                                    METALLICA
                             ...And Justice for All

         Blackened
(Hetfield, Ulrich, Newsted)

Blackened is the end
Winter it will send
Throwing all you see
Into obscurity

Death of mother earth
Never a rebirth
Evolution's end
Never will it mend

Never
         Fire
         To begin whipping dance of the dead
         Blackened is the end
         To begin whipping dance of the dead
         Color our world blackened

Blistering of earth
Terminate its worth
Deadly nicotine
Kills what might have been

Callous frigid chill
Nothing left to kill
Never seen before
Breathing nevermore

Never
         Fire
         To begin whipping dance of the dead
         Blackened is the end
         To begin whipping dance of the dead
         Color our world blackened
                         Blackened

Opposition...Contradiction...Premonition...
  ..Compromise
Agitation...Violation.......Mutilation...Planet
  dies
         Darkest color
         Blistered earth
         True death of life

Termination...Expiration...Cancellation...Human
  race
Expectation...Liberation..Population....Lay to
  waste
         See our mother
         Put to death
         See our mother die

Smouldering decay
Take her breath away
Millions of our years
In minutes disappears

Darkening in vain
Decadence remains
All is said and done
Never is the sun
Never
         Fire
         To begin whipping dance of the dead
         Blackened is the end
         To begin whipping dance of the dead
         Color our world blackened
                                                      Fire
         Is the outcome of hypocrisy
         Darkest potency
         In the exit of humanity
         Color our world blackened
                         Blackened


         ...And Justice for All
       (Hetfield, Ulrich, Hammett)

Halls of justice painted green
Money talking
Power wolves beset your door
Hear them stalking
Soon you'll please their appetite
They devour
Hammer of justice crushes you
Overpower

         The ultimate in vanity
         Exploiting their supremacy
         I can't believe the things you say
         I can't believe
         I can't believe the price you pay
         Nothing can save you

                  Justice is lost
                  Justice is raped
                  Justice is gone
                      Pulling your strings
                  Justice is done
                      Seeking no truth
                      Winning is all
                      Find it so grim
                              so true
                              so real

Apathy their stepping stone
So unfeeling
Hidden deep animosity
So deceiving
Through your eyes their light burns
Hoping to find
Inquisition sinking you
With prying minds


         The ultimate in vanity
         Exploiting their supremacy
         I can't believe the things you say
         I can't believe
         I can't believe the price you pay
         Nothing can save you

                  Justice is lost
                  Justice is raped
                  Justice is gone
                      Pulling your strings
                  Justice is done
                      Seeking no truth
                      Winning is all
                      Find it so grim
                              so true
                              so real

Lady justice has been raped
Truth assassin
Rolls of red tape seal your lips
Now you're done in
Their money tips her scales again
Make your deal
Just what is truth? I cannot tell
Cannot feel

         The ultimate in vanity
         Exploiting their supremacy
         I can't believe the things you say
         I can't believe
         I can't believe the price you pay
         Nothing can save us

             Justice is lost
             Justice is raped
             Justice is gone
                 Pulling your strings
             Justice is done
                 Seeking no truth
                 Winning is all
                 Find it so grim
                         so true
                         so real

                 Seeking no truth
                 Winning is all
                 Find it so grim
                         so true
                         so real
         

         Eye of the Beholder
     (Hetfield, Ulrich, Hammett)

Do you see what I see?
Truth is an offence
You silence for your confidence

Do you hear what I hear?
Doors are slamming shut
Limit your imagination, keep you where they  
  must

Do you feel what I feel?
Bittering distress
Who decides what you express?

