Why James Hetfield QUIT DRINKING | Metallica's Bleeding Me EXPLAINED

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Why James Hetfield QUIT DRINKING
Metallica's Bleeding Me EXPLAINED

With lyrics that read

"I am the priest that feeds the beast
I am the blood, I am release"

and

"I'm sowing the seeds I take for granted...

This thorn in my side is from the tree I've planted."

"Bleeding Me" is perhaps one of James Hetfield's most personal songs ever written, as the songwriter opens up about his struggles with alcohol addiction and recovery.

As he told Playboy in 2001:

"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...

I took more than a year off from drinking—and the skies didn’t part. It was just life, but less fun. The evil didn’t come out. I wasn’t laughing, wasn’t having a good time. I realized, drinking is a part of me. Now I know how far to go. You can’t be hungover when you got kids, man. “Dad, get the f*** off the couch!”

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