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Metallica – Low Man's Lyric
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[Intro] / One, two, three, one / [Verse 1] / 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
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Metallica – Mine Eyes
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[Demo version of "Low Man’s Lyric"] / [Verse] / Mine Eyes seek reality / My fingers seek my veins / Mine Eyes they no longer see / The marks that still remain / Mine Eyes seek
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Clint Wells – Low Man’s Lyric
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[Verse 1] / 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
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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 – Of Wolf and Man
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The ninth track on Metallica’s fifth studio album “Metallica”, or, dubbed by fans, “The Black Album”.
“Of Wolf and Man” follows a human shapeshifting into a wolf at full moon
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Metallica – Poor Twisted Me
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[Verse 1] / Oh, poor twisted me / Oh, poor twisted me / I feast on sympathy / I chew on suffer / Yeah, I chew on agony / Swallow whole the pain / Oh, it's too good to be / That all
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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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – Bad Seed
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This is one of the songs off of Reload that Metallica has only played live as a “jam”. It has never been played in it’s entirety.
The song tells of someone who tells the truth
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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 – 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 – 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 – 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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Nickelback – How You Remind Me
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Nickelback’s breakout single and probably still their biggest song. It hit #1 at the Hot 100 for four weeks and ended as the top song of 2002 after 22 weeks in the Top 10.
In an
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Metallica (Ft. Marianne Faithfull) – The Memory Remains
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This song was ReLoad’s first single, released on November 11, 1997. It was very successful, hitting #28 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song features singer Marianne Faithfull doing
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Metallica – My Friend of Misery
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“My Friend of Misery” is a track about an outsider’s view of someone wandering in self-pity and having a very pessimistic view of the rest of the world.
This song was supposed to
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AC/DC – T.N.T.
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AC/DC’s T.N.T. is a single that was released in 1976 taken from the albums, T.N.T. and High Voltage. The songs lyrics depict a man’s tale of a day of his life, beginning in the
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Metallica – Wherever I May Roam
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A song about a drifter who just walks the earth, and is perfectly content about being on the road all the time.
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Metallica – Whiskey in the Jar
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Cover of Thin Lizzy’s version of a traditional Irish drinking song.
It is one of the most popular traditional Irish songs, widely covered and made famous by The Dubliners, who
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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 – 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 – 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 – Spit Out the Bone
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The closer of Hardwired… to Self-Destruct, Metallica’s tenth album, “Spit Out the Bone” is a thrash metal song about the need for technology and the transhumanist agenda. Frontman
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Metallica – To Live Is to Die
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This song is a tribute to Cliff Burton. The bass line is medley of unused recordings that Cliff performed prior to his death. Because the original recordings are not used on the
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Metallica – Carpe Diem Baby
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[Verse 1] / Hit dirt / Shake tree / Split sky / Part sea / [Verse 2] / Strip smile / Lose cool / Bleed the day / And break the rule / [Verse 3] / Live win / Dare fail / Eat the
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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 – 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 – Sleepwalk My Life Away
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[Verse 1] / Take a deep, waking breath / Hope the blood arrives / Burn my eyes with the sun / And pretend I'm alive / It never will appear / Strong as past desire / Light warming
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Metallica – Disposable Heroes
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This song from Metallica’s third album is an anti-war song. It is one of the most intense songs Metallica has ever written, with certain sections performed at 220 beats per minute.
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Metallica – Devil's Dance
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This song is about the Devil who tries to tempt a person to follow him. He tries to bring out your inner and darkest desires.
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Metallica – The House Jack Built
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This song is about alcohol addiction, and its effects it has on the person. “Jack” is referring to Jack Daniels.
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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 – 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 – Escape
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This song from the Metallica’s second album was one that largely went unnoticed.
This is James Hetfield’s single most hated Metallica song, because the record company had forced
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Metallica – Mama Said
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This song is written by James Hetfield for his mother who died of cancer in 1979 when he was 16 years old. It’s notable for having quite a bit of country influence in its
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Metallica – Harvester of Sorrow
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This song is about a man who suffers abuse during his childhood, something that has traumatised him throughout his adulthood. The aforementioned trauma descends him into madness
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Metallica – Better Than You
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[Verse 1: James Hetfield] / 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 / [
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Metallica – Master of Puppets
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The title track off Master of Puppets is mainly about the effects drugs can have on a person’s life. It is the single most performed song in Metallica’s career, and always provides
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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 – 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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