MASTER OF PUPPETS

  1. Battery -- 5:10
  2. Master Of Puppets -- 8:38
  3. The Thing That Should Not Be -- 6:32
  4. Welcome Home (Sanitarium) -- 6:28
  5. Disposable Heroes -- 8:14
  6. Leper Messiah -- 5:38
  7. Orion -- 8:12
  8. Damage, Inc. -- 5:08

 

 

BATTERY

(Hetfield, Ulrich)

Lashing out the action, returning the reaction
Weak are ripped and torn away
Hypnotizing power, crushing all that cower
Battery is here to stay

	Smashing through the boundaries
	Lunacy has found me
	Cannot stop the battery
	Pounding out aggression
	Turns into obsession
	Cannot kill the battery

	Cannot kill the family
	Battery is found in me

	Battery

Crushing all deceivers, mashing non-believers
Never ending potency
Hungry violence seeker, feeding off the weaker
Breeding on insanity

	Smashing through the boundaries
	Lunacy has found me
	Cannot stop the battery
	Pounding out aggression
	Turns into obsession
	Cannot kill the battery

	Cannot kill the family
	Battery is found in me

	Battery

Circle of destruction, hammer comes crushing
Powerhouse of energy
Whipping up a fury, dominating flurry
We create the battery

	Smashing through the boundaries
	Lunacy has found me
	Cannot stop the battery
	Pounding out aggression
	Turns into obsession
	Cannot kill the battery

	Cannot kill the family
	Battery is found in me

	Battery

MASTER OF PUPPETS

(Hetfield, Ulrich, Burton, Hammett)

End of passion play, crumbling away
I'm your source of self-destruction
Veins that pump with fear, sucking darkest clear
Leading on your deaths construction
Taste me you will see
More is all you need
You're dedicated to
How I'm killing you

	Come crawling faster
	Obey your master
	Your life burns faster
	Obey your master
		  master
	
	Master of puppets I'm pulling your strings
	Twisting your mind and smashing your dreams
	Blinded by me, you can't see a thing
	Just call my name, 'cause I'll hear you scream
	Master
	Master
	Just call my name, 'cause I'll hear you scream
	Master 
	Master

Needlework the way, never you betray
Life of death becoming clearer
Pain monopoly, ritual misery
Chop your breakfast on a mirror
Taste me you will see
More is all you need
You're dedicated to
How I'm killing you

	Come crawling faster
	Obey your master
	Your life burns faster
	Obey your master
		  master
	
	Master of puppets I'm pulling your strings
	Twisting your mind and smashing your dreams
	Blinded by me, you can't see a thing
	Just call my name, 'cause I'll hear you scream
	Master
	Master
	Just call my name, 'cause I'll hear you scream
	Master 
	Master

Master, master, where's the dreams that I've been after?
Master, master, you promised only lies
Laughter, laughter, all I hear or see is laughter
Laughter, laughter, laughing at my cries

Hell is worth all that, natural habitat
Just a rhyme without a reason
Neverending maze, drift on numbered days
Now your life is out of season
Taste me you will see
More is all you need
You're dedicated to
How I'm killing you

	Come crawling faster
	Obey your master
	Your life burns faster
	Obey your master
		  master
	
	Master of puppets I'm pulling your strings
	Twisting your mind and smashing your dreams
	Blinded by me, you can't see a thing
	Just call my name, 'cause I'll hear you scream
	Master
	Master
	Just call my name, 'cause I'll hear you scream
	Master 
	Master

THE THING THAT SHOULD NOT BE

(Hetfield, Ulrich, Hammett)

Messenger of fear in sight
Dark deception kills the light

Hybrid children watch the sea
Pray for father, roaming free

	Fearless wretch 
	Insanity
	He watches
	Lurking beneath the sea
	Great old one
	Forbidden site
	He searches
	Hunter of the shadows is rising
				 immortal
				 in madness you dwell

Crawling chaos, underground
Cult has summoned, twisted sound

Out from runs once possessed
Fallen city, living death

	Fearless wretch 
	Insanity
	He watches
	Lurking beneath the sea
	Great old one
	Forbidden site
	He searches
	Hunter of the shadows is rising
				 immortal
				 in madness you dwell

Not dead which eternal lie
Stranger eons death may die

Drain you of your sanity
Face the thing that should not be

	Fearless wretch 
	Insanity
	He watches
	Lurking beneath the sea
	Great old one
	Forbidden site
	He searches
	Hunter of the shadows is rising
				 immortal
				 in madness you dwell

WELCOME HOME (SANITARIUM)

(Hetfield, Ulrich, Hammett)

Welcome to where time stands still
No one leaves and no one will
Moon is full, never seems to change
Just labeled mentally deranged
Dream the same thing every night
I see our freedom in my sight
No locked doors, no windows barred
No things to make my brain seem scarred

Sleep my friend and you will see
That dream is my reality
They keep me locked up in this cage
Can't they see it's why my brain says rage

	Sanitarium, leave me be
	Sanitarium, just leave me alone

Build my fear of what's out there
And cannot breathe the open air
Whisper things into my brain
Assuring me that I'm insane
They think our heads are in their hands
But violent use brings violent plans
Keep him tied, it makes him well
He's getting better, can't you tell?

