Metallica

[AlreadyDead]

Ride the Lightning

Ride the Lightning

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”?


Flash before my eyes
Now it’s time to die
Burning in my brain
I can feel the flames

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 I am doing here?

Flash before my eyes

Now it’s time to die
Burning in my brain
I can feel the flames

Someone help me

Oh please, God help me
They’re trying to take it all away

I don’t want to die

Someone help me
Oh please, God help me
They’re trying to take it all away
I don’t want to die

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 the horrid scream
Freed from the frightening dream

Flash before my eyes

Now it’s time to die
Burning in my brain
I can feel the flames

 

[AlreadyDead]

Trapped Under Ice

Trapped Under Ice

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

Freezing! Can’t move at all

Screaming! Can’t hear my call

I am dying to live

Cry out! I’m trapped under ice

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

Freezing! Can’t move at all

Screaming! Can’t hear my call

I am dying to live

Cry out! I’m trapped under ice

Scream! From my soul

Fate! Mystified

Hell! Forevermore

Scream! From my soul

Fate! Mystified

Hell! Forever more

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

Freezing! Can’t move at all

Screaming! Can’t hear my call

I am dying to live

Cry out! I’m trapped under ice

Freezing! Can’t move at all

Screaming! Can’t hear my call

I am dying to live

Cry out! I’m trapped under ice

 

[AlreadyDead]

The Thing That Should Not Be

The Thing That Should Not Be

Messenger of fear in sight
Dark deception kills the light

Hybrid children watch the sea
Pray for father, roaming free

Fearless wretch
Insanity
He watches
Lurking beneath the sea

Great old one
Forbidden site
He searches
Hunter of the shadows is rising

Immortal
In madness you dwell

Crawling chaos, underground
Cult has summoned, twisted sound

Out from ruins once possessed
Fallen city, living death

Fearless wretch
Insanity
He watches
Lurking beneath the sea

Timeless sleep
Has been upset
He awakens
Hunter of the shadows is rising

Immortal
In madness you dwell

In madness you dwell

Not dead which eternal lie
Stranger eons, death may die

Drain you of your sanity
Face the thing that should not be

Fearless wretch
Insanity
He watches
Lurking beneath the sea

Great old one
Forbidden site
He searches
Hunter of the shadows is rising

Immortal
In madness you dwell

 

[AlreadyDead]

Welcome Home (Sanitarium)

Welcome Home (Sanitarium)

Welcome to where time stands still
No one leaves and no one will
Moon is full, never seems to change
Just labeled mentally deranged

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

Sleep my friend and you will see
That dream is my reality
They keep me locked up in this cage
Can’t they see it’s why my brain says rage?

Sanitarium
Leave me be
Sanitarium
Just leave me alone

Build my fear of what’s out there
And cannot breathe the open air
Whisper things into my brain
Assuring me that I’m insane

They think our heads are in their hands
But violent use brings violent plans
Keep him tied, it makes him well
He’s getting better, can’t you tell?

No more can they keep us in
Listen, damn it, we will win
They see it right, they see it well
But they think this saves us from our hell

Sanitarium
Leave me be
Sanitarium
Just leave me alone

Sanitarium
Just leave me alone!

Fear of living on
Natives getting restless now
Mutiny in the air
Got some death to do

Mirror stares back hard
Kill it’s such a friendly word
Seems the only way
For reaching out again

 

[AlreadyDead]

Disposable Heroes

Disposable Heroes

Bodies fill the fields I see, hungry heroes end
No one to play soldier now, no one to pretend
Running blind through killing fields, bred to kill them all
Victim of what said should be, a servant ‘till I fall

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, Greeting Death, he’s yours to take away

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

Barking of machine gun fire, does nothing to me now
Sounding of the clock that ticks, get used to it somehow
More a man, more stripes you wear, glory seeker trends
Bodies fill the fields I see, the slaughter never ends

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, Greeting Death, he’s yours to take away

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

Why!? Am I dying?
Kill! Have no fear
Lie! Live off lying
Hell! Hell is here

Why!? Am I dying?
Kill! Have no fear
Lie! Live off lying
Hell! Hell is here

I was born for dying

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

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, Greeting Death, he’s yours to take away

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

Back to the front

Back to the front
Back to the front
Back to the front
Back to the front

 

[AlreadyDead]

