Metallica - One Video and Lyrics

One by Metallica , Music Video and Lyrics

“One” is the fourth track and the third single from Metallica’s 1988 album …And Justice for All.

The song is one of Metallica’s most famous songs, Metallica won their first Grammy Award in 1990 for “One”, winning Best Metal Performance.

“One” was the first Metallica song for which a music video was created.
The music video, directed by Bill Pope and Michael Salomon, debuted on MTV on January 20, 1989.
It features dialogue and several scenes from the 1971 film adaptation of Johnny Got His Gun. Timothy Bottoms can be seen starring as Joe Bonham, the main character in the novel.
The music video was ranked 38 on Rock on the Net: MTV: 100 Greatest Music Videos.
You can watch it here, listen and enjoy.

Metallica One Lyrics

I cant remember anything
Cant 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 cant 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 Im 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

Song Information

Released January 1989
Recorded January - May, 1988
Genre Thrash metal
Length 7:24
Label Elektra
Writers James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich
Producer Metallica, Flemming Rasmussen