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P R O D U C E D B Y M E TA L L I C A W I T H F L E M M I N G RA S M U S S E N. E NGINEERED BY FLEMMING RASMUSSEN. MIXED BY STEVE THOMPSON AND MICHAEL BARBIERO AT BEARSVILLE STUDIOS, NEW YORK, JUNE 1988. ASSISTANT MIXING ENGINEER: GEORGE COWAN. MASTERED BY BOB LUDWIG AT MASTERDISK, NEW YORK.

RECORDED JAN.–MAY 1988 AT ‘ONE ON ONE,’ LOS ANGELES. ASSISTANT AND ADDITIONAL ENGINEERING: TOBY ‘RAGE’ WRIGHT. SPECIAL THANX TO MIKE CLINK FOR ENGINEERING D RUM TRAX ON “STRAW” AND “HARVESTER”

COVER CONCEPT: HETFIELD & ULRICH. COVER ILLUSTRATION: STEPHEN GORMAN. ALL PHOTOS: ROSS ‘TOBACCO ROAD’ HALFIN. HAMMER ILLUSTRATION: PUSHEAD. DESIGN & LAYOUT: REINER DESIGN CONSULTANTS, INC. MANAGEMENT: Q PRIME INC

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JAMES HETFIELD – RHYTHM GUITAR/VOCALS KIRK HAMMETT – LEAD GUITAR LARS ULRICH – DRUMS JASON NEWSTED – BASS

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BLACKENED

...AND JUSTICE FOR ALL

EYE OF THE BEHOLDER

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(HETFIELD, ULRICH, NEWSTED)

(HETFIELD, ULRICH, HAMMETT) HALLS OF JUSTICE PAINTED GREEN MONEY TALKING POWER WOLVES BESET YOUR DOOR HEAR THEM STALKING SOON YOU’LL PLEASE THEIR APPETITE THEY DEVOUR HAMMER OF JUSTICE CRUSHES YOU OVERPOWER THE ULTIMATE IN VANITY EXPLOITING THEIR SUPREMACY I CAN’T BELIEVE THE THINGS YOU SAY I CAN’T BELIEVE I CAN’T BELIEVE THE PRICE YOU PAY NOTHING CAN SAVE YOU JUSTICE IS LOST JUSTICE IS RAPED JUSTICE IS GONE PULLING YOUR STRINGS JUSTICE IS DONE SEEKING NO TRUTH WINNING IS ALL FIND IT SO GRIM SO TRUE SO REAL APATHY THEIR STEPPING STONE SO UNFEELING HIDDEN DEEP ANIMOSITY SO DECEIVING THROUGH YOUR EYES THEIR LIGHT BURNS HOPING TO FIND INQUISITION SINKING YOU WITH PRYING MINDS THE ULTIMATE IN VANITY EXPLOITING THEIR SUPREMACY I CAN’T BELIEVE THE THINGS YOU SAY I CAN’T BELIEVE I CAN’T BELIEVE THE PRICE YOU PAY NOTHING CAN SAVE YOU JUSTICE IS LOST JUSTICE IS RAPED JUSTICE IS GONE PULLING YOUR STRINGS JUSTICE IS DONE SEEKING NO TRUTH WINNING IS ALL FIND IT SO GRIM SO TRUE SO REAL LADY JUSTICE HAS BEEN RAPED TRUTH ASSASSIN ROLLS OF RED TAPE SEAL YOUR LIPS NOW YOU’RE DONE IN THEIR MONEY TIPS HER SCALES AGAIN MAKE YOUR DEAL JUST WHAT IS TRUTH? I CANNOT TELL CANNOT FEEL

