The End of the Line

Album: Death Magnetic (2008)
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  • Need more and more
    Tainted misery
    Bleed, battle scars
    Chemical affinity

    Reign, legacy
    Innocence corrode
    Stain, rot away
    Catatonic overload

    Choke, asphyxia
    Snuff reality
    Scorch, kill the light
    Incinerate celebrity

    Reaper, butchery
    Karma amputee
    Bloodline breeding fine
    Death contagious deity

    Hooked into this deceiver
    Need more and more
    Into the endless fever
    Need more and more

    New consequence machine
    Burned through all your gasoline
    Asylum overtime, never mind
    You've reached the end of the line

    Time, choke the clock
    Steal another day
    Die faithfully
    Narcissistic fade away

    Twisted, jump the rail
    Shout at the crowd below
    Breaker, chase the ghost
    From latest high to all time low

    Hooked into this deceiver
    Need more and more
    Into the endless fever
    Need more and more

    New consequence machine
    Burned through all your gasoline
    Asylum overtime, never mind
    You've reached the end of the line

    Drop the hourglass of time
    Spinning sand we will not find
    As we gather here today
    We bid farewell

    The slave becomes the master
    The slave becomes the master
    The slave becomes the master, yeah

    The slave becomes the master
    Need more and more
    Right now and ever after
    Need more and more

    New consequence machine
    Burned through all your gasoline
    Asylum overtime, never mind

    Dead hourglass of time
    Sand we will not ever find
    We gather here today, say goodbye
    'Cause you've reached the end of the line

    The end of the line
    The end of the line
    The end of the line
    You've reached the end of the line Writer/s: James Alan Hetfield, Kirk L. Hammett, Lars Ulrich, Robert Augustine Trujillo
    Publisher: Word Collections Publishing
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 5

  • Jorge from Lenoirthe part near the end where it says "the slave becomes the master" the melody in the back had a very faint Darth Vader's imperial march sound to it and the scene i would always think about is when Vader turns on Palpatine in Return of the Jedi when Palpatine electrocuted Luke, hence the part "the slave becomes the master"
  • S From Sydney from Australia I always thought this is about modern day corporate employees... everyone is overworked “burn your gasoline” like a slave till then end of the line (death)! and the masters are the top managers who need more and more and those promoted are those who demand even more “the slave becomes the master, need more and more right now and never after”!
  • Zero from Nowhere, NjI think it's kind of a downer ending; the addict has overdosed and died and the bridge is his funeral, "As we gather here today, we bid farewell." Though I can't make sense of the slave becoming the master if the person died. (although we bid farewell could be farewell to the drug and the slave from the drug has become the master I can kinda see what you mean eric)
  • Eric from Duluth, MnI love this song. I think it's a part two of Master Of Puppets, and the addict has overcome his addiction. The title references a cocaine line, and that it is behind them. the lines "we bid farewell... the slave becomes the master" and "Never mind... You've reached the end of the line" sound like they are throwing away their past life and starting new, similar to James' detox time.
  • Nick from Cairns, AustraliaOne of my favourite new songs from metallica, it seems Metallica can still keep me interested and entertained even though the've reached their 40's. Anyway the album was intended to reach a sound more related to the Justice album and the Black album. This was in an interview with Kirk Hammett in the July 2008 issue of Metal Hammer magazine. Though I think its just like the Justice Album, since it has a 10 minute instrumental ("Suicide and Redemption" is pretty similar to "To Live is To Die"), most songs range from 5 to 8 minutes as well and follow the same song structure.
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