LOAD ALBUM
Perhaps this is in bad taste, but I can't help but start my review by putting it in context of other takes on Load on this site. Reading some of these other reviews, in particular the ones that tend to give it interesting scores like "27%" (how is that different from 20% or 30% or even 25%?), literally made me a little angry. And I don't usually get angry, at least not merely from reading someone's opinion of a piece of music. After all, tastes vary, right? No accounting for taste, right?
Right. That's WHY some of these reviews bring up anger in me. I completely understand rejecting this album because its style is not Metallica's prior typical style; or because you prefer metal. In fact, I myself find the Load song Mama Said -- straight up acoustic country, twangy vocal delivery by Hetfield and all -- totally inappropriate for the album, the band, and this site. I fuckin' hate country and don't want to hear it on a Metallica album.
So, it's not that which brings up anger. It's when someone who hates the album's style still attempts to critique its content and then makes a bunch of assertions that are straight up false. A few examples -- which will hopefully help the reader also get a sense of the album (the ultimately point of any review) -- follow:
James Hetfield's voice is often criticized as being inferior to his singing on older records. One review notes that it might be a result of aging or something. Factually speaking, however, Hetfield on Load turns in BY FAR his best vocal performance to date. His voice is powerful, pitch-perfect, and most importantly extremely varied, expressive, and dynamic (compared to, say, the striking but quite static and unchanging vocal delivery of 1988's ...and Justice for All). It's an emotionally charged performance, and on a technical level it is without a doubt his best singing. It's not even close, really. His vocal technique here reaches its peak, culminating the journey started on the self-titled predecessor a.k.a. the Black Album. Yet reviewers will cite is as somehow inferior or technically lagging behind singing in the band's 80s thrash heyday? NO.
Another example is a criticism of the song structures and musicality. For example, the song Bleeding Me is often criticized as "going nowhere." Look, I get it: it's not the harshest or heaviest song by a long shot, and maybe it's just not for you. But if you *actually* listen to it, you'll notice that the thing is a rare example of true dynamic through-composition by a mainstream metal band. It develops slowly but surely, into an epic climax punctuated by an outstanding Kirk solo and tortured vocal delivery by James -- until the relaxed denouement that circles back to the song's similarly subdued start. The dark, if deliciously opaque and full of allegory, lyrics are a credit to Hetfield as a lyricist, showing he can be personal and emotional without it coming off as cheesy or overly literal. If anything, Bleeding Me is the triumph of SONGWRITING over MUSICIANSHIP or GENRE. I don't mind criticism because you prefer blistering musicianship and metal-ness... but at least say so, instead of criticizing the songwriting as inferior, when the songwriting is precisely what positively lifts the damn track.
You get the idea. If you want metal, or god forbid thrash specifically, stay far away. However, if your tastes allow for mere hard rock, then throw away your Metallica preconceptions and enjoy.
The album fills the entire CD (73 minutes), and there is much for you to enjoy. There are a couple of thrashier numbers such as Ain't My Bitch and King Nothing -- I find them competent but actually a bit lacking due to the inevitable comparison to the Masters and Justices of the past; in such comparisons the past efforts win easily. No -- Load is actually strongest when it is most adventurous (Mama Said aside), going for the soft-hard-soft epic opus thing. The aforementioned Bleeding Me, the closer Outlaw Torn, and strangely vocal-focused single Hero Of The Day all stand out as some of Metallica's best SONGS (not performances; not displays of musicianship; but written SONGS).
Other than the mentioned quasi-thrashers and heady epics, the album is rounded out by an abundance of 4-minute blues-riff-based mid-tempo numbers. (Ronnie, an extremely groovy song, almost sounds like it's by an evil ZZ Top... definitely strange to hear in context but undeniably well written and performed.) These songs are... good. They're not great, and while showing off James's fantastic singing, their very restrained mid-tempo/mid-length nature -- not enhanced by the same jammy adventurousness as something like Outlaw Torn -- can't help but somewhat pale in comparison to Metallica's best of the 80s. That is to say, back then, even the filler was pretty damned awesome, whereas here it's merely pretty good.
Those, relatively speaking, filler songs probably also bear the brunt of the typical criticism as to Metallica's simplified musicianship during the Black Album-Load era. I can't disagree. Lars (or is it producer Bob Rock?) makes good drumming choices, but it's competent, really, nothing more. More sad is Kirk Hammett's recession into the background on this disc. AJFA (among others) shows he *can* really play, if he wants to, but he has to want to. Frankly, this album has very few solos -- and these 4-minute songs could very much use some variety that solos (or something lead guitar-oriented, at least) would bring. So Kirk is missed here. Frankly, he hasn't really been back since, at least as of 2018.
That said, ironically, Load also features arguably Kirk's best guitar solo of all time, which sits near the climax of Bleeding Me. It's Kirk all right -- all wah, all the way -- but like the rest of the song it's overloaded with emotion and pathos. Classic (if not necessarily the most blisteringly fast) work by Kirk.
