Metallica - Fuel (Studio Version)

Fuel is the first song on the thrash metal band Metallicas 7th studio album ReLoad. It stems from the thrill of fast driving and street racing. The song could also be applied to the fact that people like to drive their lives (like their cars) too fast. It seems to be one of James Hetfield's favourite songs as he later said before a concert played at an Oakland Raiders game, "We have to play Fuel...'cause it gets me pumped up."
Another interpretation of this song, which reflects the external struggles of the band members themselves as well as the personal lyric style James Hetfield adopted beginning with The Black Album, suggests that the song is about addiction. Specifically the addiction may be Hetfield's alcoholism, but it could be a reference to any sort of addiction. It is a reference to whatever it may be that fuels a person. Further, it may reflect Hetfield's decision to substitute his love of cars and racing for his love of alcohol. This is evidenced throughout the entire song and survives interpretation; the song may get the band and the crowd "pumped up," but it is by no means as simple a song as it appears.
The song was written by Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, and Kirk Hammett, and was the third single from the album. It is now a permanent fixture at their live shows, and was performed on their S&M album. Fuel was also covered by Avril Lavigne on their edition of the tribute show, MTV Icon, in 2003. Another group, Iron Horse, covered the song as well.

Gimme fuel, gimme fire, gimme that which I desire, ooh

Turn on, I see red
Adrenaline crash and crack my head
Nitro junkie, paint me dead
And I see red

A hundred plus through black and white
War horse, warhead, fuck 'em, man
White knuckle tight
Through black and white

Ooh, I burn
Fuel is pumping engines
Burning hard, loose, and clean

And then I burn
Turning my direction
Quench my thirst with gasoline

So gimme fuel, gimme fire, gimme that which I desire

Turn on beyond the bone
Swallow future, spit out hope
Burn your face upon the chrome

Take the corner, going to crash
Headlights, headlines
Another junkie lives too fast
Yeah, Lives way too fast, fast, fast, fast, fast, fast

Ooh, I burn
Fuel is pumping engines
Burning hard, loose and clean

And then I burn
Turning my direction
Quench my thirst with gasoline

So gimme fuel, gimme fire, gimme that which I desire

White knuckle tight

Gimme fuel
Gimme fire
My desire

Ooh, I burn
Fuel is pumping engines
Burning hard, loose, and clean

And on and on
Turning my direction
Quench my thirst with gasoline

Gimme fuel, gimme fire, gimme that which I desire, ooh

On I burn!

Category:

Music

Tags:

• metallica
• reload
• fuel
• kirk
• hammett
• lars
• ulrich
• james
• hetfield

[slashzakkkirk]

its not ''kinda''

its all the fucking way cool

[Fahad1917]

kinda cool what do u mean kinda cool ? ITS GREAT MAN!!!1

[nhdisdis]

daóra hein essa métalica

beijos para todos que lerem issso

[Gswordmaster1]

Quench my thirst with gasoline!!!

[sum1otosh1]

If it's too fucking loud, you're too fucking old

Just my tuppence worth

[1337sh33p]

oh, i think this is the best song ever!

[pie5797]

this song will never fail to get to me. :D

the chorus gets me all choked up.

[MrItalian99]

did i mention i love metallica? lol

[CrunchDrunk]

Lars and Relars.

[NakeRtHeRoCkEr]

@Guitarplayer2703 You told me what I already know. From St. Anger I like just 2 songs, those are St.Anger and Frantic. The album is produced really bad. And Robert wasn't even in the band when they released it. It was Bob Rock who played bass. Anyway, I just don't like St.Anger, but that doesn't mean I'm not a Metallica fan. Well, it's not my favourite band, but it's surely one of the Top 5.

[Guitarplayer2703]

@NakeRtHeRoCkEr St. Anger isn't bad. It's just not the typical Metallica Style. First of all, the tuning of the guitar is Drop C (CGCFAD). That makes it really different. Plus, St. Anger is the hardest Album of Metallica, because Jason Newsted left the band. And Hetfield had really problems with alcohol. This is not bad, this is just the product of the Anger of Metallica in that time. If you're a real Metallica fan, you would understand this.

[NakeRtHeRoCkEr]

@JMnDC4eva Dude, I'm a Metallica fan, but, you have to admit, St.Anger is not a good album if we thing about And Justice for All, Master of Puppets and Kill Em All. Death Magnetic is far better than St.Anger, but still not one of the best albums. Anyway, I like Load, Reload and Garage,Inc, but St Anger is very very bad.