AIN'T MY BITCH (Hetfield, Ulrich)

Out of my way

Out of my day

Out of your mind and into mine

It's no more

It's not born

Into your step but out of time

Head strong

What's wrong

I've already heard this song before

You've arrived, but now it's time to kiss your ass good-bye

Dragging me down

While you were round

So useless

It ain't my fault

It ain't my call

It ain't my bitch

Ain't my bitch

Down on the sun

Down on your fun

Down and out where the hell you've been

Damn it all down

Damn it unbound

Damn it all down ta hell again

Stand tall

They fall

Never even meant it all before

You've arrived, but now it's time to kiss your ass good-bye

Dragging me down

While you were round

So useless

It ain't my fault

It ain't my call

It ain't my bitch

Out of my way

Out of my day

Out of your mind and into mine

It's no more

It's not born

Into your step but out of time

Head Strong

What's wrong

I've already heard this song before

You've arrived, but now it's time to kiss your ass good-bye

Dragging me down

While you were round

So useless

It ain't my fault

It ain't my call

It ain't my bitch

No way but down

While you were round

No foolin'

It ain't my smile

It ain't my style

It ain't my bitch

Ain't mine

Your kind

Your stepin' out of time

Dragging me down

While you were round

No foolin'

It ain't my fault

It ain't my call

It ain't my bitch

Ain't my

 

2 X 4 (Hetfield, Ulrich, Hammett)

Yeah

I'm gonna make you, shake you, take you

I'm gonna be the one who breaks you

Put the screws into ya, my way

Yeah, c'mon, c'mon come and make my day

Make my day

Yeah

Got some hell to pay you, steal your thunder

The joy of violent movement, pulls you under

Ooh bite the bullet, well hard

Yea, but I bite harder, so go to far

To far

Friction, fusion, retribution

I can't hear ya... talk to me

I can't hear ya... so talk to me

I can't hear ya are you talking to me

I can't hear ya are you talking to me

I can't hear ya trying to be my lord

I can't hear ya talking 2 by 4

Yeah

I'm gonna make you, shake you, take you

I'm gonna be that one who breaks you

Put the screws into ya, my way

Hey c'mon, c'mon, come and make my day

Make my day

Friction, fusion, retribution

I can't hear ya... talk to me

I can't hear ya... talk to me

I can't hear ya are you talking to me

I can't hear ya while your talking to me

I can't hear ya trying to be my lord

I can't hear ya talking 2 by 4

Friction, fusion, retribution

I'm going to make you... talk to me

I'm going to trick you... so talk to me

I can't hear ya are you talking to me

I can't hear ya are you talking to me

I can't hear ya trying to be my lord

I can't hear ya talking 2 by 4

 

THE HOUSE JACK BUILT (Hetfield, Ulrich, Hammet)

Open doors so I walk inside

Close my eyes find my place to hide

And I shake as I take it in

Let the show begin

Open my eyes

Just to have them close again

Well on my way

On my way to where I graze

It swallows me

As it takes me in his home

I twist away

As I kill this world

Open doors so I walk inside

Close my eyes find my place to hide

And I shake as I take it in

Let the show begin

Open my eyes

Just to have them close once again

Don't want control

As It takes me down and down again

Is that the moon

Or just a light that lights this deadend street?

Is that you there

Or just another demon that I meet?

The higher you walk

The farther you fall

The longer the walk

The farther you crawl

My body my temple

This temple it tells

"Step into the house that Jack built"

The higher you walk

The farther you fall

The longer the walk

The farther you crawl

My body my temple

This temple it tells

"Yes this is the house that Jack built"

Open doors as I walk inside

Swallow me so the pain subsides

And I shake as I take this in

Let the show begin

The higher you walk

The farther you fall

The longer the walk

The farther you crawl

My body my temple

This temple it tells

"Yes this is the house that Jack built"

The higher you walk

The farther you fall

The longer the walk

The farther you crawl

My body my temple

This temple it tells

"Yes I am I am I am"

Open my eyes

It swallows me

Is that you there

I twist away

Away

Away

Away

 

UNTIL IT SLEEPS (Hetfield, Ulrich)

Where do I take this pain of mine

I run but it stays right by my side

So tear me open, pour me out

These things inside they scream and shout

And the pain still hates me

So hold me until it sleeps

Just like a curse, just like a stray

You feed it once and now it stays

Now it stays

So tear me open, but beware

There's things inside without a care

And the dirt still stains me

So wash me until I'm clean

It grips you so hold me

It stains you so hold me

It hates you so hold me

It holds you so hold me

Until it sleeps...

