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DEATH MAGNETIC
Lyrics © 2008 Creeping Death Music, ASCAP
This ninth full release by Metallica finds them again searching back for their heavier roots, going so far as to borrow small chunks of guitar licks and other grooves from their earlier albums like Kill 'Em All and Ride the Lightning, but with some of the melodic vocalizations of the Load/Reload era. Best yet is the return of the balanced Metallica "sound," including some excellent guitar solos by Hammett and some great bass work from new band member Robert Trujillo.
This is certainly the album that long time fans have been waiting for. If you're an old school Metallica fan and don't like this album, then I think you just like to whine, get over it. :) It's hard to nail down the best tracks on this release but, if I had to, right now I'd vote for Broken, Beat & Scarred, All Nightmare Long, The Judas Kiss, My Apocalypse, and the epic instrumental Suicide & Redemption.
Metallica's lineup for this release was: James Hetfield - Vocals, Rhythm Guitar; Kirk Hammett - Lead Guitar; Robert Trujillo - Bass; Lars Ulrich - Drums. This is the first album with Trujillo and also the first album produced by Rick Rubin after a long time stint by Bob Rock as their producer.
THAT WAS JUST YOUR LIFE (7:10)
(Hetfield/Ulrich/Hammett/Trujillo)
Like a siren in my head that always threatens to repeat
Like a blind man that is strapped into the speeding driver's seat
Like a face that learns to speak, when all it knew was how to fight
Like a misery that keeps me though I've gone astray
Like an illness that I'm about to waken from its state
Contradiction,
A premonition,
Not worthy of, so I deny
I deny.
I blind my eyes and try to force it all into place
I stitch them up, see not my fall from grace
I blind my eyes, I hardly feel it passing me by
I open just in time to say goodbye
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
[Solo]
Like a wound that keeps on bleeding to remind me not to think
Like a raging river drowning, when I only need a drink
Like a poison, that I swallow, but I want the world to die
Like a release from a prison that I didn't know I was in,
Like a fight to live the past I prayed to leave from way back then
Like a general without a mission until the wars start again
Start again.
I blind my eyes and try and force it all into place
I stitch them up, see not my fall from grace
I blind my eyes, I hardly feel it passing me by
I open just in time to say goodbye
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
Like a touch from hell to feel how hot
That it can get if you get caught
Like a strike from heaven that turns that key
That brings you straight down to your knees
Like a touch from hell to feel how hot
That it can get if you get caught
Like a strike from heaven to reprieve
That brings you straight down to your knees
Almost like your life
Almost like your endless fight
Cursed, 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
THE END OF THE LINE (7:50)
(Hetfield/Ulrich/Hammett/Trujillo)
Note: This lyrics for this song have not been fully verified; I will do so soon.
Need More and more Tainted misery
Bleed Battle scars Chemical affinity
Reign Legacy Innocence corrode
Stain Rot away Catatonic overload
Choke Asphyxia Snuff reality
Scorch Kill the light Incinerate celebrity
Reaper Butchery Karma amputee
Bloodline Breeding fine Death contagious deity
Hooked into this deceiver Need more and more Into the endless fever Need more and more
New consequence machine Burn through all your gasoline Asylum overtime Never mind You reach the end of the line
Time Choke the clock Steal another day
Die Faithfully Narcissistic fade away
Twisted Jump the rail Shout at the crowd below
Breaker Chase the ghost The latest high to all time low
Hooked into this deceiver Need more and more Into the endless fever Need more and more
New consequence machine Burn through all your gasoline Asylum overtime Never mind You reach the end of the line
Drop the hourglass of time Spinning sand we will not find As we gather here today We bid farewell
The slave becomes the master The slave becomes the master The slave becomes the master The slave becomes the master
Need more and more Right now and ever after Need more and more
New consequence machine Burn through all your gasoline Asylum overtime Never mind
Dead hourglass of time Sand we will not ever find We gather here today Say goodbye 'Cause you've reached the end of the line
The end of the line The end of the line The end of the line You've reached the end of the line
BROKEN, BEAT & SCARRED (6:25)
(Hetfield/Ulrich/Hammett/Trujillo)
Note: This lyrics for this song have not been fully verified; I will do so soon.
