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Metallica - Don't Tread On Me

Metallica - Don't Tread On Me Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Metallica
Released: 1991

Don't Tread On Me Lyrics

Don't Tread On Me

The motto "Don't Tread On Me" was very popular in colonial America. It is not known who originally coined the phrase, but it was paired up with the image of the American timber rattlesnake and printed on a famous flag commonly referred to as the "Gadsden Flag." Use of this flag and variations of it by American soldiers, sailors, and Marines grew fast and widespread during the American Revolution. There is a great historical significance and meaning to this flag and it is heavily linked to the Metallica song. The idea of the rattlesnake as a symbol of America was first thought of by Benjamin Franklin when he published the world's first ever political cartoon in 1754. It was a rattlesnake cut into several pieces and each part labeled a different colony. Under the snake it said "Join, or Die," encouraging colonial unity in standing up to the homeland monarchy ruling them from across the sea. Over the next two decades the rattlesnake, or more specifically the American timber rattlesnake of the northeastern states gained popularity (notice the rattlesnake on the cover of Metallica's Black Album).

The opening guitar riff (with triplets) is taken from the song "America" in the 1957 musical West Side Story.

In a 2001 interview for Playboy magazine, Hetfield rated this as not one of his favorites musically. The band never played it live.

This has been criticized for its jingoistic lyrics. At the time, the band's Danish drummer Lars Ulrich had to look up the word "jingoistic" in a dictionary, to see what it meant. He said: "It pissed me off!"

Metallica - Hit The Lights

Metallica - Hit The Lights Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Kill 'Em All Released: 1983

Metallica - Hit The Lights Lyrics

No life till leather
We are gonna kick some ass tonight
We got the metal madness
When our fans start screaming
It's right well alright
When we start to rock
We never want to stop again

Hit the lights
Hit the lights
Hit the lights

You know our fans are insane
We are gonna blow this place away
With volume higher
Than anything today the only way
When we start to rock
We never want to stop again

Hit the lights
Hit the lights
Hit the lights

With all our screaming
We are gonna rip right through your brain
We got the lethal power
It is causing you sweet pain Oh sweet pain
When we start to rock
We never want to stop again

Hit the lights
Hit the lights
Hit the lights

Writer/s: JAY SEAN, KHALED ROHAIM, JEREMY DAVID SKALLER, JARED COTTER, ROBERT LAROW, DWAYNE CARTER
Publisher: BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC, THE ROYALTY NETWORK INC.
Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Hit The Lights

The first song Metallica wrote and recorded. It is about the thrill of playing rock music and how they love to see their fans go wild.

Written by James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich.

Metallica opened their gigs with this song at their early shows. (thanks, Nick - Paramus, NJ, for above 3)

Metallica - Hit The Lights

Metallica - Hit The Lights Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Kill 'Em All Released: 1983

Metallica - Hit The Lights Lyrics

No life till leather
We are gonna kick some ass tonight
We got the metal madness
When our fans start screaming
It's right well alright
When we start to rock
We never want to stop again

Hit the lights
Hit the lights
Hit the lights

You know our fans are insane
We are gonna blow this place away
With volume higher
Than anything today the only way
When we start to rock
We never want to stop again

Hit the lights
Hit the lights
Hit the lights

With all our screaming
We are gonna rip right through your brain
We got the lethal power
It is causing you sweet pain Oh sweet pain
When we start to rock
We never want to stop again

Hit the lights
Hit the lights
Hit the lights

Writer/s: JAY SEAN, KHALED ROHAIM, JEREMY DAVID SKALLER, JARED COTTER, ROBERT LAROW, DWAYNE CARTER
Publisher: BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC, THE ROYALTY NETWORK INC.
Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Hit The Lights

The first song Metallica wrote and recorded. It is about the thrill of playing rock music and how they love to see their fans go wild.

Written by James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich.

Metallica opened their gigs with this song at their early shows. (thanks, Nick - Paramus, NJ, for above 3)

Metallica - The God That Failed

Metallica - The God That Failed Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Metallica
Released: 1991

The God That Failed Lyrics

The God That Failed

This song is about how people seem to rely too much on religion to help with their problems. When James Hetfield's mother had cancer, she didn't take medication because she believed faith would heal her. Some time later, she died. (thanks, Joseph - LA, CA)

Producer Bob Rock told Musicradar.com : "The God That Failed is deep. It's not just a cheap shot at religion; it's him tackling the subject in a very complex manner. Emotionally, it's as real as 'Nothing Else Matters.'"

The Black Album was the first Metallica record produced by Rock, which meant he had to change some of the band's working practices, including that of guitarist Kirk Hammett on this song. He recalled to Musicradar.com: "Working with Kirk on this song was interesting – and this goes for the whole record, too: I was told that he'd come in the last few weeks of making a record to do his guitar solos. I told everybody right off, 'Well, that's not how we're going to do things. He's going to play live, like everybody else.'

At first, Kirk was very uncomfortable with this approach, but he was game and played what he thought were guide solos. In many cases, including this one, his first ideas were the ones that we'd go back to and use when doing overdubs. He learned how to be spontaneous."