FIGHT FIRE WITH FIRE

   Do unto others as they've done to you
   But what the hell is this world coming to?
   Blow the universe into nothingness
   Nuclear warfare shall lay us to rest

   Fight fire with fire
   Ending is near
   Fight fire with fire
   Bursting with fear

   We all shall die
   Time is like a fuse, short and burning fast
   Armageddon's here, like said in the past

   Fight fire with fire
   Ending is near
   Fight fire with fire
   Bursting with fear

   Soon to fill our lungs, the hot winds of death
   The gods are laughing, so take your last breath

   Fight fire with fire
   Ending is near
   Fight fire with fire
   Bursting with fear

   Fight fire with fire

   Fight

Words and Music by James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich and Cliff Burton
Copyright © 1984 Creeping Death Music (ASCAP)
International Copyright Secured All Rights Reserved

RIDE THE LIGHTNING

   Guilty as charged
   But damn it, it ain't right
   There's someone else controlling me
   Death in the air
   Strapped in the electric chair
   This can't be happening to me

   Who made you God to say,
   “I'll take your life from you”?

   Flash before my eyes
   Now it's time to die
   Burning in my brain
   I can feel the flame

   Wait for the sign
   To flick the switch of death
   It's the beginning of the end
   Sweat, chilling cold
   As I watch death unfold
   Consciousness my only friend

   My fingers grip with fear
   What am I doing here?

   Flash before my eyes
   Now it's time to die
   Burning in my brain
   I can feel the flame

   Someone help me
   Oh please, God help me
   They are trying to take it all away
   I don't want to die

   Time moving slow
   The minutes seem like hours
   The final curtain call I see
   How true is this
   Just get it over with
   If this is true, just let it be

   Wakened by horrid scream
   Freed from this frightening dream

   Flash before my eyes
   Now it's time to die
   Burning in my brain
   I can feel the flame

Words and Music by James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, Cliff Burton and Dave Mustaine
Copyright © 1984 Creeping Death Music (ASCAP)
International Copyright Secured All Rights Reserved

FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS

   Make his fight on the hill in the early day
   Constant chill deep inside
   Shouting gun, on they run through the endless gray
   On they fight, for they are right, yes, but who's to say?
   For a hill, men would kill. Why? They do not know
   Suffered wounds test their pride
   Men of five, still alive through the raging glow
   Gone insane from the pain that they surely know

   For whom the bell tolls
   Time marches on
   For whom the bell tolls

   Take a look to the sky just before you die
   It's the last time he will
   Blackened roar, massive roar, fills the crumbling sky
   Shattered goal fills his soul with a ruthless cry
   Stranger now are his eyes to this mystery
   He hears the silence so loud
   Crack of dawn, all is gone except the will to be
   Now they see what will be, blinded eyes to see

   For whom the bell tolls
   Time marches on
   For whom the bell tolls

Words and Music by James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich and Cliff Burton
Copyright © 1984 Creeping Death Music (ASCAP)
International Copyright Secured All Rights Reserved

FADE TO BLACK

   Life, it seems, will fade away
   Drifting further every day
   Getting lost within myself
   Nothing matters, no one else

   I have lost the will to live
   Simply nothing more to give
   There is nothing more for me
   Need the end to set me free

   Things not what they used to be
   Missing one inside of me
   Deathly lost, this can't be real
   Cannot stand this hell I feel

   Emptiness is filling me
   To the point of agony
   Growing darkness taking dawn
   I was me, but now he's gone

   No one but me can save myself, but it's too late
   Now I can't think, think why I should even try

   Yesterday seems as though it never existed
   Death greets me warm, now I will just say goodbye

Words and Music by James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, Cliff Burton and Kirk Hammett
Copyright © 1984 Creeping Death Music (ASCAP)
International Copyright Secured All Rights Reserved

TRAPPED UNDER ICE

   I don't know how to live through this hell
   Woken up, I'm still locked in this shell
   Frozen soul, frozen down to the core
   Break the ice, I can't take anymore

   Freezing, can't move at all
   Screaming, can't hear my call
   I am dying to live
   Cry out
   I'm trapped under ice

   Crystallized as I lay here and rest
   Eyes of glass stare directly at death
   From deep sleep I have broken away
   No one knows, no one hears what I say

   Freezing, can't move at all
   Screaming, can't hear my call
   I am dying to live
   Cry out
   I'm trapped under ice

   Scream from my soul
   Fate mystified
   Hell forevermore

   No release from my cryonic state
   What is this? I've been stricken by fate
   Wrapped up tight, cannot move, can't break free
   Hand of doom has a tight grip on me

   Freezing, can't move at all
   Screaming, can't hear my call
   I am dying to live
   Cry out
   I'm trapped under ice

ESCAPE

   Feel no pain, but my life ain't easy
   I know I'm my best friend
   No one cares, but I'm so much stronger
   I'll fight until the end

   To escape from the true false world
   Undamaged destiny
   Can't get caught in the endless circle
   Ring of stupidity

   Out for my own, out to be free
   One with my mind, they just can't see
   No need to hear things that they say
   Life's for my own, to live my own way

   Rape my mind and destroy my feelings
   Don't tell me what to do
   I don't care now 'cause I'm on my side
   And I can see through you

   Feed my brain with your so-called standards
   Who says that I ain't right?
   Break away from your common fashion
   See through your blurry sight

   Out for my own, out to be free
   One with my mind, they just can't see
   No one to hear things that they say
   Life's for my own, to live my own way

   See them try to bring the hammer down
   No damn chains can hold me to the ground

   Life's for my own, to live my own way
   Life's for my own, to live my own way

CREEPING DEATH

   Slaves
   Hebrews born to serve, to the pharaoh
   Heed
   To his every word, live in fear
   Faith
   Of the unknown one, the deliverer
   Wait
   Something must be done, four hundred years

   So let it be written, so let it be done
   I'm sent here by the chosen one
   So let it be written, so let it be done
   To kill the first born pharaoh son
   I'm creeping death

   Now
   Let my people go, land of Goshen
   Go
   I will be with thee, bush of fire
   Blood
   Running red and strong down the Nile
   Plague
   Darkness three days long, hail to fire

   So let it be written, so let it be done
   I'm sent here by the chosen one
   So let it be written, so let it be done
   To kill the first-born pharaoh son
   I'm creeping death

   Die by my hand
   I creep across the land
   Killing first-born man

   Die by my hand
   I creep across the land
   Killing first-born man

   I
   Rule the midnight air, the destroyer
   Born
   I shall soon be there, deadly mass
   I
   Creep the steps and floor, final darkness
   Blood
   Lamb's blood, painted doors, I shall pass

   So let it be written, so let it be done
   I'm sent here by the chosen one
   So let it be written, so let it be done
   To kill the first-born pharaoh son
   I'm creeping death