| Rasputina – My Captivity by Savages Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| radish_baby: I'm not saying things like this didn't happen, just that this particular story is a fantasy. The girl is feigning that she wishes to escape, but in the end she wants to succumb to their advances in order to live a life of exotic excitement, far from the banile ordinaryness of her real life. | |
| Matisyahu – Aish Tamid Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| merllin508: you mean the destruction of the *second* temple - the third has not yet been built ;) | |
| Rasputina – The Mayor Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I find it hard to believe this isn't about Bush at least on some level. | |
| Rasputina – Torniquet (Marilyn Manson cover) Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| lol I'm assuming Moloy is havin a laff. | |
| Rasputina – Momma Was an Opium-Smoker Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Opium smokers were the same as Heroin addicts, but they were obviously classier. | |
| Rasputina – My Captivity by Savages Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| this is an adolescent girl's private fantasy, involving the murder of her annoying brother and sickly little sister, and her being kidnapped and taken as a bride by scary sexualised "savages". I think it's cute. | |
| Tristania – Wormwood Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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This song is basically an answer to the question: What if both Nietzsche and Christianity were right? i.e what if God Died and the Universe cared? |
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| Blind Guardian – Valhalla Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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I think this is about a kingdom who have abandoned the old ways, and their old Gods, and have taken to worshipping a new Lord, King and Deity that rejects all their old ways in his "palace of steel". At first the people reject all the old customs: So many centuries so many Gods we were the prisoners of our own fantasty but now we are marching against these Gods I'm the wizard, I will change it all But this new Lord and Way is not what it appeared, and the people realize through their new knowledge that they have lost something very important in rejecting the old ways: Valhalla - Deliverance Why've you ever forgotten me Magic is in me I'm the lost magic man never found what I was looking for now I found it but it's lost The people realize the error of taking in this new outsider God and his ideals, and rise up against Him: The fortress burns broken my heart I leave this world all Gods are gone But now the people have nothing left, they have forgotten the old ways, and the new God is Dead: So many centuries so many Gods we were the prisoners of our own fantasty but then we had nothing who'll lead our life no, no, we can't live without Gods Obviously, to me anyway, the song is about Christianity in Europe, taking over from the Old traditional Ways of the people, and replacing it with a larger world view and order - which has ultimately lead to it's own destruction, leaving the people of Europe in a largely secular and meaningless society. Then again, its probably about Lord of the Rings as well. |
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| Rasputina – Rats Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| I don't think its a negative judgement on the Catholic church. its just having some fun with the idea of the Pope being a living representative of an omnipotent God. also it says "In gratitude, the Pope, they kissed his ring." this amuses me. | |
| Finntroll – Aldhissla Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| they're Finnish themselves, but they sing in Swedish: the Finnish people, language and mythology is Finno-Ugric, and has little traditional connexion to the trolls of the Germanic legends. Therefore Finntroll sing in the germanic language of Swedish, because, as they put it, "it sounds so damn trollish". | |
| Queen – The Prophet's Song Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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When I first heard this song, I immediately identified it with the influential philosophical work Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche, but I doubt that was the sole intention of the song - although the character of the prophet himself may have been based on the Persian prophet Zoroaster (as was Nietzsche's character) if only as a reference to Freddy Mercury's religious background: as a Parsi Iranian whose parents where originally from India. However, it really stuck out as being about Nietzsche's intepretation to me for a few reasons: When the lyrics use both the terms 'wise man' and 'mad man' to describe the prophet, it seems to perfectly describe the character of Zarathustra as I read him. I also heard the lyric "so grey is the face of every mortal" as "so grey is the face of every martyr" - the latter tying in much more strongly with Nietzsche's philosophy, that those who sacrifice themselves for something they believe is higher than themselves are in the end gaining nothing. A similar concept is explored further in the lines "Late too late all the wretches run/These kings of beasts now counting their days. " The 'kings of beasts' describes how Nietzsche sees most of humanity, as being nothing more than a powerful animal. The line "The Earth will shake and two will break" may also refer to this dichotomy of humanity, that on the one hand we have the majority of content but ultimately soulless masses, and on the other the few 'mad men' who will find the "new life" and return to humanity to encourage them to follow them back... I'm not claiming that Nietzsche's ideas expressed in Thus Spoke Zarathustra where what Brian had in mind when writing this, as a lot of it doesn't ring true at all; but thats what the song means to me. |
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