Suspicion is your name,
Your honesty to blame,
Put dignity to shame,
Dishonor,
Witchhunt, modern day,
Determining decay,
The blatant disarray,
Disfigure,
The public eyes' disgrace,
Defying common place,
Unending paper chase,
Unending
Deafening,
Painstaking,
Reckoning,
This verticgo it doth bring
Shorstest straw,
Challenge liberty,
Downed by law,
Live in infamy,
Rub you raw,
Witchhunt riding through,
Shortest straw,
The shortest straw has been pulled for you
Pulled for you,
Shortest straw,
Pulled for you,
Shortest straw,
Pulled for you,
Shortest straw,
Shortest straw has been pulled for you
The accusations fly,
Discrimination, why?
Your inner self to die,
Intruding,
Boubt sunk itself in you,
It's teeth and talons through,
Your living catch-22,
Deluding
A mass hysteria,
A megalomania,
Reveal dementia,
Reveal
Secretly,
Silently,
Certainly,
In vertigo you will be
Shorstest straw,
Challenge liberty,
Downed by law,
Live in infamy,
Rub you raw,
Witchhunt riding through,
Shortest straw,
The shortest straw has been pulled for you
Pulled for you,
Shortest straw,
Pulled for you,
Shortest straw,
Pulled for you,
Shortest straw,
Shortest straw has been pulled for you
Pulled for you,
Shortest straw,
Pulled for you,
Shortest straw,
Pulled for you,
Shortest straw,
Shortest straw has been pulled for you
Behind you, hands are tied,
Your being, ostracized,
YOur hell is multiplied,
Upending,
The fallout has begun,
Oppressive damage done,
Your many turned to none,
To nothing,
You're reaching your nadir,
Your will has disappeared,
The lie is crystal clear,
Defending
Channels red,
One word said,
Blacklisted,
With vertigo make you dead
Shorstest straw,
Challenge liberty,
Downed by law,
Live in infamy,
Rub you raw,
Witchhunt riding through,
Shortest straw,
The shortest straw has been pulled for you,
Pulled for you
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My life suffocates,
Planting the seeds of hate,
I've loved, turned to hate,
Trapped far beyond my fate
I give,
You take,
This life taht I forsake,
Been cheated of my youth,
You turned this lie to truth
Anger, Misery, You'll suffer unto me
Harvester of sorrow,
Language of the mad,
Harvester of sorrow
Pure black looking clear,
Your work is done soon here,
Try getting back to me,
Get back which used to be
Drink up,
Shoot in,
Let the beatings begin
Distributor of pain,
Your loss becomes my gain
Anger, Misery, You'll suffer unto me
Harvester of sorrow,
Language of the mad,
Harvester of sorrow
All have said their prayers,
Invade their nightmares,
To see into my eyes,
You'll find where murder lies,
Infanticide
Harvestor of sorrow,
Language of the mad,
Harvester of sorrow,
Langauge of the mad,
Harvester of sorrow
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Never hunger,
Never prosper,
I have fallen prey ot failure,
Struggle within,
Triggered again,
Now the candle burns at both ends
Twisting under schizophrenia,
Falling deep into dementia
Old habits reapear,
Fighting the fear of fear,
Growing conspiracy,
Everyone's after me,
Frayed ends of sanity,
Hear them calling,
Hear them calling me
Birth of terror,
Death of much more,
I'm the slave of fear, my captor,
Never warnings,
Spreading its wings,
As I wait for the horror she brings,
Loss of interest, question, wonder,
Waves of fear they pull me under
Old habits reapear,
Fighting the fear of fear,
Growing conspiracy,
Everyone's after me,
Frayed ends of sanity,
Hear them calling,
Hear them calling me
Into ruin,
I am sinking,
Hostage of this nameless feeling,
Hell is set free,
Flooded I'll be,
Feel the undertow inside me
Height, Hell, Time, Haste, Terror, Tension,
Life, Death, Want, Waste, Mass depression
Old habits reapear,
Fighting the fear of fear,
Growing conspiracy,
Everyone's after me,
Frayed ends of sanity,
Hear them calling,
