| The Mars Volta – Cygnus...Vismund Cygnus Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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TommyDar, "Volta" in the band name has nothing to do with this song's meaning. Neither does "Mars". If you tool around on www.thecomatorium.com, I'm sure you can find the topic about the naming of the Mars Volta. Unlike everything else TMV does, their name has no meaning. It just sounds cool. Mars is a planet, and volta is a European term for a certain type of church music, the name of which they thought sounded cool. "The" was added to distinguish themselves from an identically-named group in Europe. Now you know. So to answer joe joe's question, absolutely nothing. I still don't know how you fished Africa out of "damaged." Anyway, I think the last verse shows Cygnus battling within himself, with his fear of his past being pitted against his desire for knowledge: .....Will they feed us the womb? Literally, will these people fill in the gaps of the story of my birth? .....Chrome the fetal mirage Chrome covers something, protecting it and also making it look prettier than before. Cygnus wants to sanctify the story of his own birth in his mind, denying that is was abnormal and amoral. He wants to hold on to his chrome mirage instead of seeing the ugly truth. The most significant part of the song, I think, is the ending in Con Safo, where a barely audible scene takes place to the background of highway noises [it's not the ocean, you can hear a large truck go by at 9:37 and again throughout the section]. Considering the odd conditions of Cygnus' birth, it was probably about Cygnus and the relationship between his father and mother. Regardless, here are the few lines I could decipher: At 9:52 the scene starts: woman: [scream] man: "listen, listen, listen to me" woman: "[I?] don't play that game!" man: "baby..." woman: "get off!" This ends at 10:04, when a screen door slams. At 10:36, a car engine starts. At 10:41 the woman says: woman: "You have to get out right now." At 10:47 the baby screams again, followed by more white noise and indecipherable conversation for the remainder of Con Safo. the interesting comment [which i'm not quite sure I heard] was "baby" by the man right before Cygnus' mother [Frances?] leaves. was it a term of endearment for Frances, or expressing concern about Cygnus' fate? I think the former, but either would be interesting to consider. with that context, "Con Safo" probably refers to cygnus' parents' refusal to take care of the baby. they were both looking for a way out of caring for it. thanks to dreadpirate for looking up all the lingo! fascinating stuff. also, apologies if i screwed up some big part of the plot, I'm not quite as familiar with Cygnus' story as I am with Cerpin's. :-D |
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| The Mars Volta – Ambuletz Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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In the same way Apparatus & Televators show the resolution of Cerpin's story, Ambuletz shows the denouement. [Pardon the jargon, it just makes sense this way. The denouement, in a story, is when every question has been resolved and the final fate of the characters is known.] This song is not imperative to understand the album's meaning, but I feel it isn't complete without it. The Crowing was on the right track, but the lyric is "you've made it," not "I've made it". The narrator is speaking to Cerpin across the great divide, which explains the rest of the lyrics. The core of the lyrics ("I'll remember...") show that the narrator will always be influenced by the memory of Cerpin, even though he will outwardly forget him, just like the rest of Rezjua. true, ninon... ambuletz doesn't appear to be a word. so I think we stumbled upon a double meaning for ambuletz, which fits well for the song: ambulance and ambulatory. cerpin required medical attention during his coma and after his jump, but now he can walk and be freed from the world that had restricted him. |
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| The Mars Volta – A Plague Upon Your Hissing Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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crimp, you were closer but still a little off on the lyrics. whoever posted this first was WAY off. fifi: generally, people don't write songs about abortion. what was the last song you heard about, say, gay marriage? I didn't think so. think about this song in the context of De-Loused, of which it was originally a part but cut from the released version. abortion is a theme Omar and Cedric try to parallel in their lyrics about Cerpin Taxt's world. "fetal camps" likely refers to Cerpin's "real world," which was viewed by the Metacarpi as a breeding ground, a sort of stasis for the unneeded souls. "No one's getting out of the fetal camps alive" foreshadows Cerpin's suicide. Your main passage supporting abortion clearly refers to the phixia army fighting clavietika. the storybook devotes nearly a page to the functions of the phixia army, and they functioned very much as a team. they ultimately destroyed clavietika via some sort of chemical grenage [i believe] turning her back into Cerpin Taxt, who was smaller than clavietika, thus the phixias emaciated their queen. CORRECT lyrics to this song can be found at TMV's quasi-official fan site, as well as lyrics for all TMV songs. Also you should read the stunning 23-page storybook relating the story of Cerpin Taxt, the story behind the album. The Comatorium: http://www.thecomatorium.com/?page=lyrics/plague |
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| Green Day – Homecoming Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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"American Idiot" begins with Jesus of Suburbia being disgusted with all the American Idiots in their "land of make-believe". He laments his fate in "Boulevard" as he treks in search of meaning. "Are We the Waiting" culminates with the arrival of "St. Jimmy," who is not just a character but actually Jesus' boyfriend (Billie Joe is bi, after all). He sings in "Give Me Novocaine": "Give me a kiss goodnight / and tell me everything will be all right, / tell me Jimmy I won't feel a thing..." . In "She's a Rebel" Jesus encounters Whatsername who is "holding up my heart like a hand grenade," showing that Jesus is now attracted to Whatsername, and not to St. Jimmy. He lauds her in "Extraordinary Girl." In Homecoming, St. Jimmy kills himself. Jimmy is a Saint because he is a martyr. He is a martyr for Jesus, meaning he killed himself because Jesus has ended up with someone else -- even after all he's shown to Jesus. He names Jesus as the beneficiary of his will, which explains why he's filling out paperwork in "Homecoming's" "East 12th Street". Later in the segment he sings "somebody get me out of here", realizing what precisely his relationship with Jimmy was about. Soon he calls to a close his already-floundering relationship with Whatsername: "He had enough and she had plenty". In "Whatsername" Jesus reflects on his lackluster relationship with Whatsername -- he doesn't even know her name, after all! To close the entire CD Billie Joe sings, "I'll never turn back time / forgetting you but not the time," revealing that Whatsername is forgettable, but because of St. Jimmy the time he spent was not wasted. |
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