In rating this album, I must consider its overall sound but also its consistency. Regarding the former, it sets out to accomplish a certain something and confidently succeeds at that something: an emotionally dynamic, vocals-oriented, blues-heavy hard rock album. However, in terms of consistency, Load suffers somewhat. Of its 14 tracks, I count 4 I skip every time, 3 classics or near-classics, and the rest are middle-of-the-road enjoyable. That's a very strong mix, but on the other hand it's no Justice or Master, which are swimming in all-time classics and feature almost no skip-it tracks.
4/5 -- a very strong album and one of Metallica's top 5 albums, though not quite up to the standards of their thrash heyday.
Daftar Lagu
1. Ain't My Bitch 05:04
2. 2x4 05:28
3. The House Jack Built 06:39
4. Until It Sleeps 04:30
5. King Nothing 05:28
6. Hero of the Day 04:22
7. Bleeding Me 08:18
8. Cure 04:54
9. Poor Twisted Me 04:00
10. Wasting My Hate 03:57
11. Mama Said 05:20
12. Thorn Within 05:52
13. Ronnie 05:17
14. The Outlaw Torn 09:49
1. Ain't My Bitch
Outta my way, outta my day
Outta your mind and into mine
Into no one, into not one
Into your step but out of time
Head strong, what’s wrong?
I’ve already heard this song before
You arrived, but now it’s time to kiss your ass goodbye
Dragging me down, why you around?
So useless
It ain’t my fault, it ain’t my call
It ain’t my bitch
Yeah! Ain’t my bitch
Oh! Down on the sun, down and no fun
Down and out where the hell you been
Damn it all down, damn it unbound
Damn it all down to hell again
Stand tall, they fall
Never even meant it all before
You arrived, but now it’s time to kiss your ass goodbye
Dragging me down, why you around?
So useless heah
It ain’t my fault, it ain’t my call
It ain’t my bitch
Oh!
Yoh! Out of my way!
Oh!
Outta my way, outta my day
Outta your mind and into mine
Into no one, into not one
Into your step but out of time
Head strong, what’s wrong?
I’ve already heard this song before
You arrived, but now it’s time to kiss your ass goodbye
And now it’s time to kiss your a-ass goodbye (and now it’s to kiss your…)
Dragging me down, why you around?
So useless ye-heah!
It ain’t my fault, it ain’t my call
It ain’t my bitch
No way but down, why you around?
No fooling yeah!
It ain’t my smile, it ain’t my style
It ain’t my bitch
Ain’t mine, ain’t mine, your kind
You’re stepping out of time
Ain’t mine, your kind
You’re stepping out of time
Dragging me down, why you were around?
No fooling
It ain’t my fault, it ain’t my call
It ain’t my uh bitch, you ain’t my
2. 2x4
Ye-e-e-eah! I’m gonna make you, shake you, take you
I’m gonna be the one who breaks you
Put the screws into ya, yeah my way
Yeah, c’mon, c’mon, come and make my day, make my day
Yeah! Got some hell to pay ya, I steal your thunder
The joy of violent movement, pulls you under
Uh bite the bullet, well hard
Yeah, but I bite harder, so go too far, too far
(Friction, fusion, retribution)
I can’t hear ya... talk to me, I can’t hear ya
... so talk to me (Friction, fusion, retribution)
I can’t hear ya are you talking to me,
I can’t hear ya are you talking to me (Friction, fusion, retribution)
I can’t hear ya time to meet my lord,
I can’t hear ya talk ta 2 by 4 eah!
Yeah! I’m gonna make you, shake you, take you
I’m gonna be that one who breaks you
Put the screws into ya, my way
Hey c’mon, c’mon, come and make my day, make my day
(Friction, fusion, retribution)
Ye-heah I can’t hear ya... talk to me, I can’t hear ya
... come talk to me (Friction, fusion, retribution)
I can’t hear ya are you talking to me,
uh! I can’t hear ya while your talking to me (Friction, fusion, retribution)
I can’t hear ya time to meet my lord,
I can’t hear ya talk ta 2 by 4 ye-heah />
Yeah! Talk ya 2 by 4
It don’t take no more
Come on yeah
Come on oh
Come on, come on
Talk ta 2 by 4
Talk ta 2 by 4
(Friction, fusion, retribution)
I’m going to make you... talk to me, I’m going to trick you... uh! So talk to me (Friction, fusion, retribution)
Hey I can’t hear ya are you talking to me,
I can’t hear ya are you talking to me (Friction, fusion, retribution)
I can’t hear ya time to meet my lord,
I can’t hear ya talk ta, talk ta 2 by 4
She don’t take no more yeah!
3. The House Jack Built
Open door, 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 yeah, on my way to where I’ve been
It swallows me as it takes me in its fog
Uah! I twist away as I give this world the nod
Open door, 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
Don’t want control, yeah as it takes me down and down and down again
Is that the moon or just a light that lights this dead-end street?
Uah! Is that you there or just another demon that I meet?
The higher you are, the farther you fall
The longer the walk, the farther you crawl
My body my temple, this temple it tilts
Step into the house that Jack built
The higher you are, the farther you fall
The longer the walk, the farther you crawl
My body my temple, this temple it tilts
Yes, this is the house that Jack built, heah
Open door, yes, I walk inside
Swallow me so the pain subsides
And I shake as I take this in
Let the show begin (let the show begin, let the show begin)
The higher you are, the farther you fall
The longer the walk, the farther you crawl
My body my temple, this temple it tilts
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 tilts, yes I am, I am, I am, uah
Open my eyes
It swallows me
Is that you there?
