Hell and Back

Song Details

Written by

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

Total Performances

First Performed Live

Most Recent Performance

Lyrics

                        There’s nowhere else I can run to
She’s wretched but she comforts me

After everyone goes home
She’s always there for me

When the sun goes hellbound
And the moon does resurrect the night
I’ll hide within her
Not much good has come out of the light

After everyone goes home
And I’m left here on my own
I will run straight to Hell and back

Straight to Hell and back

When they turn out all their lights
And I’m left to brood at night
Always return to Hell and back

Straight to Hell and back
Straight down

A lonely light in a window
Just longing for some company

Tragic, heartless and hateful
But there’s nothing as willing as she

And when the night has fallen
It falls hard and then it all begins

When she starts her calling
I feel my darkness growing from within

After everyone goes home
And I’m left here on my own
I will run straight to Hell and back

Straight to Hell and back

When they turn out all their lights
And I’m left to brood at night
Always return to Hell and back

Straight to Hell and back
Straight to Hell and back
I will run straight to Hell and back

I become two
We become one
Unbridled... unequaled... unholy... undone

The path is cut deep
The path is worn well
I’ll follow my footsteps to the warmth of Hell

The warmth of Hell

After everyone goes home
And I’m left here on my own
I will run straight to Hell and back

Straight to Hell and back
Straight to Hell and back

When they turn out all their lights
And I’m left to brood at night
Always return to Hell and back

Return to Hell and back
Straight to Hell and back
Straight to Hell and back
I will run straight to Hell and back

Straight down

© 2011 Creeping Death Music (Global Music Rights)

Live Performances

August 11, 2012

San Francisco, CA, United States

Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival @ Golden Gate Park

June 23, 2012

Atlantic City, NJ, United States

Orion Music + More @ Bader Field

June 10, 2012

Nickelsdorf, Austria

Nova Rock @ Pannonia Fields II

June 9, 2012

Castle Donington, England

Download Festival @ Donington Park

June 6, 2012

Horsens, Denmark

Fængslet

June 4, 2012

Helsinki, Finland

Sonisphere @ Kalasatama

June 2, 2012

Nürburg, Germany

Rock am Ring @ Nürburgring

June 1, 2012

Nuremberg, Germany

Rock im Park @ Zeppelinfeld

May 30, 2012

Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland

Sonisphere @ Rives du Lac

May 28, 2012

Werchter, Belgium

Werchter Boutique @ Festivalpark

May 26, 2012

Madrid, Spain

Sonisphere @ Auditorio John Lennon

May 25, 2012

Lisbon, Portugal

Rock in Rio @ Parque da Bela Vista