The Struggle Within

Album: Metallica (1991)
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  • Reaching out for something you've got to feel
    While clutching to what you had thought was real
    Kicking at a dead horse pleases you
    No way of showing your gratitude
    So many things you don't want to do
    What is it What have you got to lose
    What the hell
    What is you think you're gonna find?
    Hypocrite
    Boredom sets into the boring mind

    Struggle within it suits you fine
    Struggle within your ruin
    Struggle within you seal your own coffin
    Struggle within the struggling within
    Home is not a home it becomes a hell
    Turning it into your prison cell
    Advantages are taken, not handed out
    While you struggle inside your hell
    Reaching out
    Grabbing for something you've got to feel
    Closing in
    The pressure upon you is so real

    Struggle within it suits you fine
    Struggle within your ruin
    Struggle within you seal your own coffin
    Struggle within the struggling within

    Struggle
    Go
    Reaching out for something you've got to feel
    While clutching to what you had thought was real
    What the hell
    What is you think you're gonna find
    Hypocrite
    Boredom sets into the boring mind

    Struggle within it suits you fine
    Struggle within your ruin
    Struggle within you seal your own coffin
    Struggle within the struggling within Writer/s: James Alan Hetfield, Lars Ulrich
    Publisher: Word Collections Publishing
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 2

  • Jakob from SwedenEpic song.
  • Jacob from Jackson, TnI like how the words "struggle within" are mentioned in "The Frayed Ends of Sanity." The words "nameless feeling" are also in it (Frayed Ends), which makes me think of "The Unnamed Feeling," one of my favorite songs ever.
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