remains

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 cheers of honor
Like twisted vines that grow
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
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
Faded prima donna
Dance little tin goddess dance

Devil's 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 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
Let's Dance!
Snake, I am the snake
Tempting, that bite you take
Let me make your mind
Leave yourself behind
Be not afraid
I 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
Ha, Ha
Come Dance!
Yeah come get's it
One day you will see
And dare to come down to me
Now c'mon, c'mon, now take the chance
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
Now c'mon, c'mon now take a chance
That's right
Let's dance
It's nice to see you here
Ha Ha

The Unforgiven II

Lay beside me,
Tell me what they've done
And speak the words I wanna hear,
To make my demons run
The door is locked now,
But it's opened if you're true
If you can understand the me,
I can understand the you
Lay beside me,
Under wicked skies
Through 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,
Yeah she'll be there when I'm gone
Yeah 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 your 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
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)
What I've felt
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

Better Than You

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
Lock horns, I push and I strive
Somehow 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
Can't stop this train from rollin'
No, nothin' brings me down
No, can't stop this train from rollin' on and on
Forever on and on....
'Till I'm better than you
Can't stop this train from rollin'
No, you can't take it down
No, never stop this locomotion on and on
No, no you can't bring me down...
'Cause I'm better than you
Better than you

Slither

Don't go lookin 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?
Watch the puppets dancin'
See the clowns fall down
Tie your tap shoes tightly
And wear them into town
See you crawlin'
See you crawlin' in
Don't go lookin' 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
Play the game so nicely
Check, it's your move now
Standing in the jungle
With serpents I have found
See you crawlin'
See you crawlin' in
Don't go lookin' 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?
See you crawlin'
See you crawlin' in
Don't go lookin 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
Haven't I seen you here before?
There ain't no heroes here
Don't go lookin 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

Carpe Diem Baby

Hit dirt
Shake tree
Split sky
Part sea
Strip smile
Lose cool
Bleed the day
Break the rule
Live win
Dare fail
Eat the dirt
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 thought 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
Live win
Dare fail
Eat dirt
Bite the nail
Strip smile
Lose cool
Bleed the day
Break the rule
Hug the curve
Lose the time
Tear the map
And shoot the sign
Then make me miss you, c'mon 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

Bad Seed

Come clean, 'fess up
Tell all, spill gut
Off the veil, stand revealed
Show the cards
Bring it on
Break the seal
Ladies and gentlemen, step right up
And see the man who told the truth
Swing the noose again
Pierce the apple skin
You bit more than you need
Now you're chokin'
On the bad seed
On the bad seed
I'm chokin'
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
Pierce the apple skin
You bit more than you need
Now you're chokin'
On the bad seed
Chokin' on the bad seed
Off the veil
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
Swing the noose again
Pierce the apple skin
You bit more than you need
Now you're chokin'
On the bad seed
Swing the noose again
Pierce the apple skin
You bit more than you need
Now your chokin' on the, chokin' chokin' chokin' on the bad seed
Off the veil
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
Chokin' on the bad seed

Where The Wild Things Are

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
Toy soldiers off to war
Big eyes to open soon
Believing all under to sun and moon
But does heaven know you're here?
And did they give you smiles and 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
Toy soldiers off to war
(Speaking part not listed)
All you 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
Toy soldiers off to war
Off to war
Off to war
So close your little eyes

Prince Charming

It's a black cloud over head,
That's me
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 bottle 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 wanna 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 strolls 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've brought this world
Just what you wanna see
Hey ma, hey ma look it's me
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
This 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, 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 look it's me,
What no one wants to see
See what you've brought this world
Just what you wanna see
Hey ma, hey ma look it's me
Hey ma, hey ma, look it's me

Low Man's Lyric

My eyes seek reality
My fingers seek my veins
There's 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
My fingers seek my veins
The trash fire is warm
But nowhere safe from the storm
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 touch the clean to the waste
The trash fire is warm
But nowhere safe from the storm
An 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
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
I cry, to the alleyway
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
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
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 vein

Attitude

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
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 satisfaction this way comes
And satisfaction this way comes
And satisfaction's here and gone, gone
gone again
I hunger
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?
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 satisfaction this way comes
And satisfaction this way comes
And satisfaction's here and gone, gone
gone again
I hunger
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?

Fixxxer

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 merely stumble
But tell me
Can you hear what father's done?
Or fix the hole in a 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
You 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 toys in the hands of another
And in time, needles turn from shine to rust
But tell me
Can you hear what father's done?
Or fix the hole in a 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 a 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
You jab another pin in me
Jab it
Blood for face
Sweat for dirt
Three X's for the stone
To break this curse
A ritual is 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
So tell me
Can you hear what father's done?
Or fix the hole in a 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
You 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.........
* GARAGE INC. (1998) CD1
Free Speech for the Dumb
Free speech, free speech for the dumb
Free speech, free speech for the dumb
Free speech, free speech for the dumb
Free fuckin' speech
Free speech, free speech for the dumb
Free speech, free speech for the dumb
Free speech, free speech for the dumb
Free fuckin' speech

It's Electric

I'm gonna be a rock and roll star
Gotta groove from night to day
Gotta blow my crummy job
Gonna blow my blues away
I'm gonna make a stand
Gonna make a million
Gonna make it with you
I'm gonna be wild my friend
I gotta push it through
It's electric
It's electric
It's electric
It's electric
I stop on red and I leave on amber
And you face my way
I'm gonna make it my friend
Gonna make it today
Gonna get the tilts from my hills
Down the highway I go
Gonna get the stars from my route
Make it in a rock and roll show
It's electric
It's electric
It's electric
It's electric
I stop on red and I leave on amber
And you face my way
I'm gonna make it my friend
Gonna make it today
Gonna get the tilts from my hills
Down the highway I go
Gonna get the stars from my route
Make it in a rock and roll show
It's electric
It's electric
It's electric
It's electric
It's electric
It's electric
It's electric
It's electric

Sabbra Cadabra

Feel so good I feel so fine
Love that little lady always on my mind
She gives me lovin' every night and day
Never gonna leave her
Never going away
Someone to love me
You know she makes me feel alright
Someone who needs me
Love me every single night
Feel so happy since I met that girl
When we're making love
It's something out of this world
Feels so good to know that she's all mine
Going to love that woman till the end of time
Someone to live for
Love me till the end of time
Makes me feel happy
Good to know that she's all mine
Lovely lady make love all night long
Lovely lady never do me no wrong
I don't wanna leave ya
I never wanna leave ya
Anymore no more
Lovely lady
Mystifying eyes
Lovely lady
She don't tell me no lies
I know I'll never leave ya
I'm never gonna leave ya
Anymore no more

Turn the Page

On a long and lonesome highway east of Omaha
You can hear the engine moanin' out his one long one note song
You can think about the woman or the girl you knew the night before
But your thoughts will be wandering the way they always do
When you're ridin' sixteen hours and there's nothin' much to do
And you don't feel much like ridin', you just wish the trip was through
Here I am
On the road again
There I am
Up on the stage
Here I go
Playin' star again
There I go
Turn the page
Well you walk into a restaurant, strung out from the road
And you feel the eyes upon you as you're shakin' off the cold
You pretend it doesn't bother you but you just want to explode
Most times you can't hear them talk, other times you can
All the same old clichГ©'s, "Is that a woman or a man?"
And you always seem outnumbered, you don't dare make a stand
Here I am
On the road again
There I am
Up on the stage
Here I go
Playin' 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 of the amplifiers ringin' in your head
You smoke the day's last cigarette, rememberin' what she said
Here I am
On the road again
There I am
Up on the stage
Here I go
Playin' star again
There I go
Turn the page
Here I am
On the road again
There I am
Up on the stage
Here I go
Playin' star again
There I go
There I go

Die Die My Darling

Die, die, die my darling
Don't utter a single word
Die, die, die my darling
Just shut your pretty mouth
I'll be seeing you again
I'll be seeing you in hell
Don't cry to me oh baby
Your future's in an oblong box
Don't cry to me oh baby
Should have seen it a-coming on
Don't cry to me oh baby
I don't know it was in your power
Don't cry to me oh baby
Dead-end girl for a dead-end guy
Don't cry to me oh baby
Now your life drains on the floor
Don't cry to me oh baby
Die, die, die my darling
Don't utter a single word
Die, die, die my darling
Just shut your pretty mouth
I'll be seeing you again
I'll be seeing you in Hell
Don't cry to me oh baby
Die, die, die my darling
Don't cry to me oh baby
Die, die, die my darling

Loverman

There's a devil waiting outside your door
(How much longer)
There's a devil waiting outside your door
(How much longer)
It is bucking and braying and pawing at the floor
(How much longer)
And he's howling with pain and crawling up the walls
(How much longer)
There's a devil waiting outside your door
(How much longer)
He's weak with evil and broken by the world
(How much longer)
He's shouting your name and he's asking for more
(How much longer)
There's a devil waiting outside your door
(How much longer)
Loverman! Since the world began
Forever, Amen Till end of time Take off that
dress I'm coming down I'm your loverman
Cause I am what I am what I am what I am
L is for LOVE, baby
O is for ONLY you that I do
V is for loving VIRTUALLY all that you are
E is for loving almost EVERYTHING that you do
R is for RAPE me
M is for MURDER me
A is for ANSWERING all of my prayers
N is for KNOWING your loverman's going to
be the answer to all of yours
Loverman! Till the bitter end
While empires burn down Forever
and everand ever and ever Amen I'm your loverman
So help me, baby So help me
Cause I am what I am what I am what I am
I'll be your loverman!
There's a devil crawling along your floor
(How much longer)
There's a devil crawling along your floor
(How much longer)
With a trembling heart, he's coming through your door
(How much longer)
With his straining sex in his jumping paw
(How much longer)
There's a devil crawling along your floor
(How much longer)
And he's old and he's stupid and
(How much longer)
He's hungry and he's sore
(How much longer)
And he's lame and he'sblind
(How much longer)
And he's dirty and he's poor
(How much longer)
Give him more
(How much longer)
There's a devil crawling along your floor
(How much longer)
Loverman! Here I stand Forever, Amen
Cause I am what I am what I am what I am
Forgive me, baby My hands are tied
And I got no choice No, I got no choice at all
I'll say it again
L is for LOVE, baby
O is for O yes I do
V is for VIRTUE, so I ain't gonna hurt you
E is for EVEN if you want me to
R is for RENDER unto me, baby
M is for that which is MINE
A is for ANY old how, darling
N is for ANY old time
I'll be your loverman! I got a masterplan
To take off your dress And be your man
Seize the throne Seize the mantle
Seize the crown Cause I am what I am
What I am what I am I'm your loverman!
There's a devil lying by your side
(How much longer)
You might think he's asleep
(How much longer)
but look at his eyes
(How much longer)
He wants you, baby, to be his bride
(How much longer)
There's a devil lying by your side
(How much longer)
Loverman! Loverman!

Mercyful Fate

I was born on the cemetary
Under the sign of the moon
Rasied from my grave by the dead
I was made a mercenary
In the legions of Hell
Now I'm king of pain, I'm insane
You know my only pleasure
Is to hear you cry
I'd love to hear you cry
I'd love to feel you die
And I'll be the first
To watch your funeral
And I'll be the last to leave
I'd love to hear you cry
And when you're down
Beyond the ground
I'll dig up your body again
And make love to shame
Oh lady cry, and say goodbye
Oh lady cry, and say goodbye
You've gotta say goodbye
'Cause I will eat your mind
Curse of the Pharaohs
Way out in Egypt in the valley of kings
Where the mummified pharaohs
Pretend dead in their sleep
Don't touch, never ever steal
Unless you're in for the kill
Or you'll be hit by the curse of the pharaohs
Yes you'll be hit and the curse is on you
Now if you're breakin' the seals
And disturbing the peace
Then you're startin' up a curse
Bringin' evil disease
Don't touch, never ever steal
Unless you're in for the kill
Or you'll be hit by the curse of the pharaohs
Yes you'll be hit and the curse is on you
The curse of the pharaohs can be so deadly
Or just destroying your future
Makin' it all shady
Don't touch, never ever steal
Unless you're in for the kill
Or you'll be hit by the curse of the pharaohs
Yes you'll be hit and the curse is on you
Satan's Fall
They're walking by the night
The moon has frozen blue
Long black coats a shelter for the rain
Their load must get through
Now bats are leaving their trees
They're joining the call
Seven satanic Hell preachers
Heading for the hall
Brining the blood of a newborn child
Got to succeed, if not it's Satan's fall
Home...Come home
Eveil messengers with blood stained wings
Home...Come home
Home...Come home
Is it Satan's Fall?
No...It's Satan's call
Craniums high on stakes
It's Satan's epigraph
Something you can't erase...666
They call him the beast
Use your demon eyes, uncover the disguise
Time is out...yeah...I don't need your god
Oh the law of Satan
Pray and obey it forever
Oh the law of Satan
Innocent lovers...it's a lie
Iron fists won't do no good
Against the evil eyes
Of seven holy Hell preachers
Don't you even try
Now they cross the river Styx
And see the castle rise so high
Waiting on the other shore for
Charon to arrive
A shape with horns and glowing eyes,
Satan's still alive
He receives the sacrifice
With evil laughs and pride
You better escape, you've got to escape
You cannot escape
A Corpse Without Soul
Listen
I'm a corpse
I'm a corpse
I'm a corpse without soul
Satan
He's taken
He's taken
He's taken his toll
And he took it out on me

I

I'm trapped
I'm trapped
I'm trapped in his spell
Tonight
I'm going
I'm going
I'm going to Hell inside his spell
I was walking down among the graves
I heard a cry, my shadow is gone
Emptiness in my body, I felt so alone
Small black wings on my naked back
Now guess what I saw on one of the stones
I saw my soul, in a magical haze
It was all dressed up as a corpse in a wedding dress
Small black wings on my naked back
Now hear my prayer, beggin' for mercy
I'm living to die, Satan has taken his toll
Into the Coven
Howl like a wolf
And a witch will open the door
Follow me and meet our high priestesscome,
come into my coven
And become Lucifer's child
Undress until you're naked
And put on this white coat
Take this white cross and go
To the middle of the ring
Come, come into my coven
And become Lucifer's child
Now crush it, crush the cross
Now suck the blood from this unholy knife
Say after me: My soul belongs to Satan
Now, now you're into my coven
You are Lucifer's child
Into the coven
Lucifer's child

