…And Justice for All
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Blackened
06 : 43
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…And Justice for All
09 : 45
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Eye of the Beholder
06 : 25
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One
07 : 26
5
The Shortest Straw
06 : 35
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Harvester of Sorrow
05 : 45
7
The Frayed Ends of Sanity
07 : 44
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To Live Is to Die
09 : 48
9
Dyers Eve
05 : 14
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Track Lyrics
Blackened Lyrics
[Instrumental Intro]
[Verse 1]
Blackened is the end, winter it will send
Throwing all you see into obscurity
Death of Mother Earth, never her rebirth
Evolution's end, never will it mend
Never
[Chorus]
Fire to begin whipping dance of the dead
Blackened is the end
To begin whipping dance of the dead
Color our world blackened
[Verse 2]
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
[Chorus]
Fire to begin whipping dance of the dead
Blackened is the end
To begin whipping dance of the dead
Color our world blackened
Blackened
[Bridge]
Opposition (Opposition)
Contradiction (Contradiction)
Premonition (Premonition)
Compromise
Agitation (Agitation)
Violation (Violation)
Mutilation (Mutilation)
Planet dies
Darkest color, blistered Earth
True death of life
(Termination, termination, termination) Termination
(Expiration) Expiration
(Cancellation) Cancellation human race
(Expectation) Expectation
(Liberation) Liberation
(Population) Population laid to waste
See our mother put to death
See our mother die
[Guitar Solo]
[Verse 3]
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
[Chorus]
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 Lyrics
[Instrumental Intro]
[Verse 1]
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
[Pre-Chorus]
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 pay, nothing can save you
[Chorus]
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
[Verse 2]
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
[Pre-Chorus]
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 pay, nothing can save you
[Chorus]
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
[Guitar Solo]
[Instrumental Break]
[Verse 3]
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
[Pre-Chorus]
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
We pay, nothing can save us
[Chorus]
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
[Outro]
Seeking no truth, winning is all
Find it so grim, so true, so real
Eye of the Beholder Lyrics
[Instrumental Intro]
[Verse 1]
Do you see what I see? Truth is an offense
Your 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
[Pre-Chorus]
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
[Chorus]
Independence limited
Freedom of choice is made for you, my friend
Freedom of speech is words that they will bend
Freedom with their exception
[Verse 2]
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
[Pre-Chorus]
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
[Chorus]
Independence limited
Freedom of choice is made for you, my friend
Freedom of speech is words that they will bend
Freedom with their exception
[Instrumental Break]
[Guitar Solo]
[Verse 3]
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
[Pre-Chorus]
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
[Chorus]
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
[Outro]
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 Lyrics
[Skit: James Hetfield & Jason Newsted]
Goddamn coward! Get your ass out of that trench!
Move, move, move, move, move!
Get out of here! Oh fuck!
We're all fucking trapped here, we're all fucking trapped here!
[Instrumental Intro]
[Verse 1: James Hetfield]
I can't remember anything
Can't tell if this is true or a dream
Deep down inside, I feel the 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
[Chorus: James Hetfield]
Hold my breath as I wish for death
Oh, please, God, wake me
[Verse 2: James Hetfield]
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
[Chorus: James Hetfield]
Hold my breath as I wish for death
Oh, please, God, wake me
[Guitar Solo]
[Chorus: James Hetfield]
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
[Instrumental Break]
[Bridge: James Hetfield]
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
[Guitar Solo]
[Instrumental Outro]
The Shortest Straw Lyrics
[Instrumental Intro]
[Verse 1]
Suspicion is your name
Your honesty to blame
Put dignity to shame, dishonor
Witch-hunt, modern day
Determining decay
The blatant disarray, disfigure
The public eyes' disgrace
Defying common place
Unending paper chase, unending
[Pre-Chorus]
Deafening
Painstaking
Reckoning
This vertigo it doth bring
[Chorus]
Shortest straw, challenge liberty
Downed by law, live in infamy
Rub you raw, witch-hunt riding through
Shortest straw
The shortest straw has been pulled for you
[Post-Chorus]
Pulled for you (Shortest straw)
Pulled for you (Shortest straw)
Pulled for you (Shortest straw)
Shortest straw has been pulled for you
[Instrumental Break]
[Verse 2]
The accusations fly
Discrimination, why?
