Artist: Metallica
Track: Master Of Puppets (LP Version)
Lyrics
End of passion play, crumbling away
I'm your source of self-destruction
Veins that pump with fear, sucking darkest clear
Leading on your death's construction
Taste me, you will see
More is all you need
Dedicated to
How I'm killing you
Come crawling faster (faster)
Obey your master (master)
Your life burns faster (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
Dedicated to
How I'm killing you
Come crawling faster (faster)
Obey your master (master)
Your life burns faster (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, 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
Fix me
Hell is worth all that, natural habitat
Just a rhyme without a reason
Never ending maze, drift on numbered days
Now your life is out of season
I will occupy
I will help you die
I will run through you
Now I rule you too
Come crawling faster (faster)
Obey your master (master)
Your life burns faster (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
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One of the most influential heavy metal albums of all time. This album and the previous are the reasons Metallica is often regarded as one of the top 10 metal bands of all time.
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⮞ Listen now: “Welcome Home (Sanitarium)”
Excerpt from the original cover of Master of Puppets
Apologies for the lateness! Each Monday, we take a look back at some of rock’s most important albums ever conceived- albums that have changed history, society, and/ or are viewed as historically, culturally, and aesthetically important, as well as being critically acclaimed. Now, we learn about the making and legacy of Master of Puppets.
“When I listen to Master of Puppets now, I just sit there and go, ‘What the fuck? How do you do that?‘ […] It’s very gutsy music.”
– Lars Ulrich, Rolling Stone Magazine
History
After touring and becoming household names for metalheads in the early 1980s because of the band’s commercially successful yet independent sophomore album, Ride the Lightning, Metallica began composing the material for their next effort in 1985. Compositions began in the garage of a house, where James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich would play certain riffs and fills, and then
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The song “Master of Puppets” by Metallica discusses an individual’s own powerlessness in the face of a controlling force. The lyrics describe the individua...
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