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  • ok if you want the best answer for the meaning behind this song it is that james doesnt want to go out and say it but it isnt particularly the alienation from the world he felt it was that when he was a child he basicly watched his mom dying in front of his eyes from cancer but due to their religeon she did not go to the doctor so when she died he felt like ...well why did she die if GOD is supposed to heal her.....he pretty much felt betrayed by this god that was supposed to save his mom

  • oh how I would like to be that bass... 1:48

  • THEY CAN'T DENY MATEALLICA.

  • Where's teh interview?

  • i can do this too...! bla,bla,bla,bla,bla,bla,bla,bl­a,bla,bla,bla,bla,bla mother this bla,bla,bla,bla,bla,cancer,bla­,blabla,bla,bla,bla,religion, bla,bla,bla,bla,bla.,bla.bla,b­la,bla,bla,bla,bla,bla,bla,bla­,bla,bla,bla,bla,bla,bla,

  • my family was like that the same way to me when harry potter came out.

  • I understand Hetfield's position, Christian Scientism is apostate!

  • Ok heres the deal. Its faith NOT fact. Dont take it literal. Its just good stories to live by not a actual historical document. Seriously its tradition. Think about it. They though the earth was flat then. So If you belive thats great and if you dont that's great. Its a personal belief. Dont make it out to be more than it is.

  • Most underrated song of The Black Album.

  • @Ununoctium1337 The Struggle Within?

  • I don't want to get into some huge religious argument, but here's my two cents:

    Aristotle and Religion came around the same time. For hundreds of years, those were the only truths we know, but eventually we found out that Aristotle's 'findings' were bullshit. I should point out that Aristotle at least had some reason to him, unlike Religion. So why are people still so convinced that the more absurd theory is right?

  • On Top of What I said (I guess you cannot respond to your own self anymore): Me = Total Christian, Horror, Fantasy, Essay, Poetry writer; Pin-Up, Fantasy, Figure, Creature, Hero/Heroine Artist.

    AND...........................­. JAMES ROCKS! Jesus Love You (I don't care to debate), I think James loves you too. What Would Jamses Do?(?) Hmm...

  • People get scarred by many things in their lives. Childhood is a state of super-malleability; tragedy found in your world-view cuts deep. Years later you look back and may see where the gold was when then it only looked like crap; of course some of it is still is what it was - crap- I lived a lot of this; reflection - I sometimes get lost in it. I am Christian (which C.Sci. isn't) I write horror, draw pin-ups, and long ago formed a black/death-metal band that lasted for 10yrs. & I Love You.

  • best metal band in the world forever

  • I personally believe that Jesus existed. But the Bible is fake and is nothing more then a tool to control people.

  • @LordVerdo THIS. FU*KING THIS!!! I'm 10000% atheist, but I also think Jesus existed and the stupid people made such a big thing about all that he said. He was just a hippy and people created a religion about his words.

  • @nmlss I am a little religious personally but by no means a radical that think's its all true.

  • IDK about what James said, but the song's boss.

  • Instead of bashing out on Jesus Why dont we give Jesus a chance in our lives.... Forget abt real or jesus not being real... We give chance to everything drugs music GF's frds but why not Jesus a chance.....

  • @vickyanish Because he's fucking dead and was nothing but a human scapegoat used to create a loophole for sin. It's been giving chance after chance for 2,000 fucking years. It doesn't work.

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  • Let dark spirits keep telling you God isn't real,time will prove you wrong

  • @trx125tracy69 im waiting for him where is he should of been here long time ago ive got to somewhere

  • @zamoragera13 Slow down,the best things happen in due time

  • Religion is brainwashing garbage. Christian Science.........dont know much about that but from what James Hetfield briefly said..........sounds extremely brainwashing. " raised to not believe in doctors" AND " not too learn about the body "........basically not taking proper care of it can lead to serious health problems. SCIENCE fights disease/health illness'..........RELIGION KILLS you physically AND mentally.

  • @TitsandFish84 Christian Scientists believe this world is an illusion and you can only transcend the illusion as Jesus did (that is how he was able to suspend the laws of physics at his discretion) if you don't buy into it. Its like the Matrix, but everyone can be Neo. It was made up by a charlatan named Mary Baker Eddy. The fact that James didn't feel a part of this Earth means his parents were psychologically abusing him exactly the way that The Church of Christ Scientist advised them too.

