"Here Comes Revenge" is the third track on the second disc of Metallica's newest album Hardwired To Self Destruct, and now James Hetfield is opening up about its meaning. Hetfield tells Marky Ramone that the song is dedicated to a specific couple who lost their daughter to a drunk driver. Hetfield adds the couple got into Metallica because their daughter was a huge fan.
"There's a fan of ours, and I was just trying to put myself in their shoes. There's a couple that showed up at so many shows, and they got into Metallica because their young daughter was a big fan, and she had gotten killed by a drunk driver.
"And it just hit me. 'How can you guys find something positive in the world to connect you to your daughter again,' which was Metallica, the music she loved, 'instead of just snapping and wanting to just become bitter and attack whoever did this?'
"So I'm kinda putting myself in those shoes and how revenge must feel really powerful and great to do, but it doesn't satisfy that urge. I don't know…"
Seriously, it seems like a genuinely nice move on Metallica's part to write a song about the issue and specifically dedicate it to this couple.
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[via UG]
