Chords for Metallica “One” on the Howard Stern Show (2013)

To me the song one is where I first started to get to know you guys
Because of the video and all that kind of stuff and the thought of a guy
_ Locked in his body.
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I mean the guy has no senses
Where did this song first of all, how do you start writing a song about all this?
My brother older brother Dave who was he also played in a band played drums
He I don't know.
He told me a story about I guess some some he was
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Whatever reading a book and which was Johnny got his gun right me about this guy who yeah
he was like a prisoner in his own body and I
Related to that because I felt that not that I couldn't speak or or hear or use my limbs
But for some reason I connected with that like being stuck in your own
Skin and how uncomfortable that can feel and that would be like the ultimate hell where you can't communicate to anybody
So the song is about [Gb] a guy who's trapped inside his own body.
He has no arms.
He has no legs
He can't taste he can't see he can't smell or talk and in a way you felt like that, right?
Because of you you had a miserable childhood when I read about your childhood
I think I don't [B] even know how you survived that well
And in the crazy thing is you know, I grew up thinking that it was just normal
And I think I'm not going your childhood was normal.
Yeah, because how would you know?
Otherwise exactly your father left _
When you were what 16 13?
Yeah, he leaves and you never hear from the guy again, right?
I mean pretty much
He didn't support the family.
He did not right and your mom
_ She died shortly thereafter of cancer, right?
Yeah a few years later.
So you were basically orphaned
Yeah, so that's why when we hear [F] this song one
[B] We're not just talking about a guy who's had his limbs cut [G] off and [F] had his senses all you know
And he's locked inside his head.
It's very much you who had you know
You were cut off from the rest of [G] the world in a sense and very [Fm] alone.
You're the guy [D] with his limbs cut off
Wow.
All [Eb] right now play that song and don't [B] cry
_ Have you ever cried?
I'm sure I owe you for this therapy session
Do you did you cry when you wrote this song because sometimes when I hear it, I'm almost on the verge of tears
I really am _ that's great.
That's great.
I didn't I did not now I might thanks _
This is the song one done live in [E] our little studio right now
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_ [Bb] I
Can't [Gb] remember _ [Bb] anything
Can't [Db] tell if this [Gb] is true [Ab] or [Bb] dream deep down [Ab] inside.
I feel the [Gb] scream
This terrible [Eb] silence.
Stop me
[Bb] Now the [Gb] door is through with [Bb] me
I'm waking up.
[Gb] I can not see
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That there's [Ab] not much left of me
[Gb] _ Nothing is real, but me
_ _ [Ab] _ [Gb] This Irish
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In from that [Gb] I [Db] must [Bb] feel but can't look [Ab] forward to [Gb] reveal
Look to the time when [Bb] I live
And to the doom [Gb] that sticks in me [Bb] _
just like a [Gb] wartime novelty
_ [Bb] _ Not to [Ab] be seen that big maybe
_ [Gb] Cut this shit off [F] from me.
[Bb] Oh
Breakfast [F] I wish
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_ Please God
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God help [Eb] me.
Oh breakfast.
I wish [Bbm] one [C] day.
Oh, [Bb] please God
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