To Live is to Die - Metallica quote SRD

[I'm Murrin]

the metal is what can only be described as Scandanavian.

[Gazebo]

have you all ever heard "disposable heroes" off of metallica's puppets? there's a line in it that goes "soldier boy, made of clay" which sounds an awful lot like "golden boy with feet of clay" from the song in the first chapeter of LFB

[safetyjedi]

By the way the first two lines of that Metallica poem are taken from the movie Excalibur, when after Arthur asks him what is the greatest character of a knight, Merlin replies, "Truth --- When A man Lies He Murders Some part of the World." He then added to Arthur, "You should have known that!"

[Gazebo]

yes, and i'm sure the rest of the poem is lifted from somewhere else -- i couldn't find it on google though, but i'm sure it's out there

[safetyjedi]

what a bunch of copycats!

[Gazebo]

actually, most of their stuff's pretty good, but burton wrote the lyrics for to live is to die, and at that point ulrich and hamett were the only ones who wrote lyrics -- they only used burton's lyrics as a monument to him, so he problably didn't get much practice at songwriting . . . he probalbly didn't intend the lyrics to be published, & when the others found it, they problably had no idea that at least two, if not more of the lines were ripped off of something else...

[Guest]

why not metallica getting inspiration from SRD. remember led zep&tolkein

[Guest]

i'm going out now for some Mekong Delta.can someone tell me what kind of music they play???

[Sorus]

Didn't Holocaust do covers of Metallica songs? And vice versa? There may be a link there.