  • You're all fucking stupid. This isn't even a song about whether or not God exists or whether or not you should be a certain religion, etc... It's about his fucking childhood... And being forced in to a religion that stunted his child-hood, and isolated him from real friends... Which you'd know if you fucking paid attention to all of the video.. All of you grow the fuck up, and quit starting religious debates on youtube videos.. -.- it's really annoying.....

  • @LaconicLex Cry about it. There is no god by the way.

  • @kentriz182 how the fuck do you know?? i mean really??

  • @LaconicLex Respect

  • @LaconicLex it's about his mother specificly. cause she died from a cancer, waiting for god to save her and denieing any type or treatment.. that's why james wrote the "god" that failed..

  • @solmaupt Yes, his mother did that. Because of the religion she was in. And forced him in to. Which is what I said. My whole point that religious debates about this are stupid. And, it's about the whole experience of the religion in general, but yes.... it includes his mother. Obviously. Considering his mother is also a part of the religion.

  • Who fucking cares if God exists or not?! Just listen to the fucking song and shut your fucking dumbass mouth. I'm not here to watch you idiots argue over religion, I'm here to listen to Metallica.

  • God fails every time. If he even exists.

  • I feel him. my grandma always tried to force me to be a christian and i never really bought into the entire God thing, I went my entire childhood a christian and as soon as i moved out, I never went back to church and became atheist.

  • @godhand891 force? yeah im sure he did try to force you. because taking kids to church is forcing

  • God=best villain in fiction.

    

  • The Marker stands at the entrance gate of life and reads: Poor fool on the brow of the wise man and Poor sinner on the brow of the saint. Have faith in yourself, have faith in the infinite.

  • Ramming any ideology or religion down your childs throat is serious child abuse. Diluted genatically raped braindead retards shouldn't be allowed to raise children (unles they produce epic guitarists of course :D)

  • @tommyXBOX360 No the fuck it isnt. child say that to someone who was actualy abused as a child and see how fast he/she kills you

  • @4everUSNavy What do you mean exactly?

  • @tommyXBOX360 i mean it isnt the same. child abuse is stuff like starving them, locking them is closets for 4 months and only feeding them once a day. that type of stuff. taking a kid to church is far from that

  • @4everUSNavy I did not mean abuse in the literal sence. I just meant it is horrible to spoonfeed a religion or ideology, esspecially when it has such great impact on your children. Like Hettfields story. Parents should allow their children to form their own opinion on things instead of more or less forcing them to believe in a certain religion.

  • Please write that he was sayed. Thank You. I want to translate this.

  • Well you believe in what a crazy "sandman" wrote 2,000 years ago about some magician named Jesus. And i believe in a 80's Rock band that still lives on today and actually has a message that doesn't contridict it self in the next albulm.

    ............I think im smarter than you.

  • @Trickmaster6

    Yawnfest. You're 22..........and German.

    Go Figure.

  • @Trickmaster6 that just prooved that you are just an asshole

  • ugh i had to back outa this video wen i saw James hugging Lars

    fukn gay ass shit!

  • Basically all will be explained in the end.

  • People who believe in nothing have more of a clue than evolutionists and Scientologists.

  • and other scientific instruments.

  • Plus carbon dating is known to be incorrect at times...so..why trust science 100%?

  • hetfields voice is fuckin awesome

  • I could maybe believe in a God if someone told me he was a cruel and evil being. But for now, religion to me is just a tool to harass people who do not share religious beliefs and a way for hopeless people to think that there is something beyond life. I respect religious people, but I do not follow there ideas.

  • @DefLeppard365

    Did you not hear him say "Christian Scientist" That's different from being a normal "Christian" like me.

  • 2:08 . . .ur welcome

  • As U can see, every religion is a big shit!

  • @koike28 I second this

  • First thing, theres no such thing like GOD... Second, pls grow up!

  • @koike28 Dude you have no idea what you're talking about. It's so stupid how dumbass people like you come out and say no god cause they just automatically think it's a stupid fairy tale. If believe you believe, if you dont you dont that's it.

