Metal With MGTOW Lyrics - METALLICA, Dyers Eve (Remastered) (read description)

⁣[Verse 1]
Dear mother, dear father
What is this hell you have put me through?
Believer, deceiver
Day in, day out, lived 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

[Refrain]
Innocence, torn from me without your shelter
Barred reality, I'm living blindly

[Verse 2]
Dear mother, dear father
Time has frozen still, what's left to be?
Hear 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 clipped my wings before I learned to fly
Unspoiled, unspoken
I've outgrown that fucking lullaby
Same thing I've always heard from you
Do as I say, not as I do

[Refrain]
Innocence, torn from me without your shelter
Barred reality, I'm living blindly

[Guitar Solo]

[Bridge]
I'm in hell without you
Cannot cope without you two
Shocked at the world that I see
Innocent victim, please rescue me

[Verse 3]
Dear mother, dear father
Hidden in your 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


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FOOT NOTES (from GeniusLyrics):

⁣“Dyer’s Eve”, one of the thrashiest tracks on …And Justice For All, is its closer. It takes the format of an angry, accusatory letter penned by the hand of a child whose fragile psyche was wounded during the developmental phase of life by the very ones who were supposed to be protecting and guiding him.
The lyrics are a rant from James Hetfield against his parents. His father left the family when James was only 13 years old and his mother died of cancer when he was 16. She refused treatment because of her beliefs as a Christian Scientist. James also felt his parents had never allowed him to discover the world for himself because their religion encouraged “insulating and alienating.”
When Rolling Stone told Hetfield “…you never fell into the I-hate-my-parents and I-hate-school cliches,” he responded:

There is one song I can specifically disagree with you on, “Dyers Eve”. There is a lot of blame in that song … That song was about being in a cocoon, and now that I’m out on my own, oh, my God, the world is shocking me. I don’t know how to deal with this stuff. I don’t know how to deal with grief, poverty, confrontation. How to live on my own, after father leaving, mother dying.

The band did not perform this song live in its entirety until March 5, 2004 when they played it at the Great Western Forum in Los Angeles during Metallica’s Madly in Anger with the World tour.