Uh! I twist away, away, away yeah, away
1. Until It Sleeps Where do I take this pain of mine
I run but it stays right by my side
So tear me open and pour me out
There’s things inside that scream and shout
And the pain still hates me
So hold me until it sleeps
Just like the curse, just like the stray
You feed it once and now it stays, now it stays
So tear me open but beware
There’s things inside without a care
And the dirt still stains me
So wash me until I’m 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 you’ve chosen me
Don’t want your grip, don’t want your greed, don’t want it
Now tear me open, make you gone
No more can you hurt anyone
And the fear still shakes me
So hold me, until it sleeps
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
I don’t want it, want it, want it, want it, want it, no
So tear me open but beware
There’s things inside without a care
And the dirt still stains me
So wash me till I’m clean
I’ll tear me open, make you gone
No longer will you hurt anyone
And the hate still shapes me
So hold me 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 you’ve chased
Then it all crashes down
And you break your crown
And you point your finger
But there’s no one around
Just want one thing
Just to play the King
But the castle’s crumbled
And you’re left with just a name
Where’s your crown, King Nothing?
Where’s 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 you’ve chased
Then it all crashes down
And you break your crown
And you point your finger
But there’s no one around
Just want one thing
Just to play the King
But the castle’s crumbled
And you’re left with just a name
Where’s your crown, King Nothing?
Yeah nothing!
Oh where’s your crown?
Huh!
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 don’t care how
Careful what you wish
Careful what you say
Careful what you wish you may regret it
Careful what you wish you just might get it
Then it all crashes down
And you break your crown
And you point your finger
But there’s no one around
Just want one thing
Just to play the King
But the castle’s crumbled
And you’re left with just a name
Where’s your crown, King Nothing?
Nothing
Oh, you’re just nothing
Where’s your crown King Nothing?
Oh, you’re just nothing
Absolutely nothing
Off to never-never land
6. Hero of the Day
Mama, they try and break me
The window burns to light the way back home
A light that warms no matter where they’ve go
They’re off to find the hero of the day
But what if they should fall by someone’s wicked way?
Still the window burns, time so slowly turns
Someone there is sighing
Keepers of the flames, do you feel your name?
Do you hear your babies crying?
Mama they try and break me
Still they try and break me
Excuse me while I tend to how I feel
These things return to me that still seem real
Now deservingly this easy chair
But the rocking stopped by wheels of despair
Don’t want your aid but the fist I made
For years can’t hold or feel
No, I’m not all me
So please excuse me while I tend to how I feel
But now the dreams (but the dreams) and waking screams that ever last the night
So build a wall (so build a wall) behind it crawl and hide until it’s light
So can’t you hear your babies crying now?
Still the window burns, time so slowly turns
And someone there is sighing
Keepers of the flames, can’t you hear your name?
Can’t you hear your babies crying?
But now the dreams (but the dreams) and waking screams that ever last the night
So build a wall (so build a wall) behind it crawl and hide until it’s light
So can’t you hear your babies crying now?
Mama they try and break me
Mama they try and break me
Mama they try and break me
Mama they try, mama they try
Mama they try and break me (mama they try and break me)
Mama they try and break me (mama they try and break me)
Mama they try and break me (mama they try and break me)
Mama they try, mama they try
7. Bleeding Me
I’m digging my way
I’m digging my way to something I’m digging my way to something better
I’m pushing to stay
I’m pushing to stay with something
I’m pushing to stay with something better ouh-oh, ouh-oh
I’m sowing the seeds
I’m sowing the seeds I’ve taken
I’m 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 I’ve planted
Huh! It tears me and I bleed, yeah… and I bleed ye-yeah!
Heah caught under wheels roll
I take the leech, I’m bleeding me
Can’t stop to save my soul
I take the leash thats leading me
I’m bleeding me oh! Huh! I can’t take it
Caught under wheels roll
Oh, the bleeding of me yeah
Of me yeah, the bleeding of me
Caught under wheels roll
I take the leech, I’m bleeding me
Can’t stop to save my soul
I take the leash thats leading me
I’m bleeding me oh! Huh! I can’t take it
Caught under wheels roll
Oh, the bleeding of me
Oh, the bleeding of me
Yeah! I am the beast that bleeds the feast
I am the blood, I am release
Come make me pure, bleed me a cure
I’m caught, I’m caught, I’m caught under
Caught under wheels roll
I take that leech, I’m bleeding me
Can’t stop to save my soul
I take the leash thats leading me
I’m bleeding me oh, I can’t take it
I can’t take it, I can’t take it
Oh, oh the bleeding of me
Huh! Come on baby!
