Metallica

The Unforgiven

Fade to Black

Mama Said

The Unforgiven

New blood joins this earth And quickly he's subdued
Through constant pain disgrace The young boy learns their rules
With time the child draws in This whipping boy done wrong
Deprived of all his thoughts The young man struggles on and on he's known
A vow unto his own That never from this day His will they'll take away
[Chorus:] What I've felt What I've known
Never shined through what I've shown Never be Never see
Won't see what might have been What I've felt What I've known
Never shined through what I've shown Never free Never me
So I dub thee unforgiven They dedicate their lives To running all of his
He tries to please them all This bitter man he is Throughout his life the same
He's battled constantly This fight he cannot win
A tired man they see no longer cares The old man then prepares
To die regretfully That old man, he is me [Chorus] You labeled me
I'll label you So I dub the unforgiven

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Fade to black

Life it seems, will fade away Drifting further every day
Getting lost within myself Nothing matters no one else
I have lost the will to live Simply nothing more to give
There is nothing more for me Need the end to set me free
Things are not what they used to be Missing one inside of me
Deathly lost, this can't be real Cannot stand this hell I feel
Emptiness is filing me To the point of agony Growing darkness taking dawn
I was me, but now He's gone No one but me can save myself, but it to late
Now I can't think, think why I should even try
Yesterday seems as though it never existed
Death Greets me warm, now I will just say good-bye

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Mama said

Mama she has taught me well
Told me when I was young
Son your life's an open book
Don't close it before it's done
The brightest flame burns quickest
Is what I heard they say
A son's heart's owned to mother
But I must find my way

Let my heart go
Let your son grow
Mama let your heart go
Or let this heart be still

Rebel my new last name
Wild blood in my veins
Apron strings around my neck
The mark that still remains
Left home at an early age
Of what I heard was wrong
I never ask forgiveness
For what I said is done

Let my heart go
Let your son grow
Mama let your heart go
Or let this heart be still

[Chorus:]

Never I ask you
But never I gave
But you gave me your emptiness
And now take to my grave
Never I ask you
But never I gave
But you gave me your emptiness
And now take to my grave
So let this heart be still

Mama now I'm coming home
I'm not all you wished of me
But a mother's love for her son
Unspoken, hear me be
Yeah I took your love for granted
And all the things you said to me
I need your arms to welcome me
But a cold stone's all I see

Let my heart go
Let your son grow
Mama let your heart go
Or let this heart be still

Let my heart go
Mama let my heart go
You never let my heart go
So let this heart be still

[Chorus]

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