(HETFIELD, ULRICH, HAMMETT) DO YOU SEE WHAT I SEE? TRUTH IS AN OFFENCE YOUR SILENCE FOR YOUR CONFIDENCE DO YOU HEAR WHAT I HEAR? DOORS ARE SLAMMING SHUT LIMIT YOUR IMAGINATION, KEEP YOU WHERE THEY MUST DO YOU FEEL WHAT I FEEL? BITTERING DISTRESS WHO DECIDES WHAT YOU EXPRESS? DO YOU TAKE WHAT I TAKE? ENDURANCE IS THE WORD MOVING BACK INSTEAD OF FORWARD SEEMS TO ME ABSURD DOESN’T MATTER WHAT YOU SEE OR INTO IT WHAT YOU READ YOU CAN DO IT YOUR OWN WAY IF IT’S DONE JUST HOW I SAY INDEPENDENCE LIMITED FREEDOM OF CHOICE CHOICE IS MADE FOR YOU MY FRIEND FREEDOM OF SPEECH SPEECH IS WORDS THAT THEY WILL BEND FREEDOM WITH THEIR EXCEPTION DO YOU FEAR WHAT I FEAR? LIVING PROPERLY TRUTHS TO YOU ARE LIES TO ME DO YOU CHOOSE WHAT I CHOOSE? MORE ALTERNATIVES ENERGY DERIVES FROM BOTH THE PLUS AND NEGATIVE DO YOU NEED WHAT I NEED? BOUNDARIES OVERTHROWN LOOK INSIDE, TO EACH HIS OWN DO YOU TRUST WHAT I TRUST? ME, MYSELF AND I PENETRATE THE SMOKE SCREEN, I SEE THROUGH THE SELFISH LIE DOESN’T MATTER WHAT YOU SEE OR INTO IT WHAT YOU READ YOU CAN DO IT YOUR OWN WAY IF IT’S DONE JUST HOW I SAY INDEPENDENCE LIMITED FREEDOM OF CHOICE CHOICE IS MADE FOR YOU MY FRIEND FREEDOM OF SPEECH SPEECH IS WORDS THAT THEY WILL BEND FREEDOM WITH THEIR EXCEPTION

(HETFIELD, ULRICH) I CAN’T REMEMBER ANYTHING CAN’T TELL IF THIS IS TRUE OR DREAM DEEP DOWN INSIDE I FEEL TO SCREAM THIS TERRIBLE SILENCE STOPS ME NOW THAT THE WAR IS THROUGH WITH ME I’M WAKING UP, I CANNOT SEE THAT THERE’S NOT MUCH LEFT OF ME NOTHING IS REAL BUT PAIN NOW HOLD MY BREATH AS I WISH FOR DEATH OH PLEASE, GOD, WAKE ME BACK IN THE WOMB IT’S MUCH TOO REAL IN PUMPS LIFE THAT I MUST FEEL BUT CAN’T LOOK FORWARD TO REVEAL LOOK TO THE TIME WHEN I’LL LIVE FED THROUGH THE TUBE THAT STICKS IN ME JUST LIKE A WARTIME NOVELTY TIED TO MACHINES THAT MAKE ME BE CUT THIS LIFE OFF FROM ME HOLD MY BREATH AS I WISH FOR DEATH OH PLEASE, GOD, WAKE ME NOW THE WORLD IS GONE, I’M JUST ONE OH GOD, HELP ME HOLD MY BREATH AS I WISH FOR DEATH OH PLEASE, GOD, HELP ME DARKNESS IMPRISONING ME ALL THAT I SEE ABSOLUTE HORROR I CANNOT LIVE I CANNOT DIE TRAPPED IN MYSELF BODY MY HOLDING CELL LANDMINE HAS TAKEN MY SIGHT TAKEN MY SPEECH TAKEN MY HEARING TAKEN MY ARMS TAKEN MY LEGS TAKEN MY SOUL LEFT ME WITH LIFE IN HELL

