Social Relevance

"One" - Metallica

--> This song has social relevance because it talks about war, and it's effects on the men who are sent out to battle, and come back, both mentally and physically scarred and maimed. This particular soldier comes back from war all broken up and he has limbs and necesarry functions, such as hearing and eyesight taken from him as mortar shells bombed him from the sky and enemy positions. He, up until he begins to regain consciousness and realize that he is in a hospital, and he is only being kept alive because he is hooked up to many machines that help him breath, and relieve him of any fecal matter or bodily fluids. He wishes to be dead himself, but no one will grant him this pleasure, and now he is stuck in a quazi-real consciousness; as to what he perceives to be real is completely up to him, because he does not really know what he can trust to be real, and he sometimes he has flashbacks that reappear as he is in this drug-induced haze. "Now that the war is through me, I'm waking up I cannot see." He is describing his misfortune as a result of being thrown away by the way, and since he can no longer fight, the war has no more use of him.



"Critical Acclaim" - Avenged Sevenfold (A7X)

--> This has social relevance because it is about how people critisize what the country does, mainly the militant actions that go on on a day-to-day basis. Just because someone else has to go and fight our war and keep the civilians safe and out of harms way, it certainly does not give the green light to mock and critisize what goes on to keep the peace (in the singer's point of view). He feels that the person who is being referred to is living a lifestyle that goes against what he says, much like a hypocrite to what he says and preeches.



"The Trooper" Iron Maiden

--> This has social relevance because it is about the Crimean Wars, between the French and British, and the Russians between 1854-1856. The British issued a charge, later named the "Charge of the Light Brigade." This dispute was about who was to own what on some hole ground, namely Jerusalem and Nazareth. They talk of horses, muskets, and bayonets being used, so it makes the most logical sense. It depicts how religion, and heated discussions can lead to war, and most certasinly, death.