Do you take what I take?
Endurance is the word
Moving back instead of forward seems to me    
  absurd

         Doesn't matter what you see
         Or into it what you read
         You can do it your own way
         If it's done just how I say

             Independence limited
             Freedom of choice
             Choice is made for you my friend
             Freedom of speech
             Speech is words that they will
                 bend
             Freedom with their exception

Do you fear what I fear?
Living properly
Truths to you are lies to me

Do you choose what I choose?
More alternatives
Energy derives from both the plus and negative

Do you need what I need?
Boundaries overthrown
Look inside, to each his own

Do you trust what I trust?
Me, myself and I
Penetrate the smoke screen, I see trough the  
  selfish lie

         Doesn't matter what you see
         Or into it what you read
         You can do it your own way
         If it's done just how I say

             Independence limited
             Freedom of choice
             Choice is made for you my friend
             Freedom of speech
             Speech is words that they will
                 bend
             Freedom with their exception

Do you know what I know?
You money and your wealth
You silence just to hear yourself
Do you want what I want?
Desire not a thing
I hunger after independence, lengthen freedom's
  ring

         Doesn't matter what you see
         Or into it what you read
         You can do it your own way
         If it's done just how I say

             Independence limited
             Freedom of choice
             Choice is made for you my friend
             Freedom of speech
             Speech is words that they will   
               bend
             Freedom no longer frees you

         Doesn't matter what you see
         Or into it what you read
         You can do it your own way
         If it's done just how I say


         One
 (Hetfield, Ulrich)

I can't remember anything
Can't tell if this is true or dream
Deep down inside I feel to scream
This terrible silence stops me

Now that the war is through with me
I'm waking up, I cannot see
That there's not much left of me
Nothing is real but pain now

         Hold my breath as I wish for death
         Oh please God, wake me

Back in the womb it's much too real
In pumps life that I must feel
But can't look forward to reveal
Look to the time when I'll live

Fed through the tube that sticks in me
Just like a wartime novelty
Tied to machines that make me be
Cut this life off from me

         Hold my breath as I wish for death
         Oh please God, wake me

         Now the world is gone I'm just one
         Oh God, help me hold my breath as I  
           wish for death
         Oh please God, help me

Darkness Imprisoning me
             All that I see
             Absolute horror
             I cannot live
             I cannot die
             Trapped in myself
             Body my holding cell

Landmine Has taken my sight
             Taken my speech
             Taken my hearing
             Taken my arms
             Taken my legs
             Taken my soul
             Left me with life in hell


         The Shortest Straw
         (Hetfield, Ulrich)

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 you 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


         Harvester of Sorrow
      (Hetfield, Ulrich)

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

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

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


         The Frayed Ends of Sanity
        (Hetfield, Ulrich, Hammett)

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
         Everyone's after me
         Frayed ends of sanity
         Hear them calling
         Hear them calling me


         To Live Is to Die
    (Hetfield, Ulrich, Burton)

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


         Dyers Eve
 (Hetfield, Ulrich, Hammett)

Dear mother
Dear father
What is this hell you have put me through
Believer
Deceiver
Day in day out live my life through you
Pushed onto me what's wrong or right
Hidden from this thing that they call life

Dear mother
Dear father
Every though I'd thing you'd disapprove
Curator
Dictator
Always censoring my every move
Children are seen but are not heard
Tear out everything inspired

         Innocence
         Torn from me without your shelter
         Barred reality
         I'm living blindly

Dear mother 
Dear father
Time has frozen still what's left to be
Hear nothing
Say nothing
Cannot face the fact I think for me
No guarantee, it's life as is
But damn you for not giving me my chance

Dear mother
Dear father
You've clipped my wings before I learned to fly
Unspoiled
Unspoken
I've outgrown that fucking lullaby
Same thing I've always heard from you
Do as I say not as I do
         Innocence
         Torn from me without your shelter
         Barred reality
         I'm living blindly

             I'm in hell without you
             Cannot cope without you two
             Shocked at the world that I see
             Innocent victim please rescue me

Dear mother
Dear father
Hidden in you world you've made for me
I'm seething
I'm bleeding
Ripping wounds in me that never heal
Undying spite I feel for you
Living out this hell you always knew


         All lyrics by Hetfield, expect 
         "To Live Is to Die" by Burton.
         All arrangements by Hetfield, Ulrich.
         All harmony, melody and acoustic 
         guitars on all songs, and the 2nd 
         solo in "To Live Is to Die" by 
         Hetfield. All songs (C) 1988 Creeping
         Death Music, ASCAP. 
         All rights reserved. Used by 
         permission. Written by Ile, 18.09.1988

         METALLICA:
         James Hetfield - rhythm guitar/vocals
         Lars Ulrich - drums
         Kirk Hammett - lead guitar
         Jason Newsted - bass
