| Dream Theater – Space-Dye Vest Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Okay I know this is my third comment, but I finally found this quote from Kevin Moore again online, from the following link: http://www.dreamt.org/d-man/dtfaq.html "It was inspired by... I was looking through a clothing catalog & saw a picture of a girl modeling this piece of clothing called a space-dye vest. And, so, I fell in love with her [laughs] for some strange reason & so the minute I did that, the minute I was just like obsessed w/this person, I was like, 'why am I doing that?' & I noticed that I was doing it a lot lately. And I think the prime reason that I was doing that, and this is what I figured out at the time, was that I had just come out of a relationship where I'd gotten dumped, basically, and so I think the situation was that I wasn't finished giving all that I was ready to give, so I was just, like, throwing it around, you know, just aiming it in different directions. It was a total case of projection. And this song is just trying to sort it out & just kind of admitting that I'm just kind of lost. So it's kind of a dark song. It was very cathartic though." |
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| Johnny Cash – Folsom Prison Blues Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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This song is totally cool and I love how Johnny sings it. It's fantastic. I love in Walk the Line when he plays it in the studio for Sam Phillips, Luther (the guitarist) and Marshall (the bassist) hadn't ever heard the song. Luther, the more accomplished musician, catches on quickly, and if you look in the background you'll see him mouth the note, "A" to Marshall, who earlier had masking tape denoting the notes on the fretboard of the bass. One thing though: if you shoot a man in Reno, you won't go to Folsom Prison because Folsom is California and Reno is in Nevada. That's the one thing that doesn't make sense to me. Otherwise, this song, and Johnny Cash, are pillars of American music. |
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| Dream Theater – As I Am Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| by the way, has any noticed toward the beginning of this song thar the guitar is very similar to black sabbath riffs? not any particular song, just the effects and chord sequence. | |
| Dream Theater – Metropolis, Pt. 1: "The Miracle and the Sleeper" Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Oops...duh. Under a glass moon ... you know what I meant, amorash :) Sorry | |
| Rush – Ghost Rider Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I'm surprised many people haven't made more comments on this. When I first heard this song, I could totally relate. Sometimes anger or frustration get so high the only thing I can do is get on the road. I'll just drive through the deserts and mountains. The thing about driving is once you've driven out for awhile, there's nothing you can do but get back home. So you can't deal with your emotions prematurely. Just get out there, think them completely through, and come home. Then express. Great song. | |
| Rush – Freeze (Part IV of Fear) Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| This song intros so cool. The drummer in my church band can play the intro on the drums...pretty cool | |
| Dream Theater – This Dying Soul Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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If you notice...many connections to "Mirror" from Awake. Compare this passage from "Mirror": "Let's stare the problem right in the eye It's plagued me from coast to coast Racing the clock to please everyone All but the one who matters the most" To this one from "This Dying Soul": "Spreading all your lies from coast to coast While spitting on the ones that matter most" Also, JLB kind of sounds like the singer from Slipknot there in certain sections, which I think sounds pretty cool. |
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| Dream Theater – As I Am Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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"Still Running uphill Swimming against the current I wish I weren't so Fucked Feels like I'm stuck Lost in a sea of mediocrity" As a songwriter, I think these lyrics are very well written. The above passage is a good example. I never would have thought to rhyme "current" with "weren't". Well done, MP! |
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| Screaming Trees – Dollar Bill Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| uhhh sicman, i don't think it's as complicated as you think. He's not sure if he should leave his girl because everyone says he's no good for her, or what he feels in his heart. He eventually caves into the pressure of the crowd. It was probably for the best that he did too :) | |
| Extreme – Rest in Peace Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| This song is about the hypocrites who cry for peace but are in truth belligerent against anyone who doesn't see things their way. Gary, IMHO, is a very underrated lyricist. His lyrics are very intelligent and thought-provoking...it's too bad he was overshadowed by Nuno's fireworks, fantastic guitarist that he was. | |