Um… yeah I’m digging my way
I’m digging my way to something
I’m digging my way to something better
I’m pushing to stay
I’m pushing to stay with something
I’m pushing to stay with something better
With something better
8. Cure
The man takes another bullet
He keeps them all within
He must seek, no matter how it hurts
So don’t fool again
Yeah! He thinks the answer is cold and in his hand
He takes his medicine
The man takes another bullet
Yeah! He’s been fooled again
Uncross your arms
Take and throw them to the cure, say
I do believe
Uncross your arms now
Take ‘em to it, say
I do believe
Yeah! I do believe yeah
Yeah! The lies tempt her and she follows
Again she lets him in
She must believe to fill the hollow
She’s been fooled again
Uncross your arms
Take and throw them to the cure, say
I do believe
Uncross your arms now
Take ‘em to it, say
I do believe
Oh yeah! I do believe ye-yeah ouh
Betting on the cure, it must get better than this
Betting on the cure, yeah everyone got to have the sickness
‘Cause everyone seems to need the cure
Precious cure
Betting on the cure, ‘cause it must be better than this
Betting on the cure, yeah everyone got to have the sickness
‘Cause everyone seems to need the cure
Oh yeah! Precious cure
I do believe, I do believe, I do believe, I do believe
I do believe, I do believe, I do believe, I do believe
I do believe, I do believe, I do believe, I do believe
I do believe, I do believe, I do believe, I do believe, I do believe ye-yeah!
Betting on the cure
Yeah it must get better than this
Need to feel secure
Yeah it’s got to get better than this ye-yeah, ye-yeah, ye-yeah
It must get better than this
Betting on the cure
Everyone’s got to have the sickness
‘Cause everyone seems to need the cure
I do believe, I do believe, I do believe
9. Poor Twisted Me
Oh poor twisted me
Oh poor twisted me
I feast on sympathy
I chew on suffer
I chew on agony
Swallow whole the pain
Oh it’s too good to be
All this misery
Is just for oh poor twisted me yeah!
Uh yeah! Poor twisted me
Poor mistreated me
Poor mistreated me
I drown without a sea
Lungs fill with sorrow
Lungs fill with misery
Inhaling the deep dark blue
Oh woe woe is me
Such a burden to bear
Poor mistreated me ye-yeah!
Yeah! To finally reach the shore, survive the storm
Now your feeling cold
The sea was warm, so warm
You bathe your soul again
Bathe, again and again and again ye-yeah
Yeah!
Yeah! To finally reach the shore, survive the storm
Now you’re bare and cold, the sea was warm
So warm, you bathe your soul again
Good to see my friend yeah
Oh, woe is me
Such a burden to be
Oh, poor twisted me
Yeah ye-yeah! Yo poor twisted me yeah
Oh yo oh yo, poor twisted me
10. Wasting My Hate
Good day, how do? and I send a smile to you
Don’ t waste, waste your breath and I won’t waste my hate on you
Ah!
Yeah!
Ain’t gonna waste my hate
Ain’ t gonna waste my hate on you
I think I’ll keep it for myself
Ain’t gonna give no more
Ain’t got the time to help you score
I think it’s time you pleased yourself, yourself
Good day, how do? and I send a smile to you
Don’t waste, waste your breath and I won’t waste my hate on you
Waste my hate on you, hate!
He-heah! You think you’re worthy now?
You think enough to even raise the brow
And to laugh and tip that two-pronged crown?
Well I see my hands, I see my feet
I feel that blood that pumps in beats
But where the hell’s my mind going now?
Dead gone now
Good day, how do? and I send a smile to you
Don’t waste, waste your breath and I won’t waste my hate on you
Waste my hate on you
Think I’ll keep it for myself, hate!
Ain’t gonna waste my hate
But I’m so greedy when they say
Better to give than to receive
Ain’t gonna waste my hate
Ain’t got time to waste my hate on you
I think I’ll keep it all for myself, for myself
Good day, how do? and I send a smile to you
Don’t waste, waste your breath and I won’t waste my hate on you
Waste my hate on you
Think I’ll keep it for myself, yeah! Hate!
11. Mama Said
One, two, three, four… One, two… Ah
Mama, she has taught me well
Told me when I was young
“Son, your life’s an open book
don’t close it ‘fore its done”
“The brightest flame burns quickest”
That’s what I heard her say
A son’s heart owed to mother
But I must find my way
Let my heart go
Let your son grow
Mama, let my heart go
Or let this heart be still, yeah still
“Rebel” my new last name
Wild blood in my veins
Apron 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 I said is done
Let my heart go
Let your son grow
Mama, let my heart go
Or let this heart be still
Never I asked of you
But never I gave
But you gave me your emptiness
I now take to my grave
Never I asked of you but never I gave
But you gave me your emptiness
I now take to my grave
So let this heart be still
Mama, now I’m coming home
I’m not all you wished of me
A mother’s love for her son
Unspoken, help me be
Yeah I took your love for granted
And all the things you said to me yeah
I need your arms to welcome me
But, a cold stone’s all I see
Let my heart go
Let your son grow
Mama, let my heart go
Or 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
Oh!