So tell me why you've choosen me

Don't want your grip

Don't want your greed

Don't want it

I'll Tear me open, make you gone

No more can you hurt anyone

And the fear still shakes me

So hold me until it sleeps

I don't want it.....NO

It grips you so hold me

It stains you so hold me

It hates you so hold me

It holds you, holds you, holds you

Until it sleeps...

So tear me open, but beware

The pain's inside without a care

And the dirt still stains me

So wash me til I'm clean

I'll Tear me open, make you gone

No longer will you hurt anyone

And the hate still shakes me

So hold me until it sleeps

Until it sleeps

Until it sleeps

Until it sleeps

 

KING NOTHING (Hetfield, Ulrich, Hammett)

Wish I may

Wish I might

Have this I wish tonight

Are you satisfied?

Dig for gold

Dig for fame

You dig to make your name

Are you pacified?

All the wants you waste

All the things you've chased

Then it all crashes down

And you break your crown

And you point your finger, but there's no one around

Just want one thing

Just to play the King

But the castle's crumbled and you're left with just a name

Where's your crown, King Nothing?

Where's your crown?

Hot and cold

Bought and sold

A heart as hard as gold

Yeah! Are you satisfied?

Wish I might, Wish I may

You wish your life away

Are you pacified?

All the wants you waste

All the things you've chased

Then it all crashes down

And you break your crown

And you point your finger, but there's no one around

Just want one thing

Just to play the King

But the castle's crumbled and you're left with just a name

Where's your crown, King Nothing?

Where's your crown?

Huh!

(Spoken)

Wish I may, wish I might

Have this wish, I wish tonight

I want that star, I want it now

I want it all and I don't care how

Careful what you wish

Careful what you say

Careful what you wish you may regret it

Careful what you wish you just may get it

Then it all crashes down

And you break your crown

And you point your finger, but there's no one around

Just want one thing

Just to play the King

But the castle's crumbled and you're left with just a name

Where's your crown, King Nothing?

Where's your crown?

Oh, You're just nothing

Where's your crown King Nothing?

Oh, you're just nothing

Absolutely nothing

Off to never, never land

 

HERO OF THE DAY (Hetfield, Ulrich, Hammett)

The window burns to light the way back home

A light that warms no matter where they go

They're off to find the hero of the day

But what if they should fall by someone's wicked way

Still the window burns

Time so slowly turns

And someone there is sighing

Keepers of the flames

Do you feel your name?

Did you hear your babies crying?

Mama they try and break me

Still they try and break me

Excuse me while I tell them how to feel

These things we turn to me that still seem real

Now deservingly this easy chair

But the rocking starts the wheels of this play

Don't want your hate

But the fist I make

For you still no fear

No not on me

So please excuse me while I tell them how I feel

But now the dreams end

And now the dreams end

They everlast the night

So build a wall

Behind it crawl

And hide until it's light

So can you hear your babies crying now?

Still the window burns

Time so slowly turns

And someone there is sighing

Keepers of the flames

Did you hear your name?

Did you hear your babies crying?

But now the dreams end

And now the dreams end

They everlast the night

So build a wall

Behind it crawl

And hide until it's light

So can't you hear your babies crying now?

Mama they try and break me

Mama they try and break me

Mama they try and break me

Mama they try

Mama they try

Mama they try and break me

Mama they try and break me

Mama they try and break me

Mama they try

Mama they try

 

BLEEDING ME (Hetfield, Ulrich, Hammett)

I'm diggin' my way

I'm diggin' my way to somethin'

I'm diggin' my way to somethin' better

I'm pushin' to stay

I'm pushin' to stay with somethin'

