Lyrics for One as interpreted by fennsk

One 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

Now that the war is through with me
I'm waking up I cannot 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 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

Land mine 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

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DeadBodiesEverywhere
05-18-2009

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This song is very infulential. It also make's alot more sence if you watch the fil "Johnny get your gun". It is about a Guy that goes to war and get's caught in a bombing. He loses all of his main limbs. His face, Arm's and legs. They choose to keep him alive, Think about it he can't speak,Listen or smell.
He has one sence which is touch.

All he can do Is think, He dosen't know when he is awake or dreaming as he can't see or hear.

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DVous
07-04-2009

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It's based off of Johnny got his gun, when he gets his mouth, ears, eyes, and nose blown to pieces.

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bear_hug20
07-14-2009

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just how it feels to be like that...
I'm imagining it but couldn't take longer.

I would just choose to die, maybe.

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music-fan-88
07-24-2009

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Johnny Got his Gun (the book and the movie) are incredible. Dalton Trumbo heard this story of a young man who was nothing but a slab of meat so to speak (nothing but a torso and head much like the character) who was damaged in the war. The story is based on the first world war and was ready to be printed and copyrighted near the start of world war two. Only one factual error offsets the book from the song: the song mentions:

Land mine 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

however, in the story, Joe Bonham is disfigured by(I'm positively sure)a mortar shell.
Regardless, the two relate well and the book and movie are both worth checking out.

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shingami
08-18-2009

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Wow the guitars at the beginning are just brilliant and the last solo is heavenly though its the same as the one in Ozzy Osbourne's Mr Crowley just on a different scale.

Tell you what if any other band did a song about a former soldier who got blown to bits I probably wouldn't bother listening to it cos I'm sure it would suck. When I heard this It became my favorite song on And Justice for all and the album had alot of good songs

Basically the song is about a former soldier who has had his limbs blown off and has lost his senses like hearing eyes and all and now he is wishing he would just die. Poor Bastard if I where in his state I would wish I where dead too lol

Once again very good song

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ArsArcanum
08-27-2009

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My favorite song ever. Horribly brutal.

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