| Extreme – More Than Words Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Well I guess the way I see this song, taken to an extreme (no pun intended) would be this: what means more? A) boy neglects girl, thinks only of himself, never thinks about girl, but tells her he loves her, or B) boy is always thinking about girl's happiness first, makes sure girl's needs are taken care of before he considers his own, but never tells her he loves her. I'd say that (B) is the greater expression of love. In another way, words can be meaningless unless they are backed up by action. Love isn't "I love you." Loving someone is putting their happiness is one's greatest concern. | |
| Dream Theater – Octavarium Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| This song is about how our own personal histories repeat themselves sometimes. It is not one continuous song, like "The Fountain of Lamneth" by Rush or DT's "SFAM". It is a series of vignettes, like "6DOIT". So from one section to the next, I wouldn't expect too much continuity as they are talking about different subjects. | |
| Genesis – Abacab Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I don't think it's the song structure because it would be more like ABCBDEFB and well, that's unpronounceable. I thought maybe Abacab might have referred to the notes they played (without actually bothering to go to a guitar and try it out). It could be the A B A C A B...or it could be Ab A C Ab, or some variation. I'll have to look into that. | |
| Coheed and Cambria – The Willing Well IV: The Final Cut Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I am starting to think that the entire album, Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness, is unified around the idea of the Writer (whoever that is, Claudio, God, Claudio the guy in the band?) deciding whether or not to kill off a character. The title of the album is derived from track #6: Apollo I: The Writing Writer. Here the Writer decides to destroy Star IV, the star in the Keywork that includes Earth. But does he destroy all of its inhabitants? Ambelina/Newo/Erica Court/whoever seems to demand the Writer's attention quite a bit, to the point where this "fictional" character illicits extremely violent actions from the Writer, "If I had my way I'd crush your face in the door." For this song, "The Final Cut" is not only a reference to the Pink Floydian musical parts, but to other points, such as the violent end of a female character, such as the literal meaning of "Cut" and the actual character being "cut" from the script/story. Claudio's story is going all deep now, where he and the Writer and Coheed's son Claudio (if he's not the Writer) are shifting in and out of reality, like the real Jerry Seinfeld and the fake one of the show, or that movie "Adaptation." No, I don't think it's the end of the story, just the end of a character. |
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| Coheed and Cambria – Apollo I: The Writing Writer Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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This song sounds so good. "Tonight goodnight I'm burning Star IV" I love that line! This is of course, the writer, as the title implies, and he's going to do a little purging as he talked about in Ten Speed. The line refers to the destruction of Star IV, which if I remember correctly was the star in the Key that had Earth in it. So basically this song is "That's it. I've made up my mind. I'm burning (getting rid of) Star IV." This is such an interesting storyline. Good for C&C to be brave enough to release such conceptual albums, and not the crap that's on the radio for the most part. |
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| Dream Theater – Vacant Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Actually, it probably is a prequel to Disappear, off of 6DOIT. I think it's about James' mother dying of Alzheimer's. | |
| Megadeth – Shadow Of Deth Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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No. The war sounds are going on around him. Psalm 23 is about the worst pep talk you can give your soldiers before battle...maybe okay after battle when the fighting is over. Just look at how peaceful the first verse is. Laying down in green pastures, by still waters, with his God restoring his soul. What the song means is, even though all this death and war is surrounding him (after all, it IS the valley of the shadow of death), he knows that God will lead him out of there to a fulfilling life (cup running over, goodness and mercy following him all the days of his life, dwelling in the house of the Lord). |
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| Dream Theater – Space-Dye Vest Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Farewell, I'm sure you're thinking of Wait for Sleep. But just look at Kevin's pieces on Awake: 6:00, Lie, Space-Dye Vest. Ever since I first heard that album years ago, I always felt that the entire thing played off of those three songs, sort of as a foundation. The whole Awake album is indescribably good. We all know that DT are technically excellent musicians. But the whole "feel" for the album has this darkness and presentness that adds so much. They did a superb job. I remember that it was released in 1994 and I'm shocked that it's already 10+ years old! Like I said above, I heartbroken that the 5 will no longer be making such fantastic, dark, haunting, beautiful music anymore. |
