Metallica - 72 Seasons Album Lyrics

Feeding on the wrath of man

Shot down, traumatic
Time haunted by the past
Long gone, dogmatic
Although the die is cast
Shot down, volcanic
But what is done is done and done
Look back, psychotic
No chance before this life began

Staring into black lights
Dominating birthrights

Wrath of man
Leaching through, split in two
Wrath of man
Crash into point of view
Wrath of man
Violence, inheritance
Wrath of man
Thrive upon feeding on
Seventy-two seasons gone

Feeding on the wrath of man

Shoot back, erratic
Mad seasons take their toll
New mask, chaotic
Completely lost control
Shoot back, fanatic
Wither under looming shadow cast
Slip back, narcotic
Blinded by the ashes of the past

Staring into black lights
Choking on the stage frights

Wrath of man
Leaching through, split in two
Wrath of man
Crash into point of view
Wrath of man
Violence, inheritance
Wrath of man
Thrive upon feeding on
Seventy-two seasons gone

Piercing through, cut in two
Polarize
Point of view, crash into
Paralyze

Feeding on the wrath of man

Man down, barbaric
Quick fire machine gun thoughts
Deep seed, stigmatic
Some have and some have not
Man down, demonic
No mercy from the ghost within
Turn back, hypnotic
There's breathing out but not back in

Staring into black lights
Permanently midnights

Wrath of man
Leaching through, split in two
Wrath of man
Crash into point of view
Wrath of man
Violence, inheritance
Wrath of man
Thrive upon feeding on
Seventy-two seasons gone

Feeding on the wrath of man

Hanging by a thread as I play dead
Hanging by a thread and my mind is code red
Cut and run, try to hide
Get away, shut my eyes just to hide from the fate
Cut and run, try to hide
Get away, cover up, get shelter from the hate

Demonized, simplified, tranquilized, prophesized
Just to hide from life
Night and day, led astray, in decay, come what may
Not to face that fight

Seething, breathing, nightmares grow
On I run, still my shadows follow

Never can I stop 'cause they hunt me
Never can I stop 'cause the beast is hungry
Like a wolf on the hunt, stalking prey, closing in
No, it won't let me be
Like a wolf on the hunt, stalks a prey
Any cost, fulfill a destiny

Seething, fast breathing, nightmares grow
On I run, still my shadows follow
On I run but still my shadows follow

Cut and run, hide away from fate, cover up
Try to hide the hate, like a wolf
It will never be closing, wish away, shut my eyes
Wish it away

Seething, fast breathing, nightmares grow
On I run, still my shadows follow

Facing my demons, now I know
If I run, still my shadows follow
I say no, still my shadows follow

Welcome to this life
Born into the fight
Here to claim your dream
Look you in the eye
Patch the broken sky
Craving dopamine
Then my voice appears
Teaching you of fears
Are you good enough?
You don't recognize
Head is full of lies
You should just give up

Listen well, better listen well
Listen well, better listen well

Don't ever speak my name
Remember you're to blame
Keep me inside
Keep me inside
My name is suicide

Curse another day
Spirit locked away
Punish and deprive
Hate to be awake
Living a mistake
More dead than alive
Then a voice appears
Whisper in your ears
"You are good enough"
Throwing down a rope
A lifeline of hope
Never give you up

Listen well, better listen well
Listen well, better listen well

Don't ever speak my name
Remember you're to blame
Keep me inside
Keep me inside
My name is suicide

Terrified in sleepless nights
Caught in spotlight dead to rights
Isolate and fight your mind
Telling you you're left behind

My lying voice inside
Keeps drinking cyanide
And no more can you run
Into the sun

Terrified, sleepless nights
Caught in spotlight dead to rights
Isolate and fight your mind
Telling you you're left behind

And now you speak my name
You've given back the blame
Keep me deep inside
Don't you keep me inside
Screaming suicide

Now that I'm exposed inside
Shined a light on cyanide
I'm no longer needed here
Now you've faced your biggest fear

Take a deep-waking breath
Hope the blood arrives
Burn my eyes with the sun
Can't pretend I'm alive
It never will appear
Strong as past desire
Like morning, disappears
Like a cold, dead fire

Should I fall, I fall down
Would you come, you come 'round?

