The Day That Never Comes

Metallica

Born to push you around
Better just stay down
You pull away
He hits the flesh
You hit the ground

Mouth so full of lies
Tend to block your eyes
Just keep them closed
Keep praying
Just keep waiting

Waiting for the one
The day that never comes
When you stand up and feel the warmth
But the sunshine never comes, no
No, the sunshine never comes

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

Waiting for the one
The day that never comes
When you stand up and feel that warmth, yeah
But the sunshine never comes, no way

Love is a four letter word
And never spoken here
Love is a four letter word
Here in this prison

I'll 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

Swear to you, San Francisco

Welcome, friends, to S&M 2
A wonderful adventure
We're glad you're here to witness history with us
We're here havin' a lot of fun
And I'm gonna take a moment here to introduce
The San Francisco symphony, thank you
Thank you so much for taking the risk toplay with us
And of course, conductor Edwin Outwater here
Thank you so much, Edwin


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    @metalsamurai The sun doesn\'t have a penis and you are not going to hell because its way too happy there for you.

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