| Say Anything – Belt Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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you're all wrong. the "belt" is an allusion to mental illness. listen to the clip at the beginning of the song. that's not scripted. max was on MAOIs (really strong anti-depressants for suicidal patients, also anti-psychotic?) for awhile. yes, he got his "belt" from his father. mental illness is inheritable. how does this tie into music and the music industry? oh, i don't know. let's think of some other really famous artists that were bipolar. hmm.. jimi hendrix? anyone? a lot of people who were musical geniuses also suffered from mental illness. within our neurotic tendencies lies our wisdom. in case you still don't get it, i'll continue to elaborate. carting him off = being institutionalized (read the bio max wrote) the good gendarme = people trying to put him/keep him in the institution stripped of natural charm = on meds, which dampens his extreme mood swings i guess you guys got the rest of it right. |
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| Cursive – The Lament of Pretty Baby Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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cursive is infinitely better than jimmy eat world, weezer, blink 182, and things like that. cursive is better TO AN EVEN GREATER DEGREE than the utter shit that is system of a down and slipknot. i cant believe someone said sotd and slipknot had deep lyrics. sotd and slipknot are just a fad that assholes market and sell to retards who think that listening to them will make them appear interesting or misunderstood, shit like that. they're an image, they're not art. if you dont like cursive so what, you have different tastes. maybe you don't like kasher's off-key singing, i know one of my friends dislikes them specifically for that reason, but don't get off even comparing them to any of those shitty ass bands. back to the song - i agree with the people who said it has to do with loss of innocence, that sort of thing. first cursive song i ever heard, took a bit to grow on me but once it did i was hooked. |
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| The Unicorns – Child Star Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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i don't see any relation to the media... i kind of wish they seperated this into two songs, though. the first half of the song is really moody and i like it, i kind of wish it went on longer. especially that intro 'riff' where he's basically just sliding his hand on the guitar. i like the end too though, it's fun. ps: as for them being gay, i'm pretty sure at least one of them is, but who cares? |
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| The Unicorns – Inoculate the Innocuous Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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some tidbits. the title is more like "make harmless the harmless". when you innocuate someone against something you're making the something harmless. i don't know, you could argue this because it's really just how you interpret how the word is used, but this is more how i look at it. also, "somewhere in.. when you cry", your eye is kind of "tight" when you are scowling or glaring at someone, but then he stops when he sees someone crying. the idea about it having to do with an former/current lover makes sense. i really don't see any politics speaking here. |
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| Opeth – Serenity Painted Death Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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melinda's a nun the main character isn't a moor or othello the whole concept of the album centers around being persecuted for religious pretenses. the people in the village remind me of the puritans somewhat. |
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| Opeth – White Cluster Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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hes not black gosh people look way into the white thing too much if he was a black slave there'd be some mention of slavery or bondage or anything, read my other posts on the album. they think he's a monster, a "godless freak". he was probably born deformed and kicked out. |
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| Opeth – Deliverance Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| It's about that stupid camping movie? That movie sucked. | |
| Opeth – In My Time of Need Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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yup, i agree with the popular interpretation of this song and i guess i can say i relate to it. the speaker has a one-sided, unreturned love for a woman. he knows he should get over her and tries, but can't, as illustrated by the line "i try to forget you as you forgot me." there's no anger in the story so i don't have the feeling he's mad at the girl for being a bitch, just that she just didn't feel anything for him and they slowly drifted away from eachother. now he's really torn down by the whole thing and perhaps his other friends have grown distant from himself and now he really feels that nobody would care if he died. sad, but pretty song. |
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| Opeth – Ghost of Perdition Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| well, according to my friend the singer's mother died during/before the recording of damnation. i'm not really tying it into the song or anything but i thought i'd throw that out there. | |
| Opeth – The Leper Affinity Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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i really don't see much of a reference as far as a rapist/killer goes. i can definitely see the corpse/nature idea someone pointed out above though. damn, that's creepy. awesome song by the way. |
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| Opeth – The Funeral Portrait Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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sadistic sniper sounds right. i never could figure out much of the story behind blackwater park so i didnt really think there was one. not my favorite album by opeth anyways, although it has its gems. the riff that plays while he's screaming "rain washing clean all the sins" is heavy as hell and makes me want to go kick some ass. |
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| Opeth – Moonlapse Vertigo Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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harlequin forest, this album is called 'still life'. demon of the fall is from 'my arms, your hearse'. they are two different albums with two completely different stories. the first track's title refers to a swampy marshland where the main character was banished to fifteen years prior the start of the story. read my comment on 'the moor'. the main character isn't a black muslim or anything like that, you guys are looking way to into the few mentions of 'white' things. there's no concrete evidence for racial persecution, but there's a boatload for religious persecution. in all likelihood, the main character was probably born deformed and thus branded an "ungodly freak". |
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| Opeth – Master's Apprentices Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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PLUNGING INTO THE DEEPEST VOID, DEPARTED SHELL LEFT DRAINED BEHIIND~! it gets fucking crazy after that. decent song because of that part and the clean part preceding it, but that first riff is kind of boring and repeated way too long. |
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| Opeth – Forest Of October Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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THE FOREST OF OCTOBER~ when he growls that its awesome. i also like that crazy solo after the mellow acoustic part near the middle. |
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| Opeth – Face Of Melinda Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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melinda is 'taken' because she's a nun now, "a harlot of God upon the earth." this fits in much better because the main character was outcast under religious pretense, thus causing the main character to hate God, yet the woman he loves believes firmly in God. melinda certainly reciprocates his love, as she wouldn't go to bed with him and abandon her covenant as a nun if she didn't. unfortunately she is killed by the townspeople in serenity painted death after this occurs. |
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| Opeth – Godhead's Lament Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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the main character is not refering to himself as a godhead, he's refering to melinda as a godhead because she has become a nun. this is revealed in a later song where she is described as "a harlot of God upon the earth." the main character isn't an african slave, he's not othello... there are no themes of slavery or dominance mentioned in the album. the only reason people say that is because several things are described as being white. white is generally regarded as a symbol of purity and perhaps opeth is using it to create irony since the townspeople (the ones in white) are portrayed to be rather ruthless and uncaring zealots that hunt out the main character simply because he is different. look at my comment to "the moor", i summed it up better there. |
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| Opeth – The Moor Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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i don't see the othello reference at all. the main character is clearly a heretic at the very least that was banished from the town by the moor before the story starts. its quite obvious that he was banished under a religious pretense. his lover, melinda, isn't about to marry another man. she became a nun, or was a nun to begin with. i can't remember which song it's in, but she is refered to as "a harlot of God upon the earth," which could mean a nun. i really don't see this as having anything to do with the KKK or african slaves because that really doesn't fit in with any of opeth's usual themes or the environments they create. yeah. the more and more i think about it, i think of the main character as a hunchback-of-notre-dame like character who was born deformed. people fear and hate what they don't understand and if some ugly wierd looking kid was born, it's probable that they'd refer to him as an "ungodly freak" and a "defiler". the main character was born there, cast out at a fairly early age (6-8?) and lived in the moor/wilderness. he comes back fifteen years later to find melinda, who was perhaps his only childhood friend, only to find out she has become a nun. that's my take as far as the meaning of the whole album. as far as this song goes, it fucking rocks. the first heavy riff they play reminds me of a fucking runaway train. the riff afterwards builds up into the most ungodly roar i've ever heard. hot damn, this song gets me amped. |
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