Astronomy

The clock strikes twelve and moondrops burst
Out at you from their hiding place
Like gasoline and oil on a madman's face
Reason tends to fly away
Like lesser birds on the four winds
Like silver scraps in May
Now the sands become a crust
And most of you have gone away
Come Susie dear, let's take a walk
Just out there upon the beach
I know you'll soon be married
And you'll want to know where wind comes from
Well it's never said at all
On the map that Carrie reads
Behind the clock back there you know
At the Four Winds Bar
Hey - hey hey!
Hey - hey hey!
Hey - hey hey!
Hey - hey hey!
Four doors at the Four Winds Bar
Two doors locked and windows barred
One door's let to take you in
The other one just mirrors it
Hey - hey hey!
Hey - hey hey!
Hey - hey hey!
Hey - hey hey!
In hellish glare and inference
The other one's a duplicate
The Queenly flux, eternal light
Or the light that never warms
Or the light that never, never warms
Or the light that never, never, never, never, never warms
The clock strikes twelve and moondrops burst
Out at you from their hiding place
Miss Carrie Nurse and Susie dear
Find themselves at Four Winds Bar
It's the nexus of the crisis
And the origin of storms
Just the place to hopelessly
Encounter time and then came me
Hey - hey hey!
Hey - hey hey!
Hey - hey hey!
Hey - hey hey!
Call me Desdinova
Eternal light
These gravely digs of mine
Will surely prove a sight
And don't forget my dog
Fixed and consequent
Astronomy - a star
Astronomy - a star
Astronomy - a star
Astronomy - a star

Whiskey in the Jar

As I was goin' over the Cork and Kerry mountains
I saw Captain Farrell and his money he was countin'
I first produced my pistol and then produced my rapier
I said stand and deliver or the devil he may take ya
I took all of his money and it was a pretty penny
I took all of his money and I brought it home to Molly
She swore that she'd love me, never would she leave me
But the devil take that woman for you know she treat me easy
Musha ring dum a doo dum a da
Whack for my daddy-o
Whack for my daddy-o
There's whiskey in the jar-o
Being drunk and weary I went to Molly's chamber
Takin' my money with me and I never knew the danger
For about six or maybe seven in walked Captain Farrell
I jumped up, fired off my pistols and I shot him with both barrels
Now some men like the fishin' and some men like the fowlin'
And some men like ta hear a cannon ball a roarin'
Me I like sleepin' specially in my Molly's chamber
But here I am in prison, here I am with a ball and chain yeah

Tuesday's Gone

Train roll on, on down the line
Won't you please take me far away
Now, I feel the wind blow outside my door
I leave my woman at home
Tuesday's gone with the wind
My baby's gone with the wind
And I don't know oh where I'm going
I just want to be left alone
When this train ends, I'll try again
I leave my woman at home
Tuesday's gone with the wind
Tuesday's gone with the wind
Tuesday's gone with the wind
My baby's gone with the wind
Train roll on, Tuesday's gone
Train roll on, many miles from my home
See, I'm riding my blues away
Tuesday, you see, she had to be free
But somehow, I've got to carry on
Tuesday's gone with the wind
Tuesday's gone with the wind
Tuesday's gone with the wind
My baby's gone with the wind

The More I See

From where I stand I see
Pain suffering and misery
The more I see the more I see
The less the less I believe
From where I stand I see
Hate violence and war
The more I see the more I see
The less the less I believe

* GARAGE INC. (1998) CD2

Helpless

I gotta see you moving fast
See you come my way
See the dreams, I hope they last
Never fade away.
Gotta see the lights above
Make it loud tonight
Gotta set it all a-fire
Set it all a-light
See the flashing lights
Hear the thunder roar
I am gonna set you all a-light
Gotta make it man
I ain't got a choice
Gotta fill this hall tonight
Helpless
Helpless
Helpless
Helpless
I don't what I'm gonna do
Maybe not tonight
Gotta set you all a-fire
Gotta treat you right.
I can see the flashing lights
Lit before your love, oh
Gotta hear the thunder roar
Coming from above.
See the flashing lights
Hear the thunder roar
I'm gonna set you all alight
Gotta make it man
I ain't got no choice
Gotta fill this hall tonight
Helpless
Helpless
Helpless
Helpless
I can see the stars
I can see what's going on
Every night alone
I sing my song just for fun.
Only time will tell
If I'll make it myself someday
This stage is mine
Music is my destiny.
Cannot squeeze the life from me!
I can see the lights
But I can see what's going on
Every night alone
I sing my song just for fun.
Business in collapse
Some men don't like it so
Helpless maybe babe,
But you can leave or join the show.
Cannot squeeze the life from me!

The Small Hours

Look out at the darkness,
And you will see,
Just call my name and I'll be there.
You cannot touch me,
You would not dare,
I am the chill that's in the air.
And I try to get through to you,
In my own special way,
As the barriers crumble,
At the end of the day.
Dark rivers are flowing,
Back into the past,
You are the fish for which I cast.
And what of the future,
What is to be,
As the rivers flow into the sea.
And I try to get through to you,
In my own special way,
As the barriers crumble,
At the end of the day.
Do not take for granted,
Powers out there,
Don't step into the demon's lair.
Time is an illusion,
Rising from time,
Steep is the mountain which we climb.

The Wait

Motives changing
Day to day
The fire increases
Masks decay
I look at the river
White foam floats down
The body's poisoned
Got to sit tight
The wait
The wait
The wait
The wait
After awakening
The silence grows
The screams subside
Distortion shows
Mutant thoughts
Of bad mouthed news
Just another birth
Of distorted views
The wait
The wait
The wait
The wait

Crash Course In Brain Surgery

Look inside and you will see
The words are cutting deep inside my brain
Thunder burnin' quickly burning
Knife of words is driving me insane, insane yeah
Raven black is on my track
He shows me how to neutralize the knife
Show to me in surgery
The art of fighting words to conquer life, conquer life yeah
Now the wicked lance of fear
Is driven from my heady mountain brain
Crash course in brain surgery
Has stopped the bloody knife of words
again yeah, yeah, yeah

Last Caress/ Green Hell

I got something to say
I killed your baby today
And it doesn't matter much to me
As long as it's dead
I got something to say
I raped your mother today
And it doesn't matter much to me
As long as she's spread
Sweet lovely death
I am waiting for your breath
Come sweet death, one last caress
Sweet lovely death
I am waiting for your breath
Come sweet death, one last caress
Well, I got something to say
I killed your baby today
And it doesn't matter much to me
As long as it's dead
Sweet lovely death
I am waiting for your breath
Come sweet death
One last caress
---(Green Hell)---
Here in this place lies the genie of death
Touch it, see it
Whoa
Here in this place is a means to your end
Touch it, feel it
Green hell
You've come to this like no one could
I bet you never knew you woke it
And don't you run away from anything
I bet you thought you really could in Hell
We're gonna burn in Hell
Green hell
Like every hell but kind of green
In Hell, green hell
We're gonna face the mess we're
In Hell, green hell
I think I'd rather be up here
In Hell, green hell
You know I fuckin' shake apart
In Hell, green hell
Gotta find a way that you will stay
Green hell
Cannot forget about the heat
In Hell, green hell
Hell is green I need a flame
In Hell, green hell
Gonna burn in Hell
Green hell
You've come to this like no one could
I bet you never knew you woke it
And don't you run from anything
I bet you thought you really could take it
Here in this place is the genie of death
Touch it, see it
Whoa
Here in this place is the way to your end
Touch it, see it
Green hell
You've come to this like no one could
I bet you never knew you woke it
And don't you run away from anything
I bet you thought you really could
You've come to this like no one could
I bet you never knew you woke it
We're gonna burn in Hell
Green hell

Am I Evill?

My mother was a witch, she was burned alive
Thankless little bitch, for the tears I cried
Take her down now, don't want to see her face
All blistered and burnt, can't hide my disgrace
Twenty seven, everyone was nice
Gotta see'em, make'em pay the price
See their bodies out on the ice
Take my time
Am I evil?
Yes I am
Am I evil?
I am man
Yes I am
As I watched my mother die, I lost my head
Revenge now I sought, to break with my bread
Takin' no chances, you come with me
I'll split you to the bone, help set you free
Twenty seven, everyone was nice
Gotta see 'em, make 'em pay the price
See their bodies out on the ice
Take my time
Am I evil?
Yes I am
Am I evil?
I am man
Yes I am
On with the action now, I'll strip your pride
I'll spread your blood around, I'll see you ride
Your face is scarred with steel, wounds deep and neat
Like a double dozen before ya, smells so sweet
Am I evil?
Yes I am
Am I evil?
I am man
I'll make my residence, I'll watch your fire
You can come with me, sweet desire
My face is long forgot, my face not my own
Sweet and timely whore, take me home
Am I evil?
Yes I am
Am I evil?
I am man
My soul is longing for, await my heir
Sent to avenge my mother, sleep myself
My face is long forgot, my face not my own
Sweet and timely whore, take me home
Am I evil?
Yes I am
Am I evil?
I am man
Am I evil?
Yes I fucking am
Am I evil?
I am man, yeah!

Blitzkrieg

Let us have peace, let us have life
Let us escape the cruel night
Let us have time, let the sun shine
Let us beware the deadly sign
The day is coming
Armageddon's near
Inferno coming
Can we survive the blitzkrieg
The blitzkrieg
The blitzkrieg
Save us from fate, save us from hate
Save ourselves before it's too late
Come to our need, hear our plea
Save ourselves before the earth bleeds
The day is dawning
The time is near
Aliens coming
Can we survive the blitzkrieg
The blitzkrieg

Breadfan

Breadfan
Open up your mind
Open up your purse
Open up your bones
Never, never gonna lose it
Breadfan
Take it all away
Never give an inch
Gotta make a mint
Gotta make me a million
Breadfan
You got it wrong
Some long time friend's gonna lose it
In the end who's a fool
Seagull
Give it all away
Stay a bird
Stay a man
Stay a ghost
Stay what you wanna be
Loser
Give it all away
Never stay with the winner
With the man
With all the filthy money
Come on
Keep it on the side
With a ride
On a record on the top
If you're gonna be a bad boy
Breadfan
You got it wrong
Some long time friend's gonna lose it
In the end who's a fool
Seagull
Give it all away
Stay a bird
Stay a man
Stay a ghost
Stay what you wanna be

The Prince

Now I see his face, I see his smile
Such a lonely place, no golden mile
Eyes tell of morbid tales of his black heart
His deeds through ages past tell of his part
See his face, see his smile
Time to die
Angel from below, change my dreams
I want for glory's hour, for wealth's esteem
I wish to sell my soul, to be reborn
I wish for earthly riches, don't want no crown of thorns
See his face, see his smile
Time to die
I was born a fool, don't want to stay that way
Devil take my soul, with diamonds you repay
I don't care for heaven, so don't you look for me
to cry
And I will burn in hell, from the day I die
See his face, see his smile
Time to die

Stone Cold Crazy

Sleeping very soundly on a Saturday morning
I was dreaming I was Al Capone
Rumor going round, gotta clear out of town,
Smelling like a dry fish bone
Here come the law, gonna break down the door,
Gonna carry me away once more
Never, never
Never want it anymore
Gotta get away from this stone cold floor
Crazy, stone cold crazy, you know!
Rainy afternoon, on a killer typhoon
And I'm playing with my slide trombone
Anymore, anymore
Cannot take it anymore
Gotta get away from this stone cold floor
Crazy, stone cold crazy, you know!
Walking down the street, shooting people that I meet,
Bullet loaded tommy gun
Here come the deputy
Try fuckin' gettin' me
Gotta fuckin' get up and run
They got the sirens lose,
I'm running out of juice
They're gonna put me in a cell
If I can't go to heaven, let me go to hell
Crazy, stone cold crazy, you know

So What

So fucking what!
Well I've been to Hastings,
and I've been to Brighton.
I've been to Eastport too.
So what.
So what.
And I've been here,
I've been there.
I've been every fucking where.
So what.
So what.
So what, so what, you boring little cunt.
Who cares.
Who cares what you do.
Yeah who cares,
Who cares about you, you, you, you, you.
Well I've fucked a queen.
I've fucked fucked.
I've even sucked an old man's cock.
So what.
So what.
And I've fucked a sheep.
I've fucked a goat.
I rammed my cock right down his throat.
So what.
So what.
So what, so what, you boring little fuck.
Who cares.
Who cares what you do.
And who cares,
Who cares about you, you, you, you, you.
And I've drunk that,
I've drunk this.
I've spewed up on a pint of piss.
So what.
So what.
I've had scank,
I've have speed.
I've jacked up until I bleed.
So what.
So what.
So what, so what, you boring little cunt.
Who cares
Who cares what you do.
Yeah who cares,
Who cares about you, you, you, you, you.
I've had crabs,
I've had lice,
I've had the clap and that ain't nice.
So what.
So what.
I've fucked this,
I've fucked that.
I've even fucked a school girl's twat.
So what.
So what.
So what, so what you boring little fuck.
Who cares.
Who cares what you do.
And who cares,
Who cares about you, you, you, you, you, you.
So fucking what!
Yeah!

Killing Time

The sound of gunfire goes through the night
The killing and hatred's a terrible sight
Reports come in of a heavy attack
Message received, we're moving back
Preparations are made for the journey back
Hints on survival, supplies are packed
No more nights in this eternal hall
Destination is simple, we move out
Killing time, your life's on the line
Killing time, your turn to kill
Killing time, what'd ya say?
Killing time, ah killing time
Ingenuity needed to keep us alive
No time for cowardice, kill & survive
Like a killer kid with a switchblade knife
Nasty word, he'll take your life
The silence is over the attack again
The killing & hatred, drive me insane
Reports come in of a savage attack
Message received, we're moving back

Overkill

Only way to feel the noise
Is when it's good and loud
So good I can't believe it
Screaming with the crowd
Don't sweat it, give it back to you
Don't sweat it, give it back to you
Overkill, overkill, overkill
Shut up
On your feet you feel the beat
Go straight through your spine
Shake your head you must be dead
If it don't make you blind
Don't sweat it, give it back to you
Don't sweat it, give it back to you
Overkill, overkill, overkill
Get the fuck down!
Know your body's made to move
You feel it in your guts
Rock 'n' roll ain't worth the name
If it don't make you strut
Don't sweat it, give it back to you
Don't sweat it, give it back to you
Overkill, overkill, overkill
Get on it!

