Exit Sandman

(Slow, echoing, clean guitar intro — reversed chords from “Enter Sandman”)

[Verse 1]
Say your prayers one last time
Light goes out, cross that line
Tales we told, the dreams we fed
Now they fade… into the dead

(Heavy drop — slow, doomy riff crashes in)
[Verse 2]
Hush now, little soul
No more monsters in the cold
The night has bled, the hour’s passed
The Sandman’s home… at last

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[Chorus]
Exit light, fade to gray
Exit Sandman, slip away
No more screams, no lullabies
Just blackened skies and last goodbyes

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[Bridge – spoken growl, Hetfield-style]
Tick-tock, the cradle breaks
Nothing left for fear to take
Dust to dust, ride the flame
Exit Sandman. End the name.

(Solo: Kirk goes full funeral pyre mode — melodic, emotional, screeching bends and wails like a banshee. Then silence…)

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[Final Chorus – stripped down, clean guitar, soft vocal delivery]
Exit light… fade to gray…
Exit Sandman… slip away…
All is done… the tale is told…
Leave the stage, let silence hold…

(Guitars trail off with reversed echoes of the original Enter Sandman riff, like a ghost of the past fading into static)

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[Outro – whispered voice, fading out]
“Off to never-never land…”
“…was.”

Heavy Metal