Overload (album)/Bleeding Me

These are the lyrics to Bleeding Me, a song originally released on American heavy metal band Metallica's "Load" album in 1996. The song is about vocalist and rhythm guitarist James Hetfield attempting to bleed out the bad to find something better, mesmerized by the happier world around him and wishing to live a better life. On the remastered album Overload, the superstar feels these thoughts prior to the crash, and wants to cure himself of the evil he drained himself into.

Lyrics
'' I'm diggin' my way I'm diggin' my way to somethin' I'm diggin' my way to somethin' better

I'm pushin' to stay I'm pushin' to stay with somethin' I'm pushin' to stay with somethin' better

Woah Woah

I'm sowing the seeds I'm sowing the seeds I take I'm sowing the seeds I take for granted

This thorn in my side This thorn in my side is from the tree This thorn in my side is from the tree I've planted

It tears me and I bleed, yeah And I bleed, oh yeah, yeah

Caught under wheels' roll I take that leech I'm bleeding me Can't stop to save my soul I take the leash that's leading me

I'm bleeding me Ooh, I can't take it Caught under wheels' roll Oh, the bleeding of me, yeah

Of me, yeah The bleeding of me

Caught under wheels' roll I take that leech, I'm bleeding me Can't stop to save my soul I take the leash that's leading me

I'm bleeding me, oh Ooh, I can't take it Caught under wheels' roll Oh, the bleeding of me Oh, the bleeding of me

I am the beast that bleeds the feast I am the blood, I am release Come make me pure, bleed me a cure I'm caught, I'm caught, I'm caught under

Caught under wheels' roll I take that leech, I'm bleeding me Can't stop to save my soul I take the leash that's leading me

I'm bleeding me Oh, I can't take it I can't take it I can't take it Oh oh, the bleeding of me

I'm diggin' my way I'm diggin' my way to somethin' I'm diggin' my way to somethin' better

I'm pushin' to stay I'm pushin' to stay with somethin' I'm pushin' to stay with somethin' better With somethin' better ''

Trivia

 * The song, among several others from Load and ReLoad, was given orchestral treatment in the album S&M.