Artist: Metallica

Song: The Thing That Should Not Be

Album: Master Of Puppets

 

Written by James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich & Kirk Hammet

 

Verse 1:

Messenger of fear in sight

Dark deception kills the light

Hybrid children watch the sea

Pray for father, roaming free

 

Chorus:

Fearless wretch, insanity, he watches

Lurking beneath the sea

Great old one, forbidden site, he searches

Hunter of the shadows is rising, immortal

In madness you dwell

 

Verse 2:

Crawling chaos, underground

Cult has summoned twisted sound

Out from ruins once possessed

Fallen city, living death

 

Chorus:

Fearless wretch, insanity, he watches

Lurking beneath the sea

Timeless sleep, has been upset, he awakens

Hunter of the shadows is rising, immortal

In madness you dwell

 

Verse 3:

Not dead which eternal lie

Stranger eons, death may die

Drain you of your sanity

Face the thing that should not be

 

Chorus:

Fearless wretch, insanity, he watches

Lurking beneath the sea

Great old one, forbidden sight, he searches

Hunter of the shadows is rising, immortal

In madness you dwell

 

 

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