BLACKENED IS THE END WINTER IT WILL SEND THROWING ALL YOU SEE INTO OBSCURITY DEATH OF MOTHER EARTH NEVER A REBIRTH EVOLUTION’S END NEVER WILL IT MEND NEVER FIRE TO BEGIN WHIPPING DANCE OF THE DEAD BLACKENED IS THE END TO BEGIN WHIPPING DANCE OF THE DEAD COLOR OUR WORLD BLACKENED BLISTERING OF EARTH TERMINATE ITS WORTH DEADLY NICOTINE KILLS WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN CALLOUS FRIGID CHILL NOTHING LEFT TO KILL NEVER SEEN BEFORE BREATHING NEVERMORE NEVER FIRE TO BEGIN WHIPPING DANCE OF THE DEAD BLACKENED IS THE END TO BEGIN WHIPPING DANCE OF THE DEAD COLOR OUR WORLD BLACKENED BLACKENED OPPOSITION. . . CONTRADICTION. . . PREMONITION. . . COMPROMISE AGITATION. . . VIOLATION. . . . . . . MUTILATION. . . PLANET DIES DARKEST COLOR BLISTERED EARTH TRUE DEATH OF LIFE TERMINATION. . . EXPIRATION. . . CANCELLATION. . . HUMAN RACE EXPECTATION. . . LIBERATION. . . POPULATION. . . LAY TO WASTE SEE OUR MOTHER PUT TO DEATH SEE OUR MOTHER DIE SMOULDERING DECAY TAKE HER BREATH AWAY MILLIONS OF OUR YEARS IN MINUTES DISAPPEARS DARKENING IN VAIN DECADENCE REMAINS ALL IS SAID AND DONE NEVER IS THE SUN NEVER FIRE TO BEGIN WHIPPING DANCE OF THE DEAD BLACKENED IS THE END TO BEGIN WHIPPING DANCE OF THE DEAD FIRE IS THE OUTCOME OF HYPOCRISY DARKEST POTENCY IN THE EXIT OF HUMANITY COLOR OUR WORLD BLACKENED BLACKENED

THE ULTIMATE IN VANITY EXPLOITING THEIR SUPREMACY I CAN’T BELIEVE THE THINGS YOU SAY I CAN’T BELIEVE I CAN’T BELIEVE THE PRICE WE PAY NOTHING CAN SAVE US JUSTICE IS LOST JUSTICE IS RAPED JUSTICE IS GONE PULLING YOUR STRINGS JUSTICE IS DONE SEEKING NO TRUTH WINNING IS ALL FIND IT SO GRIM SO TRUE SO REAL SEEKING NO TRUTH WINNING IS ALL FIND IT SO GRIM SO TRUE SO REAL

DO YOU KNOW WHAT I KNOW? YOUR MONEY AND YOUR WEALTH YOUR SILENCE JUST TO HEAR YOURSELF DO YOU WANT WHAT I WANT? DESIRE NOT A THING I HUNGER AFTER INDEPENDENCE, LENGTHEN FREEDOM’S RING DOESN’T MATTER WHAT YOU SEE OR INTO IT WHAT YOU READ YOU CAN DO IT YOUR OWN WAY IF IT’S DONE JUST HOW I SAY INDEPENDENCE LIMITED FREEDOM OF CHOICE CHOICE IS MADE FOR YOU MY FRIEND FREEDOM OF SPEECH SPEECH IS WORDS THAT THEY WILL BEND FREEDOM NO LONGER FREES YOU DOESN’T MATTER WHAT YOU SEE OR INTO IT WHAT YOU READ YOU CAN DO IT YOUR OWN WAY IF IT’S DONE JUST HOW I SAY

