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Metallica – Master of Puppets · Master of Puppets · So many people got this one totally wrong. This song is about Jim Henson.... · 22 minutes ago.
Metallica - The Unforgiven Lyrics & Meanings
The Unforgiven Lyrics & Meanings: New blood joins this earth / And quickly he’s subdued / Through constant pained disgrace / The young boy learns their rules / / With time, the child draws in / This whipping boy done wrong / Deprived of all his thoughts / The young man struggles on and on, he’s known / A vow unto his own / That never from this day / His will they’ll take away / / What I’ve felt / What I’ve known / Never shined through in what I’ve shown / Never be / Never see / Won’t see what might have been / / What I’ve felt / What I’ve known / Never shined through in what I’ve shown / Never free / Never me / So I dub thee Unforgiven / / They dedicate their lives / To running all of his / He tries to please them all / This bitter man he is / / Throughout his life the same / He’s battled constantly / This fight he cannot win / A tired man they see no longer cares / The old man then prepares / To die regretfully / That old man here is me / / What I’ve felt / What I’ve known / N
Metallica - One Lyrics & Meanings
One Lyrics & Meanings: 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
Metallica - Escape Lyrics & Meanings
Escape Lyrics & Meanings: 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 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 for 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 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 / Life is for my own
Metallica - Fuel Lyrics & Meanings
Fuel Lyrics & Meanings: Gimme Fuel / Gimme Fire / Gimme that which I desire / Ooh / / Yeah / / Turn on, I see red / Adrenaline crash and crack my head / Nitro Junkie paint me dead / And I see red / / Hundred plus through black and white / Warhorse / Warhead / Fuck'em, man / White knuckle tight / Through Black and White / / Ooo / On I burn, / Fuel is pumping engines / Burning hard, loose and clean / / 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 / Healights (Headlines) headlines / Another junkie lives to fast / Yeah lives way to fast,fast,fast,fast,fast woh / / Ooo / On I burn / Fuel is pumping engines / Burning Hard loose and clean / / And on I burn / Churning my direction, / Quench my thrist with gasoline / / So gimme f
Metallica - Until It Sleeps Lyrics & Meanings
Until It Sleeps Lyrics & Meanings: 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 me 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 / / So tea
Metallica - Battery Lyrics & Meanings
Battery Lyrics & Meanings: 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 / 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 / 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 / Pound
Metallica - Holier Than Thou Lyrics & Meanings
Holier Than Thou Lyrics & Meanings: 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 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 the basis of your own / Burn your bridges and 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
Metallica - Fade To Black Lyrics & Meanings
Fade To Black Lyrics & Meanings: Life it seems to fade away / Drifting further everyday / 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 / I need the end to set me free / / Things not what they used to be / Missing one inside of me / Deathly loss this can't be real / I cannot stand this hell I feel / / Emptiness is filling me / To the point of agony / Growing darkness taking dawn, yeah / I was me but now, he's gone / / No one but me can save myself, but its too late / Now I can't think, think why I should even try, oh no / / Yesterday seems as though it never existed / Oh, but death greets me warm, now I will just say goodbye / So, goodbye / Yeah, goodbye / I say goodbye
Metallica - Cure Lyrics & Meanings
Cure Lyrics & Meanings: 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’s cold and in his hand / He takes in his medicine / The man takes another bullet / He’s been fooled again / / Uncross your arms / Take and throw 'em to the cure, say, / “I do believe” / Uncross your arms now / Take 'em to it, say / “I do believe” / “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 / Take and throw 'em to the cure, say / “I do believe” / Uncross your arms now / Take 'em to it, say, / “I do believe” / “Yeah, I do believe” / / Betting on the cure / 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 / / Betting on the cure / ‘Cause it must get better than this / Betting on the cure
Metallica - Harvester Of Sorrow Lyrics & Meanings
Harvester Of Sorrow Lyrics & Meanings: 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
Metallica - Of Wolf And Man Lyrics & Meanings
Of Wolf And Man Lyrics & Meanings: Off through the new day’s mist I run / Out from the new day’s mist I have come / / I hunt / Therefore I am / Harvest the land / Taking of the fallen lamb / / Off through the new day’s mist I run / 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 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 a 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 /
Metallica - Master of Puppets Lyrics & Meanings
Master of Puppets Lyrics & Meanings: End of passion play, crumbling away / I'm your source of self-destruction / Veins that pump with fear, sucking darkest clear / Leading on your death's 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 pulli
Metallica - Hero of the Day Lyrics & Meanings
Hero of the Day Lyrics & Meanings: 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 you feel your name? / Did you hear your babies crying? / / Mama, they try and break me / Still they try and break me / / Excuse 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 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 it crawl / And hide until it’s light / So can you hear your babies crying now? / / Still the window
