| 30 Seconds to Mars – The Fantasy Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| I see in this song someone fighting for what their country says that it stands for, but realising that its really all lies (a fantasy) and proof of the lie is that those benefits are not present in his life (a shell of what I dreamed). Nevertheless, he is expected to fight to the death to defend the values he isn't sure he believes in. He wants to rebel, but can't quite pull himself out of the cultural brainwashing to do so. | |
| Rihanna – G4L Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| I agree with everyone stating it's about women's empowerment and sisterhood. It also sounds like it's about a group of friends getting revenge for a woman who was in an abusive relationship. | |
| Coheed and Cambria – The End Complete III: The End Complete Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| That is.. the ghost of Cambria and Coheed (or the memory) reassuring Claudio so he can finish his mission and destroy the keywork. | |
| Coheed and Cambria – The End Complete III: The End Complete Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I like the idea that Claudio is invoking his mother somehow. Somehow, I see the Prise as upset with Claudio now that Wilheim is dead. They don't want him to destroy everything ("wish us away with your plans"). They want him to change his mind and turn violent toward him at this point. The praise, reassurance, "dig deeper" portion, and "we're going to get you, my love" parts may be Coheed and Cambria trying to help Claudio complete his mission despite the Prise. | |
| Coheed and Cambria – Junesong Provision Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| Okay, I think that in this song Claudio (the character) is about to commit suicide and writes a letter to his girlfriend. He then has a dream of what is happening with Coheed and the ship crashing. That's the paranoia, he is worried about them. At the end of the song he decides to burn all the evidence of the evil that occured in the house. So burns down the house and hides under the charred remains. | |
| Dredg – Hung Over on a Tuesday Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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It is about an addiction. According to http://www.defyperception.net/dredg/catchwithoutarms.htm this song is an argument between the addicted and the addiction. He is arguing both sides of the addiction in this song. The last stanza shows that the desire to be free of the addiction wins over. |
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| Dredg – Zebraskin Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| It is about an alchoholic who drinks so much that he lost all his friends. If you listen carefully, the word "friend" is pronounced plurally in the song. ie. "friends". | |
| System of a Down – Tentative Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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I love this song. It is horrifyingly beautiful. I agree with kmk_natasha that the song is about a group of people being air bombed with nowhere to go. It is quite the nightmare. The question of God from the perspective of the bomb victim is most interesting. The detachment of the bomber shows the casual attitude that people here discuss bombings. An excellent and very insightful song. "Where do you expect us to go when the bombs fall?" That is the best lyric I have heard in a war protest song ever. |
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| System of a Down – Holy Mountains Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| This song is obviously about the Armenian genocide, but resonates so well with the current world situation that one would be hard pressed not to apply it to the beloved American president as well. | |
| System of a Down – U-Fig Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| I agree that with kmk_natasha that the song is about right-wing assholesl, but also about how people love to join stupid causes for extremist groups like right-wingers, neo-nazis, and such. It is all the same and SOAD wants us to educate them out of their ignorance, uselessness, and evilness. | |
| k-os – Hallelujah Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| This song is beautiful. It is a simple song about a cynical man's journey to find meaning in a world that is increasingly meaningless and self-destructive, like he was. He has embraced religion and is working toward securing a future for his children, but realizes that the world is bent on destroying itself. So he lets it happen, knowing that its the only way the people will learn. | |
| Deftones – Needles and Pins Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| I agree completely with the interpretation about a married couple being nervous. It almost sounds like they are eloping in the song. | |
| Foo Fighters – Friend Of A Friend Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| Hmmm.. I think the song really isn't about Kurt. If you read the quote posted by srnicek, it become quite clear that it is about Grohl, himself. Kurt and company are the "friends" the song speaks of. Grohl was lonely and sad being so far from home. | |
| KoЯn – Wake Up Hate Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| I believe it may be stress relief too, but damn. "Wake up hate" sounds more like he is trying to start something rather than finish it. It's this type of evil ass shit that made me stop listening to Korn. At first he was singing about his messed up life. That was interesting. Nowadays, he is just bitching about nothing. Hate what? Hate who? Fuck up what? Who? Nothing to live for? Just shut up Johnathon Davis. Follow your guitarist (who left the group for moral reasons) to church and read the bible. Or join the Buddhists, or become a muslim or jew (if they'll have you) and grow the fuck up. | |
