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Metallica - All the Lyrics



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CONTENTS

Kill 'Em All

  1. Hit the Lights
  2. The Four Horsemen
  3. Motorbreath
  4. Jump in the Fire
  5. (Anesthesia)-Pulling Teeth
  6. Whiplash
  7. Phantom Lord
  8. No Remorse
  9. Seek & Destroy
  10. Metal Militia

Ride the Lightning

  1. Fight Fire with Fire
  2. Ride the Lightning
  3. For Whom the Bell Tolls
  4. Fade to Black
  5. Trapped Under Ice
  6. Escape
  7. Creeping Death
  8. The Call of Ktulu

Master of Puppets

  1. Battery
  2. Master of Puppets
  3. The Thing That Should Not Be
  4. Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
  5. Disposable Heroes
  6. Leper Messiah
  7. Orion
  8. Damage, Inc.

Garage Days Re-revisited

  1. Helpless
  2. The Small Hours
  3. The Wait
  4. Crash Course in Brain Surgery
  5. Last Caress/Green Hell

Metallica (a.k.a. The Black Album)

  1. Enter Sandman
  2. Sad But True
  3. Holier Than Thou
  4. The Unforgiven
  5. Wherever I May Roam
  6. Don't Tread on Me
  7. Through the Never
  8. Nothing Else Matters
  9. Of Wolf and Man
  10. The God That Failed
  11. My Friend of Misery
  12. The Struggle Within

Load

  1. Ain't My Bitch
  2. 2x4
  3. The House That Jack Built
  4. Until It Sleeps
  5. King Nothing
  6. Hero of the Day
  7. Bleeding Me
  8. Cure
  9. Poor Twisted Me
  10. Wasting My Hate
  11. Mama Said
  12. Thorn Within
  13. Ronnie
  14. The Outlaw Torn

Other Metallica Tracks - Covers, Demos, etc.



KILL 'EM ALL

Hit the Lights

No life till leather
We are gonna kick some ass tonight
We got the metal madness
When our fans start screaming
It's right well alright
When we start to rock
We never want to stop again

    Hit the lights
    Hit the lights
    Hit the lights

You know our fans are insane
We are gonna blow this place away
with volume higher
Than anything today the only way
When we start to rock
We never want to stop again

    Hit the lights
    Hit the lights
    Hit the lights

With all our screaming
We are gonna rip right through your brain
We got the lethal power
It is causing you sweet pain Oh sweet pain
When we start to rock
We never want to stop again

    Hit the lights
    Hit the lights
    Hit the lights


The Four Horsemen

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 have got some company

    The Horsemen are drawing nearer
    On the leather steeds they ride
    They have come to take your life
    On through the dead of night
    With the four Horsemen ride
    or choose your fate and die

You have been dying since the day
You were born
You know it has all been planned
The quartet of deliverance rides
A sinner once a sinner twice
No need for confession now
Cause now you have got the fight of your life

    The Horsemen are drawing nearer
    On the leather steeds they ride
    They have 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
Withered in every place
Pestilence
For what you have had to endure
And what you have put others through
Death
Deliverance for you for sure
There is nothing you can do

So gather round young warriors now
and saddle up your steeds
Killing scores with demon swords
Now is the death of doers of wrong
Swing the judgment hammer down
Safely inside armor blood guts and sweat

    The Horsemen are drawing nearer
    On the leather steeds they ride
    They have come to take your life
    On through the dead of night
    With the four Horsemen ride
    or choose your fate and die


Motorbreath

Living and dying laughing and crying
Once you have seen it you will never be the same
Life in the fast lane is just how it seems
Hard and it is heavy dirty and mean

    Motorbreath
    Its how I live my life
    I can't take it any other way
    Motorbreath
    The sign of living fast
    It is going to take
    Your breath away

Don't stop for nothing its full speed or nothing
I am taking down you know whatever is in my way
Getting your kicks as you are shooting the line
Sending the shivers up and down your spine

    Motorbreath
    Its how I live my life
    I can't take it any other way
    Motorbreath
    The sign of living fast
    It is going to take
    Your breath away

Those people who tell you not to take chances
They are all missing on what life is about
You only live once so take hold of the chance
Don't end up like others the same song and dance

    Motorbreath
    Its how I live my life
    I can't take it any other way
    Motorbreath
    The sign of living fast
    It is going to take
    Your breath away


Jump in the Fire

Down in the depths of my fiery home
The summons bell will chime
Tempting you and all the earth
to join our sinful kind
There is a job to be done and I'm the one
You people make me do it
Now it is time for your fate and I won't hesitate
to pull you down into this pit

    So come on
    Jump in the Fire
    So come on
    Jump in the Fire

With hell in my eyes and with death in my veins
The end is closing in
Feeding on the minds of man
and from their souls within
My disciples all shout to search out
And they always shall obey
Follow me now my child not the meek or the mild
But do just as I say

    So come on
    Jump in the Fire
    So come on
    Jump in the Fire

Jump by your will or be taken by force
I'll get you either way
Trying to keep the hellfire lit
I am stalking you as prey
Living your life as me I am you you see
So reach down grab my hand walk with me through the land
Come home where you belong

    So come on
    Jump in the Fire
    So come on
    Jump in the Fire


(Anesthesia)-Pulling Teeth

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Whiplash

Late at night all systems go
You have come to see the show
We do our best You're the rest
You make it real you know
There is a feeling deep inside
That drives you fuckin' mad
A feeling of a hammerhead
You need it oh so bad

    Adrenaline starts to flow
    You're thrashing all around
    Acting like a maniac
    Whiplash

Bang your head against the stage
Like you never did before
Make it ring Make it bleed
Make it really sore
In a frenzied madness
with your leather and your spikes
Heads are bobbing all around
It is hot as hell tonight

    Adrenaline starts to flow
    You're thrashing all around
    Acting like a maniac
    Whiplash

Here on the stage the Marshal noise
is piercing through your ears
It kicks your ass kick your face
Exploding feeling nears
Now is the time to let it rip
To let it fuckin' loose
We are gathered here to I'm and kill
Cause this is what we choose

