| Staind – Angel Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Yeah FuzzyTheGreat, Aaron's moved on in his life past the tough times. I mean, yeah, life can still be really rough, but for the most part, things are looking great for Aaron - he's had a lot of musical success, he's got a wife and kids he loves very much and heads a band that's internationally popular. His life's looking pretty good, so expect to see less dark/depressing music. Personally, I like it - it shows a lot of growth on a personal level. I like that - it's better than seeing someone stuck in the same rut for years and years and years. |
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| Staind – Believe Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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On the second paragraph above, I meant to write, "I love how Staind has always DEALT with TOUGH times in life without succumbing to them." It's late and my typing's crappy :P |
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| Staind – Believe Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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This song is a continuation of Staind's growth not just musically, but as people. Aaron Lewis has come a LONG way since their first album "Tormented," and I just love how this shows how far he's come. He's gone from writing "I can't see through this, I can't do this anymore" (Home, Dysfunction) to "Believe in me, because I was made for chasing dreams." I love how Staind has always dealth with touch times in life without succumbing to them. While contemporary bads like Senses Fail and My Chemical Romance speak lovingly of things like giving in, committing suicide, etc, Staind has always been about finding a way to rise above the misery to make it to see a better day, no matter how much it hurts. I love Staind and have so much respect for Aaron Lewis. I hope he keeps writing songs for a long time to come. |
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| Dave Matthews Band – Cortez the Killer (Neil Young cover) Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Oh, and I don't buy for a minute that Mexico and South America had never known poverty, hunger or disease before the Spanish came. Maybe some of the rich rulers of the Aztecs had never known those things, but poverty, disease and hunger are universal and eternal. Every people on the face of this world has experienced it at one time or another, and every civilization in the world will experience them again. Now you people are comparing the Spanish to gods, somehow supernaturally creating and inflicting things upon the Aztec that had NEVER existed before! ZOMG! There’s more bullshit on this page than there is in a cattle ranch. |
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| Dave Matthews Band – Cortez the Killer (Neil Young cover) Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| On the end to what I wrote above, I meant to write that if you're a college student, learn to READ BETWEEN THE LINES, not just the text itself. | |
| Dave Matthews Band – Cortez the Killer (Neil Young cover) Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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It never ceases to amaze me how far certain people will go to make "whitey" look like evil incarnate and yet will gloss over other civilization’s cultures and practices as if they were the best things in the world. On this very page, human sacrifice, the caste system, imperialistic warfare and slavery are condoned, explained away and even spoken of admiringly, all in the name of looking fondly upon the Aztecs and scorning the Spanish. And I bet most of you regularly rant about America and its “imperial war for oil.” Dave Matthews is a naïve idealist, as is the author of this song and almost all of you. Brutality and evil know no skin color, and the truth of the matter is that the Aztecs were every bit as vicious and blood-thirsty as the Spanish that conquered them, probably moreso. “Hate was just a legend, war was never known, people worked together and they lifted many stones…” All of this is a bold-faced lie, except for the people working together to lift many stones. That part is true because those people were slaves working under the crack of the whip. Hate is a part of human nature, and it never has, nor will it ever go away. As far as the war being never known part, it’s all bullshit because the Aztecs built their EMPIRE (yes, empire, as in IMPERIALISM) on the bodies of their neighbors. What is my point? My point is to point out the total hypocrisy of the “college-educated history students” on this page, who completely gloss over and give a free pass to the Aztecs for their barbarism and brutality while condemning white people for doing the same thing. When will a liberal condone, even speak lovingly, of slavery, genocide, murderous religious fanaticism, human sacrifice, caste systems and imperialistic warfare? When they’re being committed by NON-WHITES. Then it’s all perfectly fine and dandy! Liberals will let you get away with anything, as long as you’re not white and part of a different civilization. But Cortez? ZOMG, he was a murderous, evil man! Satan incarnate! A killer! The bottom line: if you’re a college student, learn to READ BETWEEN THE LINES. The truth is, both the Spanish and Aztecs had blood on their hands. Actually no, they didn’t just have blood on their hands – they were both drowning in a sea of it. |
