Chords for Metallica “Nothing Else Matters” on the Stern Show (2013)

So when you wrote
Nothing else matters.
Mm-hmm, which is considered a softer song a ballad really, right?
Yeah, you were embarrassed to bring that to the band, right?
Because not only are you a shy person, but also it was a love song to a girlfriend at the time, right?
Mm-hmm.
Would you have buried that song rather than bring it to them?
And how did it end up in the band's hands?
I think Lars heard it and said hey, that's really good.
And I said no it's not
How did Lars hear that song if you were ashamed of it, how did you hear it you played it for me?
So you _ weren't that ashamed and did it Lars did he come to you did James come to you and go hey man
I'm gonna play something for you.
I don't know.
I mean, it's always been there's always been a very open-door policy
I mean we all trade
Usually what would happen back in the early days is that when we would after a tour go on break?
Like James would give me all his ideas Kurt would give me all his ideas
We'd all sort of trade ideas and then we'd go away and then when we'd start writing a few months later
Everybody would kind of have an idea of what everybody else was bringing to the table and Lars you
Knew that song was gonna be a hit you had an argument with it wasn't it wasn't so much about hit
It was just more about a side of Metallica that I was really proud of and I thought that everybody should see were you scared?
That the fans would revolt when they heard such a beautiful ballad
No, I think it's good to challenge the fans once in a while actually so the song nothing else matters
What if I said to you that this song could possibly
Be James's song to Lars.
What do you think of that?
Very true?
It's a love song to your brother Lars.
Yeah, you probably didn't know that when you were writing it you think you were writing
For a woman crying I'm serious _ _
But _ _ _ _ this is a beautiful love song that really came to really came to be because a large you gave James the confidence to
Release this song I said I just you know when I heard it
It was in a kind of a rough state that all the parts on it now weren't there
But when I heard the verses I'd never heard James sing like that
And it just moved me and I knew that this was something that we had to share with the rest of the world
He felt too vulnerable at that time to sort of let that out there
But I knew that this was something that had to be shared with everybody the woman you wrote this song for did she know you?
Wrote it for her does she have any idea or you never told her? _
She knows gone way beyond that
You know I will come up to us and say we used it at our wedding we this and that I mean
The the Hells Angels had it in a little movie that they put together
So it is about brotherhood as well
And and it's vague enough to relate to everything and and and needing and needing another human you know all right there
We go don't get no Mars.
This is for Lars
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