Blackened
(Hetfield, Ulrich, Newsted)
Blackened is then 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 never more.
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.
Smoldering 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.
Color our world blackened.
Blackened.
...And Justice For All
(Hetfield, Ulrich, Hammett)
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 a word you say.
I can't believe,
I can't believe the price you pay.
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 fine.
Inquisition seeking you [Inquisition sinking you]
with crying might. [with prying minds]
The ultimate in vanity.
Exploiting their supremacy.
I can't believe a word you say.
I can't believe,
I can't believe the price you pay.
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.
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 a word you say.
I can't believe,
I can't believe the price we pay.
Nothing can save us.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.
Eye Of The Beholder
(Hetfield, Ulrich, Hammett)
Do you see what I see?
Truth is an offense.
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
is made for you, my friend.
Freedom of speech
is words that they will bend.
Freedom with their exception.
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
is made for you, my friend.
Freedom of 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 string.
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
is made for you, my friend.
Freedom of 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.
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, help 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 you raw.
Witchhunt riding through.
Shortest straw.
The 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.
You're 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 you raw.
Witchhunt riding through.
Shortest straw.
The 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.
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 you raw.
Witchhunt riding through.
Shortest straw.
The shortest straw has been pulled for you.Pulled for you.
Harvester Of Sorrow
(Hetfield, Ulrich)
My life suffocates.
Planting seeds of hate.
I've loved, turned to hate.
Trapped far beyond my fate.
I give,
You take
this life that I forsake.
Been cheated of my youth.
You turned this lie to truth.
Anger,
misery,
you'll suffer unto me.Harvester of sorrow.
Language of the mad.
Harvester of sorrow.
Pure black looking clear.
My work is done soon here.
Try getting back to me.
Get back which used to be.
Drink up,
shoot in.
Let the beatings begin.
Distributor of pain.
Your loss becomes my gain.
Anger,
misery,
you'll suffer unto me.Harvester of sorrow.
Language of the mad.
Harvester of sorrow.
All have said their prayers.
Invade their nightmares.
To see into my eyes.
You'll find where murder lies.
Infanticide.
Harvester of sorrow.
Language of the mad.
Harvester of sorrow.
Language of the mad.
Harvester of sorrow.
The Frayed Ends
Of Sanity
(Hetfield, Ulrich, Hammettt)
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 it's 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, terror, tension.
Life, death, want, waste, mass depression.
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.
To Live Is To Die
(Hetfield, Ulrich, Burton)
When a man lies,
he murders some part of the world.
These are the 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, Hammettt)
Dear Mother,
dear Father.
What is this hell you have put me through?
Believer,
deceiver.
Day in day out I 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.