  • @gapemy115 I think that U don't even realize how many gods have been created by mankind... But ok. Every child has a magic friend. So pls grow up and start thinkink. Use your fucking brain!!!

  • @koike28 Thts your lie

  • @trx125tracy69 My lie... WTF??? u can heare lies every sunday in church...

  • Christian Science? is that anything like Military Intelligence?

  • I think what I like about this interview was that James wasn't bashing religion, he was talking about how the song was a catharsis for him--a way to vent. He's essentially saying, 'Hey, I can talk about whatever I damn well please. They're my songs, if you don't want to hear what I have to say, then don't listen." It's that simple. Some people dont want to have to ask themselves the big questions in life. In that way, Metallica is good therapy for all of us. ;]

  • god is dumb.

    metal is good.

  • where can i find the whole video or episode of what ever this was from??

  • Who cares if you believe or don't believe? Wars have been fought over the subject and that's how it'll always be. People are all idiots as far as I'm concerned.

    James, I'm sorry for your loss :(

  • James with a loaded weapon in studio that would make me a little more then nervous

  • R.I.P Mamma Hetfield

  • God didnt fail, his Mother failed 

  • You know this video is old @ :06

    He has a gun......IN CALI!

  • 4o\m/

  • lol @ the religious ppl.....

  • There's probably no god. There's probably no afterlife. Live this life to the fullest don't throw it away

  • @Ignorantf00l Believing in God isn't throwing away your life. 

  • @teenmetalfreak3 Dying because you refuse treatment... kinda is. That's what I was talking about.

  • @Ignorantf00l Oh I thought you were talking in a generalized term. I agree with that, it says no where in the bible not to take treatment when you're sick.

  • @teenmetalfreak3 That really depends on how much in god you believe. If you blaim god for your misery, then it is throwing your life away.

  • @MathiasMoeller You shouldn't blame God for your misery. But I don't want to get too deep into this conversation. Never ends well. :)

  • @teenmetalfreak3 I can't blame him for my misery but I must thank him for my wealthy? How's that??

  • @eddox94 Eh?

  • She did the right thing to have faith in christ and join Jesus for a eternal life!

  • @elmatachica ikr his mom is happy there and so is mine. =) its a much better place up there

  • @elmatachica No she didn't because she wasn't a christian. She was a Christian Scientist which is completely different.

  • @elmatachica You're an idiot. If there is a god, an all-knowing god, then didn't he help men create medicine? And doctors? I hope u get cancer and see what you do.

  • @dsgboba7x

    be careful what you wish for, YOU might just get it.

  • @elmatachica i wouldnt rely on imaginary characters to heal me. id go see a doctor.

  • @dsgboba7x

    of course you would. who said I woulden't??

  • @dsgboba7x No one knows if god is real, or fake. Shut your arrogant fucking mouth and respect peoples beliefs, and watch the best band on earth

  • @jakeisurpimp I fucking know hes fake. Cause i have a BRAIN! I dont have to respect the beliefs of MORONS.

  • @dsgboba7x You are making a big mistake. Just because people make a choice to believe something untrue and you think you got it right doesnt make you any smarter. You delude yourself that you are superior than religious people in a matter that cant affect your IQ in any way.

  • @dsgboba7x Shut the fuck up, you smelly ape nigger.

  • @dsgboba7x dude your just a fucking atheist,shut your dick and stop thinking that your OPINION is THE right one for everyone,and that people who dont share your opinion are morons,because you make yourself look so retarded and immature,which im guessing you are...

  • @MotherPunker970 You christians are so funny... Believing in invisible people Lol

  • @dsgboba7x

    Idiot...so you think we're fucking monkeys? There is WAY more proof in an existence of God than us being "evolved". The United States wouldn't even fucking exist if Christianity did not exist...it was founded off of Christian beliefs and enlightenment. Look at school...basically Christians made school up.

  • @av3nger3 Actually, evolution is proven. But feel free to be ignorant.

  • @GreendayversusU2

    By who? Look at carbon dating...it gives an illusion that it is correct because WE created the systems that power it. The metric system, standard...they are created by humans and are in no way proven to be correct...they appear to be related and correct because of their relation to one another...the only reason they are perfectly related: We created it...so of course we can connect it all together and say.. oh...it is totally correct. (Human standards).

  • @av3nger3 What other standards would we use?

