Metallica songs by meaning

A criticism of drug addiction and the misery and suffering associated with drug abuse

A child's bad dreams using a mythical figure who brings dreams

An inmate awaiting execution by electric chair and the theme of forced death itself

The horsemen of the apocalypse

James Hetfield's love of cars and the chase and thrill of adrenaline

The end of the world via a huge nuclear war

A critique of corruption, government, social inequality and the wealthy manipulating the legal and political systems for their own benefit

A man experiencing increasing paranoia and the following mental breakdown

Suicidal feelings and the loss of the will to live

A childhood trauma and a sheltered, overprotective religious upbringing

An anti war song based on a soldier who is brutally disfigured by a landmine