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| Pearl Jam – Indifference Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I think that most people who say this song is about a relationship or suicide are taking one aspect or another of the song and making it out more than it should be. Unbeknownst to most people (including Pearl Jam fans, I take it), Vs. is a concept album, yes a concept album, where each song has a common thread or theme. Vs. theme is conflict. Get it? Vs.? Every song has at least a bit of conflict in it, even EWBtCiaST. In Indifference, Ed talks about how much change can just one person do? He's railed so much on so many things, but if he were doing it in his room he wouldn't affect many people at all. Can just one person make a difference? This is the point of the song. No matter what that person does, scream his lungs out, hold that candle in vigilance, stretch out his arms in defiance, fight the sun and drink the poison, if he's the only one doing it, his work will be in vain. "How much difference does it make?" It's more abstract in meaning than a relationship song or suicide song or whatever. To end this album (I enjoy studying how songs on an album are arranged, I believe there's a bit of a science, or at least art, to it), they would need something that would represent the other songs but also be its own song with its own meaning. For the whole album it's been 5 against 1 - whoever the 5 are, say Ed is the 1; every song about conflict has been Ed's voice, not a duet or choir, just him. And now, at the end of the album, he wonders, "How much difference does it make" to have one voice only, just him doing all this? He needs the troubled souls to unite (see Leash). |
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| Pearl Jam – Leash Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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No no no no no.... Before I get into the why, let me just say that of all the Pearl Jam songs, this one moves me more than any other. The anger and passion are great, especially in the first verse. Okay, onto the analysis -- The first verse is special because it unites the trouble souls, and even though they don't know where they are going, at least they are together. This is a beautiful sentiment, by the way. Verse #2 gets more personal as Ed describes a conversation he had with his cad of a father, in which he reveals to Ed that it was their (friends) idea to go out with Ms. Vedder...she gets pregnant as a result and ol' Dad is gone once he finds out. He further divulges his boorishness when he tells young Ed to take his "fucking hand" and curtly (and defensively) reasserts that it was THEIR idea, to prove he was a man. This sudden change of heart and growth of conscience on ol' cad-dad's part infuriates Ed, leaving him to vent. In spite of dad's advances, Ed wants nothing to do with him, let alone a relationship. To this Ed responds, "drop the leash, get out of my fucking face. We can find our own way, we will find meaning for our lives outside of you, and you just use us to live vicariously through us (the 'delight in our youth' bit)" There...how's that? |
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| Soundgarden – Overfloater Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Lepra Messias - Aposto que es portugues, nao? Vivo em California, originalemente de Massachusetts, de familia acoreana. Desculpe de nao meter os acentos mas eu nao tenho pacienca para isto num teclave americano. Tambem desculpe pela resposta tarde, mas e raro eu visitar as paginas de letras que eu ja fiz comentario. Ora bem, se ha outras perguntas, fa-lo-as! Mais, queria saber que tipo de pesquisa que esta a fazer? Obrigado, v |
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| Chicago – Saturday In The Park Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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"Slow motion riders fly the colors of the day" This could be in reference to a merry-go-round or some other children's ride to be found at a park. "A bronze man still can tell stories his own way." Sounds like the ubiquitous War Hero statue, found at most parks across the country. If the statue was on his horse, and the horse was on all fours, that meant one thing (he died in battle or something), and if he's rearing up on his two hind quarters, that meant something else (he was wounded maybe). If he is not on a horse but standing, that means yet another thing (he was not a casualty). |
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| Kutless – Sea Of Faces Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I am not an extra in the movie of life, not to God :) I think that this is one of the most touching songs, especially the bridge, I've ever heard. It's funny how songs get better when you learn how to play them hahaha G > C9 > Em > C9 So beautiful when you play it acoustically | |
| Kutless – Treason Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Hmmm...no one's commented on this song yet. The Treason to which the song refers is that we will praise God and be good one moment and then before you know it, we are doing wrong. This song teaches us two things: God's grace is sufficient for thee, and no matter what you do, any attempt on your part to "make right" with God will ultimately fail because the only way to make right with God was made right through Christ. So take that Way and remember that when Jesus died, He died for ALL sin, including yesterday's, today's and tomorrow's. Good song that makes you think | |