You rise you fall
You're down then you rise again
What don’t kill you will make you more strong
You rise you fall
You're down then you rise again
What don’t kill you will make you more strong
Rise fall down rise again
What don’t kill you will make you more strong
Rise fall down rise again
What don’t kill you will make you more strong
Through black days
Through black nights
Through pitch black insights
Breaking your teeth on the hard live coming
Show your scars
Cutting your feet on the hard earth running
Show your scars
Breaking your life, broken, beat and scarred
We die hard
The dawn the death
The fight to the final breath
What don’t kill you will make you more strong
The dawn the death
The fight to the final breath
What don’t kill you will make you more strong
Dawn death fight final breath
What don’t kill you will make you more strong
Dawn death fight final breath
What don’t kill you will make you more strong
They scratch me
They scrape me
They cut and rape me
Breaking your teeth on the hard life coming
Show your scars
Cutting your feet on the hard earth running
Show your scars
Breaking your life, broken, beat and scarred
We die hard
Breaking your teeth on the hard life coming
Show your scars
Cutting your feet on the hard earth running
Show your scars
Breaking your life, broken, beat and scarred
We die hard
THE DAY THAT NEVER COMES (7:55)
(Hetfield/Ulrich/Hammett/Trujillo)
Note: This lyrics for this song have not been fully verified; I will do so soon.
Born to push you around
You better just stay down
You pull away
He hits the flesh
You hit the ground
Mouths so full of lies
Tend to black your eyes
Just keep them closed
Keep praying
Just keep waiting
Waiting for the one
The day that never comes
When you stand up and feel the warmth
But the sunshine never comes
No the sunshine never comes
Push you cross that line
Just stay down this time
Hide in yourself
Crawl in yourself
You'll have your time
God I'll make them pay
Take it back one day
I'll end this day
I'll splatter color on this grave
Waiting for the one
The day that never comes
When you stand up and feel the warmth
But the sunshine never comes
No the sunshine never comes
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 put it into
This I swear!
This I swear!
The sun will shine
This I swear!
This I swear!
This I swear!
ALL NIGHTMARE LONG (8:01)
(Hetfield/Ulrich/Hammett/Trujillo)
Note: This lyrics for this song have not been fully verified; I will do so soon.
Luck
Runs
Out
Crawl from the wreckage one more time,
Horrific memory twists the mind,
Dark, rutted (rugged?), cold and hard to turn,
Path of destruction, feel it burn.
Still life,
Incarnation,
Still life,
Infamy.
Hallucination,
Heresy,
Still you run,
What's to come?
What's to be?
'Cause we'll hunt you down without mercy,
Hunt you down all nightmare long,
Feel us breathe upon your face,
Feel our shift, every move we trace.
Hunt you down without mercy,
Hunt you down all nightmare long, yeah.
Luck runs...
And you crawl out again,
But your luck runs out.
(One, two...)
Luck runs out.
The light that is not light is here
To flush you out with your own fear,
You hide, you hide,
But will be found,
Release your grip without a sound,
Still life,
Immolation,
Still life,
Infamy.
Hallucination,
Heresy,
Still you run,
What's to come?
What's to be?
'Cause we'll hunt you down without mercy,
Hunt you down all nightmare long,
Feel us breathe upon your face,
Feel our shift, every move we trace.
Hunt you down without mercy,
Hunt you down all nightmare long, yeah.
Luck runs...
And you crawl out again,
But your luck runs out.
(Solo #1)
(Solo #2)
Then you crawl back in,
Into your obsession,
Never to return,
This is your confession.
Hunt you down without mercy,
Hunt you down all nightmare long.
Feel us breathe upon your face,
Feel our shift, every move we trace.
Hunt you down without mercy,
Hunt you down all nightmare long, yeah.
Luck runs...
And you crawl out again,
But your luck runs out.
CYANIDE (6:41)
(Hetfield/Ulrich/Hammett/Trujillo)
Note: This lyrics for this song have not been fully verified; I will do so soon.
Sleep and dream of this
Death angel's kiss
Brings final bliss
Don't believe it!
Empty are they
Death, won't you let me stay?
Empty they say
Death, won't you call your name?
Oh, call your name!
Suicide, I've already died
It's just the funeral I've been waiting for
Cyanide, living dead inside
Break this empty shell forevermore
Wait, wait patiently
Your death-black wings
Unfolding sleep
Treading on me
Empty they say
Death, won't you let me stay?
Empty they say
Death, hear me call your name
Oh, call your name!
Suicide, I've already died
It's just the funeral I've been waiting for
Cyanide, living dead inside
Break this empty shell forevermore
Say, is that rain or are they tears?
That stained your concrete face for years
Crying, weeping, shedding strife
Year after year, life after life
A narrow freshly broken ground
A concrete angel laid right down
Upon the moon that swallows fast
It's peace at last
Oh, peace at last
Empty they say
Death, won't you let me stay?
Empty they say
Death, hear me call your name
Oh, call your name
Suicide, I've already died
It's just the funeral I've been waiting for
Cyanide, living dead inside
Break this empty shell forevermore
Forevermore!
Forevermore!
It's the funeral I've been waiting for!
