Which Metallica song on The Black Album features a spoken-word prayer by a child?

“Enter Sandman” features a spoken-word prayer by a child on Metallica's Black Album.

Near the song's conclusion, a child recites a modified version of a bedtime prayer, creating an unsettling contrast with the heavy instrumentation. The spoken passage reinforces the song's central imagery of sleep, nightmares, and childhood fear. Michael Kamen is credited with arranging the orchestral parts used in the track, while the spoken performance became one of its most memorable production details.

The song's writing began with a riff from Kirk Hammett and developed through collaboration among Hammett, Lars Ulrich, James Hetfield, and producer Bob Rock. Hetfield's lyrics moved away from an initial focus on crib death toward a broader nightmare theme, allowing the song to work as both a radio hit and a darker meditation on fear.

The prayer is sometimes mistaken for a lyric sung by Hetfield because it is embedded within the song's arrangement. It is spoken rather than sung, and its childlike delivery is deliberately distinct from Metallica's vocals.