| Dream Theater – Space-Dye Vest Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Staggarelli is quite right; this is a song from Kevin Moore, who wrote after the recent end of a relationship. If I remember that interview correctly, she ended it with him and he wasn't ready to end it, so he had all this love to throw around. He saw the picture of the girl modeling the Space Dye Vest in a catalog he borrowed from Lisa Martens (John Myung's girlfriend at the time/hence the lyric "Falling through pages of Martens on angels"). He "fell in love" with the beautiful girl, then he realized, "I don't even know her." That was the start of this song. This is absolutely one of DTs best songs. I got my stepson into DT and this is his favorite song by far. Like Emily Dickenson said, you know when poetry is good when after reading it, it feels like the top of your head was taken off and turned around and put back on. That's how I feel whenever I hear this song. I don't care how much better Rudess is technically over Kevin. I still prefer Kevin. IMHO he was the soul of the band, no one wrote better lyrics or music. It breaks my heart when I think that this was the end :( |
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| Pearl Jam – Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I think it's about an elderly woman behind the counter in a small town. | |
| Soundgarden – Tighter & Tighter Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| It's about someone with a terminal disease, who spends his last living night with his soul mate, knowing full well he will be dead and gone in the morning. | |
| Metallica – ...And Justice for All Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I believe they based this song on the 1979 movie "...And Justice for All" with Al Pacino and Jeffrey Tambor. Pacino is a lawyer who is caught up in his own career, then comes to the realization that the justice system is 'just-a-system' where the rich get away with corruption by lies and manipulating the truth. Good movie. The pivotal scene is where Jeffrey Tambor's client, who he had sprung on a rape/murder charge on a technicality, was caught again raping and murdering. Pacino realizes that the system was made to put the evildoers in jail, not to make the lawyers rich. They should show this movie at every law school so that everyone can get their priorities straight. | |
| Extreme – Hole Hearted Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I absolutely agree with NunoInfo. This song is not about a woman, but of God. The worldly things have taken his main focus, but now he senses there is something missing in his life and that hole can only be filled by God. Gary has recently (past few years) expressed his spirituality more openly, and many people saw Extreme as a power ballady 80s band wannabe, led by an albeit masterful guitarist. Look at the lyrics Gary wrote: they are quite thought-provoking. | |
| Deftones – My Own Summer (Meu Proprio Verao) (Portuguese) Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| I didn't know that wombat owned the website...I think if someone wants to post lyrics in Portuguese or Cambodian or Russian, then it's their right. Back off. | |
| Deftones – Feiticeira Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Actually, Bruxa and Feiticeira both mean "witch." Sage isn't a dumbass...ever heard of something called "synonyms"????? Yes, Feiticeira means witch or sorceress but the word really has nothing to do with the lyrics. It's about getting kidnapped, stuffed in the trunk bound and gagged, being photographed, chased by the cops, being used as an inanimate object ("her new meat")...by the way, what's with Chino's fascination with meat? The music kicks ass but meat? Can anyone explain it? |
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| Billy Joel – We Didn't Start the Fire Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| I'm sure this is late for your paper, but Marylin Monroe truly was a superstar in her day. No one captured that innocent sexuality like she did. The platinum blonde hair, the body, the silly voice, all were used to get American men (and men worldwide) to go ga-ga over her. Adding to her modern-day mystique are the fact that she was the original Playboy centerfold, and her mysterious death at a relatively young age of 36. | |
| Billy Joel – My Life Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| The guy who moves to Hollywood at the start of the song is Billy Joel, who moved to Hollywood for a couple years, then moved back to New York. During his stay in LA he was a lounge singer/pianist, and this is much of the basis for "Piano Man." Except in this song he's not a lounge singer but a comedian. | |
| Billy Joel – Captain Jack Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| Sounds to me like this is an adolescent boy, about 15 or 16, his older sister is out and he's got nothing to do but get high on pot, jerk off and drink. Meanwhile he's dissatisfied with the boring suburban life he's grown up in. | |
