What does Trapped Under Ice mean?

Metallica: Trapped Under Ice Meaning

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Trapped Under Ice Lyrics

I don't know how to live through this hell
Woken up, I'm still locked in this shell
Frozen soul, frozen down to the core
Break the ice, I can't take anymore

[chorus:]
Freezing
Can't move at all
Screaming
Can't hear my call
I, I'm dying...

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    anonymous
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    Apr 14th 2010 !⃝

    This song is, literally, about being trapped under ice.

  2. anonymous
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    Jan 6th 2023 !⃝

    i thing its a refrence to cliff burton. as the lyrics say "Woken up, I'm still locked in this shell" as the bus fell over he woke up screeming impaled by the window while none heard his calls "Freezing, can't move at all Screaming, can't hear my call" "Crystallized as I lay here and rest
    Eyes of glass stare directly at death"

  3. anonymous
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    Aug 2nd 2021 !⃝

    I do think it's about sleep paralysis. I have it myself. Many of the things they talk about make perfect sense for this interpretation. "Waking up", they're talk of waking up in this hell. People either have sleep paralysis waking up, or when falling asleep. Also, when they say they are rapped up tight and cannot move, that is another symptom of sleep paralysis. Also, "can't hear my call" makes sense for sleep paralysis too because those experienceing sleep paralysis cannot speak or talk. And lastly they talk about being "at rest" which also aligns with having sleep paralysis. Just an interesting perspective I think.

  4. anonymous
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    Jan 13th 2018 !⃝

    I think it's about death and waking up in the second life only to find yourself trapped and frozen in your body holding cell ,

    Woken up, I'm still locked in this shell
    Frozen soul, frozen down to the core
    Break the ice, I can't take anymore...

    Then only to waken after death and your lock in this hell

    Crystallized, as I lay here and rest
    Eyes of glass stare directly at death
    From deep sleep I have broken away
    No one knows, no one hears what I say

    Then only to realize that no escape and now this is your second life in hell.....


    No release from my cryonic state
    What is this? I've been stricken by fate
    Wrapped up tight, cannot move, can't break free
    Hand of doom has a tight grip on me

    revanishing@live.com

  5. anonymous
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    Jul 11th 2017 !⃝

    I swear I think it's about being trapped under ice.

  6. anonymous
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    Dec 9th 2016 !⃝

    It is about how they could never get to #1 on the charts because Vanilla Ice had that spot

  7. anonymous
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    Nov 29th 2016 !⃝

    It could be about waking up in sleep paralysis.

  8. anonymous
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    Feb 23rd 2016 !⃝

    Social anxiety. Immobilized due cold of the world. Unable to break the ice. Unable to connect.

  9. anonymous
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    Feb 21st 2013 !⃝

    Metallica is singing about how the bad times have become so horrible that it feels like they are trapped in ice. Deep, down it's so cold and hellish but it has encased them in it. They try to break free, but can't. They don't know if they can live life anymore. Lost in the abyss of what is seemingly hell, it hurts them to live. Metallica has become so cold and their soul has become numb because of all the rough things they been exposed to.

  10. anonymous
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    Jun 26th 2011 !⃝

    Could be about depression and drug abuse .trapt under ice is how a lot of pepole feel when sufering from depression and i think the song says something about morphine

  11. anonymous
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    Apr 18th 2011 !⃝

    The song is about cocaine addiction and not being able to stop.


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