No more can they keep us in
Listen, damn it, we will win
They see it right, they see it well
But they think this saves us from our hell

	Sanitarium, leave me be
	Sanitarium, just leave me alone
	Sanitarium, just leave me alone

Fear of living on
Natives getting restless now
Mutiny in the air
Got some death to do
Mirror stares back hard
Kill, it's such a friendly word
Seems the only way
For reaching out again

DISPOSABLE HEROES

(Hetfield, Ulrich, Hammett)

Bodies fill the fields I see, hungry heroes end
No one to play soldier now, no one to pretend
Running blind through killing fields, bred to kill them all
Victim of what said should be
A servant 'til I fall

	Soldier boy, made of clay
	Now an empty shell
	Twenty one, only son
	But he served us well
	Bred to kill, not to care
	Do just as we say
	Finished here, greetings death
	He's yours to take away

	Back to the front
	You will do what I say, when I say
	Back to the front
	You will die when I say you must die
	Back to the front
	You coward
	You servant
	You blind man

Barking of machinegun fire, does nothing to me now
Sounding of the clock that ticks, get used to it somehow
More a man, more stripes you bare, glory seeker trends
Bodies fill the fields I see
The slaughter never ends

	Soldier boy, made of clay
	Now an empty shell
	Twenty one, only son
	But he served us well
	Bred to kill, not to care
	Do just as we say
	Finished here, greetings death
	He's yours to take away

	Back to the front
	You will do what I say, when I say
	Back to the front
	You will die when I say you must die
	Back to the front
	You coward
	You servant
	You blind man

Why, am I dying?
Kill, have no fear
Lie, live off lying
Hell, hell is here

I was born for dying

Life planned out before my birth, nothing could I say
Had no chance to see myself, moulded day by day
Looking back I realize, nothing have I done
Left to die with only friend
Alone I clench my gun

	Soldier boy, made of clay
	Now an empty shell
	Twenty one, only son
	But he served us well
	Bred to kill, not to care
	Do just as we say
	Finished here, greetings death
	He's yours to take away

	Back to the front
	You will do what I say, when I say
	Back to the front
	You will die when I say you must die
	Back to the front
	You coward
	You servant
	You blind man

Back to the front

LEPER MESSIAH

(Hetfield, Ulrich)

Spineless from the start, sucked into the part
Circus comes to town, you play the lead clown
Please, please
Spreading his disease, living by his story
Knees, knees
Falling to your knees, suffer for his glory
You will

	Time for lust, time for lie
	Time to kiss your life goodbye
	Send me money, send me green
	Heaven you will meet
	Make a contribution
	And you'll get a better seat
	Bow to leper messiah

Marvel at his tricks, need your sunday fix
Blind devotion came, rotting your brain
Chain, chain
Join the endless chain, taken by his glamour
Fame, fame
Infection is the game, stinking drunk with power
We see

	Time for lust, time for lie
	Time to kiss your life goodbye
	Send me money, send me green
	Heaven you will meet
	Make a contribution
	And you'll get a better seat
	Bow to leper messiah

Witchery, weakening
Sees the sheep are gathering
Set the trap, hypnotize
Now you follow

	Time for lust, time for lie
	Time to kiss your life goodbye
	Send me money, send me green
	Heaven you will meet
	Make a contribution
	And you'll get the better seat
	
	Lie

ORION

(Hetfield, Ulrich, Burton)

...instrumental...

DAMAGE, INC.

(Hetfield, Ulrich, Burton, Hammett)

Dealing out the agony within
Charging hard and no one's gonna give in
Living on your knees, conformity
Or dying on your feet for honesty
Inbred, our bodies work as one
Bloody, but never cry submission
Following our instinct not a trend
Go against the grain until the end

	Blood will follow blood
	Dying time is here
	Damage incorporated

Slamming through, don't fuck with razorback
Stepping out? You'll feel our hell on your back
Blood follows blood and we make sure
Life ain't for you and we're the cure
Honesty is my only excuse
Try to rob us of it, but it's no use
Steamroller action crushing all
Victim is your name and you shall fall

	Blood will follow blood
	Dying time is here
	Damage incorporated

We chew and spit you out
We laugh, you scream and shout
All flee, with fear you run
You'll know just where we come from

	Damage incorporated

Damage jackals ripping right through you
Sight and smell of this, it gets me goin'
Know just how to get just what we want
Tear it from your soul in nightly hunt
Fuck it all and fucking no regrets
Never happy endings on these dark sets
All's fair for Damage Inc. you see
Step a little closer if you please

	Blood will follow blood
	Dying time is here
	Damage incorporated