Metallica’s official lyric video for “Thorn Within,” from the album “Load.”

Taken from "Load" (Remastered), available now on 180g 2LP vinyl, CD, 3-CD expanded edition, cassette, digital (including Spatial Audio), and packaged in a mammoth deluxe box set.

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LYRICS

Forgive me, Father
For I have sinned
Find me guilty
Of the life I feel within

When I’m branded
This mark of shame
Should I look down
Disgraced
Or straight ahead
And know that you must blame?

I am the secret
I am the sin
I am the guilty
And I am, I am the thorn within

Forgive me, Father
For I have sinned
Find me guilty
When true guilt is from within

So point your fingers
Point right at me
For I am shadows
And will follow you
One and the same are we

I am the secret
I am the sin
I am the guilty
And I am, I am the thorn within

I do your time
I take your fall
I’m branded guilty
For us all

So point your fingers
Point right at me
For I am shadows
And will follow you
One and the same are we

I am your secrets
I am your sin
I am your guilty
And I am, I am the thorn within

I am the thorn within
I am the thorn within
I am the thorn within
I am the thorn within
I am the thorn within

Written by James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich & Kirk Hammett

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