Damage Case

Hey babe, don't act so scared
All I want is some special care
I don't belong in some institution
All I want's a little consolation
But I can tell by your face
I'm a total disgrace
Let me inside of your place
Move over for a damage case
Hey babe, wait a minute stop
Don't run away, don't call a cop
I ain't looking to victimise you
All I wanna do is tantalise you
But I can tell by your face
I'm all over the place
I can tell by your face
Got no time for a damage case
Hey babe don't turn away
I'm here tomorrow, I'm gone today
I don't know what you think your game is
I don't care even what your name is
But I could tell by his face
You were over his place
Let me inside of your space
Move over for a damage case

Stone Dead Forever

Well I think you see me, in the glass
And I think you hear me, you better listen fast
I think I see you gone to seed
And the only reasons were your guilt and greed
You're out there on your own
Your face turned to stone
Whatever happened to your life
Stone dead forever
You're a natural wizard, you you're just a ghoul
You're a sweet long lizard, with a silver spoon
You ain't never had it, quite so good
But you didn't know that you really could
You're outside in the cold
You're touch has turned to gold
Whatever happened to your life
Stone dead forever
It's been a long time, been a long, long wait
And now you got your fingers on the pearly gates
You better leave your number and we'll call you
Do you know your problems ain't exactly new
But your time has come today
Turned you to feeling grey
Whatever happened to your life
Stone dead forever

Too Late Too Late

I see that nothing's changed
Insist on playing games
Some waste of time you are
And you're so popular
Well this is it you bitch
I got a make my switch
You find some other
JohnI know what's goin' on
Your move, what do I have to lose
Stalemate, too late, too late
I thought you were for real
Just one more rip-off deal
Don't give me all that crap
I just escaped your trap
You think you see the joke
But you're just chasin' smoke'
Cause now the thrill is gone
I know what's goin' on
Your move, what do I have to lose
Stalemate, too late, too late
Misunderstanding me
The way you felt so free
I'm gonna jump the gun
I'm gonna hit and run
Your credibility
Don't cut no ice with me
You're just a feeble con
I know what's goin' on
Your move, what do I have to lose
Stalemate, too late, too late

ОГЛАВЛЕНИЕ

KILL'EM ALL-19831
RIDE THE LIGHTNING-19846
MASTER OF PUPPETS-19869
GARAGE DAYS-1987 13
...AND JUSTICE FOR ALL 16
METALLICA-1991 22
LOAD-1996 28
RELOAD-1997 35
GARAGE INC. CD1-1998 44
GARAGE INC. CD2-1998 50

ПЕРЕВОДЫ НА РУССКИЙ

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From: Саня & Co (natasha@aha.ru)

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МЕТАЛЛИКА'83

- Убей их всех

Нет жизни без кожанки
Сегодня вечером мы надаем кому-то пинков
Мы приносим металлическое безумие
Когда фаны начинают вопить
Это, право, очень здорово
Когда мы начинаем делать рок
Мы уже не остановимся
Врубите свет
Врубите свет
Врубите свет
Ты знаешь, наши фаны безумны
Мы разнесем это место громкостью
Большей, чем чтобы то ни было
Сегодня один путь
Когда мы начинаем делать рок
Мы уже никогда не остановимся
Вместе со всеми вопящими
Мы будем прорезать сквозь твой мозг
Мы несем смертоносную силу
Она причиняет тебе сладкую боль
О, сладкая боль
Когда мы начинаем делать рок
Мы никогда уже не остановимся

- Четыре всадника

На последнем издыхании дуют четыре ветра
Лучше навостри свои уши
Звук стука копыт у твоих дверей
Запри свою жену и детей
Время словно лезвие
Ибо ты сейчас столкнулся с какой-то компанией
Всадники приближаются
Они скачут на одетых в кожу конях
Они идут чтобы взять твою жизнь
Через глубокую ночь
Скачи с четырьмя всадниками
Или выбери себе судьбу и умри
Ты был мертв с того дня, как был рожден
Ты знаешь, что все это было запланировано
Четверка избавителей скачет
Согрешивший раз, согрешит дважды
Сейчас нет нужды в исповеди
Ибо сейчас ты должен бороться за свою жизнь
Время взяло с тебя эту пошлину
Трещины идут по твоему лицу
Голод
Твое тело разорвано ими, повсюду
Эпидемия, осушившая все
Ради чего ты теперь ?
И что еще ты делал, рисуя жизнь ?
Это твое избавление, будь уверен
Ты ничего не сможешь сделать
Сейчас вокруг тебе скопление молодых воинов
Седлайте своих коней
Смертоносные зарубки демонских мечей
Это смерть делавшего все неправильно
Размах карающего молота
Безопасность внутри брони для потрохов и крови

- Мотодыхание

Живущие и умирающие, смеющиеся и плачущие
Однажды увидав это, ты не останешься прежний
Быстро пролетающая жизнь, как кажется проста
Трудна, тяжела, грязна и подла
Мотодыхание
Это как я проживаю свою жизнь
Я не могу найти этого на другом пути
Мотодыхание
Знак скоротечной жизни
Это должно захватить твое дыхание
Ни за что не останавливайся, это полно скорости
Я перекричал тебя, знай, все на твоем пути
Становится отдачей
Когда ты несешься по прямой
Растрясающей твою спину
Те люди, что советуют тебе не пользоваться шансом
Они все потеряны в жизни вокруг тебя
Шанс бывает раз в жизни
Не кончай, как другие, песнями и танцами

- Прыжок в огонь

В глубину моего сожженного дома
Зазывают удары колокола
Соблазняя тебя и всех людей
Объединить нашу грешную породу
"Это задание должно быть выполнено
И именно мной
Вы, люди, поможете мне сделать это
Сейчас время вашего рока, и я не хочу колебаться
Затяну вас в эту яму
Так наступай
Прыгни в огонь
Так наступай
Прыгни в огонь
С Адом в моих глазах, со смертью в моих венах
Конец наступает
Вскормленный человеческими умами
Из глубины их душ
Мои ученики все кричат, ищут снаружи
И они всегда будут слушаться
Следуй за мной, дитя мое
Но не будь покорным или мягким
Просто делай все, как я говорю
Собери волю, чтобы прыгнуть, или будешь взят силой
Я дам тебе другую возможность
Старайся удержать свет адского огня
Я подкрадываюсь к тебе, как жертве
Проживай свою жизнь, как я, я тебя вижу
Часть меня есть в каждом
Так освободись от хватки моих рук
Иди со мной через земли
Вернись домой, где ты продолжишь

- Неугомонный

Этой ночью все готово
И ты идешь посмотреть шоу
Мы принесем тебе море счастья
Ты испытаешь это на себе
Пока чувства глубоко внутри
Это приводит тебя в чертовое сумасшествие
Чувства тупицы переполняют голову
Ты стремишься и это плохо
Адреналин начинает брызгать
Ты трэшуешь повсюду
Трясешься, как маньяк
Неугомонный
Тряси своей башкой напротив сцены
Как ты никогда не делал
Кружись, прыгай
Как больной
В яростном безумии
Одеты в кожу с шипами
Головы трясутся вокруг
Это ужас! Это ночной АД
Здесь на сцене шум "Marshall"
Раздирающий грохотом твои уши
Это приводит тебя в "таски"
Рядом грохочущие звуки
Да, подходящее время разорвать
Все эти чертовы неудачи
Мы собрались здесь, чтобы растерзать и убить
Это невсегда, то, что мы выбрали
Концерт закончился, металл иссяк
Это потому, что мы всегда едем по дороге
На другой концерт, в другой город
И опять мы будем разрываться
Комнаты отеля и шоссе
Жизнь идет, здесь, здесь - сырость
Но мы не остановимся и не проиграем
Потому что мы METALLICA

- Призрак - повелитель

Звук прорезается через твои уши
Оглушающий звук металла приближается
Ваши тела ожидают его подхлестывание
Вкус кожи на ваших губах
Услыхайте боевого клич
Более громкий, чем раньше
Со своим мечом в руке
Управлять землями
Сокрушающие удары металла
В эту ужасную ночь
Падайте на свои колени
Перед призраком - повелителем
Жертвы падают под тяжестью цепей
Вы слышите их умирающий плач боли
Кулак террора пробивает все
Вы ничего уже не сможете сделать
Одета в кожу армия восторжествовала
Призрак - повелитель никогда не терпел поражений
Дым поднимается из земли
Громкость звука металла возрастает
Падайте на свои колени
И кланяйтесь призраку - победителю

- Без сожаления

Мы беспощадны в наших делах
Нас не посещают мысли о совершенстве
Мы не желаем чувствовать скорбь
Нет жалости к беспомощному
Война без конца
Нет сожаления и нет раскаяния
Нам по хую такие понятия
С каждым днем новая смерть
Еще одна печаль, еще один воздух
Кровь питает машину войны
Когда она пожирает все на своем пути
Двигаясь через земли
Мы не желаем чувствовать скорби
Приказ один : "Нет сожаления"
Только сильные выживают
И никто не спасет слабую расу
Мы готовы убить всех пришельцев
Подобно тому, как зараженная винтовка
Готова разнести твое лицо
Война
Пули летят. Люди умирают. Вокруг Ад и безумие
Солдаты охотятся друг за другом
Возвышаются горы трупов
Орудия стреляют до саморазрушения
С ходом военной машины
Кровь начинает литься
Нет пощады - пусть слышит каждый
Яростное сражение
В котором мечи подобны молниям
Это должно вселить в тебе ржач
Знай, смерть близка
Нет сожаления

- Найти и уничтожить

Мы прочесываем вечерний город
Мы ищем тебя, чтобы начать борьбу
Злые чувства в наших мозгах
Но нет нового вокруг - ты знаешь
Это влечет нас с сумасшествию
Беги по своему пути
Скрывайся, ты заплатишь
Умри тысячью смертей
Мы ищем, ищем и уничтожаем
Убежать невозможно, будь уверен
Нам много не надо
Скажи "До свидания" миру в котором жил
Ты всегда брал себе слишком много
Наши мозги горят и жаждут убийств
И от этого никуда не деться
Пока мечты не исполняются
И не пытайся бежать
Ибо ты тот, кого мы найдем
Гром и молнии богов, творящих возмездие
Бессмысленные разрушения
Жертвы ярости убегают в поисках спасения
Они трусливы теперь
Продажная женщина, забывшая ненависть
Платит за свои грехи, умирая под ударами ножа
Вскрытые и разорванные вены
Сквозь туман и безумие
Мы пытаемся донести
Свою миссию до тебя
Металлическое ополчение
Один и одна тысяча
Во мраке, скованы цепями и покинуты
Металлическое ополчение, солдаты
Одеты в сталь, помогут принести тебе жертву
Объединяйтесь, или будете захвачены
Это закон земли. И это может случиться с тобой
Происходит металлизация твоей души
Мы все, как один, несмотря ни на что
Сражаемся по одной причине
Кожа и сталь - наша форма
Покровительствует нам
Соединяясь для захвата мира
Нашим тяжелым металлом
Мы несем нашу миссию повсюду, где мы есть
Иди вместе с нами

МЕТАЛЛИКА'84. ОСЕДЛАНИЕ МОЛНИИ

- Борьба огня с югнем

Делай с другими тоже, что они делали с тобой
Но к какому Аду придет этот мир?
Взорви вселенную в небытие
Ядерная война уложит нас к мертвецам
Борьба огня с огнем
Конец близок
Борьба огня с огнем
Взорвисьє страхом
Мы все умрем
Время как фитиль - короткое и быстрогорящее
Армагеддон здесь, как сказан- в прошлом
Скоро наши легкие наполнятся горячими ветрами смерти
Боги смеются забирая твой последний вздох

- Оседлание молнии

Виновен как обремененный
Но проклинаю это, это неправда
Здесь кто-то другой управляет мной
Смерть в воздухе
Стянут на электрическом стуле
Это не может случится со мной
Кто заставил тебя, Бог, так сказать
"Я возьму у тебя жизнь"
Вспышка перед моими глазами
Настало время умирать
Сжигается мой мозг
Я могу чувствовать пламя
Ожидание знака
Ебя кнутом смерти
Это начало конца
Испарина, охлаждающая морозом
Так я увидел объятия смерти
Только сознание - мой друг
Мои пальцы сжимаются от страх-
Что я здесь делаю?
Кто-нибудь, помогите мне
О, боже, пожалуйста, помоги мне
Они пытаются отобрать все это
Я не хочу умирать
Время движется медленно
Минуты кажутся часами
Я вижу финальную сцену
Неужели это правда?
Это кончается
Если это правда< пусть она вершится
Пробужденный ужасным криком
Освобождаюсь из этого пугающего сна

- По кому звонит колокол

Заставь его сражаться на холме ранним утром
Постоянный голод глубоко внутри
Говорит оружие, на бегу сквозь бесконечную серость
Они сражаются за свои права, но кто им это сказал?
Ради возвышения они убивали, почему? Они не знают
Обида проверена их ожесточенной гордостью
Пять мужчин еще живы в этом яростном накале
Сходя с ума от боли которую они непременно познают
По кому звонит колокол
Время идет вперед
По кому звонит колокол
Обратить свой взгляд на небо только перед смертью
Это его последнее желание
Приглушенный но мощный шум наполняет небо
Пораженные цели наполняют его душу безжалостным плачем
Его глазам незнакома беда, поэтому он так громко слышит безмолвие
Великолепный рассвет, но все ушло, кроме желания жить
Теперь они увидят, что их глаза были слепы

- Обесцвеченный до черноты

Жизнь, кажется, угасает
Плывя все дальше каждый день
Теряется для меня
Никаких дел, ничего другого
Я потерял интерес к жизни
Просто ничего не дается
Здесь для меня ничего нет
Нуждаюсь в конце, который освободит меня
Вещи не бывшие в употреблении
Отсутствуют внутри меня
Смертельная потеря, это не может быть реальностью
Не могу выстоять Ад который чувствую
Пустота наполняет меня
В момент агонии
Растет предрассветный мрак
Я был мною, теперь он ушел
Ничто не может спасти меня, теперь уже поздно
Теперь я не могу думать, почему я очищусь
Как и вчера, я кажется никогда не существовал
Смерть тепло меня приветствует, теперь я скажу "До свидания"

- Пойманный подо льдом

Я не знаю как пережить этот Ад
Проснувшись, я пока заперт в этой оболочке
Замерзла душа, промерзла до основания
Сломай лед, я ничего не могу поделать
Замерзаю
Я не могу двинуться
Кричу
Нет возможности услышать мой зов
Я умираю заживо
Выкрикиваю
Я пойман подо льдом
Кристаллизованный, я лежу здесь в покое
Стеклянные глаза смотрят прямо на смерть
Я вырвался из глубины сна
Но никто не знает, никто не слышал, что я сказал
Крик из моей души
Судьба введенная в заблуждение
Ад всегда в преимуществе
Нет освобождения из моего состояния
Что это? Я поражен судьбой
Плотно укутанный, без возможности двигаться
Не могу вырваться на свободу
Руки судьбы плотно обхватили меня

- Побег

Нет чувства боли, но моя жизнь нелегка
Я знаю, что я - мой лучший друг
Никто не обеспокоен, что я более силен
Я буду сражаться до конца
Бежать и фальшивого мира
Безвредная судьба
Не может быть поймана в замкнутый круг
Кольцо тупости
Вне меня самого, вне моей свободы
Наедине с моим разумом, они не могут видеть
Нет надобности слушать вещи, которые они говорят
Жизнь - это для меня, живущего своей жизнью
Насилуя мой разум и уничтожая мои чувства
Не говори мне, что делать
Я не беспокоюсь сейчас потому, что я на своей стороне
И я могу видеть тебя насквозь
Ешь мой мозг своими, так называемыми, нормами
Кто сказал, что я не прав
Убегая из ваших общих привычек
Смотря сквозь вас порочным взглядом
Смотри они собираются опустить молот вниз
Нет цепей, могущих привязать меня к земле

- Ползучая смерть

Рабы
Евреи, рожденные служить фараону
Осторожность
Весь мир живет в страхе его
Вера
Не знающая избавителя
Ожидание
Что-то должно произойти уже четыре столетия
Так пусть будет написано
Так пусть будет сделано
Я послан сюда избранником
Так пусть будет написано
Так пусть будет сделано
Убить первого родившегося сына фараона
Я - ползучая смерть
Сейчас
Пусть мои люди идут на проклятую землю
Идут
Я сделаю огненными деревья и кусты
Кровь
Движущийся кровавый поток, сильный и глубокий, как Нил
Чума
Мрак три дня подряд, слава огню
Умри от моих рук
Я ползу через землю
Убиваю первого родившегося мужчину
Я
Управляю воздухом
Рождение
Я останусь там мертвой массой
Я
Ползу шагами, покрывая последний мрак
Кровь
Кровь ягненка окрасила дверь, я буду идти вперед
R.I.P.

