Reviews for The Unforgiven Lyrics

its pain and agony conqured every moment of our lives. Mistakes looking at us from skies and feeling foresaken for all fallen need and desire still we do struggle and survive...... and we dub the unforgiven.
Gadg8MONK

its pain and agony conqured every moment of our lives. Mistakes looking at us from skies and feeling foresaken for all fallen need and desire still we do struggle and survive...... and we dub the unforgiven.
Gadg8MONK

I'm sure its about a old man who says at the children what is the life and all misery he need to pass...

1-New blood joins this earth...

2-And quickly he's subdued
Through constant pained disgrac
The young boy learns their rules...

1- The young boy...

2- The Pain, the experience he acquire or learning...

But i think the old man he always says what its the life in general and all that things we need to live...
Like our parent, they always says, Don't do that, its not good...
Don't do this, u will go in jail...
But we don't really understand and we're doing this anyways...

Personaly...

But we all describe this song with our life so its different...

Have a nice life all =) And DON'T DO THAT ITS NOT GOOD LOL!!
See Ya N' Take Care All !!!

i love this song and i need help. Im doing a report on this song and im having a hard time analizing this song. Is he a slave, in prison, or a little person in a big world??? Im confused. please help. e mail me at aztrushing14@yahoo.com thanks.

i like this song a lot
their music sounds so
heavy, well after all
they're heavy metal
i love listening to the beginning
of "I Disappear" in a low volume
and when 30 seconds have pased,
i turn the volume all the way up

I think, personally, that this song is about the many pains, and struggles, one has while grunting a giant, steamy, triumphant dump. It perfectly describes the many struggles, and pains one will encounter. And in the end, he dies from hemorrhoids. Truly a touching song, teaches you a lesson too. Thank you Metallica. Your bathroom experiences will help everyone for ages to come.

id have to say this song aint talkin about slavery, or some that other crap i think its talkin about a young boy coming far and not even gettin noticed for his hard work and dedication to something

well 1st time i hear this group my brother told me about and i like this story but its kind of confussing with a little help now i know so thanks.=}tha best

....... song of an old man realizing he has just wasted his life beeing just a little part of an giant civilisational machine which has forgotten it's purpose.....Racism?......don't think so.

I think the song is really about a child who is born into this society, and forced to conform and become one of us. Doing wrong = punishment (Jail, Death)

"What i've felt
What i've known
Never shined through in what i've shown"

Means he has realised this world for what it really is, a Society of corruption and fear, where people are forced to conform and get jobs and live a minimal life (Work, Wife, Kids) so he can live for a false cause to be in this world (Capital) Held back by a barrier, (Taxes, anything money related holding him back from complete freedom because he is still in debt (Another Brick in the Wall)) But he is saying he lived as one of them, but never shown it in fear of being "shunned" or "disposed of". And these people, who run the society, who feed it in the cubicles punching numbers for orders of the next Ipod or anything else are The Unforgiven, who have ruined this worlds balance and created a plague of humans. Once he is finally through his barrier (done living life) he sees that. They Labeled him, (Fill in Job Position) and he labeled them, The Unforgiven. As soon as he gets through the barrier, he sees that they are not deserving of whats behind and shuts them out forever.

I think the song is talking about racism. The song seems like its talking about a young boy who was taken as a slave at the start, then the chorus is the boy singing. He gets older as the song goes on, it seems.
"You labelled me, I'll label you, never free, never me, now I dub thee unforgiven" could be saying "You labelled me a slave, and I won't forgive you."
Thats just my thought anyway.

True, I agree with everyone here Metallica is a awesome band and their lyrics express how they feel which is another thing i find interesting. This song is one of my favorites because i can relate to it(Kinda Cheese i know :P) but i am glad i found this song it has changed the way i c things. :) KEEP ROCKING

some of these lyrics are very different from what i thought they were
good thing i dont go around singing this stuff haha

to a musician, like myself, music, and the poetry of it, is all about communicating what you feel, expressing your emotions to the listener. i like this song very much, and others of the type by metallica, because you can truly feel the emotions of the musicians and the writers as you're listening to the song. It's definitely one of my favorties

James and Lars are just pure godness.... I think this song is about James, because he says "that old man here is me" Maybe he became pushed around in his childhood because he wasnt afraid to show emotions and came from a religios family.I think also this song has some hate to it because "the young boy learns their rules" is that he tried to fit in to the "regular" crowd because he did´nt want to be left behind... but then he just didnt care what people said and became the most succesful musician in the world together with Lars // sorry for my bad english , i am swedish :)