Metallica - Welcome Home (Sanitarium) Lyrics & Meanings
Welcome Home (Sanitarium) Lyrics & Meanings: 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 / 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 / San
Metallica - Whiskey in the Jar (Thin Lizzy cover) Lyrics & Meanings
Whiskey in the Jar (Thin Lizzy cover) Lyrics & Meanings: GARAGE INC. (1998) / / (Original by Thin Lizzy) / / 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 yeah 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 tricked 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 / 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 / / Now
Metallica - Sad But True Lyrics & Meanings
Sad But True Lyrics & Meanings: Hey (hey) / I'm your life / I'm the one who takes you there / / Hey (hey) / I'm your life / I'm the one who cares / / They (they) / They betray / I'm your only true friend now / / They (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 / Sad but true / / You (you) / You're my mask / You're my cover, my shelter / / You (you) / You're my mask / You're the one who's blamed / / Do (do) / Do my work / Do my dirty work, scapegoat / / Do (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 / Sa
Metallica - Frantic Lyrics & Meanings
Frantic Lyrics & Meanings: If I could have my wasted days back / Would I use them to get back on track? / Stop to warm at karmas burning / Or look ahead, but keep on turning? / / Do I have the strength / To know how I'll go? / Can I find it inside / To deal with what I shouldn't know? / / Could I have my wasted days back / Would I use them to get back on track? / / You live it or lie it! / / My lifestyle determines my deathstyle / / Keep searching, keep on searching / This search goes on, this search goes on / / Frantic tick tick tick tick tick tick tock / Frantic tick tick tick tick tick tick tock / / I've worn out always being afraid / An endless stream of fear that I've made / Treading water full of worry / This frantic tick tick talk of hurry / / Do I have the strength / To know how I'll go? / Can I find it inside / To deal with what I shouldn't know / / Worn out always being afraid / An endless stream of fear that I've made / / You live it or lie it! / / Keep searchi
Metallica - For Whom The Bell Tolls Lyrics & Meanings
For Whom The Bell Tolls Lyrics & Meanings: 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 the right, yes, but who's to say? / / For a hill, men would kill, why? They do not know / Stiffened 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's 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 they see what will be, blinded eyes to see / / For whom the bell tolls / Time marches on / For whom the bell tolls
Metallica - Wherever I May Roam Lyrics & Meanings
Wherever I May Roam Lyrics & Meanings: ...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 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 roam / Where I lay my head is home / / But I’ll take my time anywhere / I’m free to speak m
Metallica - Enter Sandman Lyrics & Meanings
Enter Sandman Lyrics & Meanings: Say your prayers, little one / Don't forget, my son / To include everyone / / I 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 of things that will bite, yeah / / Sleep with one eye open / Gripping your pillow tight / / Exit light / Enter night / Take my hand / We're off to never never land, yeah / / Now I lay me down to sleep (now I lay me down to sleep) / Pray the Lord my soul to keep (pray the Lord my soul to keep) / If I die before I wake (If I die before I wake) / Pray the Lord my soul to take (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 beasts under your bed / In y
Metallica - Through The Never Lyrics & Meanings
Through The Never Lyrics & Meanings: 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 to the / Edge of forever / We must go / On through the never / Then never comes / / All that is, ever / Ever was / Will be ever / / Who we are / Ask forever / / Twisting / Turning / Through the never
Metallica - So What? (Anti-Nowhere Leage cover) Lyrics & Meanings
So What? (Anti-Nowhere Leage cover) Lyrics & Meanings: 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 / Who cares / Who cares about you! / You! You! You! You! / / Well, I fucked a Queen, I fucked Bach / 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've 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 / 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 had speed. / I've jacked up until I bleed. / So what? So what? / So what? So what? / You boring little cunt. / / Who cares / Who
Metallica - Don't Tread On Me Lyrics & Meanings
Don't Tread On Me Lyrics & Meanings: 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 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 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 will 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 of her
Metallica - -Human Lyrics & Meanings
-Human Lyrics & Meanings: HEY!!! HEY!!! HEY!!! HEY!!! HEY!!! HEY!!! HEY!!! HEY!!! / HEY!!! HEY!!! HEY!!! HEY!!! HEY!!! HEY!!! HEY!!! HEY!!! / / Don't you leave me Father Time / Take me with you / Tell me does your sun still shine / Come squeeze the world and drip it down my throat... again / Down my throat again....woah / / You got to breathe man, breathe / Coming up for air / Breathe man, breathe / Coming up for air / / Touch me so I think I'm here / Skin my senses / Barely breathing / Minus Human / Please squeeze the world and drip it down my throat again / ooh Down my throat again.....woah / / You got to breathe man, breathe / Coming up for.. / Breathe man, breathe / Coming up for… AIR / / You got to breathe man, breathe / Coming up for… / Breathe man, breathe / Coming up for... / Coming up for...
