One

I don't often add anything from Metallica mostly because I'm not really that big a fan. Yeah I know, I am the Metallica guy... but not really.

While today's track, "One" covers war and as the music video quite clearly points out a wounded soldier of war. As with many things, we fight a daily battle one way or another. I guess at some point the silence has to kick in leaving us as one.

I can't remember anything
Can't tell if this is true or dream
Deep down inside I feel the scream
This terrible silence stops it there

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, help 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

Landmines 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

I guess we've just got to find peace within one way or another, because no matter what the world can try to take away, with that peace we can't be held in a cell... in that hell.