    Adrenaline starts to flow
    You're thrashing all around
    Acting like a maniac
    Whiplash

The show is through the metal is gone
It is time to hit the road
Another town Another gig
Again we will explode
Hotel rooms and motorways
Life out here is raw
But we will never stop
We will never quit
cause we are Metallica

    Adrenaline starts to flow
    You're thrashing all around
    Acting like a maniac
    Whiplash


Phantom Lord

Sound is ripping through your ears
The deafening sound of metal nears
Your bodies waiting for his whips
The taste of leather on your lips

    Hear the cry of War
    Louder than before
    With his sword in hand
    to control the land
    Crushing metal strikes
    on this frightening night
    Fall onto your knees
    For the Phantom Lord

Victims falling under chains
You hear them crying death pains
The fists of terrors breaking through
Now there's nothing you can do

    Hear the cry of War
    Louder than before
    With his sword in ha o
    to control the land
    Crushing metal strikes
    on this frightening night
    Fall onto your knees
    For the Phantom Lord

The leather armies have prevailed
The Phantom Lord has never failed
Smoke is lifting from the ground
The rising volume metal sound

    Hear the cry of War
    Louder than before
    With his sword in hand
    to control the land
    Crushing metal strikes
    on this frightening night
    Fall onto your knees
    For the Phantom Lord
    Fall to your knees
    and bow to the Phantom Lord


No Remorse

No mercy for what we are doing
No thought to even what we have done
We don't need to feel the sorrow
No remorse for the helpless one

        War without end
        No remorse No repent
        We don't care what it meant
        Another day Another death
        Another sorrow Another breath
        No remorse No repent
        We don't care what it meant
        Another day Another death
        Another sorrow Another breath

Blood feeds the war machine
as it eats its way across the land
We don't need the feel the sorrow
No remorse is the one command

        War without end
        No remorse No repent
        We don't care what it meant
        Another day Another death
        Another sorrow Another breath
        No remorse No repent
        We don't care what it meant
        Another day Another death
        Another sorrow Another breath

Only the strong survive
No one to save the weaker race
We are ready to kill all comers
Like a loaded gun right at your face

        War without end
        No remorse No repent
        We don't care what it meant
        Another day Another death
        Another sorrow Another breath
        No remorse No repent
        We don't care what it meant
        Another day Another death
       Another sorrow Another breath

Attack
Bullets are flying
People are dying
    with madness surrounding all hell's
    breaking loose
Soldiers are hounding
Bodies are mounting
   cannons are shouting to take their abuse
With war machines going
Blood starts to flowing
No mercy given to anyone hear
The furious fighting
Swords are like lighting
It all becomes frightening to you
Know death is near
No remorse


Seek & Destroy

We are scanning the scene
in the city tonight
We are looking for you
to start up a fight
There is an evil feeling
in our brains
But it is nothing new
you know it drives us insane

    Running,
    On our way
    Hiding,
    You will pay
    Dying,
    One thousand deaths
    Running,
    On our way
    Hiding,
    You will pay
    Dying,
    One thousand deaths

        Searching,
        Seek and Destroy
        Searching,
        Seek and Destroy
        Searching,
        Seek and Destroy
        Searching,
        Seek and Destroy

There is no escape
and that is for sure
This is the end we won't take any more
Say goodbye
to the world you live in
You have always been taking
but now you're giving

    Running,
    On our way
    Hiding,
    You will pay
    Dying,
    One thousand deaths
    Running,
    On our way
    Hiding,
    You will pay
    Dying,
    One thousand deaths

        Searching,
        Seek and Destroy
        Searching,
        Seek and Destroy
        Searching,
        Seek and Destroy
        Searching,
        Seek and Destroy

Our brains are on fire
with the feeling to kill
And it will not go away
until our dreams are fulfilled
There is only one thing
on our minds
Don't try running away
`cause you're the one we will find

    Running,
    On our way
    Hiding,
    You will pay
    Dying,
    One thousand deaths
    Running,
    On our way
    Hiding,
    You will pay
    Dying,
    One thousand deaths

        Searching,
        Seek and Destroy
        Searching,
        Seek and Destroy
        Searching,
        Seek and Destroy
        Searching,
        Seek and Destroy


Metal Militia

Thunder and lightning the gods take revenge
Senseless destruction
Victims of fury are cowardly now
Running for safety
Stabbing the harlot to pay for her sins
Leaving the virgin
Suicide running as if it were free
Ripping and tearing

    On through the mist and the madness
    We are trying to get the message to you
    Metal Militia
    Metal Militia
    Metal Militia

Chained and shadowed to be left behind
nine and one thousand
Metal militia for your sacrifice
iron clad soldiers
Join or be conquered the law of the land
What will befall you
The metallization of your inner soul
twisting and turning

    On through the mist and the madness
    We are trying to get the message to you
    Metal Militia
    Metal Militia
    Metal Militia

We are as one as we all are the same
fighting for one cause
Leather and metal are our uniforms
protecting what we are
Joining together to take on the world
with our heavy metal
Spreading the message to everyone here
Come let yourself go

    On through the mist and the madness
    We are trying to get the message to you
    Metal Militia
    Metal Militia
    Metal Militia



RIDE THE LIGHTNING

Fight Fire with Fire

Do unto others as they have done unto you
But what in the hell is this world coming to?