Leper Messiah

Leper Messiah

One, two, one, two, three, four, one

Spineless from the start
Sucked into the part
Circus comes to town
You play the lead clown

Please! Please! Spreading his disease
Living by his story
Knees! Knees! Falling to your knees
Suffer for his glory, you will

Time for lust, time for lie, time to kiss your life goodbye
Send me money, send me green, heaven you will meet
Make a contribution and you’ll get a better seat
Bow to leper messiah

Marvel at his tricks
Need your Sunday fix
Blind devotion came
Rotting your brain

Chain! Chain! Join the endless chain
Taken by his glamour
Fame! Fame! Infection is the game
Stinking drunk with power, we see

Time for lust, time for lie, time to kiss your life goodbye
Send me money, send me green, heaven you will meet
Make a contribution and you’ll get the better seat
Bow to leper messiah

Witchery, weakening
Sees the sheep are gathering
Set the trap, hypnotize
Now you follow

Time for lust, time for lie, time to kiss your life goodbye
Send me money, send me green, heaven you will meet
Make a contribution and you’ll get the better seat

Lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie, lie!

 

[AlreadyDead]

The Shortest Straw

The Shortest Straw

Suspicion is your name, your honesty to blame, put dignity to shame, dishonor
Witchhunt modern day, determining decay, the blatant disarray, disfigure
The public eyes’ disgrace, defying common place, unending paper chase, unending
Deafening, painstaking, reckoning, this vertigo it doth bring

Shortest straw, challenge liberty, downed by law
Live in infamy, rub you raw
Witchhunt riding through, shortest straw
This shortest straw has been pulled for you

Pulled for you (Shortest straw)
Pulled for you (Shortest straw)
Pulled for you (Shortest straw)
Shortest straw has been pulled for you

The accusations fly, discrimination, why? Your inner self to die, intruding
Doubt sunk itself in you , it’s teeth and talons through, your living catch 22, deluding
A mass hysteria, a megalomania, reveal dementia, reveal
Secretly, silently, certainly, in vertigo you will be

Shortest straw, challenge liberty, downed by law
Live in infamy, rub you raw
Witchhunt riding through, shortest straw
This shortest straw has been pulled for you

Pulled for you (Shortest straw)
Pulled for you (Shortest straw)
Pulled for you (Shortest straw)
Shortest straw has been pulled for you

(Shortest straw) Pulled for you
(Shortest straw) Pulled for you
(Shortest straw) Pulled for you
(Shortest straw) Shortest straw has been pulled for you

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
Channels red, one word said, blacklisted, with vertigo make you dead

Shortest straw, challenge liberty, downed by law
Live in infamy, rub you raw
Witchhunt riding through, shortest straw
This shortest straw has been pulled for you

Pulled for you

 

[AlreadyDead]

Harvester of Sorrow

Harvester of Sorrow

My life suffocates, planting 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 turned this lie to truth

Anger! Misery!
You’ll suffer unto me

Harvester of sorrow (Language of the mad)
Harvester of sorrow

Uh!

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

Anger! Misery!
You’ll suffer unto me

Harvester of sorrow (Language of the mad)
Harvester of sorrow

Uah!

All have said their prayers, invade their nightmares
To see into my eyes, you’ll find where murder lies

Infanticide

Harvester of sorrow (Language of the mad)
Harvester of sorrow (Language of the mad)

Harvester of sorrow
Harvester of sorrow
Harvester of sorrow
Harvester of sorrow
Harvester of sorrow
Harvester of sorrow

 

[AlreadyDead]

The Frayed Ends of Sanity

The Frayed Ends of Sanity

Oh-e-oh! Eoh!
Oh-e-oh! Eoh!
Oh-e-oh! Eoh!
Oh-e-oh! Eoh!
Oh-e-oh! Eoh!
Oh-e-oh! Eoh!

Never hunger, never prosper, I have fallen prey to failure
Struggle within, triggered again, now the candle burns at both ends
Twisting under schizophrenia
Falling deep into dementia

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

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
Loss of interest, question, wonder
Waves of fear they pull me under

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

Into ruin, I am sinking, hostage of this nameless feeling
Hell is set free, flooded I’ll be, feel the undertow inside me
Height, Hell, time, haste, terror, tension
Life, death, want, waste, mass depression

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 hahahaha…

 

[AlreadyDead]

To Live Is to Die

To Live Is to Die

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