Metallica
Ride The Lightning


  1. Fight Fire With Fire
  2. Ride The Lightning
  3. For Whom The Bell Tolls
  4. Fade To Black
  5. Trapped Under Ice
  6. Escape
  7. Creeping Death
  8. The Call Of Ktulu (Instrumental)

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Fight Fire With Fire

Do unto others as they have done unto you 
But what the hell is this world coming to? 

Blow the universe into nothingness 
Nuclear warfare shall lay us to rest 

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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 

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

[Chorus]
 
Fight fire with fire

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Ride The Lightning

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'll take your life from you!!" 

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

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 my only friend 

[Chorus]

My fingers grip with fear 
What am I doing here? 

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

Time moving slowly 
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 the horrid scream 
Freed from this frightening dream 

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For Whom The Bell Tolls

Make his fight on the hill in the early day 
Constant chill deep inside 
Shouting gun, on they run through the endless grey 
On the 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 

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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 the will see what will be, blinded eyes to see 

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Fade To Black

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 are not what they used to be 
Missing one inside of me 
Deathly lost, this can'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 it to 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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Trapped Under Ice

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 
Break the ice, I can't take anymore 

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

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

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Scream from my soul 
Fate - mystified 
Hell - forever more 

No release from my cryonic state 
What is this? I've been stricken by fate 
Wrapped up tight, cannot move, can't break free 
Hand of doom has a tight grip on me 

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Escape

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

[Chorus:]
Out of 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 

Rape my mind and destroy my feelings - Don't tell my what to do 
I don't care now, 'cause I'm on my side - And I can see through you 
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 

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See they 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
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Creeping Death

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 

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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 
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 

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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 

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