| Iced Earth – Anguish Of Youth Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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The CD is only loosely a concept album. There are songs like Anthem that aren't obviously based on any work of literature or film. I think this is one of those songs; to me it sounds like a song about suicide. First we have a mixture of the emotions and experience of a young girl, and hints at some past tragedy. There are a lot of references to finally sleeping, to not being able to face another day, to wars not fading, which could be a description of clinical depression. The chorus talks about the inability to feel basic (or positive) emotions; despair is partly the absence of emotion. People who despair aren't sad, or angry, they are past the breaking point. This again aligns with depression. What follows is clearly a description of suicide by pills. "Just one more shot of whiskey to chase the pills that help her sleep. Now she is one step closer (to) her quest for inner peace." The last verse describes CPR. It's a bit strange that being revived would "forge a new perspective", but beathing upon lifeless chests is not a bad metaphor for how CPR feels. That verse is a bit inaccurate, as people who induce some form of coma via medication don't magically wake upon being rescucitated, but then it's just a song. |
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| Blind Guardian – Another Stranger Me Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Seed of doubt It exists and it grows A glimpse of life From somwhere deep within Awake and understand! Is there anyone else? Somebody's screaming? Please help me! Let's find out that I am not dreaming Welcome to my damnation! Here it comes - the real me I didn't know I couldn't hear the answer My mind was blank, I should have known I hold it back but somehow There is someone else Another stranger me! (Another stranger me) That's when the ice will break away I can't get out here anymore 'cause non of my keys fit the door There's fear and anger Hate and love I must confess it's out of hand It's physic It's cynic Still cynic All my laughter It's cynic! Just manic! It's cynic! All her laughter If there's anyone in It soon will be over We'll burn out Our soul's aflame We're on our own now Give up your cruel invasion! You're insane, I'll show you I didn't know I couldn't hear the answer My mind was blank, I should have known I hold it back but somehow There is someone else Another stranger me! [Solo] Out and gone, Can't resist, Cold and sore A bolt of pain keeps ripping through my head Oh I can take no more! Don't tell anyone else but I do not believe her! She hates me! Cloud my mind - She's a deciever I can feel cruel vibration Would you like to meet me? I didn't know I couldn't hear the answer My mind was blank, I should have known I hold it back but somehow There is someone else Another stranger me! |
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| Pink – Stupid Girls Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Autobiographic maybe? Listen to Tori Amos, Tracy Chapman, Björk, Joplin and many many more if you want to listen to female artists which really have something to say. |
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| Deicide – Bastard of Christ Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Dear quiffporn, though I read your post here about half a year after you posted it, I'd like to add something; Concerning Deceide, especially Glen Benton; He proofed in numerous interviews that he ain't that bright, and his critisism of christianity probably is related to typical teenage rebellion. I don't think he thought much about them. Concerning Cannibal Corpse (I read some of your posts) I refuse your opinion. Cannibal Corpse, to me, is some sort of splatter movie heavy metal. It is not meant to be taken serious, but it indeed can be a catalysator for anger and primordial, instinct-driven emotions. Just as splatter movies I consider them a fun way to clean the mind of violent yet deeply human thoughts by releasing them through a form of art. As a last statement, the bands you mentioned do not worship the devil as a person. Dimmu, Gorgoroth and to some extent also Morbid Angel indeed feature lyrics which aim at a more general, philosophical satanism, partly based upon LaVeys work and ideas. Some member of Dimmu, if i remember correctly, actually stated he does not believe in the devil in persona in a german magazine. Regards |
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| Ayreon – The Decision Tree (We're Alive) Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| Nah. This Song is part of the "Electric Castle"-Album which is a concept story. This song describes the decisionmaking of the group of characters concerning the inevitable passing of one of them. The Barbarian is actually a Scandinavian Viking, the Highlander a Scottish Warrior. Nothing to do with Braveheart. Additionally Wallace lived around 1300, the Viking age in Scandinavia ended around 1070. | |
| Queen – Another One Bites The Dust Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| Ok. I'd like to share some sort of physicians point of view. Spech in general is a wave of a specific amplitude and frequency, moving air and thus creating a, for human standards, sound. Vowels generally spoken are a constant wave of a specific frequency, amplitude and phase, while consonants are waves of different type woven together. No a vowel will sound the same backward masked, but in combination with consonants it may sound somehow like a different word spoken. So, except for some sarcastic comments about backward masking by iron maiden and such, most songs, reversed, will sound like _some_ strangely pronouncated words, not necessarly making any sense. Now give us a break. | |
| Iron Maiden – Brave New World Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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Actually this song _is_ about the novel "Brave New World" by Aldeous Huxley, as the title suggests. Dickinson, iirc, also said in an interview with Rock Hard Magazin (www.rockhard.de) once that the phrase "Dying Swans twisted wings.." merely tries to create a feeling of senseless disgrace of beauty to lead into the song and the overall theme. The Verses: "Lost my love, lost my life In this garden of fear" I think this line refers to the Love of the Savage to a girl who looks innocent to him. This love dies when he discovers that she want's to have sex with him, as usual in the Brave New World society, on a basis of pure lust, which is immoral to him. "I have seen many things In a lifetime alone Mother love is no more Bring this savage back home " The Savage, he himself a child of the Brave New World born by his mother in the wilderness where she got lost on a holiday trip, has seen a lot of life and of misery and mistakes of civilization. His mother dies shortly after the Savage and his mother arrive at "Brave New World" (which is not it's real name though) and she immediately falls back into usual behaviour of BNW, especially taking drugs to drop out of the cruel real life. "Wilderness house of pain Makes no sense of it all Close my mind dull this brain Messiah before his fall What you see is not real Those who know will not tell All is lost sold your soul In this brave new world" The Savage soon discovers the real wilderness is civilization. He is considered some sort of messias, but his mind rebels against this thought. He also gets the impression that there is some sort of elite cast ruling the world knowing the truth about it's flaws but willingly accepting it. "Dragon Kings Dying Queens Where is salvation now Lost my life lost my dreams Rip the bones from my flesh Silent screams laughing here Dying to tell you the truth You are planned you are damned In this Brave new world " The Savage flees and finds shelter in a forgotten lighthouse(?), where he discovers pain as a way out of his misery. When he is found he commits suicide, hence "Dying to tell you the truth" I think the music of the song fits to the book, the theme is woven into the music and makes it a melancholy masterpiece. |
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