Album: ReLoad (1997)

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• My eyes seek reality
  My fingers seek my veins
  There's a dog at your back step
  He must come in from the rain
  
  I fall 'cause I let go
  The net below has rot away
  So my eyes seek reality
  And my fingers seek my veins
  
  The trash fire is warm
  But nowhere safe from the storm
  And I can't bare to see
  What I've let me be
  So wicked and worn
  
  So as I write to you
  Of what is done and to do
  Maybe you'll understand
  And won't cry for this man
  'Cause low man is due
  
  Please forgive me
  
  My eyes seek reality
  My fingers feel for faith
  Touch clean with a dirty hand
  I touched the clean to the waste
  
  The trash fire is warm
  But nowhere safe from the storm
  And I can't bare to see
  What I've let me be
  So wicked and worn
  
  So as I write to you, yeah
  Of what is done and to do
  Maybe you'll understand
  And won't cry for this man
  'Cause low man is due
  Please forgive me
  Please forgive me
  Please forgive me
  
  So low the sky is all I see
  All I want from you is forgive me
  So you bring this poor dog in from the rain
  Though he just wants right back out again
  
  And I cry, to the alley way
  Confess all to the rain
  But I lie, lie straight to the mirror
  The one I've broken, to match my face
  
  The trash fire is warm
  But nowhere safe from the storm
  And I can't bare to see
  What I've let me be
  So wicked and worn
  
  So as I write to you
  Of what is done and to do
  Maybe you'll understand
  And won't cry for this man
  'Cause low man is due
  Please forgive me
  Please forgive me
  
  So low the sky is all I see
  All I want from you is forgive me
  So you bring this poor dog in from the rain
  Though he just wants right back out again
  
  My eyes seek reality
  My fingers seek my veins Writer/s: James Alan Hetfield, Kirk Hammett, Lars Ulrich
  Publisher: Word Collections Publishing
  Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 12

• Diamond from HomeGreat. Keep it up?
• Ivan from Frankenmuth, MiThis song makes me feel a lot of pain that I saw in my uncle's eyes when he returned from prison. He had trouble making eye contact with his nieces and nephews, and even more his kids. This song is terribly underrated. It just shows that many people rolled the "terribleness" of Load and ReLoad into one bunch. Both albums have many powerful songs.
• Mark from AustraliaThis rings true with me. it makes me think back to the lowest point of my life when i thought i had nothing left to live for.
• Karen from Cebu, PhilippinesThis song is not so familiar to me at first. When I listened to this for the first time, I find this song great... Sadly, its one of Metallica’s underrated songs. This song must be popular.
• Zero from Nowhere, Nj"So I cry to the alleyway/confess all to the rain. But I lie, lie straight to the mirror/the one I've broken to match my face." = BRILLIANT lyricism!
• Austin from Bristow, Va@Jose, Megadeth mellowed out in the 90's just like Metallica. But I agree, it would be cool if Slayer tried thinking outside the box like Metallica and Megadeth.
• Aki from Sunrise, FlThis separates the open-minded musicfan from the provincial metal fan. So it isn't metal; so what? That doesn't stop it from being a heartbreaking song.
• Ray from Lodi, Njlove love love this song. touchs you right in the pit of your existance. forgot all about it until i stumbled on here tonight. thanks
• Riki from Tampere, FinlandI cant stop loving song... One of the most underrated song EVER. Just for being on RL... This song... If i had to choose one sound LIKE ME, y know, be my theme song, this would be the one... I simply cant think of anything they could've done better on this...
• Gaurav from Punjab, IndiaI think this is the best slow song by metallica , better than nothin else matters..i think this is about a man whos regretting for his deeds in past(trash fire is warm....upto...so wicked and worn) and asking the girl to forgive him.
• Skylar from Den Bosch, Netherlandsthis song is so much better than Nothing Else Matters, this song should be famous and overrated instead of Nothing Else Matters.
  it could be about a homeless guy, or just about a guy that wants a girl but she thinks he is not good enough. that's what it remindes me of.
• Jose from San Salvador, OtherThis guys can play anything, I'd like to see other bands like magadeth or slayer trying to create music outside there genere, MetallicA rocks and this song is one of the greatest

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