Metallica - One Lyrics


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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

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

[Thanks to bradyharrer for correcting these lyrics]
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One Info:

• This song won a 1990 Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance.

• The single was released in January of 1989 and peaked at #35 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. This was their first single on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

• James Hetfield & Lars Ulrich share writing credits on the song. Metallica & Flemming Rasmussen produced the track for the album '...And Justice For All'

• The music video was directed by Bill Pope and Michael Salomon and was Metallica's first music video. The video is loosely based on the 1971 film adaptation of Johnny Got His Gun.




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