Your inner self to die, intruding
Doubt sunk itself in you
Its teeth and talons through
You're living Catch-22, deluding
A mass hysteria
A megalomania
Reveal dementia, reveal
[Pre-Chorus]
Secretly
Silently
Certainly
In vertigo you will be
[Chorus]
Shortest straw, challenge liberty
Downed by law, live in infamy
Rub you raw, witch-hunt riding through
Shortest straw
The shortest straw has been pulled for you
[Post-Chorus]
Pulled for you (Shortest straw)
Pulled for you (Shortest straw)
Pulled for you (Shortest straw)
Shortest straw has been pulled for you
[Guitar Solo]
[Post-Chorus]
(Shortest straw)
Pulled for you (Shortest straw)
Pulled for you (Shortest straw)
Pulled for you (Shortest straw)
Shortest straw has been pulled for you
[Guitar Solo]
[Verse 3]
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
[Pre-Chorus]
Channels red
One word said
Blacklisted
With vertigo make you dead
[Chorus]
Shortest straw, challenge liberty
Downed by law, live in infamy
Rub you raw, witch-hunt riding through
Shortest straw
The shortest straw has been pulled for you
Pulled for you
[Instrumental Outro]
Harvester of Sorrow Lyrics
[Instrumental Intro]
[Verse 1]
My life suffocates
Planting the 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've turned this lie to truth
[Pre-Chorus]
Anger, misery
You'll suffer unto me
[Chorus]
Harvester of sorrow (Language of the mad)
Harvester of sorrow
[Verse 2]
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
[Pre-Chorus]
Anger, misery
You'll suffer unto me
[Chorus]
Harvester of sorrow (Language of the mad)
Harvester of sorrow
[Guitar Solo]
[Instrumental Break]
[Verse 3]
All have said their prayers
Invade their nightmares
To see into my eyes
You'll find where murder lies
Infanticide
[Chorus]
Harvester of sorrow (Language of the mad)
Harvester of sorrow (Language of the mad)
[Outro]
Harvester of sorrow
Harvester of sorrow
Harvester of sorrow
Harvester of sorrow
Harvester of sorrow
Harvester of sorrow
The Frayed Ends of Sanity Lyrics
[Intro]
Oh-wee-oh, wee-oh
Oh-wee-oh, wee-oh
Oh-wee-oh, wee-oh
Oh-wee-oh, wee-oh
Oh-wee-oh, wee-oh
Oh-wee-oh, wee-oh
[Verse 1]
Never hunger, never prosper
I have fallen prey to failure
Struggle within, triggered again
Now the candle burns at both ends
[Pre-Chorus]
Twisting under schizophrenia
Falling deep into dementia
[Chorus]
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
[Verse 2]
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
[Pre-Chorus]
Loss of interest, question, wonder
Waves of fear, they pull me under
[Chorus]
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
[Instrumental Break]
[Guitar Solo]
[Verse 3]
Into ruin I am sinking
Hostage of this nameless feeling
Hell is set free, flooded I'll be
Feel the undertow inside me
[Pre-Chorus]
Height, hell, time, haste, terror, tension
Life, death, want, waste, mass depression
[Chorus]
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 Lyrics
[Instrumental]
[Interlude]
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?
[Instrumental]
Dyers Eve Lyrics
[Instrumental Intro]
[Verse 1]
Dear mother, dear father
What is this hell you have put me through?
Believer, deceiver
Day in, day out, lived my life through you
Pushed onto me what's wrong or right
Hidden from this thing that they call life
[Verse 2]
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
[Chorus]
Innocence, torn from me
Without your shelter
Barred reality
I'm living blindly
[Verse 3]
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
[Verse 4]
Dear mother, dear father
You 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"
[Chorus]
Innocence, torn from me
Without your shelter
Barred reality
I'm living blindly
[Instrumental Break]
[Guitar Solo]
[Bridge]
I'm in hell without you
Cannot cope without you two
Shocked at the world that I see
Innocent victim, please rescue me
[Verse 5]
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
[Outro]
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