Metallica - The House Jack Built Lyrics






Open door, so I walk inside
Close my eyes, find my place to hide
And I shake as I take it in
Let the show begin

Open my eyes just to have them close again
Well on my way, but on my way to where I’ve been
It swallows me as it takes me in its fog
I twist away as I give this world the nod

Open door, so I walk inside
Close my eyes, find my place to hide
And I shake as I take it in
Let the show begin

Open my eyes just to have them closed once again
Don’t want control
As it takes me down and down and down again
Is that the moon or just a light that lights this dead-end street?
Is that you there or just another demon that I meet?

The higher you are
The farther you fall
The longer the walk
The farther you crawl
My body, my temple
This temple, it tilts
Step into the house that Jack built

The higher you are
The farther you fall
The longer the walk
The farther you crawl
My body, my temple
This temple, it tilts
Yes, this is the house that Jack built

Open door, yes, I walk inside
Swallow me so the pain subsides
And I shake as I take the sin
Let the show begin

The higher you are
The farther you fall
The longer the walk
The farther you crawl
My body, my temple
This temple, it tilts
Yes, this is the house that Jack built

The higher you are
The farther you fall
The longer the walk
The farther you crawl
My body, my temple
This temple, it tilts
Yes, I am, I am, I am

Open my eyes
It swallows me
Is that you there
I twist away
Away
Away
Away





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  1. J.... A....

    Risk is way better than this shit.

  2. A.... K....

    0:48 killer riff

  3. B.... S....

    I love this song Metallica for life

  4. E.... F....

    I fuck to this song

  5. b.... j....

    Open legs so I came inside

  6. B.... B....

    The darkness of these songs is just so real. I can feel James losing control as it takes me down, and down, and down again. I can feel the confusion, IS THAT YOU THERE!!??!! Or just another demon that I meet? I can feel the acceptance of the addiction, yes, this is the house that Jack built.

    Truthfully, we're all just the toys in the hands of another. Now, tell me, can you heal what father's done? Frankly, you make me smash the clock and feel I'd rather die behind the wheel. Time was never on my side, so on I wait my whole lifetime. Outlaw torn.

  7. C.... ....

    Underrated album. A new era of Metallica that opened my eyes just to have them closed again.

  8. S.... F....

    speed 1.15

  9. T.... ....

    This song has similar effects by guitar to a song by Alkatraz called The Ounze That Jack Built from the ‘70s

  10. j.... m....

    One of James’s best singing work

  11. A.... L....

    So many lyrics in this album are deeply personal and about James' struggle with alcohol..

  12. A.... L....

    I like how this album is closer to blues rock than thrash metal.

  13. m.... v....

    Najlepsza piosenka metallici
    Szkoda że nie jest tak znana jak Enter Sandman czy Unforgiven

  14. l.... ....

    in my belief, this song is about an alcoholism addiction. jack is jack daniel's, an alcoholic beverage.

  15. N.... S....

    It’s about a house in Bellaire Ohio...1699 Belmont street

  16. g.... ....

    this remind me Jerry Cantrelll

  17. E.... M....

    I love the doom feel of this song

  18. M.... ....

    I TWIST AWAY

  19. T.... C....

    TO THINK METALLICA HAS FANS THE KIND OF MEMBERS WHO ONLY ALTERNATIVE THE COOLEST NORTHERN RITUAL AND METALLICA MOST CERTAINLY HAD COME A LONG WAY UNTIL IT SLEEPS THE SONG THAT MADE THEM FIRST IN ROCK ARTISTRY AND DO A GREAT JOB GRANTED I NEVER GOT TO SEE THEM IN CONCERT AND THEYRE THE KIND OF MEN THAT ARE LAID BACK ON THEIR FRONT PORCH BUT KNOW DEATHS INSTRUCTION THE PURPOSE BY WHICH WE FINANCE HER LIVING TRUTH THE VOICE WITHIN AND THEYLL ALWAYS MAKE A LASTING MEMORY IN OUR HEARTS MINDS

  20. T.... C....

    EDWARD TWILIGHT THE SERIES

  21. T.... C....

    MARILYN MANSON VESTIMENTA YEAH HAS STYLE I THINK SO

  22. r.... ....

    My favorite album from the great metallica. Huste to be ride the lightning. Such a great transition, that they caught alot of flack for. NOt by me. Like the diversity of this period for them. Listened to this and bush razorblade suitcase all the time back then. Mama said on this album really suprised me. Album full of ballads. Like it. GOd/Jesus bless and save all that read this.

  23. C.... ....

    Just put on back audio, this " Audible Only to Iguanas " and the ambient will be very transposed jajaja

  24. M.... ....

    Fuck you, Velveeta soft filled!!! Fuck you straight to hell!!!!