Metallica - The God That Failed Lyrics & Meanings
The God That Failed Lyrics & Meanings: 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 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 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 cries / / 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 tha
Metallica - Devil's Dance Lyrics & Meanings
Devil's Dance Lyrics & Meanings: 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 / C’mon, c’mon now take the chance / That’s right, let’s dance / / Snake, I am the snake / Tempting, that bite to 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 / C’mon, c’mon now take the chance / Come dance / / One day you will see / And dare to come down to me / C’mon, c’mon now take the chance / / I feel you too / Feel those things you do / In your eyes I see a fire that burns / To free the you / That’s running through / Deep inside you know / Seeds I plant will grow / / One day you will see / And dare to come down to me / C’mon, c’mon now take the chance / That’s right / Let’s dance / / It
Metallica - Bleeding Me Lyrics & Meanings
Bleeding Me Lyrics & Meanings: I’m digging my way / I’m digging my way to something / I’m digging my way to something better / / I’m pushing to stay / I’m pushing to stay with something / I’m pushing to stay with something better / / I’m sowing the seeds / I’m sowing the seeds I’ve taken / I’m sowing the seeds I take for granted / / This thorn in my side / This thorn in my side is from the tree / This thorn in my side is from the tree I’ve planted / / It tears me and I bleed / 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 wheels’ roll / The bleeding of me / Of me / The bleeding of me / / I am the beast that feeds the feast / I am the blood, I am release / / Come make me pure / Bleed me a cure / I’m caught, I’m caught, I’m caught under / / Caught under wheels’ roll / I take that leech, I’m bleeding me / Can’t
Metallica - Mama Said Lyrics & Meanings
Mama Said Lyrics & Meanings: LOAD (1996) / / (Hetfield, Ulrich) / / Mama, she has taught me well / Told me when I was young /
Metallica - The Memory Remains (feat. Marianne Faithfull) Lyrics & Meanings
The Memory Remains (feat. Marianne Faithfull) Lyrics & Meanings: Fortune, fame — / mirror vain — / gone insane — / but the memory remains! / / Heavy rings on fingers wave; / another star denies the grave. / See the nowhere crowds cry their 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! / / Da da da da da da da... / / Drift away, fade away, / little tin goddess: / ash to ash, dust to dust, fade to
Metallica - St. Anger Lyrics & Meanings
St. Anger Lyrics & Meanings: Saint Anger 'round my neck / Saint Anger 'round my neck / He never gets respect / Saint Anger 'round my neck / / You flush it out, you flush it out / Saint Anger 'round my neck / You flush it out, you flush it out / He never gets respect / You flush it out, you flush it out / Saint Anger 'round my neck / You flush it out, you flush it out / He never gets respect / / Fuck it all and fuckin' regrets / I hit the lights on these dark sets / I need a voice to let myself / To let myself go free / Fuck it all and fuckin' no regrets / I it the lights on these dark sets / Medallion noose, I hang myself / Saint Anger 'round my neck / / I feel my world shake / Like an earthquake / It's hard to see clear / Is it me? Is it fear? / / I'm madly in anger with you! / I'm madly in anger with you! / I'm madly in anger with you! / I'm madly in anger with you! / / Saint Anger 'round my neck / Saint Anger 'round my neck / He never gets respect / Saint Anger 'round my neck / / You flush it out, yo
Metallica - Disposable Heroes Lyrics & Meanings
Disposable Heroes Lyrics & Meanings: 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 till 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 / 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 blind man / / 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 you wear, 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 / Do just as we say / Finish
Metallica - Blackened Lyrics & Meanings
Blackened Lyrics & Meanings: 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 / Kills 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 m
Metallica - Thorn Within Lyrics & Meanings
Thorn Within Lyrics & Meanings: Forgive me, Father, for I have sinned / Find me guilty of the life I feel within / / 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 am, 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 you, one and the same are we / / I am the secret / I am the sin / I am the guilty / And I am, 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 your secrets / I am your sin / I am your guilty / And I am, I am the thorn within / / I am the thorn within / I am the thorn within
Metallica - Mercyful Fate (Mercyful Fate cover) Lyrics & Meanings