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| Sting – I Hung My Head Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Sting wrote the song, if I'm not mistaken, but Cash did an infinitely better job as translating it from lyrics into a song. No offense to Sting, but this is a sound best sung as a Country song, not a pop song. Cash's version is better. | |
| Bonnie 'Prince' Billy – I See A Darkness Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I wrote this on the Cash version, same applies here - I can relate to this song - it's about having some good friends, but at the same time, having a dark side to yourself. You see it eating away at you, maybe it's a deep depression, maybe it's a dark rage or anger problem. But you find yourself hoping your friends and family can save you, because you know you cannot save yourself. |
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| Johnny Cash – God's Gonna Cut You Down Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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"Justin Timberlake came up with the idea for the video with all the celebrities." Yeah, he wanted to make a video of all the celebrities that felt as though Cash touched, influenced or otherwise played a part in their lives, either directly or indirectly. Timberlake never got over how he felt guilty about winning that best music video Grammy over Johnny Cash - I think he sincerely felt as though Cash should have won it. |
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| Johnny Cash – God's Gonna Cut You Down Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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"I don't like Johnny Cash singing this song, nor do I like Elvis singing it. And I actually like the sample from Moby's song, the vocals are better. " Johnny Cash's vocals kick the crap out of Moby's, period. And the death march sound of the stomping and clapping give this song an edge that is far superior to the light, airy sound of Moby's Run On |
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| Johnny Cash – I See A Darkness Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I can relate to this song - it's about having some good friends, but at the same time, having a dark side to yourself. You see it eating away at you, maybe it's a deep depression, maybe it's a dark rage or anger problem. But you find yourself hoping your friends and family can save you, because you know you cannot save yourself. | |
| Linkin Park – No More Sorrow Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| This song can actually fit in with ANY politician you hate/dispise. For me, it's about old Ted Kennedy. For the average liberal, it's anti-Bush. The fact is, it's pretty well written so that it can fit in with anything or anyone you want it to. Of course, people read it as anti-Bush because he happens to be president right now. | |
| Linkin Park – Bleed It Out Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I love this song. The tamorbine and hand-clapping are nice touches. | |
| Within Temptation – Memories Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I'm hearing "In silent lullabies." | |
| Flogging Molly – The Rare Ould Times Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| It's very much an "old people" song, too. It's about being in the last days of your life, realizing that everything you knew, everyone you loved have all come and gone. The times have changed and you are an old relic, part of a time long gone - you are a part of the past and that past is your home. And it's all gone away. | |
| Weird Al Yankovic – Spatula City Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| This is a Rush Limbaugh thing - Rush's Spatula City spoof-ad dates back to the early to mid-90's. | |
| Weird Al Yankovic – Couch Potato Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Wow leakeq, intolerant much? | |
| Weird Al Yankovic – Close But No Cigar Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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This song is a pretty nice piece of satire and social commentary - it's about how goddamn picky people (women in particular) people are these days in selecting a permanent spouse. Anything less than absolute perfection is not good enough for some people, which is ridiculous because no one could ever be perfect. We might chuckle because he sings about rejecting fantastic women because they say a certain word, like a certain movie or have a tiny physical imperfection, but people break up over even stupider reasons. Good job, Al, it's about time someone pointed out how idiotic dating standards have become these days. |
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| Rockell – The Dance Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| You should hear the original version by Garth Brooks - it's infinitely more powerful and heartbreaking than Rockell's version. I like Rockell's voice, but the upbeat-dance beat takes alot of power out of the song. | |
| Flogging Molly – Laura Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Who was Laura? Was she the wife he refers to in Black Friday Rule ("well, I lost me a wife so I found me a plane/flew all the way to California")? | |
