| Matisyahu – Chop 'Em Down Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| You mean those 600.000 men, women, and children freed themselves? Man, all this time I thought God did it. | |
| A Perfect Circle – When The Levee Breaks Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| This song definitely kind of made me recoil when I first heard it because it is undoubtedly my favorite Led Zeppelin song and the fact that the stark contrast between Zep's and this one as far as energy goes(air guitar playin foot-stomper as opposed to head-noddin chillout). But I mean c'mon people give it a chance, it really grows on you. I can listen to APC's version over and over because it's so chill to listen to. And for me at least it gives you a break from the emotional onslaught that the rest of the album has. Very cool | |
| Tool – Eulogy Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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The mental image that this song produces in my mind is a preacher at the altar ranting fire and brimstone. I'm definitely not the biggest Tool buff here (or Maynard buff for that matter) but wasn't he raised in a Baptist church? Many preachers try to "Scare" you to salvation by describing how bad hell is going to be and how bad everything that you do is. But you listen and soak in everything he says because you're taught that this is the way to heaven. "Standing above the crowd, He had a voice so strong and loud and I Swallowed his façade 'cause I'm so Eager to identify with Someone above the ground, Someone who seemed to feel the same, Someone prepared to lead the way, with Someone who would die for me" If Maynard was ever at church as a little boy or as an adolescent. This is him looking back and thinking out loud as the preacher is yelling and ranting and telling everyone they're going to hell if they don't change their wicked ways. And young Maynard was probably soaking it all in because he too wanted to go to heaven and in the church scene the pastor is the Patriarchal leader (Hence the term "Father"). I'm gonna tip-toe out on the limb here and say that Maynard is recalling this and is super-pissed at how gullible he was because you get older and realize that Mr. Preacher is just as fallible as any other human and what gives him the right to take Jesus's place on the throne and let people worship him instead. Hence the latter part of the song talking about would you die for me, don't you fucking lie. Then Mr. Preacher dies and the whole church is in a turmoil and Maynard says Come down Get off your fucking cross We need the fucking space to nail the next fool martyr To ascend you must die You must be crucified For our sins and our lies Goodbye... So there it is just die and let the next fool martry take your place and continue this cycle. I know you all like to turn Maynard's lyrics into Math equations and the like, but it jumped out and hit me like a brick maybe because I was also raised in Church. You have to stop following religion and follow your own heart. Don't be a fucking Zombie for Christ. |
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| Tool – H. Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| Maybe I am way off here but being as I was raised in an Apostolic church and struggle with my personal beliefs in God and christianity I can't help but feel this song alludes to that inner struggle. I interpreted H. as in Jesus H. Christ and Lyrics like "Totally void of hate but killing me just the same" talks of God himself being of perfect love but that not making it any easier to someone who lives their life without him. When you were raised in church you can change your concepts and become Atheist and write songs that attack Religion as a whole but you cannot turn off that part of your brain that was taught to believe nor can you erase your memory. "Blood before me begs me to open up my heart again". But it is so easy to sin and give in to pleasure rather than to resist it. Think about that and read all of the first verse. "Recalling All of those times I should have cried" refers to being on your knees at the altar asking God for forgiveness and crying because you feel naked knowing that God can see all your sins and you feel so ashamed for it and you cry uncontrollably. "I am too connected to you to slip away, to fade away days away I still feel you touching me, changing me and considerately killing me" I mean in my eyes I can feel my own thoughts transposed in the lyrics and whether this song means this or not it doesn't matter because it is my personal favorite and doesn't subtract from the genius of it or any other Tool Song for that matter. Just my 2cents. | |
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