One

Today, I will talk about another masterpiece, One by Metallica. The song’s lyrics deal with an individual’s thoughts who is left on others to rely. This song has one of the best music videos by any artist. The video has scenes from the movie, “Johnny Got His Gun” in which a soldier loses his arms, legs, speech, sight and the ability to hear anything. Hence, leaving him completely immobile.

Lets analyze the lyrics;

I Can't Remember Anything
Can't Tell If this Is True or Dream
Deep down Inside I Feel to Scream
this Terrible Silence Stops Me
This stanza sums it all up, someone who has lost everything, even his memory. He cannot differentiate between his life and a nightmare. He wants to scream and to let go himself of that pain, but the silence stops him.
Now That the War Is Through with Me
I'm Waking up I Can Not See
That There Is Not Much Left of Me
Nothing Is Real but Pain Now
Finally the hardships of life are over, He wakes up but can’t really make anything of what has happened, everything feels like an illusion, only thing that he can understand is pain, unbearable pain.
Hold My Breath as I Wish for Death
Oh Please God, wake Me
The individual realizes that he is completely immobile and he wishes for his death.
Back in the Womb its Much Too Real
in Pumps Life That I must Feel
but Can't Look Forward to Reveal
Look to the Time When I'll Live
Life in the womb is more real then what is left of him now, he was able to feel as life was being pumped into him when he was an unborn child, and he looked forward to the time when he would live!
Fed Through the Tube That Sticks in Me
Just like a Wartime Novelty
Tied to Machines That Make Me Be
Cut this Life off from Me
The thoughts of his formation comes to his mind, when he was attached to his mother, that feeling makes him suffer even more & the individual wishes to cut the very life off from him.
Hold My Breath as I Wish for Death
Oh Please God, Wake me
Now the World Is Gone I'm Just One
Oh God, Help Me, Hold My Breath as I Wish for Death
Oh Please God Help Me
The feeling of helplessness and the fear of noone understanding him makes him beg to God to take his miserable life or to wake him up. The whole world for him is lost, all he feels is just himself. And he pleads for mercy, for death.
Darkness Imprisoning Me
All That I See
Absolute Horror
I Cannot Live
I Cannot Die
Trapped in Myself
Body My Holding Cell
And he lives, he feels an eternal darkness surrounding him, the only thing visible to him is horror. He cannot live nor die, he feels his own body as a trap which is not letting go his soul.
Landmine Has Taken My Sight
Taken My Speech
Taken My Hearing
Taken My Arms
Taken My Legs
Taken My Soul
Left Me with Life in Hell

Finally he talks to himself and lives the very moment of eternal darkness once again. How he stepped foot on a landmine and as a result lost his sight, speech, hearing ability, both arms and legs. And more importantly his soul. His life, a living hell.

Why am I attached to this song? I’m not sure. But these lyrics tell a lot about war. This is one such individuals thoughts, there are hundreds and thousands of victims who suffer the same fate, or probably even worse every day. For the world today is advanced but in darkness. We hear every day on the news, “War for Peace”
The phrase does not make any sense to me. The lust for power has driven man into such a state of mind that he feels nothing but his own hunger. And for that, he bothers not about anything or anyone.
May the world be a better place, not for me but for you, for us and more importantly for the whole of mankind.