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Ride the Lightning

  1. Fight Fire with Fire
  2. Ride the Lightning
  3. For Whom the Bell Tolls
  4. Fade to Black
  5. Trapped under Ice
  6. Escape
  7. Creeping Death
  8. The Call of Ktulu

Fight Fire with Fire
(Hetfield,Ulrich,Burton)

          Do unto others as they have done to you
          But what the hell is this world coming to?

          Blow the universe into nothingness
          Nuclear warfare shall lay us to rest

          Fight fire with fire
          Ending is near
          Fight fire with fire
          Bursting with fear

          We all shall die

          Time is like a fuse, short and burning fast
          Armaggedon is here, like said in the past

          Fight fire with fire
          Ending is near
          Fight fire with fire
          Bursting with fear

          Soon to fill our lungs the hot winds of death
          The gods are laughing, so take your last breath

          Fight fire with fire
          Ending is near
          Fight fire with fire
          Bursting with fear

          Fight fire with fire       
Ride the Lightning
(Hetfield,Ulrich,Burton,Mustaine)
          Guilty as charged
          But damn it, it ain't right
          There's someone else controlling me

          Death in the air
          Strapped in the electric chair

          This can't be happening to me

          Who made you God to say
          "I'll take your life from you!!"

          Flash before my eyes
          Now it's time to die
          Burning in my brain
          I can feel the flame

          Wait for the sign
          To flick the switch of death
          It's the beginning of the end

          Sweat, chilling cold
          As I watch death unfold
          Consciousness is my only friend

          My fingers grip with fear
          What am I doing here?

          Flash before my eyes
          Now it's time to die
          Burning in my brain
          I can feel the flame

          Someone help me
          Oh please God help me
          They are trying to take it all away
          I don't want to die

          Time moving slow
          The minutes seem like hours
          The final curtain call I see

          How true is this?
          Just get it over with
          If this is true, just let it be

          Wakened by horrid scream
          Freed from this frightening dream

          Flash before my eyes
          Now it's time to die
          Burning in my brain
          I can feel the flame
TFor Whom the Bell Tolls
(Hetfield,Ulrich,Burton)
          Make his fight on the hill in the early day
          Constant chill deep inside
          Shouting gun, on they run through the endless gray
          On they fight, for they are right, yes, but who's to say?
          For a hill men would kill, why? They do not know
          Suffered wounds test their pride
          Men of five, still alive through the raging glow
          Gone insane from the pain that they surely know

          For whom the bell tolls
          Time marches on
          For whom the bell tolls

          Take a look to the sky just before you die
          It is the last time he will
          Blackened roar massice roar fills the crumbling sky
          Shattered goal fills his soul with a ruthless cry
          Stranger now, are his eyes, to this mistery
          He hears the silence so loud
          Crack of dawn, all is gone except the will to be
          Now they see what will be, blinded eyes to see
  
          For whom the bell tolls
          Time marches on
          For whom the bell tolls 
Fade to Black
(Hetfield,Ulrich,Burton,Hammett)
          Life it seems will fade away
          Drifting farther every day
          Getting lost within myself
          Nothing matters no one else
          I have lost the will to live
          Simply nothing more to give
          There is nothing more for me
          Need the end to set me free

          Things not what they used to be
          Missing one inside of me
          Deathly lost, this can't be real
          Cannot stand this hell I feel
          Emptiness is filling me
          To the point of agony
          Growing darkness taking down
          I was me, but now he's gone

          No one but me can save myself, but it's too late
          No one can think, think why I should even try

          Yesterday seems as though it never existed
          Death greets me warm, now I will just say goodbye
Trapped under Ice
(Hetfield,Ulrich,Hammett)
          I don't know how to live through this hell
          Woken up, I'm still locked in this shell
          Frozen soul, frozen down to the core
          Break the ice, I can't take anymore

          Freezing
          Can't move at all
          Screaming
          Can't hear my call
          I am dying to live
          Cry out
          I'm trapped under ice

          Crystallized, as I lay here and rest
          Eyes of glass stare directly at death
          From deep sleep I have broken away
          No one knows, no one hears what I say

          Freezing
          Can't move at all
          Screaming
          Can't hear my call
          I am dying to live
          Cry out
          I'm trapped under ice
 
          Scream from my soul
          Fate, mystified
          Hate, forever more

          No release from my cryonic state
          What is this? I've been stricken by fate
          Wrapped up tight, cannot move, can't break free
          Hand of doom has a tight grip on me

          Freezing
          Can't move at all
          Screaming
          Can't hear my call
          I am dying to live
          Cry out
          I'm trapped under ice 
Escape
(Hetfield,Ulrich,Hammett)
          Feel no pain, but my life ain't easy
          I know I'm my best friend
          No one cares, but I'm so much stronger
          I'll fight until the end
          To escape from the true false world
          Undamaged destiny
          Can't get caught in the endless circle
          Ring of stupidity

          Out for my own, out to be free
          One with my mind, they just can't see
          No need to hear things that they say
          Life is for my own to live my own way

          Rape my mind and destroy my feelings
          Don't tell me what to do
          I don't care now, 'cause I'm on my side
          And I can see through you
          Feed my brain with your so called standards
          Who says that I ain't right
          Break away from your common fashion
          See through your blurry sight

          Out for my own, out to be free
          One with my mind, they just can't see
          No need to hear things that they say
          Life is for my own to live my own way


          See them try to bring the hammer down
          No damn chains can hold me to the ground

          Life is for my own to live my own way
Creeping Death
(Hetfield,Ulrich,Burton,Hammett)
          Slaves
          Hebrews born to serve, to the pharaoh
          Heeds
          To each every word, live in fear
          Faith
          Of the unknown one, the deliverer
          Wait
          Something must be done, one hundred years

          So let it be written
          So let it be done
          I'm sent here by the chosen one
          So let it be written

          So let it be done
          To kill the first born pharaoh son
          I'm creeping death

          Now
          Let my people go, land of goshen
          Go
          I will be with thee, bush of fire
          Blood
          Running red and strong, down the nile
          Plague
          Darkness three days long, hail to fire


          So let it be written
          So let it be done
          I'm sent here by the chosen one
          So let it be written
          So let it be done
          To kill the first born pharaoh son
          I'm creeping death

          Die by my hand
          I creep across the land
          Killing first born man
          Die by my hand
          I creep across the land
          Killing first born man

          I
          Rule the midnight air the destroyer
          Born
          I shall soon be there, deadly mass
          I
          Creep the steps and floor final darkness
          Blood
          Lambs blood painted door, I shall pass

          So let it be written
          So let it be done
          I'm sent here by the chosen one
          So let it be written
          So let it be done
          To kill the first born pharaoh son
          I'm creeping death 
The Call of Ktulu
(Hetfield,Ulrich,Burton,Mustaine)
Instrumental Lead bass by Cliff Burton




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