Metallica - Lirycs  


 KILL'EM ALL

                 Hit the Lights
             (J.Hetfield, L.Ulrich)

	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 out 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
	
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                The Four Horsemen
       (J.Hetfield, L.Ulrich, D.Mustaine)

	By the last breath of the fourth winds blow
	Better raise your ears
	The sound of hooves knock 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 came 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 came to take your life
        On through the dead of night
        With the four horsemen ride
        Or choose your fate and die

Time
Has taken it's 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 demons swords
Now is the death of doers of wrong
Swing the judgement hammer down
Safely inside armor blood guts and sweat

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

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                   Motorbreath
                  (J.Hetfield)

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 it's full speed
  or nothing
I am talking 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
        It's 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

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                Jump in the Fire
       (J.Hetfield, L.Ulrich, D.Mustaine)

Down in the depths of my firey home
The summons bell will chime
Tempting you and all the earth
To join own sinful kid
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 death in my veins
The end 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 your as prey
Living your life as me I am you you see
There is part of me in everyone
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

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                    Whiplash
             (J.Hetfield, L.Ulrich)

	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
	
	        Adrenalin 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 leathers and your spikes
	Heads are bobbing around
	It is hot as hell tonite
	
	        Adrenalin starts to flow
	        You're thrashing all around
	        Acting like a maniac
	        Whiplash
	
	Here on stage the Marshall noise
	Is piercing through your ears
	It kicks you 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 maim and kill
	Cause this is what we choose
	
	        Adrenalin 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
	
	        Adrenalin starts to flow
	        You're thrashing all around
	        Acting like a maniac
	        Whiplash

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                  Phantom Lord
       (J.Hetfield, L.Ulrich, D.Mustaine)

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 dying pains
The fist of terrors breaking through
Now there is nothing you can do

        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

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

        (Chorus)

Fall to your knees
And bow to the Phantom Lord

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                   No Remorse
             (J.Hetfield, L.Ulrich)

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

        (Chorus)

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

        (Chorus)

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 lightning
It all becomes frightening you
Know death is near
No remorse


                Seek and Destroy
             (J.Hetfield, L.Ulrich)

We are scanning the scene
In the city tonite
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
        On 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
To the every world
We won't take any more
Say goodbye
To the world you live in
You have always been taking
But now you giving

        (Chorus)

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

        (Chorus)



                  Metal Militia
       (J.Hetfield, L.Ulrich, D.Mustaine)

Thunder and lightning the gods
  Take revenge
Senseless destruction
Victims of fury and 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

        Oh 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 lift 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 Metalization of your inner soul
Twisting and turning

        (Chorus)

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

        (Chorus)

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                 Kirk Hammett              LeadGuitar
                 Cliff Burton                    Bass
                 Lars Ulrich                    Drums
                 James Hetfield   RhythmGuitar/Vocals

                             METALLICA
                       Text by Ile 30/10/87


                                    METALLICA

                               Ride the Lightning

               Fight Fire With Fire
            (Hetfield, Ulrich, Burton)

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

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

         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


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

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

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

         Fight fire with fire
         (repeat)

               Ride the Lighting
      (Hetfield, Ulrich, Burton, Mustaine)

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!!"

         Flash before my eyes
         Now it's time to die
         Burning in my brain
         I can't feel the flame

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 is my only friend

My fingers grip with fear
What am I doing here?

         Flash before my eyes
         Now it's time to die
         Burning in my brain
         I can't feel the flame

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

Time moving slow
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 horrid scream
Freed from this frightening dream

         Flash before my eyes
         Now it's time to die
         Burning in my brain
         I can't feel the flame

               For Whom the Bell Tolls
             (Hetfield, Ulrich, Burton)

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, but who's to say?
For a hill men would kill, why? They do not know
Suffered 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 is the last time he 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


               Fade to Black
     (Hetfield, Ulrich, Burton, Hammett)

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 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 filling 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's too 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 goodbye

               Trapped Under Ice
          (Hetfield, Ulrich, Hammett)

I don't know how to live through 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

         Freezing
         Can't move at all
         Screaming
         Can't hear my call
         I am dying to live
         Cry out
         I'm Trapped Under 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

         Freezing
         Can't move at all
         Screaming
         Can't hear my call
         I am dying to live
         Cry out
         I'm Trapped Under Ice

Scream, from my soul
Fate, mystified
Hell, forever more

No release from my cryonics 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

         Freezing
         Can't move at all
         Screaming
         Can't hear my call
         I am dying to live
         Cry out
         I'm Trapped Under Ice


