 Genius Lyrics
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Metallica – One
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The fourth track on Metallica’s …And Justice for All, is based on the novel Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo. There, Joe Bonham, a soldier in World War I, is hit by a landmine
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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 – Master of Puppets
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The title track off Metallica’s seminal Master of Puppets album is about the negative effects drugs can have on a person’s life, written from the perspective of the drug itself. It
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Metallica – Fade to Black
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“Fade to Black” is a powerful ballad about a man that wants to commit suicide, and eventually does it. The depressive lyrics regarding someone with suicidal desires were inspired
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Metallica – The Unforgiven
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A metal ballad co-written by Ulrich, Hammett and Hetfield. This song is about the struggles he had with religion-related to his mom’s death. His relatives did not want to give
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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 – Fuel
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This song is one of the most popular tracks from Metallica’s 7th studio album ReLoad. The song is about cars and the adrenalin kick you get off riding fast cars. ReLoad is one of
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Metallica – Screaming Suicide
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[Verse 1] / Welcome to this life / Born into the fight / Here to claim your dream / Look you in the eye / Patch the broken sky / Craving dopamine / Then my voice appears / Teaching
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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 – Motorbreath
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This song is about living in the fast lane, not sitting back and letting life go by. The true metal way. The Motorhead influence is seen right in the title.
James Hetfield wrote
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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 – ManUNkind
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The video for this song is a tribute to Mayhem, a Norwegian black metal band. It also pays tribute to their former members, Per “Dead” Ohlin and Øystein “Euronymous” Aarseth, who
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Metallica – 72 Seasons
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[Verse 1] / Feeding on the wrath of man / Shot down, traumatic / Time haunted by the past / Long gone, dogmatic / Although the die is cast / Shot down, volcanic / But what is gone
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Metallica – Creeping Death
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Based on the story of the first Passover from the Book of Exodus, “Creeping Death” is a brutal retelling of the story of the Angel Of Death. When the Pharaoh refused to release the
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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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Metallica – Solos (Bass/Guitar) [Live]
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[Intro] / [James Hetfield] / Pretty fucking good, huh? / We're all still having some fun here? / We've got some sweat going on out there, I fucking hope / We like to see some
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Metallica – The Four Horsemen
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This song was originally written by original Metallica member and Megadeth founder Dave Mustaine. The lyrics were originally about teen sexual frustration, as seen in Megadeth’s
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Metallica – The Struggle Within
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Based on the the melancholy lyrics, it seems the narrator of the song has “A Struggle Within” himself that has consumed him and his mind, consisting of a feeling: probably anxiety
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Metallica – The Unforgiven II
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“The Unforgiven II” is Reload’s sequel to “The Unforgiven,” which appears on August 1991’s self-titled album Metallica. Both tracks feature similar musical themes and chord
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Metallica – Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
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Keeping with the grim nature of Master of Puppets with songs about being manipulated, mistreated, abused, etc., this song is about being mentally abused in an insane asylum, which
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Metallica – The Unforgiven III
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In “The Unforgiven”, James speaks of how the society controlled him to do what it wants, thus doing to him what cannot be forgiven. In “The Unforgiven II”, a person in his life
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Metallica – The God That Failed
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This entire song is about James Hetfield’s mother and her refusal of cancer treatment because of her Christian Science beliefs. The beliefs are that you should not be healed by
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Metallica – Fixxxer
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This song is about this father who did something he is willing to take back. This is what leads to the protagonist wanting to leave the Earth from what he did.
Also, from the
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Metallica – Am I Evil?
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This is a cover version, the original of which is performed by Diamond Head, a largely obscure NWOBHM band that nonetheless had seminal influence on a number of metal acts – most
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Metallica – Tuesday's Gone
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On December 18, 1997, Metallica went to San Jose’s KSJO, hosting the “Don’t Call Us, We’ll Call You” radio show. They gave an unplugged concert, bootlegged as “Acoustic Metal
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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 – King Nothing
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“King Nothing” is a song by American heavy metal band Metallica from their 1996 album Load.
The song King Nothing, written by James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, and Kirk Hammett
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Metallica – ...And Justice for All
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This is the title track off of Metallica’s 4th album. This song deals with how the rich and powerful corrupt justice and the legal system and abuse for their own ends much to the
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