Bleeding Me

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"Bleeding Me"
Metallica - Bleeding Me cover.jpg
Promotional single by Metallica
from the album Load
ReleasedMarch 11, 1997
RecordedMay 1, 1995 –February 1, 1996
Studio The Plant Studios, Sausalito, California
Genre Hard rock
Length8:18
Label Elektra
Composer(s)
Lyricist(s) James Hetfield
Producer(s)
Metallica singles chronology
"King Nothing"
(1997)		"Bleeding Me"
(1997)		"The Memory Remains"
(1997)

"Bleeding Me" is a song by American heavy metal band Metallica from their 1996 album, Load . Although never commercially released as a single, a promotional CD was sent out to radio stations in 1997, and the song would eventually reach #6 on the US Mainstream Rock chart. [1]

Contents

Lyrics

Like many songs on Load, "Bleeding Me" features some of the most personal lyrics James Hetfield has ever written about. [2] In a 2001 interview with Playboy , he explained the meaning of the song:

"Around the time of Load, I felt I wanted to stop drinking. "Maybe I'm missing out on something. Everyone else seems so happy all the time. I want to get happy." I'd plan my life around a hangover: "The Misfits are playing in town Friday night, so Saturday is hangover day." I lost a lot of days in my life. Going to therapy for a year, I learned a lot about myself. There's a lot of things that scar you when you're growing up, you don't know why. The song Bleeding Me is about that: I was trying to bleed out all bad, get the evil out. While I was going through therapy, I discovered some ugly stuff in there. A dark spot." [3]

Personnel

Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes. [4] [5]

Metallica

Additional musician

Production

Track listing

  1. "Bleeding Me" (Radio Edit) – 5:57
  2. "Bleeding Me" – 8:18

Weekly charts

Chart (1997)Peak
position
US Mainstream Rock (Billboard) [1] 6
US Active Rock (Billboard) [7] 2
US Heritage Rock (Billboard) [8] 15

References

  1. 1 2 "MAINSTREAM ROCK AIRPLAY". Billboard. Retrieved 2 August 2023.
  2. ↑ "10 Most Underrated METALLICA Songs". Metal Injection. 18 November 2016. Retrieved 2 August 2023.
  3. ↑ "13 METALLICA Songs That Deserve More Recognition". Loaded Radio. 4 August 2022. Retrieved 2 August 2023.
  4. ↑ Load liner notes. Vertigo Records. 1996.
  5. ↑ "Liner notes". Metallica official website. Archived from the original on November 26, 2020. Retrieved December 21, 2020.
  6. ↑ Clerc 2023, pp. 222–250.
  7. ↑ "ACTIVE ROCK". Billboard. Retrieved 2 August 2023.
  8. ↑ "HERITAGE ROCK". Billboard. Retrieved 2 August 2023.

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