Never I asked of you
But never I gave
But you gave me your emptiness
I now take to my grave
Never I asked of you but never I gave
But you gave me your emptiness
I now take to my grave
So let this heart be still
The Struggle
Forgive me father for I have sinned
Find me guilty of the life I feel within
When I’m branded
This mark of shame
Should I look down disgraced or straight ahead
And know that you must blame
I am (I am) the secret
I am (I am) the sin
I am (I am) the guilty
And I (and I), I am the thorn within
Forgive me father for I have sinned
Find me guilty when true guilt is from within
So point your fingers
Point right at me
For I am shadows and will follow you
One and the same are we
I am (I am) the secret
I am (I am) the sin
I am (I am) the guilty
And I (and I), I am the thorn within
I do your time
I take your fall
I’m branded guilty
For us all
So point your fingers
Point right at me
For I am shadows and will follow you
One and the same are we
I am (I am) the secrets
I am (I am) the sin
I am (I am) the guilty
And I (and I), I am the thorn within
I am the thorn within
I am the thorn within
I am the thorn within
I am the thorn within
I am the thorn within
13. Ronnie
Story starts, quiet town
Small town boy, big time frown
Never talks, never plays
Different path, lost his way
The streets are red, red I’m afraid
There’s no confetti, no parade
Nothing happens in this boring place
But oh my God, how it all did change
Now they all pray
Blood stain wash away
He said, “Lost my way
This bloody day, lost my way”
I heard him, he said, “Lost my way
This bloody day, lost my way”
All things wash away
But blood stained the sun red today
I always said something wrong
With little strange Ronnie Long
Never laughed, never smiled
Talked alone for miles and miles and miles
Gallow calls, son, I say
Keep your smile and laugh all day
Think once again in this boring place
For little boys how they soon change
Now they all pray
Blood stain wash away
He said, “Lost my way
This bloody day, lost my way”
Yeah I heard him, he said, “Lost my way
This bloody day, lost my way”
All things wash away
But blood stained the sun red today, yeah
Yeah, well, all the green things died
When Ronnie moved to this place
He said “Don’t you dare ask
Why I’m cursed to wear this face”
Now we all 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” Yeah, yeah
I heard it, he screamed, “Lost my way
This bloody day, lost my way”
Oh, please wash away
But blood stained the sun red today, ah
That’s right
All things wash away
They all fall down
But blood stained the sun today
Yeah, yeah fall down
All things wash away
And they all fall down
But blood stained the sun today, yeah, um
14. The Outlaw
And now I wait my whole lifetime for you
And now 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 I’ll always burn to be
The one who seeks so I may find
And now I wait my whole lifetime
Outlaw of torn
Outlaw of torn
And I’m torn
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 bless, the more I bleed for you
You make me smash the clock and feel
I’d rather die behind the wheel
Time was never on my side
So on I wait my whole lifetime
Outlaw of torn
Outlaw of torn
Yeah outlaw of torn
Yeah and I’m torn
Hear me! And if I close my mind in fear, please pry it open
See me! And if my face becomes sincere, beware yeah
Hold me! And when I start to come undone, stitch me together
Save me! And when you see me strut, remind me of what left this outlaw torn
Hear me! And if I close my mind in fear, please pry it open
See me! And if my face becomes sincere, beware yeah
Hold me! And when I start to come undone, stitch me together
Save me! And when you see me strut, remind me of what left this outlaw torn
Outta my way, outta my day
Outta your mind and into mine
Into no one, into not one
Into your step but out of time
Head strong, what’s wrong?
I’ve already heard this song before
You arrived, but now it’s time to kiss your ass goodbye
Dragging me down, why you around?
So useless
It ain’t my fault, it ain’t my call
It ain’t my bitch
Yeah! Ain’t my bitch
Oh! Down on the sun, down and no fun
Down and out where the hell you been
Damn it all down, damn it unbound
Damn it all down to hell again
Stand tall, they fall
Never even meant it all before
You arrived, but now it’s time to kiss your ass goodbye
Dragging me down, why you around?
So useless heah
It ain’t my fault, it ain’t my call
It ain’t my bitch
Oh!
Yoh! Out of my way!
Oh!
Outta my way, outta my day
Outta your mind and into mine
Into no one, into not one
Into your step but out of time
Head strong, what’s wrong?
I’ve already heard this song before
You arrived, but now it’s time to kiss your ass goodbye
And now it’s time to kiss your a-ass goodbye (and now it’s to kiss your…)
Dragging me down, why you around?
So useless ye-heah!
It ain’t my fault, it ain’t my call
It ain’t my bitch
No way but down, why you around?
No fooling yeah!
It ain’t my smile, it ain’t my style
It ain’t my bitch
Ain’t mine, ain’t mine, your kind
You’re stepping out of time
Ain’t mine, your kind
You’re stepping out of time
Dragging me down, why you were around?
No fooling
It ain’t my fault, it ain’t my call
It ain’t my uh bitch, you ain’t my
2. 2x4
Ye-e-e-eah! I’m gonna make you, shake you, take you
I’m gonna be the one who breaks you
Put the screws into ya, yeah my way
Yeah, c’mon, c’mon, come and make my day, make my day
Yeah! Got some hell to pay ya, I steal your thunder
The joy of violent movement, pulls you under
Uh bite the bullet, well hard
Yeah, but I bite harder, so go too far, too far
(Friction, fusion, retribution)
I can’t hear ya... talk to me, I can’t hear ya
... so talk to me (Friction, fusion, retribution)
I can’t hear ya are you talking to me,
I can’t hear ya are you talking to me (Friction, fusion, retribution)
I can’t hear ya time to meet my lord,
I can’t hear ya talk ta 2 by 4 eah!