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THE SHORTEST STRAW (HETFIELD, ULRICH) SUSPICION IS YOUR NAME YOUR HONESTY TO BLAME PUT DIGNITY TO SHAME DISHONOR WITCHHUNT MODERN DAY DETERMINING DECAY THE BLATANT DISARRAY DISFIGURE THE PUBLIC EYE’S DISGRACE DEFYING COMMON PLACE UNENDING PAPER CHASE UNENDING DEAFENING PAINSTAKING RECKONING THIS VERTIGO IT DOTH BRING SHORTEST STRAW CHALLENGE LIBERTY DOWNED BY LAW LIVE IN INFAMY RUB YOU RAW WITCHHUNT RIDING THROUGH SHORTEST STRAW THE SHORTEST STRAW HAS BEEN PULLED FOR YOU PULLED FOR YOU SHORTEST STRAW PULLED FOR YOU SHORTEST STRAW PULLED FOR YOU SHORTEST STRAW THE SHORTEST STRAW HAS BEEN PULLED FOR YOU THE ACCUSATIONS FLY DISCRIMINATION, WHY? YOUR INNER SELF TO DIE INTRUDING DOUBT SUNK ITSELF IN YOU ITS TEETH AND TALONS THROUGH YOU’RE LIVING CATCH 22 DELUDING A MASS HYSTERIA A MEGALOMANIA REVEAL DEMENTIA REVEAL SECRETLY SILENTLY CERTAINLY IN VERTIGO YOU WILL BE SHORTEST STRAW CHALLENGE LIBERTY DOWNED BY LAW LIVE IN INFAMY RUB YOU RAW WITCHHUNT RIDING THROUGH SHORTEST STRAW THIS SHORTEST STRAW HAS BEEN PULLED FOR YOU PULLED FOR YOU SHORTEST STRAW PULLED FOR YOU SHORTEST STRAW PULLED FOR YOU SHORTEST STRAW SHORTEST STRAW HAS BEEN PULLED FOR YOU SHORTEST STRAW PULLED FOR YOU SHORTEST STRAW PULLED FOR YOU SHORTEST STRAW PULLED FOR YOU SHORTEST STRAW SHORTEST STRAW HAS BEEN PULLED FOR YOU

BEHIND YOU, HANDS ARE TIED YOUR BEING, OSTRACIZED YOUR HELL IS MULTIPLIED UPENDING THE FALLOUT HAS BEGUN OPPRESSIVE DAMAGE DONE YOUR MANY TURNED TO NONE TO NOTHING YOU’RE REACHING YOUR NADIR YOUR WILL HAS DISAPPEARED THE LIE IS CRYSTAL CLEAR DEFENDING CHANNELS RED ONE WORD SAID BLACKLISTED WITH VERTIGO MAKE YOU DEAD SHORTEST STRAW CHALLENGE LIBERTY DOWNED BY LAW LIVE IN INFAMY RUB YOU RAW WITCHHUNT RIDING THROUGH SHORTEST STRAW THE SHORTEST STRAW HAS BEEN PULLED FOR YOU PULLED FOR YOU

HARVESTER OF SORROW (HETFIELD, ULRICH) MY LIFE SUFFOCATES PLANTING SEEDS OF HATE I’VE LOVED, TURNED TO HATE TRAPPED FAR BEYOND MY FATE I GIVE YOU TAKE THIS LIFE THAT I FORSAKE BEEN CHEATED OF MY YOUTH YOU TURNED THIS LIE TO TRUTH ANGER MISERY YOU’LL SUFFER UNTO ME HARVESTER OF SORROW LANGUAGE OF THE MAD HARVESTER OF SORROW PURE BLACK LOOKING CLEAR MY WORK IS DONE SOON HERE TRY GETTING BACK TO ME GET BACK WHICH USED TO BE DRINK UP SHOOT IN LET THE BEATINGS BEGIN DISTRIBUTOR OF PAIN YOUR LOSS BECOMES MY GAIN ANGER MISERY YOU’LL SUFFER UNTO ME HARVESTER OF SORROW LANGUAGE OF THE MAD HARVESTER OF SORROW ALL HAVE SAID THEIR PRAYERS INVADE THEIR NIGHTMARES TO SEE INTO MY EYES YOU’LL FIND WHERE MURDER LIES INFANTICIDE HARVESTER OF SORROW LANGUAGE OF THE MAD HARVESTER OF SORROW LANGUAGE OF THE MAD HARVESTER OF SORROW

