| Beastie Boys – Skills To Pay The Bills Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| butt naked fills. | |
| Saosin – Mookie's Last Christmas Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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that's awful. this song reminds me of friends i haven't talked to in maybe 3 or 4 years. they know who they are. it makes me really sad. |
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| Every Time I Die – Godspeed Us to Sea Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| also crazycore you're a moron. this is about the cooptation of good men of all ideologies by a faceless system. | |
| Every Time I Die – Godspeed Us to Sea Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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This leaves out the two lines after "poison in that bottle". Should read Tell the tower I've been hijacked Tell the captain this vehicle's been stolen |
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| Meat Loaf – Paradise by the Dashboard Light Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| what a glorious asshole this man is | |
| Mr. Big – To Be With You Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| i'm pretty sure everyone who's ever heard this song heard it on a commercial for something. me? monsters of metal commercial, mid 90's. 90210 rerun. | |
| Guano Apes – Big in Japan Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| horse. | |
| Iron Maiden – Revelations Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| i have no fucking clue what bruce is singing about here, though presumably it's the revelation of st. john. as is the iron maiden tradition, this is probably some bit of obscure historical half-fiction filtered through soem dubious third source such as sir geoffrey of monmouth. | |
| Iron Maiden – Revelations Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| it's "just a babe in a black chemise". | |
| Say Anything – Every Man Has His Molly Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| sorry i feel i should elaborate. this is such a hateful, spiteful and vindictive song, but it's so fucking catchy, and they know it. post prudiction handclaps, the hooky guitar riffs, the chorus, all of it. it's a pop ode to hate and spite and selfishness. it's so good! | |
| Say Anything – Every Man Has His Molly Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| this guy is such an asshole. haha i love it. | |
| Cursive – The Recluse Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| this song is about loathing, self loathing born of behavior that contradict's one's conception of self, and the loathing of others who enable it. it's also about trust, and how the narrator basically doesn't feel trust of the woman he's sleeping with, waiting in bed for her to come entangle him in a relationship and then sink her fangs into him, to crush him once he feels comfortable. i think it's safe to say that tim kasher is scared of girls. and rightly so, i think he's had one hell of a go at them. | |
| Alkaline Trio – Blue In The Face Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| yeah, this song's about coke, dude. | |
| Cursive – Some Red Handed Sleight of Hand Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| this song doesn't really lend itself to simplicity. it's about more than his penis. | |
| Cursive – Some Red Handed Sleight of Hand Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| this song is about personal and religious hypocrisy, and the way religion influences how we act and what we do. tim says "there's no use to keep a secret; everything i hide ends up in lyrics", which parallels the catholic ritual of confessing your sins to the father in the confessional box. tim is saying that, as a catholic, he confesses his sins to an anonymous body, but not through confessional, like he was taught, but through his music, to us, his impartial confessor. when he asks "our father, who art in heaven, save me from the wreck i'm about to drown in", and chides himself by asking "didn't i learn anything counting down my sins on rosary beads", he's basically saying that religion as a system of values has failed him, leaving him only with the hope of god's mercy to save him from the mess he's gotten himself into because of his personal failings. the recurring theme of the reverend and the ugly organ illustrates tim's views on personal morality as thrust upon us by the church, an almost sexual relationship where we prostrate ourself before the governing body and are rewarded with a "sweet and salty sermon", which is intended to impregnate us with certain values. however, tim goes on to show how, like the catholic church, he makes his living by parading his values and conflicts before us and passing the hat to us, asking us to pay to partake of his own sweet and salty sermon (which is why he characterizes himself as operating the "ugly organ" in the beginning of the song). the ugly organ itself is an interesting concept, as it fits the characterization of music and sexuality as a delivery system for personal values. organ, of course, is a slang term for a penis, which fits with the action of spewing a sweet and salty sermon on the audiance. the organ as a musical instrument, widely used in catholic sermons to accompany hymns, is a metaphor for how kasher sees his music, almost self-deprecatingly, as passing onto us, the listeners, a set of values and morals. in essence, kasher is telling us that this album is a hymnal for the twisted values he's learned as an adult. finally, kasher uses the condition of stigmata as a metaphor for how this album will be seen by others; as an outward manifestation of inner conflict. i find that interesting, as stigmata is said only to afflict true believers. is kasher stating that he himself is a true believer? and if so, what is he a true believer of? this song is very critical of catholic doctrine and it's influence on personal morality, so is kasher characterising himself as a "true catholic", or as having been fully indoctrinated into the hypocrisy of the catholic church characterized in this song? either way, this song is meant to show how this album illustrates kasher's inner conflicts, shown by being red handed with stigmata, through the sleight of hand that is catholic doctrine: "some red-handed sleight of hand". | |
| Coheed and Cambria – The Camper Velourium II: Backend of Forever Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| ok, this is what i think it's about. velorium camper I-III are about al the killer, he's a kind of boba fett/han solo type of character who's ship is called the velorium camper. he's pretty crazy. now, i believe this song is about him coming to terms with crushing, i guess, on one of his marks, a girl he raped (see lyrics to TVCI:FOH). occaisonally he'll report back to his handlers (over and out, connecticut), all the while trying to convince himself that he's not really in love with his target (this isn't love there on the back end of forever, i wish i would never hurt again). he's been made vulnerable by falling in love (witness when he cries at her story, etc). he's been hurt by having entered into an emotional bond with his victim. like i said, he's sick. this is rectified in TVCIII:ATK when he goes pretty kill crazy, targeting white girls (his previous target). | |
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