Metallica Countdown: 1 Day to The Unforgiven

So many songs and albums, so little time.

The 1991 album Metallica a.k.a. 'The Black Album' is not only one of the penultimate albums of the 1990's, of Metallica's entire career, it is also an example 'Albums That Rocked' according to VH-1. Of the 12 songs on the album NONE are bad. By my count there are 5 hits off the album. Oddly enough Metallica fans of the time disliked the album because it maked a major and maturing shift in the band's sound. Sort of like the current album St. Anger actually.

Anyone who remembers the black and white video will recall how haunting the images were: The Unforgiven.

New blood joins this earth
And quickly he's subdued
Through constant pain 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

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

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 the unforgiven

You labeled me
I'll label you
So I dub the unforgiven