МЕТАЛЛИКА'86. ХОЗЯИН МАРИОНЕТОК

- Батарея

Разражаясь мощью, дело началось
Слабые разорваны и выпотрошены
Гипнотизирующая сила разрушает вс¤ вокруг
Здесь стоит батарея
Она бь¤т безостановочно
Бомбардируя агрессией
Е¤ гул заражает кровь
Батарея
Неуничтожима
Батареей управляю я
Батарея
Разрывает правых и разрывает неверных
Е¤ потенциал бесконечен
Голодная ищейка насилия накормит слабых
Усиливающимся сумасшествием
Район подлежит уничтожению и молот, свистя, работает
Энергия вгрызается в землю
Орудия бьют огненным шквалом
Батарея создана нами

- Хозяин марионеток

Игра окончена
Я внутренний источник твоего разрушения
Твои вены наполнились страхом, когда
Ты осознал, то что я
Уже подв¤л тебя к смерти
Попробуй меня, и ты почувствуешь
Что тебе уже ничего не надо
Ты предназначен для того,
Чтобы я медленно тебя убивал
Процесс набирает скорость
Молись своему хозяину
Твоя жизнь кончается
Молись своему хозяину
Хозяину
Хозяин марионеток, я играю на твоих нервах
Я свожу тебя с ума, я пропитываю твои сны
Ты ослепл¤н мной и ничего не видишь
Только произнеси мо¤ имя, и я услышу тебя
Хозяин
Хозяин
Только произнеси мо¤ имя, и я услышу тебя
Хозяин
Хозяин
Игла показала тебе дорогу, безвозвратно
Ты стал понимать жизнь и смерть
Боль пропитала тебя
Страдания заменили тебе пищу
Попробуй меня, и ты почувствуешь
Что тебе уже ничего не надо
Ты предназначен для того,
Чтобы я медленно тебя убивал
Хозяин, хозяин, где же те сны за которыми я приш¤л
Хозяин, хозяин, все твои обещания - ложь
Сме¤тся, сме¤тся, вс¤, что я вижу и слышу сме¤тся
Сме¤тся, сме¤тся, надо мной
Эта привычка уведет тебя в Ад
Она постоянна и неумолима
Бесконечный лабиринт, ты считаешь дни
Теперь в твоей жизни не осталось перемен
Я захвачу тебя
Я завладею тобой

- То, что не должно произойти

Посланник страха в его глазах
Т¤мные блики убиваю свет
Дети - гибриды наблюдают море
Они молятся отцу и бродят по берегу
Неустрашимый бедняга
Сумасшедший
Он наблюдает
Скрываясь в морской глубине
Великий и старый
В забытом месте
Он ищет
Охотник за тенями поднимается
Бессмертный
Твоя жизнь в безумии
Ползучий хаос под земл¤й
Культ был создан ¤баным звуком
Из руин, захваченных однажды
Состоит м¤ртвый город, живая смерть
Лжецы остались живы
Чужие могут умереть
Отбрось разум и ты увидишь
То, что не должно произойти
ДОБРО ПОЖАЛОВАТЬ ДОМОЙ (ПСИХУШКА)
Добро пожаловать туда, где время остановлено
Ещ¤ никто не покинул и никогда не покинет это место
Светит полная луна, перемен не предвидится
Лишь переклички умственно отсталых
Каждую ночь мне снится одно и тоже
Я вижу всех нас свободными
В моих снах нет зап¤ртых дверей и решеток на окнах
Там мне не к чему готовиться
Спи приятель и ты увидишь
Что сон заменяет мне реальность
Они заперли меня в этой камере
Как они не поймут, что мой рассудок
Поэтому и не подчиняется мне
Психушка оставь меня
Психушка, оставь меня одного
Они рождены страхом и отсутствием
Доступа открытого воздуха
Они шепчутся у меня в мозгах и
Убеждают меня в собственном помешательстве
ОНИ думают, что подчинили нас
Но насилье рождает кровавые планы
Держите его связанным, ему это полезно
Ему уже лучше, вы же видите
Им больше не удастся подчинить нас
Слушайте, проклятые, победа за нами
Им кажется, что нам лучше, что мы выздоравливаем
И они думают, что их лечение спас¤т нас от
Нашего Ада
Нам страшно жить снаружи
Люди стали непроницаемыми
В воздухе запах мятежа
Он зов¤т убивать
Отражение в зеркале тускнеет
И убийство этого мира
Подразумевает единственную дорогу
Отсюда

- Обыкновенные герои

Поля завалены телами, я вижу смерть голодных героев
Они претендовали на звание солдат, но они ими не были
Ослепл¤нные, они бегали по полям убийств
Запрограммированные на убийства
Они - жертвы, они - слуги
Вояка - парень, он сделан из глины
Война опустошила его
Их взвод, этих парней
И они неплохо служат нам
Они запрограммированы на убийства
Они будут действовать по нашим приказам
Обрабатывая ползучую смерть
И направляя е¤ на тебя
Обратно на фронт
Ты сделаешь то, что я скажу, когда я скажу
Обратно на фронт
Ты умр¤шь, когда я прикажу тебе умереть
Обратно на фронт
Ты трус
Ты слуга
Ты слепец
Лай пулем¤тов стал безвредным для меня
Их методичность напоминает мне тиканье часов
Ты грабишь, прикрываясь героизмом
Поля завалены телами и
Резня не кончится
Почему я умираю ?
Убийство лишено страха
Я лежу здесь и подыхаю
Ад, Ад - вот что здесь
Я был рожд¤н для смерти
Мне нечего сказать, моя жизнь была заранее расписана
До моего рождения
Я покрывался плесенью и никогда не задумывался
Над собой
Оглянись, я понимаю, что моя жизнь пуста
Меня оставили умирать здесь наедине
С моим единственным другом - ружь¤м
ПРОКАЖЄННЫЙ ПРОРОК
Он прост с самого начала и раздел¤н на священные части
Цирк приехал в город, и ты исполняешь главную роль
Пожалуйста, пожалуйста
Он распространяет болезни едкими рассказами
Время, чтобы остаться, время, чтобы лечь
Время проститься с жизнью
Ты да¤шь мне деньги, зел¤ненькие
Ты попадаешь в рай
Но тебе прид¤тся заплатить
И чтобы добыть себе лучшую участь
Ты будешь молиться прокаж¤нному пророку
Чудеса в его трюках нуждается в подкреплении
Слепая преданность разрушает твой мозг
Цепь цепей
Ты - одно звено из цепи его чар
Слава, слава
Эта игра - зараза, отдающая вонью силы
Мы видим
Чары слабеют
Посмотри, овцы объединяются
Гипноз иссякает
И ты следуешь за ними
ОРИОН (Инстр.)
ВРЕД, Inc.
Храня внутреннюю агонию
Как никто другой не делает этого
Удобно живя на коленях
И честно умирая в полный рост
Они заставили нас работать, как единый механизм
Окровавленный, но не призывающий на помощь
Используя наши инстинкты, как тенденцию
Идя до конца против системы
Кровь будет преследовать кровь
Пришло время смерти
Инкорпорируемый вред
Брось забавляться играми с бритвой
Шаг назад ? И ты почувствуешь наш Ад на собственной спине
Кровь пораждает кровь, и мы уверены
Ты зараза, а мы - лекарство
Честность - наше единственное оправдание
Попробуй, сломать нас невозможно
Череподробительное дело началось
Тво¤ имя - жертва, и ты будешь убит
Ты будешь разж¤ван и выплюнут нами
Мы кричим и сме¤мся
Ты знаешь, что мы пришли из
Корпорации ВРЕД
Шакалы корпорации потрошат тебя
От вида и запаха этого процесса меня тянет блевать
Я знаю только, как достать то, что я хочу
Твоя душа сжимается, когда мы начинаем охоту
Разъебать это вс¤ без пощады
Все т¤мные игры кончаются только так
Это предприятие корпорации, ты понял
А теперь, будь добр, подойди поближе
R.I..P.

МЕТАЛЛИКА'88. ...И ПРАВОСУДИЕ ДЛЯ ВСЕХ

- Черное

Черное - это конец
Оно пошлет зиму,
Выбросив все, что видишь
В безвестность
Смерть матери-земли
Она не возродится
Конец эволюции
Она никогда не выправится
Никогда
Огонь
Чтобы начать танец мертвецов
Черное - это конец
Чтобы начать танец мертвецов
Цвет нашего мира - черный
Нарывы на земле
Лишают ее цены
Смертельный никотин
Убивает то, что могло бы быть
Коченеющий холод
Никого не осталось, чтоб убить
Никогда такого не видели
Никогда больше не вздохнуть
Никогда
Оппозиция...противоречие...предчувствие...
Компромисс...агитация...насилие...расчленение
...Планета умирает
Самый темный цвет
Нарывающая земля
Настоящая смерть жизни
Истребление...истечение...аннулирование...
Человеческая раса...ожидание...освобождение
...Население...опустошается
Смотри, как наша мать
Приговаривается к смерти
Смотри, как наша мать умирает
Тлеющий распад
Отнимает ее дыхание
Миллионы наших лет
Пропадают за минуты
Меркнущий в тщете
Упадок остается
Все сказано и сделано
Никогда не увидеть солнца
Никогда
Огонь -
Последствие лицемерия
Самая темная возможность
Окончание рода человеческого
Свет нашего мира - черный
Черный
...И ПРАВОСУДИЕ ДЛЯ ВСЕХ
Залы суда покрашены в зеленое
Деньги задают тон
Волки власти осадили твою дверь
Слышишь, как они крадутся
Скоро ты насытишь их аппетит
Они пожирают
Молот правосудия крушит тебя
И берет верх
В тщеславии выше всех
Используя их верховенство
Я не могу поверить в то, что ты говоришь
Я не могу поверить
Я не могу поверить в цену, что ты заплатил
Ничто тебя не может спасти
Правосудие заблудилось
Правосудие изнасиловано
Правосудия больше нет
Дергая тебя за нитки
С правосудием покончено
Не ищи правды
Победа - это все
И ты найдешь ее такой зловещей
такой правдивой
такой настоящей
Апатия - их порог
Столь бесчувственный
Глубоко скрытая враждебность
Так обманчива
Через твои глаза горит их свет
Инквизиция топит тебя
С любопытством
Дама Правосудие была изнасилована
Убийцей правды
Красные ленты запечатывают твои губы
С тобой покончено
Их деньги снова клонят ее чашу весов
Предложи свою сделку
Только, что есть твоя правда?
Я не могу различить
Я не могу почувствовать
В ГЛАЗАХ СМОТРЯЩЕГО*
Видишь ли ты то, что я вижу?
Правда - это оскорбление
Твое молчание для твоей уверенности
Слышишь ли ты, что я слышу?
Захлопываются двери
Ограничь свое воображение,
Держи себя там, где они требуют
Чувствуешь ли ты, что я чувствую?
Горькое страдание
Кто решает, что тебе выражать?
Берешь ли ты то, что я беру?
Прочность - вот слово
Двигаться назад, вместо того, чтобы
Идти вперед - кажется мне абсурдом
Не имеет значения, что ты видишь
Или то, что ты читаешь
Ты волен поступать, как ты хочешь
Если это будет сделано, как я сказал
Независимость ограничена
Свобода выбора
Выбор сделан за тебя, мой друг_
Свобода слова
Речь - это слова, которые они согнут
Свобода исключая их
Боишься ли ты того, чего я боюсь?
Жизнь пристойна
Правда для тебя - это ложь для меня
Выбираешь ли ты то, что я выбираю?
Больше возможностей
Энергия извлекается из плюса и минуса
Нужно ли тебе то, что мне нужно?
Границы перевернуты
Посмотри внутрь, каждому свое
Веришь ли ты тому, чему я верю?
Меня, меня самого, и я
Через дымовую завесу, я вижу эгоистичную ложь
Знаешь ли ты то, что я знаю?
Твои деньги и твое здоровье
Ты замолкаешь только для того,
Чтобы слышать себя
Хочешь ли ты того, что я хочу?
Не желай ничего
Я изголодался по независимости,
Удлиним кольцо свободы
ОДИН**
Я не могу вспомнить ничего
Не могу различить, это явь или сон
Глубоко в себе я хочу закричать
Но эта ужасная тишина останавливает меня
Война теперь кончилась для меня
Я просыпаюсь и не вижу
Что от меня осталось не так уж и много
Ничего реального нет теперь, кроме боли
Я сдерживаю свое дыхание, желая смерти
О, боже, прошу, разбуди меня
Словно снова в утробе, это так реально
Внутрь меня качают жизнь, которой я должен жить
Но я не могу смотреть вперед, чтобы открыть
То, какой будет моя жизнь, когда я буду жить
Меня кормят через трубочку, вставленную в меня-
Изобретение войны
Я привязан к машинам, которые позволяют
Мне существовать
Отключите такую жизнь от меня
Мир исчез, я совсем один
О боже, помоги мне сдержать дыхание,
Я желаю смерти
О боже, прошу, помоги мне
Тьма заточила меня
Все, что я вижу
Абсолютный ужас
Я не могу жить
Я не могу умереть
Заключенный сам в себе
Мое тело тюремная камера
Полевая мина забрала мое зрение
забрала мою речь
забрала мой слух
забрала мои руки
забрала мои ноги
забрала мою душу
Оставила меня жить в аду

