..Broken is the promise, betrayal The healing hand held back by the deepened nail Follow the god that failed.. 🖤🖤🤍🖤🖤 "The God That Failed" Metallica (Black) album London 1995 . ☆ Writers: James & Lars . ☆ Song fact: Baylor University Assistant Professor of Religion, Paul Martens points out that the song has been admired by some anti-religious groups, but Hetfield does not celebrate God's failure in the song, instead blames God, through his mother's faith and death, for contributing to the m