• BLACKENED IS THE END
  WINTER IT WILL SEND
  THROWING ALL YOU SEE
  INTO OBSCURITY
  DEATH OF MOTHER EARTH
  NEVER A REBIRTH
  EVOLUTION'S END
  NEVER WILL IT MEND
  NEVER

  FIRE
  TO BEGIN WHIPPING DANCE OF THE DEAD
  BLACKENED IS THE END
  TO BEGIN WHIPPING DANCE OF THE DEAD
  COLOR OUR WORLD BLACKENED

  BUSTERING OF EARTH
  TERMINATE ITS WORTH
  DEADLY INCOTINE
  KILLS WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN
  CALLOUS FRIGID CHILL
  NOTHING LEFT TO KILL
  NEVER SEEN BEFORE
  BREATHING NEVERMORE
  NEVER

  FIRE
  TO BEGIN WHIPPING DANCE OF THE DEAD
  BLACKENED IS THE END
  TO BEGIN WHIPPING DANCE OF THE DEAD
  COLOR OUR WORLD BLACKENED
  BLACKENED

  OPPOSITION...CONTRADICTION...PREMONITION...COMPROMISE AGITATION...VIOLATION...MUTILATION...PLANET DIES
  DARKEST COLOR
  BLISTERED EARTH
  TRUE DEATH OF LIFE
  TERMINATION....EXPIRATION...CANCELLATION...HUMAN RACE EXPECTATION...LIBERATION...POPULATION...LAY TO WASTE
  SEE OUR MOTHER
  PUT TO DEATH
  SEE OUR MOTHER DIE
  SMOULDERING DECAY
  TAKE HER BREATH AWAY
  MILLIONS OF OUR YEARS
  IN MINUTES DISAPPEARS
  DARKENING IN VAIN
  DECADENCE REMAINS
  ALL IS SAID AND DONE
  NEVER IS THE SUN
  NEVER

  FIRE
  TO BEGIN WHIPPING DANCE OF THE DEAD
  BLACKENED IS THE END
  TO BEGIN WHIPPING DANCE OF THE DEAD
  COLOR OUR WORLD BLACKENED
  BLACKENED

...AND JUSTICE FOR ALL
The title track is critical of American ideals. Something the band will contradict on it's next album.

• HALLS OF JUSTICE PAINTED GREEN
  MONEY TALKING
  POWER WOLVES BESET YOUR DOOR
  HEAR THEM STALKING
  SOON YOU'LL PLEASE THEIR APPETITE
  THEY DEVOUR
  HAMMER OF JUSTICE CRUSHES YOU
  OVERPOWER

  THE ULTIMATE IN VANITY
  EXPLOITING THEIR SUPREMACY
  I CAN'T BELIEVE THE THINGS YOU SAY
  I CAN'T BELIEVE
  I CAN'T BELIEVE THE PRICE YOU PAY
  NOTHING CAN SAVE YOU
  JUSTICE IS LOST
  JUSTICE IS RAPED
  JUSTICE IS GONE
  PULLING YOUR STRINGS
  JUSTICE IS DONE
  SEEKING NO TRUTH
  WINNING IS ALL
  FIND IT SO GRIM
  SO TRUE
  SO REAL

  APATHY THEIR STEPPING STONE
  SO UNFEELING
  HIDDEN DEEP ANIMOSITY
  SO DECEIVING
  THROUGH YOUR EYES THEIR LIGHT BURNS
  HOPING TO FIND
  INQUISITION SINKING YOU
  WITH PRYING MINDS

  THE ULTIMATE IN VANITY
  EXPLOITING THEIR SUPREMACY
  I CAN'T BELIEVE THE THINGS YOU SAY
  I CAN'T BELIEVE
  I CAN'T BELIEVE THE PRICE YOU PAY
  NOTHING CAN SAVE YOU
  JUSTICE IS LOST
  JUSTICE IS RAPED
  JUSTICE IS GONE
  PULLING YOUR STRINGS
  JUSTICE IS DONE
  SEEKING NO TRUTH
  WINNING IS ALL
  FIND IT SO GRIM
  SO TRUE
  SO REAL

  LADY JUSTICE HAS BEEN RAPED
  TRUTH ASSASSIN
  ROLLS OF RED TAPE SEAL YOUR LIPS
  NOW YOU'RE DONE IN
  THEIR MONEY TIPS HER SCALES AGAIN
  MAKE YOUR DEAL
  JUST WHAT IS TRUTH?I CANNOT TELL
  CANNOT FEEL

