Load (1996)
All lyrics are copyrights Metallica - James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, Jason Newsted, Kirk Hammet
1: 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
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 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: 2x4
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
3: The House Jack
Built
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
But on my way where I've been
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
Step into 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
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 I am I am I am"
Open my eyes
It swallows me
Is that you there
I twist away
Away
Away
Away
4: Until it Sleeps
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
5: King Nothing
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
6: Hero Of The Day
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?
Oh they try and break me
Oh they try and break me
Oh they try and break me
Oh they try
Oh they try
Oh they try and break me
Oh they try and break me
Oh they try and break me
Oh they try
Oh they try
7: Bleeding 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
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
8. Cure
[Instrumental]
9: Poor Twisted Me
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
10: Wasting My Hate
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
11: Mama Said
mama, she has taught me well, told me when i was young,
son your life's an open book, don't close it 'fore it's done,
the brightest flame burns quickest, that's what i heard her say,
a son's heart's owed to mother, but i must find my way
let my heart go, let your son grow
mama, let my heart go, or let this heart be still, yeah still
never mind your last name, wild blood in my veins
apron strings around my neck, a mark that still remains
left home at an early age, 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, or let this heart be still
never i asked of you but never i gave,
but you gave me your emptiness that i'll take to my grave
never i asked 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, unspoken, help me be
i took your love for granted, all the things you said to me
i need your arms to mother me, but a cold stones all i see
12: Thorn Within
forgive me father, for i have sinned, find me guilty of the life
i feel
within,
so when i'm branded this mark of shame
should i look down disgraced, or straight and know that you must
place
i am, i am the secret
i am, i am the sin
i am, i am the guilty
and i , i am the thorn wothin
forgive me father, for i have sinned
find me guilty when true guilt is from within,
so point your fingers, point right at me,
for i am shadows and will fallow you, whatever save our 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 us all
13: Ronnie
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
14: The Outlaw Torn
and now i wait my whole lifetime, for you
and now 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
do take back what you left me, i know i'll always burn to be
the one who seeks so i may find, and now i wait my whole lifetime
my whole lifetime
so on i search my whole lifetime, for you
so on i search my whole lifetime, for you
the more i search the more my need's(a conjunction for:"need
is") for you
the more i bless the more i bleed, for 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
(hear me) and if i close my mind in fear, please pry it open
(see me) and if my face becomes sincere, beware
(hold me)and when i start to come undone, stitch me together
(see me)and when you see me strut, remind me of what left this
outlaw torn