- Короткая соломинка

Подозрение - имя тебе
Твоя искренность виновата
В том, что достоинство стало стыдом
Бесчестие
Охота за ведьмами, наше время
Обуславливает гниение
Вопиющий бардак
Уродливость
Позор в глазах общества
Бросает вызов банальности
Бесконечная охота за бумагой
Не кончается
Оглушение
Боль
Расплату
Приносит этот водоворот
Короткая соломинка
Вызов свободе
Поваленной законом
Жизнь в бесчинстве
Обходится грубо с тобой
Охота за ведьмами все ведется
Короткая соломинка
Эту короткую соломинку
Вытянули тебе, вытянули тебе
Короткую соломинку
Короткую соломинку вытянули тебе
Обвинения сыплются
Дискриминация, почему?
Твое внутреннее "я" должно умереть
Прорвавшись
Сомнение тонет в тебе
Прогрызая и процарапывая себе путь
Ты живешь по поправке 22***
Обманывая сам себя
Массовая истерия
Мания величия
Рождает слабоумие
Рождает
Тайно
Бесшумно
Бесспорно
Ты попадешь в водоворот
За спиной твои руки связаны
Твое существование изгнано из общества
Твой ад умножился
Став бесконечным
Начался радиоактивный дождь
Повреждения огромны
Множество обратилось в никого
В ничто
Ты достигаешь своего надира
Твоя воля пропала
Ложь кристально чиста
Защищаясь
Вены красны
Одно слово сказано
Ты в черном списке
Водоворот умертвит тебя

- Пожинатель скорби

Моя жизнь задыхается
Посеяв зерна ненависти
То, что я любил, обратилось в ненависть
В ловушке, далеко от моей судьбы
Я даю
Ты берешь
Эту жизнь, что я покидаю
Обманутый моей юностью
Ты обратил эту ложь в правду
Гнев
Страдание
Ты будешь страдать за меня
Пожинатель скорби
Язык сумасшедших
Пожинатель скорби
Чистое черное кажется чистым
Скоро мой труд здесь будет окончен
Постарайся вернутся ко мне
Вернуть то, что было
Выпей
Уколись
И начнем избиение
Распределитель боли
Твоя потеря становится моим приобретением
Все прочитали свои молитвы
Вторгнись в их кошмары
Взглянув в мои глаза
Ты найдешь где Ёроется убийство_
Детоубийство

- Истрепанные края рассудка

Никогда не голодав
Никогда не процветав
Я пал жертвой неудач
Борьба внутри
Снова началась
Теперь свеча горит на обоих краях
Исковерканный шизофренией
Впавший в глубокое слабоумие
Снова появляются старые привычки
Борьба со страхом страха
Растущая скрытность
Все - против меня
Истрепанные края рассудка
Слышу, как они зовут
Слышу, как они зовут меня
Рождение страха
Смерть еще большего числа
Я - раб страха, моя пленительница
Никогда не предупреждает
Расправляя свои крылья
Я жду ужас, который приносит она
Потеря интереса, вопрос, удивление
Волны страха, которые укрыли меня
В развалины
Я погружаюсь
Заложник безымянного чувства
Дьявол на свободе
Меня затопит
Почувствуй, как отливает прибой внутри меня
Высота, ад, время, спешка, страх, напряжение
Жизнь, смерть, желание, трата, массовая депрессия

- Жить - значит умереть

Когда человек лжет, он убивает
Какую-то часть мира
Эти бледные смерти, которые
Люди зовут своими жизнями
Все это я не выношу
И не могу больше быть свидетелем этому
Не может ли королевство спасения
Забрать меня домой

- На смертном одре

Дорогая мать
Дорогой отец
Через какой ад вы пропустили меня
Верующий
Обманщик
День за днем вы решали как мне жить
Запихивали в меня, что хорошо и плохо
Я был скрыт от штуки, которую звали жизнью
Дорогая мать
Дорогой отец
Все, о чем я подумал вы отвергали
Куратор
Диктатор
Всегда подвергающий цензуре мой каждый шаг
За детьми присматривают, но их не слушают
И всегда вырывают вдохновение
Невинность
Вырвана из меня
Без вашего укрытия
Голая реальность
Я живу словно слепой
Дорогая мать
Дорогой отец
Время застыло, что осталось
Ничего не слышу
Ничего не вижу
Не могу повернуться лицом к фактам
Я думаю за себя
Гарантий нет, это жизнь как есть
Но будьте вы прокляты за то, что не дали мне
Мой шанс
Дорогая мать
Дорогой отец
Вы подрезали мне крылья до того, как
Я научился летать
Неиспорченный
Невыраженный
Я перерос эту ебанную колыбельную,
Которую я всегда слышал от вас
Делай как я говорю, а не как я делаю
Я в аду без вас
Не могу справиться ни с чем без вас
Шокированный тем миром, что я вижу
Невинная жертва
Пожалуйста, спасите меня
Дорогая мать
Дорогой отец
Спрятанный в вашем мире,
Сделанном для меня
Я бурлю
Я кровоточу
Рваные раны во мне не заживают
Не умирающую злость я питаю к вам
Прожив этот ад, о котором вы знали всегда

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* "В глазах смотрящего" - часть английской пословицы -
"Красота - в глазах смотрящего"
** Песня "Один" вдохновлена книгой и одноименным фильмом
"Джонни получил свою винтовку", о солдате, воевавшем в 1-ой
Мировой войне, который лишился зрения, слуха, речи, рук и ног,
подорвавшись на мине, но продолжавшем существовать в таком
состоянии.
*** "Поправка 22". (Правильно "Уловка-22") Крэйзовый роман
Джозефа Хеллера о американских летчиках 2-ой Мировой войны, в
котором тупость их жизни доведена до истерически смешных
пределов. Все герои романа живут по поправке 22, о содержании
которой никто не знает.

МЕТАЛЛИКА

- Входит дрема

Молись сын мой
И не забудь произнести все молитвы
Которые ты знаешь
Они помогут тебе
И будут оберегать от греха ...
Пока не появится др¤ма
Один глаз спит, другой - открыт
Крепче сожми подушку в руках
Выходит свет
Входит ночь
Возьми меня за руку
Мы отправляемся в страну чудес
Что-то случилось: Свет исчез
Тяж¤лые ч¤рные мысли наполняют голову
Сны о войнах, лгунах
О драконах, извергающих пламя
О существах с ужасными зубами
Я укладываюсь спать
Я прошу Господа присмотреть
За моей душой, если я умру во сне
Пусть он взмет е¤ себе
Тише, дети засыпают
Не обращай внимание на эти шорохи
Это всего лишь звери,
Притаившиеся в туалете
Под кроватью и в твоей голове

- Горькая правда

Слушай, я твоя жизнь
Я тот, кто прив¤л тебя сюда
Слушай, я твоя жизнь
Я забочусь о тебе
Все, все предают
Я твой единственный, настоящий друг
Все, все предают
Я же навечно с тобой
Я твоя реальность, когда ты грешишь
Я твои глаза, когда ты воруешь
Я твоя боль, когда ты терпишь
Сожалею, но это так
Я тво¤ везение
Я твоя боль
Когда ты расплачиваешься
Ты знаешь,
Что это горькая правда
Ты, ты моя маска
Ты мо¤ прикрытие, ты мо¤ убежище
Ты, ты моя маска
Ты - проклятый
Делай мою грязную работу,
Коз¤л отпущения
Делай, делай что я говорю
Так как ты - обвиняемый
Ненависть, я твоя ненависть
Когда ты хочешь любви
Плати, плати сполна
Заплати за свою ложь
Слушай, я твоя жизнь
Я тот, кто дов¤л тебя до этого
Слушай, я твоя жизнь
И мне плевать на тебя
Я твоя правда, когда ты лж¤шь
Я тво¤ истинное алиби
Я затаился в глубине
Твоих глаз
Я твой
Сожалею, но это так.

- Чище, чем ты.

Хватит, ты опять порешь чушь
Ничего не изменилось
В голове у тебя тот же студень
Интересно, а ты понимаешь
Что у тебя в душе ? Кто вы ?
Откуда ? Что это за бред ?
Тр¤п так и пр¤т из тебя
Ты так заразился,
Что уже веришь сам себе
Но, впрочем, ты сам себе судья
Ты хочешь показаться
Чище, чем есть
Ты ничего не понимаешь
Прежде, чем осудить меня
Взгляни на себя
Ты - медленно соображающая смесь
Не ты, а другие, были основой
Твоей жизни
Ты всегда сжигал за собой мосты
И, если нужно, деньгами возводил
Их вновь
Но, впрочем, ты сам себе судья

- Отверженный

Каждый новый реб¤нок
Рождавшийся на этой земле
Быстро пропадает
Под давлением общества
Подвергаясь постоянному унижению
Он вынужден заучивать его законы
Реб¤нок раст¤т, привыкая к такой жизни
Он лиш¤н своих собственных мыслей
И пытается вырваться из этой ловушки
Он да¤т себе клятву, что никто больше
Не сможет влиять на его желания
Вс¤, что я чувствую, вс¤, я знаю
Я скрываю в себе
Никто не видел, никто не знает
И не хочет знать того
Что может произойти
Вечно замкнут, всегда незаметен
Вот почему я прозван отверженным
Они посвящают свои жизни тому
Чтобы хоть как-то отличиться от него
А этот несчастный юноша
Пытается понравиться им всем
Он хочет вырваться из этого лабиринта
Но в лабиринте нет выхода
Время монотонно убивает его
Он устал и никому нет до него дела
Он уже старик и готов умереть
Раскаявшись в своих грехах
И этот старик - Я
Вы заклеймили меня
Я заклеймил вас
И вы для меня - отверженные

- Где бы я ни был

И дорога становится мне невестой
Я, отбросив прочь всю ненужную гордость
Доверяю ей, и она удовлетворяет меня
И да¤т мне вс¤, в ч¤м я нуждаюсь
Пыль забивает горло, но я знаю
Зачем иду, я несу в себе опыт
Для той игры, где ты - раб
БРОДЯГА ...... КОЧЕВНИК
НЕПРИКАЯННЫЙ СТРАННИК
Зови меня, как хочешь
Но всюду я ношу с собой мо¤ время
Трезвый и свободный разум
Способный к рассуждениям
Где бы я ни был, везде мой дом
И Земля становится моим домом
Я привыкаю ко всему
Я вырос под чудесными зв¤здами
И я не один, мои помыслы чисты
Чем больше я отдаю
Тем больше я выигрываю
Я царствую вдалеке
От избитых дорог
Где бы я ни был, везде мой дом
Это выбито на моей могиле
Мо¤ тело не подвижно
Но я продолжаю идти
Где бы я ни был

- Победа за мной

Свобода или смерть - это мы
С гордостью приветствуем
Однажды, в погоне за ней
Рассердил е¤, тебе не следовало
Этого делать, но ты дов¤л е¤
До бешенства
Теперь не сдавайся и покажи
На что ты способен
Победа за мной
Пусть будет так
Хватит наслаждаться покоем
Сохранение мира - это
Приготовления к войне
Пусть будет так
Хватит наслаждаться покоем
Я отвечаю за свои слова
Ей это или понравится, или она
Выйдет из игры
Быстрая, как разряд молнии
Излучающая сияние, она жд¤т
Победа - за мной

- Сквозь невозможное

Вселенная слишком велика для того
Чтобы видеть прошлое, будущее и настоящее
Время и пространство бесконечны
Мысли, которые мешают,
Вопросы, ждущие ответа
Ограничения на человеческое восприятие
Слишком быстро для критики
Право на выживание
Мы страстно хотим выжить
Вс¤, что когда либо было
Вс¤, что когда либо будет
Кувыркайтесь, выворачивайтесь
До неузнаваемости
В темноте мы видим прошлое
И гонимся за правдой, где бы она не была
Небо дышит газами
Я мы заняты поиском причины
Начала всего этого
Вс¤ неповторимо в этой Солнечной системе
Курь¤зы надоели людям
В нашем доме - третьей от Солнца планете
Сквозь невозможное
Мы должны двигаться
Сквозь невозможное
Отсюда, по лезвию вечности
Мы должны двигаться
Сквозь невозможное
И невозможное наступит
Кто мы - вечный вопрос
Кувыркайтесь, переворачивается
Сквозь невозможное
Невозможное

- Все остальное не имеет значения

Мы принимаем это близко к сердцу
Мы вечно верим лишь себе и это стало
Неотъемлемой частью нашей натуры
Вс¤ остальное не имеет значения
Я никогда не смотрел на себя
С этой стороны
Жизнь - наша, и мы жив¤м, как хотим
Я говорю вс¤ это не просто так
Вс¤ остальное не имеет значения
Я доверяю, ищу, и каждый день нахожу
В тебе что-то новое, ты спокойно
Воспринимаешь разные точки зрения
Вс¤ остальное не имеет значения
Неважно, что делают все
Неважно, что знают все
Важно, что знаю я

- О волке и человеке

Я бегу сквозь утренний туман
Я приш¤л из этого тумана
Я охочусь
Я очищаю землю
Задирая больших ягнят
Я бегу сквозь утренний туман
Я приш¤л из этого тумана
Мы изменяемся
Мы дышим вместе с Земл¤й
Нас много, мы бродим
По земле, пока ты спишь
Изменяется форма Нос по ветру
Изменяется форма Появляется
Знакомое чувство Изменяются
Движения Органы восприятия
Чисты Дар природы Обратно
К смыслу жизни
Яркая луна застыла в вышине
Воздух становится холодным
Как сталь, мы изменяемся
Мы слышим зов предков
Страх в твоих глазах
Это произойд¤т раньше
Чем ты успеешь осознать
Я чувствую изменения
Обратно, в лучшую сторону
Шерсть вста¤т дыбом на загривке
Мир найд¤т защиту в одичании
Найди волка в себе, обратно
К значению волка и человека

- Бог, обманувший надежды

Гордись своим выбором
Гордись своими чувствами
Гордись тем, что ты ощущаешь
Стоя на коленях
Не те слова, не та любовь
Не так, как ты представлял
Себе возвышенное
Оно питается, оно раст¤т
Оно может вс¤, что ты
Способен придумать
Оболгать, обмануть
Решить лишь то, во что ты веришь
Я вижу веру в твоих глазах
Ты никогда не слышал
Такой обескураживающей лжи
Я слышу веру в твоих криках
Обещания предательски нарушаются
Излечивающие руки прибиты гвоздями
Следующий за богом, не оправдавший надежд
Найди свой покой, найди сво¤ мнение
Найди гладкую дорогу на сво¤м пути
Доверяй берущим, расти детей
А Его и свои мольбы закопай поглубже

- Мой друг страданий

Ты всего лишь стоишь здесь и ноешь
И боишься, что никто тебя не слушает
Они говорят, что твои речи пусты
И потом так громки
Но звук собственного голоса
Вселяет в тебя уверенность
Ты слышишь только то, что хочешь слышать
И знаешь только то, что услышал
Ты полон трагизма, но ты
Не среди тех, кто хочет сохранить мир
Страдание,
Ты настаиваешь на том, чтобы нести
Мир на своих плечах
Страдание,
Жизнь гораздо разнообразнее,
Чем ты думаешь
Мой друг страданий
Ты вс¤ ещ¤ стоишь там и ноешь
Но твои слова никому не интересны
Мой друг, перед тем, как ты заткн¤шься
Хочу напомнить: то, что является
Счастьем для одного
Может обернуться адом для другого
Пришли времена испытаний
Но что-то есть странное в том
Что ты видишь
Ты возьм¤шь вс¤ на себя
Помни: Страдание любит компанию
Ты всего лишь стоишь здесь и ноешь
Мой друг страданий

- Внутренняя борьба

Возвращаюсь за тем, что ты чувствовал
Ты хватаешься за то, что по твоему реально
Тебе нравится подст¤гивать м¤ртвую лошадь
Ты не можешь выразить свою благодарность
Существует очень много вещей, которыми ты
Не хочешь заняться, что с тобой случилось ?
Что ты потерял
Ч¤рт возьми !
Что ты собираешься найти
Лицемер
Внутренняя борьба
Это тебе подходит
Внутренняя борьба
Ты бежишь
Внутренняя борьба
Ты запечатываешь свой гроб
Внутренняя борьба
Ты сражаешься сам с собой
Твой дом стал Адом
Он превратился в одиночную камеру
Ты безвозвратно потерял все выгоды
Твоего существования, сражаясь
В собственном Аду
Блюя
Хватаясь за остатки чувств
Закрываясь
Давление на тебя весьма реально
R.I.P.

