| NOFX – Franco Un-American Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Everyone seems to be arguing about the "move to canada and australia thing in this song". Well, if any of you have the CD War On Errorism the band has a three page rant about America and its ignorance. Here's a quote from that rant: "Let's stop with the "we are #1" bullshit. America is not #1. We're like #11 or #12. For the 91% of Americans who have not traveled outside of this country (such as Bush before he was "elected") there are several countries that are arguably better than this one. I would put Australia, Canada, Sweden, Holland, and Denmark on the top of the list for sure. Some of these countries have all the freedoms the US has and alot more of em (not sure if Australia has more freedoms but the weather and surf are sure great, abd the people are really nice)"--- So there's where the whole idea started for that line of the song. And does anyone have any ideas why the lyrics in that booklet are somewhat different from what they sing in the song, especially "American Errorist"? |
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| The Offspring – Defy You Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Hey zps2 asshole, you must not play guitar. because if you did you would fucking know that the "same chord" you are talking about is the rock/power chord. and just to let you know, every modern band uses that chord you talk about. Look it up on tab websites. See all those fucking power chords?! Maybe you should learn a little more guitar before you pass judgment on how The Offspring plays their guitar. |
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| The Offspring – Beheaded Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Here's the song meaning straight from Dexter: Now, this is really going back. Beheaded is a song off of our very first album, so that‘s like 10 years ago! It‘s also the only song off that record that we still play live sometimes. I still lived at home back then, and I remember that I wrote the music for that song one night when I was just sitting in my bedroom on my bed with a guitar, being bored. I guess, sometimes, being bored is a good way to make up songs. It was one of those times where I was kind of watching TV, and just kind of strumming my guitar, not really even paying attention to what I was playing, when I just kind of accidentally played some chords that I liked. Pretty soon I had all the music written, but I had to come up with some lyrics. This is where James Lilja came in. Now, James was our first drummer, and this was before we even recorded our first record. James is a great guy with a pretty warped sense of humor, and this guy was dying to get into medical school. In fact, he was so intent on getting into medical school that he didn‘t really even practice with us much – which is part of why he‘s not our drummer anymore! But anyway, James and I got together one day and I told him how I was trying to write lyrics for this song. I had the idea of calling it “Beheaded,“ and having it be about this crazy guy who enjoys that sort of thing. You know, actually, this kind of song is something that a lot of old punk bands did back then. There‘s tons of songs where the band talks about liking something that‘s gross or sick or whatever, but of course it‘s just a joke. Want some examples? Like, let‘s see, the Dead Kennedys did songs like “Stealing People‘s Mail“ and “I Kill Children.“ Suicidal Tendencies had “I Saw Your Mommy and Your Mommy‘s Dead,“ TSOL had “Code Blue,“ (which was about necrophilia), and D.I. had a song called “I Like Guns.” Of course, these bands didn‘t really advocate these kinds of things – it was just done for shock value, and it was kind of funny too. So we decided to make our Beheaded be in that vein, and one afternoon James and I just cracked each other up making up silly lines about beheading people. You can check out the lyrics on another part of this web site. Little did I know that day that we‘d still be playing that song ten years later. And James? Yes, he got into medical school, and believe it or not, he‘s now a gynecologist! I hope his patients don‘t find out that he once helped write a song called ‘Beheaded‘! |
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| AFI – The Leaving Song Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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I've noticed that when I've read most of the AFI song meanings at least one person says it's about love. As for this song, i don't know how you can make this about love just because it says "poisoned hearts" even so it says "heard them say" not "heard her say" Anyways, as many people have probably stated before me, this song is about being shunned or turned down by a group of people. "walked away, heard them say poisoned hearts will never change"--this is saying that he has been rejected by something most likely very meaningful to him and now hes walking away (thus explains the title The Leaving Song) "Hard to notice gleaming from the sky when you're staring at the cracks"--this is obviously him walking with his eyes lowered staring at the cracks in the ground, so caught by rejection that he cannot see the good in the world that is passing him by. "All the cracks will lead right to me, all the cracks will crawl right through me and I fell apart"--This means that while hes staring at the ground, lost in sadness, he is slowly mentally falling apart inside. Well, that's it. I'm probably way off since this is the first new AFI song I tried to interpret. Davey's older stuff is alot more straightforward, it requires less thinking. |
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