The Shortest Straw lyrics
by Metallica
[Instrumental Intro]
[Verse 1]
Suspicion is your name
Your honesty to blame
Put dignity to shame, dishonor
Witch-hunt, modern day
Determining decay
The blatant disarray, disfigure
The public eyes' disgrace
Defying common place
Unending paper chase, unending
[Pre-Chorus]
Deafening
Painstaking
Reckoning
This vertigo it doth bring
[Chorus]
Shortest straw, challenge liberty
Downed by law, live in infamy
Rub you raw, witch-hunt riding through
Shortest straw
The shortest straw has been pulled for you
[Post-Chorus]
Pulled for you (Shortest straw)
Pulled for you (Shortest straw)
Pulled for you (Shortest straw)
Shortest straw has been pulled for you
[Instrumental Break]
[Verse 2]
The accusations fly
Discrimination, why?
Your inner self to die, intruding
Doubt sunk itself in you
Its teeth and talons through
You're living Catch-22, deluding
A mass hysteria
A megalomania
Reveal dementia, reveal
[Pre-Chorus]
Secretly
Silently
Certainly
In vertigo you will be
[Chorus]
Shortest straw, challenge liberty
Downed by law, live in infamy
Rub you raw, witch-hunt riding through
Shortest straw
The shortest straw has been pulled for you
[Post-Chorus]
Pulled for you (Shortest straw)
Pulled for you (Shortest straw)
Pulled for you (Shortest straw)
Shortest straw has been pulled for you
[Guitar Solo]
[Post-Chorus]
(Shortest straw)
Pulled for you (Shortest straw)
Pulled for you (Shortest straw)
Pulled for you (Shortest straw)
Shortest straw has been pulled for you
[Guitar Solo]
[Verse 3]
Behind you, hands are tied
Your being, ostracized
Your hell is multiplied
Upending
The fallout has begun
Oppressive damage done
Your many turned to none to nothing
You're reaching your nadir
Your will has disappeared
The lie is crystal clear
Defending
[Pre-Chorus]
Channels red
One word said
Blacklisted
With vertigo make you dead
[Chorus]
Shortest straw, challenge liberty
Downed by law, live in infamy
Rub you raw, witch-hunt riding through
Shortest straw
The shortest straw has been pulled for you
Pulled for you
[Instrumental Outro]