Metallica - One

옛날엔 그냥 사운드가 멋지고 좋아서 가사 뜻은 생각해 볼 여지도 없이 들었었는데
아침에 우연히 라디오에서 나오길래 끄적여본다.

가사를 좀 음미해보자
번역은 의미 없을 것 같고 주제는 전쟁이 개인에게 주는 고통 쯤 되겠다.

가사 내용은
전쟁에서 큰 부상을 입은 한 사람이
피폐해진 영혼과 육신을 견뎌내지 못하고
죽고 싶지만 죽을 수 도 없고
그렇다고 살기엔 너무나 고통스런
상황을 노래하고 있다.


(가사 원문)
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