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Metallica - Welcome Home (Sanitarium
Metallica - Welcome Home (Sanitarium)


Metallica - Welcome Home (Sanitarium) Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Master Of Puppets
Released: 1986

Welcome Home (Sanitarium) Lyrics


Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
  • A sanitarium is a mental institution that an inmate can leave at his own free will.
  • This is somewhat inspired by the play/movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. The movie stars Jack Nicholson as a mental patient.
  • Metallica members James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, and Kirk Hammett wrote this.
  • The chorus was supposed to be sung in a higher pitch, but while recording the vocals, James realized it wasn't going to work that way and sang it lower.
  • Limp Bizkit performed this on Metallica's MTV Icon special in May 2003. (thanks, Nick - Paramus, NJ)
  • On the HBO special Paradise Lost: The Murder At Robin Hood Hills (West Memphis), this song was played in the opening shots. This marks the first time Metallica ever let their music be used in a movie or soundtrack. (thanks, Jodie - Jacksonville, AR)
  • In the original demo tape of this song, the lyrics were very much different. The demo tape included no chorus; it contained basically the same tune, but halfway in the song cuts off into the bass Interlude of "Orion" which is another song on the album. (thanks, JT - Tullahoma, TN)