Let's Lit This Song on Fire

We arrived at the next stop and Brian and I walked into the venue holding hands. We spotted my father talking with Matt and I smiled letting Brian’s hand go, walking over to my father. I wrapped my arms round his waist, “hey pops.” I rested my head on his shoulder, enjoying his hug.

He smiled down at me, “hey.” He cringed slightly though, “I still don’t like the red.”

I chuckled, “it’s badass!” I smiled ever so widely at him, only to cause him to shake his head at me. He knew I was always into some bold color with my hair when I wasn't blonde.

“So the tour manager was talking to me today, sounds like the band that’s suppose to open for the next few shows had to pull out,” James said softly.

“No shit?” I asked looking at him, shocked. “What happened?”

“Sounds like Volbeat’s singer has strep,” he said shrugging.

“Damn,” I said. “That sucks for them.”

“So I mentioned that you had those dates open, what you think about stepping up?” he asked. Was he seriously just asking me to perform the next few shows?!

“Seriously?” I asked looking at them, blinking with a dead stare of shock.

“Yeah, why the hell not? You’re already here,” he said shrugging.

I hugged him tightly, “you are one awesome dad.”

He laughed, “just give your band a call. June 11th in Houston is the first stop.”

I nodded, “fuck this is awesome. I got to go call the guys….” I hurried out in a hurry. This was great news. I quickly dialed the band to give the great news. After a good ten minute conversation they were excited and would get everything lined up for me until I got back tomorrow to pack.

I walked backstage again and saw everyone sitting around talking. It fell silent as I walked in, “oh goodness, what’s up?”

“Matt hasn’t heard you live the way we have heard you live, so he wants to hear you perform,” Brian said as I grabbed water from the stand up glass cooler.

I nodded, “alright, what you want to hear me sing?”

Matt smirked, oh no, this cannot be good; “so Brian and Johnny tell me your pretty diverse in the scene, so tonight…” Oh shit, what was he about to do, “when Eternal Rest is played, you will step up and sing it…”

“What?” I asked shocked.

“Stop acting so fucking shocked,” Lars said as he sat back talking with Brooks Wackerman.

I rolled my eyes, “I’ll put hair dye in your shampoo again…don’t tempt me.”

“Oh she’s a prankster,” Johnny said with a smirk. “I like her…”

“Okay, I’ll do it,” I said sighing heavily.

I stepped out of the room quickly after that. I walked back to Brian’s bus and felt my phone vibrating as I walked. I looked at it to see a text from Brian, ‘you good?’

I smiled at his concern, ‘yeah, I’m fine. Just need to go get myself in the mindset to do this…’

I got on the bus and dug through my bags to get an outfit out for tonight’s short performance. I then processed to make sure my face was perfect and same with my hair. Before long Brian walked in and sat in front of me as I worked on my make up. I looked up at him and he smiled at me, “how you feeling?”

I shrugged and worked on my false lashes. I got one on and looked up at him, “I think I’ll do fine. We’ll see if I can be up to par to your guys standards…”

He smiled, “you will be. If you get lost for whatever reason, just look my way; I’ll help you out.”

I smiled and finished my eyelashes, “thanks, I appreciate it.”

*~*~*

I sprayed my hair with hair spray one more time and applied my lip-gloss one more time. I was excited, I wore a pair of tight poly-leather pants, a cropped cut up black beater over a deep red bra. My left arm was lined with my leather and studded bracelets. My red hair was curled, big hair, ready to bang every which way.

I bounced on my feet as I heard Matt call out to the crowd, “we’re going to take you back to the past, this ones from our Waken The Fallen album. I’m going to step off stage and Skylar James of Black Widow is going to sing this one for you. Give her some love will ya?”

I stepped onto the stage and made my way towards the center, “how the fuck are you guys doing tonight?” Bumping fists with Matt as I walked by him. The crowd screamed, but I knew they could do better. I jumped up on the box, and growled into the microphone, “I said how the fuck are you guys doing tonight?” They screamed loudly and I smirked, “let’s tear this shit up…”

I began to sing unclean, ‘Black enchanting eyes,
Cut through my heart
With no regret or sign of life
They tear apart my pride
And cold runs through my veins
I feel their stare from miles
Haunting every step
And they won't stop hunting me down
I know the time will come,
When all around me's burned
And you'll still see me there
Asking where you went too
And what person brought you here
And why you left the burning children
Cold out in the night
And calling for you all alonnnnnnne!’

I bounced around the stage and screamed out, ‘woooooooooah!
Dark in their hearts,
I can feel it burn inside of me
Tormented young with no souls, haunting me
Pain in their lives all they know is misery
Take these chains away that are holding me down!’

I bounced to the other end and sung unclean, “They'll find you alone
And your desperate and villainous ways
Turning their hearts into stone
They seek more then vengeance
Look in their eyes your pain is their satisfaction
Look in their eyes and see the darkness take hold!’