               Escape
      (Hetfield, Ulrich, Hammett)

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 the things that they say
         Life is for my own to live my own way

Rape my mind and destroy my feelings
Don't tell me 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 the 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
          (repeat)



               Creeping Death                                      
    (Hetfield, Ulrich, Burton, Hammett)

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

         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 to Death

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

         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 to Death

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

         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 to Death                



                                  METALLICA

                              Master of Puppets

             Battery
  (Hetfield,Ulrich)

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 me
  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 me
  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
  Pounding out aggression
  Turns into obsession
  Cannot kill the Battery

  Cannot kill the family
  Battery is found me
  Battery



                Master of Puppets
                (Hetfield, Ulrich, Burton, Hammett)

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

Master, Master, where's the dreams that I've been  after?
Master, Master, you promised only lies
Laughter, laughter, all I hear or see is laughter
Laughter, laughter, laughing at my cries

Hell is worth all that, natural habitat
Just a rhyme without a reason
Neverending maze, drift on numbered days
Now your life is out of season
I will occupy
I will help you die
I will run through you
Now I rule you too

  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

       The Thing That Should not Be
       (Hetfield, Ulrich, Hammett)

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

  (Chorus)

Now dead which eternal lie
Stranger eons death may be
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)
          (Hetfield, Ulrich, Hammett)

Welcome to where time stands still
No one leaves and no one will
Moon is full, never seems the change
Just labeled mentally deranged
Dream the same thing every night
I see our freedom in my sight
No locked doors, no window 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 fears of what's out there
And cannot breathe the open air
Whispering 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, it's such a friendly word
Seems the only way
For reaching out again


                Disposable Heroes
            (Hetfield, Ulrich, Hammett)

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
Victims of what said should be
A servant `till I fall

  Soldier boy, make 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 blindman

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 on you bare, glory seeker
 trends
Bodies fill the fields I see
The slaughter never ends

  Soldier boy, make 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 blindman

Why am I dying?
Kill, have no fear
Lie life off lying
Hell, hell is here
I was born for dying

Life planned out before my birth, nothing could I  say
Had no change 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

  Soldier boy, make 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 blindman


            Leper Messiah
          (Hetfield, Ulrich)

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

  Time for lust, time for lie
  Time to kiss you life goodbye
  Send my 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 you sunday fix
Blind devotion came, rotting your brain
Chain, chain
Join to endless chain, taken by his glamour
Fame, fame
Infection in the game, stinking drunk with power
We see

  Time for lust, time for lie
  Time to kiss you life goodbye
  Send my money, send me green
  Heaven you will meet
  Make a contribution
  And you'll get a better seat
  Bow to Leper Messiah

Witchery, weakening
Sees the sheep are gathering
Set the trap, hypnotize
Now you follow
 (Chorus)
Lie, lie, lie...


              Damage INC.
   (Hetfield, Ulrich, Burton, Hammett)

Dealing out the agony within
Gharging 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

  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 job 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 my 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 endings on these dark sets   
All's fair for Damage Inc. you see       
Step a little closer if you please       

  Blood will follow blood                
  Dying time is here                     
  Damage Incorporated


             ....And Justice for All

                              Blackened
                     (Hetfield, Ulrich, Newsted)

          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 mother die
          Smouldering decay
          Take her breath away
          Millions of our years
          In minutes disappears
          Darkening in vain
          Decadence remains
          All is said and done
          Never is the sun
          Never
               Fire
               To begin whipping dance of the dead
               Blackened is the end
               To begin whipping dance of the dead
               Fire
               Is the outcome of hypocrisy
               Darkest potency
               In the exit of humanity



               Metallica '88


               Color our world blackened
                     Blackened

                        ...And Justice For All

          Halls of justice painted green
          Money talking
          Power wolves beset your door
          Hear them stalking
          Soon you'll please their appetite
          They devour
          Hammer of justice crushes you
          Overpower
               The ultimate in vanity
               Exploiting their supremacy
               I can't believe the things you say
               I can't believe
               I can't believe the price you say
               Nothing can save you
                Justice is lost
                Justice is raped
                Justice is gone
                     Pulling your strings
                Justice is done
                     Seeking no truth
                     Winning is all
                     Find it so grim
                          so true
                          so real
          Apathy their stepping stone
          So unfeeling
          Hidden deep animosity
          So deceiving
          Through your eyes their light burns
          Hoping to find
          Inquisition sinking you
          With prying minds
               The ultimate in vanity
               Exploiting their supremacy
               I can't believe the things you say
               I can't believe
               I can't believe the price you say
               Nothing can save you
                Justice is lost
                Justice is raped
                Justice is gone
                     Pulling your strings
                Justice is done
                     Seeking no truth
                     Winning is all
                     Find it so grim
                          so true
                          so real
          Lady justice has been raped
          Truth assassin
          Rolls of red tape seal your lips
          Now you're done in


