| Iron Maiden – Out of the Shadows Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Reminds me of a quote from my English class: "When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a way that when you die, you rejoice and the world cries." |
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| Evanescence – Lacrymosa Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I absolutely love this song. The classical stuff is from a Mozart piece called "Lacrimosa", which was actually originally written in D minor, so Amy Lee helped the orchestra that did it for the song transpose it a whole step up to E minor to match the key of the song. A lacrymosa is also a type of moth: Catacola lacrymosa, which roughly translates in Latin as "The Tearful (or Weeping) Underwing", which is the moth's more common name. Just a little fact. |
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| Iron Maiden – Strange World Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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The Transylvania idea is great, but I have three other possible interpretations: 1) That Harris just decided to make a surrealist song, just pure "out-there" stream-of-conscience. 2) That this is about famous dystopian fiction. Several of the lyrics in the song could be references: "Living here is not what it seems" referring to how most dystopias seem great but really under the surface aren't; "ship of white light in the sky" is a reference to the novel "We" because in the novel it's revealed most of the world was destroyed by superweapons, and nowadays the term "superweapon" would be assosciated with nuclear war; and last but not least "I'm happy in my new strange world", which could be Savage from "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley. Yeah, maybe I read into it a little too much, but, hey that's what I think. 3) That this is about somebody walking through the aftermath of a nuclear holocaust. You can dream all you want, because there's nobody there to stop you, but after a while you start to hallucinate because you're going insane from the isolation. |
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| Evanescence – The Vanishing Sky Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| I agree. If it is an Evanescence song it's some super-rarity I've never heard of. | |
| Iron Maiden – Flight Of Icarus Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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The song doesn't follow the myth strictly because Maiden changed it slightly to be about teenage rebellion. In Maiden's version of the myth, Daedalus tells Icarus to "fly as high as the sun", so Icarus, in the song being obedient, does what his father told him, only to realize as he's falling to his death his father betrayed him. It's basically saying sometimes Mommy and Daddy don't know best, and a little rebellion isn't a bad thing... |
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| Iron Maiden – The Legacy Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Perhaps it's just the fact that I grew up in Dallas, but this reminds me of the Mount Carmel Tragedy in Waco in 1993. Everytime I hear the line "You could've given all of them a little chance at least" I think of the infamous newsreel of the whole compound on fire and the fact that 82 people died in the largest mass suicide in American history. | |
| Iron Maiden – No Prayer For The Dying Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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This is an awesome song. One of my favs!!! It's about not only depression, but contemplating life in general. At least, that's what I think. |
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| Iron Maiden – Wildest Dreams Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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This was actually written by Steve Harris. It was inspired by Steve Harris's divorce from his wife Lorraine in 1993. He wrote this song like "Fuck you, I don't need your shit, I'll be just fine without you." AWESOME! |
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| Iron Maiden – Black Bart Blues Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| If I'm not mistaken, I heard a story somewhere that this song was not just inspired by the suit of armor but by an incident where a drunk girl stumbled onto the band's tour bus looking for food and alcohol. Bruce, who was there alone at the time, struck a deal with her that he'd give her booze in exchange for a blow job. Apparently the (lucky!) girl agreed to the terms and they did it in the back lounge of the bus, with the suit of armor sitting there. | |
| Iron Maiden – Virus Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I don't know what this song was originally about, but nowadays with everything going on, when I hear this, I think of bio-terrorism. I mean listen to the lyrics: "There's an evil virus that's threatening mankind Not state of the art, a serious state of the mind" The first line is literal, but could also be a metaphor for the fact that conflict and scare tactics have taken over the world, which plays into the second line. "The muggers, the backstabbers, the two faced elite A menace to society, a social disease" "The muggers" is a reference to the motivation behind a lot of modern terrorism against the U.S.: these people are jealous of the freedom we have, and want to steal it away. The rest is talking about double agents, how spies have made it impossible to trust anyone, which just furthers the fear. "Rape of the mind is a social disorder The cynics, the apathy, one-upmanship order" Talking about how the terrorists set out to