Blow the universe into nothingness
Nuclear warfare shall lay us to rest

chorus:
    Fight fire with fire
    Ending is near
    Fight fire with fire
    Bursting with fear

    We all shall die

Time is like a fuse, short and burning fast
Armageddon is here, like said in the past

chorus:

Soon to fill our lungs the hot winds of death
The gods are laughing, so take your last breath

chorus:


Ride the Lightning

Guilty as charged
But damn it, it ain't right
There is someone else controlling me

Death in the air
Strapped in the electric chair
This can't be happening to me

Who made you God to say
"I'll take your life from you!"

chorus:
    Flash before my eyes
    Now it's time to die
    Burning in my brain
    I can feel the flames

Wait for the sign
To flick the switch of death
It's the beginning of the end

Sweat, chilling cold
As I watch death unfold
Consciousness my only friend

My fingers grip with fear
What I am doing here?

chorus:

Someone help me
Oh please God help me
They are trying to take it all away
I don't want to die

Time moving slowly
The minutes seem like hours
The final curtain call I see

How true is this?
Just get it over with
If this is true, just let it be

Wakened by the horrid scream
Freed from the frightening dream

chorus:


For Whom the Bell Tolls

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 they are right, yes, by who's to say?
For a hill men would kill, why? They do not know
Suffered wounds test there their pride
Men of five, still alive through the raging glow
Gone insane from the pain that they surely know

chorus:
    For whom the bell tolls
    Time marches on
    For whom the bell tolls

Take a look to the sky just before you die
It is 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 the will see what will be, blinded eyes to see

chorus:


Fade to Black

Life it seems, will fade away
Drifting further every day
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
Need the end to set me free

Things are not what they used to be
Missing one inside of me
Deathly lost, this can't be real
Cannot stand this hell I feel
Emptiness is filing me
To the point of agony
Growing darkness taking dawn
I was me, but now He's gone

No one but me can save myself, but it to late
Now I can't think, think why I should even try

Yesterday seems as though it never existed
Death Greets me warm, now I will just say good-bye


Trapped Under Ice

I don't know how to live trough this hell
Woken up, I'm still locked in this shell
Frozen soul, frozen down to the core
Break the ice, I can't take anymore

chorus:
    Freezing
    Can't move at all
    Screaming
    Can't hear my call
    I am dying to live
    Cry out
    I'm trapped under the ice

Crystallized, as I lay here and rest
Eyes of glass stare directly at death
From deep sleep I have broken away
No one knows, no one hears what I say

chorus:

Scream from my soul
Fate, mystified
Hell, forever more

No release from my cryonic state
What is this? I've been stricken by fate
Wrapped up tight, cannot move, can't break free
Hand of doom has a tight grip on me

chorus:


Escape

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

chorus:
    Out of 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

chorus:

See they 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


Creeping Death

Slaves
Hebrews born to serve, to the pharaoh
Heed
To his every word, live in fear
Faith
Of the unknown one, the deliverer
Wait
Something must be done, four hundred years

chorus:
    So let it be written
    So let it be done
    I'm sent here by the chosen one
    So let it be written
    So let it be done
    To kill the first born pharaoh son
    I'm creeping death

Now
Let my people go, land of goshen
Go
I will be with thee, bush of fire
Blood
Running red and strong, down the nile
Plague
Darkness three days long, hail to fire

chorus:

Die by my hand
I creep across the land
Killing first born man
Die by my hand
I creep across the land
Killing first born man

I
Rule the midnight air the destroyer
Born
I shall soon be there, deadly mass
I
Creep the steps and flood final darkness
Blood
Lambs blood painted door, I shall pass

chorus:


The Call of Ktulu

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MASTER OF PUPPETS

Battery

Lashing out the action, returning the reaction
Weak are ripped and torn away
Hypnotizing power, crushing all that cower
Battery is here to stay

chorus:
    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

Crushing all deceivers, mashing non-believers
never ending potency
Hungry violence seeker, feeding off the weaker
Breeding on insanity

Chorus

Circle of Destruction, Hammer comes crushing
Powerhouse of energy
Whipping up a fury, Dominating flurry
We create the Battery

Chorus


Master of Puppets

End of passion play, crumbling away
I'm your source of self-destruction
Veins that pump with fear, sucking darkest clear
Leading on your deaths construction

[Chorus:]
    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

Chorus

Master, Master, Where's the dreams that I've been after?
Master, Master, You promised only lies
Laughter, Laughter, All I hear and see is laughter
Laughter, Laughter, laughing at my cries

Hell is worth all that, natural habitat
just a rhyme without a reason
Never ending maze, drift on numbered days
now your life is out of season

Chorus

(Fade out with evil laughter)


The Thing That Should Not Be

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.


Welcome Home (Sanitarium)

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
and 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
    Sanitarium, just leave me alone
    Sanitarium, just leave me alone

Fear of living on
natives getting restless now
Mutiny in the air
got some death to do
Mirror stares back hard
Kill, is such a friendly word
seems the only way
for reaching out again.
        REACH MOTHER F*!@ER


Disposable Heroes

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 `til I fall

Chorus:
    Soldier boy, made of clay
    now an empty shell
    twenty one, only son
    but he served us well
    Bred to kill, not to care
    just do as we say
    finished here, Greeting 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 bare, glory seeker trends
bodies fill the fields I see
the slaughter never ends

Chorus

Why, Am I dying?
Kill, have no fear
Lie, live off lying
Hell, Hell is here

I was born for dying

Life planned out before my birth, nothing could I say
had no chance to see myself, molded day by day
Looking back I realize, nothing have I done
left to die with only friend
Alone I clench my gun

Chorus

Back to the front.


Leper Messiah

Spineless from the start, sucked into the part
circus comes to town, you play the lead clown
Please, please
spreading his disease, living by his story
Knees, knees
falling to your knees, suffer for his glory
You will

[Chorus]
   Time for lust, time for lie
    time to kiss your life goodbye
    Send me money, send me green
    Heaven you will meet
    Make a contribution
    and you'll get a better seat

Bow to Leper Messiah

Marvel at his tricks, need your Sunday fix
blind devotion came, rotting your brain
Chain, chain
Join the endless chain
Fame, Fame
Infection is the game, stinking drunk with power
We see

[Chorus]

Bow to Leper Messiah

Witchery, weakening
Sees the sheep are gathering
set the trap, hypnotize
now you follow

[Chorus]

Lie.


Orion

None


Damage, Inc.