Yeah! I’m gonna make you, shake you, take you
I’m gonna be that one who breaks you
Put the screws into ya, my way
Hey c’mon, c’mon, come and make my day, make my day
(Friction, fusion, retribution)
Ye-heah I can’t hear ya... talk to me, I can’t hear ya
... come talk to me (Friction, fusion, retribution)
I can’t hear ya are you talking to me,
uh! I can’t hear ya while your talking to me (Friction, fusion, retribution)
I can’t hear ya time to meet my lord,
I can’t hear ya talk ta 2 by 4 ye-heah
Yeah! Talk ya 2 by 4
It don’t take no more
Come on yeah
Come on oh
Come on, come on
Talk ta 2 by 4
Talk ta 2 by 4
(Friction, fusion, retribution)
I’m going to make you... talk to me, I’m going to trick you... uh! So talk to me (Friction, fusion, retribution)
Hey I can’t hear ya are you talking to me,
I can’t hear ya are you talking to me (Friction, fusion, retribution)
I can’t hear ya time to meet my lord,
I can’t hear ya talk ta, talk ta 2 by 4
She don’t take no more yeah!
3. The House Jack Built
Open door, 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 yeah, on my way to where I’ve been
It swallows me as it takes me in its fog
Uah! I twist away as I give this world the nod
Open door, 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
Don’t want control, yeah as it takes me down and down and down again
Is that the moon or just a light that lights this dead-end street?
Uah! Is that you there or just another demon that I meet?
The higher you are, the farther you fall
The longer the walk, the farther you crawl
My body my temple, this temple it tilts
Step into the house that Jack built
The higher you are, the farther you fall
The longer the walk, the farther you crawl
My body my temple, this temple it tilts
Yes, this is the house that Jack built, heah
Open door, yes, I walk inside
Swallow me so the pain subsides
And I shake as I take this in
Let the show begin (let the show begin, let the show begin)
The higher you are, the farther you fall
The longer the walk, the farther you crawl
My body my temple, this temple it tilts
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 tilts, yes I am, I am, I am, uah
Open my eyes
It swallows me
Is that you there?
Uh! I twist away, away, away yeah, away
1. Until It Sleeps Where do I take this pain of mine
I run but it stays right by my side
So tear me open and pour me out
There’s things inside that scream and shout
And the pain still hates me
So hold me until it sleeps
Just like the curse, just like the stray
You feed it once and now it stays, now it stays
So tear me open but beware
There’s things inside without a care
And the dirt still stains me
So wash me until I’m 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 you’ve chosen me
Don’t want your grip, don’t want your greed, don’t want it
Now tear me open, make you gone
No more can you hurt anyone
And the fear still shakes me
So hold me, until it sleeps
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
I don’t want it, want it, want it, want it, want it, no
So tear me open but beware
There’s things inside without a care
And the dirt still stains me
So wash me till I’m clean
I’ll tear me open, make you gone
No longer will you hurt anyone
And the hate still shapes me
So hold me 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 you’ve chased
Then it all crashes down
And you break your crown
And you point your finger
But there’s no one around
Just want one thing
Just to play the King
But the castle’s crumbled
And you’re left with just a name
Where’s your crown, King Nothing?
Where’s 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 you’ve chased
Then it all crashes down
And you break your crown
And you point your finger
But there’s no one around
Just want one thing
Just to play the King
But the castle’s crumbled
And you’re left with just a name
Where’s your crown, King Nothing?
Yeah nothing!
Oh where’s your crown?
Huh!
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 don’t care how
Careful what you wish
Careful what you say
Careful what you wish you may regret it
Careful what you wish you just might get it
Then it all crashes down
And you break your crown
And you point your finger
But there’s no one around
Just want one thing
Just to play the King
But the castle’s crumbled
And you’re left with just a name
Where’s your crown, King Nothing?
Nothing
Oh, you’re just nothing
Where’s your crown King Nothing?
Oh, you’re just nothing
Absolutely nothing
Off to never-never land
6. Hero of the Day
Mama, they try and break me
The window burns to light the way back home
A light that warms no matter where they’ve go
They’re off to find the hero of the day
But what if they should fall by someone’s wicked way?
Still the window burns, time so slowly turns
Someone there is sighing
Keepers of the flames, do you feel your name?
Do you hear your babies crying?
Mama they try and break me
Still they try and break me
Excuse me while I tend to how I feel
These things return to me that still seem real
Now deservingly this easy chair
But the rocking stopped by wheels of despair
Don’t want your aid but the fist I made
For years can’t hold or feel
No, I’m not all me
So please excuse me while I tend to how I feel
But now the dreams (but the dreams) and waking screams that ever last the night
So build a wall (so build a wall) behind it crawl and hide until it’s light
So can’t you hear your babies crying now?
Still the window burns, time so slowly turns
And someone there is sighing
Keepers of the flames, can’t you hear your name?
Can’t you hear your babies crying?
