I'm Outlaw torn" "Just a Bullet Away" - Beyond Magnetic (2011) The more I bless, the more I bleed for you "The more I search, the more my need for you He searches, hunter of the shadows is risingįallen city, living death" "The Outlaw Torn" - Load (1996) I shall pass" "The Thing That Should Not Be" - Master of Puppets (1986) So I dub thee 'Unforgiven'" "Creeping Death" - Ride the Lightning (lyrics with Kirk Hammett) He's known, ooh, a vow unto his own that never from this day With time the child draws in this whipping boy done wrongĭeprived of all his thoughts, the young man struggles on and on
Through constant pained disgrace, the young boy learns their rules "New blood joins this Earth and quickly he's subdued I was me, but now he's gone" "The Unforgiven" - Metallica (The Black Album) (1991) I can feel the flame" "Fade to Black" - Ride the Lightning "Guilty as charged, but damn, it ain't rightĭeath in the air, strapped in the electric chair "Ride the Lightning" - Ride the Lightning (1984) Here are 11 more reminders of what's coming, and that one year's birthday will be your last. Hetfield with Metallica bandmates Robert Trujillo, Lars Ulrich and Kirk Hammett on in Los Angeles, California. Taken my soul, left me with life in Hell"
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The music video famously used scenes from Dalton Trumbo's 1971 anti-war movie Johnny Got His Gun, in which the terribly wounded soldier eventually learns to communicate with his doctors and nurses, signaling "kill me" in Morse code over and over with movements of his head. And Justice for All, Hetfield described a soldier whose limbs and face were blown off by a landmine, who wishes for death from inside the prison his body has become. In "One," their third single from their fourth studio album, 1988's. While several Metallica songs are more explicitly inspired by the loss of Hetfield's mother Cynthia Bassett, the theme was more often expressed through Metallica's repeated invocation of soldiers, buffeted by powers larger than themselves. Some of Hetfield's most famous lyrics also describe the body's decay, or the sensation of feeling alienated from our own forms-a recurring theme from a songwriter who once seemed haunted by his mother's death from cancer when he was 16, and the Christian Science beliefs that disallowed treatments. Stranger now are his eyes to this mystery Shattered goal fill his soul with a ruthless cry
"Take a look to the sky just before you dieīlackened roar, massive roar fills the crumbling sky In "For Whom the Bell Tolls," off Metallica's second studio album Ride the Lightning (1984), Hetfield writes of five soldiers who charge a hill and find their deaths: Hetfield's lyrics have also long been focused on powerful forces that burn down the lives of soldiers and young people, who are often only compensated with the final, sublime truth of their destruction. It wouldn't be metal without the omnipresence of death, but Hetfield's lyrics often write about our last moments as a confrontation with something dark and terrible.
Most Metallica songs are credited to Hetfield and Ulrich (with Hammett also frequently credited)-who often begin with instrumental licks, riffs and bars, then refine them into furiously-paced arrangements-but almost all Metallica lyrics, across ten studio albums, were penned by Hetfield. Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Imagesīut whatever the composition of Metallica, Hetfield's lyrics have remained one of the band's anchor points. James Hetfield of Metallica performs on Novemin Las Vegas, Nevada.