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Moth Into Flame Lyrics

Blacked out
Pop queen, amphetamine
The screams crashed into silence

Tapped out
Doused in the gasoline
The high times going timeless

Decadence
Death of the innocence
The pathway starts to spiral

Infamy
All for publicity
Destruction going viral

Light it up
Ah, light it up
Another hit erases all the pain
Bulletproof
Ah, kill the truth
You’re falling, but you think you’re flying high
High again

Sold your soul
Built a higher wall
Yesterday
Now you’re thrown away

Same rise and fall
Who cares at all?
Seduced by fame
A moth into the flame

Twisted
Backstabbing wicked
The delusion absolution

Perjurer
Fame is the murderer
Seduce you into ruin

Light it up
Ah, light it up
Another hit erases all the pain
Bulletproof
Ah, tell the truth
You’re falling, but you think you’re flying high
High again

Sold your soul
Built the higher wall
Yesterday
Now you’re thrown away

Same rise and fall
Who cares at all?
Seduced by fame
A moth into the flame
Burn

Guarantee your name, you go and kill yourself
The vultures feast around you still
Overdose on shame and insecurity
If one won’t do that fistful will

Death scene
Black hearse the limousine
A grave filled with seduction

Vaccine
Fame does the murdering
She builds up for destruction

So light it up
Ah, light it up
Another hit erases all the pain
Bulletproof
Ah, no excuse
You’re falling, but you think you’re flying high
High again

Sold your soul
Built the higher wall
Yesterday
Now you’re thrown away

Same rise and fall
Who cares at all?
Seduced by fame
A moth into the flame

Addicted to the
Fame
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Cover art for Moth Into Flame lyrics by Metallica

Fame is desctrucive, but like a drug: even though you're hurting yourself you keep going back to what's killing you.

Cover art for Moth Into Flame lyrics by Metallica

Fame is a drug but i think this one is aimed for Miley Cyrus, cause its very much cover her.

@smting This one is all Amy Winehouse

Cover art for Moth Into Flame lyrics by Metallica

It's about meth. You can hear it in the lyrics. The band was all on meth, and we all know their direction, was not good from 1996 to Hardwired where they got back in the game, but the reason they got bad is because they all got clean. The song is just a reflecting of their past.

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Cover art for Moth Into Flame lyrics by Metallica

It's about Amy Winehouse, James told it on an interview and I think it's pretty literal.

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