  THE ULTIMATE IN VANITY
  EXPLOITING THEIR SUPREMACY
  I CAN'T BELIEVE THE THINGS YOU SAY
  I CAN'T BELIEVE
  I CAN'T BELIEVE THE PRICE YOU PAY
  NOTHING CAN SAVE YOU
  JUSTICE IS LOST
  JUSTICE IS RAPED
  JUSTICE IS GONE
  PULLING YOUR STRINGS
  JUSTICE IS DONE
  SEEKING NO TRUTH
  WINNING IS ALL
  FIND IT SO GRIM
  SO TRUE
  SO REAL
  SEEKING NO TRUTH
  WINNING IS ALL
  FIND IT SO GRIM
  SO TRUE
  SO REAL

EYE OF THE BEHOLDER
Freedom is only as true as you perceive it. Released as a single, it's flip side features a raw run-through of Budgie's "Breadfan".

• DO YOU SEE WHAT I SEE?
  TRUTH IS AN OFFENCE
  YOU SILENCE FOR YOUR CONFIDENCE
  DO YOU HEAR WHAT I HEAR?
  DOORS ARE SLAMMING SHUT
  LIMIT YOUR IMAGINATION, KEEP YOU WHERE THEY MUST
  DO YOU FEEL WHAT I FEEL?
  BITTERING DISTRESS
  WHO DECIDES WHAT YOU EXPRESS?
  DO YOU TAKE WHAT I TAKE?
  ENDURANCE IS THE WORD
  MOVING BACK INSTEAD OF FORWARD SEEMS TO ME ABSURD

  DOESN'T MATTER WHAT YOU SEE?
  OR INTO IT WHAT YOU READ
  YOU CAN DO IT YOUR OWN WAY
  IF IT'S DONE JUST HOW I SAY
  INDEPENDENCE LIMITED
  FREEDOM OF CHOICE
  CHOICE IS MAD FOR YOU MY FRIEND
  FREEDOM OF SPEECH
  SPEECH IS WORDS THAT THEY WILL BEND
  FREEDOM WITH THEIR EXCEPTION

  DO YOU FEAR WHAT I FEAR?
  LIVING PROPERLY
  TRUTHS TO YOU ARE LIES TO ME
  DO YOU CHOOSE WHAT I CHOOSE?
  MORE ALTERNIVES
  ENERGY DERIVES FROM BOTH THE PLUS AND NEGATIVE
  DO YOU NEED WHAT I NEED?
  BOUNDARIES OVERTHROWN
  LOOK INSIDE TO EACH HIS OWN
  DO YOU TRUST WHAT I TRUST?
  ME, MYSELF AND I
  PENETRATE THE SMOKE SCREEN I SEE THROUGH THE SELFISH LIE

  DOESN'T MATTER WHAT YOU SEE?
  OR INTO IT WHAT YOU READ
  YOU CAN DO IT YOUR OWN WAY
  IF IT'S DONE JUST HOW I SAY
  INDEPENDENCE LIMITED
  FREEDOM OF CHOICE
  CHOICE IS MAD FOR YOU MY FRIEND
  FREEDOM OF SPEECH
  SPEECH IS WORDS THAT THEY WILL BEND
  FREEDOM WITH THEIR EXCEPTION

  DO YOU KNOW WHAT I KNOW?
  YOUR MONEY END YOUR WEALTH
  YOUR SILENCE JUST TO HEAR YOUR SELF
  DO YOU WANT WHAT I WANT?
  DESIRE NOT A THING
  I HUNGER AFTER INDEPENDENCE LENGTHEN FREEDOM'S RING

  DOESN'T MATTER WHAT YOU SEE?
  OR INTO IT WHAT YOU READ
  YOU CAN DO IT YOUR OWN WAY
  IF IT'S DONE JUST HOW I SAY
  INDEPENDENCE LIMITED
  FREEDOM OF CHOICE
  CHOICE IS MAD FOR YOU MY FRIEND
  FREEDOM OF SPEECH
  SPEECH IS WORDS THAT THEY WILL BEND
  FREEDOM WITH THEIR EXCEPTION
  DOESN'T MATTER WHAT YOU SEE?
  OR INTO IT WHAT YOU READ
  YOU CAN DO IT YOUR OWN WAY
  IF IT'S DONE JUST HOW I SAY

ONE
Metallica's most popular, well-known song (next to Enter Sandman), is an anti-war story of a soldier who has lost his limbs, is deaf, blind, and mute, yet is still alive and aware. After the album's release, fans informed the band of a movie with a similar plot ("Johnny Got His Gun"). Rights to the film where bought by the band for use in their first music video.

