Metallica

Load - 1996

1. Ainīt My Bitch
2. 2x4
3. The House Jack Built
4. Until it Sleeps
5. King Nothing
6. Hero of the Day
7. Bleeding Me
8. Poor Twisted Me
9. Wasting my Hate
10. Mama Said
11. Thorn Within
12. Ronnie
13. The Outlaw Torn



1. Ainīt My Bitch


Out of my way
Out of my day
Out of your mind and into mine
Itīs no more
Itīs not born
Into your step but out of time

Head strong
Whatīs wrong
Iīve already heard this song before
Youīve arrived, but now itīs time to kiss your ass good-bye

Dragging me down
While you were round
So useless
It ainīt my fault
It ainīt my call
It ainīt my bitch
Ainīt my bitch

Down on the sun
Down on your fun
Down and out where the hell youīve been

Damn it all down
Damn it unbound
Damn it all down ta hell again

Stand tall
They fall
Never even meant it all before
Youīve arrived, but now itīs time to kiss your ass good-bye

Dragging me down
While you were round
So useless

It ainīt my fault
It ainīt my call
It ainīt my bitch

Out of my way
Out of my way
Out of my day
Out of your mind and into mine
Itīs no more
Itīs not born
Into your step but out of time

Head Strong
Whatīs wrong
Iīve already heard this song before
Youīve arrived, but now itīs time to kiss your ass good-bye

Dragging me down
While you were round
So useless

It ainīt my fault
It ainīt my call
It ainīt my bitch
No way but down
While you were round
No foolinī

It ainīt my smile
It ainīt my style
It ainīt my bitch

Ainīt mine
Your kind
Your stepinī out of time

Dragging me down
While you were round
No foolinī

It ainīt my fault
It ainīt my call
It ainīt my bitch
Ainīt my



2. 2x4


Yeah
Iīm gonna make you, shake you, take you
Iīm gonna be the one who breaks you
Put the screws into ya, my way
Yeah, cīmon, cīmon come and make my day
Make my day

Yeah
Got some hell to pay you, steal your thunder
The joy of violent movement, pulls you under
Ooh bite the bullet, well hard
Yea, but I bite harder, so go to far
To far

Friction, fusion, retribution
I canīt hear ya... talk to me
I canīt hear ya... so talk to me
I canīt hear ya are you talking to me
I canīt hear ya are you talking to me
I canīt hear ya trying to be my lord
I canīt hear ya talking 2 by 4

Yeah
Iīm gonna make you, shake you, take you
Iīm gonna be that one who breaks you
Put the screws into ya, my way
Hey cīmon, cīmon, come and make my day
Make my day

Friction, fusion, retribution
I canīt hear ya... talk to me
I canīt hear ya... talk to me
I canīt hear ya are you talking to me
I canīt hear ya while your talking to me
I canīt hear ya trying to be my lord
I canīt hear ya talking 2 by 4

Friction, fusion, retribution
Iīm going to make you... talk to me
Iīm going to trick you... so talk to me
I canīt hear ya are you talking to me
I canīt hear ya are you talking to me
I canīt hear ya trying to be my lord
I canīt hear ya talking 2 by 4



3. The House Jack Built


Open doors so I walk inside
Close my eyes find my place to hide
And I shake as I take it in
Let the show begin

Open my eyes
Just to have them close again
Well on my way
On my way to where I graze
It swallows me
As it takes me in his home
I twist away
As I kill this world

Open doors so I walk inside
Close my eyes find my place to hide
And I shake as I take it in
Let the show begin

Open my eyes
Just to have them close once again
Donīt want control
As It takes me down and down again
Is that the moon
Or just a light that lights this deadend street?
Is that you there
Or just another demon that I meet?

