For me, this song has many aspects, but the strongest one for me is the time that is spent in an asylum or psychiatric hospital.
BUT, Author Ryan Moore thought the lyrics depicted "ominous yet unnamed forces of power wielding total control over helpless human subjects
Which still fits, because, whether you like it or not, all of America really truly is an asylum filled with utterly crazy people who only want to hurt and yell and scream and tear at each other and who refuse to respect each other over vain and petty differences.
Because it's fun and trendy.
I love this song, but i have to be in a specific mood to get into it.
@Clocker This is great compared to all the other idiotic comments. \r\n\r\nBut the evil here is not "unknown force", it is a human, a clinical overt narcissist. (It\'s not a sociopath because the sociopath\'s victim wouldn\'t be able to "turn the tables" if they are in a "Relationship", which they are because this is after the " end of" the narcissist\'s "playing passion", because he makes breakfast, and because the victim "never betrays" at first. It\'s also not a sociopath because the victim refers to the abuse as his "natural habitat", as a narcissist, rather then being...
@Clocker This is great compared to all the other idiotic comments. \r\n\r\nBut the evil here is not "unknown force", it is a human, a clinical overt narcissist. (It\'s not a sociopath because the sociopath\'s victim wouldn\'t be able to "turn the tables" if they are in a "Relationship", which they are because this is after the " end of" the narcissist\'s "playing passion", because he makes breakfast, and because the victim "never betrays" at first. It\'s also not a sociopath because the victim refers to the abuse as his "natural habitat", as a narcissist, rather then being something he\'s purposely created, as a sociopath, and because he does not continue to act perfectly towards the victim until discard (as a sociopath), but rather, he begins abusing immediately (as a narcissist), when he creates "veins that pump with fear" and "smashing of dream", but during the time he is doing this she "never betrays". A sociopath\'s discard does not result in continued or increased loyalty.)\r\n\r\nAlthough an "unseen evil" can be described in similar words, and no overt narcissist can possibly describe himself and victim poetically. This is Metallica\'s poetry, not the narcissist\'s. An "unseen evil" cannot be "rebutted manipulation" so quickly, merely by manipulating other "strings", and in most cases the unseen vague pokteirgeist cannot be manipulated much helpfully at all. Lastly, under no circumstances is the terrorized victim also " never betraying", "beginning with passion", or " dedicated to me killing you", while she is also being terrorized during the professed loyalty.\r\n\r\nThe loyalty thing is indeed a bit out of place, as victims of overt narcissists are not so loyal to their husbands as incidents of abuse are clear and recognizable easily by all victims during each individual incident other then successful and extremely literal gaslighting (i.e. literally sneaking around to turn the lights back on etc.). However, since he is a narcissist, he can easily falsely believe and proclaim of the loyalty, regardless of the daily 5-hour-long screaming matches and the instant recount of whatever extremely abusive and revealing thing was said 5 minutes ago every time the relative walks in at the requisite time. A vulnerable narcissist can have actual loyalty, but will not think at all in the very evil way described in the song.
For me, this song has many aspects, but the strongest one for me is the time that is spent in an asylum or psychiatric hospital.
BUT, Author Ryan Moore thought the lyrics depicted "ominous yet unnamed forces of power wielding total control over helpless human subjects
Which still fits, because, whether you like it or not, all of America really truly is an asylum filled with utterly crazy people who only want to hurt and yell and scream and tear at each other and who refuse to respect each other over vain and petty differences.
Because it's fun and trendy.
I love this song, but i have to be in a specific mood to get into it.
@Clocker This is great compared to all the other idiotic comments. \r\n\r\nBut the evil here is not "unknown force", it is a human, a clinical overt narcissist. (It\'s not a sociopath because the sociopath\'s victim wouldn\'t be able to "turn the tables" if they are in a "Relationship", which they are because this is after the " end of" the narcissist\'s "playing passion", because he makes breakfast, and because the victim "never betrays" at first. It\'s also not a sociopath because the victim refers to the abuse as his "natural habitat", as a narcissist, rather then being...
@Clocker This is great compared to all the other idiotic comments. \r\n\r\nBut the evil here is not "unknown force", it is a human, a clinical overt narcissist. (It\'s not a sociopath because the sociopath\'s victim wouldn\'t be able to "turn the tables" if they are in a "Relationship", which they are because this is after the " end of" the narcissist\'s "playing passion", because he makes breakfast, and because the victim "never betrays" at first. It\'s also not a sociopath because the victim refers to the abuse as his "natural habitat", as a narcissist, rather then being something he\'s purposely created, as a sociopath, and because he does not continue to act perfectly towards the victim until discard (as a sociopath), but rather, he begins abusing immediately (as a narcissist), when he creates "veins that pump with fear" and "smashing of dream", but during the time he is doing this she "never betrays". A sociopath\'s discard does not result in continued or increased loyalty.)\r\n\r\nAlthough an "unseen evil" can be described in similar words, and no overt narcissist can possibly describe himself and victim poetically. This is Metallica\'s poetry, not the narcissist\'s. An "unseen evil" cannot be "rebutted manipulation" so quickly, merely by manipulating other "strings", and in most cases the unseen vague pokteirgeist cannot be manipulated much helpfully at all. Lastly, under no circumstances is the terrorized victim also " never betraying", "beginning with passion", or " dedicated to me killing you", while she is also being terrorized during the professed loyalty.\r\n\r\nThe loyalty thing is indeed a bit out of place, as victims of overt narcissists are not so loyal to their husbands as incidents of abuse are clear and recognizable easily by all victims during each individual incident other then successful and extremely literal gaslighting (i.e. literally sneaking around to turn the lights back on etc.). However, since he is a narcissist, he can easily falsely believe and proclaim of the loyalty, regardless of the daily 5-hour-long screaming matches and the instant recount of whatever extremely abusive and revealing thing was said 5 minutes ago every time the relative walks in at the requisite time. A vulnerable narcissist can have actual loyalty, but will not think at all in the very evil way described in the song.