Metallica - Cyanide Meaning

Cyanide Lyrics

Sleep and dream of this
Death Angel's kiss
Brings final bliss
Completely!

Empty, they say
Death, won't you let me stay?
Empty, they say
Death, hear me call your name..
Ooh, call your name.

Chorus:
Suicide, I've already died
You're...

1. anonymous

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   Mar 25th 2021 !⃝

   Think it's about suicide (obviously) but also abortion. Dead inside is like being killed inside the mother's womb. Cyanide is also used in abortions to kill the fetus.
2. anonymous

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   Mar 22nd 2018 !⃝

   This song might be a link to The Peoples Temple cult who performed a mass suicide in 1978 using cyanide, killing 918 people..
3. anonymous

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   Jul 4th 2015 !⃝

   The song states that he has already died meaning that he is going to die no matter what but he also wants to stay to cause more chaos he is also calling deaths name wanting to die the lyrics cyanide dead inside refers to cyanide death penalty
4. anonymous

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   Mar 22nd 2012 !⃝

   It's about abortion

   This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway
5. anonymous

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   Mar 31st 2011 !⃝

   As many MetallicA songs, Cyanide has multiple meanings
   My 2 favourites are these:
   1) as the oldest comment said, it was about WWII, gas chambers, and nazis. The demo was entitled German Soup for that reason.
   2) Drugs. Since Metallica started to play many fellow singers, musicians and well-known people have died of drug abuse. The cyanide are drugs, so, as Metallica has survived, they are asking for permission to Death, so it may let them outlive all of their contemporary mates. It's all about old wasted rockers
6. Lowden6

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   Oct 4th 2010 !⃝

   During the Chorus he says "Suicide, I've already died." The album is titled Death Magnetic is about suicide. "Death won't you let me stay, Death hear me call you name."
7. anonymous

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   Oct 29th 2009 !⃝

   I believe it has to do with the gas chamber death penalty in the united states, because cyanide is used in that form of execution.