Metallica
American heavy metal band
Metallica is an American heavy metal band formed in Los Angeles, California. Metallica was formed in 1981 when vocalist/guitarist James Hetfield responded to an advertisement posted by drummer Lars Ulrich in a local newspaper. The band's current line-up comprises founding members Hetfield and Ulrich, longtime lead guitarist Kirk Hammett and bassist Robert Trujillo. Lead guitarist Dave Mustaine and bassists Ron McGovney, Cliff Burton and Jason Newsted are former members of the band. Metallica collaborated over a long period with producer Bob Rock, who produced all of the band's albums from 1990 to 2003 and served as a temporary bassist between the departure of Newsted and the hiring of Trujillo.
~ 12 February 2001
Song lyrics
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We're gonna kick some ass tonight!
All lyrics written by James Hetfield unless noted.
Kill 'Em All (1983)
edit- No life 'til leather
We're gonna kick some ass tonight!- Hit the Lights
- When we start to rock we never wanna stop again!
- Hit the Lights
- 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 had to endure
And what you have put others through
Death
Deliverance for you for sure
There is nothing you can do- The Four Horsemen
- Living and dying, laughing and crying
Once you have seen it you will never be the same.- Motorbreath
- So come on
Jump in the fire!- Jump in the Fire, lyrics by James Hetfield and Dave Mustaine
- Jump by your will or be taken by force
I'll get you either way.- Jump in the Fire
We'll never quit
'Cause we're Metallica
- But we'll never stop
We'll never quit
'Cause we're Metallica
- The leathered armies have prevailed
The Phantom Lord has never failed
Smoke is lifting from the ground
The riding volume Metal sound- Phantom Lord
- 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- No Remorse
- Another day, another death
Another sorrow, another breath- No Remorse
- Scanning the scene in the city tonight
We're looking for you to start up a fight
- Searching
Seek and destroy!- Seek & Destroy
- Joining together to take on the world with our heavy metal
Spreading the message to everyone here, Come let yourself go- Metal Militia
Ride the Lightning (1984)
edit- Do unto others as they have done to you, but what the hell is this world coming to?
- Fight Fire with Fire
- Blow the universe into nothingness
- Fight Fire with Fire
- Nuclear warfare shall lay us to rest
- Fight Fire with Fire
- Fight fire with fire
Ending is near
Fight fire with fire
Bursting with fear... We all shall die- Fight Fire with Fire
- Who made you God to say
I'll take your life from you- Ride the Lightning
- Guilty as charged
But damn it
That ain't right!- Ride the Lightning
- Flash before my eyes
Now it's time to die- Ride the Lightning
- Burning in my brain
I can feel the flame- Ride the Lightning
- Take a look to the sky
Just before you die
It's the last time he will
- Yesterday seems as though it never existed
Death greets me warm
Now I will just say good-bye
- Life it seems to fade away
Drifting further everyday
Getting lost within myself
nothing matters no one else- Fade to Black
- No one but me
Can save myself
But it's too late- Fade to Black
- From deep sleep, I have broken away
No one knows, no one hears what I say- Trapped Under Ice
- Life is for my own, to live my own way.
- Escape
- No damn chains can hold me to the ground!
- Escape
- 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's Son
I'm Creeping Death!- Creeping Death, lyrics by James Hetfield and Kirk Hammett
Master of Puppets (1986)
edit- Crushing all deceivers, mashing non-believers!
- Battery
Lunacy has found me
cannot stop the battery!
- Smashing through the boundaries
Lunacy has found me
cannot stop the battery!- Battery
- Taste me, you will see, more is all you need
- Master of puppets
I'm pulling your strings
Twisting your mind and smashing your dreams- Master of Puppets
- 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- Master of Puppets
- 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- Master of Puppets
- Messenger of fear in sight
Dark deception kills the light!- The Thing That Should Not Be
- Not dead which eternal lie
Stranger eons death may die! (from H.P. Lovecraft. First appeared in his short story "The Call of Cthulhu" as a line from the book of the dead, "Necronomicon".)- The Thing That Should Not Be
- Fearless wretch, insanity
He watches, lurking beneath the sea
Great old one, forbidden sight
He searches, hunter of the shadows is rising.- The Thing That Should Not Be
- Fearless wretch, insanity
He watches, lurking beneath the sea
Time of sleep, has been upset
His waiting, hunter of the shadows is rising.- The Thing That Should Not Be
- 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.
- Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
- They keep me locked up in this cage, can't they see it's why my brain says rage?
- Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
- Mirror stares back hard
Kill, it's such a friendly word, seems the only way for reaching out again.- Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
- Got some death to do!
- Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
- No more can they keep us in
listen, damn it! We will win- Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
- Mutiny in the air!
- Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
- I was born for dying!
- Disposable Heroes
- 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.- Disposable Heroes
- Soldier boy
Made 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- Disposable Heroes
- 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- Disposable Heroes
- Spineless from the start
- Leper Messiah
- Send me money, send me green
Heaven you will meet
Make a contribution
And you'll get a better seat
Bow to leper messiah- Leper Messiah
- Lie! Lie! Lie! Lie!
- Leper Messiah
- Honesty is my only Excuse
- Damage Inc.
- Slamming through
don't fuck with razorback
Stepping out?
You'll feel our hell on your back!- Damage Inc.
- Blood will follow blood
Dying time is here
(whispering) Damage, Incorporated.- Damage Inc.
- Fuck it all and fucking no regrets!
- Damage Inc.
...And Justice for All (1988)
edit- Blackened is the end
Winter it will send- Blackened
- See our mother
Put to death
See our mother die!- Blackened
- Fire
Is the outcome of hypocrisy
Darkest potency
To the exit of humanity
Color our world blackened!- Blackened
- Hammer of Justice crushes you
Overpower- ...And Justice for All
- Seeking no truth
Winning is all
Fighting so grim, so true, so real!- ...And Justice for All
- Nothing can save us!
- ...And Justice for All
- Freedom of choice is made for you my friend
Freedom of speech is words that they will bend
Freedom no longer frees you!
- Truths to you are lies to me
- Eye of the Beholder
- 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.
- Hold my breath as I wish for death
oh please God wake me!- One
- 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- One
- Suspicion is your name
Your honesty to blame
Put dignity to shame
Dishonor!- The Shortest Straw
- Anger, Misery
You'll suffer unto me
- Drink up
Shoot in
Let the beatings begin- Harvester of Sorrow
- 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!
- The Frayed Ends of Sanity
- Twisting under schizophrenia! Falling deep into dementia!
- The Frayed Ends of Sanity
- 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 - borrowed from the chronicles of Thomas the Unbeliever by Stephen R. Donaldson- To Live Is to Die
- Dear mother, dear father
You clipped my wings before I learned to fly
Unspoiled, outspoken
I've outgrown that fucking lullaby!- Dyers Eve
- Same thing I've always heard from you
do as I say not as I do!- Dyers Eve
- Innocence, torn from me without your shelter
Barred reality, I'm living blindly- Dyers Eve
- I'm in hell without you
Cannot cope without you two
Shocked at the world that I see
Innocent victim please rescue me!- Dyers Eve
- Exit light
Enter night
Take my hand
We’re off to never never land!
- Dreams of war
Dreams of Liars
Dreams of Dragon's Fire
And of things that will bite!- Enter Sandman
- 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
- Hate! I'm you're hate! I'm your hate when you want love!
- Sad but True
- You lie so much, you believe yourself
Judge not, lest ye be judged yourself!- Holier Than Thou
- 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
- The Old Man then prepares
To die regretfully
The old man here is me- The Unforgiven
- 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 redefine anywhere. Anywhere I roam
Where I lay my head is home
Carved upon my stone
My body lies but still I roam- Wherever I May Roam
- Love it or leave it
- On through the never
We must go
On through the never
Out to the
Edge of forever
We must go
On through the never
Then never comes- Through the Never
- "Forever trusting who we are 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- Nothing Else Matters
- Wildness is the preservation of the world
so seek the wolf in thyself!- Of Wolf and Man
- Pride you took
Pride you feel
Pride that you felt when you'd kneel
- Broken is the promise, betrayal
The healing hand, held back by the deepened nail
Follow the God that failed!- The God That Failed
- You just stood there screaming
Fearing no one would listen to you- My Friend of Misery
- You insist that the weight of the world, it should be on your shoulders
- My Friend of Misery
- Home is not a home, it becomes a hell
Turning it into your prison cell- The Struggle Within
- Outta my way
Outta my day
Out of your mind and into mine
Into no one
Into not one
Into your step but out of time
- Damn it all down
Damn it unbound
Damn it all down to hell again- Ain't My Bitch
- I'm gonna make you, shake you, take you
I'm gonna be the one who breaks you- 2 X 4
- Friction, fusion, retribution!