I smirked and looked over singing with Brian, “I'm controlled by fate (waiting for)
Tired of your parade (waiting for)
No sign of vengeance (waiting for)
Burn for the rest of time (waiting)”

I walked down the center and screamed into the microphone than with clean voice, I heard the guys sing with me, “Hear the haunting words (They'll find you alone)
Lost children with no heart are crying (Turning their hearts into stone)
And your the lost mother their calling (Go now, run and hide)
I hear them crying at night (your pain is their satisfaction)
Outside when the planets are falling (for the rest of time)
They want to feel and know you hear them (Go now, run and hide)”

I rang back up the top and stood next to Zacky and sung, “Dark in their hearts,
I can feel it burn inside of me
Tormented young with no souls, haunting me
Pain in their lives all they know is misery
Take these chains away that are holding me down (holding me down)”

I smirked and swayed with the crowd, “I wanna here you mother fuckers!” I smirked and sang, “Eternal restttttt, in time!” I smiled and sang again, “Eternal rest in time!”

The crowd cheered and I smirked, “thank you fuckers.”

“How about that shit?” I heard Matt say walking back onto stage. “She fucking killed it, what do you think?” The crowd went nuts and I fist bumped with Johnny and sent Brian a wink as I made my way off the stage.

I was amped as ever, downing a beer the guys went back to their normal routine of playing and I enjoyed it side stage this time. The guys all slipped back as the show closed, but they would have their encore to do. Matt hurried back, “come out for Unholy Confessions?”

I smiled, “fuck yeah, what me to do unclean?”

“Fuck yeah,” he said smirking. “Fucking do whatever! The crowd fucking tore it up to you.”

I smiled and Jason Berry handed me my microphone again and made sure my pack was turned on. I stepped out in the dark slowly with Matt. “You guys still got Metallica to come out, and you guys aren’t given up on us yet!” He stood up on the box, “let’s fucking tear this place up a little more, shall we?” He turned back pointing at Brooks, “hit us with that piece Brooks!”

I jumped up on the power box next to Brian, I sung out, “I’ll try! She said as he walked away!” I looked out at the crowd as Matt sung, “try not to lose you, two vibrant hearts could change.” I pointed at the crowd and made a circle with my fingers, signaling I wanted to see a circle pit.

I sung, “nothing tears the being more than deception, unmasked fear!”

“I’ll be here waiting tested and secure!” Matt song out loudly at the crowd. “Nothing hurts my world, just affects the ones around me, when sin’s deep in my blood, you’ll be the one to fall.” I joined Matt in with the last two chords and made my way out on the stage.

“I wish I could be the one, the one who won’t care at all, but being the one on the stand! I know the way to go, no one’s guiding me. When time soaked with blood turns its back, I know it’s hard to fall. Confided in me was your heart. I know it’s hurting you, but it’s killing me!” We all sung together, smiling widely at the crowd.

I jumped up on the box again and smirked at the crowd, bobbing my head to the music. I then sung unclean, “nothing will last in this life! Our time is spent constructing! Now you’re perfecting a world, meant to sing! Constrict your hands around me! Squeeze till I cannot breathe. This air tastes dead inside me. Contribute to our plague. Break all your promises. Tear down this steadfast wall. Restraints are useless here. Tasting salvation’s near!”

I threw my head back and looked at Brian as I stepped down letting him have the spotlight. “Nothing hurts my world, just affects the ones around me, when sin’s deep in my blood, you’ll be the one to fall.” I joined Matt in with the last two chords and made my way out on the stage.

“I wish I could be the one, the one who won’t care at all, but being the one on the stand! I know the way, no one’s guiding me. When time soaked with blood turns its back, I know it’s hard to fall. Confided in me was your heart. I know it’s hurting you, but it’s killing me!” We all sung together, smiling widely at the crowd.


“Thank you everyone, have a good fucking night!” Matt said and we bounced off the stage.

I stepped backstage with the band and took my ear buds off and passed them to the tech. I sighed content, “fuck!”

“You fucking killed it,” Matt said holding out a fist. I bumped and smiled; “Glad to have you on tour with us the next couple stops. It’ll be a good time.”

I smiled, “yeah it will be. Thanks for inviting me up on stage.”

“You had such high praise from Johnny and Brian, so I knew I had to hear it first hand,” Matt said smiling. “I had heard you play with Metallica, but nothing like the guys said you could do.”

I smiled, “I have a variety of talents, that is for sure.”

I felt a set of arms wrap around me and knew it was Brian as he kissed my cheek, “you look sexy as fuck up there on stage.”

I smiled and hugged his arms around me, “you too babe. You too.” He smiled and I leaned up kissing his jaw, “I’ll see you later, I got to go make sure I’m ready to jam with Metallica next.” I sent him a wink and he watched me walk off.



“So you guys got a taste of my daughter earlier with Avenged Sevenfold, how would you like her to come out here and sing for you again?” James said into the microphone in front of the crowd. The crowd loudly cheered.