But now the dreams (but the dreams) and waking screams that ever last the night
So build a wall (so build a wall) behind it crawl and hide until it’s light
So can’t you hear your babies crying now?
Mama they try and break me
Mama they try and break me
Mama they try and break me
Mama they try, mama they try
Mama they try and break me (mama they try and break me)
Mama they try and break me (mama they try and break me)
Mama they try and break me (mama they try and break me)
Mama they try, mama they try
7. Bleeding Me
I’m digging my way
I’m digging my way to something I’m digging my way to something better
I’m pushing to stay
I’m pushing to stay with something
I’m pushing to stay with something better ouh-oh, ouh-oh
I’m sowing the seeds
I’m sowing the seeds I’ve taken
I’m 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 I’ve planted
Huh! It tears me and I bleed, yeah… and I bleed ye-yeah!
Heah caught under wheels roll
I take the leech, I’m bleeding me
Can’t stop to save my soul
I take the leash thats leading me
I’m bleeding me oh! Huh! I can’t take it
Caught under wheels roll
Oh, the bleeding of me yeah
Of me yeah, the bleeding of me
Caught under wheels roll
I take the leech, I’m bleeding me
Can’t stop to save my soul
I take the leash thats leading me
I’m bleeding me oh! Huh! I can’t take it
Caught under wheels roll
Oh, the bleeding of me
Oh, the bleeding of me
Yeah! I am the beast that bleeds the feast
I am the blood, I am release
Come make me pure, bleed me a cure
I’m caught, I’m caught, I’m caught under
Caught under wheels roll
I take that leech, I’m bleeding me
Can’t stop to save my soul
I take the leash thats leading me
I’m bleeding me oh, I can’t take it
I can’t take it, I can’t take it
Oh, oh the bleeding of me
Huh! Come on baby!
Um… yeah I’m digging my way
I’m digging my way to something
I’m digging my way to something better
I’m pushing to stay
I’m pushing to stay with something
I’m pushing to stay with something better
With something better
8. Cure
The man takes another bullet
He keeps them all within
He must seek, no matter how it hurts
So don’t fool again
Yeah! He thinks the answer is cold and in his hand
He takes his medicine
The man takes another bullet
Yeah! He’s been fooled again
Uncross your arms
Take and throw them to the cure, say
I do believe
Uncross your arms now
Take ‘em to it, say
I do believe
Yeah! I do believe yeah
Yeah! The lies tempt her and she follows
Again she lets him in
She must believe to fill the hollow
She’s been fooled again
Uncross your arms
Take and throw them to the cure, say
I do believe
Uncross your arms now
Take ‘em to it, say
I do believe
Oh yeah! I do believe ye-yeah ouh
Betting on the cure, it must get better than this
Betting on the cure, yeah everyone got to have the sickness
‘Cause everyone seems to need the cure
Precious cure
Betting on the cure, ‘cause it must be better than this
Betting on the cure, yeah everyone got to have the sickness
‘Cause everyone seems to need the cure
Oh yeah! Precious cure
I do believe, I do believe, I do believe, I do believe
I do believe, I do believe, I do believe, I do believe
I do believe, I do believe, I do believe, I do believe
I do believe, I do believe, I do believe, I do believe, I do believe ye-yeah!
Betting on the cure
Yeah it must get better than this
Need to feel secure
Yeah it’s got to get better than this ye-yeah, ye-yeah, ye-yeah
It must get better than this
Betting on the cure
Everyone’s got to have the sickness
‘Cause everyone seems to need the cure
I do believe, I do believe, I do believe
9. Poor Twisted Me
Oh poor twisted me
Oh poor twisted me
I feast on sympathy
I chew on suffer
I chew on agony
Swallow whole the pain
Oh it’s too good to be
All this misery
Is just for oh poor twisted me yeah!
Uh yeah! Poor twisted me
Poor mistreated me
Poor mistreated me
I drown without a sea
Lungs fill with sorrow
Lungs fill with misery
Inhaling the deep dark blue
Oh woe woe is me
Such a burden to bear
Poor mistreated me ye-yeah!
Yeah! To finally reach the shore, survive the storm
Now your feeling cold
The sea was warm, so warm
You bathe your soul again
Bathe, again and again and again ye-yeah
Yeah!
Yeah! To finally reach the shore, survive the storm
Now you’re bare and cold, the sea was warm
So warm, you bathe your soul again
Good to see my friend yeah
Oh, woe is me
Such a burden to be
Oh, poor twisted me
Yeah ye-yeah! Yo poor twisted me yeah
Oh yo oh yo, poor twisted me
10. Wasting My Hate
Good day, how do? and I send a smile to you
Don’ t waste, waste your breath and I won’t waste my hate on you
Ah!
Yeah!
Ain’t gonna waste my hate
Ain’ t gonna waste my hate on you
I think I’ll keep it for myself
Ain’t gonna give no more
Ain’t got the time to help you score
I think it’s time you pleased yourself, yourself
Good day, how do? and I send a smile to you
Don’t waste, waste your breath and I won’t waste my hate on you
Waste my hate on you, hate!
He-heah! You think you’re worthy now?
