CoF1984

I hope this is okay, tried checking the rules and all, but don't quite understand some of them very well. But, I was listening to a song today a couple of time and this is the first time I've listened to it while sober in a few years now. And this song listening to it and paying attention to the words, it makes me think, if alcohol could talk, this is what it's saying to me. I am gonna post the lyrics in this post and hope I don't get in trouble. But, I'd like to find someone else out there who might be able to relate to this and understand like I do or close to like I do...

Okay here goes nothing. Please let me know if anyone else can relate.
Wes

Artist: Metallica Song: Master Of Puppets

"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 and 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


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 "

mle-sober

CoF1984,

Yeah. It sounds like a really inspired song about getting addicted to drugs or alcohol and how warped it makes everything in your life. Like your just a puppet to your "master." And the master is your addiction.

It's so sad that so many of us become slaves this way. But how wonderful that you have seen your way out!

Fubarcdn

Good share Cof

Although it is about coke with a slight chamge of the lyrics it could be about alcohol.
It is so true and descriptive.

There is one thing though the next time you want to share a song you are going to hve to sing it. Read my avatar.

CoF1984

I'll keep that in mind fubar...lol...but the reason I'm a musician is because I can't sing.
Wes

mle-sober

I think the song is all-inclusive of addiction - it's about alcohol, coke, AND shooting up:

Veins that pump with fear, sucking darkest clear (a drug you shoot up)

Taste me you will see
more is all you need (alcohol)

Needlework the way, never you betray (something you shoot)

chop your breakfast on a mirror (coke)

mamabin

when this began
I had nothing to say
and I'd get lost in the nothingness inside of me
I was confused
and I let it all out to find/that I'm
not the only person with these things in mind
inside of me
but all the vacancy the words revealed
is the only real thing that I've got left to feel
nothing to lose
just stuck/hollow and alone
and the fault is my own
and the fault is my own

I wanna heal
I wanna feel
what I thought was never real
I wanna let go of the pain I've held so long
[erase all the pain 'til it's gone]
I wanna heal
I wanna feel
like I'm close to something real
I wanna find something I've wanted all along
somewhere I belong

and I've got nothing to say
I can't believe I didn't fall right down on my face
I was confused
looking everywhere/only to find that it's
not the way I had imagined it all in my mind
so what am I
what do I have but negativity
'cause I can't justify the
way everyone is looking at me
nothing to lose
nothing to gain/hollow and alone
and the fault is my own
the fault is my own

I wanna heal
I wanna feel
what I thought was never real
I wanna let go of the pain I've held so long
[erase all the pain 'til it's gone]
I wanna heal
I wanna feel
like I'm close to something real
I wanna find something I've wanted all along
somewhere I belong

I will never know
myself until I do this on my own
and I will never feel
anything else until my wounds are healed
I will never be
anything 'til I break away from me
and I will break away
I'll find myself today

I wanna heal
I wanna feel
what I thought was never real
I want to let go of the pain I've held so long
[erase all the pain 'til it's gone]
I wanna heal
I wanna feel
like I'm close to something real
I want to find something I've wanted all along
somewhere I belong

I wanna heal
I wanna feel like I'm
somewhere I belong (x2)

Somewhere I belong....

CoF1984

I think so, too, mle. As well as addiction in general. "Just call my name, 'cause I'll hear you scream" so that could possibly mean any addiction and "obey your master" what one's addiction is or was, is or was their master. But I suppose it's all in how you interpret it all. But, I think anybody with any addiction can understand it because we all feel that we were and know we were controlled by an addiction which is our master. But, 3 days now, I'm working one day at a time to be my own master. So I'm happy for that.
Wes

CoF1984

That is another great song mambin. Thanks for posting it. I think that's another one a lot of people may be able to relate to.
Wes

yeahgr8

very good lyrics but my fav still has to be house of the rising sun - animals version:-)

CoF1984

Can't go wrong with House of The Rising Sun.
Wes

Fubarcdn

I like Billy Dee by K Kristofferson
First verse

Billy Dee was 17 when he turned 21
Fooling with some foolish things he shoulda left alone
But he had to try to satisfy a thirst he couldn't name
Driven to the darkness by the devils in his veins


Last verse
Yesterday they found him on the floor of his hotel
Reaching for the needle Lord that drove him down to hell
Some folks called it suicide and others blamed the speed
But we just called it crucified when Billy Dee OD'ed

He wrote this song about a person he knew I believe.

C23

Master of Puppets as James Hetfield explained,"deals pretty much with drugs. How things get switched around, instead of you controlling what you're taking and doing, it's drugs controlling you." The lyrics "chop your breakfast on a mirror" for instance refer to the act of preparing powdered cocaine.

Love the song though!

Especially if you are at the top of a mountain about to ride your butt off down it!

doorknob

The Good Stuff

- Kenny Chesney


Well me and my lady had our first big fight
So I drove around until I saw the neon lights
Of a corner bar.
It just seemed right, so I pulled up.
Not a soul around but the old barkeep
Down at the end lookin' half asleep.
And he walked up and said, "What'll it be?"
I said, "The good stuff."

He didn't reach around for the whiskey;
He didn't pour me a beer.
His blue eyes kinda went misty,
He said, "You can't find that here."

"'Cause it's the first long kiss on a second date.
Your Momma's all worried when you get home late
And droppin' the ring in the spaghetti plate,
'Cause your hands are shakin' so much.
And it's the way she looks with the rice in her hair.
Eating burnt suppers the whole first year,
And askin' for seconds to keep her from tearin' up.
Yeah, man, that's The Good Stuff."

He grabbed a carton of milk and poured a glass
And I smiled and said, "I'll have some of that."
We sat there and talked as an hour passed, like old friends.

I saw a black and white picture and HE caught my stare.
It was a pretty girl with bouffant hair.
He said, "That's my Bonnie,
Taken 'bout a year after we were wed."

He said, "Spent five years in the bottle,
When the cancer took her from me.
But I've been sober three years now,
'Cause the one thing stronger than the whiskey..."

"Was the sight of her holdin my baby girl.
The way she adored that string of pearls,
I gave her the day that our youngest boy, Earl,
Married his high school love.
And it's a new t-shirt saying, "I'm a Grandpa!"
Being right there as our time got small,
And holding her hand when the good Lord called her up.
Yeah, man, that's the good stuff."

He said, "When you get home, she'll start to cry.
When she says 'I'm sorry' say 'So am I'
And look into those eyes so deep in love,
And drink it up.
'Cause that's the good stuff.
That's the good stuff."

Iriss

Hi Wes

Just read your post and now listenting to Metallicas Sad but true, although Im not too familiar with master and puppets after reading the lyrics it certainly got to be about addiction, although the line, "chop your breakfast on a mirror" makes me think its more about something like coke... but addiction is addiction and it can be broken...

Doorknob, I also love Kenny Chesney.. glad your doing well.