I walked out slowly with my microphone setup again. I spoke softly into the microphone, “we’re going to mix this up for a little bit, sing along if you know it…”

I placed my microphone on the stand in front of me. I smiled and sang softly, “Another head hangs lowly
Child is slowly taken…
And the violence caused such silence
Who are we mistaking?” I stepped closer to the microphone feeling the emotion as I sang,
“But, you see it's not me
It's not my family
In your head, in your head
They are fighting…

“With their tanks and their bombs
And their bombs and their guns
In your head in your head they are crying,”

“What's in your head
In your head
Zombie, zombie, zombie, ei, ei
What's in your head?” I grabbed the microphone and reached out towards the crowd and sang, ”In your head
Zombie, zombie, zombie ei, ei, ei, oh do do do do do do do do
Another mother's breaking
Heart is taking over
When the violence causes silence
We must be mistaken.” I reached out at the crowd and sang with them, “It's the same old thing in 2017
In your head, in your head
They're still fighting
With their tanks and their bombs
And their guns and their drones
In your head, in your head they are dying

“In your head
In your head
Zombie, zombie, zombie, ei, ei
What's in your head?
In your head
Zombie, zombie, zombie ei, ei, ei, oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh ei ei oh…,” I sang softly and backed back to the microphone stand. “Thank you…”

“Smooth,” James said smiling. “What did you think of that?!”

“I think they need something to rock to now,” I said with a soft chuckle.

“What are you thinking you got up your sleeve there, Miss Hetfiled?” he asked leaning onto his microphone. “We can do Metal…after all they’re at metal show!”

“Let’s give these fuckers what they came for,” I smirked into the microphone. As someone placed my electric guitar on my shoulder; “Gimme fuel, gimme fire, gimme that which I desire! OH!” The sound of the drum hit after that and I began to play along with Kirk with dueling guitars, while James still played his rhythm. Shaking my head, causing my red locks to shake.

“Turn on…I see red
Adrenaline crash and crack my head
Nitro junkie, paint me dead
And I see red!” James sang into the microphone as he played. “One hundred plus through black and white,
War Horse, Warhead
Fuck’em Man, white-knuckle tight.
Through black and white!”

“Oh on I Burn,
Fuel is pumping engines
Burning hard, loose and clean….” I sang along with everyone else. “And I burn
Churning my direction
Quench my thirst with Gasoline!
So give me fuel
Give me fire!
Give me that which I desire!”

I began to walk away from the microphone playing, while James sang, “turn on beyond the bone
Swallow future, spit out home,
Burn your face upon the chrome!
Yeah!
Take the corner, join the crash!
Headlights, headlines!
Another Junkie lives to fast
Yeah lives way too fast, fast, fast, oooh-aye!”

I smirked at Kirk as we dueled out a little before I walked back to the microphone, “Oh on I Burn,
Fuel is pumping engines
Burning hard, loose and clean…..
And I burn
Churning my direction
Quench my thirst with Gasoline!
So give me fuel
Give me fire!
Give me that which I desire!”


I banged my head out and walked towards the center stage with Kirk smirking widely. James sung out loudly, “white knuckle tight!” I looked at Kirk as I killed his solo and he let me, smirking widely. I then walked back again as James sang the bridge.I got back to the microphone for the three part chorus again and smirked widely, “oh yea-yea!”

The crowd went nuts and I shared a hug with Kirk and dipped off the stage and backstage. I passed off the guitar and the ear buds. I spotted Brian with his hands in his pocket, looking at me impressed. I smiled widely, “fuck I love that feeling!”

He laughed, “come on…let’s get back to the bus.”

I smiled and followed him quickly. Without asking him I leaped up and jumped on his back as we walked out of the building. He laughed and took hold of my legs, “I like this excitement.”

I leaned down and kissed his cheek, “fuck, I’m going to sleep like a baby tonight…”

He laughed and turned his head and kissed me softly. There we were in the bus lot. He stopped suddenly and I melted into his kiss. I felt more than lust in it this go. I pressed my forehead to his, “what are you doing to me Brian?”

“I was going to ask you the same thing,” he said softly, setting me down. The sound of Metallica played in the background and he pulled me to stand in front of him. I looked up at him and smiled as he spoke softly, “I think I want to make this a go with us…whatever this is. The sex with you is phenomenal. Being with you is phenomenal. You make me fucking laugh and smile. I haven’t seen such a bold and loud person, who isn’t afraid of what people think, in a very long time. I love watching you do random cartwheels to randomly rapping some crazy rap song you heard. It’s refreshing.”

I smiled up at him, “it’s nice to actually have someone that understands music and loves music as much as me. As well as someone who enjoys sex and isn’t afraid to cuddle every once awhile without hoping that sex follows…” He chuckled and kissed me softly. “Like I said, ‘it’s a head spin until both of us are insane again…’”

He smiled, “I won’t stop until your screaming my name…”

I smiled, “you listened to it?”

“Of course!” he said and smiled down at me. I reached up and wrapped my arms around his neck. He smiled wider and pulled me in closer, “fuck, you got me fallen in love with you.”

“Same here babe, same here,” I said and captured his lips with my own.

It was really a head spin and I felt myself not wanting it to stop. I loved it. I was falling in love with him. He was amazing. Almost too amazing.

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