Mercyful Fate (Mercyful Fate cover) Lyrics & Meanings: Mercyful Fate Medley / / 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 / Bringing the blood of a newborn child / Got to succeed, if not it's Satan's fall / / Curse Of The Pharaohs / / Away 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 / The curse of the pharaohs can be so deadly / 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 / / A Corpse Without Soul / / Listen, I'm a cor
Metallica - Hardwired Lyrics & Meanings
Hardwired Lyrics & Meanings: In the name of desperation / In the name of wretched pain / In the name of all creation / Gone insane! / / We're so fucked! / Shit out of luck! / Hardwired to self destruct! / / On the way to paranoia / On the croocked borderline / On the way to great destroyer / Doom design! / / We're so fucked! / Shit out of luck! / Hardwired to self destruct! / / Once upon a planet burning / Once upon a flame / Once upon a fear returning all in vain / Do you feel that hope is fading? / Do you comprehend? / Do you feel it terminating in the end? / / We're so fucked! / Shit out of luck! / Hardwired to self destruct! / Hardwired to self destruct! / Self destruct! / Self destruct! / Self destruct! /
Metallica - Where The Wild Things Are Lyrics & Meanings
Where The Wild Things Are Lyrics & Meanings: 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 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 / Toy soldiers off to war / / You swing your rattle down / (Hand puppets storm the beach / Fire trucks trapped out of reach) / Call to arms, the trumpets sound / (Hand puppets storm the beach / Fire trucks trapped out of reach / All clowns reinforce the rear / Slingshots fir
Metallica - I Disappear Lyrics & Meanings
I Disappear Lyrics & Meanings: Hey Hey Hey / Here I go now / Here I go into new days / Hey Hey Hey / Here I go now / Here I go into new days / I’m pain, I’m hope, I’m suffer / Yeah Hey Hey Hey Yeah Yeah / Here I go into new days / / Hey Hey Hey / Ain’t no mercy / Ain’t no mercy there for me / Hey Hey Hey / Ain’t no mercy / Ain’t no mercy there for me / I’m pain, I’m hope, I’m suffer / Yeah, Yeah, Hey, Hey no mercy / Ain’t no mercy there for me / / Do you bury me when I’m gone / Do you teach me while I’m here / Just as soon as I belong / Then it’s time I disappear / HA!!! / / Hey Hey Hey / And I went / And I went on down that road / Hey Hey Hey / And I went on / And I went on down that road / I’m pain, I’m hope, I’m suffer / Hey Hey Hey Yeah And I went on / And I went on down that road / / Do you bury me when I’m gone / Do you teach me while I’m here / Just as soon as I belong / Then it’s time I disappear / / Do you bury me when I’m gone / Do you teach me while I
Metallica - The Day That Never Comes Lyrics & Meanings
The Day That Never Comes Lyrics & Meanings: Born to push you around / You better just stay down / You pull away / He hits the flesh / You hit the ground / Mouths so full of lies / Tend to black your eyes / Just keep them closed / Keep praying / Just keep waiting / / Waiting for the one / The day that never comes / When you stand up and feel the warmth / but the sunshine never comes / No the sunshine never comes / / Push you cross that line / Just stay down this time / Hide in yourself / Crawl in yourself / You'll have your time / God I'll make them pay / Take it back one day / I'll end this day / I'll splatter color on this gray / / Waiting for the one / The day that never comes / When you stand up and feel the warmth / but the sunshine never comes / No the sunshine never comes / / Love is a four letter word / And never spoken here / Love is a four letter word / Here in this prison / I suffer this no longer / I put it into / This I swear! / This I swear! / The sun will shine / This I swear! / This I swear
Metallica - Turn the Page (Bob Seger cover) Lyrics & Meanings
Turn the Page (Bob Seger cover) Lyrics & Meanings: On a long and lonesom highway / east of Omaha / You can listen to the engine moanin' / Out his one old song / You can think about the woman / Or the girl you knew the night before / / But your thoughts will soon be wandering / The way they always do / When you're riding sixteen hours / and there's nothing 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 / Here I am, up on the stage / Here I go, playing the star again / There I go, turn the page / / So you walk into this restaraunt / Strung out from the road / And you feel the eyes upon you / As you're shaking off the cold / You pretend it doesn't bother you / But you just want to explode / / Yeah, Most times you can't here 'em talk / Other times you can / All the same old clichés... / Is it woman, is it man? / And you always seem outnumbered / You don't dare make a stand / Make your stand / / Here I am, on the road again / Here I am,
