The Shortest Straw

(Hetfield,Ulrich)


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 vertigo it doth bring

     Shortest straw
     Challenge liberty
     Downed by law
     Live in infamy
     Rub you raw
     Witchhunt riding through
     Shortest straw
     This 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
Doubt 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

     Shortest straw
     Challenge liberty
     Downed by law
     Live in infamy
     Rub you raw
     Witchhunt riding through
     Shortest straw
     This 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

          Shortest straw
     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
Oppresive 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

     Shortest straw
     Chalenge liberty
     Downed by law
     Live in infamy
     Rub you raw
     Witchhunt riding through
     Shortest straw
     This shortest straw has been pulled for you
          Pulled for you