Dyers Eve (song)

Song

Dyers Eve is the ninth and final song from the album ...And Justice for All, written by James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, and Kirk Hammett.

About[]

This song is about a child being protected from the outside world by their mother and father, only to find out that the world is a cruel place after reaching adulthood. It is also commonly heard that the song is based after James Hetfield's childhood and having a hard time to connect with others due to his religious beliefs.

Live[]

"Dyers Eve" has been played live a total of 35 times as of January, 2025.
"Dyers Eve" was played live for the first time on March 5th, 2004 in Inglewood, California, at the Forum.
It was last performed live on November 20th, 2010, in Melbourne, Australia, at the Rod Laver Arena.

Trivia[]

Lars once jokingly wrote an entire set-list with just "Dyers Eve" on it, being played 16 times.
Lars Ulrich famously never plays the double bass part live, citing it as 'too difficult'.

Lyrics[]

   Dear Mother
   Dear Father
   What Is this Hell You Have Put Me Through
   Believer
   Deceiver
   Day in Day out Live My Life Through You
   Pushed onto Me What's Wrong or Right
   Hidden from this Thing That They Call Life
   
   Dear Mother
   Dear Father
   Every Thought I'd Think You'd Disapprove
   Curator
   Dictator
   Always Censoring My Every Move
   Children Are Seen But Are Not Heard
   Tear out Everything Inspired
   
   Innocence
   Torn from Me Without Your Shelter
   Barred Reality
   I'm Living Blindly
   
   Dear Mother
   Dear Father
   Time Has Frozen Still What's Left to Be
   Hear Nothing
   Say Nothing
   Cannot Face the Fact I Think for Me
   No Guarantee, it's Life as Is
   But Damn You for Not Giving Me My Chance
   
   Dear Mother
   Dear Father
   Clipped My Wings Before I Learnt to Fly
   Unspoiled
   Unspoken
   I've Outgrown That Fucking Lullaby
   Same Thing I've Always Heard from You
   Do as I Say Not as I Do
   
   Innocence
   Torn from Me Without Your Shelter
   Barred Reality
   I'm Living Blindly
   
   I'm in Hell Without You
   Cannot Cope Without You Two
   Shocked at the World That I See
   Innocent Victim Please Rescue Me
   
   Dear Mother
   Dear Father
   Hidden in Your World You've Made for Me
   I'm Seething
   I'm Bleeding
   Ripping Wounds in Me That Never Heal
   Undying Spite I Feel for You
   Living out this Hell You Always Knew

References[]

	...And Justice for All
Songs	Blackened • ...And Justice for All • Eye of the Beholder • One • The Shortest Straw • Harvester of Sorrow • The Frayed Ends of Sanity • To Live Is to Die • Dyers Eve
Members	James Hetfield • Lars Ulrich • Kirk Hammett • Jason Newsted

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Songs

For Whom the Bell Tolls • The Unforgiven • Nothing Else Matters • Enter Sandman • King Nothing • Sad But True • No Leaf Clover • Orion • Fade to Black • The Memory Remains • Wherever I May Roam • Welcome Home (Sanitarium) • Fuel • Frantic • One • All Nightmare Long • Hit the Lights • Mercyful Fate • Seek & Destroy • Creeping Death • Master of Puppets • Battery • The Shortest Straw • Whiplash • Dyers Eve • Disposable Heroes • Fight Fire with Fire • The Thing That Should Not Be • Broken, Beat & Scarred • Cyanide • My Apocalypse

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Turn the Page • Tuesday's Gone • Am I Evil? • Stone Cold Crazy