Dealing out the agony within
charging hard and no one's gonna give in
Living on your knees, conformity
or dying on your feet for honesty
Inbred, our bodies work as one
bloody, but never cry submission
Following our instinct not a trend
go against the grain until the end

[Chorus:]
    Blood will follow blood
    Dying time is here
    Damage Incorporated

Slamming through, don't fuck with razorback
stepping out? You'll feel our hell on your back
Blood follows blood and we make sure
life ain't for you and we're the cure
Honesty is my only excuse
Try to rob us of it, but it's no use
Steamroller action crushing all
Victim is your name and you shall fall

[Chorus]

We chew and spit you out
we laugh, you scream and shout
All flee, with fear you run
You'll know just where we come from

Damage Incorporated

Damage jackals ripping right through you
sight and smell of this, it gets me goin'
Know just how to get just what we want
tear it from your soul in nightly hunt
Fuck it all and fucking no regrets
Never happy ending on these dark sets
All's fair for Damage Inc. you see
step a little closer if you please

[Chorus]



GARAGE DAYS RE-REVISITED

Helpless

I gotta see you moving fast
See you come my way
See the dreams, I hope they last
Never fade away.

Gotta see the lights above
Make it loud tonight
Gotta set it all a-fire
Set it all a-light

See the flashing lights
Hear the thunder roar
I am gonna set you all a-light
Gotta make it man
I ain't got a choice
Gotta fill this hall tonight

    Helpless
    Helpless
    Helpless
    Helpless

I don't what I'm gonna do
Maybe not tonight
Gotta set you all a-fire
Gotta treat you right.

I can see the flashing lights
Lit before your love, ohh
Gotta hear the thunder roar
Coming from above.

See the flashing lights
Hear the thunder roar
I'm gonna set you all alight
Gotta make it man
I ain't got no choice
Gotta fill this hall tonight

    Helpless
    Helpless
    Helpless
    Helpless

I can see the stars
I can see what's going on
Every night alone
I sing my song just for fun.

Only time will tell
If I'll make it myself someday
This stage is mine
Music is my destiny.

Cannot squeeze the life from me!

I can see the lights
But I can see what's going on
Every night alone
I sing my song just for fun.

Business in collapse
Some men don't like it so
Helpless maybe babe,
But you can leave or join the show.

Cannot squeeze the life from me!


The Small Hours

Look out at the darkness,
And you will see,
Just call my name and I'll be there.
You cannot touch me,
You would not dare,
I am the chill that's in the air.

    And I try to get through to you
    In my own special way,
    As the barriers crumble,
    At the end of the day.

Dark rivers are flowing,
Back into the past,
You are the fish for which I cast.

And what of the future,
What is to be,
As the rivers flow into the sea.

(Chorus)

Do not take for granted,
Powers out there,
Don't step into the demon's lair.

Time is an illusion,
Rising from time,
Steep is the mountain which we climb.


The Wait

Motives changing
Day to day
The fire increases
Masks decay
I look at the river
White foam floats down
The body's poisoned
Got to sit tight

    The wait
    The wait
    The wait
    The wait

After awakening
The silence grows
The screams subside
Distortion shows
Mutant thoughts
Of bad mouthed news
Just another birth
Of distorted views

    The wait
    The wait
    The wait
    The wait


Crash Course in Brain Surgery

Look inside and you will see
The words are cutting deep inside my brain
Thunder burnin' quickly burning
Knife of words is driving me insane, insane yeah

Raven black is on my track
He shows me how to neutralize the knife
Show to me in surgery
The art of fighting words to conquer life, conquer life yeah

Now the wicked lance of fear
Is driven from my heady mountain brain
Crash course in brain surgery
Has stopped the bloody knife of words again yeah, yeah, yeah


Last Caress/Green Hell

Last Caress

I got something to say
I killed your baby today
And it doesn't matter much to me
As long as it's dead

I got something to say
I raped your mother today
And it doesn't matter much to me
As long as she spread

Who knows if death
Is waiting for your breath
'Cause we get one last caress

Who knows if death
Is waiting for your breath
'Cause we get one last caress

I got something to say
I killed your baby today
And it doesn't matter much to me
As long as it's dead

Who knows if death
Is waiting for your breath
'Cause we get one last caress

last caress yeah, wo oh wo wo oh wo! oh! yo!

Green Hell

Here in this place lies the genie of death
Touch it, see it
Here in this place is a means to your end
Touch it, feel it
Green Hell

You've come to this like no one could
I bet you never knew you woke it
And don't you run away from anything
I bet you thought you really could
In hell

We're gonna burn in hell
Green Hell
Like every hell but kind of green
In hell, green hell
We're gonna face the mess we're
In hell, green hell
I think Id rather be up here
In hell, green hell
You know I fucking shake apart
In hell, green hell
Gotta find a way that you will stay
In hell, green hell

Here in this place lies the genie of death
Touch it, see it
Here in this place is a means to your end
Touch it, feel it
Green Hell

You've come to this like no one could
I bet you never knew you woke it
And don't you run away from anything
I bet you thought you really could
In hell

We're gonna burn in hell
Green Hell
Like every hell but kind of green
In hell, green hell
We're gonna face the mess we're
In hell, green hell
I think Id rather be up here
In hell, green hell
You know I fucking shake apart
In hell, green hell
Gotta find a way that you will stay
In hell, green hell
Cannot forget about the heat
In hell, green hell
Hell is green, I need a flame
In hell, green hell
Gotta burn in hell
Green hell

You've come to this like no one could
I bet you never knew you woke it
And don't you run away from anything
I bet you thought you really could take it

Here in this place lies the key to your death
Touch it, See it
Here in this place is a means to your end
Touch, Feel it
Green Hell

You've come to this like no one could
I bet you never knew you woke it
And don't you run away from anything
I bet you thought you really could
You've come to this like no one could
I bet you never knew you woke it
We're gonna burn in hell
Green hell



METALLICA (A.K.A. THE BLACK ALBUM)

Enter Sandman

Say your prayers little one
don't forget, my son
to include everyone

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
        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

    sleep with one eye open
    gripping your pillow tight

        exit: light
        enter: night
        take my hand
        off to never never land

now I lay me down to sleep
pray the lord my soul to keep
if I die before I wake
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 beast under your bed,
in your closet, in your head

        exit: light
        enter: night
        grain of sand

        exit: light
        enter: night
        take my hand
        we're off to never never land


Sad But True

Hey
I'm your life
I'm the one who takes you there
hey
I'm your life
I'm the one who cares
they
they betray
I'm your only true friend now
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

YOU!
you're my mask
you're my cover, my shelter
you
you're my mask
you're the one who's blamed
do
do my work
do my dirty work, scapegoat
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

HATE!
I'm your hate
I'm your hate when you want love
pay
pay the price
pay, for nothing's fair

Hey,
I'm your life
I'm the one who took you here
Hey
I'm your life
and I no longer care

    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 truth, telling lies
        I'm your reasoned alibis
        I'm inside open your eyes
        I'm you

              Sad But True!!!!


