metallica-lyrics-covers

HELPLESS
Originally released by Diamond Head in 1980 on the "Lightning To The Nations" album. It actually improves the original.

I gotta see you moving fast
See you come my way
See the dreams, I hope they last
Never fade away.
Gotta see the lights above
Make it loud tonight
Gotta set it all a-fire
Set it all a-light
See the flashing lights
Hear the thunder roar
I am gonna set you all a-light
Gotta make it man
I ain't got a choice
Gotta fill this hall tonight
Helpless
Helpless
Helpless
Helpless

I don't what I'm gonna do
Maybe not tonight
Gotta set you all a-fire
Gotta treat you right.
I can see the flashing lights
Lit before your love, ohh
Gotta hear the thunder roar
Coming from above.
See the flashing lights
Hear the thunder roar
I'm gonna set you all alight
Gotta make it man
I ain't got no choice
Gotta fill this hall tonight

Helpless
Helpless
Helpless
Helpless

I can see the stars
I can see what's going on
Every night alone
I sing my song just for fun.
Only time will tell
If I'll make it myself someday
This stage is mine
Music is my destiny.
Cannot squeeze the life from me!
I can see the lights
But I can see what's going on
Every night alone
I sing my song just for fun.
Business in collapse
Some men don't like it so
Helpless maybe babe,
But you can leave or join the show.
Cannot squeeze the life from me!

THE SMALL HOURS
Originally released by Holocaust in 1983 on the "Holocaust Live - Hot Curry And Wine" EP.

Look out at the darkness,
And you will see,
Just call my name and I'll be there.
You cannot touch me,
You would not dare,
I am the chill that's in the air.
And I try to get through to you,
In my own special way,
As the barriers crumble,
At the end of the day.

Dark rivers are flowing,
Back into the past,
You are the fish for which I cast.
And what of the future,
What is to be,
As the rivers flow into the sea.

And I try to get through to you,
In my own special way,
As the barriers crumble,
At the end of the day.

Do not take for granted,
Powers out there,
Don't step into the demon's lair.
Time is an illusion,
Rising from time,
Steep is the mountain which we climb.

THE WAIT
Originally released by Killing Joke in 1980 on the "Killing Joke" album. Metallica's reworking of the Killing Joke classic is much harder and not as "poppy" as the original.

Motives changing
Day to day
The fire increases
Masks decay
I look at the river
White foam floats down
The body's poisoned
Got to sit tight
The wait
The wait
The wait
The wait

After awakening
The silence grows
The screams subside
Distortion shows
Mutant thoughts
Of bad mouthed news
Just another birth
Of distorted views

The wait
The wait
The wait
The wait

CRASH COURSE IN BRAIN SURGERY
Originally released by Budgie in 1971 on the "Budgie" album. A cover where Jason "Newkid" Newsted gets to display his abilities to Metallica fans not familiar with his work on Flotsam & Jetsam's debut, Doomsday For The Deceiver.

Look inside and you will see
The words are cutting deep inside my brain
Thunder burnin' quickly burning
Knife of words is drivingme insane, insane yeah
Raven black is on my track
He shows me how to neutralize the knife
Show to me in surgery
The art of fighting words to conquer life, conquer life yeah
Now the wicked lance of fear
Is driven from my heady moutain brain
Crash course in brain surgery
Has stopped the bloody knife of words again yeah, yeah, yeah

LAST CARESS / GREEN HELL
A duo of contrasting Misfits covers, the first, a morbidly humorous parody of the pop song format, the other, pure hardcore. It all ends with the band's hilarious, but painful, false start of Iron Maiden's "Run To The Hills".

--- ( Last Caress ) ---
Originally released by The Misfits in 1980 on the "Beware" EP.

I've got somethin' to say
I killed your baby today and it
Doesn't matter much to me
As long as it's dead
I've got somethin' to say
I raped your mother today and it
Doesn't matter much to me
As long as she spread
These lovely dead
I'm waiting for your breath
'Cause sweet Death wants Last Caress.