...And Justice for All

          Their money tips her scales again
          Make your deal
          Just what is truth? I cannot tell
          Cannot feel
               The ultimate in vanity
               Exploiting their supremacy
               I can't believe the things you say
               I can't believe
               I can't believe the price you say
               Nothing can save you
                Justice is lost
                Justice is raped
                Justice is gone
                     Pulling your strings
                Justice is done
                     Seeking no truth
                     Winning is all
                     Find it so grim
                          so true
                          so real
                     Seeking no truth
                     Winning is all
                     Find it so grim
                          so true
                          so real
                     Seeking no truth
                     Winning is all
                     Find it so grim
                          so true
                          so real

                         Eye Of The Beholder


                     (Hetfield, Ulrich, Hammett)
          Do you see what I see?
          Truth is an offence
          You silence for your confidence
          Do you hear what I hear?
          Doors are slamming shut
          Limit your imagination, keep you where they must
          Do you feel what I feel?
          Bittering distress
          Who decides what you express?
          Do you take what I take?
          Endurance is the word
          Moving back instead of forward seems to me absurd
               Doesn't matter what you see
               Or into it what you read
               You can do it your own way
               If it's done just how I say
                Independence limited
                Freedom of choice
                Choice is made for you my friend
                Freedom of speech
                Speech is words that they will bend
                Freedom with their exception


          Metallica '88


          Do you fear what I fear?
          Living properly
          Truths to you are lies to me
          Do you choose what I choose?
          More alternatives
          Energy derives from both the plus and negative
          Do you need what I need?
          Boundaries overthrown
          Look inside, to each his own
          Do you trust what I trust?
          Me, myself and I
          Penetrate the smoke screen, I see through the selfish lie
               Doesn't matter what you see
               Or into it what you read
               You can do it your own way
               If it's done just how I say
                Independence limited
                Freedom of choice
                Choice is made for you my friend
                Freedom of speech
                Speech is words that they will bend
                Freedom with their exception
          Do you know what I know?
          Your money and your wealth
          You silence just to hear yourself
          Do you want what I want?
          Desire not a thing
          I hunger after independence, lengthen freedom's ring
               Doesn't matter what you see
               Or into it what you read
               You can do it your own way
               If it's done just how I say
                Independence limited
                Freedom of choice
                Choice is made for you my friend
                Freedom of speech
                Speech is words that they will bend
                Freedom no longer frees you
               Doesn't matter what you see
               Or into it what you read
               You can do it your own way
               If it's done just how I say


                                 One
                          (Hetfield, Ulrich)

          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
                taken my hearing
                taken my arms
                taken my legs
                taken my soul
                left me with life in hell

                          The Shortest Straw


                          (Hetfield, Ulrich)
          Suspicion is your name
          Your honesty to blame
          Put dignity to shame
          Dishonor
          Witchhunt, modern day
          Determining decay
          The blatant disarray
          Disfigure
          The public eyes' disgrace
          Defying common place
          Unending paper chase
          Unending
          Deafening
          Painstaking
          Reckoning
          This vertigo it doth bring
               Shortest straw
               Challenge liberty
               Downed by law
               Live in infamy
               Rub your raw
               Witchhunt riding through
               Shortest straw
               This shortest straw has been pulled for you
               Pulled for you


                Shortest straw
               Pulled for you
                Shortest straw
               Pulled for you
                Shortest straw
               Shortest straw has been pulled for you
          The accusations fly
          Discrimination, why?
          Your inner self to die
          Intruding
          Doubt sunk itself in you
          It's teeth and talons through
          Your living catch-22
          Deluding
          A mass hysteria
          A megalomania
          Reveal dementia
          Reveal
          Secretly
          Silently
          Certainly
          In vertigo you will be
               Shortest straw
               Challenge liberty
               Downed by law
               Live in infamy
               Rub your raw
               Witch-hunt riding through
               Shortest straw
               This shortest straw has been pulled for you
               Pulled for you
                Shortest straw
               Pulled for you
                Shortest straw
               Pulled for you
                Shortest straw
               Shortest straw has been pulled for you
                Shortest straw
               Pulled for you
                Shortest straw
               Pulled for you
                Shortest straw
               Pulled for you
                Shortest straw
               Shortest straw has been pulled for you
          Behind you, hands are tied
          Your being, ostracized
          Your hell is multiplied
          Upending
          The fallout has begun
          Oppressive damage done
          Your many turned to none
          To nothing
          You're reaching your nadir
          Your will has disappeared
          The lie is crystal clear
          Defending

