Metallica - "One" Released in 1988

I have liked listening to Metallica music for many years, but it wasn't until today 3/12/2022 that I realized the message their music sends to everyone.  This is a very deep song which makes me think heavily about what is compassion and what isn't.  Also I was not aware until today, that this song was actually based on a book and a movie titled "Johnny Got His Gun" by Dalton Trumbo.  The more I listen, the more I learn.

• YouTube Video from MasterofPuppets762 Channel Metallica "One" (Studio Version)

 

Video provides the background of the song and how it was developed by Metallica

Link to the official lyrics by Metallica https://www.metallica.com/songs/song-25917.html 

• Official Lyrics below shown below:

ONE

WRITTEN BY HETFIELD/ULRICH

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's 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

LISTEN to the Song here https://youtu.be/pqRDu3ueuA8 

Today we have people who are suffering from medical conditions and from injuries from war and accidents that impact their lives and the lives of their families. In addition to people who suffer from cancer and the treatments of cancer which cause more problems physical, mental, spiritual and financial. How can we help them?  We should listen to those who are suffering and then form a way to help them and to go the way that they want to go which can include the way they want to meet their maker.  Those who don’t know about the situation try to force their views and beliefs upon those who are actually going through it and they are called Abelists. 

What are your thoughts about this and how the song “One” brings it to the forefront?