Holier Than Thou

No more!
the craps 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 is 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 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


The Unforgiven

New blood joins this earth
and quickly he's subdued
through constant pain 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
    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 the unforgiven

    you labeled me
    I'll label you
    so I dub the unforgiven


Wherever I May Roam

(whispered)  ...and the road becomes my bride
...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 may road
    where I lay my head is home

(whispered)  ...and the earth becomes my throne
...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 may roam
    where I lay my head is home

    but i'll take my time anywhere
    free to speak my mind
    and I'll take my find anywhere
    anywhere I may roam
    where I lay my head is home

carved upon my stone
my body lie, but still I roam
wherever I may roam


Don't Tread on Me

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'll hear evermore...

    don't tread on me

love it or live it, she with the deadly bite
quick is the blue tongue, forked as 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'll 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 on her tail

    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'll hear evermore...

    don't tread on me


Through the Never

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 of 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

    Never!!!


Nothing Else Matters

So close no matter how far
couldn't be much more from the heart
forever trusting who we are
and nothing else matters

never opened myself this way
life is ours, we live it our way
all these words I don't just say
and nothing else matters

trust I seek and I find in you
every day for us something new
open mind for a different view
and nothing else matters

    never cared for what they do
    never cared for what they know
    but I know

so close no matter how far
couldn't be much more from the heart
forever trusting who we are
and nothing else matters

    never cared for what they do
    never cared for what they know
    but I know

never opened myself this way
life is ours, we live it our way
all these words I don't just say

trust I seek and I find in you
every day for us something new
open mind for a different view
and nothing else matters

    never cared for what they say
    never cared for games they play
    never cared for what they do
    never cared for what they know
    and I know

so close no matter how far
couldn't be much more from the heart
forever trusting who we are
no nothing else matters


Of Wolf and Man

Off through the new day's mist I run
off 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
off 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 is 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 I 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     nose to the wind
    shape shift     feeling I've been
    move swift     all senses clean
    earth's gift     back to the meaning
    of wolf and man


The God That Failed

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 your 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 in 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

        I see faith in your eyes
        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 that you felt when you'd kneel

trust you gave
a child to save
left you cold and him in grave

        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 deepened nail
        follow the god that failed


My Friend of Misery

You just stood there screaming
fearing no one was listening to you
they say the empty can rattles the most
the sound of your voice must soothe you
hearing only what you want to hear
and knowing only what you've heard
you, you're smothered in tragedy
you're out to save the world

    misery
    you insist that the weight of the world
    should be on your shoulders
    misery
    there's much more to life than what you see  
    my friend of misery

you still stood there screaming
no one caring about these words you tell
my friend before your voice is gone
one man's fun is another's hell
these times are sent to try men's souls
but something's wrong with all you see
you, you'll take it on all yourself
remember, misery loves company

    misery
    you insist that the weight of the world
    should be on your shoulders
    misery
    there's much more to life than what you see
    my friend of misery

    you just stood there creaming
    my friend of misery


The Struggle Within

Reaching out for something you've got to feel
while clutching to what you had thought was real

kicking at a dead horse pleases you
no way of showing your gratitude
so many things you don't want to do
what is it? what have you got to lose

what the hell
what is you think you're gonna find?
hypocrite
boredom sets into the boring mind

    struggle within     it suits you fine
    struggle within     your ruin
    struggle within     you seal your own coffin
    struggle within     the struggling within

home is not a home it becomes a hell
turning it into your prison cell
advantages are taken, not handed out
while you struggle inside your hell

reaching out
grabbing for something you've got to feel
closing in
the pressure upon you is so real

    struggle within     it suits you fine
    struggle within     your ruin
    struggle within     you seal your own coffin
    struggle within     the struggling within

reaching out for something you've got to feel
while clutching to what you had thought was real
what the hell

what is you think you're gonna find
hypocrite
boredom sets into the boring mind

    struggle within     it suits you fine
    struggle within     your ruin
    struggle within     you seal your own coffin
    struggle within     the struggling within



LOAD

Ain't My Bitch

Outta my way
Outta my day
Outta your mind and into mine
Into no one
Into not one
Into your step but outta time

Head strong
What's wrong?
I've already heard this song before
you've arrived
But now it's time
To kiss you ass good-bye

    Dragging me down
    Why you around?
    So useless

        It ain't my fault
        It ain't my call
        It ain't my bitch-a
        It ain't my bitch

Down on the sun
Down and no fun
Down and out where the hell ya been?

Damn it all down
Damn it unbound
Damn it all down ta hell again

Stand tall
Can't fall Never even bend at all
Before... you've arrived
But now it's time
To kiss your ass good-bye

    Dragging me down
    Why you around?
    So useless

        It ain't my fault
        It ain't my call
        It ain't my bitch

Outta my way
Outta my day
Outta of your mind and into mine
Into no one
Into not one
Into your step but outta of time

Head strong
What's wrong?
I've already heard this song before
you've arrived
But now it's time
To kiss your ass good-bye
And now it's time to kiss you ass good-bye

    Dragging me down
    Why you around?
    So useless

        It ain't my fault
        It ain't my call
        It ain't my bitch

No way but down
Why you around?
No foolin'

It ain't my smile
It ain't my style
It ain't my bitch
No it ain't mine

Ain't mine
Your kind
Your steppin' outta time
Ain't mine
Your kind
Your steppin' outta time

    Dragging me down
    Why you around?

