The fourth song on Metallica’s 2008 album, Death Magnetic, is accompanied by quite the music video. The song starts off clean and then builds up in tempo and heaviness, much like in “Fade to Black,” “One,” and “Welcome Home (Sanitarium).”
The lyrics can be interpreted in many different ways, but La...
[Instrumental Intro]
[Verse 1]
Born to push you 'round
Better just stay down
You pull away, he hits the flesh, you hit the ground
Mouth so full of lies
Tend to black your eyes
Just keep them closed, keep praying, just keep waiting
[Chorus]
Waiting for the one
The day that never comes, ah
When you stand up and feel the warmth
But the sunshine never comes, no
No, the sunshine never comes
[Verse 2]
Push you cross that line
Just stay down this time
Hide in yourself, crawl in yourself, you'll have your time
God, I'll make them pay
Take it back one day
I'll end this day
I'll splatter color on this gray
[Chorus]
Waiting for the one
The day that never comes, ah
When you stand up and feel the warmth
But the sunshine never comes
[Bridge]
Love is a four letter word
And never spoken here
Love is a four letter word
Here in this prison
I suffer this no longer
I'll put an end to this, I swear
This, I swear, the sun will shine
This, I swear, this, I swear
This I swear
The Day That Never Comes was written by James Hetfield & Kirk Hammett & Robert Trujillo & Lars Ulrich.
The Day That Never Comes was produced by Rick Rubin.
Metallica released The Day That Never Comes on Fri Sep 12 2008.
Rick Rubin told Rolling Stone,
They had made that movie, Some Kind of Monster, which I thought was really bold of them to make, because it showed them lost. The main goal of our work together was to get them to re-embrace being Metallica, feeling OK to be a heavy metal band. In some ways, they had...