• I CAN'T REMEMBER ANYTHING
  CAN'T TELL IF THIS IS TRUE OR DREAM
  DEEP DOWN INSIDE I FEEL TO SCREAM
  THIS TERRIBLE SILENCE STOPS ME
  NOW THAT THE WAR IS THROUGH WITH ME
  I'M WAKING UP I CAN NOT SEE
  THAT THERE IS NOT MUCH LEFT OF ME
  NOTHING IS REAL BUT PAIN NOW
  HOLD MY BREATH AS I WISH FOR DEATH
  OH PLEASE GOD,WAKE ME
  BACK IN THE WOMB ITS MUCH TOO REAL
  IN PUMPS LIFE THAT I MUST FEEL
  BUT CAN'T LOOK FORWARD TO REVEAL
  LOOK TO THE TIME WHEN I'LL LIVE
  FED THROUGH THE TUBE THAT STICKS IN ME
  JUST LIKE A WARTIME NOVELTY
  TIED TO MACHINES THAT MAKE ME BE
  CUT THIS LIFE OFF FROM ME
  HOLD MY BREATH AS I WISH FOR DEATH
  OH PLEASE GOD, WAKE ME
  NOW THE WORLD IS GONE I'M JUST ONE
  OH GOD,HELP ME HOLD MY BREATH AS I WISH FOR DEATH
  OH PLEASE GOD HELP ME
  DARKNESS IMPRISONING ME
  ALL THAT I SEE
  ABSOLUTE HORROR
  I CANNOT LIVE
  I CANNOT DIE
  TRAPPED IN MYSELF
  BODY MY HOLDING CELL
  LANDMINE HAS TAKEN MY SIGHT
  TAKEN MY SPEECH
  TAKEN MY HEARING
  TAKEN MY ARMS
  TAKEN MY LEGS
  TAKEN MY SOUL
  LEFT ME WITH LIFE IN HELL

THE SHORTEST STRAW
A song of contemporary blacklisting.

• SUSPICION IS YOUR NAME
  YOUR HONESTY TO BLAME
  PUT DIGNITY TO SHAME
  DISHONOR
  WITCH HUNT MODERN DAY
  DETERMINING DECAY
  THE BLATTAND DISARRAY
  DISFIGURE
  THE PUBLIC EYES' DISGRACE
  DEFYING COMMON PLACE
  UNENDING PAPER CHASE
  UNENDING
  DEAFENING
  PAINSTAKING
  RECKONING
  THIS VERTIGO IT DOTH BRING

  SHORTEST STRAW
  CHALLENGE LIBERTY
  DOWNED BY LAW
  LIVE IN INFAMY
  RUB YOU RAW
  WITCHHUNT RIDING THROUGH
  SHORTEST STRAW
  THIS SHORTEST STRAW HAS BEEN PULLED FOR YOU
  PULLED FOR YOU
  SHORTEST STRAW
  PULLED FOR YOU
  SHORTEST STRAW
  PULLED FOR YOU
  SHORTEST STRAW
  SHORTEST STRAW HAS BEEN PULLED FOR YOU

  THE ACCUSATIONS FLY
  DISCRIMINATION, WHY?
  YOUR INNER SELF TO DIE
  INTRUDING
  DOUBT SUNK ITSELF IN YOU
  IT'S TEETH AND TALONS THROUGH
  YOUR LIVING CATCH 22
  DELUDING
  A MASS HYSTERIA
  A MEGALOMANIA
  REVEAL DEMENTIA
  REVEAL
  SECRETLY
  SILENTLY
  CERTAINLY
  IN VERTIGO YOU WILL BE

