| Into Eternity – Severe Emotional Distress Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Well, if you've ever seen the video, it's actually pretty sad - about some girl (who's obviously emo as fuck) resorting to cutting herself for some reason while the band seems to be shouting at her from a small, locked up room (her mind?) IE's basically saying "don't cut yourself emo kid!" |
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| Bruce Dickinson – The Alchemist Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Well, that makes sense, too, Giant. I think they basically work together - there's sort of an actual act occuring, and a staging behind it going on in this song. Either way, it rules. |
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| Megadeth – Holy Wars... The Punishment Due Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| Commentary by dave in the Countdown to Extinction remaster says that it's based on Marvel's character The Punisher | |
| Symphony X – The Divine Wings Of Tragedy Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| Ah Sym X's epics are truly great. | |
| Bruce Dickinson – Tears Of The Dragon Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| Sounds like it's about Brucey's parting with Iron Maiden and how he was feeling constricted while in the band. That said he is of course, now back with the band. | |
| Megadeth – Rust In Peace... Polaris Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| Dave got the idea from a bumper sticker he saw that said "May all your warheads rest in peace" He just kind of ran with it from there and turned it into an awesome anti-nuke song. | |
| Bruce Dickinson – The Alchemist Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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This song may be about alchemy on the surface, but has nothing to do with it when you look at it symbolically. This is somewhat like a song about the end of the world. "Wash away the blackness with the silver rain..." is kind of like talking about cleansing humanity's impurities with the final judgement. "Don't turn away..." is like saying it's unavoidable. The second verse is sort of like a brief history of creation leading to the end times. "A window to the west..." represents the birth of Christ, obviously indicated by the star. This could have an inversed meaning, as much of the song appears to be describing Christ the Judge instead of Christ the Lamb. "In Taurus we begin it..." is a referrence to the prophecies of Nostradomus, who I believe predicted the beginning of the end to start during the early days of the Zodiac sign Taurus. The chrous shows Christ the Judge or even the Antichrist, perhaps "Don't try and blame me for your sins..." is sort of an inverse of Christ's death on the cross to save mankind from their sins. I see "For the sun has burnt me black" as more of a representation of how mankind has grown evil, with "Your hollow lives, this world in which we live, I throw it back" as speaking of the disdain for the human lack of purpose or sanctity in the world. The world which was once brought into light is now thrown back into the fire for purification. The next verse speaks of the apocalyptic dragon (though the dragon of revelations had seven heads) and the fires of hell, how they will blaze hotter with the bodies of the evil men. "Bring me all the elements..." is a bit unclear to me, but the "Bring me madmens bodies..." is a clear referrence to destroying the evil during their judgement. "Don't try and blame me for your games..." is saying that mankind ended itself with war, the angels thing that follows represents a righteous man entering the gates of heaven. The chemical wedding chorus here I take to represent the unavoidable fate of all men, meeting their fate at the same hands in the same loaction, or it could be a referrence to mass graves like those of the Holocaust. The ending I take to represent the world reverting to its original state, lying simply on God's left foot, the sandal representing hope for the world as God walks on, carrying the "vegetable world" eternally with him. |
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| Iron Maiden – Revelations Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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It's songs like this that make me love Iron Maiden. They can be so cryptic and incorporate elements of hymnals, sayings, quotes, broadcasts, etc. into their songs flawlessly, as seen with the G.K. Chesterson hymnal. The hymnal part Maiden didn't write, but it goes along with what seems to be the theme of the song very flawlessly. I see "Just a babe in the black abyss/No reason for a place like this/The walls are cold and souls cry out in pain" as sort of a narrative from a baby still in the womb's perspective. There's no reason for the evils which occur on earth, which the unborn looks upon with sorrow. When it comes to "the walls are cold" the babe is commenting that society has grown so cold to itself that it ignores the tortured soul crying in pain- sort of like if a person was getting mugged in an allyway and people were around him and just went by. "An easy way for the blind to go/A clever path for the fool who knows/the secret of the hangedman/The smile on his lips" The truly blind (those who follow hate and evil) take the easy path in life, which eventually leads to hell. The clever path is for the kind and gentle dubbed as fools in their honest lives and good works on earth. I see the hangedman in this as being a person accused and convicted of either a crime which aided humanity, or something he did not commit, so he smiles because he knows that he's done nothing wrong. "The light of the blind/You'll see/The venom tears my spine/The eyes of the Nile are opening you see" I see the light of the blind sort of as the knowledge of the "blind man" if you will, almost as with the blind greek and roman philosophers. You'll see is sort of making a play on words following it, saying that you'll understand the way of the "blind man" who is, once again, the good man and the smart man. I think "The venom tears my spine" is talking about the petiness of society that is tearing it apart. The eyes of the nile sort of corresponds with this... I'm not 100% sure on this one, but I'd guess it's either referring to mankind finally realizing the "blind man"'s revelations. Or that the end of the world is comming- it's quite open to interpretation. I can't interpret the second verse, it's too cryptic for my limited knowledge. The third verse refers to our need for a truly great leader in this modern world who will tie us all together, free and with hope, so that we'll all learn to live and work together. With the line "It is You." what they're really saying is that it doesn't take any specific person to be this person, it could be anyone, if that someone strives to be as great as they must be. As a matter of fact, it is not just anyone, it is everyone. If anyone could interpret the second verse, that would be cool. Also whoever said this is about Aleister Crowley, what hte hell? This has nothing to do with Crowley at all. |
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| Iron Maiden – Heaven Can Wait Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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It's about a person "dying" and the conflict beyond, where their soul will go. "Heaven Can Wait" means something like "Now isn't the time (to die)". "Take my hand..." is the call to heaven. Later is a reflection on the posibility of Hell, then the soul returns to the body. |
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| Iron Maiden – Dream Of Mirrors Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| He's having a repeating nightmare. A "dream of mirrors" or a paradox are both infinite loops without end, and the dream wont go away. He's having a reoccuring preminition (the dream is true) and he's afraid to go to sleep again for fear of seeing whatever it was he saw. He isn't sure if it is a vision of the real or the unreal and can't understand. But it keeps occuring. | |
| Iron Maiden – Blood Brothers Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| Harris wrote it about his dad, pure and simple. | |
| Iron Maiden – Wasted Years Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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If you ask me, it's about an English soldier during World War II traveling from spot to spot. "From the Coast of Gold" would support that cause Gold was one of the Brittish beaches on Normandy (The other being Sword). It seems like the soldier is doubting himself and missing his home. Second verse would suggest a comrade or loved one has died and he's trying to overcome it. |
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| Iron Maiden – The Evil That Men Do Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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The quote is from William Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar". The exact line(s) are: "The evil that men do lives after them, the good is oft interred with their bones, So let it be with Caesar". The main line draws from this now commonplace saying. The end seems to referrence the Revelations of John, "The seventh lamb slain, the book of life opens before me". The following lyrics seem to support this as well. The first seems a bit out of place, but "Love is a razor" is another quote from somewhere. All in all this song is totally killer and Maiden rules! \m/ UP THE IRONS! \m/ |
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