KILL'EM ALL

---

Kirk Hammett LeadGuitar
Cliff Burton Bass
Lars Ulrich Drums
James Hetfield RhythmGuitar/Vocals

---

- Hit the Lights

(J.Hetfield, L.Ulrich)
No life till leather
We are gonna kick some ass tonight
We got the metal madness
When our fans start screaming
It's right well alright
When we start to rock
We never want to stop again
Hit the Lights
Hit the Lights
Hit the Lights
You know our fans are insane
We are gonna blow this place away
With volume higher
Than anything today the only way
When we start to rock
We never want to stop again
Hit the Lights
Hit the Lights
Hit the Lights
With all out screaming
We are gonna rip right through your brain
We got the lethal power
It is causing you sweet pain oh sweet pain
When we start to rock
We never want to stop again
Hit the Lights
Hit the Lights
Hit the Lights

- The Four Horsemen

(J.Hetfield, L.Ulrich, D.Mustaine)
By the last breath of the fourth winds blow
Better raise your ears
The sound of hooves knock at your door
Lock up your wife and children now
It's time to wield the blade
For now you have got some company
The horsemen are drawing nearer
On the leather steeds they ride
They have came to take your life
On through the dead of night
With the four horsemen ride
Or choose your fate and die
You have been dying since the day
You were born
You know it has all been planned
The quartet of deliverance rides
A sinner once a sinner twice
No need for confession now
Cause now you have got the fight of your life
The horsemen are drawing nearer
On the leather steeds they ride
They have came to take your life
On through the dead of night
With the four horsemen ride
Or choose your fate and die
Time
Has taken it's toll on you
The lines that crack your face
Famine
Your body it has torn through
Withered in every place
Pestilence
For what you have had to endure
And what you have put others through
Death
Deliverance for you for sure
There is nothing you can do
So gather round young warriors now
And saddle up your steeds
Killing scores with demons swords
Now is the death of doers of wrong
Swing the judgement hammer down
Safely inside armor blood guts and sweat
The horsemen are drawing nearer
On the leather steeds they ride
They have came to take your life
On through the dead of night
With the four horsemen ride
Or choose your fate and die

- Motorbreath

(J.Hetfield)
Living and dying laughing and crying
Once you have seen it you will never
be the same
Life in the fast lane is just how it seems
Hard and it is heavy dirty and mean
Motorbreath
Its how I live my life
I can't take it any other way
Motorbreath
The sign of living fast
It is going to take
Your breath away
Don't stop for nothing it's full speed
or nothing
I am talking down you know whatever is
in my way
Getting your kicks as you are shooting
the line
Sending the shivers up and down your spine
Motorbreath
Its how I live my life
I can't take it any other way
Motorbreath
The sign of living fast
It is going to take
Your breath away
Those people who tell you not to take chances
They are all missing on what life is about
You only live once so take hold of the chance
Don't end up like others the same song and dance
Motorbreath
It's how I live my life
I can't take it any other way
Motorbreath
The sign of living fast
It is going to take
Your breath away

- Jump in the Fire

(J.Hetfield, L.Ulrich, D.Mustaine)
Down in the depths of my firey home
The summons bell will chime
Tempting you and all the earth
To join own sinful kid
There is a job to be done and I'm the one
You people make me do it
Now it is time for your fate and I won't hesitate
To pull you down into this pit
So come on
Jump in the Fire
So come on
Jump in the Fire
With hell in my eyes and death in my veins
The end closing in
Feeding on the minds of man
And from their souls within
My disciples all shout to search out
And they always shall obey
Follow me now my child not the meek or the mild
But do just as I say
So come on
Jump in the Fire
So come on
Jump in the Fire
Jump by your will or be taken by force
I'll get you either way
Trying to keep the hellfire lit
I am stalking your as prey
Living your life as me I am you you see
There is part of me in everyone
So reach down grab my hand walk with me through
the land
Come home where you belong
So come on
Jump in the Fire
So come on
Jump in the Fire

- Whiplash

(J.Hetfield, L.Ulrich)
Late at night all systems go
You have come to see the show
We do our best you're the rest
You make it real you know
There is a feeling deep inside
That drives you fuckin' mad
A feeling of a hammerhead
You need it oh so bad
Adrenalin starts to flow
You're thrashing all around
Acting like a maniac
Whiplash
Bang your head against the stage
Like you never did before
Make it ring make it bleed
Make it really sore
In a frenzied madness
With your leathers and your spikes
Heads are bobbing around
It is hot as hell tonite
Adrenalin starts to flow
You're thrashing all around
Acting like a maniac
Whiplash
Here on stage the Marshall noise
Is piercing through your ears
It kicks you ass kick your face
Exploding feeling nears
Now is the time to let it rip
To let it fuckin' loose
We are gathered here to maim and kill
Cause this is what we choose
Adrenalin starts to flow
You're thrashing all around
Acting like a maniac
Whiplash
The show is through the metal is gone
It is time to hit the road
Another town another gig
Again we will explode
Hotel rooms and motorways
Life out here is raw
But we will never stop
We will never quit
Cause we are METALLICA
Adrenalin starts to flow
You're thrashing all around
Acting like a maniac
Whiplash

- Phantom Lord

(J.Hetfield, L.Ulrich, D.Mustaine)
Sound is ripping through your ears
The deafening sound of metal nears
Your bodies waiting for his whips
The taste of leather on your lips
Hear the cry of war
Louder than before
With his sword in hand
To control the land
Crushing metal strikes
On this frightening night
Fall onto your knees
For the Phantom Lord
Victims falling under chains
You hear them crying dying pains
The fist of terrors breaking through
Now there is nothing you can do
Hear the cry of war
Louder than before
With his sword in hand
To control the land
Crushing metal strikes
On this frightening night
Fall onto your knees
For the Phantom Lord
The leathered armies have prevailed
The Phantom Lord has never failed
Smoke is lifting from the ground
The rising volume metal sound
(Chorus)
Fall to your knees
And bow to the Phantom Lord

- No Remorse

(J.Hetfield, L.Ulrich)
No mercy for what we are doing
No thought to even what we have done
We don't need to feel to sorrow
No remorse for the helpless one
War without end
No remorse no repent
We don't care what it meant
Another day another death
Another sorrow another breath
No remorse no repent
We don't care what it meant
Another day another death
Another sorrow another breath
Blood feeds the war machine
As it eats its way across the land
We don't need to feel the sorrow
No remorse is the one command
(Chorus)
Only the strong survive
No will to save the weaker race
We are ready to kill all comers
Like a loaded gun right at your face
(Chorus)
Attack
Bullets are flying
People are dying
With madness surrounding all hell's
Breaking loose
Soldiers are hounding
Bodies are mounting
Cannons are shouting to take their abuse
With war machines going
Blood starts to flowing
No mercy given to anyone hear
The furious fighting
Swords are like lightning
It all becomes frightening you
Know death is near
No remorse

- Seek and Destroy

(J.Hetfield, L.Ulrich)
We are scanning the scene
In the city tonite
We are looking for you
To start up a fight
There is an evil feeling
In our brains
But it is nothing new
You know it drives us insane
Running
On our way
Hiding
You will pay
Dying
On thousand deaths
Running
On our way
Hiding
You will pay
Dying
One thousand deaths
Searching
Seek and Destroy
Searching
Seek and Destroy
Searching
Seek and Destroy
Searching
Seek and Destroy
There is no escape
And that is for sure
To the every world
We won't take any more
Say goodbye
To the world you live in
You have always been taking
But now you giving
(Chorus)
Our brains are on fire
With the feeling to kill
And it will not go away
Until our dreams are fulfilled
There is only one thing
On our minds
Don't try running away
Cause you're the one we will find
(Chorus)

- Metal Militia

(J.Hetfield, L.Ulrich, D.Mustaine)
Thunder and lightning the gods
Take revenge
Senseless destruction
Victims of fury and cowardly now
Running for safety
Stabbing the harlot to pay for her sins
Leaving the Virgin
Suicide running as if it were free
Ripping and tearing
Oh through the mist and the madness
We are trying to get the message to you
Metal Militia
Metal Militia
Metal Militia
Chained and shadowed to be lift behind
Nine and one thousand
Metal Militia for your sacrifice
Iron clad soldiers
Join or be conquered the law of the land
What will befall you
The Metalization of your inner soul
Twisting and turning
(Chorus)
We are as one as we all are the same
Fighting for one cause
Leather and metal are our uniforms
Protecting what we are
Joining together to take on the world
With our heavy metal
Spreading the message to everyone here
Come let yourself go
(Chorus)

RIDE THE LIGHTNING

Text by Ile 30/10/87

- Fight Fire With Fire

(Hetfield, Ulrich, Burton)
Do unto others as they have done to you
But what the hell is this world coming to?
Blow the universe into nothingness
Nuclear warfare shall lay us to rest
Fight fire with fire
Ending is near
Fight fire with fire
Bursting with fear
We all shall die
Time is like a fuse, short and burning fast
Armageddon is here, like said in the past
Fight fire with fire
Ending is near
Fight fire with fire
Bursting with fear
Soon to fill our lungs the hot winds of death
The gods are laughing, so take your last breath
Fight fire with fire
Ending is near
Fight fire with fire
Bursting with fear
Fight fire with fire
(repeat)

- Ride the Lighting

(Hetfield, Ulrich, Burton, Mustaine)
Guilty as charged
But damn it, it ain't right
There is someone else controlling me
Death in the air
Strapped in the electric chair
This can't be happening to me
Who made you god to say
"I'll take your life from you!!"
Flash before my eyes
Now it's time to die
Burning in my brain
I can't feel the flame
Wait for the sign
To flick the switch of death
It's the beginning of the end
Sweat, chilling cold
As I watch death unfold
Consciousness is my only friend
My fingers grip with fear
What am I doing here?
Flash before my eyes
Now it's time to die
Burning in my brain
I can't feel the flame
Someone help me
Oh please god help me
They are trying to take it all away
I don't want to die
Time moving slow
The minutes seem like hours
The final curtain call I see
How true is this?
Just get, it over with
If this is true, just let it be
Wakened by horrid scream
Freed from this frightening dream
Flash before my eyes
Now it's time to die
Burning in my brain
I can't feel the flame
For Whom the Bell Tolls
(Hetfield, Ulrich, Burton)
Make his fight on the hill in the early day
Constant chill deep inside
Shouting gun, on they run through the endless grey
On they fight, for they are right, yes, but who's to say?
For a hill men would kill, why? They do not know
Suffered wounds test their pride
Men of five, still alive through the raging glow
Gone insane from the pain that they surely know
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Time marches on
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Take a look to the sky just before you die
It is the last time he will
Blackened roar massive roar fills the crumbling sky
Shattered goal fills his soul with a ruthless cry
Stranger now, are his eyes, to this mystery
He hears the silence so loud
Crack of dawn, all is gone except the will to be
Now they see what will be, blinded eyes to see
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Time marches on
For Whom the Bell Tolls

- Fade to Black

(Hetfield, Ulrich, Burton, Hammett)
Life it seems, will fade away
Drifting further every day
Getting lost within myself
Nothing matters, no one else
I have lost the will to live
Simply nothing more to give
There is nothing more for me
Need the end to set me free
Things not what they used to be
Missing one inside of me
Deathly lost, this can't be real
Cannot stand this hell I feel
Emptiness is filling me
To the point of agony
Growing darkness taking dawn
I was me, but now he's gone
No one but me can save myself, but it's too late
Now I can't think, think why I should even try
Yesterday seems as though it never existed
Death greets me warm, now I will just say goodbye

- Trapped Under Ice

(Hetfield, Ulrich, Hammett)
I don't know how to live through this hell
Woken up, I'm still locked in this shell
Frozen soul, frozen down to the core
Break the ice, I can't take anymore
Freezing
Can't move at all
Screaming
Can't hear my call
I am dying to live
Cry out
I'm Trapped Under Ice
Crystallized, as I lay here and rest
Eyes of glass stare directly at death
>From deep sleep I have broken away
No one knows, no one hears what I say
Freezing
Can't move at all
Screaming
Can't hear my call
I am dying to live
Cry out
I'm Trapped Under Ice
Scream, from my soul
Fate, mystified
Hell, forever more
No release from my cryonics state
What is this?, I've been stricken by fate
Wrapped up tight, cannot move, can't break free
Hand of doom has a tight grip on me
Freezing
Can't move at all
Screaming
Can't hear my call
I am dying to live
Cry out
I'm Trapped Under Ice

- Escape

(Hetfield, Ulrich, Hammett)
Feel no pain, but my life ain't easy
I know I'm my best friend
No one cares, but I'm so much stronger
I'll fight until the end
To Escape from the true false world
Undamaged destiny
Can't get caught in the endless circle
Ring of stupidity
Out for my own, out to be free
One with my mind, they just can't see
No need to hear the things that they say
Life is for my own to live my own way
Rape my mind and destroy my feelings
Don't tell me what to do
I don't care now, 'cause I'm on my side
And I can see through you
Feed my brain with your so called standards
Who says that I ain't right
Break away from your common fashion
See through your blurry sight
Out for my own, out to be free
One with my mind, they just can't see
No need to hear the things that they say
Life is for my own to live my own way
See them try to bring the hammer down
No damn chains can hold me to the ground
Life is for my own to live my own way
(repeat)

- Creeping Death

(Hetfield, Ulrich, Burton, Hammett)
Slaves
Hebrews born to serve, to the pharaoh
Heed
To his every word, live in fear
Faith
Of the unknown one, the deliverer
Wait
Something must be done, four hundred years
So let it be written
So let it be done
I'm sent here by the chosen one
So let it be written
So let it be done
To kill the first born pharaoh son
I'm Creeping to Death
Now
Let my people go, land of Goshen
Go
I will be with thee, bush of fire
Blood
Running red and strong, down to Nile
Plague
Darkness three days long, hail to fire
So let it be written
So let it be done
I'm sent here by the chosen one
So let it be written
So let it be done
To kill the first born pharaoh son
I'm Creeping to Death
Die by my hand
I creep across the land
Killing first born man
Die by my hand
I creep across the land
Killing first born man

I

Rule the midnite air the destroyer
Born
I shall soon be there, deadly mass

I

Creep the steps and floor final darkness
Blood
Lambs blood painted door, I shall pass
So let it be written
So let it be done
I'm sent here by the chosen one
So let it be written
So let it be done
To kill the first born pharaoh son
I'm Creeping to Death

MASTER OF PUPPETS

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James Hetfield Rhithm guitars, Vocals
Leers Ulrich Drums
Kirk Hammett Lead Guitar
Jason Newsted Bass
All lirics by Hetfield, except "To Live Is To Die" by Burton.
All arrangements by Hetfield, Ulrich.
All harmony, melody and acoustic guitars on all songs, and
the 2nd solo in "To Live Is To Die" by Hetfield.
All songs © 1988 creeping death music.
ASCAP
All right reserved. Used by permission.

