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Leper Messiah Bass Tab

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Guitar Solo
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Leper Messiah Bass Tab

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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques


No Picture Matt Wanna Be	#1 by Matt Aber at Aug 11, 2006 at 3:08 AM EST
	On what the song is about, I'm 100% with TheExile. It's about televangelists and there promises of a life in heaven if you make large contrabutions to there bank account and buy all their merchandice. I'm a christian and I still think it's a great song. It's the song (Next to master of puppets) that made a part of the metal militia.

No Picture Will n00b!	#2 by Will r at Aug 14, 2006 at 9:24 PM EST
	hey! i made an account on bassmasta.net just to tell you this...YOU SUCK DUDE!! THIS TAB IS ALL WRONG TO ANYONE WANTING TO LEARN THIS SONG, LOOK ELSE WHERE....THIS **** ISNT RIGHT...lol sorry man..i just get really mad when ppl dont tab right!!

No Picture JOEL (the god o Average	#3 by JOEL (the god of rock and roll) at Oct 19, 2006 at 4:07 AM EST
	i myself am a catholic, however im not particularly proud of it. the history behind us is too corrupt. i think this song has a great meaning, i mean even the most strict of catholics would have to agree that the church back then was incredibly corrupt and greedy. top song, third fave on the album.

No Picture Squid Average	#4 by Squid at Nov 18, 2006 at 9:19 AM EST
	Awsome song, i disagree with some of you guys ranting ^ , i think religion can be a good thing as it hides the truth from people and, as we all know, ignorance is bliss. (you never see a sad fish)

No Picture Lucas Average	#5 by Lucas Grizzle at Nov 25, 2006 at 1:07 PM EST
	I think it describes a man, referred to as Leper Messiah, using some thought-up religion to get the money and devotion of gullible lepers that believe he can cure them if they give him what he wants. I see no connection between this song and Christianity, besides it being about a religion. Why do you think they used the line "Circus come to town. You play the lead part?"

No Picture holaaaaaa Average	#6 by holaaaaaa at Dec 7, 2006 at 6:29 PM EST
	This song can SO EASILY be used to refer to, and automaticly by default DOES refer to ALL 'christianity' as a WHOLE, ('christianity' Intentionally spelled in all lower-case to reflect it's incidiously SH__TTY value, what little value there is), as well as ANY and ALL other religions of it's CULT-ISH type which are followed ONLY by COMPLETE FU__-UPS and LOSERS who do so because they can't handle REALITY, and need to feed off of the ***FANTASY**** of their religious beliefs to get their 'high' like a LOWLY drug addict sucking on a crack pipe to get their "sunday fix"), because of the OBVIOUS FACT that almost EVERY SINGLE LYRIC in MetallicA's song "Leper Messiah" refers both directly, and indirectly to EXACTLY what ALL these LOONEY-TOON, NUT-CASE religious MORONS talk about and end up doing every day of their BRAIN-WASHED lives!!!!! There's a CULT-ISH 'christian' PUPPET named Dr. Gene Scott, for example, who a few years back when he was on the UHF station channel 56, CONSTANTLY refered to people getting more from 'god' when they go to heaven if they gave money to his ministry, in a desperate and pathetic attempt to save his little PERVERSE 'T.V. ministry' just before they threw his LAME ASS off the air!! I mean, this guy was so PERVERSELY AND BLATANTLY MANIPULATIVE that he would sit in his little chair, suckin' on his pipe and taunt everyone that believed that "no decent true chrsitian would ever do such a thing as smoke a pipe......" by lighting up the tobacco inside and puffing heavily on it as a defiant gesture towards traditional 'christian' values, talking about how, "if you don't give generously to 'the lord' before you die, (Not missing the opportunity to inclusively splice himself into the mix as well as 'god' as someone you should "give generously to "or else"), then you won't have many "riches, etc" when you get to heaven, while at the same time, having his little 'band of merry puppets' standing nearby frequently singing songs that also insinuated the same ***BULL__IT*** CONCEPT!!!!! Now, I can understand the fact that he wanted money to keep himself on the air at the TV station, OK? But when you STOOP SO LOW and to use LIE-BASED MANIPULATION to try and get it like this PUNK did, (And still does to this day, I will add), that is the point when you, as ANYONE with ANY DECENT DEGREE of intelligence and moral decency can PLAINLY see, have gone TOO FAR!!!!! And to make matters Worse, this FOOL actually BELIEVES that what he is saying is true!! (Sounds familiar, eh 'christian' LOSERS!?!? Like when your butt-buddy Oral Roberts threatened to KILL HIMSELF if people didn't send HIM money for HIS LAME-ASSED little T.V. program!? Do you see a pattern here, folks!? I KNOW I DO, ***AND IT SICKENS ME TO THE RAW CORE***!!!!!) (To be continued.....)

No Picture Lachlan Wanna Be	#7 by Lachlan Magee at Dec 26, 2006 at 10:19 PM EST
	Actually, according to one site I visited, It was about all these "other" so-called "religions" that make you think that you will be "saved" and you have to pay them to join and it's really all bullshit 'cuz they money is all there after.

No Picture Ryan Wanna Be	#8 by Ryan Ell at Dec 28, 2006 at 4:38 PM EST
	i think of this song as describing the popular bastards at high school. worship them and you'll be taken down into a miserable future

No Picture blade Rhythm Player	#9 by blade rhoat at Jan 22, 2007 at 5:51 AM EST
	The first time I read the lyrics to this song I thought they were condemning Christianity and religion in general, now that I reread them, however, they seem to be talking solely about corrupt churches with corrupt ministers, and not condemning Christianity as a whole. I'm suddenly reminded of hearing a story about how sometime in the 80s there was a preacher saying that God told him he would die if he didn't get one million dollars from his church. Ozzy Osbourne then sent the preacher a gun.

No Picture James Average	#10 by James at May 31, 2007 at 4:03 PM EST
	A local minister is an unwitting part of the Christian juggernaut.

No Picture Cam Wanna Be	#11 by Cam Reck at Jul 24, 2007 at 7:02 PM EST
	I don´t think it´s about fake priests, but fake religions whose principals just ask for money, they are the lepper messiahs!

No Picture black Rhythm Player	#12 by black rose at Aug 19, 2007 at 7:54 AM EST
	I just have to say im with King Of Shit. (and also you never see a fish sad because they have like no memorie span, they can't be sad over something they dont no)

No Picture Samer Average	#13 by Samer Zouein at Sep 1, 2007 at 12:42 AM EST
	i think this is about the time of corruption in the catholic church, around i think it was the 1600s where they would actually sell places in heaven.

No Picture Rafael Average	#14 by Rafael Santos at Sep 11, 2007 at 9:58 PM EST
	i agree with King Nothing on this one