| The Smashing Pumpkins – Speed Kills Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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I think this song really sums up the Machina II album - speed kills, but beauty lives forever, and it really shows that Billy wanted to make something beautiful. There's so many songs like this that just combine beauty and rock on it, I love it. Shame it never got properly released, it's got to be my all-time favourite album. |
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| The Smashing Pumpkins – We Only Come Out at Night Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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I think milescltrn has it. Well, it makes the most sense to me, anyway. It's light and whimsical because it's about being with your friends on a Friday night, drinking something cheap and nasty and just being who you are. Makes me feel happy, listening to it. |
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| The Smashing Pumpkins – Try, Try, Try Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| OBzwan, I've got the CD insert in front of me. It's "pop tart". Not "dark child". Don't correct things that don't need it. | |
| Marilyn Manson – GodEatGod Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| "Lord of the Flies" is a book about a bunch of kids who get stuck on an island, go batshit and develop a weird-arse tribal society. No JFK connection, I'm afraid. | |
| Marilyn Manson – Irresponsible Hate Anthem Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Firstly, darkwing is an idiot. Now we can move on. I swear I saw _blast do another song, and that was pretty spot-on, but I don't think you're right in this case, sorry. Everyone's free to an opinion, all that shit, but here's mine ;) "I am so all-american, I'll sell you suicide I am totalitarian, I've got abortions in my eyes" I see this as more relating the two to each other than contrasting the viewpoints. Manson has often expressed disdain about the common perception America holds of itself as 'land of the free', I feel this might be hitting back against that. The media is used to control the public in an almost totalitarian fashion, except rather than one organisation controlling it (ie: government), it's many organisations working together. "I hate the hater, I'd rape the raper I am not the animal who will not be himself" This, for me, has always felt like lashing out at those who made him the man he was. He hates the people who hated him, he'd rape the person who raped him, etc. "fuck it" Purely anger. "Hey victim, should I black your eyes again? Hey victim, you were the one who put the stick in my hand" Lashing out at a society that plays victim to "offensive music". Sarcastically, he asks if he should hurt the "victim" some more, before stating plainly that it was society that fucked him over in the first place. "I am the ism, my hate's a prism let's jut kill everyone and let your god sort them out fuck it" -ism, as in communism, fascism, etc. America has always had some doctrine or another as it's enemy, and now it's him. Prism is meant as a flawless shape - his hatred is perfect and complete. The next line is self explanatory. "Everybody's someone else's nigger/I know you are so am I I wasn't born with enough middle fingers/ I don't need to choose a side" The nigger line has been over countless times, and middle fingers is self-explanatory, so I'll skip to the last line here. Why would Manson have to chose a side, when he is "the enemy", the "nigger"? "I better, better, better, better not say this better, better, better, better not tell" Like blast said, sarcasm. America doesn't want to hear what he's saying, he better not, it might offend people... FUCK IT! |
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| HIM – Your Sweet Six Six Six Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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This isn't meant as in insult to HIM, because some of their songs are actually alright. But I don't see any point whatsoever in looking for meaning in HIM lyrics, because they're AWFUL. No, really. I was writing better lyrics when I was fourteen. Seriously. The thought of anyone listening to HIM for the lyrics makes my mind boggle, because they're painfully shallow and uninspired. "Woe, I'm in love. Or not. But for some reason, no doubt related to love, I'm going to talk about killing myself and how horrible stuff is." To Whom It May Concern -- No one gives a crap how miserable you are unless you're eloquent about it. Ville, you come across as a whining twelve year old who just got dumped by someone they knew for a week. Please stop. So yeah. What you see is what you get - a turd. Peace out. |
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| Cradle of Filth – Doberman Pharaoh Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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Doberman Pharaoh tells the story of the Exodus, second book of the Bible. The first section, "To and fro, though freeze and thaw...", states that over the passing of time, the Promised Land of the Hebrews was divided and the tribles of Israel led into slavery to Egypt. "Where death wed something else" may be a reference to mummification. The "desert son" - and later, the "Hebrew in a jackal's mask" - is Moses. He is rescued from his basket on river ("Wretched destiny arrive") and, when grown, attempts to free his people from the Pharoah. The Pharaoh is, in a sense, little more than a puppet to Satan (from whose perspective the song is told). We are told this by the name of the song, by the fact Satan does not yield to Moses' threats, and by Satan's "twining with fate." Clearly, Satan possesses some power over the man. The plagues come into affect, but they are not caused by nature ("But these miracles, feared / Were all but reared / By nature, whose law alone / Stood that revered") - they are caused by God. Before the final plague is unleashed, I got the sense Satan may have been tiring of his battle against God ("but with time / Bored sore of clawing what was mine"), and prepares to let the war slip away. The final plague changes this ("The prophet's curse / Far worse had worked / To wrest the war in me from sleep"). Michael is unleashed to kill firstborn children in all houses without the mark of Yahveh (God) above the door. Finally, the Pharoah relents. |
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| Cradle of Filth – Better To Reign In Hell Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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The song makes more sense in the context of the other tracks on the album. Damnation and a Day, which this is from, "tells Satan's side of the sotry." The two songs before Better To Reign In Hell, "An Enemy Led The Tempest" and the orchestral song "Damned In ANy Language", which tell of the war in Heaven and Lucifer's downfall. Better To Reign In Hell, then, picks up with Satan awaking in Hell. First coming to grips with his predicament, he rallies his fallen legions and they decide on a course of action - to corrupt the fledgling human race so that they, too, may be fallen in the eyes of God. |
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