Musiclover655 you're taking this too close to heart, personally I like to leave out the politics and the meanings of things and just go on listening to stuff if I like it. But this song is about drug use, and you know drug use pulls you in and its hard to escape its grasp (the members of Metallica have been in and out of rehab, its simple). It feels good to do drugs at first, makes you feel free, but its an illusion because your body builds up a resistence to it, and you start using more to get the original feeling you had, then you crave it more and more and soon its the only thing in life that matters. Drug use also shortens your life span, killing you faster. See my point? Its about the struggles of drug use and how you are its puppet and how it rules you.