Metallica - Wasting My Hate Lyrics & Meanings
Wasting My Hate Lyrics & Meanings: 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 you pleased yourself / 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 / Waste my hate on you / Hate / / You think you’re worthy now? / You think enough to even raise the brow / And to laugh and tip that two-pronged crown? / / Well I see my hands, I see my feet / I feel that blood that pumps in beat / But where the hell’s my mind going now? / Dead gone 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 / Waste my hate on you / / Think I’ll keep it for myself / / Ain't gonna waste my hate / But I
Metallica - Bad Seed Lyrics & Meanings
Bad Seed Lyrics & Meanings: 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 / Choking / / Let on, load off / Confess, cast off / At the mercy, the cat is out / Drop the disguise, spit it up, spit it out / / And now, what you’ve all been waiting for / I give you “He Who Suffers the Truth” / / Swing the noose again / Pierce the apple skin / You bit more than you need / Now you’re choking on the bad seed / Choking 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 / Choking on the seed / / Swing the
Metallica - The Judas Kiss Lyrics & Meanings
The Judas Kiss Lyrics & Meanings: When the world has turned its back / When the days have turned pitch black / When the fear abducts your tongue / When the fire's dead and gone / / So what now? / Where do I head / / When you think it's all said and done / When you are the ostracized / Selfish written, dead goodbyes / Twisting on the tourniquet / When the pieces never fit / / So what now? / Where do I head / / When you think it's all said and done / / Bow down / Sell your soul to me / I will set you free / Pacify your demons / / Bow down / Surrender unto me / Submit infectiously / Sanctify your demons / Into abyss / You don't exist / Cannot resist / The Judas Kiss / / When the storm has blacked your sky / Intuition crucify / When the ego strips your reign / Assassinate the living flame / / So what now? / Where do I head / / When you think it's all said and done / Venom of a life insane / Bites into your fragile veins / / Eternal life and decimate / Patronize and complicate / / So what now? / Where d
Metallica - The Prince (Diamond Head cover) Lyrics & Meanings
The Prince (Diamond Head cover) Lyrics & Meanings: GARAGE INC. (1998) / / (Tatler, Harris) / Originally recorded by Diamond Head in 1980 / / Now I see his face, I see his smile / Such a lonely place, no golden smile / 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
Metallica - The Four Horsemen Lyrics & Meanings
The Four Horsemen Lyrics & Meanings: 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've got some company / / The Horsemen are drawing nearer / On the leather steeds they ride / They've come to take your life / On through the dead of night / With the four Horsemen ride / Or choose your fate and die! Ohh yeah yeah! / / You have been dying since the day you were born / You know it's all been planned / The quartet of deliverance rides / A sinner once, a sinner twice / No need for confession now / 'Cause now you've got the fight of your life / / The Horsemen are drawing nearer / On the leather steeds they ride / They've 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 /
Metallica - My Apocalypse Lyrics & Meanings
My Apocalypse Lyrics & Meanings: Claustrophobic, Crawl out of this skin / Heart Explosive / Reach and pull that pin / Fear thy name extermination / Desecrating hail of fire / / So we cross that line / Into the grips / Total eclipse / Suffer unto / My Apocalypse / / Deadly vision / Prophecy reveal / Death Magnetic / Pulling closer steel / Fear thy name annihilation / Desolating hail of fire / / So we cross that line / Into the grips / Total eclipse / Suffer unto / My apocalypse / My apocalypse / GO! / / Crushing metal / Ripping skin / Tossing bodies, mannequins / Spilling blood, bleeding gas / / Mangled flesh / Snapping spine / Dripping bloody valentine / Shatter face / Spitting glass / / Split apart / Split apart / Split apart / Split / / SPIT IT OUT! / / What makes me drift / A little bit closer / Dead man takes the steering wheel / / What makes me know / What time to cross over / Forced to repeat until I feel / / Into the skin the bones they all rattle / Future has passed / We disagree / Flesh gna
Metallica - The Thing That Should Not Be Lyrics & Meanings
The Thing That Should Not Be Lyrics & Meanings: 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
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Genius Meanings
Metallica – One
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
Metallica – 72 Seasons
[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
Metallica – Turn the Page
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