I'm pushin' to stay with somethin' better

I'm sowing the seeds

I'm sowing the seeds I take

I'm sowing the seeds I take for granted

This thorn in my side

This thorn in my side is from the tree

This thorn in my side is from the tree I've planted

It tears me and I bleed

And I bleed

Caught under wheels roll

I take the leash

I'm bleeding me

Can't stop to save my soul

I take the leash that's bleeding me

I'm bleeding me

I can't take it

Caught under wheels roll

Oh, the bleeding of me

Of me

The bleeding of me

Caught under wheels roll

I take the leash

I'm bleeding me

Can't stop to save my soul

I take the leash that's bleeding me

I'm bleeding me

I can't take it

Caught under wheels roll

Oh, the bleeding of me

Oh, the bleeding of me

I am the beast that bleeds the feast

I am the blood

I am release

Come make me pure

Bleed me a cure

I'm caught, I'm caught, I'm caught under

Caught under wheels roll

I take that lease

I'm bleeding me

Can't stop to save my soul

I take the leash that's bleeding me

I'm bleeding me

I can't take it

I can't take it

I can't take it

Oh, the bleeding of me

I'm diggin' my way

I'm diggin' my way to somethin'

I'm diggin' my way to somethin' better

I'm pushin' to stay

I'm pushin' to stay with somethin'

I'm pushin' to stay with somethin' better

With somethin' better

 

CURE (Hetfield, Ulrich)

(Spoken)

The man takes another bullet

He keeps them all within

He must seek no matter how it hurts

So don't fool again

He thinks the answer is cold and in his hand

He takes his medicine

The man takes another bullet

He's been fooled again

Uncross your arms

Take and throw them to the cure, say...

I do believe

Uncross your arms now

Take them to I say...

I do believe

Yeah, I do believe

The lie is tempted and she follows

Again she hits him in

She must believe to feel the hollow

She's been fooled again

Uncross your arms

Take and throw them to the cure, say...

I do believe

Uncross your arms now

Take them to I say...

I do believe

Oh yeah, I do believe

Betting on the cure

It must get better than this

Betting on the cure

Yeah everyone's gotta to have the sickness

Cause everyone seems to need the cure

Precious cure

Betting on the cure

Cause it must get better than this

Betting on the cure

Yeah everyone's gotta to have the sickness

Cause everyone seems to need the cure

Precious cure

I do believe

Betting on the cure

It must get better than this

Need to feel secure

Yeah it's got to get better than this

It must get better than this

Betting on the cure

Everyone's gotta to have the sickness

Cause everyone seems to need the cure

I do believe

 

POOR TWISTED ME (Hetfield, Ulrich)

Oh poor twisted me

Oh poor twisted me

I feast on sympathy

I chew on suffer

I chew on agony

And swallow whole the pain

Oh it's too good to be

All this misery

Is just for oh poor twisted me

Poor twisted me

Poor mistreated me

Poor mistreated me

I drown without a sea

I'm filled with sorrow

Once filled with misery

And hated the deep dark blue

Such a burden to bear

Poor mistreated me

Finally reached the shore

Survival's gone

Now your feeling cold ever since he was born

Your pain is so over you

Finally reached the shore

Survival's gone

Now your feeling cold ever since he was born

Your pain is so over you

Could ya be my friend

Such a pain to see

Oh poor twisted me

 

WASTING MY HATE (Hetfield, Ulrich, Hammett)

Ain't gonna waste my hate

Ain't gonna waste my hate on you

I think I'll keep it for myself

Ain't gonna kill no more

Ain't got the time to help you score

I think it's time you pleased yourself

Yourself

Doing dead

I would do in the same

A smile to you

Don't waste

Waste your breath

Now I will waste my hate on you

Waste my hate on you

And I think your working now

You think enough to even raise the brow

And to life that tip that you belong

Come on

When I see my hate I see my feet

I feel that blood that pumps in me

Where the hell's my mind

Don't know

Don't know now

Doing dead

I would do in the same

A smile to you

Don't waste

Waste your breath

Now I will waste my hate on you

Waste my hate on you

Then I'll keep it for myself

Hate

Ain't gonna waste my hate

But I don't clean it when they say

Better to give then to receive

Ain't gonna waste my hate

Ain't got time to waste my hate on you

I think I'll keep it all for myself

For myself

Doing dead

I would do in the same

A smile to you

Don't waste

Waste your breath

Now I will waste my hate on you

Waste my hate on you

Think I'll keep it for myself

Yeah

Hate

 

MAMA SAID (Hetfield, Ulrich)

Mama, she has taught me well

Told me when I was young

"Son, your life's an open book

Don't close it 'fore its done"

"The brightest flame burns quickest"