You think enough to even raise the brow
And to laugh and tip that two-pronged crown?
Well I see my hands, I see my feet
I feel that blood that pumps in beats
But where the hell’s my mind going now?
Dead gone now
Good day, how do? and I send a smile to you
Don’t waste, waste your breath and I won’t waste my hate on you
Waste my hate on you
Think I’ll keep it for myself, hate!
Ain’t gonna waste my hate
But I’m so greedy when they say
Better to give than to receive
Ain’t gonna waste my hate
Ain’t got time to waste my hate on you
I think I’ll keep it all for myself, for myself
Good day, how do? and I send a smile to you
Don’t waste, waste your breath and I won’t waste my hate on you
Waste my hate on you
Think I’ll keep it for myself, yeah! Hate!
11. Mama Said
One, two, three, four… One, two… Ah
Mama, she has taught me well
Told me when I was young
“Son, your life’s an open book
don’t close it ‘fore its done”
“The brightest flame burns quickest”
That’s what I heard her say
A son’s heart owed to mother
But I must find my way
Let my heart go
Let your son grow
Mama, let my heart go
Or let this heart be still, yeah still
“Rebel” my new last name
Wild blood in my veins
Apron 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 I said is done
Let my heart go
Let your son grow
Mama, let my heart go
Or let this heart be still
Never I asked of you
But never I gave
But you gave me your emptiness
I now take to my grave
Never I asked of you but never I gave
But you gave me your emptiness
I now take to my grave
So let this heart be still
Mama, now I’m coming home
I’m not all you wished of me
A mother’s love for her son
Unspoken, help me be
Yeah I took your love for granted
And all the things you said to me yeah
I need your arms to welcome me
But, a cold stone’s all I see
Let my heart go
Let your son grow
Mama, let my heart go
Or 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
Oh!
Never I asked of you
But never I gave
But you gave me your emptiness
I now take to my grave
Never I asked of you but never I gave
But you gave me your emptiness
I now take to my grave
So let this heart be still
The Struggle
Forgive me father for I have sinned
Find me guilty of the life I feel within
When I’m branded
This mark of shame
Should I look down disgraced or straight ahead
And know that you must blame
I am (I am) the secret
I am (I am) the sin
I am (I am) the guilty
And I (and I), I am the thorn within
Forgive me father for I have sinned
Find me guilty when true guilt is from within
So point your fingers
Point right at me
For I am shadows and will follow you
One and the same are we
I am (I am) the secret
I am (I am) the sin
I am (I am) the guilty
And I (and I), I am the thorn within
I do your time
I take your fall
I’m branded guilty
For us all
So point your fingers
Point right at me
For I am shadows and will follow you
One and the same are we
I am (I am) the secrets
I am (I am) the sin
I am (I am) the guilty
And I (and I), I am the thorn within
I am the thorn within
I am the thorn within
I am the thorn within
I am the thorn within
I am the thorn within
13. Ronnie
Story starts, quiet town
Small town boy, big time frown
Never talks, never plays
Different path, lost his way
The streets are red, red I’m afraid
There’s no confetti, no parade
Nothing happens in this boring place
But oh my God, how it all did change
Now they all pray
Blood stain wash away
He said, “Lost my way
This bloody day, lost my way”
I heard him, he said, “Lost my way
This bloody day, lost my way”
All things wash away
But blood stained the sun red today
I always said something wrong
With little strange Ronnie Long
Never laughed, never smiled
Talked alone for miles and miles and miles
Gallow calls, son, I say
Keep your smile and laugh all day
Think once again in this boring place
For little boys how they soon change
Now they all pray
Blood stain wash away
He said, “Lost my way
This bloody day, lost my way”
Yeah I heard him, he said, “Lost my way
This bloody day, lost my way”
All things wash away
But blood stained the sun red today, yeah
Yeah, well, all the green things died
When Ronnie moved to this place
He said “Don’t you dare ask
Why I’m cursed to wear this face”
Now we all 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” Yeah, yeah
I heard it, he screamed, “Lost my way
This bloody day, lost my way”
Oh, please wash away
But blood stained the sun red today, ah
That’s right
All things wash away
They all fall down
But blood stained the sun today
Yeah, yeah fall down
All things wash away
And they all fall down
But blood stained the sun today, yeah, um
14. The Outlaw
And now I wait my whole lifetime for you
And now 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 I’ll always burn to be
The one who seeks so I may find
And now I wait my whole lifetime
Outlaw of torn
Outlaw of torn
And I’m torn
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 bless, the more I bleed for you
You make me smash the clock and feel
I’d rather die behind the wheel
Time was never on my side
So on I wait my whole lifetime
Outlaw of torn
Outlaw of torn
Yeah outlaw of torn
Yeah and I’m torn
Hear me! And if I close my mind in fear, please pry it open
See me! And if my face becomes sincere, beware yeah
Hold me! And when I start to come undone, stitch me together
Save me! And when you see me strut, remind me of what left this outlaw torn
Hear me! And if I close my mind in fear, please pry it open
See me! And if my face becomes sincere, beware yeah
Hold me! And when I start to come undone, stitch me together
Save me! And when you see me strut, remind me of what left this outlaw torn
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