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Metallica
« ...and Justice for All »
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| 1 | Blackened 06:40
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| | 2 | ...And Justice For All 09:45
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| | 3 | Eye Of The Beholder 06:29
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| | 4 | One 07:26
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| | 5 | The Shortest Straw 06:35
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| | 6 | Harvester Of Sorrow 05:44
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| | 7 | The Frayed Ends Of Sanity 07:42
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| | 8 | To Live Is To Die 09:47
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| | 9 | Dyers Eve 05:14
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| | Total playing time 01:05:29 |
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James Hetfield - vocals, guitars
Kirk Hammett - guitars
Jason Newsted - bass
Lars Ulrich - drums |
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Produced by Metallica with Flemming Rasmussen
Recorded Jan. - May 1988 at 'One On One', Los Angeles
Engineered by Flemming Rasmussen
Assistant and additional engineering by Toby 'Rage' Wright
Drum trax on "Straw" and "Harvester" engineered by Mike Clink
Mixed by Steve Thompson and Michael Barbiero
at Bearsville Studios, New York, June 1988
Assistant mixing engineer: George Cowan
Mastered by Bob Ludwig at Masterdisk, New York
Cover concept by Hetfield & Ulrich
Cover illustration by Stephen Gorman
All photos by Ross 'Tobacco Road' Halfin
Hammer illustration by Pushead
Design & layout by Reiner Design Consultants, Inc. |
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| 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 |
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Color our world blackened
Blistering of earth, terminate its worth
Deadly nicotine kills what might've 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 laid to waste
See our mother put to death
See our mother die
Smoldering 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
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 we 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
Your 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 through 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? Your money and your wealth
Your 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 for 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 is 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
Witch hunt modern day
Determining decay
The blatant disarray
Disfigure
The public eye's 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
The shortest straw has been pulled for you
Pulled for you
Shortest straw pulled for you
Shortest straw pulled for you
Shortest straw
The shortest straw has been pulled for you
The accusations fly
Discrimination, why?
Your inner self to die
Intruding
Doubt sunk itself in you
Its teeth and talons through
You're living Catch two two
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, witch hunt 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, witch hunt riding through
Shortest straw
The 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
Myself is after me
Frayed ends of sanity
Hear them calling
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?"
Dyer's 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 thought I'd think 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 afther
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 your 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