          Channels red
          One word said
          Blacklisted
          With vertigo make you dead
               Shortest straw
               Challenge liberty
               Downed by law
               Live in infamy
               Rub your raw
               Witchhunt riding through
               Shortest straw
               This shortest straw has been pulled for you
                                pulled for you

                         Harvester Of Sorrow


                          (Hetfield, Ulrich)
          My life suffocated
          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 witch used to be
          Drink up
          Shoot up
          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

           The Frayed Ends Of Sanity
            (Hetfield, Ulrich, Hammett)
          Never hunger
          Never prosper
          I have fallen prey to failure
          Struggle within
          Triggered again
          Now the candle burns at both ends
          Twisting under schizophrenia
          Falling deep into dementia
               Old habits reappear
               Fighting the fear of fear
               Growing conspiracy
               Everyone's after me
               Frayed ends of sanity
               Hear them calling
               Hear them calling me
          Birth of terror
          Death of much more
          I'm the slave of fear, my captor
          Never warnings
          Spreading its wings
          As I wait for the horror she brings
          Loss of interest, question, wonder
          Waves of fear they pull me under
               Old habits reappear
               Fighting the fear of fear
               Growing conspiracy
               Everyone's after me
               Frayed ends of sanity
               Hear them calling
               Hear them calling me
          Into ruin
          I am sinking
          Hostage of this nameless feeling
          Hell is set free
          Flooded I'll be
          Feel the undertow inside me
          Height, hell, time, haste, terror, tension
          Life, death, want, waste, mass depression
               Old habits reappear
               Fighting the fear of fear
               Growing conspiracy
               Myself is after me
               Frayed ends of sanity
               Hear them calling
               Frayed ends of sanity
               Hear them calling
               Hear them calling me


                   To Live Is To Die
               (Hetfield, Ulrich, Burton)

          When a man lies he murders
           Some part of the world
          These are pale deaths which
           Men miscall their lives
          All this I cannot bear
           To witness any longer
          Cannot the kingdom of salvation
           Take me home

                              Dyers eve


                      (Hetfield, Ulrich Hammett)
          Dear mother
          Dear father
          What is this hell you have put me through
          Believer
          Deceiver
          Day in day out live my life through you
          Pushed onto me what's wrong or right
          Hidden from this thing that they call life
          Dear mother
          Dear father
          Every thought I'd think you'd disapprove
          Curator
          Dictator
          Always censoring my every move
          Children are seen but are not heard
          Tear out everything inspired
               Innocence
               Torn from me without your shelter
               Barred reality
               I'm living blindly
          Dear mother
          Dear father
          Time has frozen still what's left to be
          Hear nothing
          Say nothing
          Cannot face the fact I think for me
          No guarantee, it's life as is
          But damn you for not giving me my chance
          Dear mother
          Dear father
          You've clipped my wings before I learned to fly
          Unspoiled
          Unspoken
          I've outgrown that fucking lullaby
          Same thing I've always heard from you
          Do as I say not as I do
               Innocence
               Torn from me without your shelter
               Barred reality

               I'm living blindly
                I'm in hell without you
                Cannot cope without you two
                Shocked at the world that I see
                Innocent victim please rescue me
          Dear mother
          Dear father
          Hidden in your world you've made for me
          I'm seething
          I'm bleeding
          Ripping wounds in me that never heal
          Undying spite I feel for you
          Living out this hell you always knew


          James Hetfield   Rhithm guitars, Vocals
          Leers Ulrich       Drums
          Kirk Hammett    Lead Guitar
          Jason Newsted    Bass
          All lirics by Hetfield, except "To Live Is To Die" by Burton.
          All arrangements by Hetfield, Ulrich.
          All harmony, melody and acoustic guitars on all songs, and
          the 2nd solo  in "To Live Is To Die" by Hetfield.
          All songs (c) 1988 creeping deathmusic.
           ASCAP
          All right reserved. Used by permission.