    No foolin'

        It ain't my fault
        It ain't my call
        It ain't my

        Bitch... you ain't mine


2x4

Yeah
I'm gonna make you, shake you, take you
I'm gonna be the one who breaks you
Put the screws into ya, yeah my way
Yeah, come on, come on, come and make my day
Make my day

Yeah
Got some hell to pay ya, I steal your thunder
The joy of violent movement, pulls you under
Ooh bite the bullet, well hard
Yea, but I bite harder, so go too far
Too far

    Friction, fusion, retribution
    I can't hear ya... talk ta me
    I can't hear ya... so talk ta me
    I can't hear ya are you talkin' ta me
    I can't hear ya are you talkin' ta me
    I can't hear ya time ta meet my lord
    I can't hear ya talk ta 2 by 4

I'm gonna make you, shake you, take you
I'm gonna be that one who breaks you
Put the screws into ya, my way
Hey come on, come on, come and make my day
Make my day

    Friction, fusion, retribution
    I can't hear ya... talk ta me
    I can't hear ya... come talk ta me
    I can't hear ya are you talking ta me
    I can't hear ya while your talking ta me
    I can't hear ya time ta meet my lord
    I can't hear ya talk ta 2 by 4

        Talk ta 2 by 4
        It don't take no more
        Come on yeah

        Come on, come on
        Talk ta 2 by 4
        Talk ta 2 by 4

    Friction, fusion, retribution
    I'm going to make you... talk ta me
    I'm going to take you... so talk ta me
    I can't hear ya are you talking ta me
    I can't hear ya you talking ta me
    I can't hear ya time ta meet my lord
    I can't hear ya talk ta, talk ta 2 by 4


The House That Jack Built

Open doors so I walk inside
Close my eyes
Find my place to hide
And I shake as I take it in
Let the show begin

Open my eyes
Just to have them close again
Well on my way
But on my way to where I've been

It swallows me
As it takes me in it's fog
I twist away
As I give this world a nod

Open doors so I walk inside
Close my eyes
Find my place to hide
And I shake as I take it in
Let the show begin

Open my eyes
Just to have them close once again
Don't want control
As it takes me down and down and down again

Is that the moon
Or just a light that lights this dead end street?
Is that you there
Or just another demon that I meet?

    The higher you are
    The farther you fall
    The longer the walk
    The farther you crawl
    My body my temple
    This temple it tilts
    Step into the house that Jack built

    The higher you are
    The farther you fall
    The longer the walk
    The farther you crawl
    My body my temple
    This temple it tilts
    Yes this is the house that Jack built

Open doors as I walk inside
Swallow me so the pain subsides
And I shake as I take this in
Let the show begin

    The higher you are
    The farther you fall
    The longer the walk
    The farther you crawl
    My body my temple
    This temple it tilts
    Yes this is the house that Jack built

    The higher you are
    The farther you fall
    The longer the walk
    The farther you crawl
    My body my temple
    This temple it tilts
    "Yes I am I am I am"

Open my eyes
It swallows me
Is that you there
I twist away

Away
Away
Away


Until It Sleeps

Where do I take this pain of mine
I run but it stays right by my side

    So tear me open and 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 (x4)

        I Don't want it want it want it want it want it
        No

    So tear me open but beware
    There's things inside without a care
    And the dirt still stains me
    So wash me 'til I'm clean

    I'll tear thee open make you gone
    No longer will you hurt anyone
    And the hate still shapes me
    So hold me until it sleeps (x5)


King Nothing

Wish I may
Wish I might
Have this I wish tonight
Are you satisfied?
Dig for gold
Dig for fame
You dig to make your name
Are you pacified?

All the wants you waste
All the things you've chased

    Then it all crashes down
    And you break your crown
    And you point your finger
    But there's no one around

    Just want one thing
    Just to play the king
    But the castle's crumbled
    And you're left with just a name

    Where's your crown King Nothing?
    Where's your crown?

Hot and cold
Bought and sold
A heart as hard as gold
Yeah! Are you satisfied?

Wish I might
Wish I may
You wish your life away
Are you pacified?

All the wants you waste
All the things you've chased

    Then it all crashes down
    And you break your crown
    And you point your finger
    But there's no one around

    Just want one thing
    Just to play the king
    But the castle's crumbled
    And you're left with just a name

    Where's your crown King Nothing?
    Where's your crown?

Huh!

    (Spoken)
        I wish I may
        I wish I might
        Have this wish I wish tonight
        I want that star
        I want it now
        I want it all and I don't care how

Careful what you wish
Careful what you say
Careful what you wish
You may regret it
Careful what you wish
You just might get it

    Then it all crashes down
    And you break your crown
    And you point your finger
    But there's no one around

    Just want one thing
    Just to play the king
    But the castle's crumbled
    And you're left with just a name

    Where's your crown King Nothing?
    No Nothing

No you're just nothing
Where's your crown King Nothing?
No you're just nothing
Absolutely nothing

Off to never never land


Hero of the Day

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

'Scuse me while I tend to how to 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 you,can't hold off fear
No not on 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 a wall
Behind it crawl
And hide until it's light
So can't you hear your babies crying now?

    Still the window burns
    Time so slowly turns
    And someone there is sighing
    Keepers of the flames
    Can't you hear your name?
    Did you hear your babies crying?

But now the dreams and waking screams
That everlast the night
So build a wall
Behind it crawl
And hide until it's light
So can't you hear your babies crying now?

    Mama they try and break me
    Mama they try and break me
    Mama they try and break me
    Mama they try
    Mama they try
    Mama they try and break me
    Mama they try and break me
    Mama they try and break me
    Mama they try
    Mama they try


Bleeding Me

I'm diggin' my way
I'm diggin' my way to somethin'
I'm diggin' my way to somethin' better

I'm pushin' to stay
I'm pushin' to stay with something
I'm pushin' 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
    Oh, the bleeding of me
    Of me
    The bleeding of me

    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
    Oh, the bleeding of me
    Oh, the bleeding of me

I am the beast that bleeds 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 stop to save my soul
    I take the leash that's leading me
    I'm bleeding me
    I can't take it
    I can't take it
    I can't take it
    Oh, the bleeding of me

I'm diggin' my way
I'm diggin' my way to somethin'
I'm diggin' my way to something better

I'm pushin' to stay
I'm pushin' to stay with somethin'
I'm pushin' to stay with something better
With something better


