Metallica – Purify

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Purify

Tear it down
Strip the layers off
My turpentine
Old paint, old looks
Cover up the past
White heat, white light
Super white bones
Bones of you and I

Pure if I...Can't you help me?
Pure if I...Won't you help me?
Purify, you and I
Purify, you and I
Pure if I...Can't you help me?
Pure if I...Won't you help me?

You and I, Purify (x3)

Truth and dare
Peeling back the skin
Acid wash
Ghost white
Ultra clean
Want to be skeleton
Clear eyes
Diamond eyes
Strip the past of mine
My sweet turpentine

Pure if I...Can't you help me?
Pure if I...Won't you help me?
Purify, you and I
Purify, you and I
Pure if I...Can't you help me?
Pure if I...Won't you help me?

You and I, Purify (x3)

I can find the dirt on anything
I can find the dirt on anything

I ain't dancing with your skeletons
I ain't dancing with what might have been

Pure if I...Can't you help me?
Pure if I...Won't you help me?
Purify, you and I
Purify, you and I
Pure if I...Can't you help me?
Pure if I...Won't you help me?

You and I, Purify
You and I, Purify
C'mon, Purify!

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Track duration: 05:14

"Purify" as written by Robert Jens/hetfield Rock

Lyrics © EMI Music Publishing

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    General Comment:Alright, let's clear up what this song means once and for all: it's about the purifying of the band's members, especially Hetfield, from their destructiveness. This is Metallica's first album since Hetfield's alcohol rehab in 2001. It's also the first since Hetfield married in August 1997, and in an interview ( npr.org/templates/story/… ) he said his wife really helped him with his anger issues.
    Flag Oneiromanceron September 29, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:i'm listening to a 30 second sample of it and i love it. it sounds so awesome.
    Flag SerpentSeedon June 22, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:"It is like Metallica in the early eightis, before kill em all"
    Artica, in Some Kind of Monster Bob Rock says that the whole point of the way they recorded it the way they did was to sound like a band getting together for the first time...garage days re re revisited?? All hail Rick Ruben!!
    Flag KartRacer53on July 24, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:why do people hate this song so much? It was the first song I heard off of st anger (dont ask) and i fell inlove with it.
    Flag Leblancon February 04, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:Dunno why people hate this song so much. It could've been better yeah, but otherwise, Purify is a fucking great song.
    And the lyrics are wrong. It's not "pure if I", it's "Purify", geez.
    Flag Crujebsulon October 05, 2006   Link
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    General Comment:This is about getting rid of the bad and getting ready to start again, not dancing with what have could have been, just stripping it and starting anew.
    Flag MrYon January 19, 2006   Link
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    General Comment:My friends always tell me that I like the worst Metallica songs, but then again I have one that likes Sweet Amber... Anyway, this song is about reaching out to people to help you and about all the past mistakes and sins that you wish you could be rid of. I like this song and I think that's what it is about along with the cleansing of one's soul of all the stains. But so much in the religious sense. I don't see Metallica writing a song about Jesus. The turpentine and such words are to refer to their obvious cleaning capabilites, and I have often said, after seeing something I rather I didn't, that I wish I had turpentine to pour in my eyes to clean them.
    Flag Hermes_Harbingeron December 13, 2005   Link
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    General Comment:This song makes me angry, and not in a good way.
    Arctica, I diddnt think the drumming was that bad, (not great either) it was the shity production and the way the drums were tuned that made it sound so crap
    Flag Shadow of Oblivionon September 03, 2005   Link
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    General Comment:Honestly the worst song on the Saint Anger album. No wait, I think that place is taken by Sweet Amber. Lars's drumming is really not what it used to be and I can barley tell the two guitars apart! It is like Metallica in the early eightis, before "kill em all" .
    I don't know what's up with their new album, but it just doesn't sound right. Where are all the kick-ass guitar solos and James clean woice? Missing the old stuff.
    Flag Arcticaon July 15, 2005   Link
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    General Comment:Awful, awful, awful song.
    Flag NoLightToSeeByon March 28, 2005   Link

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