---

- Battery

(Hetfield,Ulrich)
Lashing out the action, returning the reaction
Weak are ripped and torn away
Hypnotizing power, crushing all that cower
Battery is here to stay
Smashing through the boundaries
Lunacy has found me
Cannot stop the Battery
Pounding out aggression
Turns into obsession
Cannot kill the Battery
Cannot kill the family
Battery is found me
Battery
Crushing all deceivers, mashing non-believers
Never ending potency
Hungry violence seeker, feeding off the weaker
Breeding on insanity
Smashing through the boundaries
Lunacy has found me
Cannot stop the Battery
Pounding out aggression
Turns into obsession
Cannot kill the Battery
Cannot kill the family
Battery is found me
Battery
Circle of destruction, hammer comes crushing
Powerhouse of energy
Whipping up a fury, dominating flurry
We create the Battery
Smashing through the boundaries
Lunacy has found me
Cannot stop the Battery
Pounding out aggression
Turns into obsession
Cannot kill the Battery
Cannot kill the family
Battery is found me
Battery

- Master of Puppets

(Hetfield, Ulrich, Burton, Hammett)
End of passion play, crumbling away
I'm your score of self-destruction
Veins that pump with fear, sucking darkest clear
Leading on your deaths construction
Taste me you will see
More is all you need
You're dedicated to
How I'm killing you
Come crawling faster
Obey your Master
Your life burns faster
Obey your Master
Master
Master of Puppets I'm pulling your strings
Twisting your mind and smashing your dreams
Blinded by me, you can't see a thing
Just call my name, 'cause I'll hear you scream
Master
Master
Just call my name, 'cause I'll hear you scream
Master
Master
Needlework the way, never you betray
Life of death becoming clearer
Pain monopoly, ritual misery
Chop your breakfast on a mirror
Taste me you will see
More is all you need
You're dedicated to
How I'm killing you
Come crawling faster
Obey your Master
Your life burns faster
Obey your Master
Master
Master of Puppets I'm pulling your strings
Twisting your mind and smashing your dreams
Blinded by me, you can't see a thing
Just call my name, 'cause I'll hear you scream
Master
Master
Just call my name, 'cause I'll hear you scream
Master
Master
Master, Master, where's the dreams that I've been after?
Master, Master, you promised only lies
Laughter, laughter, all I hear or see is laughter
Laughter, laughter, laughing at my cries
Hell is worth all that, natural habitat
Just a rhyme without a reason
Neverending maze, drift on numbered days
Now your life is out of season
I will occupy
I will help you die
I will run through you
Now I rule you too
Come crawling faster
Obey your Master
Your life burns faster
Obey your Master
Master
Master of Puppets I'm pulling your strings
Twisting your mind and smashing your dreams
Blinded by me, you can't see a thing
Just call my name, 'cause I'll hear you scream
Master
Master
Just call my name, 'cause I'll hear you scream
Master
Master

- The Thing That Should not Be

(Hetfield, Ulrich, Hammett)
Messenger of fear in sight
Dark deception kills the light
Hybrid children watch the sea
Pray for father, roaming free
Fearless wretch
Insanity
He watches
Lurking beneath the sea
Great old one
Forbidden site
He searches
Hunter of the shadows is rising
Immortal
In madness you dwell
Crawling chaos, underground
Cult has summoned, twisted sound
Out from ruins once possessed
Fallen city, living death
(Chorus)
Now dead which eternal lie
Stranger eons death may be
Drain you of your sanity
Face the thing that should not be
Fearless wretch
Insanity
He watches
Lurking beneath the sea
Great old one
Forbidden site
He searches
Hunter of the shadows is rising
Immortal
In madness you dwell

- Welcome Home

(Sanitarium)
(Hetfield, Ulrich, Hammett)
Welcome to where time stands still
No one leaves and no one will
Moon is full, never seems the change
Just labeled mentally deranged
Dream the same thing every night
I see our freedom in my sight
No locked doors, no window barred
No things to make my brain seem scarred
Sleep my friend and you will see
That dream is my reality
They keep me locked up in this cage
Can't they see it's why my brain says rage
Sanitarium, leave me be
Sanitarium, just leave me alone
Build my fears of what's out there
And cannot breathe the open air
Whispering things into my brain
Assuring me that I'm insane
They think our heads are in their hands
But violent use brings violent plans
Keep him tied, it makes him well
He's getting better, can't you tell?
No more can they keep us in
Listen, damn it, we will win
They see it right, they see it well
But they think this saves us from our hell
Sanitarium, leave me be
Sanitarium, just leave me alone
Sanitarium, just leave me alone
Fear of living on
Natives getting restless now
Mutiny in the air
Got some death to do
Mirror stares back hard
Kill, it's such a friendly word
Seems the only way
For reaching out again

- Disposable Heroes

(Hetfield, Ulrich, Hammett)
Bodies fill the fields I see, hungry heroes end
No one to play soldier now, no one to pretend
Running blind through killing fields, bred to kill
Them all
Victims of what said should be
A servant `till I fall
Soldier boy, make of clay
Now an empty shell
Twenty one, only son
But he served us well
Bred to kill, not to care
Do just as we say
Finished here, greetings death
He's yours to take away
Back to the front
You will do what I say, when I say
Back to the front
You will die when I say, you must die
Back to the front
You coward
You servant
You blindman
Barking of machine gun fire, does nothing to me now
Sounding of the clock that ticks, get used to it
somehow
More a man, more stripes on you bare, glory seeker
trends
Bodies fill the fields I see
The slaughter never ends
Soldier boy, make of clay
Now an empty shell
Twenty one, only son
But he served us well
Bred to kill, not to care
Do just as we say
Finished here, greetings death
He's yours to take away
Back to the front
You will do what I say, when I say
Back to the front
You will die when I say, you must die
Back to the front
You coward
You servant
You blindman
Why am I dying?
Kill, have no fear
Lie life off lying
Hell, hell is here
I was born for dying
Life planned out before my birth, nothing could I say
Had no change to see myself, molded day by day
Looking back I realize, nothing have I done
Left to die with only friend
Alone I clench my gun
Soldier boy, make of clay
Now an empty shell
Twenty one, only son
But he served us well
Bred to kill, not to care
Do just as we say
Finished here, greetings death
He's yours to take away
Back to the front
You will do what I say, when I say
Back to the front
You will die when I say, you must die
Back to the front
You coward
You servant
You blindman

- Leper Messiah

(Hetfield, Ulrich)
Spineless from the start, sucked into the part
Circus comes to town, you play the lead clown
Please, please
Spreading his disease, living by his story
Knees, knees
Falling to your knees, suffer for his glory
You will
Time for lust, time for lie
Time to kiss you life goodbye
Send my money, send me green
Heaven you will meet
Make a contribution
And you'll get a better seat
Bow to Leper Messiah
Marvel at his tricks, need you sunday fix
Blind devotion came, rotting your brain
Chain, chain
Join to endless chain, taken by his glamour
Fame, fame
Infection in the game, stinking drunk with power
We see
Time for lust, time for lie
Time to kiss you life goodbye
Send my money, send me green
Heaven you will meet
Make a contribution
And you'll get a better seat
Bow to Leper Messiah
Witchery, weakening
Sees the sheep are gathering
Set the trap, hypnotize
Now you follow
(Chorus)
Lie, lie, lie...

- Damage INC.

(Hetfield, Ulrich, Burton, Hammett)
Dealing out the agony within
Gharging hard and no one's gonna give in
Living on your knees, conformity
Or dying on your feet for honesty
Inbred, our bodies work as one
Bloody, but never cry submission
Following our instinct not a trend
Go against the grain until the end
Blood will follow blood
Dying time is here
Damage Incorporated
Slamming through, don't fuck with razorback
Stepping out? You'll feel our hell on your back
Blood follows blood and we make sure
Life ain't for you and we're the cure
Honesty is my only excuse
Try to job us of it, but it's no use
Steamroller action crushing all
Victim is your name and you shall fall
(Chorus)
We chew and spit you out
We laugh, you scream and shout
All flee with fear you run
You'll know just where we come from
Damage Incorporated
Damage jackals ripping right through you
Sight and smell of this, it gets my goin'
Know just how to get just what we want
Tear it from your soul in nightly hunt
Fuck it all and fucking no regrets
Never happy endings on these dark sets
All's fair for Damage Inc. you see
Step a little closer if you please
Blood will follow blood
Dying time is here
Damage Incorporated

...AND JUSTICE FOR All

- ...And Justice For All

Halls of justice painted green
Money talking
Power wolves beset your door
Hear them stalking
Soon you'll please their appetite
They devour
Hammer of justice crushes you
Overpower
The ultimate in vanity
Exploiting their supremacy
I can't believe the things you say
I can't believe
I can't believe the price you say
Nothing can save you
Justice is lost
Justice is raped
Justice is gone
Pulling your strings
Justice is done
Seeking no truth
Winning is all
Find it so grim
so true
so real
Apathy their stepping stone
So unfeeling
Hidden deep animosity
So deceiving
Through your eyes their light burns
Hoping to find
Inquisition sinking you
With prying minds
The ultimate in vanity
Exploiting their supremacy
I can't believe the things you say
I can't believe
I can't believe the price you say
Nothing can save you
Justice is lost
Justice is raped
Justice is gone
Pulling your strings
Justice is done
Seeking no truth
Winning is all
Find it so grim
so true
so real
Lady justice has been raped
Truth assassin
Rolls of red tape seal your lips
Now you're done in

- ...And Justice for All

Their money tips her scales again
Make your deal
Just what is truth? I cannot tell
Cannot feel
The ultimate in vanity
Exploiting their supremacy
I can't believe the things you say
I can't believe
I can't believe the price you say
Nothing can save you
Justice is lost
Justice is raped
Justice is gone
Pulling your strings
Justice is done
Seeking no truth
Winning is all
Find it so grim
so true
so real
Seeking no truth
Winning is all
Find it so grim
so true
so real
Seeking no truth
Winning is all
Find it so grim
so true
so real

- Eye Of The Beholder

(Hetfield, Ulrich, Hammett)
Do you see what I see?
Truth is an offence
You silence for your confidence
Do you hear what I hear?
Doors are slamming shut
Limit your imagination, keep you where they must
Do you feel what I feel?
Bittering distress
Who decides what you express?
Do you take what I take?
Endurance is the word
Moving back instead of forward seems to me absurd
Doesn't matter what you see
Or into it what you read
You can do it your own way
If it's done just how I say
Independence limited
Freedom of choice
Choice is made for you my friend
Freedom of speech
Speech is words that they will bend
Freedom with their exception
Metallica '88
Do you fear what I fear?
Living properly
Truths to you are lies to me
Do you choose what I choose?
More alternatives
Energy derives from both the plus and negative
Do you need what I need?
Boundaries overthrown
Look inside, to each his own
Do you trust what I trust?
Me, myself and I
Penetrate the smoke screen, I see through the selfish lie
Doesn't matter what you see
Or into it what you read
You can do it your own way
If it's done just how I say
Independence limited
Freedom of choice
Choice is made for you my friend
Freedom of speech
Speech is words that they will bend
Freedom with their exception
Do you know what I know?
Your money and your wealth
You silence just to hear yourself
Do you want what I want?
Desire not a thing
I hunger after independence, lengthen freedom's ring
Doesn't matter what you see
Or into it what you read
You can do it your own way
If it's done just how I say
Independence limited
Freedom of choice
Choice is made for you my friend
Freedom of speech
Speech is words that they will bend
Freedom no longer frees you
Doesn't matter what you see
Or into it what you read
You can do it your own way
If it's done just how I say

- One

(Hetfield, Ulrich)
I can't remember anything
Can't tell if this is true or dream
Deep down inside I feel to scream
This terrible silence stops me
Now that the war is through with me
I'm waking up, I cannot see
That there's not much left of me
Nothing is real but pain now
Hold my breath as I wish for death
Oh please God, wake me
Back in the womb it's much too real
In pumps life that I must feel
But can't look forward to reveal
Look to the time when I'll live
Fed through the tube that sticks in me
Just like a wartime novelty
Tied to machines that make me be
Cut this life off from me
Hold my breath as I wish for death
Oh please God, wake me
Now the world is gone I'm just one
Oh God, help me hold my breath as I wish for death
Oh please God, help me
Darkness imprisoning me
all that I see
absolute horror
I cannot live
I cannot die
trapped in myself
body my holding cell
Landmine has taken my sight
taken my speech
taken my hearing
taken my arms
taken my legs
taken my soul
left me with life in hell

