RIDE THE LIGHTING - 1984


  1. FIGHT FIRE WITH FIRE
  2. RIDE THE LIGHTING
  3. FOR WHOM THE BELL TOOLS
  4. FADE TO BLACK
  5. TRAPPED UNDER ICE
  6. SCAPE
  7. CREEPING DEATH
  8. THE CALL OF KTULU
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1.FIGHT FIRE WITH FIRE (4:44)
(Hetfield, Ulrlch, Burton)

Do unto others as they have done to you
But what 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 all shall die

Time is like a fuse, short and burning fast
Armageddon is here, like said in the past

   Fight fire with fire
   Ending is near
   Fight fire with fire
   Bursting with fear

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

   Fight fire with fire
   Ending Is near
   Fight fire with fire
   Bursting with fear

   Fight fire with fire
      (repeat)

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2.RIDE THE LIGHTNING (6:36)
(Hetfield, Ulrich, Burton, Mustaine)

Guilty as charged
But damn it it ain't right
There is someone else controlling me

Death in the air
Strapped in the electric chair
This can't be happening to me

Who made you God to say
"I'II lake your life from you!!"

   Flash before my eyes
   Now it'stime to die
   Burning in my brain
   I can feel the flame

Wait for the sign
To flick the switch of death
It's the beginning of the end

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

My fingers grip with fear
What am I doing here?

   Flash before my eyes
   Now it`s time to die
   Burning in my brain
   I can feel the flame

Someone help me
Oh please God help me
They are trying to take it all away
I don't want to die

Time moving slow
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 horrid scream
Freed from this frightening dream

   Flash before my eyes
   Now it s time to die
   Burning in my brain
   Ican feel the flame

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3.FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS (5:10)
(Hetfield, Ulrich, Burton)

Make his fight on the hill in the early day
Constant chill deep inside
Shouting gun, on they run through the endless grey
On they fight, for they are right, yes, but who's to say?
For a hill men would kill, why? They do not know
Suffered wounds test 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 he 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 they see what will be, blinded eyes to see

   For whom the bell lolls
   Time marches on
   For whom the bell tolls

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4.FADE TO BLACK (6:56)
(Hetfield, Vlrich, Burton, Hammett)

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 not what they used to be
Missing one inside of me
Deathly lost, this cant't be real
Cannot stand this hell I feel
Emptiness is filling me
To the point of agony
Growing darkness taking dawn
I was me, but now he's gone

No one but me can save myself, but its too late
Now I can't think, think why I should even try

Yesterday seems as though it never existed
Death Greets me warm, now I will just say goodbye

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5.TRAPPED UNDER ICE (4:30)
(Hetfield, Ulrich, Hammett)

I don't know how to live through this hell
Woken up, I'm still locked in this shell
Frozen soul, frozen down to the core
Breaktheice, I can't takeanymore

   Freezing
   Can't move at all
   Screaming
   Can't hear my call
   I am dying to live
   Cry out
   I m trapped under ice

Crystallized, as I lay here and rest
Eyes of glass stare directly al death
From deep sleep I have broken away
No one knows, no one hears what I say

   Freezing
   Can t move at all
   Screaming
   Can't hear my call
   I am dying to live
   Cnl out
   Im trapped under ice

Scream from my soul
Fate, mystified
Hell, forever more

No release from my cryonic state
What is this? Ive been strick�n by fate
Wrapped up tight, cannot move, cant break free
Hand of doom has a tight grip on me

   Freezing
   Can t move al all
   Screaming
   Can't har my call
   I am dying to live
   Cry out
   I'm trapped under ice

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6.ESCAPE (4:23)
(Hetfield, Ulrich, Hammett)

Feel no pain, but my life ain't easy
I know I'm my best friend
No one cares, but Im so much stronger
I'll fight until the end
To escape from Ihe true false world
Undamaged destiny
Can't get caught in Ihe endless circle
Ring of stupidity

   Out for my own, out to be free
   One with my mind, they just can't see
   Noneedtohearthlngsthatlheysay
   Life is for my own to live my own way

Rape my mind and destroy my feelings
Don't tell me what to do
I don't care now, 'cause I'm on my side
Andlcanseelhroughycu
Feed my brain with your so called standards
Who says that I ain't right
Break away from your common fashion
See through your blurry sight

   Out for my own, out to be free
   One with my mind, they just can't see
   No need to hear things that they say
   Life is for my own to live my own way

See them 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
      (Repeat)

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7.CREEPING DEATH (6:36)
(Hetfield, Ulrich, Burton, Hammett)

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
   I'm sent here by the chosen one
   So let it be written
   Solet it be done
   To kill the first born pharaoh son
   I'm 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 nile
Plague
Darkness three days long, hail to fire

   So let it be written
   So let it be done
   I'm sent here by the chosen one
   So let It be written
   So let it be done
   To kill the first born pharaoh son
   Im creeping death

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 midnite air the destroyer
Born
I shall soon be there, deadly mass
I
Creep the steps and floor final darkness
Blood
Lambs blood painted door, I shall pass

   So let it be written
   Soletitbedone
   Im sent here by the chosen one
   So let It be written
   So let it be done
   To kill the first born pharaoh son
   I'm creeping death

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8.THE CALL OF KTULU (8:52)
(Hetfield, Illrich, Burton, Muslaine)
Instrumental
Lead bass by Cliff Burton

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