Master of Puppets

by Metallica

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Guitar Pro Tab Summary

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Lyrics

End of pas-sion play, Crum-bl-ing a-way I'm your source of Self-des-truc-tion Veins that pump with fear, Suc king Dark est clear Lead-ing on your death's cons-truc-tion Taste me you will see More is all you need You' re dedi-cated to How i'm kill-ing you Come craw-ling fas-ter O-bey your mas-ter Your life burns fas-ter O-bey your Mas-ter Mas-ter Mas-ter of pup-pets i'm pulling your strings Twis-ting your mind and smashing your dreams Bli-ned by me, you can't see a thing Just call my name, 'cause i'll hear you scream Mas-ter Mas-ter Just call my name, 'cause i'll hear you scream Mas-ter Mas-ter Nee-dle-work the way, Ne-ver you be-tray Life of death be-com-ing clear-er Pain mo-no-po-ly, Ri-tual mi-se-ry Chop your break-fast on a mir-ror Taste me you will see More is all you need You' re dedi-cated to How i'm kill-ing you Come craw-ling fas-ter O-bey your mas-ter Your life burns fas-ter O-bey your Mas-ter Mas-ter Mas-ter of pup-pets i'm pulling your strings Twis-ting your mind and smashing your dreams Bli-ned by me, you can't see a thing Just call my name, 'cause i'll hear you scream Mas-ter Mas-ter Just call my name, 'cause i'll hear you scream Mas-ter Mas-ter Mas-ter Mas-ter Mas-ter Mas-ter Mas-ter Mas-ter, Mas-ter, where's the dreams that i've been af-ter? Mas-ter, Mas-ter, you pro-mise only lies Laugh-ter, Laugh-ter, all i hear and see is laughter Laugh-ter, Laugh-ter, Laugh ing at my cries Speak to me... Hell is worth all that, natu-ral ha-bi-tat Just a rhyme with-out a rea-son Never-end-ing ma-ze Drift on number-ed days Now your life is out of sea-son I will oc-cu-py I will help you die I will run through you Now I rule you too Come craw-ling fas-ter O-bey your mas-ter Your life burns fas-ter O-bey your Mas-ter Mas-ter Mas-ter of pup-pets i'm pulling your strings Twis-ting your mind and smashing your dreams Bli-ned by me, you can't see a thing Just call my name, 'cause i'll hear you scream Mas-ter Mas-ter Just call my name, 'cause i'll hear you scream Mas-ter Mas-ter

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Notice

Kirk Hammett: "I used a Mesa-Boogie Mark 2C amp and a black Randy Rhoads custom Jackson guitar. For the four-bar fill at the beginning of the song, the rest of the guys wanted something high and screeching, but I came up with something a bit more percussive and riff-like, a flatted fifth-type figure. I got this real raunchy, over distorted sound which clashed well with the tight rythm sound James had. James played the first solo in that song, which is a great solo. I worked on the next solo for a couple of days - getting it tight was a real task for me. While recording the track, my hand accidently pulled a string off the neck, and it grounded on the neck pick-up, giving me something like a high D. It sounded like I slid up to a super high note that isn't even on the neck, so we left it. For the next solo we used backwards guitar parts. To get them I played a bunch of guitar parts that were in the same key as the song and laid them down on quarter-inch tape. Then we flipped the tape over and edited it, so we had two or three minutes of backwards guitar. We put it in the last verse of the song." James Hetfield: "I think we wanted to write another song like 'Creeping Death' - with open chords carried by the vocals and a real catchy chorus. On 'Master of Puppets' [album] we started getting into the longer, more orchestrated songs. It was more of a challenge to write a long song that didn't seem long. The riff for that song was pretty messy - constantly moving it works good live; people love to scream 'Master!' a couple of times." (source: GuitarWorld issue of '91)

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