THE UNFORGIVEN III (7:47)
(Hetfield/Ulrich/Hammett/Trujillo)
Note: This lyrics for this song have not been fully verified; I will do so soon.
How could he know this new dawn's light
Would change his life forever?
Set sail to sea but pulled off course
By the light of golden treasure
Was he the one causing pain
With his careless dreaming?
Been afraid
Always afraid
Of the things he's feeling
He could just be gone
He would just sail on
He would just sail on
How can I be lost?
If I've got nowhere to go?
Searched the seas of gold
How come it's got so cold?
How can I be lost
In remembrance I relive
How can I blame you
When it's me I can't forgive?
These days drift on inside a fog
It's thick and suffocating
This seeking life outside its hell
Inside intoxicating
He's run aground
Like his life
Water's much too shallow
Slipping fast
Down with the ship
Fading in the shadows now
A castaway
Blame
All gone
Away
Blame gone away
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
And how can I blame you
When it's me I can't forgive?
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?
Set sail to sea but pulled off course
By the light of golden treasure
How could he know this new dawn's light
Would change his life forever
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 JUDAS KISS (8:02)
(Hetfield/Ulrich/Hammett/Trujillo)
Note: This lyrics for this song have not been fully verified; I will do so soon.
When the world has turned its back
When the days have turned pitch black
When the fear abducts your tongue
When the fire's dead and gone
So what now?
Where do I head?
When you think it's all said and done
When you are the ostracized
Selfish written, dead goodbyes
Twisting of the tourniquet
When the pieces never fit
So what now?
Where do I head?
When you think it's all said and done
Bow down
Sell your soul to me
I will set you free
Pacify your demons
Bow down
Surrender unto me
Submit infectiously
Sanctify your demons
Into abyss
You don't exist
Cannot resist
The Judas kiss
When the storm has blacked your sky
Intuition crucify
When the ego strips your reign
Assasinate the living flame
So what now?
Where do I head?
When you think it's all said and done
Venom of a life insane
Bites into your fragile veins
Internalize and decimate
Pitting it as complicate
So what now?
Where do I head?
When you think it's all said and done
Bow down
Sell your soul to me
I will set you free
Pacify your demons
Bow down
Surrender unto me
Submit infectiously
Sanctify your demons
Into abyss
You don't exist
Cannot resist
The Judas kiss
Judas lives recite this vow
I've become your new god now
Follow you from dawn of time
Whisper thoughts into your mind
Watched your towers hit the ground
Lured the children never found
Helped your kings abuse their crown
In the heart of evil man
Plant the seeds of my own plan
Strong and powerful will fall
Find a piece of me in all
Inside you all
So bow down
Sell your soul to me
I will set you free
Pacify your demons
Bow down
Surrender unto me
Submit infectiously
Sanctify your demons
Into abyss
You don't exist
Cannot resist
The Judas kiss
SUICIDE & REDEMPTION (10:02)
(Hetfield/Ulrich/Hammett/Trujillo)
- Instrumental
MY APOCALYPSE (5:01)
(Hetfield/Ulrich/Hammett/Trujillo)
Note: This lyrics for this song have not been fully verified; I will do so soon.
Claustrophobic
Crawl out of this skin
Hard explosive
Reaching for that pin
Feel thy name extermination
Desecrating, hail of fire
So we cross that line
Into the crypt
Total eclipse
Suffer unto my apocalypse!
Deadly vision
Prophecy revealed
Death magnetic
Pulling closer still
Feel thy name annihilation
Desolating, Hail of Fire
So we cross that line
Into the crypt
Total eclipse
Suffer unto my apocalypse!
My apocalypse... Go!
Crushing metal, Ripping Skin
Tossing body mannequin
Spilling Blood, Bleeding Gas
Mangle flesh, Snapping spine
Dripping bloody valentine
Shattered face, spitting glass
Split apart
Split apart
Split apart
Split
Spit it out!
What makes me drift a litter bit closer
Dead man takes the steering wheel
What makes me know it's time to cross over
Words you repeat until I feel
See through the skin the bones they all rattle
Future and past they disagree
Flesh falls away the bones they all shatter
I start to see the end in me
See the end in me...
Claustrophobic
Climb out of this skin
Hard explosive
Waiting for that pin
Violate, annihilate
A loser to my eyes
Obliterate, exterminate
At last accept, deny
Feel thy name as hell awakens
Destiny, Inhale the Fire
But we cross that line
Into the crypt
Total eclipse
Suffer unto my apocalypse!
Tyrants awaken my apocalypse!
Demon awaken my apocalypse!
Heaven awaken my apocalypse!
Suffer forever my apocalypse!
Copyright © 2013 By Bob Curtis