| Neaera – Walls Instead Of Bridges Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| I created a music video for this song, you can check it out here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pmuN8chNuw | |
| System of a Down – X Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| Or the title is one way for writing "times" ("multiply"). Or sexual intercourse ("to X one's wife"). | |
| System of a Down – X Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| Given System of a Down's political views, it is hard to imagine this song is targeting the birth policies of specifically immigrants. "The people that arrive" could also denote people that arrive on this planet, in other words newborns. Or people that arrive in Armenia, as others have pointed out. | |
| System of a Down – X Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| I doubt "nullify" is related to sex. After all, "show your people how we died" does not seem to be connected to sex at all. If "multiply" means having more people on this planet, then surely "nullify" means less. As such, I would claim that line emphasizes the brutality of death, and how much we should avoid causing more of it. This can be achieved by showing it to the people, by pointing out what death actually entails, by having them realize how terrible it is. | |
| System of a Down – X Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| In my opinion, the message of the song is simply that humanity needs to decrease birth rates ("we don't need to multiply") while not going extinct ("we don't need to nullify"). This is a rational antinatalistic concern considering all the issues of overpopulation. | |
| System of a Down – X Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| In my opinion, the message of the song is simply that humanity needs to decrease birth rates ("we don't need to multiply") while not going extinct ("we don't need to nullify"). This is a rational antinatalistic concern considering all the issues of overpopulation. | |
| Neaera – The Need for Pain Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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PROBLEM In the darkness you lit a torch Creating light to find colors Now left of the black is a scorch From paralysis it suffers Just how did you lose the lighters? Think back to the time of tension Pain was the source of your shivers A paradise of stagnation |
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| Neaera – Scars Of Grey Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| A song about the Third Reich and its lasting damage on the German nation and society. | |
| Kataklysm – As I Slither Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| I would prefer more constructive - as opposed to destructive - lyrics as well. | |
| Heaven Shall Burn – The Disease Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| We analyzed this song's lyrics in school (yes, really). It is quite obvious Heaven Shall Burn are trying to get us away from this destructive mindset of greed. Greed is a disease that spreads on its own. We are merely a part of this society with a dead and cold heart which merely spawns suffering. | |
| Neaera – Walls Instead Of Bridges Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Many people and especially mass media advocate a paradigm of hate and violence, thus creating "barricades instead of trails and walls instead of bridges". They are not trying to get us closer to each other, but rather rip us apart in a furious act of twisting truth. Neaera want us to "wake up" and realize hate is of no use. | |
| Neaera – The World Devourers Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Is human's nature inherently good? | |
| Neaera – Paradigm Lost Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Aldous Huxley's novel "Brave New World" in a nutshell (thus also the reference to it ("generation Soma")). We have so many things we love that we forget there are things we have to despise in order to make the world a better place void of greed, exploitation and poverty. We simply do not care anymore about the bad things others experience every day - why should we? We live the perfect life. "Welcome to the shores of plenty." | |
| Neaera – Mechanisms Of Standstill Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| The reference to George Orwell's novel "1984" ("Ministry of Thought") makes it quite obvious. Like yippekay implied, this is about the misuse of the idea of "democracy" in order to achieve dictatorship akin to fascism. | |
| Neaera – Liberation Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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And I cannot believe you do not know how anti-Christian they are. :P Personally, I believe this is about equanimity while living rather than paradise. Comes very close, though. ;) |
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| Neaera – Let The Tempest Come Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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What Neaera are saying in this song is that mistakes, flaws, all the bad things ("wounds") are not negative in every aspect ("won't kill me"). Rather, the existence of bad creates the opportunity to learn from it and become better ("they'll make me grow inside / I will try to use them"), thus leading to good. From Neaera's point of view, this is a honorable process ("wear my scars with pride"). As such, this song promotes experientalism. Let the bad come ("let the tempest come"), it will bring good in the way that we will learn from it. Accordingly, bad is not inherently bad ("won't take my lust for life"). It is by keeping the good in view and by the use of "solace, love, courage, grip" when experiencing "fear, failure, hurt, wrath" that we become stronger and thus achieve the ability to survive in a world of survival of the fittest. In a way, this is similar to Tim Harford's talk on TED about "Trial, error and the God complex". If this is of major interest to you, you should check it out. |
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| Neaera – I Love The World Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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This is by far the best optimist song I have come to known. Instead of simply saying to not worry and be happy for whatever reason, it relates to concrete common experiences in life and shows how your situation is probably not actually as bad as it seems to be. For example, mankind's apparent ignorance ("weak mind") easily gives grief to one. However, while that is indeed a bad thing, they say that lack of empathy ("dead and cold heart") is even worse. So, if someone is not interested in politics, that is okay as long as it is a kind-hearted person that would never want to directly hurt anyone. Often, I am mad about hedonists' mindlessness, but this song reminds me that at least they have good intentions, even if their philosophy is incoherent. In other words: It could be worse, cheer up! You feel bad, right? You "embrace the sorrow", don't you? Never mind. Eventually all will work out. "Sometimes you must embrace the sorrow to receive the cleansing", to feel better. This scheme is visible throughout the whole song. Neaera are saying that "letting go", "embracing the darkness/sorrow", traveling through "seas of suffering and pain" and "valleys of death and unlight" etc. is all just part of life and will most likely lead to their good counterparts like to "keep holding tight", "seek light" [and find it] and arrive at the "shores of jail" and "woods of harmony". They also conclude why all this pain is necessary (compare: "The Need For Pain" by Neaera): "If there was no darkness, how could we see the light?" Only by experiencing the bad we can get to know the good (logically also vice versa), as all perception is merely based on contrasts. So, if you feel bad one day, just listen to this song. You will feel better. At least it helped me a lot of times. After all, this pain may not be as grave as first thought - and even if, it is a necessary part of life that opens the doors to enlightment. |
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