That Was Just Your Life
The thrash opener from *Death Magnetic*, 2008
Like a siren in my head that always threatens to repeat
Like a blind man that is strapped into the speeding driver's seat
Like a face that learns to speak when all it knew was how to bite
Like a misery that keeps me focused though I've gone astray
Like an endless nightmare that I must awaken from each day
Like conviction, a premonition not worthy of, so I deny, I deny
Pre-Chorus
I blind my eyes and try to force it all into place
I stitch them up, see not my fall from grace
I blind my eyes, I hide and feel it passing me by
I open just in time to say goodbye
Chorus
Almost like your life
Almost like your endless fight
Curse the day is long
Realize you don't belong
Disconnect somehow
Never stop the bleeding now
Almost like your fight
And there it went, almost like your life
Verse 2
Like a wound that keeps on bleeding to remind me not to think
Like a raging river drowning when I only need a drink
Like a poison that I swallow but I want the world to die
Like a release from prison that I didn't know I was in
Like a fight to live the past I prayed to leave from way back then
Like a general without a mission until the war will start again, start again
Pre-Chorus
I blind my eyes and try to force it all into place
I stitch them up, see not my fall from grace
I blind my eyes, I hide and feel it passing me by
I open just in time to say goodbye
Chorus
Almost like your life
Almost like your endless fight
Curse the day is long
Realize you don't belong
Disconnect somehow
Never stop the bleeding now
Almost like your fight
And there it went, almost like your life
Bridge
Like a touch from hell to feel how hot that it can get if you get caught
Like a strike from heaven that turns that key that brings you straight down to your knees
Like a touch from hell to feel how hot that it can get if I get caught
Like a strike from heaven to reprieve that brings you straight down to your knees
Chorus
Almost like your life
Almost like your endless fight
Curse the day is long
Realize you don't belong
Disconnect somehow
Never stop the bleeding now
Almost like your fight
And there it went, almost like your life
Outro
That was just your life