Metallica: Enter Sandman Meaning

Song Released: 1991

Enter Sandman Lyrics

Say your prayers, little one
Don't forget, my son
To include everyone

I tuck you in, warm within
Keep you free from sin
Till the Sandman he comes

Sleep with one eye open
Gripping your pillow tight

Exit light
Enter night
Take my...

1. anonymous

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   Aug 26th 2008 !⃝

   This song may have to do with Peter pan in a way. the song could be about the fears of growing up, and wishing it would never happen. in Neverland, you don't grow up, and your always a kid. cheesy, but a possibility.
2. anonymous

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   Aug 26th 2008 !⃝

   It's about having nightmares as a child, but than it's ok. because you get to fly to neverland with Peter Pan!

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3. anonymous

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   Jan 29th 2008 !⃝

   You guys when it comes to metal there is no true interpretation. music is an art although the writer had his own meanings for the lyrics you can give them your own meaning. Also some artist such as metallica most of there songs (not all of them) but many of them were giving no meaning and were meant for the listener to give it a meaning. another band that does this is disturbed. a lot of their lyrics and versus we simply recorded while listening to their lead singer in the shower say random shit while high off of weed
4. anonymous

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   Dec 3rd 2007 !⃝

   The other interpretations are amusing, but here's the real story. It's about a man made out of sand, kind of like the mummy in the Brendan Fraser movie, who wisks around to people's bedrooms and scaring the bejesus out of them. Believe me, I've seen this guy, and it's no joke.
5. anonymous

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   Nov 7th 2007 !⃝

   In this song, tne message is that there really is nothing to fear and that it is in your head.
6. anonymous

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   Sep 8th 2007 !⃝

   It is about a kid having nightmares and being afraid to sleep. It has nothing to do with some ludicrously obtuse comparison to Iraqi trees.
7. YourFan

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   Jul 19th 2007 !⃝

   I LOVE Metallica!
   
   This song is simply about a young child who fears falling asleep to avoid the nightmares that come.
   
   I also hear rumors that if the chorus is played backwards it supposedly says "I am the snake I am the snake yeah the snake", I haven't tried that but is it true???
8. borbas001

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   May 21st 2007 !⃝

   I think it tells you that if you pry you will have good dreams and nothing bad will happen to you and if you don't go to sleep some Freddy Krueger wannabe who might be the sandman will try to kill you or get ecw's sandman to hit you with a Singapore cane and drown you with beer.
   
   BEWARE OF FREDDY WANNABES AND SANDMAN
9. anonymous

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   Apr 2nd 2007 !⃝

   First...to te george bush guy...this song was made long before iraq you dumbass....but anyway it's about the sandman from the spiderman comics and how he gave chickens nightmares...
10. anonymous

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    Mar 6th 2007 !⃝

    I think this song is about Jame's nightmares and how he used to have insomnia.
11. Angelmisty

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    Feb 24th 2007 !⃝

    It's about a child having nightmares.
12. anonymous

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    Feb 21st 2007 !⃝

    This song is about nightmares, yes, but also it is about what you fear the most which is what the sandman represents. These things you fear are that come to you in your dreams.
13. anonymous

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    Jan 10th 2007 !⃝

    Cute little sandmen attacking the world to make it cuter and more cute and shit like that.

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14. anonymous

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    Jan 10th 2007 !⃝

    Don't let sandman get you!

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15. anonymous

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    Jul 27th 2006 !⃝

    I think this song is about the killing of trees in iraq...I say this because there was tree's until the sandman (george bush) cut down all trees and now there is only sand...Also it is about murderers killing big tobacco co. Workers for selling cigarettes to minors hint "say your prayers"

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