If Heavy Metal Lyrics Were Book Blurbs
Bust out your devil’s horns and prepare to shred! Normally, there isn’t too much overlap between books and ball-busting, face-melting metal, but if you’re a fan of both (like I am), today’s your lucky day! These lyrics-as-book blurbs will get you headbangin’ with the best of ’em. (Song links are to Spotify, when available, should you have the urge to ROCK!)
Fifty Shades of Grey, by E.L. James
You’re making us….whooooaaaaaa….f$@cking HOSTILE!
Pantera, F$@cking Hostile
Or, if you prefer:
Drain you of your sanity / Face the thing that should not be
Metallica, The Thing That Should Not Be
The Last Werewolf, by Glen Duncan
Howling in shadows / Living in a lunar spell
He finds his heaven / Spewing from the mouth of hell
Ozzy Osbourne, Bark at the Moon
Gone Girl, by Gillian Flynn
And you’ve broken the notion of trust / Cause you’re lying and denying
Justifying all the actions you take / It’s pathetic and poetic
Caught in the web of your self-serving plan.
Don’t force my hand when my eyes are wide open.
Staind, Eyes Wide Open
State of Wonder, by Ann Patchett
Welcome to the jungle it gets worse here every day
Ya learn to live like an animal in the jungle where we play
Guns N’ Roses, Welcome to the Jungle
Confederacy of Dunces, by John Kennedy Toole
Don’t tell me how to do my job / There’s the door, your name’s on the knob
You’re always in the way, like a beast on my back / Were you dropped as a baby, cause brains you lack
Anthrax, Caught In a Mosh
On The Road, by Jack Kerouac
And the road becomes my bride / I have stripped of all but pride
So in her I do confide / And she keeps me satisfied
Metallica, Wherever I May Roam
The Time Traveler’s Wife, by Audrey Niffenegger
All the pain in this world won’t stop us now / For we have each other
All the hate in this world can’t tear us apart / This love is forever
Trivium, This World Can’t Tear Us Apart
Lamb, by Christopher Moore
If I worship the ground that he walks on / And it winds up that he has two left feet
Will he be walking on water? / ‘Cause, you should know, we never liked to get our feet wet
Fair To Midland, Musical Chairs
The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving, by Jonathan Evison
I want you to lead me / Take me somewhere / Don’t want to live in a dream one more day
In Flames, Come Clarity
Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk
Hello me, it’s me again / You can subdue, but never tame me
It gives me a migraine headache / Thinking down to your level
Megadeth, Sweating Bullets