That's what I heard her say

A son's heart sowed to mother

But I must find my way

Let my heart go

Let your son grow

Mama, let my heart go

Let this heart be still

Yeah, still

Rebel, mind your last name

Wild blood in my veins

They bring strings around my neck

The mark that still remains

Left home at an early age

Of what I heard was wrong

I never asked forgiveness

But what is said is done

Let my heart go

Let your son grow

Mama, let my heart go

Let this heart be still

Never I ask of you

But never I gave

But you gave me your emptiness that I'll take to my grave

Never I ask of you

But never I gave

But you gave me your emptiness that I'll take to my grave

So let this heart be still

Mama, now I'm coming home

I'm not all you wished of me

A mother's love for her son

Spoken, help me be

I took your love for granted

Not a thing you said to me

I needed your arms to welcome me

But, a cold stone's all I see

Let my heart go

Let your son grow

Mama, let my heart go

Let this heart be still

Let my heart go

Mama, let my heart go

You never let my heart go

So let this heart be still

Never I ask of you

But never I gave

But you gave me your emptiness that I'll take to my grave

Never I ask of you

But never I gave

But you gave me your emptiness that I'll take to my grave

Let this heart be still

 

THORN WITHIN (Hetfield, Ulrich, Hammett)

Forgive me father

For I have sinned

Find me guilty of the life I feel within

When I'm branded

This mark of shame

So I look down disgraced for saying I know that you must feel

I am, I am the secret

I am, I am the sin

I am, I am the guilty

And I, I am the thorn within

Forgive me father

For I have sinned

Find me guilty with true guilt that's from within

So point your fingers

Point right at me

For I am shadows and will follow you whatever see my way

I am, I am the secret

I am, I am the sin

I am, I am the guilty

And I, I am the thorn within

I do your time

I take your fall

I'm branded guilty for a soul

So point your fingers

Point right at me

For I am shadows and will follow you whatever see my way

I am, I am your secrets

I am, I am your sin

I am, I am your guilty

And I, I am the thorn within

I am the thorn within

 

RONNIE (Hetfield, Ulrich)

Stories taught

Quiet town

Small time for big time crowd

Never talks

Never plays

Different path

Lost his way

The streets are red

Red I'm afraid

There's no confetti

No parade

Nothing happens in this boring place

But oh my god how it all dismays

And they all pray

Blood stain wash away

He said

"Lost my way

This bloody day

Lost my way"

I heard it

He said

"Lost my way

This bloody day

Lost my way"

Oh please wash away

But blood stains the sun red today

I always said

Something wrong

Little strange

All day long

Never laugh

Never smile

Talked alone for miles and miles and miles

Yellow comes

Sun I say

Keep your smile and laugh all day

He falls again in this foreign place

For little boys how they do chase

And they all pray

Blood stain wash away

He said

"Lost my way

This bloody day

Lost my way"

I heard it

He said

"Lost my way

This bloody day

Lost my way"

Oh please wash away

But blood stains the sun red today

(Spoken)

Yeah, well all the green things died

When Ronnie moved to this place

He said

"Don't you dare ask

Why I'm cursed to wear this face"

I know why the children called him Ronnie Frown

When he pulled that gun from his pocket

They all fall down down down

He said

"Lost my way

This bloody day

Lost my way"

I heard it

He screamed

"Lost my way

This bloody day

Lost my way"

Oh please wash away

But blood stains the sun red today

All things wash away

They all fall down

But blood stains the sun today

All things wash away

They all fall down

But blood stains the sun today

 

THE OUTLAW TORN (Hetfield, Ulrich)

You know I wait my whole lifetime for you

I ride the dirt I ride the tide for you

I search the outside search inside for you

To take back what you left me

I know I'll always burn to be

No one seeks so I may find

And now I wait my whole lifetime

My whole lifetime

So on I wait my whole lifetime for you

So on I wait my whole lifetime for you

The more I search the more my need for you

The more I blast the more I bleed for you

You make me smash the clock and feel

I'd rather die behind the wheel

Time was never on my side

So on I wait my whole lifetime

My whole lifetime

And I'm torn

And if I close my mind in fear

Please pry it open

And if my face becomes sincere

Beware

And when I start to come undone

Stitch me together

And when you see me stretched remind me of what left this outlaw torn

And if I close my mind in fear

Please pry it open

And if my face becomes sincere

Beware

And when I start to come undone

Stitch me together

And when you see me stretched remind me of what left this outlaw torn

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©Rodrigo Santoyo P.,1999