  25. D.... S....

    If Alice in Chains wrote for Metallica.
    Killer fucking song, don't get the hate for this and Reload.

  26. A.... L....

    can't find a live performance, damn

  27. �.... �....

    металл супер дом джека

  28. T.... j....

    Underrated song

  29. K.... 9....

    0:49 dat riff! holy fuck

  30. K.... R....

    Load and reload is when metallica got nurtured... Death magnetic and hardwired is after being neutered you put on a spiked collar

  31. K.... R....

    It's metallica's grunge album

  32. E.... S....

    if Metallica and Alice and Chains have a baby

  33. M.... ....

    God, I just took a fresh, healthy, country shit!!!!

  34. R.... ....

    Metallica fan since 1988ish..god i love this song

  35. E.... g....

    Is not clean thrash . Is more hard melodic garage rok hope so !

  36. J.... B....

    Quality is even more poor than me right now.

  37. T.... ....

    The house that Jack Daniel's destroyed.

  38. M.... H....

    I like Load better than Reload

  39. A.... Z....

    Boring!!

  40. f.... ....

    Get clean soon James we are all with you! Legend

  41. D.... W....

    Papo & Yo from the father's perspective.

  42. B.... 1....

    I feel bad for James! in mid 2020 or almost Jack took him back to the recovery clinic

    B.... 1....

    This song has nothing to do with addiction.

  43. t.... n....

    Wanna see a movie the house that jack built 2018.... Sick!!!

  44. M.... M....

    What a great song!

  45. V.... R....

    This album still kicks ass in 2019

  46. A.... I....

    So much low-end in James' guitar. Love it.

  47. A.... C....

    The last great Metallica album. Reload is way worse. Every later one is just awful

  48. J.... M....

    The house that Metallica built

  49. R.... B....

    What if metallica hired again Bob Rock for their next studio record??

  50. M.... L....

    I’ve always felt load and reload were James cries for help. And st anger shows his recovery. To me they were all three linked together

  51. M.... ....

    Man I just wanted to come back and check. Yup this still sucks

  52. J.... F....

    3 blind mice

  53. q.... ....

    I remember being disappointed in the album as a whole but I have to admit there's some good songs like this. Until It Sleeps is one of the best Metallica has ever done.

  54. C.... R....

    This so reminds me of Alice In Chains. A lot like Layne Staley's vocals and the background vocals from Jerry Cantrell. Kinda like man in the box with a little bit of what the hell I with get born again in the backing vocals. They definitely listened to a lot of Alice when making this album.

    C.... R....

    Absolutely nothing like Layne's vocals, are you fucking deaf?

  55. S.... R....

    2019🔥🖤

  56. I.... C....

    *WARNING!!!*From 4:17 to 4:37 the guitar imitates vomit sounds.Dont listen if you re loaded!
    P.S.I just threw up.

  57. S.... F....

    Possibly my all time favourite song. And dont you take that lightly neither.

  58. D.... 6....

    Metallica will get aressted

  59. D.... T....

    Uncle Jack built this house, can you help Jack off his horse so he can step inside?

    D.... T....

    Ambiguity at it's finest

  60. F.... M....

    The higher you are
    The farther you fall
    The longer the walk
    The farther you crawl.

  61. R.... R....

    It's nuts that there are so many good songs from Load and Reload that they've never played live, not even when these albums were new and you'd THINK they would have. Especially something like The Cure, which was a minor radio hit for fuck's sake. Or This. Or The Thorn Within. etc.

  62. B.... C....

    Here is a materpiece of musical work, what should the cover art be. "I think i'll jerk off on a slide then dribble blood i it"....cause that totally represents this band.

  63. B.... T....

    Classic

  64. M.... g....

    Burn his fucking house down, bring back the prohibition...

  65. H.... T....

    Yeah Jack Daniels, No. 7 a pint takes 9 shots.

  66. s.... ....

    Last album that metallica was good. When i was in higschool i wrote a paper to my teacher explaining this song. She never wrote a remark about it. She was probably too disturbed to make a comment of how a 16 year old kid could write a page about his own well being reflected with this song.

  67. P.... N....

    I am REALY a big thrash (speed, and death) metal fan, so I was told to be hate this amezing song.
    But I love it!!!!
    Actually I love the whole album!!
    IT"S METALLICA 👍🤘✌️👍🤘✌️!!!!!!!!!

  68. R.... ....

    Album's littered with epic songs like this one.

  69. K.... _....

    Honestly I return to this album way more often than to the 80s Metallica albums. And I love thrash metal

  70. b.... ....

    4:17 sounds like an autotuned rat

    b.... ....

