METALLICA - Gospi's Garage Days Page

AUTHOR: METALLICA ALBUM TITLE: 5.98 Garage Days Re 1987 PRODUCED BY: Metallica
1. Helpless (Guitar Tab) 2. The Small Hours (Guitar Tab) 3. The Wait (Guitar Tab) 4. Crash Course In Brain Surgery (Guitar & Bass Tab) 5. Last Caress (Guitar & Bass Tab) 6. Green Hell (Guitar Tab)

HELPLESS
The band's second Diamond Head cover, it actually improves the original.

I gotta see you moving fast
See you come my way
See the dreams, I hope they last
Never fade away.
Gotta see the lights above
Make it loud tonight
Gotta set it all a-fire
Set it all a-light
See the flashing lights
Hear the thunder roar
I am gonna set you all a-light
Gotta make it man
I ain't got a choice
Gotta fill this hall tonight

I don't what I'm gonna do
Maybe not tonight
Gotta set you all a-fire
Gotta treat you right.
I can see the flashing lights
Lit before your love, ohh
Gotta hear the thunder roar
Coming from above.
See the flashing lights
Hear the thunder roar
I'm gonna set you all alight
Gotta make it man
I ain't got no choice
Gotta fill this hall tonight

I can see the stars
I can see what's going on
Every night alone
I sing my song just for fun.
Only time will tell
If I'll make it myself someday
This stage is mine
Music is my destiny.
Cannot squeeze the life from me!
I can see the lights
But I can see what's going on
Every night alone
I sing my song just for fun.
Business in collapse
Some men don't like it so
Helpless maybe babe,
But you can leave or join the show.
Cannot squeeze the life from me!

THE SMALL HOURS
Arguably the band's most obscure cover, this song was originally recorded by Holocaust in 1983, the same year that saw the release of Kill 'Em All.

Look out at the darkness,
And you will see,
Just call my name and I'll be there.
You cannot touch me,
You would not dare,
I am the chill that's in the air.

Dark rivers are flowing,
Back into the past,
You are the fish for which I cast.
And what of the future,
What is to be,
As the rivers flow into the sea.

Do not take for granted,
Powers out there,
Don't step into the demon's lair.
Time is an illusion,
Rising from time,
Steep is the mountain which we climb.

THE WAIT
Metallica's reworking of the Killing Joke classic is much harder and not as "poppy" as the original.

Motives changing
Day to day
The fire increases
Masks decay
I look at the river
White foam floats down
The body's poisoned
Got to sit tight

After awakening
The silence grows
The screams subside
Distortion shows
Mutant thoughts
Of bad mouthed news
Just another birth
Of distorted views

CRASH COURSE IN BRAIN SURGERY
A cover of the Budgie classic where Jason "Newkid" Newsted gets to display his abilities to Metallica fans not familiar with his work on Flotsam & Jetsam's debut, Doomsday For The Deceiver.

Look inside and you will see
The words are cutting deep inside my brain
Thunder burnin' quickly burning
Knife of words is drivingme insane, insane yeah
Raven black is on my track
He shows me how to neutralize the knife
Show to me in surgery
The art of fighting words to conquer life, conquer life yeah
Now the wicked lance of fear
Is driven from my heady moutain brain
Crash course in brain surgery
Has stopped the bloody knife of words again yeah, yeah, yeah

LAST CARESS / GREEN HELL
A duo of contrasting Misfits covers, the first, a morbidly humorous parody of the pop song format, the other, pure hardcore. It all ends with the band's hilarious, but painful. False start of Iron Maiden's "Run To The Hills".

--- ( Last Caress ) ---

I've got somethin' to say
I killed your baby today and it
Doesn't matter much to me
As long as it's dead
I've got somethin' to say
I raped your mother today and it
Doesn't matter much to me
As long as she spread

I've got somethin' to say
I killed your baby today and it
Doesn't matter much to me
As long as it's dead

One Last Caress today,
Ohhh Ohhh Ohhh (repeat)

--- ( Green Hell ) ---