All Nightmare Long Lyrics
(One, two)
Luck runs out
[Verse 1]
Crawl from the wreckage one more time
Horrific memory twists the mind
Dark, rutted, cold and hard to turn
Path of destruction, feel and burn
Still life, incarnation
Still life, infamy
Hallucination, heresy
Still, you run, what's to come? What's to be?
[Chorus]
'Cause we hunt you down without mercy
Hunt you down all nightmare long
Feel us breathe upon your face
Feel us shift, every move we trace
Hunt you down without mercy
Hunt you down all nightmare long, yeah
Luck runs out
You crawl back in, but your luck runs out
[Post-Chorus]
(One, two)
Luck runs out
The light that is not light is here
To flush you out with your own fear
You hide, you hide but will be found
Release your grip without a sound
Still life, immolation
Still life, infamy
Hallucination, heresy
Still, you run, what's to come? What's to be?
[Chorus]
'Cause we hunt you down without mercy
Hunt you down all nightmare long
Feel us breathe upon your face
Feel us shift, every move we trace
Hunt you down without mercy
Hunt you down all nightmare long, yeah
Luck runs out
You crawl back in, but your luck runs out
Out
[Bridge]
Then you crawl back in, into your obsession
Never to return, this is your confession
[Chorus]
Hunt you down without mercy
Hunt you down all nightmare long
Feel us breathe upon your face
Feel us shift, every move we trace
Hunt you down without mercy
Hunt you down all nightmare long, yeah
Luck runs out
You crawl back in, but your luck runs out
Your luck runs out
About
“All Nightmare Long” was released as Metallica’s fifth single from Death Magnetic. The single was released on December 15, 2008.
It was nominated for the Kerrang! Award for Best Single.
The music video, directed by Roboshobo, which does not feature the band, is an alternate history narrative done in a grainy mockumentary style, depicting a sequence of fictional events following the historic 1908 Tunguska event, at which Soviet scientists discover spores of an extraterrestrial organism, a small harmless thing resembling an armored worm. However, it turns out the incredibly hardy spores are able to reanimate dead tissue, and subjects turn violent sometime after exposure to the spores; the USSR adapts them as a bioweapon and scatters them from balloons in a preemptive strike against the U.S., causing a localized zombie apocalypse before intervening militarily to distribute humanitarian aid. At the end of the video, a hybrid U.S.-USSR flag is raised in the now-Soviet-ruled America, and a headless corpse is shown breaching containment and escaping from a Soviet biowarfare lab.
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