THE FRAYED ENDS OF SANITY (HETFIELD, ULRICH, HAMMETT) NEVER HUNGER NEVER PROSPER I HAVE FALLEN PREY TO FAILURE STRUGGLE WITHIN TRIGGERED AGAIN NOW THE CANDLE BURNS AT BOTH ENDS TWISTING UNDER SCHIZOPHRENIA FALLING DEEP INTO DEMENTIA OLD HABITS REAPPEAR FIGHTING THE FEAR OF FEAR GROWING CONSPIRACY EVERYONE’S AFTER ME FRAYED ENDS OF SANITY HEAR THEM CALLING HEAR THEM CALLING ME BIRTH OF TERROR DEATH OF MUCH MORE I’M THE SLAVE OF FEAR, MY CAPTOR NEVER WARNINGS SPREADING ITS WINGS AS I WAIT FOR THE HORROR SHE BRINGS LOSS OF INTEREST, QUESTION, WONDER WAVES OF FEAR THEY PULL ME UNDER OLD HABITS REAPPEAR FIGHTING THE FEAR OF FEAR GROWING CONSPIRACY EVERYONE’S AFTER ME FRAYED ENDS OF SANITY HEAR THEM CALLING HEAR THEM CALLING ME INTO RUIN I AM SINKING HOSTAGE OF THIS NAMELESS FEELING HELL IS SET FREE FLOODED I’LL BE FEEL THE UNDERTOW INSIDE ME HEIGHT, HELL, TIME, HASTE, TERROR, TENSION LIFE, DEATH, WANT, WASTE, MASS DEPRESSION OLD HABITS REAPPEAR FIGHTING THE FEAR OF FEAR GROWING CONSPIRACY MYSELF IS AFTER ME FRAYED ENDS OF SANITY HEAR THEM CALLING FRAYED ENDS OF SANITY HEAR THEM CALLING HEAR THEM CALLING ME

TO LIVE IS TO DIE (HETFIELD, ULRICH, BURTON) WHEN A MAN LIES HE MURDERS SOME PART OF THE WORLD THESE ARE THE PALE DEATHS WHICH MEN MISCALL THEIR LIVES ALL THIS I CANNOT BEAR TO WITNESS ANY LONGER CANNOT THE KINGDOM OF SALVATION TAKE ME HOME

PUSHED ONTO ME WHAT’S WRONG OR RIGHT HIDDEN FROM THIS THING THAT THEY CALL “LIFE” DEAR MOTHER DEAR FATHER EVERY THOUGHT I’D THINK YOU’D DISAPPROVE CURATOR DICTATOR ALWAYS CENSORING MY EVERY MOVE CHILDREN ARE SEEN BUT ARE NOT HEARD TEAR OUT EVERYTHING INSPIRED INNOCENCE TORN FROM ME WITHOUT YOUR SHELTER BARRED REALITY I’M LIVING BLINDLY DEAR MOTHER DEAR FATHER TIME HAS FROZEN STILL WHAT’S LEFT TO BE HEAR NOTHING SAY NOTHING CANNOT FACE THE FACT I THINK FOR ME NO GUARANTEE, IT’S LIFE AS IS BUT DAMN YOU FOR NOT GIVING ME MY CHANCE DEAR MOTHER DEAR FATHER YOU’VE CLIPPED MY WINGS BEFORE I LEARNED TO FLY UNSPOILED UNSPOKEN I’VE OUTGROWN THAT FUCKING LULLABY SAME THING I’VE ALWAYS HEARD FROM YOU, “DO AS I SAY NOT AS I DO” INNOCENCE TORN FROM ME WITHOUT YOUR SHELTER BARRED REALITY I’M LIVING BLINDLY I’M IN HELL WITHOUT YOU CANNOT COPE WITHOUT YOU TWO SHOCKED AT THE WORLD THAT I SEE INNOCENT VICTIM PLEASE RESCUE ME DEAR MOTHER DEAR FATHER HIDDEN IN YOUR WORLD YOU’VE MADE FOR ME I’M SEETHING I’M BLEEDING RIPPING WOUNDS IN ME THAT NEVER HEAL UNDYING SPITE I FEEL FOR YOU LIVING OUT THIS HELL YOU ALWAYS KNEW

