08/20/2008 Entry: "THE DAY COMES..."

Thursday, August 21st at 11 AM, Pacific Standard time. 2 PM Eastern.

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UPDATE: "The Day That Never Comes" debuts in a little more than three hours. Mission: Metallica is offering a download of the single to its platinum members. The single will also be available on iTunes. ...is the version debuting today the album version or is it a radio/single edit?

UPDATE 2: Added apparent single artwork, the version on iTunes seems to be 7:56 long... and already available to Australian iTunes users.

Our interpretation of lyrics for both new songs.

The Day That Never Comes
Born to push you around
Better just stay down
You pull away, he hits the flesh, you hit the ground
Mouth so full of lies
Tender, black: your eyes
Just keep them closed, keep praying, just keep waiting

Waiting for the one
The day that never comes
When you stand up and feel the warmth
But. the sunshine never comes, no
No, the sunshine never comes

Push across that line
Just stay down this time
Hide in your self, crawl in your self, you’ll have your time
God, I'll make them pay
Take you back one day
I’ll end this day, I’ll splatter color on this grey

Waiting for the one
The day that never comes
When you stand up and feel the warmth
But, the sunshine never comes

Love is a four letter word
A never spoken care
Love is a four letter word
Here in this prison

I suffer this no longer
I'll put an end to this I swear
This I swear
The sun will shine
This I swear
This I swear
This
I
swear

Cyanide (LIVE - From Ozzfest)
Sleep and dream of this
Death angel's kiss
Brings final rest
Don't believe it
Empty are they
Death, won't you let me stay?

Empty they say
Death, won't you call your name
ooh, call your name
Suicide I've already died
It's just the funeral I've been waiting for
Cyanide
Living dead inside
Break this empty shell forever more

Wait, wait patiently
Your death, black wings
Unfolding swift
Spreading for me
Empty they say
Death, won't you let me stay?

Empty they say
Death, hear me call your name
Ooh, call your name
Suicide I've already died
It's just the funeral I've been waiting for
Cyanide
Living dead inside
Break this empty shell forever more

Say is that rain or are they tears
That stain your concrete face for years?
Crying, weeping, shedding strife
Year after year
Life after life

An air of freshly broken ground
A concrete angel led right down
on the knave? that swallows fast
There's peace at last, oh, peace at last

Empty they say
Death, won't you let me stay?
Empty they say
Death, hear me call your name
Ooh, call your name
Suicide I've already died
It's just the funeral I've been waiting for
Cyanide
Living dead inside
Break this empty shell forever more
Forever more
Forever more
Just the funeral I've been waiting for

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