The higher you walk
The farther you fall
The longer the walk
The farther you crawl
My body my temple
This temple it tells
"Step into the house that Jack built"

The higher you walk
The farther you fall
The longer the walk
The farther you crawl
My body my temple
This temple it tells
"Yes this is the house that Jack built"

Open doors as I walk inside
Swallow me so the pain subsides
And I shake as I take this in
Let the show begin

The higher you walk
The farther you fall
The longer the walk
The farther you crawl
My body my temple
This temple it tells
"Yes this is the house that Jack built"

The higher you walk
The farther you fall
The longer the walk
The farther you crawl
My body my temple
This temple it tells
"Yes I am I am I am"

Open my eyes
It swallows me
Is that you there
I twist away
Away
Away
Away



4. Until it Sleeps


Where do I take this pain of mine
I run but it stays right by my side

So tear me open, pour me out
These things inside they scream and shout
And the pain still hates me
So hold me until it sleeps

Just like a curse, just like a stray
You feed it once and now it stays
Now it stays

So tear me open, but beware
Thereīs things inside without a care
And the dirt still stains me
So wash me until Iīm clean

It grips you so hold me
It stains you so hold me
It hates you so hold me
It holds you so hold me
Until it sleeps...

So tell me why youīve choosen me
Donīt want your grip
Donīt want your greed
Donīt want it

Iīll Tear me open, make you gone
No more can you hurt anyone
And the fear still shakes me
So hold me until it sleeps

I donīt want it.....NO

It grips you so hold me
It stains you so hold me
It hates you so hold me
It holds you, holds you, holds you
Until it sleeps...

So tear me open, but beware
The painīs inside without a care
And the dirt still stains me
So wash me til Iīm clean

Iīll Tear me open, make you gone
No longer will you hurt anyone
And the hate still shakes me
So hold me until it sleeps
Until it sleeps
Until it sleeps
Until it sleeps



5. King Nothing


Wish I may
Wish I might
Have this I wish tonight
Are you satisfied?
Dig for gold
Dig for fame
You dig to make your name
Are you pacified?

All the wants you waste
All the things youīve chased
Then it all crashes down
And you break your crown
And you point your finger, but thereīs no one around
Just want one thing
Just to play the King
But the castleīs crumbled and youīre left with just a name
Whereīs your crown, King Nothing?
Whereīs your crown?

Hot and cold
Bought and sold
A heart as hard as gold
Yeah! Are you satisfied?
Wish I might, Wish I may
You wish your life away
Are you pacified?

All the wants you waste
All the things youīve chased
Then it all crashes down
And you break your crown
And you point your finger, but thereīs no one around
Just want one thing
Just to play the King
But the castleīs crumbled and youīre left with just a name
Whereīs your crown, King Nothing?
Whereīs your crown?

Huh!

(Spoken)
Wish I may, wish I might
Have this wish, I wish tonight
I want that star, I want it now
I want it all and I donīt care how

Careful what you wish
Careful what you say
Careful what you wish you may regret it
Careful what you wish you just may get it

Then it all crashes down
And you break your crown
And you point your finger, but thereīs no one around
Just want one thing
Just to play the King
But the castleīs crumbled and youīre left with just a name
Whereīs your crown, King Nothing?
Whereīs your crown?

Oh, Youīre just nothing
Whereīs your crown King Nothing?
Oh, youīre just nothing
Absolutely nothing
Off to never, never land



6. Hero of the Day


The window burns to light the way back home
A light that warms no matter where they go
Theyīre off to find the hero of the day
But what if they should fall by someoneīs wicked way

Still the window burns
Time so slowly turns
And someone there is sighing
Keepers of the flames
Do you feel your name?
Did you hear your babies crying?
Mama they try and break me
Still they try and break me

Excuse me while I tell them how to feel
These things we turn to me that still seem real
Now deservingly this easy chair
But the rocking starts the wheels of this play

Donīt want your hate
But the fist I make
For you still no fear
No not on me
So please excuse me while I tell them how I feel

But now the dreams end
And now the dreams end
They everlast the night
So build a wall
Behind it crawl
And hide until itīs light
So can you hear your babies crying now?

Still the window burns
Time so slowly turns
And someone there is sighing
Keepers of the flames
Did you hear your name?
Did you hear your babies crying?

But now the dreams end
And now the dreams end
They everlast the night
So build a wall
Behind it crawl
And hide until itīs light
So canīt you hear your babies crying now?