Cure

(Spoken)
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 is cold and in his hand
He takes 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 too,and say...
I do believe
Yeah, I do believe

The lies tempt her 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 them to the cure, say...
I do believe

Uncross your arms now
Take 'em too,and say...
I do believe
Oh yeah, I do believe

Betting on the cure
It must get better than this
Betting on the cure
Yeah everyone's gotta 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
Yeah everyone's gotta have the sickness
Cause everyone seems to need the cure
Precious cure

I do believe

Betting on the cure
It must get better than this
Need to feel secure
Yeah it's got to get better than this, this, this
It must get better than this
Betting on the cure
Everyone's gotta to have the sickness
Cause everyone seems to need the cure

I do believe


Poor Twisted Me

Oh poor twisted me
Oh poor twisted me
I feast on sympathy
I chew on suffer
I chew on agony

Swallow whole the pain
Oh it's too good to be
All this misery

Is just for oh poor twisted me
Poor twisted me

Poor mistreated me
Poor mistreated me
I drown without a sea
Lungs fill with sorrow
Lungs fill with misery

Inhaling the deep dark blue
Oh woe is me
Such a burden to be
Poor mistreated me

To finally reach the shore
Survive the storm
Now you're bare and cold
The sea was warm
So warm
Your bathe your soul again
Bathe it again, and again, and again

To finally reach the shore
Survive the storm
Now you're bare and cold
The sea was warm
So warm, you bathe your soul again

Good to see my friend
Oh woe is me
Such a burden to be
Oh poor twisted me
Oh poor twisted me
Poor twisted me


Wasting My Hate

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

Think you're worthy now
Think enough to even raise the brow
And to laugh and tip that two pronged crown

I see my hands I see my feet
I feel that blood that pumps in me
Where the hell's my mind goin' now
Goin' 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'm so greedy when they say
Better to give than to receive

Ain't gonna waste my hate
Ain't got time to waste my hate on you
I think I'll keep it all for myself
For myself

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
Yeah

Hate


Mama Said

Mama, she has taught me well
Told me when I was young
Son, your life's an open book
Don't close it 'fore its done
The brightest flame burns quickest
Is what I heard her say
A son's heart sewed to mother
But I must find my way

    Let my heart go
    Let your son grow
    Mama, let my heart go
    Or let this heart be still

Rebel my new last name
Wild blood in my veins
Apron strings around my neck
The mark that still remains
Left home at an early age
Of what I heard was wrong
I never asked forgiveness
But what is said is done

    Let my heart go
    Let your son grow
    Mama, let my heart go
    Or let this heart be still

        Never I ask of you
        But never I gave
        But you gave me your emptiness
        I now take to my grave
        Never I ask of you
        But never I gave
        But you gave me your emptiness
        I now take to my grave
        So let this heart be still

Mama, now I'm coming home
I'm not all you wished of me
A mother's love for her son
Spoken, help me be
Well, I took your love for granted
And all the things you said to me
I need your arms to welcome me
But, a cold stone's all I see

    Let my heart go
    Let your son grow
    Mama, let my heart go
    Or let this heart be still

    Let my heart go
    Mama, let my heart go
    You never let my heart go
    So let this heart be still

        Never I ask of you
        But never I gave
        But you gave me your emptiness
        I now take to my grave
        Never I ask of you
        But never I gave
        But you gave me your emptiness
        I now take to my grave
        So let this heart be still


Thorn Within

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, I am the secret
    I am, I am the sin
    I am, I am the guilty
    And I, 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, I am the secret
    I am, I am the sin
    I am, I am the guilty
    And I, 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, I am your secrets
    I am, I am your sin
    I am, I am your guilty
    And I, I am the thorn within
    I am the thorn within


Ronnie

Stories start
Quiet town
Small town boy
Big time frown
Never talks
Never plays
Different path
Lost his way

The streets are red
Red I'm afraid
There's no confetti
No parade
Nothing happens in this boring place
But oh my god how it all did change
Now they all pray
Blood stain wash away

    He said
    Lost my way
    This bloody day
    Lost my way

I heard him
He said
Lost my way
This bloody day
Lost my way
All things wash away
But blood stained the sun red today

I always said
Something wrong
With little strange
Ronnie Long
Never laughed
Never smiled
Talked alone for miles and miles and miles

Gallow calls
Son I say
Keep your smile and laugh all day
Think once again in this boring place
For little boys how they soon change

Now they all pray
Blood stain wash away

    He said
    Lost my way
    This bloody day
    Lost my way

I heard him
He said
Lost my way
This bloody day
Lost my way
All things wash away
But blood stained the sun red today

    (Spoken)
        Yeah, well all the green things died
        When Ronnie moved to this place
        He said
        Don't you dare ask
        Why I'm cursed to wear this face

        Now we all know why
        The children called him Ronnie Frown
        When he pulled that gun from his pocket
        They all fall down, down, down

    He said
    Lost my way
    This bloody day
    Lost my way

I heard him
He screamed
Lost my way
This bloody day
Lost my way
All things wash away
But blood stained the sun red today

That's right
All things wash away
They all fall down
But blood stained the sun today

All things wash away
And they all fall down
But blood stained the sun today


The Outlaw Torn

And now I wait my whole lifetime
For you
And now I wait my whole lifetime
For you

I ride the dirt I ride the tide
For you
I search the outside search inside
For you

To take back what you left me
I know I'll always burn to be
The one seeks so I may find
And now I wait my whole lifetime

    Outlaw of torn
    Outlaw of torn
    And I'm torn

So on I wait my whole lifetime
For you
So on I wait my whole lifetime
For you

The more I search the more my need
For you
The more I bless the more I bleed
For you

You make me smash the clock and feel
I'd rather die behind the wheel
Time was never on my side
So on I wait my whole lifetime

    Outlaw of torn
    Outlaw of torn
    Outlaw of torn
    And I'm torn

        Hear me
        And if I close my mind in fear
        Please pry it open
        See me
        And if my face becomes sincere
        Beware
        Hold me
        And when I start to come undone
        Stitch me together
        Save me
        And when you see me strut
        Remind me of what left this outlaw torn

        Hear me
        And if I close my mind in fear
        Please pry it open
        See me

        And if my face becomes sincere
        Beware
        Hold me
        And when I start to come undone
        Stitch me together
        And when you see me strut
        Remind me of what left this outlaw torn



OTHER METALLICA TRACKS - COVERS, DEMOS, ETC.

