Metallica: Hero of the Day (Lyric Video)

Metallica: Hero of the Day (Lyric Video)

Metallica’s official lyric video for “Hero of the Day,” from the album “Load.”

Taken from "Load" (Remastered), available on June 13, 2025, on 180g 2LP vinyl, CD, 3-CD expanded edition, cassette, digital (including Spatial Audio), and packaged in a mammoth deluxe box set.

LYRICS

Mama, they try and break me

The window burns to light the way back home

A light that warms no matter where they’ve gone

They’re off to find the hero of the day

But what if they should fall by someone’s wicked way?

Still the window burns

Time so slowly turns

And someone there is sighing

Keepers of the flames

Do you feel your name?

Did you hear your babies crying?

Mama, they try and break me

Still they try and break me

Excuse me while I tend to how I feel

These things return to me that still seem real

Now, deservingly, this easy chair

But the rocking stopped by wheels of despair

Don’t want your aid

But the fist I make

For years can’t hold or feel

No, I’m not all me

So please excuse me while I tend to how I feel

But now the dreams and waking screams

That ever last the night

So build the wall, behind it crawl

And hide until it’s light

So can you hear your babies crying now?

Still the window burns

Time so slowly turns

And someone there is sighing

Keepers of the flames

Did you feel your names?

Did you hear your babies crying?

But now the dreams and waking screams

That ever last the night

So build a wall, behind it crawl

And hide until it’s light

So can’t you hear your babies crying now?

Mama, they try and break me

Mama, they try and break me

Mama, they try

Mama, they try

Written by James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich & Kirk Hammett

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