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Artist: Metallica
Album: …And Justice For All
Song: One
Year Released: 1988

Book: Johnny Got His Gun
Author: Dalton Trumbo
Year Published: 1962

Metallica wrote this song after drawing inspiration from the following passage from Johnny Got His Gun:

Passage:

“How could a man lose as much of himself as I have and still live? When a man buys a lottery ticket you never expect him to win because it’s a million to one shot. But if he does win, you’ll believe it because one in a million still leaves one. If I’d read about a guy like me in the paper I wouldn’t believe it, cos it’s a million to one. But a million to ONE always leaves one. I’d never expect it to happen to me because the odds of it happening are a million to one. But a million to one always leaves one. One.”