Wake me, caught in the spell, I'm dreaming
Wake me, day after day, repeating
Wake me, sleepwalk my life away

Stagger on through the fog in the midnight sun
Shouting out at the sheets of the nameless no ones
All isn't what it seems, cannot comprehend it
Kept them inside a dream, where the dawn won't end it

Should I fall, I fall down
Would you come, you come 'round?

Wake me, caught in the spell, I'm dreaming
Wake me, day after day, repeating
Wake me, sleepwalk my life away

Should I fall, I fall down
Would you come, you come 'round?

Wake me, caught in the spell, I'm dreaming
Wake me, day after day, repeating
Wake me, sleepwalk my life away

That was good, right?

Catch a fire and burn all the misery
Foul fingers spin my mentality
Anger on the rise as the flames grow higher
Took on the smoke of the funeral pyre, backfire

Killing all we've learned
History will burn, burn it

Smile as it burns to the ground
The perfect don't want you around
Question yourself, you may learn
Who's the next witch you must burn?
You must burn

In the name of hell, it's been to conspire
Black figures loom as a dark desire
Inquisition your derailment
Tied to the stake, torching heresy, flame out

Killing all we've learned
History will burn, burn it

Smile as it burns to the ground
The perfect don't want you around
Question yourself, you may learn
You are the witch you must burn
You must burn

In the heat of the night
And the motion, light, feed the appetite
In the heat of the night
And the motion, light, feed the appetite

Smile as it burns to the ground
The perfect don't want you around
Question yourself, you may learn
You are the witch you must burn
You must burn

You must burn
You must burn
You must burn

Anticipation
In domination
A sea of hearts beat as one, unified
Magnification
All generations
Approaching thunder awaiting the light

Full speed or nothing
Full speed or nothing

Lux Æterna
Lux Æterna

Exhilaration
Frenzied sensation
Kindred alliance connected inside
Commiseration
Sonic salvation
Cast out the demons that strangle your life

Full speed or nothing
Full speed or nothing

Lux Æterna
Lux Æterna (yeah)
Lux Æterna

Emancipation
Kill isolation
Never alone for the feelings alike
Amplification
Lightning the nation
Never alive more
Than right here tonight

Full speed or nothing
Full speed or nothing

Lux Æterna
Lux Æterna (yeah)

Light it

So tight, this crown of barbed wire
It's destiny I wear
It splits the skin to the soul
This jagged wreath I bear

This rusted empire I own
Bleed as I rust on this throne
Pass me with torment
End all the rust that I own

So tight, this crown of barbed wire
So tight, this crown of barbed wire
So tight, this crown

Fits tight, it stains conviction
Drips down to bloodshot eyes
It crushes downward, it's real
Deep crimson blocks the skies

This rusted empire I own
Bleed as I rust on this throne
Pass me with torment
End all the rust that I own

So tight, this crown of barbed wire
So tight, this crown of barbed wire
So tight, this crown

This rusted empire I own
Bleed as I rust on this throne
Pass me with torment
End all the rust that I own

So tight (so tight), this crown of barbed wire
So tight (so tight), this crown of barbed wire
So tight, this crown

There's no light

Ooh, down and out as darkness falls
So much more than he can take
Oh, shakes the cage in deep withdrawals
Come on, give the boy a break

Oh, he will break
Please don't mistake

Chase that light, lean on me
Face that fight, lean on me
Catch your fall, lean on me
End it all, lean on me

Struggle on 'cause without darkness
Without darkness there's no light

Oh, lost his way through wicked streets
But he is someone's little boy
Oh, all the love a young one needs
Thoughtless elders have destroyed

Is destroyed
He's just a boy

Chase that light, lean on me
Face that fight, lean on me
Catch your fall, lean on me
End it all, lean on me

Struggle on 'cause without darkness
Without darkness there's no light

One step down, lock it off from you
One step down, with apathy, look straight through
One step down, turn so you won't see
One step down, he's just like you and me

Chase that light, lean on me
Face that fight, lean on me
Catch your fall, lean on me
End it all, lean on me

Struggle on 'cause without darkness
Without darkness there's no light
There's no light

Temptation
Temptation
Temptation
Temptation

The beast still shouts for what it's yearning
He stokes the fire, desire burning
The never-ending quenchless craving
The unforgiving misbehaving

If darkness had a son, here I am
Temptation is his father
If darkness had a son, here I am
I bathe in holy water
Temptation, leave me be

