This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
Sound is ripping through your ears
The deafening sound of metal nears
Your bodies waiting for his whips
The taste of leather on your lips
Hear the cry of war louder than before
With his sword in hand to control the land
Crushing metal strikes on this frightening night
Fall onto your knees for the phantom lord
Victims falling under chains you hear them crying death pains
The fists of terrors breaking through now there's nothing you can do
Hear the cry of war louder than before
With his sword in hand to control the land
Crushing metal strikes on this frightening night
Fall onto your knees for the phantom lord
The leather armies have prevailed the phantom lord has never failed
Smoke is lifting from the ground the rising volume metal sound
Hear the cry of war louder than before
With his sword in hand to control the land
Crushing metal strikes on this frightening night
Fall onto your knees for the phantom lord
Fall to your knees
And bow to the phantom lord
The deafening sound of metal nears
Your bodies waiting for his whips
The taste of leather on your lips
Hear the cry of war louder than before
With his sword in hand to control the land
Crushing metal strikes on this frightening night
Fall onto your knees for the phantom lord
Victims falling under chains you hear them crying death pains
The fists of terrors breaking through now there's nothing you can do
Hear the cry of war louder than before
With his sword in hand to control the land
Crushing metal strikes on this frightening night
Fall onto your knees for the phantom lord
The leather armies have prevailed the phantom lord has never failed
Smoke is lifting from the ground the rising volume metal sound
Hear the cry of war louder than before
With his sword in hand to control the land
Crushing metal strikes on this frightening night
Fall onto your knees for the phantom lord
Fall to your knees
And bow to the phantom lord
Lyrics submitted by fennsk, edited by RyanWolfeh
Phantom Lord Lyrics as written by James Alan Hetfield Dave Mustaine
Lyrics © Word Collections Publishing, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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classic old skool Metallica.Classic old skool metal.
This is about a mythical heavy-metal creature who crushes all in his path with the help of his followers (metal fans).
yaaaay phantom lord! one of metallica's best songs, in my opinion!
cjf pretty much nailed it
but on a sidenote, one of james' band before metallica was called phantom lord
yeah, his band was phantom lord before, but do you know if he wrote this song when he was in phantom lord or when he was in metallica? Im not sure about that but I think I heard from Ron that James wrote at least some of it when he was in Phantom Lord the band.
Phantom lord is one of the best metallica songs. As previously stated by the Judicious CJF, ita a about a monster symbolizing heavy metal
=D pretty song =D i love it && i agree with the phantom lord being metal =D
I didn't like this song at first... then it just went psycho in the middle. Wow.
Early signs of VIC-RATTLE-HEAD
METAL UP YOUR ASS !
This song (in my oponion) talk about the power of Heavy M
This song (in my opinion) talks about Heavy Metal and it's power through the world. <br /> The "Phantom Lord" may refer as the Heavy Metal itself as an entity. <br /> <br /> 'Sound is ripping through your ears, the deafening sound of metal nears'. This is obvious, its talking about the brutality and power of Heavy Metal music. <br /> <br /> 'Your bodies waiting for his whips, you taste the leather on your lips' -This may be a reference to Whiplash, meaning how Heavy Metal whiplashes you with the music, and how you can taste 'the leather' (the sound) on your lips.<br /> <br /> 'Hear the cry of war louder than before' -The heavy metal sounds even louder than before, its displaying it's power.<br /> <br /> 'With his sword in hand to control the land' -The Heavy Metal (or the Phantom Lord) is taking over the world.<br /> <br /> 'Crushing metal strikes on this frightening night' -The Heavy Metal is playing tonight.<br /> <br /> 'Fall onto your knees for the Phantom Lord' -Bow down to Heavy Metal.<br /> <br /> 'Victims falling under chains you hear them cry death pains' -This may have two meanings, either the Phantom Lord (Heavy Metal) crushes everyone who doesn't follow Heavy Metal, or the fans cry 'death pains' which may refer to the screams of euphoria of Metal fans in a concert.<br /> <br /> 'The fists of terror breakibg through and now there's nothing you can do.' -This may refer to a moshpit, once you're caught in the euphoria and energy of a moshpit in a metal concert, there's nothing you can do, you go 'til the end. <br /> <br /> (CHORUS)<br /> <br /> 'The leather armies have prevailed, the Phantom Lord has never failed'<br /> -The "leather armies" refers to us, the Metal fans, and how despite the criticism and infame Heav Metal has, we still stand strong, and never leave it. "The Phantom Lord has never failed" means Heavy Metal still stands strong; forever.<br /> <br /> 'Smoke is lifting from the ground<br /> The rising volume metal sound'<br /> -The smoke is lifting, the lights are turning on, the metal is rising, the concert has begun!<br /> <br /> (CHORUS)<br /> <br /> 'FALL TO YOUR KNEES!<br /> BOW DOWN TO THE PHANTOM LORD!'<br /> -The scream and power this line is yelled, means that EVERYONE will bow to metal's power and strength, the greates genre in the world.<br /> (End)<br /> <br /> -DefRammTallica