That Was Just Your Life

Song Details

Written by

  • James Hetfield
  • Lars Ulrich
  • Kirk Hammett
  • Robert Trujillo

Total Performances

First Performed Live

September 12, 2008

Most Recent Performance

November 21, 2010

Lyrics

                        Like a siren in my head that always
Threatens to repeat
Like a blind man that is strapped into the speeding driver’s seat
Like a face
That learns to speak
When all it knew was how to bite

Like a misery that keeps me focused
Though I’ve gone astray
Like an endless nightmare that
I must awaken from each day
Like conviction
A premonition
Not worthy of, so I deny...... I deny

I blind my eyes and try to force it all into place
I stitch them up, see not my fall from grace
I blind my eyes, I hide and feel it passing me by
I open just in time to say goodbye

Almost like your life
Almost like your endless fight
Curse the day is long
Realize you don’t belong
Disconnect somehow
Never stop the bleeding now
Almost like your fight
And there it went,
Almost like your life

Like a wound that keeps on bleeding to remind me not to think
Like a raging river drowning when
I only need a drink
Like a poison
That I swallow
But I want the world to die

Like a release from prison
That I didn’t know I was in
Like a fight to live the past I prayed
To leave
From way back then
Like a general
Without a mission
Until the war will start again...... start again

I blind my eyes and try to force it all into place
I stitch them up, see not my fall from grace
I blind my eyes, I hide and feel it passing me by
I open just in time to say goodbye

Almost like your life
Almost like your endless fight
Curse the day is long
Realize you don’t belong
Disconnect somehow
Never stop the bleeding now
Almost like your fight
And there it went,
Almost like your life

Like a touch from hell to feel how hot
That it can get if you get caught
Like a strike from heaven turns that key
And brings you straight down to your knees

Like a touch from hell to feel how hot
That it can get if I get caught
Like a strike from heaven to reprieve
That brings you straight down to your knees

Almost like your life
Almost like your endless fight
Curse the day is long
Realize you don’t belong
Disconnect somehow
Never stop the bleeding now
Almost like your fight
And there it went,
Almost like your life
That was just your life

© 2008 Creeping Death Music (Global Music Rights)

Live Performances

November 21, 2010

Melbourne, Australia

Rod Laver Arena

November 20, 2010

Melbourne, Australia

Rod Laver Arena

November 18, 2010

Melbourne, Australia

Rod Laver Arena

November 16, 2010

Adelaide, Australia

Adelaide Entertainment Centre

November 15, 2010

Adelaide, Australia

Adelaide Entertainment Centre

November 13, 2010

Sydney, Australia

Acer Arena

November 11, 2010

Sydney, Australia

Acer Arena

November 10, 2010

Sydney, Australia

Acer Arena

October 23, 2010

Perth, Australia

Burswood Dome

October 22, 2010

Perth, Australia

Burswood Dome

October 19, 2010

Brisbane, Australia

Brisbane Entertainment Centre

October 18, 2010

Brisbane, Australia

Brisbane Entertainment Centre