  • @GreendayversusU2

    The mayans were pretty damn close with the moon...scientists and others try to explain using ways that are physical and can only be seen. There are variables that are at work unseen..whether felt or heard,etc. Proof is eliminated for a lot of scientific theories...and it works for religion unless you look into it...there isn't any recorded history that stretches anywhere past several thousand years ago...as far as we know. But then there is the dinosaur argument.

  • @av3nger3 >sigh< this is going to get very complicated very quickly, isn't it....

  • @jakeisurpimp Depends on which god you're talking about. 

  • I'm a Christian, but I don't believe in all that Christian Science crap. Nothing against the people that believe in it, but it's just really stupid to me. There's absolutely nothing wrong with medicines and cures and all that. The stuff to make them comes from Mother Earth herself. I mean, it' s not like shots and stuff are made from things that aren't natural.

  • @thelegendoflink52 ikr =)

  • To all the religious, close minded people who dislike this song. Fuck you. Show some love for the Hetfield's.

  • "didn't make me feel a part of this Earth...." damn. that's pretty crazy. but yea you can't force a religion on a 7 year old

  • @BBombers2425 your wrong on that you can force religion on anyone you wish however it does not make it right expecially trying to force religion on kids

  • @dudewheresmycar206 well yea obviously you can do whatever the hell you want but my point is a 7 year old can't understand the complexity of religion and when you have a situation like het's all he knew was he was singled out and he didnt like it

  • Ask for ever, who we are and where we came from.

    People always talk of god as some separate being thats judging them.

  • @NefariousMinds Stop asking, do more searching. All these questions has been answered.

    By the way, I'm not gonna explain the abiogenesis and human psychology to you over Youtube so do not come back with stupid assumptions.

    Have a nice day.

  • Either way if you listen to the rest of the songs on the CD, You will obviously see that he is truly enlightened, and knows how our minds are in prison due to the society that we have created and the key to getting out of prison is to let go, meditate, and feel good for existing through the never for ever! :-)

  • 0:33 TELECASTER!!!!!!!! FTW!!!!!!!!!!!

  • wheres the video footage from?

  • concusion:James is an alien O_O

  • The God that Failed. God fails every single day in every one's life. And we can thank ourselves. The problem is, that people always want God to be what they want Him to be and not what he is. If you want to know what the Christian God is, then read the Bible. Not what you hear or think from ignorant people.

  • @decrepitchild Erg. God never fails. What James meant is that his mom, when she had cancer or whatever it was she had, would say "My god will heal me." she died. There is more than one god, but only one TRUE God. Her god wasn't the true god that can heal, so she died. If she had faith in the True God, He would have healed her.

  • @dheim293 @dheim293 Yeah, God never fails. And if things went wrong, you were supposed to have harder faith in the real God. Concrete logical, the one making you walk down the street feeling guilty of what you did or not. Great lifehood.

    Anyway, you stand and manage your life as you wish, but do not bother advising people of how they can manage theirs. Such a disrepectful behaviour, especially for the ones who had to face death and didn't make it. And I do know of what I'm talking about.

  • Hetfield is the GOD that didn't fail! He just grew a bit older...

  • You are supposed to go to the hospital and then ask god for help thats how it works.

  • this is why America is a country with the most stupid people. c'mon cure cancer with power of God? we are not in the middle ages no more.

  • There is no Heaven, there is no Hell. There is only you and everything else, and you are everything else and everything else is you. <3 Law Of One <3

  • @HiddenHand91 you decide whether you will live "hell"(Negatively) (Feeling Bad)or "heaven"(Positively)(Feeling Good)....I think thats the symbolism. Heaven on Earth is when the majority of the earth is "feeling good"

  • @NefariousMinds Precisely! Our feelings and thoughts are a lot more powerful than we think, and in time, we will see that too :)

  • @HiddenHand91

    AKA Sad But True.

  • hetfield on a telecaster... hmm.. don't like it.. glad he stuck with the explorer :) (and the occasional gibson flying v and les paul)

  • In a way God did save her from cancer

  • @MrRobthebob42 Screw you and your religious rationalization.

