| Green Day – Know Your Enemy Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| GD lyrics now are intellectually impoverished--by design--to appeal to angst-filled youth who feel lost and want to start a "revolution" and overthrow something. It's always easier to destroy than to create, and with the last couple of albums, GD have erected an incoherent, self-indulgent tribute to nihilism to lend their lives meaning. THEY are parasites, and anybody who thinks lyrics requiring explanations like "liberating yourself from the bullshit on TV" are culturally significant is even worse: they are parasites suckling from parasites. | |
| Dan Fogelberg – Leader of the Band Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| what a great and profoundly meaningful song about an equally neglected quality: a father's influence. dan fogelberg plays and sings softly and beautifully... and for once on songmeanings, a mature and rational discussion about a song without bad blood. very good points and interesting stories, all! | |
| Christopher Cross – Hunger Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I don't know and can't find any information to discern what this song is actually about. "Opiate angel" sounds drug-related but that is rather more than likely a metaphor for what he feels this woman does to him. He describes desperation all throughout the song, and when he says, "I'm scared that I'll find you/I'm scared even more I never will" it makes me think he has grown addicted to the idea of loving her; that it's both sweet to long for and be with her--either could be equally good or bad for him. This reminds me, sadly, of an experience of my own. The song is refreshingly muted, downbeat and pensive. This is either my 2nd favorite Cross song along with, obviously, "Sailing." Can't believe I'm the only one to say something about this song so far; have a listen if you've never heard. | |
| 10 Years – The Autumn Effect Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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If this album were credited to A Perfect Circle I would be none the wiser; sounds indistinguishable from Maynard. Otherwise, what a haunting and depressing and beautiful section from about 4:00 to 6:30. |
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| Hatebreed – Puritan Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Anti-Christian message? Yes. Crusades and child molestation? I doubt it. | |
| Hatebreed – Hollow Ground Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I think this is one of the baddest*ss songs ever made, probably top 10. Makes me want to drive a tank through a house. Except I hate it when it degenerates into that incoherent up-tempo segment near the middle; that's the only thing that stops me from getting in my tank. | |
| Hatebreed – Before Dishonor Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Metal has always had a social/political message. Why is open_veins outraged that they would have a message about gays? I doubt Hatebreed cares that the PC crowd finds their message offensive. | |
| Switchfoot – Sooner Or Later (soren's Song) Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I find the first 30 seconds haunting | |
| Faith No More – We Care A Lot Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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This song is hilarious. It makes fun of celebrities who make it to the top and suddenly have nowhere else to go to feel like good, productive people, so they branch out into charity work and try to "save the world." I like how it starts out normal "disasters, fires, floods" and gets absurd by the end of the first line: They care about "killer bees," and finally just gets downright ridiculous "We care a lot about Transformers because there's more than meets the eye." Terrific. |
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| Frank Sinatra – Send In The Clowns Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| This is one of Sinatra's most depressing songs. I like it a lot, but it's depressing as hell. | |
| Michael W. Smith – Kentucky Rose Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I love this song. I wonder: was "Kentucky Rose" an actual person in Michael's life, or is it analogy for Christ? At any rate, I love the heartfelt lyrics and stirring tune. | |
| Dope – Pig Society Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Religion is bad. | |
| System of a Down – Boom! Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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First of all, I believe the "kill the god your child has born" lyric is a slam on modern Christianity. It's possible that I'm wrong on this, but from Jesus (the child) came (or is) God... To me it seems pretty clear he is associating this war with American Christianity. You can be the partial judge of whether or not that's fair. Second, here's what our greedy, evil, conspiratorial Jew-puppet government with corporate conglomerate interests thought justified a war in Iraq: http://www.massgraves.info Check it out. This is what was going on. 300,000 mass graves, millions expected dead under the rule of Hussein. This is what would have continued without an invasion. You can sit back and point your knobby, subversive little fingers at Bush/Religion/Corporations but at the end of the day that pales in comparison to rape rooms, torture chambers, mass executions and mass graves. |
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| Ministry – No W Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| BUSH IS HITLAR!!!111one | |
| Frank Sinatra – It Was A Very Good Year Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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my favorite sinatra song its meaning is not cryptic enough to require analysis, really; pretty straightforward |
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| Paul Wright – Mommy, Where's Daddy? Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| sad song; highlights the irresponsibility and unfaithfulness of some adults that can shatter the youthful naiveté which believes such behavior is below their authority figures | |
| Red House Painters – Revelation Big Sur Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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i think this song is about how a girl meant absolutely everything to him; he so reveres her that she even becomes an idealized caricature of herself; so great that he almost resents it, but at the end of the day his love for her overcomes even that resentment this is one of RHP's better songs, i think |
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| Red House Painters – Rollercoaster Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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it's hard to tell since most of RHP's lyrics are cryptic "the one only sissies ride"--perhaps this symbolizes a fragility he feels this all sounds like a vague dream; some distant déjá vú; a faint dream from his childhood he knows he enjoyed but remembers little about. he'd like to relive it but it's impossible to bring it back. |
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| The Beatles – Yesterday Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Obviously there are two versions of the song. I'm shocked so much tension was had before the parties realized they were both wrong. But more importantly... Matty Keating, the venerable anti-conformist, says: "lennon? damn you're narrowminded. He has a dream of equality- one that fits in with the communist dream. sure, communism doesn't have a fantstic history of working, but the dream itself is far superior to the capitalist one. will you believe any crap your government feeds you if they say it often enough?" I'm sorry to do this, but this positively requires an answer as it is quite possibly the most flawed argument I've ever seen. First, he/she uses the vapid elitist buzzword "narrow-minded". Anybody who initiates his or her rebuttal with vacuous antagonisms such as this loses all credibility in my book. Second, everyone has a "dream of equality". The distinction is manifest in the radically different terms by which people define it. That your ilk feel this alleged characteristic sets you apart from the rest is but one example of your awe-inspiring naivete. Third, and most egregiously, you actually attempted to reconcile the glib idealism of Communism with the fact that it has been an abject failure everywhere it has been implemented, and with a straight face. I can't believe it--100 million people are dead but there are still radical ideologues out there like you who could be so fundamentally dishonest with themselves that they could believe the hundredth time is a charm. Albert Einstein once said, "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result." He calls it insanity, I call it top-to-bottom corruption. As for your claim that the dream of Communism is somehow intrinsically superior to the dream of Capitalism, well... I think the record speaks for itself. And it is an inarguable one. What tangible way is the former superior than the latter? I'd ask you to answer that question but I'll settle for the fact that you already know you are woefully wrong. And finally there is the implicit conspiracy that our government is comprised of reprobate propagandists--the perfect way for any leftist pseudo-intellectual to conclude a markedly wrong and profoundly incoherent rant. Summarily, you are wrong, and if you were any more wrong then--well, that's not possible. |
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| Kansas – Song For America Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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*Snaps fingers* *Wears heavy black sweater* *Wears eccentric glasses* *Wears tight clothing* *Dyes hair black* --Monday-morning subversive-- |
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| Death Cab for Cutie – 405 Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Let me contribute to the irrational bitterness of this thread by saying the first entry, the one with "obvious" vs. "intellectual", is ridiculous. I fail to see how knowing this song is about a relationship constitutes an "intellectual", whereas knowing it's about I-405 out of Seattle, constitutes only "obvious". I'll just assume that's not the word the contributor had intended. | |
| James Taylor – Carolina In My Mind Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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James Taylor grew up in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, which almost certainly explains in full the meaning of this song. Reminiscing about being home and such... Great song; my favorite of Taylor's. |
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