 Genius Meanings
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Metallica – Thorn Within
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[Verse 1] / 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
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Metallica – Bleeding Me
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This song is a song from Metallica’s 6th album, Load, and was a promotional single for radio stations in the late ‘90s.
Its lyricist, singer-guitarist James Hetfield, sums up its
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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 – Bleeding Me (Live at the Masonic, San Francisco, CA - Nov. 3rd, 2018)
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[Intro: James Hetfield & Lars Ulrich] / Alright, here's, uh, another Metallica song, is that alright? / One, two, three, four, one, two, three, four / [Verse 1] / I'm digging my
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Metallica (Ft. San Francisco Symphony) – Bleeding Me (Live with the SFSO)
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[Pre-Chorus] / I'm digging my way / Yes, I'm digging my way to something / I'm digging my way to something better / [Chorus 1] / I'm pushing to stay, yeah / Yes, I'm pushing to
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Metallica – The Outlaw Torn
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James said that this song is about “losing someone to death and longing to find a replacement that never comes”. It could be written about the band’s late bassist, Cliff Burton
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Metallica – Cure
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Lesser known among the Metallica repertoire, “Cure” is often forgotten since it has never been played live. It is also notable for having the only known instance of slap bass. The
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Metallica – Until It Sleeps
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“Until It Sleeps” is the first single and the fourth song from Metallica’s 1996 album Load. It was written by James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich. It was the band’s first number one
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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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U2 – With or Without You
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“With or Without You” was released as the lead single from the album “The Joshua Tree”. It was the band’s most successful single at the time.
It features sustained guitar parts
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Metallica – Ain't My Bitch
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One of the more noticeable changes in Metallica’s sound, this song features rather heavy riffs, which some consider hard rock. The song’s working title was originally just “Bitch
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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 – 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 – Wasting My Hate
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This song was a favorite choice of the San Francisco Symphony, but it was dropped from the S&M set-list just days before the show.
This song was only played live during the Poor
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I hate sex (Ft. Chad Fougere) – One by Metallica
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[Verse 1: Nicole Boychuk] / Empty wall / Shadows in the hall / Ghosts in the window / Chills in the home, though you left the candle burning / Wolves scratching at the back door
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Metallica – 2 X 4
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Lesser known in the Metallica catalog, “2 x 4” is more bluesy than the previous track, and it begins the groove metal part of the album. This song was played in 1995 on the
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Metallica – Hero of the Day
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The sixth track from Metallica’s 1996 album, Load. Fittingly, its aggressive yet delicate sound reflect its sensitive and wrath-inducing subject matter. Although laden with
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Metallica – Ronnie
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[Verse 1] / 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 / There's no
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Poison – Every Rose Has Its Thorn
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“Every Rose Has Its Thorn” topped the Billboard Hot 100, making it Poison’s only number-one hit to date.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2r2nDhTzO4
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Eagles – Hotel California
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One of the most mysterious and widely speculated songs in rock history, “Hotel California” is best described in the words of its creators. As Don Henley explained in the Daily Mail
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Blind Guardian – Thorn
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A black swan / Is born in that night / The misty pond / Got a new king / Got a new king / So what can we do with our lives / When it all begins / It's hard and it's cruel / Will
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