Overload (album)/Where the Wild Things Are

These are the lyrics to Where the Wild Things Are, a song originally released on American heavy metal band Metallica's "ReLoad" album in 1997. The song is based on the children's book of the same name, and is a re-enacting of it, with toy soldiers off to war in wild fantasy lands. On the album Overload, the superstar has painful memories of this story as it's what they remembered best from their mother: how she retold this story to them, again and again.

Lyrics
'' So wake up, sleepy one It's time to save your world

Steal dreams and give to you Shoplift a thought or two All children touch the sun Burn fingers one by one, by one

Will this earth be good to you? Keep you clean or stain through?

So wake up, sleepy one It's time to save your world You're where the wild things are Yeah, toy soldiers off to war

Big eyes to open soon Believing all under sun and moon But does heaven know you're here? And did they give you smiles or tears? No, no tears

Will this earth be good to you? Keep you clean or stain through?

So wake up, sleepy one It's time to save your world You're where the wild things are... yeah, yeah Toy soldiers off to war

You swing your rattle down (Hand puppets storm the base! Flags up now cannons rage! Hand puppets storm the base!) Call to arms the trumpets sound (Flags up now cannons rage! All clowns head for the rear! Slingshots fire to the air!) Toy horses start the charge (All clowns head for the rear! Slingshots fire to the air! Slip into the edge of death!) Robots, chessmen standing guard (Crossfire to the marionettes! Slip into the edge of death! Crossfire to the marionettes!)

We shall never surrender

All the children touch the sun Burn your fingers one by one Will this earth be good to you? Keep you clean or stain through?

So wake up, sleepy one It's time to save your world You're where the wild things are, yeah Toy soldiers off to war, off to war, off to war

So close your little eyes ''