                    METALLICA : METALLICA
                    =====================

        ENTER SANDMAN
        (Hetfield/Ulrich/Hammett)

        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
                  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 the things that will bite

                Sleep woth one eye open
                gripping your pillow tight

                  Exit:light
                  enter:night
                  take my hand
                  we're 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

        Hust till baby don't say a word
        and never mind that noise you heard
        It's just a 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
        (Hetfield/Ulrich)

        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 betray
        I'm forever there

                I'm your dreams, make you real
                I'm your eye 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 when 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 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 dreams, 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 when 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 there
        Hey
        I'm your life
        and I no longer care

                I'm your dreams, make you real
                I'm your eyes when you must steal
                I'm your pain when you can't feal
                Sad but true
                I'm your truth, telling lies
                I'm your reason, alibis
                I'm inside open your eyes
                I'm you
                Sad but true



        HOLIER THAN YOU
        (Hetfield/Ulrich)


        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 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 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
        (Hetfield/Ulrich/Hammett)


        New blood joins this earth
        and quickly he's subdued
        Throught constant pained disgrace
        the young boy learn their rules

        With time child drawns in
        this whipping boy done wrong
        Deprived of all his thoughts
        the young man struggles on and on he's known
        A wow unto his own
        that never from this day
        His will they'll take away

                What I've felt
                What I've known
                never shined throught 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 throught in what I've shown
                Never free
                Never me
                So I dub thee unforgiven


        The dedicate their lives
        to running all of his
        He tries to please them all
        this bitter man he is
        Throughtout his life the same
        he's battled constantly
        This fight he cannot win
        a tired man they see no longer cares
        The old man they prepares
        to die regretfully
        the old man here is me

                What I've felt
                What I've known
                never shined throught in what I've known
                Never be
                Never see
                Won't see what might have been

                What I've felt
                What I've known
                never shined throught in what I've known
                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
        (Hetfield/Ulrich)


        ...And the road becomes my bridge
        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
        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 part 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
                free to speak my mind
                And I'll take my mind anywhere
                   Anywhere I 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
        (Hetfield/Ulrich)

        Libery 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 prepere 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 lightning 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

        Liberity 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 will hear evermore...

        Don't tread on me




        THROUGH THE NEVER
        (Hetfield/Ulrich/Hammett)


        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
                vill be ever
                Who we are
                ask forever
                twisting
                turning
                through the never

                Never



        NOTHING ELSE MATTERS
        (Hetfield, Ulrich)


        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 found 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 no 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 found you
        every day for us something new
        Open mind for a differend view
        And nothing else matters

                Never cared for what they say
                Never cared for what they play
                Never cared for what they do
                Never cared for what they known
                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
        (Hetfield/Ulrich/Hammett)


        Off through the new day's mist I run
        out from the new day's mist I have come
        I hunt
        theremore I am
        harvest the land
        taking of the fallen lamb

        Off through the new day's mist I rub
        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 wind
        fear in your eyes
        It's later than you realized

                Shape shift     nose to the wind
                Shape shift     feeling I've been
                Mowe swift      all senses clean
                Earth's gift
                Back to the meaning of wolf and man



        THE GOD THAT FAILED
        (Hetfield/Ulrich)


        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 her the discouraging lies
                  I hear faith in your cries
                  broken is the promice, 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 eyes
                   broken is the promice, betrayal
                   the healing hand held back by the deepened nail

                   Follow the god that failed

                   I see faith in your eyes
                   Broken is the promice, 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 us cold and hi in grave

                   I see faith in your eyes
                   never you hear the disciuraging lies
                   I hear faith in your cries
                   brokes is the promice, betrayal
                   the healing hand held back by the deepened nail

                   Follow the gof that failed



        MY FRIEND OF MISERY
        (Hetfield/Ulrich/Newsted)


        You just stood there screaming
        fearing no one was listening to you
        they say the empty can rattles the most
        The sound of your own voice must smoothe 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 time are sent to try men's souls
        but something's wrong with all you see
        Yoy    you'll take it on all yourself
        remember, misery loves company

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

        You just stood there screaming
        My friend of misery



        THE STRUGGLE WITHIN
        (Hetfield/Ulrich)

        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 you have got to lose

        What is hell
        What is it you thing 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 sell
        Advantages are taken, not hanged out
        while you struggle inside your hell

        Reaching out
        grabbing for something you've got to feel
        closing in
        the pressure upon you is still unreal

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

                Struggle within    it suit your fine
                Struggle within    your ruin
                Struggle within    you seal your own coffin
                Struggle within    the struggling within


 
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