The Shortest Straw

Album: ...And Justice For All (1988)
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  • Suspicion is your name
    Your honesty to blame
    Put dignity to shame dishonor
    Witch hunt modern day
    Determining decay
    The blatter and 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
    Witch hunt riding through shortest straw
    This shortest straw has been pulled for you

    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 twenty two 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
    Witch hunt riding through shortest straw
    This shortest straw has been pulled for you

    Pulled for you (shortest straw)
    Shortest straw has been pulled for you
    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
    Witch hunt riding through
    Shortest straw
    This shortest straw has been pulled for you
    Pulled for you Writer/s: James Alan Hetfield, Lars Ulrich
    Publisher: Word Collections Publishing
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