Metallica
The Shortest Straw
...And Justice For All (1988)

E5F5E5!  E5F5E5! E5F5E5G5 F5E5!

E5F5E5! E5F5E5B♭5 F5E5 (r)

E5F5E5! E5F5E5G5 F5E5!

E5F5E5! E5F5E5E5 

  E5F5E5 e eee E5F5E5  G5 B♭5
                               x 4  fin 2 & 4: G5! G5! F♯5! F5!  
  E5F5E5 e eee E5F5E5  B♭5 G5

E5F5E5 e eee e F5 F5E5
 
    E5
D --2----8-7^-8-----                            3e: Lars embarque
A --2-/7--------7\--  e e ee ee E5F5 E5F5  x 5  4e: fin E5G5 E5G5 
E --0---------------                            5e: fin E5A5 E5A5

                      G5  F♯5 F5
G --------3-2^3^2-0--
D --2---2------------
A --2-0--------------
E --0----------------

E5           E5F5 E5F5  E5           E5G5 E5G5
Suspicion is your name, your honesty to blame
E5          E5F5 E5F5 E5       G5 F♯5 F5
Put dignity to shame, dishonor
Witchhunt modern day, determining decay
The blatant disarray disfigure

F♯5              F♯5G5 F♯5G5 F♯5            F♯5A5 F♯5A5
The public eye's disgrace,   defying common place
F♯5        F♯5G5 F♯5G5 F♯5      A5 G♯5 G5
Unending paper chase,  unending
Deafening, painstaking
Reckening, this vertigo it doth bring

fill  x 2  (1 & 2)

B5 B5 B5 B5 {D --2^3^2-0--  x 2}

E5 E5 E5F5 B5/C5C5 {} A5 A5 E5/F5 B5/C5C5 {}

  Shortest straw, challenge liberty
  Downed by law, live in infamy
  Rub you raw, witchhunt riding through
  Shortest straw, this shortest straw has been pulled for you

  Pulled for you
  Shortest straw, pulled for you
  Shortest straw, pulled for you
  Shortest straw, shortest straw has been pulled for you

fill  x 2  (3 à '6')

The accusations fly, discrimination why?
Your inner self to die, intruding
Doubt sunk itself in you, it's teeth and talons through
You're living catch-2 2, deluding

A mass hysteria, a megalomania
Reveal dementia, reveal
Secretly, silently
Certainly, in vertigo you will be

fill  x 2  (1 & 2)

B5 B5 B5 B5 {}

E5 E5 E5F5 B5/C5C5 {} A5 A5 E5/F5 B5/C5C5 {}

  Refrain

fill  x 2  (1 & 2)

    E5              F5              D/F♯       G5      F♯5 F5 E5
G ----2---3-2^3^2-----2---3-2^3^2-----2-4-5--7-7-------7----      x 1.875  
D --2---2---------2-3---3---------3-4------------5-4-5---4--

2e: fin G5 F♯5 F5 \

(Couplet en E muet)  x 2  2e: w/o e  
                                            w/ SolO
F♯  G  E/G♯  A  A5 G♯5 G5  x 2  G5 F♯5 F5!  

  Shortest straw, pulled for you
  Shortest straw, pulled for you
  Shortest straw, pulled for you
  Shortest straw, shortest straw has been pulled for you

  (1/2 Refrain muet)  w/ solo  <<<<<

Behind you hands are tied, your being ostracized
Your hell is multiplied, upending
The fallout has begun, oppressive damage done
Your many turned to none, to nothing

You're reaching your nadir, your will has disappeared
The lie is crystal clear, defending
Channels red, one word said
Blacklisted, with vertigo make you dead

fill  x 2  (1 & 2)

B5 B5 B5 B5 {}

E5 E5 E5F5 B5/C5C5 {} D5 D5 E5/F5 B5/C5C5 {}

  1ère moitié refrain

                 Pulled for you
  E5F5E5 e eee E5F5!    F5! E5!

E5 e e ee ee E5F5 E5F5

E5 e e ee ee E5G5 E5G5

ti-solo  (x 1.875)

E5 e ee ee E5F5 E5F5 E5!  Em7 Em7\


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