| Gorillaz – Don't Get Lost in Heaven Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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This song takes place after the "Fire Comming out of a Monkey's Head" song. Actually, the other song spills it's track into this one. In it, the "Strange People" mine the mountain "where all good souls come to rest." This place is heaven. The Strange People mine heaven. They have a war there (with those in heaven?). This is stated in the previous song with "Fallin' out of aeroplanes and hidin' out in holes Waiting for the sunset to come, people growing old Jump back from behind them and shoot them in the head Now everybody's dancing the dance of the dead" I believe this new song centers on the Strange People. These are the greedy people who mine the mountain and hide behind camouflage. The song shows how the people are corrupt by displaying how their cities have "crack on the corner", dead in the streets, and how they abuse substances in their cities only to run to the suburbs later. Anyway during the war in heaven, the song warns them not to go to get lost in the enemy territory they are mining because "They got lots of them there," referring to the enemy (the people of heaven?). "Don't go over the edge." You know, take things too far. That happened already in the last song with the Monkey's fire killing everything. The Strange People took their greed over the edge and upset the god. One wonders if the strange people are the demons that define the time as "demon days." Who else would war with heaven but a demon? The line about "you don't know my soul" makes me wonder. |
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| Gorillaz – Fire Coming Out of the Monkey's Head Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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This song is about many things at once. Others have stated how the song at first brings to mind a situation similar to western colonialism which often ended in the natives dying and the colonist destroying the land. I agree completely with those who tie it to today and the current war situation. My take is that the song is about the people of USA being complacent with their government and leaders. Wars and other evils are commited for just greed. "You see, without the truth of the eyes, the Happyfolk were blind. " The people don't do anythng about it because the media isn't allowed to speak against the president and inform the people. The TV and newspaper are the "truth of the eyes." In the USA (and other countries) people get fired or censored to an extreme whenever they say something concrete against the war or Bush. Without a balancer with real facts, people can't see the truth. The "dance of the dead" is war obviously. The Monkey however, I think is God. It is "the place where all good souls come to rest." So, eventually good souls rest in heaven with God. God tires of the antics of the strange people and destroys them, but also destroys the Happy People. The complacent ones. The one's who didn't know what was going on. The ignorant ones. Happy people are ignoranant because ignorance is bliss. So they are just as guilty. Don't get lost in heaven is actually tied to this song. For the rest of the meaning, see what I wrote for that song as well. |
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| Gorillaz – All Alone Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| I love this song. I will have to agree totally with vailla4000 on interpretation. BTW, does anyone else LOVE it when he says "we turn up the 'oh god.'" It just sounds great. One question though: I thought he said "return of the old god." If so, that brings it even further into self pleasure. The 'old god' is what everyone worships originally, which is pleasure. | |
| Radiohead – I Will. (No Man's Land.) Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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From a Radiohead Interview: Interviewer: “It sounds lovely, but you’ve said it was the angriest thing you’ve ever written.” Thom: “Yes. Well, yeah, I guess it is. It’s quite simple really. I had an extremely unhealthy obsession that ran through the Kid A thing about the first Gulf War. When they started it up, they did that lovely thing of putting a camera on the end of the missile, and um, you got to see the wonders of modern military technology blow up this bunker. And then sometime afterwards in the back pages, it was announced that that bunker was not full of weapons at all – but women and children. And it was actually a bomb shelter. And so, everybody, we all got to witness the wonders of modern technology. And um, I, you know, it ran through so much stuff for so long for me – I just could not, um, get that out of my head. It was so sick. And so that’s where that anger comes from." |
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| Radiohead – I Will. (No Man's Land.) Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| I think bluegoldbird has it right. It seems everyone agrees about war, but letmebe seems to be polluting Radiohead's liberal (and anti-racist, anti-facist) image with some really strange and (paranoid racist) garbage. | |
| Finger Eleven – Temporary Arms Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| Forget what I said earlier. This is my favorite song by this band. This song is about two people who have a relationship in which they need each other but only to feed the negative parts of their personalities. One of them doesn't have friends and really *needs* a friend to validate him/herself as a person. The other person knows the weakness of the first, and exploits it because he/she has a need to demean and be abusive to validate his/her own superiority over the other. So they need each other in a bad way despite the fact that they breakup constantly and occasionally have a good time together. In the end, they realise the sick circle they have going, but don't know how to stop. | |
| Finger Eleven – Costume For A Gutterball Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| I find this one of my favorite Finger Eleven songs. As for meaning, I think the subject of the song is doing something that I used to do. He doesn't experience the world around him because his mind is elsewhere. That's what he means by disappearing and wearing a mask. His memories are where he hides from the world of the present, but sometimes those memories aren't positve. That would be why they are "buried memories." | |
| Finger Eleven – Panic Attack Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| The song is political. The guy knows what is wrong and is trying to ask for help from others, but instead those who could help don't listen to his whole message instead "into a detail they always go" effictively silencing his message. After realizing that dissention with the current leadership is not tolorated, he tries to blend in with everyone else. However, he is paranoid because he KNOWS that the stituation is really bad and he suffers panic attacks as a result of his concern. In short, he really wants to ignore what is going on and fake compliance, but he found he simply couln't. Ignoring the situation is like trying to ignore someone sliding "a needle in my eye." | |
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