[Eagle of Liberty]

Lyrics to Metallica's Eye of the Beholder:
Do you see what I see?
Truth is an offence
Your silence for your confidence
Do you hear what I hear?
Doors are slamming shut
Limit your imagination, keep you where they must.
Do you feel what I feel?
Bittering distress
Who decides what you express?
Do you take what I take?
Endurance is the word
Moving back instead of forward seems to me absurd

Doesn't matter what you see
Or into it what you read
You can do it your own way
If it's done just how I say

Independence limited
Freedom of choice is made for you my friend
Freedom of speech is words that they will bend
Freedom with their exception

Do you fear what I fear?
Living properly
Truths to you are lies to me
Do you choose what I choose?
More alternatives
Energy derives from both the plus and negative
Do you need what I need?
Boundaries overthrown
Look inside, to each his own
Do you trust what I trust? Me, myself, and I
Penetrate the smoke screen, I see through the selfish lie

Doesn't matter what you see
Or into it what you read
You can do it your own way
If it's done just how I say

Independence limited
Freedom of choice is made for you my friend
Freedom of speech is words that they will bend
Freedom with their exception

Do you know what I know?
Your money and your wealth
Your silent just to hear yourself
Do you want what I want?
Desire not a thing
I hunger after independence, lengthen freedom's ring

Doesn't matter what you see
Or into it what you read
You can do it your own way
If it's done just how I say

Independence limited
Freedom of choice is made for you my friend
Freedom of speech is words that they will bend
Freedom no longer frees you

Doesn't matter what you see
Or into it what you read
You can do it your own way
If it's done just how I say

[NMEwithin]

This song is about limited Freedom of Speech and was written in 1988...coming off Reagan’s presidency. Considering Metallica I would say they were likely referencing the Republican president as is the usual trend with rock bands when a Republican is in office. For example, when do you think we will see an entire album from Green Day bashing Obama? or how about another 3 album tirade from Ministry against Obama? yup...you guessed it, never...

[counterpunch]

What about Living Colour’s ‘Cult of Personality’ instead?

[rmlew]

"Eye of the Beholder" and the entire album "...And Justice for All" was more of a cry of anarchist rage from a band reeling in pain after the death of Cliff Burton. (Cliff had died when the tour bus flipped over when it hit an ice patch in Sweden)

Le Chien Rouge has a point about "Cult of Personality"

[Two Kids' Dad]

I just hope there’s a time soon when we can say that Motorhead’s song Traitor is applicable to 0bama and his minions.

You stand accused of treason
you offer no good reason
You are a bloody liar
yours is the stake the fire
say you are innocent
but you be caught and spent
And now you pay the price
for avarice, your vice
Intrigue your sole desire
you sold your wife, your child
You sell your oldest friends
you sold your countrymen
And yet we know your name
traitor, traitor

And now your face is shown
and so your fate is known
We have discovered you
we have uncovered you
say you were led astray
fall on your knees and pray
Pity is not for you
we’ll make things hot for you
Our hearts we make to harden
for you there is no pardon
For you the spike awaits
upon the traitors gate
And crows will eat your eyes
traitor, traitor

Delight in finding you
as we are binding you
You look in vain for friends
you only find revenge
We give you blood and steel
we break you on the wheel
The ones you hope to sell
will send you straight to hell
As we dismember you
we shall remember you
You are abomination
you that betray the nation
You shall take long to die
traitor, traitor!!!

[WOBBLY BOB]

I think of Fat Teddy Swimmer when I hear their version of Whiskey in the Jar.