Metallica: The Unforgiven Meaning
Song Released: 1991
The Unforgiven Lyrics
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...
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I think the song has to do with a person looking back on his life and feeling persecuted and trapped. I believe this person doesn't think they've ever shown their true potential for fear of being judged, or maybe disgraced. It's a light mental form of abuse to make anyone feel that surpressed and no good could come of it.
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I think this song is about someone that's very different from others. And ''the bad people'' are trying to change him. They want him to be another puppet in their world.
It's a very sad song, though. -
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My interpretation is similar to the above....except I believe originally the 'boy' was his own person.
But, because of persecution and the like he was forced to conform in order to survive. He was never able to show his full potential because he had to hide it. By the time he found the will to show his true self it was too late, and he regretted letting labels and discrimation get to him. -
A man has been taunted by society his whole life, and now that he is dying he regrets letting the corruption get to him and "going with the flow" so to speak, instead of speaking his mind.
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