| AFI – Bleed Black Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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In morningstar, Davey repeatedly says "I don't want to die tonight." Now in Bleed Black, he claims "I know I died that night." If we assume that Bleed Black is the starting point for Sing The Sorrow, and we ignore Battled and any material released in between TAOD and STS, Bleed Black follows on from Morningstar. If this is true, we can see that Davey did die that night in morningstar. He wasn't "your anything" and whoever he was calling out to didn't believe in him or didn't stand by him when he needed it. Morningstar also says "There is nothing left, but what is inside of me" Bleed Black says "I am exploring the inside" So Davey accepts that this person/thing in morningstar will never believe in him and instead sticks to the inside, only to find that there is nothing there either. Having been destroyed as a person, he realizes that he either has the choice of giving up, or starting again (being reborn, as is often referred to in STS). He chooses to start again, only to find in STS that he can not become something else other than who he is and so gives up again in the continual loop. He can never escape from himself; like the rabbit he can never become something more, something better than who he is now. These last couple of sentences refer to the whole album rather than just this song. As for the chorus, if you listen to morningstar, after the words end and the distortion dies down, there is a single note plucked (long before Battled). Of course, you may have to 'listen closely' to the music, listen to the music 'beat-by-beat'. Could this be when his heart stops, just after morningstar? If it is, him taking the pieces and grinding them all to dust could again refer to him dispensing of the life he used to live and start again. I hope to think about this 'theory' more in the near future and possibly write some of it down. As is obvious, it's a bit confused at the moment. If anyone has any thoughts or whatever, please email me at blue_eyed_killa@hotmail.com |
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| VNV Nation – Saviour Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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The last couple of lines:- '"Kneel before this seat of shame to Gods as lost, Gods as blind, Gods of suffering and pain.",' give me the impression that he could be referring to the medieval European Kings, the Pharoahs of Egypt and other Kings who ruled through divine right. So perhaps the song is about how humans have twisted the idols of the potentially beautiful thing a God could be and turned it into something human - a vengeful being, needy of worship and able to callously ignore suffering and pain. |
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| Clann Zú – There Will Be No Morning Copy Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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It's about the conflict in Israel and Palestine. Israel - "Your borders are bloody mirages, That expand and contract at the will of the blade." |
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| AFI – Now The World Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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'You'll be a memory' said; Abject means non-stop. Not hopelessnes. Idiot. -------------------------------------------------------------- Abject actually means of the lowest, worst or most shameful kind. It can also be an adjective meaning of the most hopeless kind. Perhaps you would like to apologize to Katarina for calling her an idiot. At least she offered an interpretation of the song, rather than an arrogant and completely inaccurate comment. ------------------------------------------------------------- I think it's about growing up and first love. We all remember those long summers when we first discovered boys/girls, the relationships and the messy, tear-filled break ups from which we thought we'd never recover, accompanied by the bitterness of being dumped/rejected. He is looking back at all his lost loves and all the loves that have gone and seen how they scarred his heart and changed him. However, overall there appears to be something positive about the song that I can't quite put my finger on. |
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| A Perfect Circle – Brena Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| As a Spanish speaker, Breña is the name given to scrub and dry forest, common througout the beautiful Spanish countryside. | |
| Deftones – Change (In the House of Flies) Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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| A Perfect Circle – Passive Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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Taken in the context of the album, the song is APC addressing America, in particular the "passive-aggressive" anti-Government types. Given what Maynard said about every vote counting and those who don't vote are giving up control, I think this is about people who don't vote but dislike Bush, or those who didn't vote Bush, but don't actively protest against what they see as a horrible government. Indeed, it can be applied to anyone in general who sits at home grumbling about the Government but doesn't actively go out and change things, instead displaying passive-aggressive traits like stubbornness and deliberate inefficiency at work. Lines like "Wake up" are encouraging the public to go out and do something to stop tyranny and the stripping of civil liberties that has occured in the past few years. "Playing dead" and "cold and catatonic" describe the state of the people who are happy to trade in their freedoms for stricter controls every day, numbed by an a culture discouraging certain lines of thought. The protagonist is saying that even though "the doctor" diagnoses the people as "dead as dead can be" (they will never choose to stand up for their rights, just act passive-aggressively), he will not give up hope - "ever the optimistic one". His final thoughts though, are that perhaps he should walk away, perhaps those people who aren't willing to stand up for their own rights and the rights of others which the government are patently and flagrantly abusing, perhaps they don't deserve this. Maybe the pressure groups and the protestors who moderate governments, stop them from doing too much to restrict liberty, stop them from being too destructive to the core fabric of society, should just "walk away", disappointed with society. A Perfect Circle are saying that if people are apathetic toward the onset of tryranny, if they don't do enough to stop the control systems of Orwell, Bradbury and Huxley's nightmares from arising, them "maybe they're better off this way" - without freedom of speech, freedom of choice, freedom from random arrest and freedom from torture. To me, this song is a development of the Benjamin Franklin quote "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." |
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| AFI – ...But Home Is Nowhere Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| The first two lines sum up this song perfectly. He's looking for love but just feel alone. | |
| VNV Nation – Airships Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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This song to me is about hope in death. The imagery and ambiences of the song are simply magical. This iconic airship rising up on a beautiful sunny day with a clear blue sky and sailing whilst people just stop, stare and smile sticks in my head whenever I listen to this song. For me, the protagonist is dieing and as he is nearing death he looks out of his window and sees the airship, and forgetting his ills and sorrows actually smiles and waves. At this moment he realizes that he'll go to a beautiful place when he dies and for the first time he accepts his fate and welcomes death and moving on. |
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| VNV Nation – Solitary Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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To me it seems that the singer is dieing in some sense or another, perhaps losing a part of himself that held him back - "set me aflame and cast me free, away you wretched world of tethers" and starts to reflect on the universal constant that is change. "and if rains bring winds of change..." He realizes that the past (with this line I'll mark the past) makes us who we are today, but we aren't who we are today, and in the last few verses he is grateful for the existence of change, as it has resulted in an inevitable end for many evil things in the past. |
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