| Soundgarden – Black Hole Sun Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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My God in Heaven, I feel so old. I was a junior in high school. I distinctly remember, I was not quite 18 years old, and Soundgarden were just about becoming THE big thing. Superunknown broke it open for them. They had a high number of hits off this album, the biggest of which was Black Hole Sun. I always had a soft spot for Cornell's lyrics, since they dealt with impending Judgement and Revelation times, and this subject has always interested me. I believe this song is about praying for the end of the world. The chorus alone is so thick with meaning, it's very difficult to point out specifics, but generally I believe it is about Apocolyptic events. "Black Hole Sun, won't you come and wash away the rain?" He is asking the sun (a black hole sun), which offers heat and fire and general dryness, to "wash away" something already wet, the rain. A thoroughly interersting passage, it has taken me years to parse this. What the Hell does he mean? |
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| .38 Special – Second Chance Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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missing lyrics, something like: Please forgive me, and forget it I was wrong and I admit it Why can't we think it over Why can't we forget about it Forget about the past? |
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| Soundgarden – Overfloater Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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I can't confirm this, but it sounds a lot like "Breathe it in and gently take it, blowing out Suck it down and swallow hard again." I think this is just a getting high song. This is a great song, lyrics notwithstanding, because it has great momentum and release points at the transitional points of verse-to-bridge, bridge-to-chorus, and chorus-to-verse. And even though I'm disinterested in the subject of getting high in songs generally, the lyrics to this song are superb. Just the way they sound put together, and then packaged with the music, is very satisfying. The chorus to me is proof of this song being about intoxication. The first verse tells he's just gotten to Dave's (his dealer?). "Been stuck inside" literally means he hasn't been able to leave the place, but a possible interpretation is being "stuck" inside his body (under his skin) by a needle. "Trouble's far away, mother's in her cage" refer to no chance of being caught. "Nothing's gonna pinch this nerve of mine" means he has succeeded in his goal of intoxication and there's no turning back. "I wanna make it right" refers to the false positive feelings when high. "Close the door," "pull the shade" refer to hiding the activity. "Climb the walls" is a hallucination induced by the drugs. "Feel medicine heal the lines of age" the drugs are erasing his burdens. "I'm here and now I'm gone, I'm there and far beyond" speak of the altered state just achieved. "Hold the potion up" an obvious drug reference. "Stare your shadow down." Face your fears. "Remember to forget and then rename your shame." This alludes to the idea that drugs impair memory. "I'm on the wire," he's about to take flight "Over and higher," he's just gotten high "Over the pretense," he's there to do drugs "Over the spire," higher still "On and connected," he's achieving false spirituality through drugs. "I'm overfloating now," He's gotten very high. And that's what I think. |
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| Pete Seeger – Little Boxes Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| This song is a critique of the Post-World War II trend of building neighborhoods and even towns out of copycat houses. Seeger is saying that these houses have no personality and the inhabitants are empty because the individual is not celebrated. Places like Levittown NY were "manufactured" communities where houses were put up in a matter of weeks and one neighborhood looked the same as the next. | |
| Stavesacre – Night Town Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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I love how Stavesacre is a Christian band that doesn't have to hit you over the head with it by filling up their albums with nonstop praise songs. Yes, you can be a Christian artist without having to repeat the Lord's name ad infinitum throughout your songs. This is a perfect example. On the surface, one might think "what does this have to do with Christianity?" But this is in the Spirit of God; for one thing, it's saying that you are with (Christian) friends, enjoy this time with them, build relationships with your fellow-Christians, just like the Lord wants us to build a relationship with Him. But deeper than that, I think another meaning to the song is one that echoes Jesus when He said for us to consider the birds, that they don't have a concern for the next day's food, that the Father will provide for them, and aren't we more important than birds? So the Father will provide for us even more so. In other words, Jesus' message was not to worry about tomorrow, how we will eat, how we will dress ourselves, those are earthly matters, just live for today, and think about God and pick up your cross today, and don't worry about earthly things and mistakes and regrets. Just live. By the way, I love this song, it's tremendous, and it's also one of my son's favorites. |