- 2 X 4
- The higher you are
the farther you fall
the longer the walk
the farther you crawl- The House Jack Built
- Open my eyes just to have them closed again.
- The House Jack Built
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until it sleeps
- It hates you so hold me
until it sleeps
- So tear me open, but beware! There's things inside without a care.
- Until It Sleeps
- 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
Then the castles crumble and you're left with just a name
Where's your crown, King Nothing!
- 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!- King Nothing
- Mama they try and break me
- The window burns
To light the way back home- Hero of the Day
- Caught under wheels roll
Oh the bleeding of me
- I'm diggin' my way... I'm digging my way to something better.
- Bleeding Me
- The man takes another bullet
He's been fooled again- Cure
- I drown without a sea
Lungs fill with sorrow
Lungs fill with misery- Poor Twisted Me
- Ain't gonna waste my hate
But I'm so greedy when they say
Better to give than to receive- Wasting My Hate
- Son, your life's an open book, don't close it 'fore it's done
- The brightest flame burns quickest
- Mama Said
- Mama, now I'm coming home, I'm not all you wished of me
- Mama Said
- Forgive me father for I have sinned
Find me guilty of the life I feel within- Thorn Within
- All things wash away
But blood stained the sun red today- Ronnie
- The more I search, the more my need
For you
The more I bless, the more I bleed
For you- The Outlaw Torn
Gimme fire
Gimme that which I desire
- Gimme fuel
Gimme fire
Gimme that which I desire
- Fuck'em man
White knuckle tight- Fuel
- Fortune fame, mirror vain, gone insane
But the Memory Remains
- Ash to ash
dust to dust
fade to black- The Memory Remains
- Snake! I am the snake!
Tempting, that bite you take!- Devil's Dance
- Black heart scarring darker still
- The Unforgiven II
- I take this key and I bury it in you, because you're Unforgiven too
- The Unforgiven II
- Oh, can't stop this train from rolling
Oh, no, nothing brings me down
No, I couldn't stop this train from rolling on and on on
No, no, forever holding on
- Don't go looking for snakes
- Slither
- See you crawling in
- Slither
- Draw lead
Piss wine
Sink teeth
All mine
Stoke fire
Break neck
Suffer through this
Cheat on death- Carpe Diem Baby
- Live to win
Dare to fail- Carpe Diem Baby
- Swing the noose again
Pierce the apple skin
You bit more than you need
Now you're choking on the bad seed- Bad Seed
- Off the veil, stand revealed
Bring it on, break the seal
At the mercy, the cat is out
Spit it up, spit it out- Bad Seed
- Steal dream and give to you
Shoplift a thought or two- Where the Wild Things Are
- I'm the filthy one on Bourbon Street, you walk on by
I'm the little boy that pushes hard and makes him cry- Prince Charming
- My eyes seek reality
My fingers seek my veins- Low Man's Lyric
- So I cry to the alley way, confess all to the rain, but I lie, straight to the mirror, one I've broken to match my face.
- Low Man's Lyric
- The trash fire is warm, but nowhere safe from the storm, and I can't bear to see, what I've let me be, so wicked and worn
- Low Man's Lyric
- Throw all your bullets in the fire
And run like hell- Attitude
- Why cure the fever? Whatever happened to sweat?
- Attitude
- Renew our faith which way we can
To fall in love with life again- Fixxxer
- My life-style determines my death-style
- Birth is pain
Life is pain
Death is pain
It's all the same- Frantic
- You live it or lie it.
- Frantic
- Fuck it all and fucking no regrets.
- I'm madly in anger with you!