Temptation
Temptation
Temptation
Temptation

So paint your eyes as black as sorrow
Hide yourself behind tomorrow
The nightmares search for infiltration
In domination, captivation

If darkness had a son, here I am
Temptation is his father
If darkness had a son, here I am
I bathe in holy water
Temptation, leave me be

Return again to where it's darkest
Dragging home this heathen harvest
And all the children subjugated
Manipulated, propagated

If darkness had a son, here I am
Temptation is his father
If darkness had a son, here I am
I bathe in holy water

If darkness had a son, here I am
If darkness had a son, here I am
If darkness had a son, here I am
I bathe in holy water
Temptation, leave me be

I, I am desperation
Need it so bad today
I, I am isolation static and disarray
Need this, gotta have more
Crawling out my skin
Sickness, scarring returns
Burning me again

Too far gone
Am I too far gone?
Am I too far gone to save?
Help me make it through the day no

I, I am tribulation
Digging down to the bone
I, I am agitation
Never leaves me alone
Keep on pushing along
Don't wanna feel this
Sink in, start to believe
That I don't exist

Too far gone
Am I too far gone?
Am I too far gone to save?
Help me make it through the day oh

All away, I am desperation
All away, I am isolation
All away, I am agitation
All away

Too far gone
Never too far gone
I'm never too far gone to save
I can make it through the day
Make it through the day
Just for today

In a mirrored room
All alone I stand
Strip away the phantom fame
Exposing my sides to see
The good and bad in me

In a mirrored room
All alone I stand
Seeing past the flesh and bone
The shame and the fear I hide
Could I show you what's inside?

Would you criticize, scrutinize
Stigmatize my pain?
Would you summarize, patronize
Classify insane?
So I stand here before you
You might judge
You might just bury me
Or you might set me free

In a mirrored room
Talking to myself
And the voice is pushing back
I'll let you inside my heart
But don't tear it all apart
In a mirrored room
Just a simple man
Naked, broken, beat and scarred
What do I mean? Oh
That fear of letting go

Would you criticize, scrutinize
Analyze my pain?
Would you summarize, patronize
Classify insane?
So I stand here before you
You might judge
You might just bury me
Or you might set me
Or you might set me free

Would you criticize, scrutinize
Ostracize my pain?
Would you summarize, patronize
Classify insane?
So I stand here before you
You might judge
You might just bury me
Or you might set me
Oh, please, won't you set me free? Yeah, yeah

Welcome, won't you come inside?
Leave the ghost where I reside
Despite how they're refusing me
Lonely, I don't ever be
Comfort in the hell I know
Resentment like a cancer grows
Longing for the day I'm free
Burning gets you out of me

Lying, supplying the need
Shedding and spreading the seed
Setting the trap with a thread
Spinning the web

Misery, she needs me
Oh, oh, but I need her more
Misery, she loves me
Oh, oh, but I love her more
Misery, she kills me
Oh, oh, but I end this war
Misery, she fills me
Oh no, but she's not what I'm living for

Ricochets within my head
Conversations never said
Magnifyin' every thought
That familiar pain she brought
Seeps inside eventually
Misery loves company
Sullen, I created you
I suppose that I could end you too

She wakes (she wakes, she wakes, she wakes)
She wakes (she wakes, she wakes, she wakes)

Misery, she needs me
Oh, oh, but I need her more
Misery, she loves me
Oh, oh, but I love her more
Misery, she kills me
Oh, but I end this war
Misery, she fills me
Oh no, but she's not what I'm living for, oh no
Oh, misery

She needs me
But I need her more
She loves me
But I love her more
She kills me (she kills me)
But I end this war
She fills me (she fills me)
But she's not what I'm livin' for

Oh no, oh no
No, no, no, no, no, no
Not why I'm livin'

Misery, she needs me
Oh, oh, but I need her more
Misery, she loves me
Oh, but I love her more
Misery, she kills me
Oh, but I end this war
Misery, she fills me
Oh no, but she's not what I'm livin' for

Misery, my misery
Misery, my misery
Misery, she's not why I'm livin' (my misery)
She's not why I'm livin'
Misery, she's not what I'm livin' for, no, no (my misery)

Thank you, good night
That was the best one
Yeah man, yeah Lars
That button was the best one
The best button