Are we off to find the hero of the day without paying attention to peace and joy?

Some folks would say Metallica is a bit “twisted”,” however,  I would submit they have a whole lot of socially aware lyrics and a couple of their offerings will be featured in this blog for certain.  The first tune featured is “Hero Of The Day”.. here’s. The   YouTube. Link

https://youtu.be/olzz82oRCMI

Here are the lyrics...

Hero of the Day 

Written.by James Alan Hatfield, Lars Ulrich, and Kirk L. Hammett

Mama they try and break me

The window burns to light the way back home

A light that warms no matter where they’ve gone

They’re off to find the hero of the day

But what if they should fall by someone’s  wicked way

Still the window burns time so slowly turns

Someone there is sighing

Keepers of the flame

Do you feel your name

Do you hear.your babies crying?

Mama they try and break me

still they try and break me

Excuse me while I tend to how I feel

These things return to me that still seem.real

Now deservingly this easy chair

But the rocking stops by wheels of despair

Don’t want. Your aid

But these fists I’ve made for years won’t hold or feel 

No I’m not all me

So excuse me while  I tend to Howe I fell

So now the dreams and waking screams that ever last through the night

So build a wall hide behind it till. It’s light

Can you hear your babies  crying now?

Mama they try and break me...repeated

PHILOSOPHY

Metallica cranks out. This cryptic tune—or maybe not that cryptic if you  long for a sense of home and a sense of  being sheltered, but your. Past and your ‘home” didn’t leave you feeling like there was really  a home there including that one source of “mam’s love” that could protect and nurture. You  no matter what.  In  many ways the song  warns. That you can go out and. Make money, find and become “the hero of the day” and yet. That won’t really  bring you  peace and or joy until you find that comfortable spot.either with someone else. Or more importantly inside yourself.  Until then it will seem like the world is “trying top break” me/you always.  In short, you  need to find support to handle the demons inside and outside in the world.  A sense of home can make it easier, however, not everyone has. That ready-made sense of a hometown or a person that. Feels like they will always be there. To support them.  It would seem that if this song were written. To comment on social media “friends” it would  be asking us to pick some folks that we can. Support in a more complete way even if we don’t have  thousands of followers on “the Gram.”

Anyway it’s a dark song...but it is Friday the 13th!