Overload (album)/The Outlaw Torn

These are the lyrics to The Outlaw Torn, a song originally released on American heavy metal band Metallica's "Load" album in 1996. The song is about losing one you love and not being able to find a replacement, and on the remastered album Overload, it's the last the unnamed protagonist can think of prior to their death from the injuries they sustained in an earlier car crash.

Lyrics
'' And now I wait my whole lifetime for you And now I wait my whole lifetime for you

I ride the dirt, I ride the tide for you I search the outside, search inside for you

To take back what you left me I know I'll always burn to be The one who seeks so I may find And now I wait my whole lifetime

Outlaw of torn Outlaw of torn And I'm torn

So on I wait my whole lifetime for you So on I wait my whole lifetime for you

The more I search, the more my need for you The more I bless, the more I bleed for you

You make me smash the clock and feel I'd rather die behind the wheel Time was never on my side So on I wait my whole lifetime Outlaw of torn Outlaw of torn Outlaw of torn And I'm torn

Hear me And if I close my mind in fear Please pry it open See me And if my face becomes sincere Beware Hold me And when I start to come undone Stitch me together Save me And when you see me strut Remind me of what left this outlaw torn

Hear me And if I close my mind in fear Please pry it open See me And if my face becomes sincere Beware Hold me And when I start to come undone Stitch me together Save me And when you see me strut Remind me of what left this outlaw torn ''

Trivia

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