| Benji Hughes – Tight Tee Shirt Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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2nd line, first verse is "She used to be a paralegal." Makes more sense with the following lines. |
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| Tool – H. Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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This is more or less an alternate explanation, but what w/maynard's dual meanings maybe it is a legit one: What's coming through is alive What's holding up is a mirror //the anima is the female counterpart to one's own personality, like a perfect reflection of oneself except female (for men....for women it's the animus) and so the mirror is someone that reflects all of the writer's own personality traits, making her a perfect match, what's coming from her is geniune love that is a live, there's a connection that is bright and alive. But what's singing songs is a snake Looking to turn this piss to wine //but the situation isn't perfect there's boundaries of sorts and the writer hasn't handled it all perfectly(i'll get to that in a minute) so the primal masculine "guy" in him is trying to flip this tragically bad situation into a good one, but suggests this by an ignoble means (for example: just bang her man, so what if ya'll will never be happy together, at least you can get some) They're both totally void of hate, But killing me just the same //she's killing him because he can't have her, and the snake is killing him because he's driving him mad with temptation, neither does it through hate, bc she loves him and the snake is looking for what he thinks is the writers best interest The snake behind me hisses What my damage could have been //the snake is pointing out the writer's errors but also saying, it's not all bad there's still a chance to grab the silver lining. My blood before me begs me Open up my heart again //his heart is still beating and the life that's still in it(his blood) drives him to keep trying and keep loving, despite his inevitable failure And I feel this coming over like a storm again Considerately //he knows it's all going to be a nightmare for him just like it always has been when he's tried to make it all work Venomous voice, tempts me, Drains me, bleeds me, Leaves me cracked and empty Drags me down like some sweet gravity //the snake corrupts him and brings him down, and surprisingly he finds some solace at the bottom, althought he can never full commit to this new way. The snake behind me hisses What my damage could have been My blood before me begs me Open up my heart again //already covered that And I feel this coming over like a storm again And I feel this coming over like a storm again //and that 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 And considerately killing me And considerately killing me And considerately killing me //the connection is to alive, and to strong to break, and he can't walk away, and while this love he feels keeps changing him, helping him to understand all this, it's also killing him, but considerately bc neither force in the song means him any ill Without the skin, Beneath the storm, Under these tears The walls came down //this part is just the writer completly letting himself become vulnerable and letting the storm wash over again, knowing it will be painful, but also knowing he must do it And the snake is drowned and As I look in his eyes, My fear begins to fade Recalling all of those times I could have cried then I should have cried then //he realizes that he can resist and destroy the snake and overcome this part of himself and realizes that this masculine force prevented him from fulling expressing his emotions (cried) and that he should have done that And as the walls come down and As I look in your eyes My fear begins to fade Recalling all of the times I have died and will die It's all right I don't mind I don't mind I don't mind //now he breaks the walls holding him back from the girl, but doesn't find happines, but rather comes to terms with the fact that he will fail (die) again, but no longer fears this, because he understands it's inevitability, and he learns to live with it because, after all, she does love him, although it will never work. 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 And considerately killing me And considerately killing me //again, i've already been through these parts. and there you go, think about star crossed lovers here, a perfect woman that you can never have, and the part of you that wants you to settle for less, that's the conflict i see here, it may not be the original meaning, but maynard has always expressed that he wants us to find our own, well, i found mine, and as you've guessed by now, i feel all this myself, which is where the idea came from. so there you go, hope you enjoy. |
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| Tool – Cesaro Summability Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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as theish said "Cesaro Summability is an attempt to attach some useful meaning to divergent series" notice that Aenima and Aenema are spelled differently. perhaps this track intends to point out the difference Aenima is the name of the album beecause on a whole the album is based on jungian theory dealing with the internal self and ones anima/animus. Aenema is a play on enema which the pseudo title track of the album uses as a metaphor, flushing out and cleansing the stinking shithole that is LA. as for the actual content of the song....not a clue. |
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