What is the song The unforgiven by Metallica about?

Answer 1

It is quite obvious if you listen to the lyrics.So let me explain my interpretation and what I got from the song and it's meaning. I'm your pain when you repay you know its sad but true. Well, have you ever been a person who takes out a loan and now has to pay it? It's Sad but true, you minus well say that now you work for that creditor and they own you to a certain extent which is very true. You go to work for them. Ok, here's more: a scapegoat is someone who you think takes all the blame and pain in life for your actions when they had little to do with perhaps your choices or mistakes. It's not owning up to you actions and consequences and making someone else take the fall. People like that need to take a good look in the mirror. But what is ultimately true is that we all act and do things wrong because we are humanity with faults and no one can be perfect. Sad But True.

However, at least you can listen to this song and enjoy the pain and grief, then you get over it after the song is complete and live a normal life.

Answer 2

This song is about a soldier fighting in a war and a mortar blows off in his face. He can't hear, see, smell, taste and he doesn't have arms or legs. He comes out of a coma in a hospital. During the time he is in the hospital he reflects on his life and things his father told him. Eventually the doctors get worried because he's having spasms all the time, but he doesn't seem to be dying. They call in the general and he can't figure it out either but the soldier with the general recognizes it. "Its Morse Code," he says. The general asks what he is saying and the soldier looks for a minute and then says, "He is saying K-I-L-L- M-E over and over again.

by: songfacts.com

Answer 3

"One" was written in November 1987 by Metallica's principal composers James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich. The song was released in 1989 as the fourth and final single from the album "...And Justice for All". For the first 17 seconds of the song an artillery barrage and helicopter(s) can be heard as a set up for the songs battle oriented theme. The song's theme and lyrics are based on Dalton Trumbo's 1939 novel Johnny Got His Gun, telling the tale of a soldier whose body is severely damaged by a mortar shell. His arms, legs, eyes, mouth, nose and ears are gone and he is unable to see, speak, smell, or hear. His mind functions perfectly, however, leaving him trapped inside his own body. Trumbo directed the movie adaptation in 1971, from which the footage for the "One" music video is taken.

Answer 4

Ohhh boy I love doing the lyric questions for these guys.

Here we go

I can't remember anything

Can't tell if this is true or a dream.

Deep down inside I feel this scream

This terrible silence stops me

Now that the war is through with me

I'm waking up I can not 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 to real

It 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 war time novelty

Tied to machines that make me be

Cut this life off from me

Hold me breath as I wish for death

Oh please god, wake me

Now the world is gone I'm just One

Oh please god help me

Hold my breath as I wish for death

Oh please god help me

Darkness

Imprisoning me

All that I see

Absolute horor

I cannot live

I cannot die

Trap in myself

Body my hold cell

Landmine

Has taken my sight

Taken my speech

Taken my hearing

Taken my arms

Taken my legs

Taken my soul

Left me with a life I hell

Answer 5

Metallica

ONE

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 can not see

That there is 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 its much too real

In pumps life that I must feel

But can't look forward to reveal

Look to the time when Ill 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

Answer 6

Metallica's hit song One is about a soldier in World War I that was severely injured by a land mine. The soldier loses his arms, legs, eyes, mouth, nose and ears, and he is unable to see, speak, smell, or hear. He is kept alive only by life support. However, his brain still functions normally, so he has basically become a prisoner in his own body. The line "Hold my breath as I wish for death" refers to the soldiers attempts to kill himself, but he is kept alive by the "tube that sticks in him" and the machines that "make him be".

Now, if you analyze the lines: "Darkness, imprisoning me, all that I see, absolute horror. I cannot live, I cannot die, trapped in myself, body my holding cell" and "Landmine, has taken my sight, taken my speech, taken my hearing. Taken my arms, taken my legs, taken my soul, left me with a life in hell" It makes sense now, doesn't it?

Answer 7

It was written about the Dalton Trumbo book "Johnny Got His Gun". The book illustrates the horrors and previous life of Joe Bonham, a young man who joins the US Military during WWI. While at war, he is directly hit by an artillery shell, while severely damages his limbs, eyes, nose, mouth, and ears. They must amputate his arms and legs, so it follows him coming to the realization that he is simply "a piece of meat", an experimental resident at a british military hospital. After years of hardship and being on the brink of insanity, he figures out a way to tap Morse code on his pillow with his head, after trying other methods of communication with his nurses. At first he says that he would like to be toured around and put on display as to show the horrors of war. But being in a military hospital, they deny his request and at that point he has lost all hope. He is constantly tapping "kill me", and one nurse grants this final wish of his by disabling the valve on his respirator. The song just talks about this.

Answer 8

The song One is based off the novel Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo. The song tells the story of a soldier who has been injured by a mortar.

Answer 9

James Hetfield`s life!