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...And Justice for All



  1. Blackened
  2. ...And Justice for All
  3. Eye of the Beholder
  4. One
  5. The shortest straw
  6. Harvester of Sorrow
  7. The Frayed Ends of Sanity
  8. To Live Is To Die
  9. Dyers Eve



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

          Bustering 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
          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 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

          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 mad 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 alternives
          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 selfishlie

          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 mad 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 end your wealth
          Your silence just to hear your self

          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 mad for you my friend
          Freedom of speech
          Speech is words that they will bend
          Freedom with their exception

          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 can not 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 its 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 blattand 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
          Chalenge 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 fallaout has begun
          Oppresive 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
          Blaclisted
          With vertigo make you dead


          Shortest straw
          Chalenge 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
          Uou'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
          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 habbits reappear
          Fighting the fear of fear
          Ggrowing 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  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 thought i'd think you'd disapprove
          Curator
          Dictator
          Always cencoring my every move
          Children are seen bur 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 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


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