Nothing Else Matters
When he wrote the song, James Hetfield didn't want to show it to the band at first. Hetfield said in an interview with Metal Hammer: "I thought that Metallica could only be the four of us. These are songs about destroying things, head banging, bleeding for the crowd, whatever it is, as long as it wasn't about chicks and fast cars, even though that's what we liked. The song was about a girlfriend at the time. It turned out to be a pretty big song."