Ride the Lightning
Metallica
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Fight Fire With Fire
04 : 45
2
Ride the Lightning
06 : 37
3
For Whom the Bell Tolls
05 : 11
4
Fade to Black
06 : 54
5
Trapped Under Ice
04 : 04
6
Escape
04 : 24
7
Creeping Death
06 : 36
8
The Call of Ktulu
08 : 54
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Track Lyrics
Fight Fire With Fire Lyrics
[Instrumental Intro]
[Verse 1]
Do unto others as they've done to you
But what the hell is this world coming to?
Blow the universe into nothingness
Nuclear warfare shall lay us to rest
[Chorus]
Fight fire with fire
Ending is near
Fight fire with fire
Bursting with fear
We all shall die
[Verse 2]
Time is like a fuse, short and burning fast
Armageddon's here, like said in the past
[Chorus]
Fight fire with fire
Ending is near
Fight fire with fire
Bursting with fear
[Guitar Solo]
[Instrumental Break]
[Verse 3]
Soon to fill our lungs, the hot winds of death
The gods are laughing, so take your last breath
[Chorus]
Fight fire with fire
Ending is near
Fight fire with fire
Bursting with fear
[Outro]
Fight fire with fire, fight fire with fire
Fight fire with fire, fight fire with fire
Fight fire with fire, fight fire with fire
Fight fire with fire, fight fire with fire
Fight
Ride the Lightning Lyrics
[Instrumental Intro]
[Verse 1]
Guilty as charged, but damn it, it ain't right
There's someone else controlling me
Death in the air, strapped in the electric chair
This can't be happening to me
Who made you God to say, "I'll take your life from you"?
[Chorus]
Flash before my eyes
Now it's time to die
Burning in my brain
I can feel the flame
[Verse 2]
Wait for the sign to flick the switch of death
It's the beginning of the end
Sweat, chilling cold, as I watch death unfold
Consciousness, my only friend
My fingers grip with fear
What am I doing here?
[Chorus]
Flash before my eyes
Now it's time to die
Burning in my brain
I can feel the flame
[Instrumental Break]
[Bridge]
Someone help me
Oh please, God, help me
They're trying to take it all away
I don't want to die (Ah)
[Instrumental Break]
[Guitar Solo]
[Bridge]
Someone help me
Oh please, God, help me
They're trying to take it all away
I don't want to die (Ah)
[Instrumental Break]
[Verse 3]
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
[Chorus]
Flash before my eyes
Now it's time to die
Burning in my brain
I can feel the flame
[Instrumental Outro]
For Whom the Bell Tolls Lyrics
[Instrumental Intro]
[Verse 1]
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’re right, yes, but who's to say?
For a hill, men would kill, why? They do not know
Stiffened wounds test their pride
Men of five, still alive, through the raging glow
Gone insane from the pain that they surely know
[Chorus]
For whom the bell tolls
Time marches on
For whom the bell tolls
[Instrumental Break]
[Verse 2]
Take a look to the sky just before you die
It's 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
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
[Chorus]
For whom the bell tolls
Time marches on
For whom the bell tolls
[Instrumental Outro]
Fade to Black Lyrics
[Guitar Solo]
[Verse 1]
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
[Guitar Solo]
[Verse 2]
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
[Bridge]
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
(Goodbye)
[Guitar Solo]
Trapped Under Ice Lyrics
[Verse 1]
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
[Chorus]
Freezing (Freezing), can't move at all
Screaming (Screaming), can't hear my call
I am dying to live
Cry out, I'm trapped under ice
[Verse 2]
Crystallized as I lay here and rest
Eyes of glass stare directly at death
From deep sleep, I have broken away
No one knows, no one hears what I say
[Chorus]
Freezing (Freezing), can't move at all
Screaming (Screaming), can't hear my call
I am dying to live
Cry out, I'm trapped under ice
[Bridge]
(Scream) From my soul
(Fate) Mystified
(Hell) Forevermore
(Scream) From my soul
(Fate) Mystified
(Hell) Forevermore
[Instrumental Break]
[Guitar Solo]
[Verse 3]
No release from my cryonic state
What is this? I've been stricken by fate
Wrapped up tight, cannot move, can't break free
Hand of doom has a tight grip on me
[Chorus]
Freezing (Freezing), can't move at all
Screaming (Screaming), can't hear my call
I am dying to live
Cry out, I'm trapped under ice
Freezing (Freezing), can't move at all
Screaming (Screaming), can't hear my call
I am dying to live
Cry out, I'm trapped under ice
Escape Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Feel no pain, but my life ain't easy
I know I'm my best friend
No one cares, but I'm so much stronger
I'll fight until the end
To escape from the true false world
Undamaged destiny
Can't get caught in the endless circle
Ring of stupidity
[Chorus]
Out for my own, out to be free
One with my mind, they just can't see
No need to hear things that they say
Life's for my own to live my own way
[Verse 2]
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
[Chorus]
Out for my own, out to be free
One with my mind, they just can't see
No need to hear things that they say
Life's for my own to live my own way
[Bridge]
See them try to bring the hammer down
No damn chains can hold me to the ground
[Guitar Solo]
[Outro]
Life's for my own to live my own way
Life's for my own to live my own way
Life's for my own to live my own way
Life's for my own to live my own way
Life's for my own to live my own way
Life's for my own to live my own way
Life's for my own to live my own way
Life's for my own to live my own way
Creeping Death Lyrics
[Instrumental Intro]
[Verse 1]
Slaves, Hebrews born to serve to the Pharaoh
Heed to his every word, live in fear
Faith of the unknown one, the deliverer
Wait, something must be done, four-hundred years
[Chorus]
So let it be written, so let it be done
I'm sent here by the chosen one
So let it be written, so let it be done
To kill the first-born Pharaoh son
I'm creeping death
[Verse 2]
Now, let my people go, land of Goshen
Go, I will be with thee bush of fire
Blood, running red and strong down the Nile
Plague, darkness three days long, hail to fire
[Chorus]
So let it be written, so let it be done
I'm sent here by the chosen one
So let it be written, so let it be done
To kill the first-born Pharaoh son
I'm creeping death
[Guitar Solo]
[Bridge]
Die by my hand (Die, die, die)
I creep across the land (Die, die)
Killing first-born man (Die, die, die)
Die by my hand (Die, die, die)
I creep across the land (Die, die)
Killing first-born man (Die, die, die)
[Verse 3]
I rule the midnight air, the destroyer
Born, I shall soon be there, deadly mass
I creep the steps and floor, final darkness
Blood, lamb's blood-painted door I shall pass
[Chorus]
So let it be written, so let it be done
I'm sent here by the chosen one
So let it be written, so let it be done
To kill the first-born Pharaoh son
I'm creeping death
[Instrumental Outro]