Oh they try and break me
Oh they try and break me
Oh they try and break me
Oh they try
Oh they try
Oh they try and break me
Oh they try and break me
Oh they try and break me
Oh they try
Oh they try



7. Bleeding Me


Iīm digginī my way
Iīm digginī my way to somethinī
Iīm digginī my way to somethinī better

Iīm pushinī to stay
Iīm pushinī to stay with somethinī
Iīm pushinī to stay with somethinī better

Iīm sowing the seeds
Iīm sowing the seeds I take
Iīm sowing the seeds I take for granted

This thorn in my side
This thorn in my side is from the tree
This thorn in my side is from the tree Iīve planted
It tears me and I bleed
And I bleed

Caught under wheels roll
I take the leash
Iīm bleeding me
Canīt stop to save my soul
I take the leash thatīs bleeding me
Iīm bleeding me
I canīt take it
Caught under wheels roll
Oh, the bleeding of me
Of me
The bleeding of me

Caught under wheels roll
I take the leash
Iīm bleeding me
Canīt stop to save my soul
I take the leash thatīs bleeding me
Iīm bleeding me
I canīt take it
Caught under wheels roll
Oh, the bleeding of me
Oh, the bleeding of me

I am the beast that bleeds the feast
I am the blood
I am release

Come make me pure
Bleed me a cure
Iīm caught, Iīm caught, Iīm caught under
Caught under wheels roll
I take that lease
Iīm bleeding me
Canīt stop to save my soul
I take the leash thatīs bleeding me
Iīm bleeding me
I canīt take it
I canīt take it
I canīt take it
Oh, the bleeding of me

Iīm digginī my way
Iīm digginī my way to somethinī
Iīm digginī my way to somethinī better

Iīm pushinī to stay
Iīm pushinī to stay with somethinī
Iīm pushinī to stay with somethinī better
With somethinī bette



8. Poor Twisted Me


Poor

Oh poor twisted me
Oh poor twisted me
I feast on sympathy
I chew on suffer
I chew on agony
And swallow whole the pain
Oh itīs too good to be
All this misery
Is just for oh poor twisted me
Poor twisted me

Poor mistreated me
Poor mistreated me
I drown without a sea
Iīm filled with sorrow
Once filled with misery
And hated the deep dark blue
Such a burden to bear
Poor mistreated me

Finally reached the shore
Survivalīs gone
Now your feeling cold ever since he was born
Your pain is so over you

Finally reached the shore
Survivalīs gone
Now your feeling cold ever since he was born
Your pain is so over you
Could ya be my friend
Such a pain to see
Oh poor twisted me



9. Wasting my Hate


Ainīt gonna waste my hate
Ainīt gonna waste my hate on you
I think Iīll keep it for myself

Ainīt gonna kill no more
Ainīt got the time to help you score
I think itīs time you pleased yourself
Yourself

Doing dead
I would do in the same
A smile to you

Donīt waste
Waste your breath
Now I will waste my hate on you
Waste my hate on you

And I think your working now
You think enough to even raise the brow
And to life that tip that you belong
Come on

When I see my hate I see my feet
I feel that blood that pumps in me
Where the hellīs my mind
Donīt know
Donīt know now

Doing dead
I would do in the same
A smile to you

Donīt waste
Waste your breath
Now I will waste my hate on you
Waste my hate on you
Then Iīll keep it for myself
Hate

Ainīt gonna waste my hate
But I donīt clean it when they say
Better to give then to receive

Ainīt gonna waste my hate
Ainīt got time to waste my hate on you
I think Iīll keep it all for myself
For myself

Doing dead
I would do in the same
A smile to you

Donīt waste
Waste your breath
Now I will waste my hate on you
Waste my hate on you

Think Iīll keep it for myself
Yeah

Hate



10. Mama Said


Mama, she has taught me well
Told me when I was young
"Son, your lifeīs an open book
Donīt close it īfore its done"
"The brightest flame burns quickest"
Thatīs what I heard her say
A sonīs heart sowed to mother
But I must find my way

Let my heart go
Let your son grow
Mama, let my heart go
Let this heart be still
Yeah, still

Rebel, mind your last name
Wild blood in my veins
They bring strings around my neck
The mark that still remains
Left home at an early age
Of what I heard was wrong
I never asked forgiveness
But what is said is done

