 Genius Lyrics
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Metallica – It's Electric
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This is a cover from a Diamond Head song, which originally appeared on the 1980 album ‘Lightning to the Nations’. Diamond Head were one of the biggest influences on Metallica’s
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Diamond Head – It's Electric
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I'm gonna be a rock 'n' roll star / Gotta groove from night to day / Gotta blow my honey jar, yeah / Gotta blow my blues away / I'm gonna make a stand / I'm gonna make a million
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Marcia Griffiths – Electric Boogie
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This song is most well known as the “Electric Slide” song for the popular line dance associated with it, which has become almost ubiquitous at family gatherings and other wholesome
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Metallica – Ride the Lightning
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Metallica’s gut-wrenching “Ride The Lightning” is about spending your final moments in an electric chair. The title was taken from Stephen King’s The Stand.
We just got into some
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Metallica – Late Night Skynyrd Jam (January 23rd, 1991)
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[Instrumental] / Oh, I can't [?] / I can [?] / [Studio Banter] / [?]: *laughing* / Metal! / I love that song / *laughing* / It's too short / *electric guitar, drums being played
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Metallica – Enter Sandman
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The lead single from Metallica’s commercially successful self-titled album, “Enter Sandman” was certified platinum, selling over 1 million copies. The song was Metallica’s biggest
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Green Jellÿ – Electric Harley House (of Love)
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So you wanna go on the road / I'm'a see my love to unfold / You must be young, and you must be bold / On your knees and do what you're told / You pull the trigger on my loaded gun
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Metallica – Ride the Lightning (Live at Rasputin Music, Berkeley, CA - Apr. 16th, 2016)
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[Verse 1] / Guilty as charged, but damn, it ain't right / There's someone else controlling me / Death in the air, strapped in the electric chair / This can't be happening to me / [
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Metallica (Live) – Ride The Lghtning (Live - Phoenix 09.09.23)
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[Intro] / Good God! / [Verse 1] [James Hetfield] / Guilty as charged, but damn, it ain't right / There's someone else controlling me / Death in the air, strapped in the electric
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Megadeth (Ft. Sean Harris) – It’s Electric (Live at Wembley Arena, London, England, October 14, 1990)
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[Verse 1] / I'm gonna be a rock 'n' roll star / Gotta groove from night to day / Gotta blow my honey jar, yeah / Gotta blow my blues away / I'm gonna make a stand / I'm gonna make
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Metallica – Ride the Lightning (Live)
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[Intro] / Metallica family, are you with us? / Are you with us? / Metallica is with you / We've some old stuff / [Verse 1] / Guilty as charged, but damn, it ain't right / There's
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Metallica – Sad But True
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The fifth and final single released from Metallica’s seminal self-titled album, “Sad But True” is about a person’s darker side taking control.
Influenced by the 1978 horror film
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Metallica – Ride the Lightning (Live Paris)
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Uh yeah / We haven't play this song in a while / I love it baby / [Verse 1] / Guilty as charged, but damn, it ain't right / There's someone else controlling me / Death in the air
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Metallica – Overkill
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[Verse 1] / Only way to feel the noise / Is when it is good and loud / So good I can't believe it / Screaming with the crowd / [Chorus] / Don't sweat it / Give it back to you / Don
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Metallica – Turn the Page
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A cover of the song originally by Bob Seger, about the difficulties of life on the road as a rock musician.
Lars Ulrich discovered the track when he was driving, and felt it fit
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Metallica – Sabbra Cadabra
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“Sabbra Cadabra” is a cover of Black Sabbath’s song from 1973’s Sabbath, Bloody Sabbath—while also adding part of another song from that album, “A National Acrobat,” during the
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Metallica – Killing Time
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[Chorus 1] / Sound of gunfire comes through the night / Killing and hatred, it is a terrible sight / Reports come in of the heavy attack / Message is seen, we are moving back / [
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Metallica – Eye of the Beholder
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Eye of the Beholder is about politicians, special interest groups, controlling your freedom of speech and expression.
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Metallica – Dyers Eve
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“Dyer’s Eve”, one of the thrashiest tracks on …And Justice For All, is its closer. It takes the format of an angry, accusatory letter penned by the hand of a child whose fragile
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Metallica – Nothing Else Matters
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On their controversial self-titled album which came to be known as the Black Album, “Nothing Else Matters” was perhaps the greatest example of the new Metallica sound that
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Metallica – For Whom the Bell Tolls
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Metallica’s take on Hemingway’s novel of the same name about the reproach of modern warfare and the combatants impending demise during the Spanish Civil War.
This continues
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Metallica – Blitzkrieg
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[Verse 1] / 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 / [Chorus] / The day is coming
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Pantera (Ft. Kerry King) – Goddamn Electric
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Track 2 on Pantera’s final studio album, “Goddamn Electric” was released as the second single from Reinventing the Steel.
We’ve got a song on our record called Goddamn Electric
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Metallica – Blackened
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On “Blackened,” James Hetfield gives a morbid account of what the future could hold for planet earth. Although this song was written in the 1980’s during the Cold War era, the
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Metallica – Holier Than Thou
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Although described by James Hetfield as “one of the sillier songs” by the band, “Holier Than Thou” deals with the issue of a self-righteous person, paraphrasing Jesus in the book
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Metallica & San Francisco Symphony – (Anesthesia) - Pulling Teeth (Live)
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[Instrumental]
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Green Day – 2000 Light Years Away (Live at the Electric Factory, Philadelphia 11/14/97)
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[Verse 1] / I sit alone in my bedroom / Starin' at the walls / I've been up all damn night long / My pulse is speedin', my love is yearnin' / [Chorus] / I hold my breath and close
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Metallica – Too Late Too Late
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While Metallica rehearsed for Lemmy’s 50th Birthday Party at the Whiskey A Go-Go, Los Angeles, they recorded four Motörhead cover songs direct to two-track at The Plant Studios
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Metallica – Kill/Ride Medley
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[Intro] / We've got some friends out here that know some of the old shit, I hope, right? / We've come here to play a couple new ones, but we gotta play some old motherfuckin' shit
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Metallica – Stone Dead Forever
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[Intro] / You think you see me in the glass / You think you hear me better listen fast / I think I see you gone to seed / Think your reason is your guilt and greed / [Verse 1
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Metallica – Helpless
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Cover of Diamond Head. Metallica played it a lot on the early days, leading to its inclusion in the Garage Days Re-Revisited EP. Years later, they would even perform the song along
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Metallica – Stone Cold Crazy
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A cover from the proto-thrash Queen song, recorded in 1990 for the Elektra Records 40th Anniversary compilation Rubaiyat. It later received a Grammy Award for Best Metal
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