  • Look, everyone has different beliefs. There are many people who just don't believe in god, and for good reason

  • Jame's mother didnt accept medicines and things like that to cure her Cancer , she trusted in God so much so she thought that "he" will save her from death which unfortunately it didint thats why this song is dedicated to her with the tittle "The God That Failed" So dont post rude comments .. R.I.P James Mother !

  • @EX0michAel

    Yeah I read that on wikipedia. Her name was Cynthia. And you're totally right, telling people to not post rude comments ..

  • @TheTheAndreiasantos thank you man :)

  • @EX0michAel

    I am not a man! : b

  • I always wonder why god did so much 700 years ago and now nothing? Its like He has abondend us haha. i believe in evolution beqause it hase more proof to support it and faith in any kind is good to believe in it but it has downsides you know

  • i don't know how someone can dislike this, :( come on

  • James is the God That Didn't Fail \m/ !!!

  • I'm a Christian. And I still thumbs-up this video.

  • @ravendta

    Why not? I'm Christian too.. And I believe James is Christian too..

  • hmm clips from a year in a half in the life of metallica awesome movie have in on tape

  • @jettsta2401 dude it takes more faith not to believe in god. Evolution is only a fairy tale theory. U cant look at a painting and say there was no painter. Cant look at creation and say there is no creator. The creation is proof of a creator.

  • @Lboogie501 lol amen

  • @Lboogie501 wait what? earth was created by a big explosion i thought even christians knew that

  • Religion is a mask to hide behind

    Anyway theirs no proof of god, evolution has pretty much been proven and weak people who are scared of death believe in heaven and God

  • @jettsta2401 Evolution is a mask to hide behind. People who do whatever they want and don't want to have consequences or be punished, believe that when you die all the stuff you have done doesn't matter. Most likely that's you.

  • @goodeggs1to3 Why? , Just because i think god doesnt exist you think i treat people like shit ? , Thats far from the truth.

    Anyway, theirs people who pretend to be the perfect family and while the dads a drunk and the mums a crack whore.

    And how many pedophiles and murders turn to god while their in jail and say " Im Sorry, Please let me out" because their weak, pathetic people who are scared of somtthing thats a part of life.

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  • @goodeggs1to3 The problem is that this ''mask of evolution'' is made of scientific evidences, logics, non biased studies that were made over hundred of years. While you religious donkey believe in a fairy tale write some 2000 years ago by some goat herders living in a desert without any scientific tools about a sky daddy that has no evidence to support it. And you can believe in God AND evolution since evolution doesn't explains how the life appeared but it's diversity. Get some education...

  • @Doum92 Okay yea we all believe in something. While you say some religious goat herders living in a desert, who are talking about? You say I need an education (I'm working on that) while you don't even know who or what your talking about. Go actually READ the Bible before you start saying anything like that.

  • @goodeggs1to3 Is that what you call an argument to defend your point of view?

  • @Doum92 and you CANT believe in evolution and God.

  • @goodeggs1to3 yes you can who says we were as we are now when God put us here

  • @goodeggs1to3 How so? Explain this to me and show me your lack of comprehension about the theory of evolution, I need to laugh a bit.

    Stop just asserting things and never giving me the evidences with it. Oh wait... that how religion works... my bad.

  • @Doum92 In the Bible it says God created EVERYTHING not just MAN. So how could you say you can believe in both God and evolution.

  • @goodeggs1to3 Because evolution doesn't explains how life started, but it's diversity over a period of time... Abiogenesis explains how it started... or you fairy tale also do it... take your pick. If you decide to believe everything that was written some 2000 years by some goat herders living in the desert who also were high opium consumer and who stoled other religions ideas and said some things about a sky daddy that loves everyone , go on.

  • @Doum92 God is how EVERYTHING started out. We didn't evolve from apes. God made the the Earth and everything else.

  • @goodeggs1to3 I can't see if you are trolling or just very stupid.

  • @Doum92 I'm not trolling.

  • @goodeggs1to3 Case close. Have a nice life in your illusions. If this is what u need to be happy...

  • @Doum92 Right back at you.

  • @goodeggs1to3 From someone who believe in a story less probable then Harry Potter and which is supported by no evidences, I'm not really worried.

  • @Doum92 OK cool now leave me alone.

  • @goodeggs1to3 Bible also says to stone your wife to death if she isn't a virgin.

    Your choice.