Reviews for One Lyrics

I totally agree with you man. Just cause you play the game Doesn't make you an artist. sure the game is fun but i also play the guitar and its tough stuff.

Dudes, please... STFU! If you play that stupid game, it doesn't mean you know squat about music. It doesn't matter what this song is all about, but to claim you know better than anyone just because you play gh, is just LAME.

If you actually do play a real instrument, then maybe you have something to say, but, you aren't an artist if you think that a piece of art will be exactly the same for everyone. An artist will always know that his creations will be viewed differently by a lot of people. Critics are just messing with the technical part of the said art piece. Not with what it is saying to the reader/listener/viewer.

I have been a hard core Metallica fan since i first heard the song One back in 1997. I have all of the Metallica albums and listen to them everyday. Why some gay ass emo punk suddenly hears this song on a video game and suddenly thinks its abou his life is the dumbest thing i've ever heard. I don't know about you guys but when has there ever been a story on the news about some emo fag blowing himself up? Never.
this song is for hardcore fans as many of you are and not for a kid who hears it one day and thinks he's a fan.

Serious are you guys even trying to analyse the real message of this song and which is the same of the book ? Ok it talks about a soldier who lost legs, arms... by a landmine so what ? It's written so it's normal that you can tell it. This song, same as the book, is not only critisizing war but also people who are suffering at hospitals where doctors have to keeo them alive even if the patients can't do a shit. They want us to understand that people are suffering at hospitals and must stay alive instead of helping them by killing them because they won't be able to do anything for the rest of their lives. So next time fucking tro to analyse the message instead of just repeating what's written in the song.

i don't see how anyone can say that this song can mean different things to different people, there are many songs like that but this is not one of them. this is a song about a man from the book Johnny got his Gun by Dalton. there is no other meaning, sorry to say. the guy gets his face his legs his arms his hearing his sight his ability to speak taken out from an artillery blast in world war one, that is the topic of the song end of story.

This song IS about Johnny Got His Gun. Awesome movie, metallica also bought the whole rights for the movie just to have those few clips in their video. WikiPedia you ignorant bastards!

I honestly don't see how some people can think of this as being an emo kid. Since when the hell has an emo kid went about life, then get blown to hell by a landmine?
I can agree on what most of the previous reviewer has stated. I myself am a teen that plays Guitar Hero, and for songs that have fixed meanings like this I've heard good interpretations to downright stupid ones from my peers. But I guess that what interviews of bands and websites like these are for: so my peers and everyone in general can learn meanings behind 'fixed topic' songs. But this is just my opinion, you guys go ahead and think whatever you want.

I realize I lost a lot of people in the title of my post. In any case, people can take a song to mean whatever they want it to mean in the sense that no one is going to stop them (or even cares), but songs like this one do have an fixed meaning. In this case, it's a reference to the aforementioned book.

I was already thinking before I read this thread that emo kids would think it's about the "absolute horror" in their lives, and it can be for them if they want it, but the unidisputable fact is that the band had a particular topci in mind when they wrote it.

I think it's interesting that music is the primary art form where people try to reinterpret the meaning of the work into whatever they want it to be. Typically with fiction (for example), people come to a consensus, enjoy their own impressions on a personal level, and accept the writer's intended meaning. But I guess that's a lot to ask of emo kids who fisrt heard this song on Guitar Hero.

The song is a kick ass one and its about the book 'johnny got his gun'. Its about a man who has been damaged by war to such an extend that he has no face, eyes, arms, legs, speach or hearing and the only thing he is able to do is think. The song describes his thoughts. There are obvious messages about war in the lyrics. I really cannot understand how someone can fucking think that this song is about an 'emo kid' hahahaha. If you cannot understand the meaning of a song maybe you should take a look at what the writer has to say abou it or watch the video clip....
The rest of what I wanted to say has been very well said by the 'free thinker'...

Hey Bro... this very cool song ( Metallica RLZ! ) is based in the book and movie " Johnny Got his Gun "... It's a story of a soldier that was hit by an artillery shell and lost his arms, legs, ears, eyes and most of his face. Becasue of this he cannot speak or see...

This song is based upon the book Johnny Got his Gun by Dalton Trumbo. Its about a guy named Joe Bonham that wakes up in a hospital and finds that he has no limbs, face, or anything. He cant hear, see, taste, smell, or speak.

everything you guys are saying is a load of crap the song is about some one who is having nightmares but can't wake up he is screaming for god to help him

Hey dipstick, a writer can write a song with a certain thought behind it but that doesn't mean that the listener/reader picks up the same thought.

For a writer a song can be about the death of a friend of the writer and at the same time it can be about the death of a readers grandfather/brother/mother/father whatever the fuck he wants!

it's a song... it means different things to every1.. it can give you comfort or it could do anything to peoples mind.. how music affects people, is individual.. it's just plain ignorant to start arguing about what every song is about, since meanings in songs are different for each person... not all the songs in the world mean something.. this one might but it's not for us consumers to argue about, it's for us consumers to think about...

yes..the song is about johnny got his gun. wich..in no way..makes it about an abused child..how much of an ego maniac hetfeild is...or whatever the fuck the idiot above was going on about...

I find it funny how so many people think something written with a particular meaning can all of a suddeen change just because the viewer wants it to. you can take out of the lyrics what you will..doesnt AT ALL make you even close to being correct...and then artists wonder why they are misunderstood..

If i say the people above me have gerbil shit for brains. You can think all you want that I said I'm deeply in love with them, doesn't at all mean thats what i actualy said..or ment.

love ( heh ),
a free thinker
(for the slow crowd..its a statement..NOT my real name..)