Mastertarium

Song Details

Written by

  • James Hetfield
  • Lars Ulrich
  • Cliff Burton
  • Kirk Hammett

Total Performances

First Performed Live

December 28, 1999

Most Recent Performance

Lyrics

                        End of passion play, crumbling away
I’m your source of self-destruction
Veins that pump with fear, sucking darkest clear
Leading on your death’s construction
Taste me you will see
More is all you need
You’re dedicated to
How I’m killing you

Come crawling faster
Obey your master
Your life burns faster
Obey your master
Master

Master of puppets I’m pulling your strings
Twisting your mind and smashing your dreams
Blinded by me, you can’t see a thing
Just call my name, ‘cause I’ll hear you scream
Master
Master
Just call my name, ‘cause I’ll hear you scream
Master
Master

Needlework the way, never you betray
Life of death becoming clearer
Pain monopoly, ritual misery
Chop your breakfast on a mirror
Taste me you will see
More is all you need
You’re dedicated to
How I’m killing you

Come crawling faster
Obey your master
Your life burns faster
Obey your master
Master

Master of puppets I’m pulling your strings
Twisting your mind and smashing your dreams
Blinded by me, you can’t see a thing
Just call my name, ‘cause I’ll hear you scream
Master
Master
Just call my name, ‘cause I’ll hear you scream
Master
Master

Welcome to where time stands still
No one leaves and no one will
Moon is full, never seems to change
Just labeled mentally deranged
Dream the same thing every night
I see our freedom in my sight
No locked doors, no windows barred
No things to make my brain seem scarred

Sleep my friend and you will see
That dream is my reality
They keep me locked up in this cage
Can’t they see it’s why my brain says “rage”

Sanitarium, leave me be
Sanitarium, just leave me alone

Build my fear of what’s out there
Cannot breathe the open air
Whisper things into my brain
Assuring me that I’m insane
They think our heads are in their hands
But violent use brings violent plans
Keep him tied, it makes him well
He’s getting better, can’t you tell?

No more can they keep us in
Listen, damn it, we will win
They see it right, they see it well
But they think this saves us from our hell

Sanitarium, leave me be
Sanitarium, just leave me alone
Sanitarium, leave me the fuck alone

Fear of living on
Natives getting restless now
Mutiny in the air
Got some death to do
Mirror stares back hard
Kill, it’s such a friendly word
Seems the only way
For reaching out again

Hell is worth all that, natural habitat
Just a rhyme without a reason
Never-ending maze, drift on numbered days
Now your life is out of season
I will occupy
I will help you die
I will run through you
Now I rule you too

Come crawling faster
Obey your master
Your life burns faster
Obey your master
Master

Master of puppets I’m pulling your strings
Twisting your mind and smashing your dreams
Blinded by me, you can’t see a thing
Just call my name, ‘cause I’ll hear you scream
Master
Master
Just call my name, ‘cause I’ll hear you scream
Master
Master

© 1986 Creeping Death Music (Global Music Rights)

Live Performances

August 9, 2000

Lexington, KY, United States

Rupp Arena

August 8, 2000

Lexington, KY, United States

Rupp Arena

August 6, 2000

Atlanta, GA, United States

Lakewood Amphitheatre

August 5, 2000

Atlanta, GA, United States

Lakewood Amphitheatre

August 3, 2000

Dallas, TX, United States

Smirnoff Music Centre

August 2, 2000

Dallas, TX, United States

Smirnoff Music Centre

July 22, 2000

Chicago, IL, United States

Rockfest @ Chicago Motor Speedway

July 20, 2000

East Rutherford, NJ, United States

Tattoo the Earth @ Giants Stadium

July 16, 2000

Phoenix, AZ, United States

Desert Sky Pavilion

July 15, 2000

Los Angeles, CA, United States

Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum

July 14, 2000

San Francisco, CA, United States

3Com Park

July 12, 2000

Denver, CO, United States

Mile High Stadium