Scott's Metal Track of the Day - The Frayed Ends of Sanity by Metallica

Today's Metal Track is The Frayed Ends of Sanity by Metallica. This is off of their 1988 album ...And Justice For All. This album marked the end of an era for Metallica (The best era). The success of this album and the video for "One" pushed the band into the mainstream. Three years later, they completely took the world by storm with the Black Album.

This song is about, you guessed it, losing sanity. The person is struggling to maintain a grip on reality: "Twisting under schizophrenia, Falling deep into dementia." He is very paranoid, thinking everyone is out out to get him and starts believing in crazy conspiracies. In the end, he even becomes skeptical of himself:

"Old habits reappear
Fighting the fear of fears
Growing conspiracy
Myself is after me
Frayed ends of sanity
Hear them calling
Hear them calling me!"