Where The Wild Things Are

Song about today's youth and how they should stand up for what they believe in.

The song is based upon the short story "Shadow Over Innsmouth" by H.P. Lovecraft which has been written in 1936. "Shadow Over Innsmouth" was Lovecraft's sole story which has been released as a book when he was alive. His further short stories only appeared in his lifetime in a magazine called "Weird Tales

its about not preparing our kids for the harshness of the world..."toy soldiers off to war"...as soon as you are 18, you can go off and kill people in a war...most 18 year olds these days are no where near ready for the "real world"...i think this is mostly about boys, not so much girls...with so many fathers absent, we have thirty year old "boys" walking around, never being taught how to be men...

This song is one of my top 5 favorite Metallica songs. I believe it is talking about how young kids grow up and when they get out on there own, they get a huge slap in the face with reality and they come to the real world. The real world is there the wild things are. They don't have parents watching their every move and they don't know how to react in it. The kids or toy soldier are off to war because they must learn how to fight in this world to be something.

I agree with sting06.I love this song.Ace bass playing,i just cant get enough of Jasons playing at the moment.This is one of the top 10 songs for sure.

And I still believe it.

Beans, have you ever actually read Shadow Over Innsmouth? Because only a minute few of the lines in this song could ever be tentatively related to it. In any case, I agree with sting. Pretty good song, though not one of my favourites.

Beans, how does this song, or any song with this lyrical tone for that, have anything to do with Shadow Over Innsmouth?

There's actaully a children's book called "Where the wild things are" The song could have something to do with the book as it's a story about a boy who goes to bed and goes to the land of the wild things and had to fight them. So where the song says "So close your little eyes" could be meaning the children to go to the land of the wild things and save their world. Which is all just a dream and in it the little boy is using his "toy soldiers" and "robot chessmen£ to help him.

James sounds awesome on this track. Also its about a wildlife park and hookers