| The Mars Volta – Cassandra Gemini Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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To Concertinadusk: You are absolutely right about this band. It's good to see other people recognize it. The Mars Volta came along at a time when music really needed them. They are going to go down at the very least as the Pink Floyd or Led Zeppelin of our generation, probably surpassing even them. I think they are not recognized as such yet because people don't know what to think of them. Their brains are conditioned to think bullshit music like My Chemical Romance is good. True fans of rock and roll will see these guys as the legends they are becoming. BTW, if none of you have never seen them live you're missing out. Greatest live performance I have seen in my 29 years of life. |
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| Deftones – Change (In the House of Flies) Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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guiffporn posted: "As a side note, how come no one has corrected the lyrics yet? It is: "Give you the lungs to blow me away". Actually, those are the printed lyrics but the true lyrics "I give you the gun..blow me away". From what I read they printed the other line to cover their ass basically. Listen to the song closer and you'll hear it. I think the song is simply talking about a metamorphisis of a female. Not physically, but mentally. Someone he held in high regard has done something dirty. The mood of the song makes you feel dirty and lethargic. |
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| Team Sleep – Ever (Foreign Flag) Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| It really is a beautiful song....the interpretation I have is kind of strange though. It sounds like he is admiring an exotic dancer. He states "you make that dance look so new" and talks about how she "wears her cast", meaning he body. | |
| Team Sleep – Paris Arm Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Thanx for the translation. I was just being vulgar and stupid which I tend to do from time to time. It is a pretty nice track...I wish it were longer. | |
| Team Sleep – Ataraxia Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I think the title of the song tells the story. Ataraxia is a peaceful or serene state of mind. I think he's talking about being in a peaceful dream that is about his lover. Not too complex. | |
| Team Sleep – Paris Arm Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I don't know French but I think this song is about bringing home a bottle of wine and romancing your lady until she screams out in ecstasy. I am going home to romance my lady right now. She is attached to my right arm. Internet porn here I come. Just hit repeat. It will take me at least two plays to finish. | |
| Team Sleep – King Diamond Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I think the song is about total frustration with either a groupie or his wife or something. Sounds like he is having sex and trying to appreciate it and she keeps saying frustrating shit that makes him pissed off. He wants her to restart because she's ruining the intimacy of the moment. | |
| Team Sleep – King Diamond Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I think the song is about total frustration with either a groupie or his wife or something. Sounds like he is having sex and trying to appreciate it and she keeps saying frustrating shit that makes him pissed off. He wants her to restart because she's ruining the intimacy of the moment. | |
| John Butler Trio – Damned to Hell Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| The song is about the greedy and how eventually fate will catch up to them and they will be punished. | |
| Stone Temple Pilots – Wet My Eyes Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Dude was on the horse...I love this track. | |
| Coheed and Cambria – A Favor House Atlantic Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Looks like C&C was formed in 1995 and Mars in 2001. Maybe it was just coincidence during a bit of a prog rock movement? I doubt Mars just ripped the concept off. It worries me though...hopefully these this sound and idea doesn't get saturated ala nu-metal. | |
| Coheed and Cambria – A Favor House Atlantic Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I have to ask this. So, Coheed and Cambria are using an entire album to tell one story. The singer has an afro and has a high pitch voice. Songs have unusual titles. So did they rip off the Mars Volta or vice versa? I don't know who's been around longer. I like Coheed, but Mars Volta does the same thing a million times better. | |
| John Butler Trio – Peaches And Cream Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| A great song that really hit home for me. I used to say that my destiny was to die by 30 until my child was born he saved my life and gave me a reason to appreciate the world. | |
| ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead – Worlds Apart Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| First explanation is dead on. I'm an American and over time I have allowed my blinders to come down and have come to the decision that our indulgence is the reason we and the world have so many problems. However, I think for other countries to take a snotty ass stance against Americans is lame because if their nations had the same power base and ability to do what we have done, they would do the same. Corrupt politics in democracies or republics are only products of the greedy, egocentric creatures that we are. | |
| The Mars Volta – Cassandra Gemini Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| That's what I love about the Mars Volta. It's like there are factual based clues but putting them all together can be completely different for each person. This is a band that is going to revolutionize music because of the way they integrate art into music. I guess whatever your interpretation, Mars Volta leads you to answers in life that you may have never come to before. | |
| The Mars Volta – Cassandra Gemini Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I'm starting to feel my explanation for the song was correct even more so. "Cassandra" is a reference to a Greek prophetess who plead for people to heed her warnings of the future and she went unheard. I think this is about the state of the world headed by one sinister individual that on the macro level is a possible cause to the deviance of the characters. | |
| Team Sleep – Appollonia Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I think a couple lyrics may be wrong but they are tough to decipher. I think it's about Chino being at home with his girl and his frustration that she just sits there staring at the TV or computer or something. Of course, after learning the true meaning of Digital Bath, maybe it's about him wanting to kill his girl for beating him at a video game. | |
| Team Sleep – Kool-aid Party Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| This song is Team Sleep. It's Chino with Mike Patton, former singer of Faith No More and about a million other bands. | |
| The Mars Volta – Cassandra Gemini Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I haven't looked too deeply in the story yet, but are you sure Frances is the main character here? I heard Frances the Mute was just a name based on some Francis the Mule from a show. | |
