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Tool – Hooker with a Penis Lyrics

20 years ago

Frickin brilliant song. The kid never sold out because he never had anything he was already owned by Coke, Vans and Lee jeans. The kid was a tool himself of whatever marketing scheme happened to catch his eye when he had change in his pocket. He plays the kid for a fool when he tells him 'man say whatever you want just keep buying my records and merchandise to fund me saying whatever I want to say'. Brilliant. Oh and I have to disagree tool is political because Maynard is political and he writes the lyrics. If you don't think he is political just read the lyrics to Pet by APC. He knows he has an audience and thus influence and he uses it maybe just to tell his side of things, maybe to sway people that's debatable. He deserved a lot of credit for being not only intelligent and a freethinker but a creative genius.

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Metallica – The Shortest Straw Lyrics	20 years ago
Blacklisting is putting your name on something so that people won't work with you or whatever. Some actors were blacklisted as being communist and could't work.

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Metallica – The House Jack Built Lyrics

20 years ago

The alcohol thing definitely works but I think heroin fits better. Injecting heroin would be more of a 'taking it in', scenario. Also I have heard of the heroin dreams so the re-closing of the eyes makes sense. I think the swallowed is in reference to him being swallowed such as in the effects of the drug or it's dreams. And yes I think it is the this temple it tilts. Heroin users just destroy there bodies. Not eating and ruining their veins, probaby their heart too. The house that jack built is his body, temple.

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Metallica – Battery Lyrics	20 years ago
Is it possible that they were talking about the frenzy of a live show? The violence of a moshpit perhaps. The unbelievers would be those who don't like their music or the roughness of the moshpit? Just throwing in my two cents.

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Metallica – Of Wolf And Man Lyrics

20 years ago

Yes it's kind of about werewolves and yes it's about primal instinct. So seek the wolf in thyself doesn't mean that we all are werewolves so much as we all have that predatory/in harmony with nature thing in ourselves. It's kind of zen like that. I'd say it's also about longing for something visceral that doesn't revolove around doing insignificant BS to get tickets to by what you need. You take what you need, it's simpler and cleaner and in harmony with nature. Also, coincidentally, I just read that Hetfield has a wolf necklance pendant thingy. I have a wolf tattoo myself and feel a kinship with the animals. I think Hetfield is expressing his yearning to be a wolf. That's why the words paint such a vivid image that you don't normally get in their songs. Talking about the morning mist and nose to the wind And yes most of their songs while seeming like a horror story type deal are actually deeper than that by far.

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Metallica – The Small Hours (Holocaust cover) Lyrics	20 years ago
Yes great song. Maybe it's the unknown? Or some occult unknown...thingy. It says the barriers crumble at the end of the day which could mean when we go to sleep or it could mean when darkness falls.

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Metallica – The Frayed Ends of Sanity Lyrics	20 years ago
I would say a downward spiral. He says in the beginning that he has fallen prey to failure and that triggered his struggle within, self doubt. From there it progressively gets worse. What did he fail at? Someone said drugs and that makes sense, could be lots of things.

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Metallica – Thorn Within Lyrics	20 years ago
I think it's about a daughter who gets pregnant, thus the thorn (the problem) within. The father is obviously not happy about it and may or may not be responsible. I doubt he is. He makes her feel guilty but guilt is also following him and one day he will regret what he does.

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