master of puppets

This song defines Metallica and contains powerful lyrics, full of powerful messages. This song isn’t necessarily specifically about drugs, although it refers to them. The "Master" of puppets is a reference to drugs. Throughout the song the "Master" controls you and your life. This is evident in lyrics like, "chop your breakfast on a mirror," (cocaine) and "The Master Of Puppets is pulling your strings, twisting your mind and smashing your dreams." Drugs is the Master while the drug user is the puppet. It’s about someone or something else, other than you, controlling your life. People take drugs, so drugs become the master over their pain and in the end the drugs become the master over the individual. “Come crawling faster“.…“obey your master“....all very real aspects of a drug addicts life.