Metallica Lyrics Explained (The End Of The Line)

Greatings Metallic Ones,
May you ride the lightning and not be scathed!

Skip the intro if you have read it before.

INTRO
If this is your first time on this blog, the objective is to take a philosophical journey through the lyrics of Metallica as I do my best to decipher the meanings and deal with the issues which they present . Metallica addresses very real and deep issues that would be wise for us to look into ourselves such as death, life, afterlife, the evil of man, insanity, internal struggles, the idea of a deity, why we choose to take life (weather it be in capitol punishment or war), and so forth.

The End Of The Line is a very sad song and a warning to all. It is about drugs. When James Hetfield talked about the title of the album that the song is on, he said, "Death Magnetic, at least the title, to me started out as kind of a tribute to people that have fallen in our business, like Layne Staley and a lot of the people that have died, basically — rock and roll martyrs of sorts."
Layne Staley was the lead singer of Alice and Chains. Drugs destroyed his life when he was alive and finally took it from him in 2002.
Metallica has been in the music business since '82. They have seen too many people in the business affected and/or killed by drugs. May we all heed the warning in these lyrics.

"Need...more and more
Tainted misery"

The lyrics point out that drugs "corrode innocence, stain, rot away, choke, snuff reality, scorch, kill the light, and incinerates celebrities" such as Layne Staley, Kurt Cobain, Brad Nowell, and others. And this is only some of what the first verse says.
The song calls drugs a "death contagious deity" and a "deceiver". One part says, "the slave becomes the master."
It goes on and on and on with warning after warning until ending with,

"Burn through all your gasoline / asylum overtime / never mind / dead hour glass of time / sand we will not ever find / we gather here today / say goodbye / cause you've reached the end of the line"

And that's it. Drugs equal death.

Rock starts often use drugs because of how empty success is. We at the bottom use drugs because of how hard it is without success.

But there is hope for us who struggle with hardship or emptiness. And there is hope for the masters who have become the slaves to drugs.

The Hebrew word for salvation is "Yeshua." That is the very name that Heaven gave to the baby child born unto Joseph and Mary 2000 years ago. It is the name that we translate in English today as Jesus. "she will bear a Son; and you shall call His name Jesus {Yeshua literally}, for He will save His people from their sins [that is, prevent them from failing and missing the true end and scope of life, which is God].." That is from Matthew 1:21

"He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners" That is Isaiah 61:1

Drugs may equal captivity and death but Jesus means salvation!