For Whom the Bell Tolls - Live at Day on the Green, Oakland, CA / October 12th, 1991 Songtext
von Metallica

Ah, I have a question
How many of you guys were here in ′85, remember that there?
Just was watching some videotapes from that show
And watching fuckin' Cliff playing
The guy was one happy motherfucker to be playing that show
I would, I′d like to dedicate this next song to our buddy Cliff, yeah

So, you guys fucking sing along with us
It's from the album "Ride the Lightning"
You probably goddamn guessed what it is
Let's make some noise here, hey-hey-hey
Come on, everyone
Jason started, it′s entitled "For Whom the Bell Tolls"


Make his fight on the hill in the early day
Constant chill deep inside
Shouting gun, on they run through the endless gray
On they fight for their right, yes, but who′s to say?

For a hill, men would kill, why? They do not know
Stiffened wounds test their pride
Men of five, still alive through the raging glow
Gone insane from the pain that they surely know

For whom the bell tolls
Time marches on, sing it

Take a look to the sky just before you die
It's the last time you will
Blackened roar, massive roar fills the crumbling sky
Shattered goal fills his soul with a ruthless cry

Stranger now are his eyes to this mystery
He hears the silence so loud
Crack of dawn, all is gone except the will to be
Now they see what will be, blinded eyes to see


For whom the bell tolls
Time marches on, sing it