ALL LYRICS BY HETFIELD, EXCEPT “TO LIVE IS TO DIE” BY BURTON. ALL ARRANGEMENTS BY HETFIELD, ULRICH. ALL HARMONY, MELODY AND ACOUSTIC GUITARS ON ALL SONGS, AND THE 2ND SOLO IN “TO LIVE IS TO DIE” BY HETFIELD ALL SONGS © 1988 CREEPING DEATH MUSIC, ASCAP. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. USED BY PERMISSION.

DYERS EVE (HETFIELD, ULRICH, HAMMETT) DEAR MOTHER DEAR FATHER WHAT IS THIS HELL YOU HAVE PUT ME THROUGH? BELIEVER DECEIVER DAY IN DAY OUT LIVE MY LIFE THROUGH YOU

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MANAGEMENT: CLIFF BURNSTEIN & PETER MENSCH FOR Q PRIME INC. MANAGEMENT STAFF:GEORGE KNEMEYER & LINDA WALKER. AGENCY REPRESENTATION: ICM/MARSHA VLASIC, NEW YORK FAIR WARNING/JOHN JACKSON, LONDON. ACCOUNTING: JONI SCHNEIDER & FRED DUFFIN FOR SIEGEL & FELDSTEIN, SAN FRANCISCO. LEGAL REPRESENTATION: PETER PATERNO, LOS ANGELES. MERCHANDISING: BROCKUM/NEW YORK, TORONTO, LONDON. TRAVEL: MARLA WAX FERGUSON FOR LINDEN TRAVEL, NEW YORK. IMMIGRATION: GAIL LEIBOWITZ, NEW YORK. PHOTOGRAPHER: ROSS HALFIN. T-SHIRT & ART GUY: PUSHEAD.

CREW FUCKERS 88/89: BOBBY ‘SLENDER’ SCHNEIDER...TOUR MANAGER AND LIMO ‘NOT SO BIG’ MICK HUGHES...SOUND ENGINEER AND PICKLES FLEMMING ‘CYMBAL HOLDER’ LARSEN...DRUMS AND HEALTH ANDY ‘I’VE TONED DOWN’ BATTYE...JAMES’ GUITAR AND INSULTS DANNY ‘IT WAS WORKING A MINUTE AGO’ MURPHY ...KIRK’S GUITAR AND SUNGLASSES ZACH ‘DON’T EVEN LOOK TOUGH’ HARMON... STAGE MANAGER, BASS AND HE-MANS TONY ‘SWIFT’ SMITH...MINDER AND ENTERTAINMENT COORDINATOR STEVE ‘BLOOD’ FOWLER...BUS DRIVER AND VODKA SWILLER

IF WE HAD TO THANK ALL THE FUCKERS WHO HAVE BEEN COOL TO US IN THE 2 1 2 YEARS SINCE ‘PUPPETS’: A) THE LIST WOULD BE PRINTED SO SMALL YOU COULDN’T READ IT. B) THERE WOULDN’T BE ROOM FOR LYRICS, PICTURES AND OTHER SHIT. C) WE WOULD HAVE A 36 PAGE BOOKLET. D) LONG LISTS ARE FUCKING BORING. E) ALL OF THE ABOVE. F) NONE OF THE ABOVE. G) DO YOU REALLY GIVE A SHIT ANYWAY?? SO HERE IS A ‘FUCK YEAH’ TO OUR FRIENDS, FAMILIES, DRINKING PARTNERS AND BANDS WE’VE TOURED WITH. YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE!!

LARS ULRICH PLAYS:

KIRK HAMMETT PLAYS:

J A S O N N E W S T E D P L AY S :

F O R F A N C L U B I N F O R M AT I O N G O T O W W W. M ETALLICA.COM M E TA L L I C A . C O M

C 1988 BLACKENED RECORDINGS. B L C K N D - 4 7 7 0 52

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