  SHORTEST STRAW
  CHALLENGE LIBERTY
  DOWNED BY LAW
  LIVE IN INFAMY
  RUB YOU RAW
  WITCHHUNT RIDING THROUGH
  SHORTEST STRAW
  THIS SHORTEST STRAW HAS BEEN PULLED FOR YOU
  PULLED FOR YOU
  SHORTEST STRAW
  PULLED FOR YOU
  SHORTEST STRAW
  PULLED FOR YOU
  SHORTEST STRAW
  SHORTEST STRAW HAS BEEN PULLED FOR YOU
  PULLED FOR YOU
  SHORTEST STRAW
  PULLED FOR YOU
  SHORTEST STRAW
  PULLED FOR YOU
  SHORTEST STRAW
  SHORTEST STRAW HAS BEEN PULLED FOR YOU

  BEHIND YOU, HANDS ARE TIED
  YOUR BEING, OSTRACIZED
  YOUR HELL IS MULTIPLIED
  UPENDING
  THE FALLOUT HAS BEGUN
  OPPRESSIVE DAMAGE DONE
  YOUR MANY TURNED TO NONE
  TO NOTHING
  YOU'RE REACHING YOUR NADIR
  YOUR WILL HAS DISAPPEARED
  THE LIE IS CRYSTAL CLEAR
  DEFENDING
  CHANNELS RED
  ONE WORD SAID
  BLACKLISTED
  WITH VERTIGO MAKE YOU DEAD

  SHORTEST STRAW
  CHALLENGE LIBERTY
  DOWNED BY LAW
  LIVE IN INFAMY
  RUB YOU RAW
  WITCHHUNT RIDING THROUGH
  SHORTEST STRAW
  THIS SHORTEST STRAW HAS BEEN PULLED FOR YOU

  PULLED FOR YOU

HARVESTER OF SORROW
The story of a drunken and drugged man who torments his family before finally cracking and murdering them.

• MY LIFE SUFFOCATES
  PLANTING SEEDS OF HATE
  I'VE LOVED, TURNED TO HATE
  TRAPPED FAR BEYOND MY FATE
  I GIVE
  YOU TAKE
  THIS LIFE THAT I FORSAKE
  BEEN CHEATED OF MY YOUTH
  YOU TURNED THIS LIE TO TRUTH

  ANGER
  MISERY
  YOU'LL SUFFER UNTO ME

  HARVESTER OF SORROW
  LANGUAGE OF THE MAD
  HARVESTER OF SORROW

  PURE BLACK LOOKING CLEAR
  MY WORK IS DONE SOON HERE
  TRY GETTING BACK TO ME
  GET BACK WHICH USED TO BE
  DRINK UP
  SHOOT IN
  LET THE BEATINGS BEGIN
  DISTRIBUTOR OF PAIN
  YOUR LOSS BECOMES MY GAIN

  ANGER
  MISERY
  YOU'LL SUFFER UNTO ME

  HARVESTER OF SORROW
  LANGUAGE OF THE MAD
  HARVESTER OF SORROW

  ALL HAVE SAID THEIR PRAYERS
  INVADE THEIR NIGHTMARES
  SEE INTO MY EYES
  YOU'LL FIND WHERE MURDER LIES
  INFANTICIDE

  HARVESTER OF SORROW
  LANGUAGE OF THE MAD
  HARVESTER OF SORROW
  LANGUAGE OF THE MAD
  HARVESTER OF SORROW

THE FRAYED ENDS OF SANITY
It's intro lifts the march of the Evil Witch's soldiers from The Wizard of Oz, which, ironically was also later used by Prince. The song deals with reappearing insanity and the growing inability to distinguish fantasy from reality.

• NEVER HUNGER
  NEVER PROSPER
  I HAVE FALLEN PREY TO FAILURE
  STRUGGLE WITHIN
  TRIGGERED AGAIN
  NOW THE CANDLE BURNS AT BOTH ENDS
  TWISTING UNDER SCHIZOPHRENIA
  FALLING DEEP INTO DEMENTIA

  OLD HABITS REAPPEAR
  FIGHTING THE FEAR OF FEAR
  GROWING CONSPIRACY
  EVERYONE'S AFTER ME
  FRAYED ENDS OF SANITY
  HEAR THEM CALLING
  HEAR THEM CALLING ME

  BIRTH OF TERROR
  DEATH OF MUCH MORE
  I'M THE SLAVE OF FEAR,MY CAPTOR
  NEVER WARNINGS
  SPREADING ITS WINGS
  AS I WAIT FOR THE HORROR SHE BRINGS
  LOSS OF INTEREST,QUESTION,WONDER
  WAVES OF FEAR THEY PULL ME UNDER

