For Whom The Bell Tolls - Metallica

For Whom The Bell Tolls

Title For Whom The Bell Tolls
Artist Metallica
Album Live Shit [2002] | Track 8
S&M [1999] | Track 3 Disc 2
Ride The Lightning [1984] | Track 3
Genre; Metal | Rock

Make his fight on the hills in the early day
Constant chill deep inside
Shouting gun, on they run through the endless grey
On they fight, for they are right, yes, but who’s to say?
For a hill, men would kill, why? They do not know
Stiffened wounds test their pride
Men of five, still alive through the raging glow
Gone insane from the pain that they surely know

For whom the bell tolls
Time marches on
For whom the bell tolls

Take a look to the sky just before you die
It is the last time you will
Blackened roar massive roar fills the crumbling sky
Shattered goal fills his soul with a ruthless cry
Stranger now, are his eyes, to this mystery
He hears the silence so loud
Crack of dawn, all is gone except the will to be
Now they see, what will be, blinded eyes to see

For whom the bell tolls
Time marches on
For whom the bell tolls

The lyrics of “For Whom the Bell Tolls” are based on the Ernest Hemingway novel by the same name; said novel is about the horror and dishonor of modern warfare.

The chromatic introduction, which was written by bassist Cliff Burton before joining Metallica, is often mistaken for an electric guitar; it is, in actuality, Burton playing a bass guitar through distortion and a wah-wah pedal.

“For Whom the Bell Tolls” has been covered by several bands; most notably, by punk rock band Shotgun Remedy on the album A Punk Tribute to Metallica, by Apocalyptica on the album Inquisition Symphony and by Sunn O))) on its album Flight of the Behemoth. It was also the opening song for the 2009 movie Zombieland.

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