Metallica | Welcome Home (Sanitarium) | Gothenburg, Sweden - June 2023

Welcome to where time stands still
No one leaves and no one will
Moon is full, never seems to change
Just labeled mentally deranged

Dream the same thing every night
I see our freedom in my sight
No locked doors, no windows barred
No things to make my brain seem scarred

Sleep my friend and you will see
That dream is my reality
They keep me locked up in this cage
Can’t they see it’s why my brain says rage?

Sanitarium
Leave me be
Sanitarium
Just leave me alone

Build my fear of what’s out there
And cannot breathe the open air
Whisper things into my brain
Assuring me that I’m insane

They think our heads are in their hands
But violent use brings violent plans
Keep him tied, it makes him well
He’s getting better, can’t you tell?

No more can they keep us in
Listen, damn it, we will win
They see it right, they see it well
But they think this saves us from our hell

Sanitarium
Leave me be
Sanitarium
Just leave me alone

Sanitarium
Just leave me alone!

Fear of living on
Natives getting restless now
Mutiny in the air
Got some death to do

Mirror stares back hard
Kill it’s such a friendly word
Seems the only way
For reaching out again

Το 1986, με το... έμπα της άνοιξης, οι Metallica κυκλοφορούσαν τον τρίτο δίσκο τους υπό τον τίτλο "Master of Puppets". Τελευταίο τραγούδι της πρώτης πλευράς του βινύλιο (και ένα από τα πλέον αναγνωρίσιμα της Αμερικάνικης μπάντας) ήταν το "Welcome Home (Sanitarium)", το οποίο φέρει την υπογραφή των James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich και Kirk Hammett. Προ ημερών (18 Ιουνίου 2023) οι Metallica το απέδωσαν "ζωντανά" στο Γκέτεμποργκ της Σουηδίας...