| Flogging Molly – Laura Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Who was Laura? Was she the wife he refers to in Black Friday Rule ("well, I lost me a wife so I found me a plane/flew all the way to California")? | |
| Flogging Molly – The Rare Ould Times Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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"I know "the Pillar" refers to Nelson Pillar. Any ideas what "the Met" and "the Royal" are?" They are all buildings in Dublin, they don't refer to people. |
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| Breaking Benjamin – You Fight Me Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I love the ending, where he just repeats "This is how it's gonna end...." over and over again. Even though it's not what the song is about, it seems semi-apocolyptic, reminiscient of T.S. Elliot's "The Hollow Men": "This is the way the world ends - not with a bang, but with a whimper." | |
| Johnny Cash – God's Gonna Cut You Down Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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No kidding...I hate Moby, by the way. He's such an arrogant, self-righteous A-hole. Anyways, Johhny Cash's version kicks the pasty white ass of Moby's version. Great track indeed! |
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| Flogging Molly – These Exiled Years Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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If you watched their documentary ("Whiskey on a Sunday"), Dave King, the lead singer/songwriter, talks about a period of time when he was essentially "exiled" (his words, not mine) in America. He didn't have a green card or anything, so he couldn't visit or go back home to Ireland, nor could he visit his mother for 8 years. When he finally could go back, his own mom didn't even recognize him. Anyways this song is about his homesickness and lonliness while he was basically exiled here in America. |
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| Moby – Run On Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| The song's really called "God's Gonna Cut You Down," not "Run On." And Johnny Cash's version kick's the pasty white ass of Moby's version. | |
| Eve – Eve Of Destruction Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| This song sucks | |
| Barry Mcguire – Eve Of Destruction Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| This song's been covered so many times... | |
| Smash Mouth – All Star Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Most over-marketed song EVER. I've heard this thing in at least 3 different movies, 6 or 7 separate commercials, and God knows how many times on the radio. I mean, there's a difference between using a song for advertising use a few times (responsibly) to make some extra money, and completely whoring it out to anything and everything for years and years until you suck the life from it. Like I said: most over-marketed song EVER. |
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| Johnny Cash – God's Gonna Cut You Down Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I knew that this song sounded familiar...I don't think Moby's "Run On" is original, but it has the exact same lyrics. | |
| Paul Engemann – Push It to the Limit Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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World of Roguecraft sucked. Nerf Warlocks please. |
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| Cheap Sex – Fuck Emo Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I love this song. Makes me laugh every time and simultaniously makes me want to scream "HELL YEAH!" along with the chorus. | |
| Oleander – Fountain & Vine Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| For those of you who don't know, Fountain and Vine are both streets in Los Angeles, so Fountain & Vine are where they intersect. L.A. isn't too far from where I live, but I haven't actually gone there to check the place out. | |
| Oleander – Runaway Train Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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The music of this song says alot about its theme, as well. The theme behind this song is how the consequences of your inactions or choices, however small they may seem at first, can build up, more and more and more until they overwhelm and overtake you and your life. The song starts out with a simple guitar playing a few chords, seemingly quiet and innocent. Then throughout the song, the music builds up and builds up, louder and louder; much like how a tidal wave starts out tiny and builds to an overwhelming destructive monster. That one time you didn't talk to your lonely friend (and he ends up committing suicide), or you decided to try drugs just once (and you end up spiraling down into a deep and painful addiction), or you miss class once (and end up doing it habitually, destroying your college career)? These kind of moments are what Oleander's "Runaway Train" are all about - how these seemingly tiny and innoculous choices you make can set off a tidal wave that will slowly but surely overwhelm you and your life, leaving you wondering where you went wrong and how you can ever go back. Just listen to the song - not the lyrics, just the music. Quiet and unassuming at first, and it ends up becoming a loud, wailing monster towards the end. I'm surprised there haven't been more comments on this song. |
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