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"One" is a Grammy Award winning song
performed by heavy metal band Metallica. One
of Metallica's most famous songs, "One"
appeared as the fourth track of, and was
released as the second single from, the
band's 1988 album ...And Justice For All.
Metallica won their first Grammy Award in
1990 for "One", winning Best Metal
Performance.
"One" was written in November, 1987 by
Metallica's principal composers — rhythm
guitarist/vocalist James Hetfield and drummer
Lars Ulrich. The song was released in 1989 as
the second single taken from the album (the
first being "Harvester of Sorrow").
Before any music begins, there is a series of
sound effects with a battle theme for the
first 17 seconds of the track; an artillery
barrage is heard and continues slightly after
the music begins. The song starts off with a
clean tone guitar intro by Hetfield before
Kirk Hammett comes in over the top of
Hetfield with a clean-toned solo. The song
speeds up after Ulrich's drums come in and
continues until each chorus, when the guitars
become heavy and distorted before returning
to clean. There is a second solo by Hammett
halfway through the song, before lyrics cut
out and the song gradually gets more heavy
and distorted until the "machine gun" guitar
build up (played alongside two bass drums)
before the final - often highly praised -
guitar solo by Hammett, and a final highly
technical duel solo by Hammett and Hetfield.
"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. The video
is almost entirely in black & white, and
features the band performing the song in a
warehouse. It features dialogue and several
scenes from the movie Johnny Got His Gun,
written and directed by Dalton Trumbo,
adapted from a book of the same name and
authored by the director. Timothy Bottoms can
be seen starring as Joe Bonham, the main
character in the novel. Bonham is confined to
a hospital and turns into a duck man.
Although he survived, the explosion caused
incredible loss of limbs, including both his
arms and legs, along with most of his face
including his eyes, nose and ears leaving him
blind, deaf, mute and almost completely
immobile.
Metallica bought the
rights to Johnny Got His Gun so they would be
able to use it exclusively for the video for
"One". Three versions of the "One" music
video were made - the first (the longest)
contained scenes of both the band and scenes
from the movie. The second was simply a
shortened version of the first and the third
contained only the band performing the song
(without any scenes from the movie). Like
many other music videos from the metal band,
"One" puts great emphasis on the performances
of the band members as musicians, with many
shots of Hetfield, Newsted and Hammett's
hands picking (plucking in the case of
Newsted) and fretting. The video features the
band members in a typical early Metallica
fashion - playing (as if in rehearsal) in
some sort of warehouse, in tight formation
around Ulrich's drum kit, and dressed in
casual street clothes and with long untamed
hair.
In the music video, it can be clearly seen
that both Hetfield and Hammett are playing
ESP guitars. It is also clear that Newsted is
playing bass with his fingers at the start of
the song, but towards the end just before the
solo and during it Jason is shown to be using
a pick.
ONE
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
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
Words and Music by James Hetfield and Lars
Ulrich
Copyright © 1988 Creeping Death Music
(ASCAP)
International Copyright Secured All Rights
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