Moth Into Flame

Song Details

Written by

  • James Hetfield
  • Lars Ulrich

Total Performances

First Performed Live

Most Recent Performance

September 29, 2024

Lyrics

                        Blacked out
Pop queen, amphetamine
The screams crashed into silence

Tapped out
Doused in the gasoline
The high times going timeless

Decadence
Death of the innocence
The pathway starts to spiral

Infamy
All for publicity
Destruction going viral

Light it up
Ah, light it up
Another hit erases all the pain
Bulletproof
Ah, kill the truth
You’re falling, but you think you’re flying high
High again

Sold your soul
Built a higher wall
Yesterday
Now you’re thrown away

Same rise and fall
Who cares at all?
Seduced by fame
A moth into the flame

Twisted
Backstabbing wicked
The delusion absolution

Perjurer
Fame is the murderer
Seduce you into ruin

Light it up
Ah, light it up
Another hit erases all the pain
Bulletproof
Ah, tell the truth
You’re falling, but you think you’re flying high
High again

Sold your soul
Built the higher wall
Yesterday
Now you’re thrown away

Same rise and fall
Who cares at all?
Seduced by fame
A moth into the flame
Burn

Guarantee your name, you go and kill yourself
The vultures feast around you still
Overdose on shame and insecurity
If one won’t do that fistful will

Death scene
Black hearse the limousine
A grave filled with seduction

Vaccine
Fame does the murdering
She builds up for destruction

So light it up
Ah, light it up
Another hit erases all the pain
Bulletproof
Ah, no excuse
You’re falling, but you think you’re flying high
High again

Sold your soul
Built the higher wall
Yesterday
Now you’re thrown away

Same rise and fall
Who cares at all?
Seduced by fame
A moth into the flame

Addicted to the
Fame

© 2016 Creeping Death Music (Global Music Rights)

Song Notes

Live Performances

September 29, 2024

Mexico City, Mexico

Estadio GNP Seguros

September 22, 2024

Mexico City, Mexico

Estadio GNP Seguros

September 1, 2024

Seattle, WA, United States

Lumen Field

August 25, 2024

Edmonton, AB, Canada

Commonwealth Stadium

August 18, 2024

Minneapolis, MN, United States

U.S. Bank Stadium

August 11, 2024

Chicago, IL, United States

Soldier Field

August 4, 2024

Foxborough, MA, United States

Gillette Stadium

July 14, 2024

Madrid, Spain

Estadio Cívitas Metropolitano

July 7, 2024

Warsaw, Poland

PGE Narodowy

June 16, 2024

Copenhagen, Denmark

Parken Stadium

June 9, 2024

Helsinki, Finland

Helsinki Olympic Stadium

May 26, 2024

Munich, Germany

Olympiastadion