| Sonic Youth – The Diamond Sea Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| This song is about a mirror. The guy (or girl) is the mirror. Look into his (mirror's) eyes. Diamond sea = mirror. It's about vanity, aging, "Time takes its crazy toll." I wonder how he (the mirror) is gonna make her smile. Men fall victim to this too. | |
| The Smashing Pumpkins – The Everlasting Gaze Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| To expand a bit, I seem to think, and this could be wishful thinking, that this song is a comeback at Nietzsche's claim that 'God is dead', as if God were saying: 'you know I'm not dead'. | |
| The Smashing Pumpkins – The Everlasting Gaze Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| You know I'm not dead... -God | |
| Leonard Cohen – Avalanche Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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"I stepped into an avalance, it covered up my soul." Jesus came into this broken world, and the flesh covered up his soul, incarnate into a human (when we think of flesh we think of weakness, sins of the flesh, the reason the world is broken). "When I am not the hunchback that you see, I sleep beneath the golden hill." When I'm not carrying the cross, hence the hunchback that you see, I'm in my grave (Jesus's tomb, like most Jewish tombs, is in a small cave usually inside a hill that's been cut) "If you wish to conquer pain, you must learn to serve me well." - self explanatory. "You strike my side by accident, as you go down for your gold." Other than the obvious, everytime you sin, or go down for your gold, you strike his side by accident (you don't realize it) meaning, you check to see if he's dead before you do it. Everytime we sin we imagine as if no one is looking, not even God. "The cripple here that you clothe and feed, are neither starve nor cold." This is about trying to appear righteous, for the sake of appearance, when it is obviously not needed. "He does not ask for your company, not at the centre, centre of the world." This is about Lucifer. "When I am on a pedestal" When I am on that cross. "You did not raise me there." Jesus, the Son of God, was meant to die for our sins, way before human thought. He was meant to die, we never really killed him, we were just the catalyst. (Not that this was a suicide. Think of it like Abraham and Isaac, the Father with the knife and the son tied to the sticks [like hanging on a cross, except horizontally]) "Your laws do not compel me, to kneel grotesue and bare." He goes by the laws of heaven. The Jewish laws that he broke he never broke but fulfilled it. "I myself am the pedestal for this ugly hump, at which you stare..." As he is carrying the cross, he is obviously the pedestal of his own hump. "You who wish to conquer pain, you must learn what makes me kind." Like doing good works, trying not to sin, etc. "The crumbs of love that you offered me, are the crumbs I left behind." As Christians we are meant to love God with all our heart. Hence, he doesn't want the crumbs of your love, he wants the whole cookie. "Your pain is no credential here, It's just a shadow of my wound." Your pain doesn't wash away the blemish of your sin, only your submission to Him does. You can hurt yourself all you want, it does not make what you did right, or pay it back. All your crying ain't gonna getcha to heaven. "I have begun to long for you, I who have no greed. I have begun to ask for you, I who have no need." In the end God wants to be reunited with us in heaven, so much so that he becomes greedy and needy for it. "You say you've gone away from me, But I can feel you feel you when you breathe." You think you can seperate yourself from me, But I'll always be there, waiting to take you back. God is everywhere, he can feel you as you breathe. "Do not dress in those rags for me, I know you are not poor." Don't appear to be downtrodden, helpless, or righteous. Your rich, but you try to look like you're poor, for it is said: "Blessed are the poor." Don't be a faker. Give it all up, or be who you really are. Do not appear to be something else to other people when you know you are not. To make them feel sorry for you, when you know you got it good. "You don't love me quite so fiercly now, when you know that you are not sure." Again, don't fake it. Don't be lukewarm. Love me or don't. "It is your turn, beloved, it is your flesh that I wear." My favorite line. He is saying that he is human (he became covered in our flesh, our human qualities) His soul is covered in flesh just like the rest of us, and he got that flesh, from us of course, "from Mary, but all of humanity in general." Look, I myself have manic depression. It's pretty simple to label an entire song about an illness that you most likely do not understand. It's very easy to label an entire song by just one word. It doesn't say anything about the song. It removes all of its substance, and it makes the song completely meaningless. Kudos to the people here that actually tried to explain what the song was about, rather than just give a one-word explanation... |
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| Tool – Third Eye Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I thought the "third eye" was the source of creativity. It doesn't really have to do with drugs, although it could probably be achieved with drugs as well, but it doesn't have too. And I know this for a fact. | |
| Leonard Cohen – Avalanche Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Yes, I've listened to the song over and over again. The song is about Jesus. His lyrics are as if Jesus was speaking to you himself. I get it now. His back looks like a hump as he carries the cross. Jesus does not want the crumbs of your love, he wants the whole cookie (he's not loving Jesus enough.) Wearing our flesh: His divine spirit came from God, but his flesh came from Man (atleast this is what i heard in a young adult's meeting once.) | |
| Leonard Cohen – Avalanche Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Before resorting to this site, I thought the song was about Satan. Which I got from this line: "You who wish to conquer pain, you must learn, learn to serve me well," this line: "he does not ask for your company, not at the centre, the centre of the world," (which i thought referred to hell) and this line: "the crumbs of love that you offer me, they're the crumbs I've left behind," (Someone said it's about God, but this line says to me that this person does not care about your love, which says it can't be God.) But some of the song I could see that it could be referring to God (Jesus in particular. The lyrics are a little confusing. But yeah, this is just a new analysis of it I guess. Hurrah for my first interpretion! I welcome any flaming! XD |
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