Don’t Tread on Me

Song Details

Written by

  • James Hetfield
  • Lars Ulrich

Total Performances

First Performed Live

Most Recent Performance

Lyrics

                        Liberty or death, what we so proudly hail
Once you provoke her, rattling of her tail

Never begins it, never, but once engaged...
Never surrenders, showing the fangs of rage

Don’t tread on me

So be it
Threaten no more
To secure peace is to prepare for war

So be it
Settle the score
Touch me again for the words that you will hear evermore...

Don’t tread on me

Love it or leave it, she with the deadly bite
Quick is the blue tongue, forked as the lighting strike
Shining with brightness, always on surveillance
The eyes, they never close, emblem of vigilance

Don’t tread on me

So be it
Threaten no more
To secure peace is to prepare for war

So be it
Settle the score
Touch me again for the words that you will hear evermore...

Don’t tread on me

So be it
Threaten no more
To secure peace is to prepare for war

Liberty or death, what we so proudly hail
Once you provoke her, rattling of her tail

So be it
Threaten no more
To secure peace is to prepare for war

So be it
Settle the score
Touch me again for the words that you will hear evermore...

Don’t tread on me

© 1991 Creeping Death Music (Global Music Rights)

Live Performances

November 14, 2021

Daytona Beach, FL, United States

Welcome to Rockville @ Daytona International Speedway

October 10, 2021

Sacramento, CA, United States

Aftershock @ Discovery Park

September 26, 2021

Louisville, KY, United States

Louder Than Life @ Highland Festival Grounds at KY Expo Center

June 24, 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