Does anyone else see the implied Jesus reference in this video? [Metallica, The Unforgiven]
2:20 minutes in, up to about 3:00 minutes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYUMPKFYd6g
p.s. I.....hate....this board format. >:-(
Hmmmm....interesting.
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jamiebowers
The imagery yes, but I can't understand the lyrics.
btt
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Tralfamadorian
as in you can't understand what they're singing because it's mostly screaming or you can't understand the meaning of the lyrics? xD
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WontLeave
Actually, I believe the lyrics have to do with James Hetfield (lead singer) being raised in the Christian Scientist cult. His parents brainwashed and forced him from childhood to accept their beliefs. I'm sure when he left, they gave him a lot of guff, just like rejecting JW dogma. Any resistance as a child was probably met with threats, punishment, violence, screaming, etc., just like for a JW kid.
The second verse, I take to mean someone raised being lied to and lives according to those lies, only to realize too late that their whole life has been wasted; so, he goes through the motions because there's no point in changing this late in the game. The "you labeled me, I label you" part at the end really hits home when "apostate" and "the borg" are the perception of each side.
Metallica - Unforgiven
New blood joins this earth
And quickly he's subdued
Through constant pained disgrace
The young boy learns their rules
With time the child draws in
This whipping boy done wrong
Deprived of all his thoughts
The young man struggles on and on he's known
A vow unto his own
That never from this day
His will they'll take away
Chorus:
What I've felt
What I've known
Never shined through in what I've shown
Never be
Never see
Won't see what might have been
What I've felt
What I've known
Never shined through in what I've shown
Never free
Never me
So I dub thee unforgiven
They dedicate their lives
To running all of his
He tries to please them all
This bitter man he is
Throughout his life the same
He's battled constantly
This fight he cannot win
A tired man they see no longer cares
The old man then prepares
To die regretfully
That old man here is me
Never Free
Never Me
So I dub thee unforgiven
You labeled me
I'll label you
So I dub thee unforgiven -
mummatron
I'd always figured it was about a man dying a sinner but never really gave it much thought. Thanks WontLeave for the explanation.
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zoiks
Wontleave - very nice explanation. I had read that his mother did not seek treatment while dying of cancer, and that inspired another song, "The God that Failed".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VUgHJUBJ70&feature=related
I find the verse, "The healing hand held back by the deepened nail" particularly powerful.