Am I Evil?
Originally performed by DiamondHead (Recorded in 1982)
Words and music by Brian Tatler and Sean Lindon Harris


My mother was a witch, she was burned alive
Thankless little bitch, for the tears I cried
Take her down now, don't want to see her face
All blistered and burnt, can't hide my disgrace

Twenty seven, everyone was nice
Gotta see 'em, make 'em pay the price
See their bodies out on the ice
Take my time

Am I evil?
Yes I am
Am I evil?
I am man
Yes I am

As I watched my mother die, I lost my head
Revenge now I sought, to break with my bread
Takin' no chances, you come with me
I'll split you to the bone, help set you free

Twenty seven, everyone was nice
Gotta see 'em, make 'em pay the price
See their bodies out on the ice
Take my time

Am I evil?
Yes I am
Am I evil?
I am man
Yes I am

On with the action now, I'll strip your pride
I'll spread your blood around, I'll see you ride
Your face is scarred with steel, wounds deep and neat
Like a double dozen before ya, smells so sweet

Am I evil?
Yes I am
Am I evil?
I am man

I'll make my residence, I'll watch your fire
You can come with me, sweet desire
My face is long forgot, my face not my own
Sweet and timely whore, take me home

Am I evil?
Yes I am
Am I evil?
I am man

My soul is longing for, await my heir
Sent to avenge my mother, sleep myself
My face is long forgot, my face not my own
Sweet and timely whore, take me home

Am I evil?
Yes I am
Am I evil?
I am man

Am I evil?
Yes I fucking am
Am I evil?
I am man, yeah!


Blitzkrieg
Originally performed by Blitzkrieg (Recorded in 1981)
Words and music by Ian Jones, Brian Smith and James Sirotto


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

The day is coming
Armageddon's near
Inferno coming
Can we survive the blitzkrieg
The blitzkrieg
The blitzkrieg

Save us from fate, save us from hate
Save ourselves before it's too late
Come to our need, hear our plea
Save ourselves before the earth bleeds

The day is dawning
The time is near
Aliens coming
Can we survive the blitzkrieg
The blitzkrieg


Breadfan
Originally performed by Budgie (Recorded in 1973)
Words and music by Bourge, Shelley and Phillips


Breadfan
Open up your mind
Open up your purse
Open up your bones
Never, never gonna lose it

Breadfan
Take it all away
Never give an inch
Gotta make a mint
Gotta make me a million

Breadfan
You got it wrong
Some long time friend's gonna lose it
In the end who's a fool

Seagull
Give it all away
Stay a bird
Stay a man
Stay a ghost
Stay what you wanna be

Loser
Give it all away
Never stay with the winner
With the man
With all the filthy money

Come on
Keep it on the side
With a ride
On a record on the top
If you're gonna be a bad boy

Breadfan
You got it wrong
Some long time friend's gonna lose it
In the end who's a fool

Seagull
Give it all away
Stay a bird
Stay a man
Stay a ghost
Stay what you wanna be

*Repeat


The Prince
Originally performed by DiamondHead (Recorded in 1980)
Words and music by Sean Lindon Harris and Brian Tatler


Now I see his face, I see his smile
Such a lonely place, no golden mile
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


Stone Cold Crazy
Originally performed by Queen.

Sleeping very soundly on a Saturday morning I was dreaming I was Al Capone.
Rumor going round, gotta clear out of town, smelling like a dry fish bone.
Here come the law, gonna break down the door, carry me away once more.
Never, never, never want it anymore. Gotta get away from this stone cold floor.

(Chorus)
Crazy, stone cold crazy, you know

Rainy afternoon, on a killer typhone, and it's a playing with my slide trombone.
Any more, anymore, can't take it anymore.
Gotta get away from this stone cold floor

(Chorus)

Walking down the street, shooting people that i meet, full loaded tommy gun.
Here come the deputy, try fuckin' gittin' me, gotta get up and run
They got the sirens lose, I'm running out of juice. They're gonna put me in a
cell
If I can't go to heaven, let me go to hell.

(Chorus)


So What!
Originally performed by The Anti-Nowhere League.

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.
Yeah who cares,
Who cares about you, you, you, you, you.

Well I've fucked a queen.
I've fucked fucked.
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 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.
And 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 have speed.
I've jacked up until I bleed.
So what.
So what.
So what, so what, you boring little cunt.

Who cares.
Who cares what you do.
Yeah who cares,
Who cares about you, you, you, you, you.

I've had crabs,
I've had lice,
I've had the clap and that ain't nice.
So what.
So what.
I've fucked this,
I've fucked that.
I've even fucked a school girl's twat.
So what.
So what.
So what, so what you boring little fuck.

Who cares.
Who cares what you do.
And who cares,
Who cares about you, you, you, you, you, you.

So fucking what!
Yeah!


Killing Time

The sound of gunfire goes through the night
The killing and hatred's a terrible sight
Reports come in of a heavy attack
Message received, we're moving back

Preparations are made for the journey back
Hints on survival, supplies are packed
No more nights in this eternal hall
Destination is simple, we move out

(Chorus)
Killing time, your life's on the line
Killing time, your turn to kill
Killing time, what d'ya say?
Killing time, ah killing time

Ingenuity needed to keep us alive
No time for cowardice, kill & survive
Like a killer kid with a switchblade knife
Nasty word, he'll take your life

The silence is over the attack again
The killing & hatred, drive me insane
Reports come in of a savage attack
Message received, we're moving back

(Chorus)

Solo

The sound of gunfire goes through the night
The killing and hatred's a terrible sight
Reports come in of a heavy attack
Message received, we're moving back

Ingenuity needed to keep us alive
No time for cowardice, kill & survive
Like a killer kid with a switchblade knife
Nasty word, he'll take your life

(Chorus)


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