Metallica - Cyanide Lyrics

Sleep, and take us there
In an angel's kiss
Brings finalness
Don't believe it

Empty army
Death, won't you let me stay?
Empty, they say
Death, won't you call your name?
Oh, call your name

Suicide, I've already died
It's just the funeral I've been waiting for
Cyanide, feeling death inside
Break this empty shell forevermore

Wait, wait patiently
Your death black wings
Unfolding scream
Spreading for me

Empty, they say
Death, won't you let me stay?
Empty, they say
Death, will you call your name?
Oh, call your name

Suicide, I've already died
It's just the funeral I've been waiting for
Cyanide, feeling death inside
Break this empty shell forevermore

Days that rain or are they tears?
I sting your concrete face for years
Crying, weeping, shedding strife
Year after year, life after life

An arrow thrust in broken ground
Concrete angel never lies down
Calm anew that's swallowed fast
With peace at last
Oh, peace at last

Empty, they say
Death, won't you let me stay?
Empty, they say
Death, will you call your name?
Oh, call your name

Suicide, I've already died
It's just the funeral I've been waiting for
Cyanide, feeling death inside
Break this empty shell forevermore

Forever more
Forever more
Just the funeral I've been waiting for

Song Information

Released September 2, 2008
Recorded March 12, 2007?May 11, 2008 at Sound City in Van Nuys, Los Angeles, California; Shangri La Studios in Malibu, California and HQ in San Rafael, California
Genre Thrash metal
Length 6:42
Label Warner Bros.
Writers James Hetfield, Kirk Hammett, Robert Trujillo, Lars Ulrich
Producer Rick Rubin