Let my heart go
Let your son grow
Mama, let my heart go
Let this heart be still

Never I ask of you
But never I gave
But you gave me your emptiness that Iīll take to my grave
Never I ask of you
But never I gave
But you gave me your emptiness that Iīll take to my grave
So let this heart be still

Mama, now Iīm coming home
Iīm not all you wished of me
A motherīs love for her son
Spoken, help me be
I took your love for granted
Not a thing you said to me
I needed your arms to welcome me
But, a cold stoneīs all I see

Let my heart go
Let your son grow
Mama, let my heart go
Let this heart be still

Let my heart go
Mama, let my heart go
You never let my heart go
So let this heart be still

Never I ask of you
But never I gave
But you gave me your emptiness that Iīll take to my grave
Never I ask of you
But never I gave
But you gave me your emptiness that Iīll take to my grave
Let this heart be still



11. Thorn Within


Forgive me father
For I have sinned
Find me guilty of the life I feel within

When Iīm branded
This mark of shame
So I look down disgraced for saying I know that you must feel

I am, I am the secret
I am, I am the sin
I am, I am the guilty
And I, I am the thorn within

Forgive me father
For I have sinned
Find me guilty with true guilt thatīs from within

So point your fingers
Point right at me
For I am shadows and will follow you whatever see my way

I am, I am the secret
I am, I am the sin
I am, I am the guilty
And I, I am the thorn within

I do your time
I take your fall
Iīm branded guilty for a soul

So point your fingers
Point right at me
For I am shadows and will follow you whatever see my way

I am, I am your secrets
I am, I am your sin
I am, I am your guilty
And I, I am the thorn within
I am the thorn within



12. Ronnie


Stories taught
Quiet town
Small time for big time crowd
Never talks
Never plays
Different path
Lost his way

The streets are red
Red Iīm afraid
Thereīs no confetti
No parade
Nothing happens in this boring place
But oh my god how it all dismays
And they all pray
Blood stain wash away

He said
"Lost my way
This bloody day
Lost my way"

I heard it
He said
"Lost my way
This bloody day
Lost my way"
Oh please wash away
But blood stains the sun red today

I always said
Something wrong
Little strange
All day long
Never laugh
Never smile
Talked alone for miles and miles and miles

Yellow comes
Sun I say
Keep your smile and laugh all day
He falls again in this foreign place
For little boys how they do chase
And they all pray
Blood stain wash away

He said
"Lost my way
This bloody day
Lost my way"

I heard it
He said
"Lost my way
This bloody day
Lost my way"
Oh please wash away
But blood stains the sun red today

(Spoken)
Yeah, well all the green things died
When Ronnie moved to this place
He said
"Donīt you dare ask
Why Iīm cursed to wear this face"
I know why the children called him Ronnie frown
When he pulled that gun from his pocket
They all fall down down down

He said
"Lost my way
This bloody day
Lost my way"

I heard it
He screamed
"Lost my way
This bloody day
Lost my way"
Oh please wash away
But blood stains the sun red today

All things wash away
They all fall down
But blood stains the sun today

All things wash away
They all fall down
But blood stains the sun today



13. The Outlaw Torn


You know I wait my whole lifetime for you

I ride the dirt I ride the tide for you
I search the outside search inside for you
To take back what you left me
I know Iīll always burn to be
No one seeks so I may find
And now I wait my whole lifetime
My whole lifetime

So on I wait my whole lifetime for you
So on I wait my whole lifetime for you

The more I search the more my need for you
The more I blast the more I bleed for you
You make me smash the clock and feel
Iīd rather die behind the wheel
Time was never on my side
So on I wait my whole lifetime
My whole lifetime

And Iīm torn
And if I close my mind in fear
Please pry it open
And if my face becomes sincere
Beware
And when I start to come undone
Stitch me together
And when you see me stretched remind me of what left this outlaw torn

And if I close my mind in fear
Please pry it open
And if my face becomes sincere
Beware
And when I start to come undone
Stitch me together
And when you see me stretched remind me of what left this outlaw torn



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