Metallica

Ride the Lightning - 1984

1. FIGHT FIRE WITH FIRE
2. RIDE THE LIGHTNING
3. FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS
4. FADE TO BLACK
5. TRAPPED UNDER THE ICE
6. ESCAPE
7. CREEPING DEATH
8. The Call of Ktulu



1. FIGHT FIRE WITH FIRE


Do unto others as they have done unto you
But what in 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 shall die
Time is like a fuse, short and burning fast
Armageddon is here, like said in the past

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



2. RIDE THE LIGHTNING


Guilty as charged
But damn it, it ainīt right
There is someone else controlling me

Death in the air
Strapped in the electric chair
This canīt be happening to me

Who made you God to say
"Iīll take your life from you!"

Flash before my eyes
Now itīs time to die
Burning in my brain
I can feel the flames

Wait for the sign
To flick the switch of death
Itīs the beginning of the end

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

My fingers grip with fear
What I am doing here?

Someone help me
Oh please God help me
They are trying to take it all away
I donīt want to die

Time moving slowly
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 the horrid cream
Freed from the frightening dream



3. FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS


Make his fight on the hill in the early day
Constant chill deep inside
Shouting gun, on they run through the endless grey
On the fight, for they are right, yes, by whoīs to say?
For a hill men would kill, why? They do not know
Suffered wounds test there 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 you will
Blackened roar massive roar fills the crumbling sky
Shattered goal fills his soul with a ruthless cry
Stranger now, are his eyes, to this mystery
He hears the silence so loud
Crack of dawn, all is gone except the will to be
Now the will see what will be, blinded eyes to see



4. FADE TO BLACK


Life it seems, will fade away
Drifting further 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 are not what they used to be
Missing one inside of me
Deathly lost, this canīt be real
Cannot stand this hell I feel
Emptiness is filing me
To the point of agony
Growing darkness taking dawn
I was me, but now Heīs gone

No one but me can save myself, but it to late
Now I canīt think, think why I should even try
Yesterday seems as though it never existed
Death Greets me warm, now I will just say good-bye



5. TRAPPED UNDER THE ICE


I donīt know how to live trough this hell
Woken up, Iīm still locked in this shell
Frozen soul, frozen down to the core
Break the ice, I canīt take anymore

Freezing
Canīt move at all
Screaming
Canīt hear my call
I am dying to live
Cry out
Iīm trapped under the 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

Scream from my soul
Fate, mystified
Hell, forever more

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



6. ESCAPE


Feel no pain, but my life ainīt easy
I know Iīm my best friend
No one cares, but Iīm so much stronger
Iīll fight until the end
To escape from the true false world
Undamaged destiny
Canīt get caught in the endless circle
Ring of stupidity

Out of my own, out to be free
One with my mind, they just canīt 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
Donīt tell my what to do
I donīt care now, īcause Iīm on my side
And I can see through you
Feed my brain with your so called standards
Who says that I ainīt right
Break away from your common fashion
See through your blurry sight

See they 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



7. CREEPING DEATH


Slaves
Hebrews born to serve, to the pharaoh
Heed
To his every word, live in fear
Faith
Of the unknown one, the deliverer
Wait
Something must be done, four hundred years

So let it be written
So let it be done
Iīm sent here by the chosen one
So let it be written
So let it be done
To kill the first born pharaoh son
Iīm 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 nil
Plague
Darkness three days long, hail to fire

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 flood final darkness
Blood
Lambs blood painted door, I shall pass



8. The Call of Ktulu


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