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| A Perfect Circle – Blue Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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I apologize, the lyrics is "call an optimist" not aftermath, thus, the subject wishes, in attempting humor out of desperation, to gain reassurance for his perfect image of her, in his mind, from an optimist. |
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| A Perfect Circle – Blue Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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The song blue is about losing someone. The subject didn't want to know that he lost someone. He can't deal with the fact he lost someone because "he never quite learned how to swim". To look at this person, the subject must close his eyes. Because this someone is no longer with him, which could me this someone has died, moved away, or become something terrible which the subject cannot bare to watch with open eyes. So the subject closes his eyes, he ignores the smoke, the precursor to fire, pain, disaster. The subject thinks blue is a lovely color for this someone because he is trapped in his own fantasy of this someone's perfect image which he is seeing with his eyes closed. This someone, she, is in reality, turning blue, or dying, moving away, becoming something terrible. But he is able to stare at her at the same time because his image of her is in his mind. Their nods are their heads lowering, in a display of sadness, and he thought they were approving of what was happening to this woman. Turning blue is the aftermath, the final result of the preceeding action between the subject and the woman. A perfect color for her eyes, a lovely color for her, while he sits and stares at her...in his mind, with the memory of her perfection. |
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| Unwritten Law – Walrus Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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This is written from the perspective of a cynical person. I believe we are supposed to take this person to be wrong about "everything" and "everyone" in the sense that logically it is impossible for these absolutes to exist. But, I think the person represents a large segment of the youthful population and how they see the world. In a world where tragedy is apparent, and knowledge is deep, it is easy to become disillusioned and feel isolated. As a cynical person, the person is aware of the aspects of culture he adopts from certain groups, and then he rejects them when he sees others acting the same way because he realizes it is all a charade. He wants to "keep changing" to prove he isn't vulnerable to the attacks on his independence made by his society's norms and views on culture. This might be far too deep an idea for just some rock band (I don't know whether or not the band is intelligent), but the ending lines emphasize everyone gets old and everyone is dumb, which would include the speaker. The irony is thus that while speaker is aware of the flaws of everyone, he spends all his time trying to avoid these flaws, when the flaws will inevitably touch him assuming they haven't already because by isolating himself he learns nothing and simply will become old and dumb. |
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| Tool – H. Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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and if maynard has said it is about "good" and "evil" and "love" and "relationships" all of these terms apply to heroin as well. Heroin feels good. It is evil cuz its addictive and destructive. Ppl form a relationship with it where they "love" it. If it weren't titled h. I wouldn't be so persistent, but it is, so I must. |
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| Tool – H. Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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I know everyone says Maynard's son's middle name is H. and that is all fine and good. But I really can't help feeling it's about heroin. After the APC song "Weak and Powerless" about H, I've always suspected Maynard has done it because he describes it so accurately and vividly. And this song is no different. It conveys the same idea and feeling that are assosciated with heroin. The best connection I make is with the idea that you always feel the heroin no matter how long it has been. At least I would say there is a double meaning here. Because the official title of the song is a lower case h with a period. So this doesn't seem to fully coordinate with a name which would be capitalized. Whereas, something like heroin wouldn't require capitalization. So to review, heroin is clearly prevalent to Maynard through "Weak and Powerless", "h." is clearly conveying the feeling of heroin, and the title remains ambiguous. |
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