  OLD HABITS REAPPEAR
  FIGHTING THE FEAR OF FEAR
  GROWING CONSPIRACY
  EVERYONE'S AFTER ME
  FRAYED ENDS OF SANITY
  HEAR THEM CALLING
  HEAR THEM CALLING ME

  INTO RUIN
  I AM SINKING
  HOSTAGE OF THIS NAMELESS FEELING
  HELL IS SET FREE
  FLOODED I'LL BE
  FEEL THE UNDERTOW INSIDE ME
  HEIGHT,HELL,TIME,HASTE,TERROR,TENSION
  LIFE,DEATH,WANT,WASTE,MASS DEPRESSION

  OLD HABITS REAPPEAR
  FIGHTING THE FEAR OF FEAR
  GROWING CONSPIRACY
  MYSELF IS AFTER ME
  FRAYED ENDS OF SANITY
  HEAR THEM CALLING
  FRAYED ENDS OF SANITY
  HEAR THEM CALLING
  HEAR THEM CALLING ME

TO LIVE IS TO DIE
Cliff Burton's post humous contribution is and instrumental that features his poetry-spoken by James-and a riff which the band composed around. Also, clocking in at 9:48, it is the band's longest epic-second only to The Outlaw Torn.

WHEN A MAN LIES HE MURDERS
SOME PART OF THE WORLD
THESE ARE THE PALE DEATHS WHICH
MEN MISCALL THEIR LIVES
ALL THIS I CANNOT BEAR
TO WITNESS ANY LONGER
CANNOT THE KINGDOM OF SALVATION
TAKE ME HOME

DYERS EVE
Rumored to be inspired by Dyers Avenue in Manhattan, New York City, it is about the ultimate act of teen angst, a violent suicide.

• DEAR MOTHER
  DEAR FATHER
  WHAT IS THIS HELL YOU HAVE PUT ME THROUGH
  BELIEVER
  DECEIVER
  DAY IN DAY OUT LIVE MY LIFE THROUGH YOU
  PUSHED ONTO ME WHAT'S WRONG OR RIGHT
  HIDDEN FROM THIS THING THAT THEY CALL LIFE
  DEAR MOTHER
  DEAR FATHER
  EVERY THOUGHT I'D THINK YOU'D DISAPPROVE
  CURATOR
  DICTATOR
  ALWAYS CENSORING MY EVERY MOVE
  CHILDREN ARE SEEN BUR ARE NOT HEARD
  TEAR OUT EVERYTHING INSPIRED

  INNOCENCE
  TORN FROM ME WITHOUT YOUR SHELTER
  BARRED REALITY
  I'M LIVING BLINDLY

  DEAR MOTHER
  DEAR FATHER
  TIME HAS FROZEN STILL WHAT'S LEFT TO BE
  HEAR NOTHING
  SAY NOTHING
  CANNOT FACE THE FACT I THINK FOR ME
  NO GUARANTEE,IT'S LIFE AS IS
  BUT DAMN YOU FOR NOT GIVING ME MY CHANCE
  DEAR MOTHER
  DEAR FATHER
  YOU'VE CLIPPED MY WINGS BEFORE I LEARNED TO FLY
  UNSPOILED
  UNSPOKEN
  I'VE OUTGROWN THAT FUCKING LULLABY
  SAME THING I'VE ALWAYS HEARD FROM YOU
  DO AS I SAY NOT AS I DO

  INNOCENCE
  TORN FROM ME WITHOUT YOUR SHELTER
  BARRED REALITY
  I'M LIVING BLINDLY
  I'M IN HELL WITHOUT YOU
  CANNOT COPE WITHOUT YOU TWO
  SHOCKED AT THE WORLD THAT I SEE
  INNOCENT VICTIM PLEASE RESCUE ME

  DEAR MOTHER
  DEAR FATHER
  HIDDEN IN YOUR WORLD YOU'VE MADE FOR ME
  I'M SEETHING
  I'M BLEEDING
  RIPPING WOUNDS IN ME THAT NEVER HEAL
  UNDYING SPITE I FEEL FOR YOU
  LIVING OUT THIS HELL YOU ALWAYS KNEW