Metallica
FIGHT FIRE WITH FIRE
 Do unto others as they have done to you
But what the hell Blow the universe into
nothingness
Nuclear warfare shall lay us to rest
Fight fire with fire
Ending is near
Fight fire with fire
Bursting with fear
is this world coming to?
 We all shall die
Time is like a fuse, short and burning fast
Armageddon is here, like said in the past
Fight fire with fire
Ending is near
Fight fire with fire
Bursting with fear
 Soon to fill our lungs the hot winds of death
The gods are laughing, so take your last
breath
Fight fire with fire
Ending is near
Fight fire with fire
Bursting with fear
Fight fire with fire
(repeat eight times)
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Metallica
Metallica is an American rock band that has been together for
thirty years. They have put out dozens of albums and won many
Grammies. The band members at the time my song was written were
Cliff Burton, Kirk Hammett, James Hetfield, and Lars Ulrich. Before
staring as lead singing James Hetfield was a worker in a sticker
printing factory. They started in Los Angeles, California were Lars put
an ad in the paper for a guitarist and James career as a sticker printer
was ended. Soon they had a full fledge band put together. They often
wrote about what was going on in the world, like wars and their past.
Sadly about two years after their album Ride the Lightning was
released Cliff Burton was killed in an accident when their tour bus
flipped into a ditch in Sweden. Cliff was thrown from the bus and
crushed. After his death the band took a break to grieve for their
friend, but they were soon back on stage performing with their two
new additions Jason Newsted and Robert Trujillo.
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The tension of the Cold War.
 The cold war was the threat of the USSR &
USA bombing each other. The main
conflict came from their differences in
political views. The USSR was communist
and didn’t see eye to eye with the views of
democracy. The USA was and still is
capitalist, and like most western
democracies it was afraid of communism
spreading. Also both of these world
powers had major arsenals of nuclear
power aimed at each other.
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The horrible truth
 The truth is that on the earth we have so
much destructive power we could destroy
the earth hundreds of times over. It only
takes about 100 nuclear bombes to
completely destroy the earth and all of it’s
inhabitants. There is and estimated
23,000 nuclear weapons in existence. If a
fraction of them were set of we could all
die.
Nuclear and atomic bombs
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 Nuclear and atomic bombs are some of the
most destructive weapons in existence.
After testing in the 1950’s almost everyone
had some kind of radiation.
Fear
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 “Bursting with fear” This line pretty much
speaks for its self. People were truly
scared and so was the government. They
were scared of communism coming to
America and afraid of being bombed.
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Repetition
 The repetition of the line “fight fire with
fire” is to highlight the fact that you cant
fight fire with fire. But that is what we
were doing during the cold war.
 “a technique in which a sound, word,
phrase, or line is repeated for effect or
emphasis”
- A Glossary of Terms for Literary
Analysis
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Solders dying
I feel like the line “lay us all to rest” is
referring to the soldiers that were killed in
the Korea and Vietnam wars. Many
soldiers returning from these wars were
not looked upon as heroes and were often
blamed for the war its self. When in fact
the majority of men that fought in these
wars were draghed and didn’t have a
choice in going.
A Death By Nuclear War
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 This line to me seem like it is trying to
express how painful a nuclear explosion
would be. That it would burn you to a
crisp. Even if you were lucky enough to
survive you would have been exposed to
high doses of radiation and would likely
have mutation in you genes or the genes of
you children.
Fighting
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 Even though most people in the United
States disagreed with the wars fought
during the cold war, they were very
personal wars many people knew at least
one person who was fighting in the war.
My grandfather Coreman Ronald Goss
served in the navy on the destroyer USS
Haynsworth DD700 during the Korean
war.
Metaphor for how short life is.
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 Life is short even if a nuclear bomb is
never dropped you have to live life to the
fullest because you never know what could
come tomorrow.
 “a type of figurative language in which a
comparison is made between two things
that are essentially unalike but may have
one quality in common.”
-A Glossary of Terms for Literary
Analysis
People truly believed they were
going to be bombed
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 People have bomb drills where children
would climb under there desk at school.
There were also bomb shelters built for
common people and for the leaders of the
country.