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| Stavesacre – Rivers Underneath Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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The Collective version has more of an airy feel, as if they were jamming in a studio. The original is great, of course, and it is different from the Collective version in that it is more polished, like the guys went to individual rooms and played separately. I agree - this song is gorgeous, and I enjoy the Collective version more. I remember hearing it for the first time in 12/01, I was driving around visiting Toluca Lake/Hollywood CA area with my fiancee (she lived there in the early 80s), and it was a quiet beautiful night... This song to me tells me of someone who left an old life and has now returned to see that where they were raised is different now, something's changed, and the people from his old life return to him and say that they miss him and want him to return, but sadly, he doesn't remember a single thing from the old life. And it's sad, but only for those left behind in the old life, that those relationships can't continue on, even though there is love there, because of its toxicity being to great. And the feeling is familiar ("I feel it pulling me") but his mind can't pinpoint intellectually the events and people of his past. |
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| Stavesacre – Devil Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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To me, this song could be one of two things: 1) A celebrity being interviewed by a reporter 2) A celeb shooting the breeze with one of his "big fans" In either case, during the conversation (which is presented one-sided from the point of view of the celeb) the journalist/fan has these thoughts of "you're so great, you're a big influence to me," and the celeb is all "that's nice, that makes me feel good that you think that way but I still think I'm a worm." As the conversation progresses, the journalist/fan realizes the celeb ain't all he's cracked up to be ("the hero is a wretch"), he's just a stinky rat like the rest of us, so "are you disenchanted by the idol's humanness?" The journalist/fan at first wanted to be more like the celeb in admiration, but the fact is they already are similar in that they're both wretches. |
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| Pink Floyd – Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts I - V) Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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To Killingfloor: Imagine a comma (,) in the title, like this, "Shine On, You Crazy Diamond." You'll see that the You Crazy Diamond is one construction, the subject of the phrase, as in: "You (Crazy Diamond) Shine On," Or "(You Crazy Diamond) Shine On." Consider the title a command sentence, where the "you" is implied. "You Crazy Diamond" is a similar construction grammatically to "We Three Kings" or "We the People" or "Bob the Builder". These are all one "subject" or noun-phrase. Hoping this helps, vozzy |
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| Jimmy Eat World – My Sundown Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| How can you call a band that completely recorded this album on its own budget THEN tried to pitch it to the labels, how can you call them sellouts? It's the total opposite; if anything they're buyouts ;) | |
| Rush – IV. Armageddon (The Battle of Heart and Mind) Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| Great movement on an underrated Rush piece. Of the 6 or 7 parts, this is my favorite, because of the weird way Geddy sings it, and I like the cool rhyme scheme. Finally some resolution to Cygnus X-1, we see our hero, the space traveler again, and learn that his fate was flying through a time/dimensional warp. Very cool! | |
| Dream Theater – Metropolis, Pt. 1: "The Miracle and the Sleeper" Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| I've been a big DT fan for years and years, but it was only until a few months ago that I didn't own IAW. "Metropolis" has emerged as my fave song on the CD, although they're all brilliant. I love the musical interludes between lyrics, so satisfying (as Mike P would say) when it is resolved and James L sings "before the leaves have fallen..." I like to see these lyrics as being the story of a glitch: a girl gets murdered, she accidentally gets trapped in the mind of a young man 80 years later. The lyrical meaning is OK, nothing great, but I LOVE how the lyrics sound and I love to sing along with James L (much to the pain of my coworkers!). "Under a Glass Prison" gave "Metropolis" a run for it's money, but "The Miracle and the Sleeper" come out victorious in my opinion. | |
| Dream Theater – The Glass Prison Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| This song is not linked to any other DT song, any resemblance is coincidental ;) This is obviously a song about Mike P's alcoholism; the title is blatant: "glass prison" refers to being trapped in the bottle, and the song is dedicated to Bill W. and his friends. Bill W. was the founder of Alcoholics Anonymous. | |
| Dream Theater – Learning to Live Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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These lyrics are about the threat of AIDS, which was on everyone's mind in the late 80s - early 90s...for example: "The 90s bring new questions / New solutions to be found / I fell in love to be let down Once again we dance in the crowd / At times a step away / From a common fear that's all spread out / It won't listen to what you say / Once you're touched you stand alone / To face the bitter fight / Once I reached for love / And now I reach for life" |
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