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Metallica - One Lyrics

Song details
TitleOne
ArtistMetallica
AlbumGuitar Hero III - Legends Of Rock [2007]
album from the game Guitar Hero [2005], Track 29
Live Shit [2002], Track 17
No Leaf Clover [2000], Track 2
S&M [1999], Track 8 Disc 2
... And Justice For All [1988], Track 4
GenreMetal, Rock
Duration07:24
Rank4,477 (−2,602) history »
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Song 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 with me

Now that the war is through with me
I'm waking up, I cannot see
That there's not much left of me
Nothing is real but pain now

Hold my breath as I wish for death
Oh please God, wake me

Back in the womb it's 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
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

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

Darkness
Imprisoning me
All that I see
Absolute horror
I cannot live
I cannot die
Trapped in myself
Body my holding cell

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
submitted by Chris
corrected by erin

155 comments, showing 26 to 50page 2 of 7

 Song comments
  11-09-2006 18:20 Ozl 
Ozl
 
11 posts
This is just One of the greatest songs of the GREATEST METAL BAND EVER!!!
Saludos desde Nuevo Laredo México!!!
  09-08-2006 14:40 knapp 
knapp
 
2 posts
or was that "nothing else mathers"??? the song that this concerned woman performed? please if anyone knows!!! tell me..
  09-08-2006 14:38 knapp 
knapp
 
2 posts
does anybody knows whos that girl /woman artist who also have performed this song "one".She plays the piano in that music video. I saw that last month at mtv and i also was delighted by that... so please if any one could tell me who is that artist...
  26-07-2006 23:14 musicaddicted 
musicaddicted
 
14 posts
This is such a great song but to be honest it kinda freaks me out. I mean the lyrics, and the medoly and all combinded togeather, it really feels as if you are that person, stuck in yourself... :/
i kinda need a now
  03-06-2006 06:01 something_that_ 
something_that_
 
10 posts
METALLICA fuckin ROCK's, NOW the new shit that they got......Sucks i wish that they would go back to the old METALLICA...... One is one of my faviorte song.......... I can wait until i get a guarit and learn to play it... i got the drums DOWN TO A T
  29-05-2006 03:23 xBatteryx 
xBatteryx
 
2 posts
The movie that the song is based off of is called "Johnny got his gun". Written and directed byDalton Trumbo in 1971. It is about an anerican soldier who loses his arms, legs, hearing, sight, and speech because of a landmine. If you actually listen to the lyrics, it is Hetfield's view on what that would be like. The amazing word usage in the lyrics actually gives off a very real feeling of true seclusion. "Body my holding cell". In which case has no overall parallel to "Fade to Black' which is about experiencing the overwhelmingness of depression and teen suicide. Both are amazing songs not just for their time, but for all time yet to come. Whether you are a fan or not, "One" is a song that everyone knows and will always think of when they hear the name "Metallica".> > >
  28-05-2006 16:07 Meistars 
Meistars
 
142 posts
WOW.. what a song, what a guitar solo..
  18-03-2006 19:57 Qsim9 
Qsim9
 
24 posts
It's good, but NOT one of their best....
  11-03-2006 13:54 Unforgiven__ 
Unforgiven__
 
95 posts
Just love it. Keep on rockin' !

Metallica)
  21-02-2006 04:29 WannaPlay101 
WannaPlay101
 
181 posts
this song..omg..i cant even BEGIN TO SAY HOW MUCH I LOVE IT..i think its sooo awesome all the cool intrusments in teh beginning and his voice is sooo hot lmfao i cant HANDLE IT anyways ocmpletely unbelievable that such an amazing song could even exsist wonderful job Metallica
  12-02-2006 00:09 Nice_1 
Nice_1
 
23 posts
This song has an amazing guitar solo near the end of the song. The video is very weird but makes perfect sense with One playing to it.
  12-02-2006 00:06 Ed_harris 
Ed_harris
 
121 posts
This song is like number 4 on the worlds top 100 guitar solo songs. Its absolutely brilliant!
  06-02-2006 13:55 aero_girl 
aero_girl
 
55 posts
I love metallica! Especially this song and Fade to black! But I was dissapointed when St.Anger came out cause the old stuff is way better. The new stuf is not so powerfull it sucks!
Anyway hope their new album will be better
Metallica rocks(but not so hard as Aerosmith)
  31-01-2006 20:35 polarmute 
polarmute
 
13 posts
best metallica song out of any!!! great solo, top 10 in guitar world's top 100.... greatness
  20-01-2006 23:05 thomas123456789 
thomas123456789
 
3 posts
THis song is great, it was ranked number 7 in the greatest guitar solos of all time in a poll, here: http://guitar.about.com/library/bl100greatest.htm

Master of puppets used to be number one, but was overtaken by Led Zeppelin. Who suck by the way.
  06-01-2006 07:39 danni_basghetti 
danni_basghetti
 
13 posts
hands down awesome song, metallica are no doubt THE BEST EVER and although their newish stuff isnt as good as the older stuff, STOP BAGGING IT OUT!! its still met, even if it isnt them at their best. they always will and always hav been the BEST metal band to ever live and their memory will definetly live long beyond our time. LONG LIVE METALLICA, you deserve to be commended with some sort of "best band ever" award, I LOVE YOU!!!
  23-12-2005 15:43 malena_jaxx 
malena_jaxx
 
226 posts
just perfect
  10-12-2005 20:21 Vinnie_King 
Vinnie_King
 
19 posts
Yeah, another of Metallica's vast selection of best songs. I played this with my band at the Remembrance day assembly at school. We kicked ass, too.
  02-12-2005 22:06 numpty77 
numpty77
 
16 posts
wow wot an amazin song! its ace but aint as gd as nothin else matters that rocks
i worship u metallica!
  01-12-2005 06:52 GodsL0v3 
GodsL0v3
 
60 posts
great song coulda made it shorter but still love it
  28-11-2005 20:22 MKK_girl 
MKK_girl
 
236 posts
Love this song!!
  21-11-2005 00:11 Dahlb3rg 
Dahlb3rg
 
1 posts
The song is about a guy fighting some war, not sure witch it is but the living hell he's experienced became the lyrics...
Actully James got really touched by a book he read, don't know the name of that either but he made it to a song instead. The lyrics was written before the song was clear witch is pretty unusual to metallica.

The drums during the "darkness, Imprisoning me" is meant to sound like guns firing.

Sry for my bad english...
  03-10-2005 23:15 Pearl_jam 
Pearl_jam
 
52 posts
This is one of the greatest Metallica songs ever! Although the album itself isnt the greatest thing this song alone is worth having. The song is similar to Fade to black but really in meaning as they are both suicide songs.

Having said that Both songs rock!
Metallica 4 ever!
  01-10-2005 12:37 Carl_J0hns0n 
Carl_J0hns0n
 
54 posts
Cool song! I cant b bothered typing much!
Its an extremely cool song tho!
One of their best!!!
  23-09-2005 12:47 Chrisrocks53 
Chrisrocks53
 
13,570 posts
this is such a great song


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