- The Shortest Straw

(Hetfield, Ulrich)
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 doth bring
Shortest straw
Challenge liberty
Downed by law
Live in infamy
Rub your raw
Witchhunt riding through
Shortest straw
This 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
Shortest straw
Challenge liberty
Downed by law
Live in infamy
Rub your raw
Witch-hunt riding through
Shortest straw
This 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
Shortest straw
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
Shortest straw
Challenge liberty
Downed by law
Live in infamy
Rub your raw
Witchhunt riding through
Shortest straw
This shortest straw has been pulled for you
pulled for you

- Harvester Of Sorrow

(Hetfield, Ulrich)
My life suffocated
Planting seeds of hate
I've loved, turned to hate
Trapped far beyond my fate
I give
You take
This life that 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
My work is done soon here
Try getting back to me
Get back witch used to be
Drink up
Shoot up
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
Harvester of sorrow
Language of the mad
Harvester of sorrow
Language of the mad
Harvester of sorrow

- The Frayed Ends Of Sanity

(Hetfield, Ulrich, Hammett)
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 reappear
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 reappear
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 reappear
Fighting the fear of fear
Growing conspiracy
Myself is after me
Frayed ends of sanity
Hear them calling
Frayed ends of sanity
Hear them calling
Hear them calling me
To Live Is To Die
(Hetfield, Ulrich, Burton)
When a man lies he murders
Some part of the world
These are pale deaths which
Men miscall their lives
All this I cannot bear
To witness any longer
Cannot the kingdom of salvation
Take me home

- Dyers eve

(Hetfield, Ulrich Hammett)
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 outgrown 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 your 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

METALLICA

- Enter sandman

(Hetfield/Ulrich/Hammett)
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
we're 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 the things that will bite
Sleep woth one eye open
gripping your pillow tight
Exit:light
enter:night
take my hand
we're 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
Hust till baby don't say a word
and never mind that noise you heard
It's just a 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

- Sad but true

(Hetfield/Ulrich)
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 betray
I'm forever there
I'm your dreams, make you real
I'm your eye 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 when 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 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 dreams, 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 when 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 dreams, make you real
I'm your eyes when you must steal
I'm your pain when you can't feal
Sad but true
I'm your truth, telling lies
I'm your reason, alibis
I'm inside open your eyes
I'm you
Sad but true

- Holier than you

(Hetfield/Ulrich)
No more!
the crap 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 something 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 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

- The unforgiven

(Hetfield/Ulrich/Hammett)
New blood joins this earth
and quickly he's subdued
Throught constant pained disgrace
the young boy learn their rules
With time child drawns in
this whipping boy done wrong
Deprived of all his thoughts
the young man struggles on and on he's known
A wow unto his own
that never from this day
His will they'll take away
What I've felt
What I've known
never shined throught 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 throught in what I've shown
Never free
Never me
So I dub thee unforgiven
The dedicate their lives
to running all of his
He tries to please them all
this bitter man he is
Throughtout his life the same
he's battled constantly
This fight he cannot win
a tired man they see no longer cares
The old man they prepares
to die regretfully
the old man here is me
What I've felt
What I've known
never shined throught in what I've known
Never be
Never see
Won't see what might have been
What I've felt
What I've known
never shined throught in what I've known
Never free
Never me
So I dub the unforgiven
You labeled me
I'll label you
So I dub the unforgiven

- Wherever i may roam

(Hetfield/Ulrich)
...And the road becomes my bridge
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
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 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 part 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 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 mind anywhere
Anywhere I roam
where I lay my head is home
Carved upon my stone
my body lie, but still I roam
Wherever I may roam

- Don't tread on me

(Hetfield/Ulrich)
Libery 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 prepere for war
So be it
settle the score
touch me again for the words that you will hear
evermore...
Don't tread on me
Love it or leave it, she with the deadly bite
Quick is the blue tongue, forked as the lightning 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 will hear
evermore...
Don't tread on me
So be it
threaten no more
To secure peace is to prepare for war
Liberity 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 will hear
evermore...
Don't tread on me

- Through the never

(Hetfield/Ulrich/Hammett)
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 never comes
All that is, ever
ever was
vill be ever
Who we are
ask forever
twisting
turning
through the never
Never

- Nothing else matters

(Hetfield, Ulrich)
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 found 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 no 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
Trust I seek and I found you
every day for us something new
Open mind for a differend view
And nothing else matters
Never cared for what they say
Never cared for what they play
Never cared for what they do
Never cared for what they known
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

- Of wolf and man

(Hetfield/Ulrich/Hammett)
Off through the new day's mist I run
out from the new day's mist I have come
I hunt
theremore I am
harvest the land
taking of the fallen lamb
Off through the new day's mist I rub
out from the new day's mist 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 in the air cold as steel tonight
we shift
call of the wind
fear in your eyes
It's later than you realized
Shape shift nose to the wind
Shape shift feeling I've been
Mowe swift all senses clean
Earth's gift
Back to the meaning of wolf and man

- The god that failed

(Hetfield/Ulrich)
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 you her the discouraging lies
I hear faith in your cries
broken is the promice, 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 on 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 eyes
broken is the promice, betrayal
the healing hand held back by the deepened nail
Follow the god that failed
I see faith in your eyes
Broken is the promice, 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 us cold and hi in grave
I see faith in your eyes
never you hear the disciuraging lies
I hear faith in your cries
brokes is the promice, betrayal
the healing hand held back by the deepened nail
Follow the gof that failed

- My friend of misery

(Hetfield/Ulrich/Newsted)
You just stood there screaming
fearing no one was listening to you
they say the empty can rattles the most
The sound of your own voice must smoothe 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 time are sent to try men's souls
but something's wrong with all you see
Yoy you'll take it on all yourself
remember, misery loves company
Misery
you insist that weight of the world
should be on your shoulders
Misery
there's much more to life than what you see
My friend of misert
You just stood there screaming
My friend of misery

- The struggle within

(Hetfield/Ulrich)
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 you have got to lose
What is hell
What is it you thing 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 sell
Advantages are taken, not hanged out
while you struggle inside your hell
Reaching out
grabbing for something you've got to feel
closing in
the pressure upon you is still unreal
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 it you think you're gonna find
hypocrite
boredom sets into the boring mind
Struggle within it suit your fine
Struggle within your ruin
Struggle within you seal your own coffin
Struggle within the struggling within
JAMES HETFIELD - GUITARS, VOCALS
LARS ULRICH - DRUMS
KIRK HAMMETT - LEAD GUITAR
JASON NEWSTED - BASS

RELOAD (p)1997

1. Fuel (Hetfield/Ulrich/Hammett)

Gimme fuel
Gimme fire
Gimme that which I desire
Oh
Yeah
Turn on, I see red
Adrenaline crash and crack my head
Nitro junkie, paint me dead
And I see red
One hundred plus through black and white
War horse
War head
Fuck 'em, man
White knuckle tight
Through black and white
Oh
On I burn
Fuel is pumping engines
Burning hard
Loose and clean
Oh
And on I burn
Churning my direction
Quench my thirst with gasoline
So gimme fuel
Gimme fire
Gimme that which I desire
Yeah
Turn on beyond the bone
Swallow future, spit out home
Burn your face upon the chrome
Yeah, oh yeah
Take the corner, join the crash
Headlights
Headlines
Another junkie, who lives too fast
Yeah
Lives way too fast, fast, fast, fast, fast, fast
Oh
Oh
On I burn
Fuel is pumping engines
Burning hard
Loose and clean
Oh
And on I burn
Churning my direction
Quench my thirst with gasoline
So gimme fuel
Gimme fire
Gimme that which I desire
Oh yeah
White knuckle tight
Oh
Gimme fuel
Gimme fire
My desire
Oh
On I burn
Fuel is pumping engines
Burning hard
Loose and clean
Oh
And on and on
Churning my direction
Quench my thirst with gasoline
Gimme fuel
Gimme fire
Gimme that which I desire
Oh
On I burn

2. The Memory Remains (Hetfield/Ulrich)

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
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
Nananananana nananada nananananana nanananadana
Nananananana nananada nananananana nanananadana
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
The memories remain
Yeah
To this faded prima donna
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Dance little tin goddess dance
Nananananana nananada nanananana nanananadana
Nananananana nananada nanananana nanananadana
Rararararara dararara rarararara dararararara
Rararararara dararara rarararara dararararara (Say yes, at least say hello)
Rararararara dararara rarararara (Say yes, at least say hello)

3. Devil's Dance (Hetfield/Ulrich)

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
Seeds I plant will grow
One day you will see
And dare to come down to me
Yeah, come on, come on now take the chance
That's right
Let's 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, come on, come on now take the chance
Ha ha
Come dance
Yeah, come dancing
One day you will see
And dare to come down to me
Yeah, come on, come on now take the chance
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
Seeds I plant will grow
One day you will see
And dare to come down to me
Yeah, come on, come on now take the chance
That's right
Let's dance
Mm, it's nice to see you here
Haha

4. The Unforgiven II (Hetfield/Ulrich/Hammett)

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 opened if you're true
If you can understand the me
Then I can understand the you
Lay beside me
Under wicked skies
Through 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?
Yeah
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?
Come 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?
Yeah
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 your 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?
Yeah
What I've felt
What I've known
So 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
And I bury it in you
Because you're unforgiven too
Never free
Never me
'cause you're unforgiven too
Oh

5. Better Than You (Hetfield/Ulrich)

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)
Better than you (better than you)
Lock horns, I push, and I strive
Somehow 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)
Oh better than you (better than you)
Oh, can't stop this train from rolling
Oh, yo, nothing brings me down
No, can't stop this train from rolling on and on, on
No, no, forever on and on
Oh, can't stop this train from rolling
Oh, yo, you can't take it down
No, never stop this locomotion on and on and on
No, no, you can't bring me down 'cause I'm
Better than you (better than you)
Better than you (better than you)
Oh better than you (better than you)
Better than you (better than you)
Much better than you
Better than you (better than you)
Oh better than you (better than you)
Better than you (better than you)
Better than
Better than
Better than
Better than you
Yeah
Can't stop this train from rolling
Forever on and on and on and on and on
Forever on and on and on
Better than you
Yeah
Haha
Better than you

6. Slither (Hetfield/Ulrich/Hammett)

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?
Oh
Watch the puppets dancing
Yeah
See the clowns fall down
Hey
Tie your tap shoes tightly
Yeah
And wear them into town
See you crawling
See you crawling
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, no more
Hey, hey, hey
Oh
Play the game so nicely
Oh
Check, it's your move now
Yeah
We're standing in this jungle
Yeah
With serpents I have found
See you crawling
See you crawling
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?
See you crawling
See you crawling
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
Yeah, haven't I seen you here before?
Have your heroes disappeared?
Don't send your eyes to the sun
You might blind them

7. Carpe Diem Baby (Hetfield/Ulrich/Hammett)

Hit dirt
Shake tree
Split sky
Part sea
Strip smile
Lose cool
Bleed the day
And break the rule
Live to win
Dare to 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
Mm, then make me miss you
Oh yeah
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
Live to win
Dare to 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

8. Bad Seed (Hetfield/Ulrich/Hammett)

[cough]
Yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah
Oh
Bad
Yeah
Yeah, 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 gentlemen
Step right up and see the man who told the truth
Swing the noose again
Pierce the apple skin
You bit more than you need
Now you're choking on the bad seed
On the bad seed
I'm choking
Yeah
Let on, load off
Confess, cast off
At the mercy
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
Pierce the apple skin
Yeah, you bit more than you need
Now you're choking on the bad seed
Choking on the bad seed
Yeah
Off the veil
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
Swing the noose again
Pierce the apple skin
You bit more than you need
Choking on the seed
Swing the noose again
Pierce the apple skin
Yeah, you bit more than you need
Now you're choking on the
Choking, choking, choking on the bad seed
Yeah
Off the veil
Stand revealed
Bring it on
Break the seal
At the mercy
Cat is out
Spit it up
Spit it out
Spit it out
Spit it out
Spit it out now
Yeah
Choking on the bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad seed
[cough]

9. Where The Wild Things Are (Hetfield/Ulrich/Newsted)

So wake up sleepy one
It's time to save your world
Steal dreams and give to you
Shop lift 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
You swing your ass all down
Call to arms, a trumpet's sound
Toy horses start the charge
Robots, chessmen standing guard
It's a never surrender
All you 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
Off to war
Off to war
So close your little eyes

10. Prince Charming (Hetfield/Ulrich)

There's a black cloud overhead
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
Haha, stick me
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 too old to see
Hey
Look it's me
What no one wants to see
See what you brought this world
Just what you wanna 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 strolls 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 too old to see
Hey
Look it's me
What no one wants to see
See what you brought this world
Just what you wanna see
Hey ma
Hey ma, look it's me
It's me
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
Hey, hey, hey
Hm, now see the black cloud overhead
That's me
Hm, and this poison ivy chokes the tree
Again it's me
And I'm the filthy one on Bourbon Street
You walk on by
And 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 too old to see
Hey, hey
Look it's me
What no one wants to see
See what you brought this world
Just what you wanna see
Hey ma
Hey ma, look it's me
Yeah
It's me
Hey ma
Hey ma, look it's me
See right though me
Look up to me
See right though me
Look up to me

11. Low Man's Lyric (Hetfield/Ulrich)

One, two, three, one
My eyes seek reality
My fingers seek my veins
There's 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 bear 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 touch the clean to the waste
The trash fire is warm
But nowhere safe from the storm
And I can't bear 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
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 alleyway
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 bear 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

12. Attitude (Hetfield/Ulrich)

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
Oh, 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
They plan to pick you clean
And satisfaction this way comes
And satisfaction this way comes
And satisfaction's here and gone
Gone, yeah, and gone again
Oh, I hunger
Oh, 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?
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 satisfaction this way comes
And satisfaction this way comes
And satisfaction's here and gone
Gone, gone again
Yeah, I hunger
Oh, 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?

13. Fixxxer (Hetfield/Ulrich/Hammett)

Yeah
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 merely stumble
But tell me
Can you heal what father's done?
Or fix this hole in a 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
Yeah
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 a 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
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 a mother's son?
Can you heal the broken worlds within?
Can you strip away so we may start again?
Yeah, 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
Oh yeah
No more pins in me, yeah
No more, no more pins in me
No more, no more pins in me
No more, no more, no more
o, no, no

The Unforgiven

New blood joins this earth
And quickly he's sub-dued
Through constant pain 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 knows,
Oo a vow unto his own
That never from this day
his will they'll take a way
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 the 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.
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.
Never free.
Never me.
So I dub thee unforgiven.
Never me.
Never you.
So I dub thee unforgiven.
Never free.
Never me.
So I dub thee unforgiven.
Never me.
Never you.
So I dub thee unforgiven.