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| Against Me! – White People for Peace Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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It's sarcastic. People singing songs, thinking that will put an end to military aggression. It's making fun of fools, showing that war will go on, as will violence, unless matched with opposing violence. |
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| Otep – Jonestown Tea Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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The man excuses his behavior by saying it's to 'set her free' from sin. When she's screaming 'I don't want to be free!', she's saying that the supposed chains of not having intercourse with him are better than the horrible freedom expedited by her intercourse with him.
The Jonestown reference is a cultish-slant on the whole thing. The song appears to all interpretation to be a hodge-podge of different allegories designed to purvey the message that incest and molestation are evil often wrought by those who claim to be the most pious. |
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| Otep – Jonestown Tea Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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The man excuses his behavior by saying it's to 'set her free' from sin. When she's screaming 'I don't want to be free!', she's saying that the supposed chains of not having intercourse with him are better than the horrible freedom expedited by her intercourse with him.
The Jonestown reference is a cultish-slant on the whole thing. The song appears to all interpretation to be a hodge-podge of different allegories designed to purvey the message that incest and molestation are evil often wrought by those who claim to be the most pious. |
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| Bob Dylan – My Back Pages Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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dylan is lamenting having been too idealistic for compromise, finding himself the mirror image of those he defined as 'the enemy' and realizing the world is more grey than black/white. he's describing being more aware of the world the way it is rather than how he felt it could be. it's a bit of a reconciliation between an older man (who feels younger, having been freed from his idealism and hard-charging, never-ending, and exhausting soldier for righteousness character) and settled to being more realistic about his surroundings and where he and society are going. or something. |
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| Oasis – Listen Up Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I once believed that the nexus of the meaning for this song lay in atheism- that the line 'But I don't believe in magic- Life is automatic' referred to the absence of a 'God' or 'Creator'. I'm not so sure now- it's that, but it's more (at least to me). I think it's just painting the frustration of a life as a middle to lower class person- that we work and work and work and can't get ahead. That we can find solace in bottoming out in our quest for our dreams and finally succumb to settling for understanding that the world is unfair, it's harsh and short (Hobbes). I now think that it's more about self-reflection and coming to a realization of how reality is difficult to accept but, in the end, is reality nonetheless. |
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| Pearl Jam – Given to Fly Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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Short answer: It's about Timothy Leary.
More complicated, less intellectual answer: Jesus Christ.
More developed, rounded answer: It's an amalgamation of people like Nietzsche, Leary, Christ, and other thinkers and mind travelers.
It's about what we can be when we independently, personally, anxiously seek out to broaden the collective knowledge of 'we' and pursue to stetch the capacity of the human mind. |
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| Kyuss – Green Machine Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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this song is a case of simple hostility and confliction within one's own mind and soul. it's about the anger and indignance one has towards self; due to an irreconcilable relationship that one has with one's true self and the bitterness that is birthed by one's striving to be one thing (true, open, honest, and forthright) and the corrupted nature of one when acted upon by society over periods of time, one battles in constant war within their own consciousness in perpetuity. at the song's core and its apex, it's all about frustration with the human condition. but i digress... it simply steamrolls. it's beauty in sonic spacetime. |
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| Mad Season – River of Deceit Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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I caught it when The Prophet iterates just what layne says, "your pain is self chosen" and then, 'so The Prophet says..."
I have to admit i didn't make the connection until two years ago. |
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| Mad Season – River of Deceit Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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This song is about self-reflection regarding a deceitful lifestyle. It can be generally placed under the umbrella of simple existential thought. For those of you unaware, when Layne writes/sings:
'My pain is self-chosen
At least, so The Prophet says',
he is referring to the book "The Prophet" by Khalill Gibran. The Prophet is about a man's journey toward enlightenment on the meaning of existence on this planet, in this realm, for this time. He is met with several of life's characters, they who have been impacted by his very existence, and begins to understand why and how a person is impacted upon and impacts upon others with just his or her very existence. it's a great read, and given Layne's penchant for philosophical study (toward the end of the 1990s, he began to read quite extensively on existential philosophy and the expansion of thought), it's a wonderful idea for a song. The Prophet is worth your time, and I believe you'll understand the song's meanings (line for line, they're brilliant in their references to thought and life's purpose) once you complete the book. Of course, that isn't the only influential tome in the song, but The Prophet is obviously quite a large influence. |
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| Mad Season – River of Deceit Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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This song is about self-reflection regarding a deceitful lifestyle. It can be generally placed under the umbrella of simple existential thought. For those of you unaware, when Layne writes/sings:
'My pain is self-chosen
At least, so The Prophet says',
he is referring to the book "The Prophet" by Khalill Gibran. The Prophet is about a man's journey toward enlightenment on the meaning of existence on this planet, in this realm, for this time. He is met with several of life's characters, they who have been impacted by his very existence, and begins to understand why and how a person is impacted upon and impacts upon others with just his or her very existence. it's a great read, and given Layne's penchant for philosophical study (toward the end of the 1990s, he began to read quite extensively on existential philosophy and the expansion of thought), it's a wonderful idea for a song. The Prophet is worth your time, and I believe you'll understand the song's meanings (line for line, they're brilliant in their references to thought and life's purpose) once you complete the book. Of course, that isn't the only influential tome in the song, but The Prophet is obviously quite a large influence. |
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| Pink Floyd – Pigs on the Wing (Part 1) Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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FloydHammer is absolutely right. the guitar solo on the soldered version of Pigs On the Wing (or 'Pros and Cons', as it is also called) is unsettlingly magnetic. |
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