    There is no autotune on this album, dumbass.

  71. H.... L....

    Best Metallica's song!!

  72. A.... R....

    my fav metal band scene 1990

  73. W.... W....

    This is my favorite song off of the album!

  74. T.... H....

    I used to dislike this album back in the day.. love it now. I'm old. Lol

  75. �.... �....

    Nice cover https://youtu.be/iBTrTuwmjo4

  76. A.... ....

    4:17 utilizing the talk box aye

  77. L.... ....

    honestly almost all of the riffs are just boring (bass too), Lyrics are awesome , drums too.
    The Talk Box is just what me keeps listening to the song, but really the riffs are just oof

  78. J.... B....

    It's a great album, if the haircuts had'ent been released simultaneously there probably wouldn't be as much criticism....

    J.... B....

    None of them cut their hair at the same time and Jason cut his years before, yu dumbass.

  79. K.... ....

    Lars brought me here.

  80. R.... P....

    0:49 Harvester of sorrow

  81. T.... �....

    The intro just screams: " We wanna sound like a Seattle band". Another Alice in Chains style diddy. Load keeps sucking throughout the ages.

  82. v.... p....

    I bought the load album the first day it came out in 1996. Initially I was negatively surprised that it was even slower that the black album. But those melodies were phenomenon....both load & reload.

    v.... p....

    Truth be told I find more melody on Kill Em all than the Load albums which sound like uninspered monotonous and boring jamming. BTW I love Corrosion of Conformity.

    v.... p....

    I also love kill em all and ride the lighting and my favourite is... and justice for all by far...The jamming part, was whole concept of load and reload. A small break after 1,5years in the studio from the black album.
    To me load/reload were very mature and unusual albums.I wish they continued that way. I miss the melody now, melody which I didn't find in St Anger, Death Magnetic, And Hardwired as a whole. (The unnamed feeling, The day that never comes & Halo on fire are of course excluded)

    v.... p....

    @vst productions so you found melody in beating a dumbed down riff to death in almost all these tunes. MOP had melody. Sanitarium, Orion etc. Poor old twisted me? What melody?

  83. M.... ....

    one of my favorite Alice in Chains songs

    M.... ....

    @Jason Hurk AIC influenced Metallica so much for Load and Reload... sorry for Metallica but AIC ruled in 90' (still now)

  84. D.... D....

    The house Jason built....

  85. J.... L....

    Não compreendo porque eles criarão esta merda ......

  86. B.... T....

    Close my eyes find my place to hide

  87. �.... D....

    and what is it? Metallica imitating Alice In Chains?

  88. E.... ....

    To this day it still puzzles me
    Why the fuck do you paint an album cover with semen??

  89. M.... G....

    One of my favs

  90. J.... F....

    Jack jumped over the candlestick

  91. M.... C....

    MUSICÃO❤️

  92. �.... ....

    Lars von Trier:)

  93. c.... h....

    Great song

  94. J.... C....

    For real music fans imagine Metallica and 2PAC recording together

  95. s.... 4....

    2019🔈🔉🔊
    Best Album of Metallicaaa🇧🇦🇧🇦

  96. T.... F....

    Laynes voice sounds different here. Hmmm.....

  97. J.... F....

    METALLICA IS ANTI-CHRIST LOL NOT BIG FAN OF JESUS CHRIST

    dying for you. SO METALLICA HATES CHRISTIANS 100%. because GOD's PEOPLE ARE CHRISTIAN and if METALLICA CLEARLY hates GOD HIMSELF no doubt he hates GODS FOLLOWERS//CHRISTIANS thats what metallicas singing in every one of his songs what his lyrics are about and thats where ill tell you whats up blasphemy is evil~ Evil is Anti-Christ and Metallica does hate Jesus and Christians.

    J.... F....

    idai garaio

  98. J.... F....

    Songs 100% anti-christ, Your body is the temple of Jesus Christ for those who belong to Christ. Not the house that jack built thats satanic. Thats blasphemous outta blasphemy. You can say whatever you want but blasphemy is evil and anti-christ is satanic. I'll criticize your lyrics, you're going to hell big boy. The house Christ built. what do you even mean to say I'm saying Jesus Christ God himself throughout scripture and the word of God. Your body (is Christ's temple) i dont see the house jack built anywhere in that bible verse do you? Anyways you can be anti-christ and hate Christians all you want thumbs totally down. But. This song is about blasphemy. Not about God or Jesus Or Christ however blasphemy it means anti-christ against God without Jesus hates Christians.


    You can say this song hates Christians. If you want to be right on the spot.

    J.... F....

    #garbage i like it

    J.... F....

    vai chupa um cu jkkkkkkkkkkkk