Editing ...And Justice for All (album) (section)

==Lyrics==
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The album title was revealed in April 1988: ''...And Justice for All'', after the final words of the Pledge of Allegiance.<ref name="Dome">{{cite book|title=Metallica: The Music and the Mayhem|date=2011|publisher=Omnibus Press|isbn=978-0-85712-721-1|editor1-last=Dome|editor1-first=Malcolm|pages=Chapter 10|editor2-last=Wall|editor2-first=Mick}}</ref> The lyrics address political and legal injustice as seen through the prism of war (including nuclear war) and censored speech.<ref name="Popoff"/> The majority of the songs raise issues that differ from the violent retaliation of the previous releases.<ref name="Irwin"/> Tom King writes that for the first time the lyrics dealt with political and environmental issues. He named contemporaries [[Nuclear Assault]] as the only other band who applied ecological lyrics to thrash metal songs rather than singing about [[Satan]] and [[Egyptian plagues]].<ref>{{cite book|last=King|first=Tom|title=Metallica&nbsp;– Uncensored On the Record|year=2011|publisher=Coda Books Ltd|location=Great Britain|isbn=978-1-908538-55-0|pages=Chapter 25}}</ref> McIver noted that Hetfield, the band's main lyricist, wrote about topics that he had not addressed before, such as his revolt against [[the establishment]].<ref name="McIver"/> Ulrich described the songwriting process as their "[[CNN]] years", with him and Hetfield watching the channel in search for song subjects—"I'd read about the blacklisting thing, we'd get a title, 'The Shortest Straw,' and a song would come out of that."<ref>{{cite magazine |first=David |last=Fricke |author-link=David Fricke |title=Metallica: Rolling Stone |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/metallica-from-metal-to-main-street-99742/ |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |date=November 14, 1991 |access-date=November 13, 2018 |archive-date=November 14, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181114060642/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/metallica-from-metal-to-main-street-99742/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

Concerns about the state of the environment ("[[Blackened (song)|Blackened]]"), corruption ("[[...And Justice for All (song)|...And Justice for All]]"), and blacklisting and discrimination ("The Shortest Straw") are emphasized with traditional [[existential]] themes.<ref name="Irwin">{{cite book|last=Irwin|first=William|author-link=William Irwin (philosopher)|title=Metallica and Philosophy: A Crash Course in Brain Surgery|year=2007|publisher=Wiley|location=Pennsylvania|isbn=978-1-4051-6348-4|page=63}}</ref> Issues such as freedom of speech and civil liberties ("[[Eye of the Beholder (song)|Eye of the Beholder]]") are presented from a grim and pessimistic point of view.<ref name="Winwood">{{cite book|editor1-first=Paul|editor1-last=Brannigan|editor2-first=Ian|editor2-last=Winwood|title=Birth School Metallica Death|year=2013|publisher=Faber & Faber|isbn=978-0-571-29416-9|pages=Chapter 8}}</ref> "One" was unofficially nicknamed an "antiwar anthem" for its lyrics, which portray the suffering of a wounded soldier.<ref>{{cite book|last=Ray|first=Michael|title=Disco, Punk, New Wave, Heavy Metal, and More: Music in the 1970s and 1980s|year=2013|publisher=Britannica Educational Publishing|location=New York|page=53}}</ref> "Dyers Eve" is a lyrical rant from Hetfield to his parents.<ref name="McIver">{{cite book|last=McIver|first=Joel|author-link=Joel McIver|title=Justice For All&nbsp;– The Truth About Metallica|year=2004|publisher=Music Sales Group|isbn=0-85712-009-3|pages=Chapter 16}}</ref> Burton received co-writing credit on "To Live Is to Die" as the bass line is a medley of unused recordings Burton had performed prior to his death. Because the original recordings are not used on the track, the composition is credited as written by Burton and played by Newsted. The [[spoken word]] section of the song was erroneously attributed in its entirety to Burton in the liner notes. The first line was actually from the film ''[[Excalibur (film)|Excalibur]]'' ("When a man lies, he murders some part of the world.")<ref name="W.Irwin">{{cite book|last=Irwin|first=William|author-link=William Irwin (philosopher)|title=Metallica and Philosophy: A Crash Course in Brain Surgery|year=2007|publisher=Wiley|location=Pennsylvania|isbn=978-1-4051-6348-4|page=23}}</ref> while the second line comes from ''[[Lord Foul's Bane]]'', a fantasy novel by American writer [[Stephen R. Donaldson]] ("These are the pale deaths which men miscall their lives.").<ref>{{cite book|last=Donaldson|first=Stephen R.|title=Lord Foul's Bane|year=1977|publisher=Holt, Rinehart and Winston|isbn=0-8050-1272-9}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Barkley|first=Christine|title=Stephen R. Donaldson and the Modern Epic Vision|year=2009|publisher=McFarland & Company, Inc.|isbn=978-0-7864-4288-1|page=47}}</ref> The second half of the speech ("All this I cannot bear to witness any longer. Cannot the kingdom of salvation take me home?") was written by Burton.<ref name="Burton">{{cite book|last=McIver|first=Joel|title=To Live Is to Die: The Life and Death of Metallica's Cliff Burton|year=2009|publisher=Jawbone Press|isbn=978-1-906002-24-4|page=227}}</ref>