I've got somethin' to say
I killed your baby today and it
Doesn't matter much to me
As long as it's dead

These lovely dead
I'm waiting for your breath
'Cause sweet Death wants Last Caress.
These lovely dead
I'm waiting for your breath
'Cause sweet Death wants Last Caress.

One Last Caress today,
Ohhh Ohhh Ohhh (repeat)

--- ( Green Hell ) ---
Originally released by The Misfits in 1983 on the "Earth A.D." album.

Here in this place lies the key to your death
Touch it, see it
Here in this place is the means to your end
Touch it, feel it
Green hell
You did your best as someone could
I bet you never knew you would
Did you run away from it?
I bet you thought you were really good
We're gonna burn in hell
Green Hell Green Hell
Like every hell but kind of green
Green Hell Green Hell
Try let me get back up there
Green Hell Green Hell
Feel it burning in your cereal
Green Hell Green Hell
Throw our fuckin' friends inside
Green Hell Green Hell
Gotta fuckin' pay and you must stay
Green Hell Green Hell
Cannot forget about the best
Green Hell Green Hell
Hell is reigning in your blood
Green Hell Green Hell
Gotta burn it all
Green hell
You did your best as someone could
I bet you never knew you would
And did you run away from me
I bet you think they were really good
Here in this place lies the key to your death
Touch it, see it
Here in this place sister won't let it in
Touch it, feel it
Green hell
You did your best as someone could
I bet you'd never knew you would
Did you run away from it?
I bet you thought you were really good
You've come to this as someone told
I bet you'd never knew you would
Gonna bring
Green hell

AM I EVIL?
Originally released by Diamond Head in 1980 on the "Lightning For The Nations" album. A faithful rendition of the classic by Diamond Head, a "NWOBHM" band who were a major, early influence of the band. When Dave Mustaine formed Megadeath he asked Diamond Head's vocalist Sean Harris to be the band's front man who quickly declined the offer.

My mother was a witch,
she was burned alive
Thankless little bitch,
for the tears
I cried Take her down now,
don't want to see her face
All blistered and burnt,
can't hide my disgrace Twenty seven,
everyone was nice Gotta see 'em,
make 'em pay the price
See their bodies out on the ice
Take my time
Am I evil?
Yes I am Am I evil?
I am man Yes I am
As I watched my mother die,
I lost my head
Revenge now I sought,
to break with my bread
Takin' no chances, you come with me
I'll split you to the bone,
help set you free Twenty seven, everyone was nice
Gotta see 'em, make 'em pay the price
See their bodies out on the ice
Take my time
Am I evil?
Yes I am Am I evil?
I am man Yes I am
On with the action now,
I'll strip your pride
I'll spread your blood around,
I'll see you ride
Your face is scarred with steel,
wounds deep and neat
Like a double dozen before ya, smells so sweet
Am I evil?
Yes I am Am I evil?
I am man
I'll make my residence,
I'll watch your fire You can come with me,
sweet desire My face is long forgot,
my face not my own Sweet and timely whore, take me home
Am I evil?
Yes I am Am I evil?
I am man
My soul is longing for,
await my heir Sent to avenge my mother, sleep myself
My face is long forgot,
my face not my own Sweet and timely whore,
take me home
Am I evil?
Yes I am Am I evil?
I am man Am I evil?
Yes I fucking am Am I evil?
I am man, yeah!

BLITZKRIEG
Originally released by Blitzkrieg in 1981 as a B-sides to the "Buried Alive" single. A reverent cover song, surprisingly, it is about an alien invasion.

Let us have peace,
Let us have life
Let us escape the cruel night
Let us have time,
Let the sun shine
Let us beware the deadly sign
The day is coming
Armageddon's near Inferno coming
Can we survive the blitzkrieg
The blitzkrieg
The blitzkrieg
Save us from fate, save us from hate
Save ourselves before it's too late
Come to our need, hear our plea
Save ourselves before the earth bleeds
The day is dawning
The time is near Aliens coming
Can we survive the blitzkrieg
The blitzkrieg