- St. Anger
- This is the voice of silence no more
- Are we the people
Some kind of monster- Some Kind of Monster
- This monster lives!
- Some Kind of Monster
- Ominous, I am in us!
- Some Kind of Monster
- My court is in session and now I slam my gravel down!
- Dirty Window
- I'm judge and I'm jury and I'm executioner too.
- Dirty Window
- I'm ok, just go away
Into distance let me fade
I'm ok, just go away
I'm ok, but please don't stray too far- Invisible Kid
- The motherfuckers got in my head
tried to make me someone else instead- My World
- Not only do I not know the answer
I don't even know what the question is- My World
- Shoot me again, I ain't dead yet.
- Shoot Me Again
- All the shots I take
I spit back at you.
All the shit you fake
Comes back to haunt you.
All the shots, all the shots.
All the shots I take
What difference did I make?
All the shots I take
I spit back at you.- Shoot Me Again
- She holds my hand and I lie to get a smile
- Sweet Amber
- Wash your back so you don't stab mine.
- Sweet Amber
- Cross my heart hope not to die
Swallow evil, ride the sky
I lose myself in a crowded room
You fool, you fool, it'll be here soon
- Get the fuck out of here
I just wanna get the fuck
away from me
I rage, I glaze
I hurt I hate
I hate it all
why why why me?- The Unnamed Feeling
- Tear it down! Strip the layers off!
- Purify
- Truth and dare
Peeling back the skin
Acid wash
Ghost white
Ultra clean
Wanna be skeleton
Clear eyes
Diamond eyes
Strip the past of mine
My sweet turpentine
Super white bones
Bones of you and I- Purify
- I'll die if I let go
control is love
love is control- All Within My Hands
- I will only let you breathe
My air that you receive
Then we'll see if I let you love me- All Within My Hands
Death Magnetic (2008)
edit- Almost like your life
almost like your endless fight
curse the day is long
realize you don't belong
disconnect somehow
never stop the bleeding now
almost like your fight
and there it went
almost like your life!- That Was Just Your Life
- Drop the hourglass of time
Spilling sand, we will not find
As we gather here today
We bid farewell
The slave becomes the master- The End of the Line
- Death Contagious Deity
- The End of the Line
- They scratch me
They scrape me
They cut and rape me!
- You rise
You fall
You're down and you rise again
What dont kill ya make ya more strong- Broken, Beat & Scarred
- Love is a four-letter word
And never spoken here
Love is a four-letter word
here in this prison.
- I suffer this no longer
I'll put an end to
This I swear
This I swear
the sun will shine
This I swear!
This I swear! This
I
Swear!- The Day That Never Comes
- We hunt you down without mercy
hunt you down all nightmare long
- Still lies
immolation
still lies
infamy
Hallucination
Heresy
Still you run
What's to come
What's to be?- All Nightmare Long
- Suicide
I've already died
you're just the funeral I've been waiting for
Cyanide
Living dead inside
break this empty shell forever more.
- Say is that rain, or are they tears?
They stain your concrete face for years
The crying weeping shedding strife
Year after year, life after life- Cyanide
- How can I be lost if I've got nowhere to go?
Search for Seas of Gold, how come it's got so cold?
How can I be lost? In remembrance I relive
So how can I blame you, when it's me I can't forgive?- The Unforgiven III
- Forgive me...
Forgive me not...
Forgive me...
Forgive me not...
Forgive me...
Forgive me not...
Forgive me...
Forgive me! Why can't I forgive me!- The Unforgiven III
- Judas lives recite this vow
I’ve become your new god now!
- Deadly vision
Prophecy reveal
Death Magnetic
Pulling closer still
- Tyrant awaken my apocalypse!
Demon awaken my apocalypse!
Heaven awaken my apocalypse!
Suffer forever
My apocalypse!- My Apocalypse
Other
edit- Then it comes to be that the soothing light at the end of your tunnel was just a freight train comin' your way
- Squeeze the world, and drip it down my throat again!
- -Human, from the 1999 live album S&M
- Coming up for air!
- -Human
- Do you bury me when I'm gone? Do you teach me while I'm here? Just as soon as I belong, then it's time I disappear!
- Hey hey hey, here I go now, here I go into new days.
- I Disappear
