Welcome Home (Sanitarium) [Live / Seattle ’89] lyrics

[Instrumental Intro]

[Verse 1: James Hetfield]
Welcome to where time stands still
No one leaves, and no one will
Moon is full, never seems to change
Just labelled mentally deranged
Dream the same thing every night
I see our freedom in my sight
No locked doors, no windows barred
No things to make my brain seem scarred

[Pre-Chorus: James Hetfield]
Sleep my friend, and you will see
The dream is my reality
They keep me locked up in this cage
Can't they see it's why my brain says, "Rage"?

[Chorus: James Hetfield & Crowd]
Come on
Sanitarium
Leave me be
Sanitarium
Just leavе me alone
f*ck it
[Guitar Solo]

[Verse 2: James Hetfield]
Build my fear of what's out thеre
Cannot breathe the open air
Whisper things into my brain
Assuring me that I'm insane
They think our heads are in their hands
But violent use brings violent plans
Keep him tied, it makes him well
He's getting better, can't you tell?

[Pre-Chorus: James Hetfield]
No more can they keep us in
Listen, damn it, we will win
They see it right, they see it well
But they think this saves us from our hell

[Chorus: James Hetfield]
Sanitarium
Leave me be
Sanitarium
Just leave me alone

[Post-Chorus: James Hetfield]
Sanitarium, yeah
Leave me the f*ck alone
[Bridge: James Hetfield]
Fear of living on
Natives getting restless now
Mutiny in the air
I got some death to do
Mirror stares back hard
Kill, it's such a friendly word
Seems the only way
For reaching out again
Reach, f*ckers
Come on, man

[Guitar Solo]

[Instrumental Outro]

[Spoken: James Hetfield]
Hey friends, we having some f*cking fun tonight or what?
We got ourselves some nutty friends here tonight, I see already man