Artist: Metallica

Song: Welcome Home (Sanitarium)

Album: Master Of Puppets

 

Written by James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich & Kirk Hammet

 

Verse 1:

Welcome to where time stands still

No one leaves and no one will

Moon is full never seems to change

Just labelled mentally deranged

 

Verse 2:

Dream the same thing every night

I see our freedom in my sight

No locked doors, no windows barred

No thing to make my brain seem scarred

 

Verse 3:

Sleep my friend and you will see

That dream is my reality

They keep me locked up in this cage

Can’t they see that’s why my brain says rage

 

Chorus:

Sanitarium, leave me be

Sanitarium, just leave me alone

 

Verse 4:

Build my fear of what’s out there

Cannot breathe the open air

Whisper things into my brain

Assuring me that I’m insane

 

Verse 5:

They think our head’s 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

 

Verse 6:

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 my hell

 

Chorus:

Sanitarium, leave me be

Sanitarium, just leave me alone

Sanitarium, just leave me alone

 

Middle:

Fear of living on, native’s 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

 

 

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