Dear Mother
Dear Father
What is this hell you have put me through
Believer
Deceiver
Day in, day out, live my life through you
Pushed onto me what’s wrong or right
Hidden from this thing that they call life
Dear Mother
Dear Father
Every thought I’d think you’d disapprove
Curator
Dictator
Always censoring my every move
Children are seen but are not heard
Tear out everything inspired
Innocence
Torn from me without your shelter
Barred reality
I’m living blindly
Dear Mother
Dear Father
Time has frozen still what’s left to be
Hear nothing
Say nothing
Cannot face the fact I think for me
No guarantee, it’s life as is
But damn you for not giving me my chance
Dear Mother
Dear Father
You’ve clipped my wings before I learned to fly
Unspoiled
Unspoken
I’ve outgrown that fucking lullaby
Same thing I’ve always heard from you
Do as I say, not as I do
Innocence
Torn from me without your shelter
Barred reality
I’m living blindly
I’m in hell without you
Cannot cope without you two
Shocked at the world that I see
Innocent victim please rescue me
Dear Mother
Dear Father
Hidden in your world you’ve made for me
I’m seething
I’m bleeding
Ripping wounds in me that never heal
Undying spite I feel for you
Living out this hell you always knew
Dear Father
What is this hell you have put me through
Believer
Deceiver
Day in, day out, live my life through you
Pushed onto me what’s wrong or right
Hidden from this thing that they call life
Dear Mother
Dear Father
Every thought I’d think you’d disapprove
Curator
Dictator
Always censoring my every move
Children are seen but are not heard
Tear out everything inspired
Innocence
Torn from me without your shelter
Barred reality
I’m living blindly
Dear Mother
Dear Father
Time has frozen still what’s left to be
Hear nothing
Say nothing
Cannot face the fact I think for me
No guarantee, it’s life as is
But damn you for not giving me my chance
Dear Mother
Dear Father
You’ve clipped my wings before I learned to fly
Unspoiled
Unspoken
I’ve outgrown that fucking lullaby
Same thing I’ve always heard from you
Do as I say, not as I do
Innocence
Torn from me without your shelter
Barred reality
I’m living blindly
I’m in hell without you
Cannot cope without you two
Shocked at the world that I see
Innocent victim please rescue me
Dear Mother
Dear Father
Hidden in your world you’ve made for me
I’m seething
I’m bleeding
Ripping wounds in me that never heal
Undying spite I feel for you
Living out this hell you always knew
Lyrics submitted by fennsk, edited by RyanWolfeh, Ashram
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"Im in hell without you. Cannot cope without you two" : he has no clue what to do, and he needs his parents' aid, because thats all he's grown up to know.
"Shocked at the world that i see.." :as i said, they've been hiding him from the real world, so when he's out on his own, its quite a surprise to him.
anyways, that my opinion. if you disagree, dont hesitate to send me a message.
I don't buy the idea that James wrote this to 'relate to his younger fanbase' or whatever is was someone said - I think he wrote what he was feeling, plain and simple.
Remember he wasn't that old when this was written - 25, 26 tops. I know that might seem a bit ancient to some of you but that's still young enough to remember those feelings. It's possible it took him a few years to rationalise how these things had affected him.
Anyway I don't think there's any dispute over the *meaning* of this song - it's pretty cut'n'dried - but I was mainly interested in where the title came from. To just use 'Dyer' to mean 'someone who dies/ about to die' is a bit clumsy and James is usually a better lyricist than that (witness the rest of this song!).
It struck me as something that might have come from the realms of poetry or literature and was then referenced in this song. Can't find any non-Metallica-related references to it though so I could be barking up the wrong tree...
One of their best, anyway, and one I got a kick out of rediscovering!
I don't know if this would pertain to the song or the subject-matter of the song, but I thought of the phrase "Dyed in the wool". Maybe his parents were adamant about everything, thus making him think they are dyed in the wool so to speak. Not to mention that phrase would have been a lot more common in his time than nowadays.
fuck you , you stupid faggot
"Dyers Eve" is the absolutely fitting and expressive finish to this topic, touching every waking up soul out there. I cannot say anything about the exact technical qualities of lars ullrich or any other one of metallica, but i never heard a band that can push out a song with that much pressure as they do especially in dyers eve.
But i never was sure about the consequences arising from this song, and now i know, thank you again, rob. Since the fealing is two fold: first there is depression, anger, fear, rage about what happened in the childhood, reviewing how it could have been. But this is only the first step up the stairs being able to review this bad history, finally understanding that this shit really happened and that you are not alone with it ! There is no question anymore, "living out this hell you always knew", we don't wan't to trade it to our children again and again, you know, so we really need to be reborn, we need salvation from this.
So there is no escape from this truth, so wake up, soul, from this nightmare.