| Backstreet Boys – Incomplete Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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...Erm, it annoys me that they're egocentric...I mean come on, in the video Nick tries to give us his smouldering "bad boy" stare, or he's in slow-mo, melodramatic fashion groveling, throwing his face contorted with pain heavenward as the sand falls from his hands and in the background of the gas station as the wreckage of a car burns...then he nods his head forward like some kind of a badass bobblehead. WTF? And Howie is driving aimlessly...um...cliche? I forgot the other guys' names but one is like caught in some raging waters and another gazes forlornly into the horizon admist an apathetic clothes line...as the piano guy stays with butt planted admist an onslaught of pollen or whatever. As if the song wasn't sappy enough. This song is nothing groundbreaking, but it shows that even if they still haven't emerged from puberty, at least they are making steps into the maturity of their sound. |
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| Cradle of Filth – Nemesis Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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... Nemesis in Greek mythology is the goddess of divine retribution and vengeance. Perhaps there's some correalation. |
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| Trivium – Dying in Your Arms Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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WTF is wrong with you? This song may be an eccentricity, but that's only beacuse Matt wanted to try something different. Also, I recall reading an interview in which he stated he was listening to such bands as The Killers, saying their latest album was really good. Strangely, if you compare the song Mr. Brightside with Dying In Your Arms, the two don't sound too different, aside from the lyrics of course. The fast...radio-friendly driven style, the repetition of the last lines of "Cut you out" (compare with Brightside's "I never")...maybe it's just me, the similarity between the two songs is arbitrary. As for the song itself, I admit that wasn't the Trivium we all know and love, but it was unique...I didn't think it was bullshit. Sorry if I came off pissed. =) |
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| The Used – All That I've Got Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Well, I think this song is left open for us to interpret, so that we can relate to it in our own way. While the song may have a specific significance or meaning to Bert, he also said in the making of the video on D'fused "I'm sure everyone has felt lonely at some point in their life"...this song, to me at least, exemplifies any form of loneliness. This is what it means to ME. "So deep, that it didn't even bleed and catch me..." A wound so deep...bleeding can represent pain...a wound so deep you feel so numb and distanced or accustomed from the (repeated?) pain (of loneliness?) that you develop a tolerance for it, becoming stoic, holding it in...no longer does you feel its ache. "Off guard, red handed Now I'm far from lonely" Maybe you let your guard down( off guard)...believing you shall be overcome with the loneliness that seemed impossible to shed, and once exposed (red handed) your loneliness haunts you once more, but it has become a point of something much more beyond the pain...a greater loneliness than ever felt before, coming back in greater strength. "I sleep, I still see you lying next to me" This is my personal opinion, but not in any sexual sense, when lonely, one envisions a person who has caused them loneliness close to their heart, rather than far away in reality. "I sleep" refers to dreaming "I see you lying next to me"...the person, whomever he or she is... The repeat of "so deep" brings us back down to earth, we are overcome with the reality of the pain that comes with our loneliness...with each line of "so deep...that it didn't even bleed" perhaps every confrontation of being rejected and being isolated from a friendship or relationship sought adds to the tolerance of loneliness' to stoicism, anesthetized feeling...with every feeling of loneliness, we become harder, and numbed by loneliness, so used we are to its pain. "I need something average" Maybe he or she yearns for the simple desire of not to be lonely, he or she considers a friend/relationship a thing otherwise ascribed as average by those with friends or partners...they call it average, having it and not being lonely, but it is by no means an "average" thing sought after by those lonely. "Someone please just give me Hit me and knock me out And let me go back to sleep" If lonely, are consciousness is often haunted...we cannot help but reflect upon our predicament of being alone and having no one...sure we may be distracted by other things like school or chores or things we enjoy, but our mind, our conscious burdens us with the conjuring of our undeniable juxtaposition of our loneliness. It is something one's mind cannot help but acknowledge and bring up, for it is hard to deny being lonely. We feel it from the inside our. "Let me go back to sleep": the person yearns for the freedom of dreams or unconcious, where his or her mind can dream (see above) about being close to the presence of someone or something they are bereft of and thus lonely, or desire to not let their concsious trouble them of their solitude while awake. "I can't laugh All I want inside I still am empty": pretty self-explanatory. And again, with each new laceration of loneliness the wound heals and the feeling of its pain now without sensation. Even as the character be challenged with yet another dismissal or feeling of seclusion, each hurt of loneliness is but among many and so deep that he or she no longer feels its hurt. "I'll be just fine Pretending I'm not I'm far from lonely And it's all that I've got" Note about the chorus: the character is NOT implying he or she is at peace with their loneliness, instead they will assume the pretense of apathy, they are unaffected or unmoved by the loneliness they encounter, which really does hurt them. I am not contradicting myself when I say that it is not the loneliness that hurts them...it is the level that is so "far from" mere loneliness, absolute suffering and sorrow from a state of having no one, loneliness exacerbated to a much stronger, profound pain...that, while the character can masquerade simple loneliness is without pain, seeming to be much more inocuous to the true agony of what is beyond the loneliness...and that the very thing they don't have (friendships, relationships, etc.) this torturuous isolationism is the only thing that they truly have, that this very emotion is the only thing who is close to them (simply, while they don't have a friend or boy/girlgriend the only thing they do have is the feeling) and "it's all that I've/they've got." That's what it means to me. The first verse anyway. Hope it helped. =) |
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| Cradle of Filth – Nymphetamine Fix Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| Um...hi. I'm kinda of a n00b, so sorry if I offend anyone, but this is my first Cradle of Filth song...I really got psyched when I heard it off the Resident Evil Apocalypse soundtrack. I'm even a newcomer to the metal genre too. I really think this is an awesome song...but I assume this is an exception. Does C.O.F. normally have songs like this? I want to get into them, and I love the background music, guitars, female (guest?) vocals that are followed by the gruff, raspyness..."the wicked with your charm" prose kicks ass...(I just don't like the nymphetamine, nymphetamine girl part is kinda discordant and repetitive)...but is this the only song of its kind on the album? I don't know of anyone who has an album to borrow, and the internet samples of the songs are just to short. I love nymphetamine, but would I like the rest of the album (or others that you could reccommend)? Help! =( Thanks. | |
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