Hm... to me, this song just sounds like a normal relationship played out by, say, two rival spies? Of course, that's just from the first and second lines, and no other line supports this theory. And then again, there could be more... since Metallica likes weaving stories in songs (Unforgiven, Ronnie, The Phantom Lord, Harvester of Sorrow) as well as write songs about stories (For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Thing That Should Not Be, Creeping Death), this could be an example. In the beginning, both are agents or spies. But after a while, the guy and hence the narrator quits "the business" to be with "Amber", although she stays in it. He basically gets screwed over from there. Then again, maybe I've just watched Tarantino films too many times, since my interpretation sounds like something he'd write. Speaking of Tarantino, how many of you knew (or cared to know) that Lars (yes, Metallica's Lars) is producing the soundtrack for his latest, Kill Bill?
Actually in the first two lines hes talking about a dispute with the radio industry in that they want them to do some promotional thing which they disagree with. Upper management is trying to get them to agree this way they get played on the radio
Actually in the first two lines hes talking about a dispute with the radio industry in that they want them to do some promotional thing which they disagree with. Upper management is trying to get them to agree this way they get played on the radio
Hm... to me, this song just sounds like a normal relationship played out by, say, two rival spies? Of course, that's just from the first and second lines, and no other line supports this theory. And then again, there could be more... since Metallica likes weaving stories in songs (Unforgiven, Ronnie, The Phantom Lord, Harvester of Sorrow) as well as write songs about stories (For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Thing That Should Not Be, Creeping Death), this could be an example. In the beginning, both are agents or spies. But after a while, the guy and hence the narrator quits "the business" to be with "Amber", although she stays in it. He basically gets screwed over from there. Then again, maybe I've just watched Tarantino films too many times, since my interpretation sounds like something he'd write. Speaking of Tarantino, how many of you knew (or cared to know) that Lars (yes, Metallica's Lars) is producing the soundtrack for his latest, Kill Bill?
Actually in the first two lines hes talking about a dispute with the radio industry in that they want them to do some promotional thing which they disagree with. Upper management is trying to get them to agree this way they get played on the radio
Actually in the first two lines hes talking about a dispute with the radio industry in that they want them to do some promotional thing which they disagree with. Upper management is trying to get them to agree this way they get played on the radio
@BlackMage really? did not know he produced that... wow.
@BlackMage really? did not know he produced that... wow.