| Jack Johnson – Cookie Jar Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| This is by far my favorite Jack Johnson song for one reason...he echoies something I have felt for so long but rarely does anyone have the insight to see it. In an age where it is "cool" and "convenient" to point our fingers at the media, the government, our parents, etc. this is the true look at who we are. Yes it is dark but if we can't look at ourselves with humbleness and understand our faults then we'll never get back to a point of happiness and community and affection toward one another. The perfect line "We only receive what we demand...and if we want hell then hell is what we'll have". I think it is honorable to protest things that upset you, but it makes me think of the "no blood for oil" protestors who continue to load up on gas on the way to their rallies. | |
| The Mars Volta – Cassandra Gemini Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Damn..where do I begin? First I have to premise this by saying I can be a real \"music snob\", not meaning I only listen to elite \"musicians\" but I am critical of EVERYTHING and if it\'s not my style, I usually reject it. I grew up being a big Deftones fan so that might show where I\'m coming from. Quite simply, the Mars Volta has blown me away, especially with \"Cassandra Gemini\". This is by far the greatest musical track I have ever heard (just in my opinion). The meaning? I think that\'s tough with Mars to begin with. I think to understand where the tracks are coming from, you have to put them all together because the \"book\" of Frances the Mute is more like a novel, not a collection of poems. In my opinion,this track is separate from some of the others except for the fact that you can see the track\'s \"effect\" on the characters introduced earlier. I know in an interview that Mars said the album incorporated this journal, but also other elements like our country\'s leadership. I think the song is taking a more \"fantastic\" look at the state of our world and our government. One part of the track could refer to the religious Bush family: \"And his multiple sons with their mandible tongues set crucified fires to petrified homes let it burn\" Also, maybe referring to the country\'s sudden rush of concern over terrorism: \"Panic in the shakes of the wounded Panic in the worms Onto the floor And out of your mouth Out of your eyelids\" I don\'t necessarily agree with the opinions behind it if I\'m right, but I definitely see correlations. It seems the track is emphasizing this one horrid character who in some ways is the cause of the peculiarities in the rest of the characters of the album. This shows me the focus is on a character of huge importance in the world set forth in the album. I think they are definitely talking about our leaders. Oh yeah, just to finish my point I like how the track opens \"I think I’ve become like one of the others\". This could be stating he feels like he\'s conforming and becoming \"one of them\" which could be the elites or the victims. OK, one last point that does not have to do with the lyrics. I guess the Mars Volta is something created by an Italian surrealist artist. Since surrealism is based on fantastic and dream-like images it\'s easy to see why the Mars Volta characters and the world are so abnormal. But sticking with the \"dream-like\" thing...ever notice how the song is ripping on through and then hits that first \"frantic piano\" part? Doesn\'t it feel like the song is falling asleep? Then Omar starts fighting out of it furiously, like fighting off sleep, right before the piano cuts in again and makes the track \"fall asleep\". Then it feels like some portal to another world when he repeatedly says that \"25 wives in the lake tonight\" before the new world is entered...right when the fuzz effect guitar kicks in. The the track goes on and on until that frantic saxophone playing starts, which to me feels like the track is \"awakening\" and then cuts right back in where the song had fallen asleep earlier. I mean, not to sound corny, but the entire song is like one huge journey from awake to dream to awake again. Like I said, best song I\'ve ever heard. |
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| The Mars Volta – Cassandra Gemini Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Damn..where do I begin? First I have to premise this by saying I can be a real \"music snob\", not meaning I only listen to elite \"musicians\" but I am critical of EVERYTHING and if it\'s not my style, I usually reject it. I grew up being a big Deftones fan so that might show where I\'m coming from. Quite simply, the Mars Volta has blown me away, especially with \"Cassandra Gemini\". This is by far the greatest musical track I have ever heard (just in my opinion). The meaning? I think that\'s tough with Mars to begin with. I think to understand where the tracks are coming from, you have to put them all together because the \"book\" of Frances the Mute is more like a novel, not a collection of poems. In my opinion,this track is separate from some of the others except for the fact that you can see the track\'s \"effect\" on the characters introduced earlier. I know in an interview that Mars said the album incorporated this journal, but also other elements like our country\'s leadership. I think the song is taking a more \"fantastic\" look at the state of our world and our government. One part of the track could refer to the religious Bush family: \"And his multiple sons with their mandible tongues set crucified fires to petrified homes let it burn\" Also, maybe referring to the country\'s sudden rush of concern over terrorism: \"Panic in the shakes of the wounded Panic in the worms Onto the floor And out of your mouth Out of your eyelids\" I don\'t necessarily agree with the opinions behind it if I\'m right, but I definitely see correlations. It seems the track is emphasizing this one horrid character who in some ways is the cause of the peculiarities in the rest of the characters of the album. This shows me the focus is on a character of huge importance in the world set forth in the album. I think they are definitely talking about our leaders. Oh yeah, just to finish my point I like how the track opens \"I think I’ve become like one of the others\". This could be stating he feels like he\'s conforming and becoming \"one of them\" which could be the elites or the victims. OK, one last point that does not have to do with the lyrics. I guess the Mars Volta is something created by an Italian surrealist artist. Since surrealism is based on fantastic and dream-like images it\'s easy to see why the Mars Volta characters and the world are so abnormal. But sticking with the \"dream-like\" thing...ever notice how the song is ripping on through and then hits that first \"frantic piano\" part? Doesn\'t it feel like the song is falling asleep? Then Omar starts fighting out of it furiously, like fighting off sleep, right before the piano cuts in again and makes the track \"fall asleep\". Then it feels like some portal to another world when he repeatedly says that \"25 wives in the lake tonight\" before the new world is entered...right when the fuzz effect guitar kicks in. The the track goes on and on until that frantic saxophone playing starts, which to me feels like the track is \"awakening\" and then cuts right back in where the song had fallen asleep earlier. I mean, not to sound corny, but the entire song is like one huge journey from awake to dream to awake again. Like I said, best song I\'ve ever heard. |
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