control us with our own fear, to "rape our minds" so to speak. "Watching beginnings of social decay Gloating and sneering at life's disarray" Whenever there's a terrorist attack, everything plunges into mayhem and mass panic, which just furthers the fear the terrorists set out to cause. "Eating away at your own self esteem Pouncing on every word that you might be saying" Eventually it will get to a point where everyone will have such doubt in their ability to protect themselves that we'll all become paranoid and unable to enjoy the freedom we currently do, making the terrorists' jobs that much easier as democracy self-destructs. "Superficially smiling, a shake of the hand As soon as the back is turned, treachery is planned" We just keep the conflict going by continuing to fight instead of trying to reach a compromise. Example: Bush's War on Terror. "When every good thing's laid to waste By all the jealousy and hate By all the acid wit and rapier lies" About how the cycle of fighting will go on forever, because as long as there are people there will be disagreements and hate. "And everytime you think you're safe And when you go to turn away You know they're sharpening all their paper knives" Even if you think you're in a place where nothing bad can happen you might not be safe because terrorists are notoriously clever at hiding in plain sight and turning the most seemingly innocent things into weapons. Example: the Anthrax Chemical Scares, where bioweapons were disguised as packages. "All in your mind All in your head Try to relate it" We try to comprehend it all, but we can't wrap our minds around it. Human mentality is too complex for humans to understand. "All in your mind All in your head Try to escape it" We can't escape fear, because it's a part of us. "Without a conscience they destroy And that's a thing that they enjoy They're a sickness that's in all our minds" Terrorists destroy human life without a second thought for the fact that they're commiting murder and taking people's lives away, to the extent that some of them brag about it. It's a sickness. "They want to sink the ship and leave The way they laugh at you and me You know it happens all the time" Terrorists don't want the U.S. for themselves, they just want to destroy American society and then leave the ruins to rot because they can't have what we do. We know that these attacks go on more frequently than we like to acknowledge, but we just try to pretend and go on. "The rat's in the cellar, you know who you are Or do you?" "The rat" is the terrorist. This line references homegrown terrorism, about how we think we know what a terrorist looks like from all the news, but do we really? They could be walking amongst us right now... "Watching beginnings of social decay..." |
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| The Gits – Sign of the Crab Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| It's actually about a serial killer. Mia Zapata wrote this about the scenario of her death at the hands of a stranger. Creepy enough, two months she died in exactly the way this song alludes to. Very spooky... | |
| The Gits – Slaughter of Bruce Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| I think this is about Iron Maiden's lead singer, Bruce Dickinson. In 1992-93 when this song first came out, he'd just announced that he was leaving Iron Maiden to go start a solo career, saying that he was doing it because he wasn't happy anymore and that if he failed, so be it, which is basically what this song says. Also, his farewell show with Maiden ended with him being killed in an iron maiden torture device (the Slaughter of Bruce, get it?). | |
| Iron Maiden – Bring Your Daughter... to the Slaughter Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I think this song is actually about groupies. Anybody who's been to a Maiden show knows the crowds can get pretty physical. Basically I think it's about a girl going to a Maiden show as a way of rebellion. If I'm not mistaken, in 1990 the Riot Grrl movement of all girl rock bands was starting to take off. Maybe this could be a reference to that as well? In fact, there was a Riot Grrl band, The Gits, that referenced Iron Maiden in one of their songs, Slaughter of Bruce. Basically they wrote the song from Bruce's point of view when he was leaving Iron Maiden in 1993. |
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| Iron Maiden – Fear Is The Key Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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IronBlackZepp is right. Freddie Mercury died of AIDS the year before this song was released, and was the first (or one of the first) big stars to die of the disease, and really spread awareness of how devastating the disease is. I'm actually having to read a book about something similar for school, "Still Life With Buddy" by Leslie Newman. Read it if you get the chance; it's an excellent book. I cried reading it. Now we have antiretrovirals and stuff like that, but in 1992, there was nothing they could dofor you if you were HIV-positive. It was horrible. |
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| Iron Maiden – Brighter Than a Thousand Suns Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Bruce Dickinson said that this song likens the nuclear bomb to man trying to play God. There are actually a lot of double meanings in the lyrics of this song, such as "Trinity reformed". In Christianity, "Trinity" is a collective term refering to God, Jesus and the Holy Ghost, and it was also the name of the site where the first full scale nuclear weapons test was ever held in 1945. Genius, as always... |
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