Hear them calling me
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When a man lies he murders some part of the world,
These are the pale deaths which men miscall their lives,
All this I cannot bear to witness any longer,
Cannot the kingdom of salvation take me home
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Dear Mother, Dear Father,
What is this hell you have put me through,
Believer, Deceiver,
Day in day out live my life through you,
Pushed onto me what's wrong or right,
Hidden from this thing that they call life
Dear Mother, Dear Father,
Every thought I'd think you'd disapprove,
Curator, Dictator,
Always censoring my every move,
Children are seen but are not heard,
Tear out everything inspired
Innocence,
Torn from me without your shelter,
Barred reality,
I'm living blindly
Dear Mother, Dear Father,
Time has frozen still what's left to be,
Near Nothing, Say Nothing,
Cannot face the fact I think for me,
No guarantee, it's life as is,
But damn you for not giving me my chance
Dear Mother, Dear Father,
You've clipped my wings before I learned to fly,
Unspoiled, Unspoken,
I've out grown that fucking lullaby,
Same thing I've always heard from you,
Do as I say not as I do
Innocence,
Torn from me without your shelter,
Barred reality,
I'm living blindly
I'm in hell without you,
Cannot cope without you two,
Shocked at the world that I see,
Innocent victim please rescue me
Dear Mother, Dear Father,
Hidden in this world you've made for me,
I'm Seething, I'm Bleeding,
Ripping wounds in me that never heal,
Undying spite I feel for you,
Living out this hell you always knew
Produced by Metallica with Flemming Rasmussen.
Engineered by Flemming Rasmussen.
Produced Jan.-May 1988 at "One on One", Los Angeles.
Assistant and adittional engineering: Toby "Rage" Wright.
Special thanks to Mike Clink for engineering drums trax on "Straw" and "Harvester".
Mixed by Steve Thompson and Michael Barbiero at Bearsville Studios, New York.(June 1988)
Assistant mixing engineer: George Cowan.
Mastered by Bob Ludwig at Masterdisk, New York.
Cover concept: Hetfield & Ulrich.
Cover Illustration: Stephen Gorman.
All photos: Ross "Tabacco Road" Halfin.
Hammer Illustration: Pushead.
Design & Layout: Reiner Design Consultants, Inc.
Managemente: Cliff Burnstein & Peter Mensch for Q-Prime Inc.
Management Staff: George Knemeyer & Linda Walker.
Agency Representation: ICM/Marsha Vlasic, New York. Fair.
0Warning/John Jackson, London.
Accounting: Joni Schneider & Fred Duffin.
Legal Representation: Peter Paterno, Los Angeles.
Merchandising: Brockum/New York, Toronto, London.
Immigration: Gail Leibowitz, New York.
Photographer: Ross Halfin.
T-Shirt & Art Guy: Pushead.
All lyrics by Hetfield, except "To Live is to Die" by Burton.
All arrangements by Hetfield, Ulrich.
All harmony, melody, and acoustic guitars on all songs, and the second solo in "To Live is to Die" by Hetfield.
All songs 1988 Creeping Death Music, A.S.C.A.P.
James Hetfield - Rhythim Guitar/Vocals
Lars Ulrich - Drums
Kirk Hammett - Lead Guitar
Jason Newsted - Bass
This was Jason Newsted's first full length album as the "New Guy".
Released by Elektra in August 8, 1988 in U.S.A.
Peaked at #6 on Billboard on October 9, 1989.
Band earns first Grammy nomination for A.J.F.A., and performs on Grammy Award show.
Metallica loses Grammy award to Jethro Tull.
As of 1997, A.J.F.A. has sold over 10 mimllion copies.
"Harvester of Sorrow" released as 12' single in England on August 19, 1988.
"Eye of the Beholder" released as a single on October 30, 1988 in U.S.
"ONE" released as a single on January 9, 1989: peakes at #35 on April 8.
Two European singles released (Harve ster of Sorrow on 10 & "ONE").
"ONE" became the bands first music video.
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