| Bad Religion – Murder Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I might have gotten this one all wrong, but to me this is basically a diss of all of "humanity", and about evolution and how humans are actually apes e.t.c. Saying how society is still really fucked up despite laws, religion and schooling and all that stuff. "Culture might have cured you And raised you up unscathed If you had called that fucker by its name" But then again i may be way off here. |
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| Bad Religion – Lost Pilgrim Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| What i'm always thinking about when i hear this song isn't necessarily about religion, but could be a rebel/someone not religious believing in something looking for meaning e.t.c. Getting fucked up because of his believes even maybe, but still sticking to them and "marching on" getting sick of humanity or whatever even. And then what i find interesting is how he uses religious symbolism in it, and what i interpret from it at least, is that we're all searching for meaning, regardless if we're religious or not there's the same stuff and tendencies in both religious and non-religious people. Being a little sarcastic perhaps as well. | |
| Bad Religion – Heroes and Martyrs Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Don't know how related this is, but i just realised there's a howard zinn spoken word cd called "heroes and martyrs", hmmm. | |
| Bad Religion – Fields of Mars Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I think i remember reading greg graffin saying this was a song about the possibility of actually finding a planet with life and without war now (Mars?). And to make it short, what i get out of this song, is how war and religion is connected to eachother. Cause of it existing or feeding on fear perhaps and humans search for meaning maybe. And also it's connection to power-structures/the elite/and the (nation) state e.t.c perhaps. "When mother nation Blood and religion Sanction killing upon the Fields of Mars High above the Fields of Mars" Basically saying even though they found a planet with peace on soon there will be/is war, greed and shit there to cause basically we'll take religion and all the current structures of society with us there and it will breed same shit and go bad and same shit will happen, and we'll start wars and shit again just, but now on mars. So basically i think this is one of those uncommon songs where bad religion disses religion, big time. |
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| Bad Religion – Germs of Perfection Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I don't get why everyone interprets the new songs about being about the war especially, especially when they said they would not be. Seeing as someone in the band is like a professor teaching on evolution or life-sciences or something lots of lyrics are most likely taking their inspiration from that. I think this song is all about turning shit around though and is little of an naturalist lyric perhaps. Germs is seen in society as something disgusting and useless etcetera i believe, but really if you look at it and understand it you see and know that germs in fact work really hard at creating perfection i believe in the ground and shit and serve an very important purpose. I think this one might also be about changing the present and stuff by digging into the history more etcetera. |
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| Bad Religion – Before You Die Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| To me this song is all about religion and how religious people sit and condemn or ponder on how horrible the world is but "don't need to really think" and never make much of an effort to understand it or change it cause it's all predetermined anyway by god to them having an excuse to do nothing. "You know eternity can't ever change your mind" would fit with this. | |
| Bad Religion – Grains of Wrath Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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The title of this song is an reference to the novel "Grapes of wrath i believe.. I very well think "mournsanity" might be on to something there with the biofuels. To me this song is about global warming, saying how our current system, capitalism isn't going hand in hand with sustainable environment and shit and solving the same problems that it has caused and refuse to accept that the global warming crisis is a problem deeply rooted in capitalism and how even if they/we solve it the future will hold wars and same shit as the present, over biofuels etcetera. That is already starting or going on even i believe. Monoculture whores. |
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| Bad Religion – The Answer Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I always think about this one as "the answer is questions". | |
| Bad Religion – 21st Century (Digital Boy) Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I kinda think this song is like between a fan and the band or something, or someone annoying bitching and not taking the time to really understand the lyrics e.t.c. Like a young fan or something bitching on them and fans or people in general often misunderstanding them cause they don't take the time or effort to understand or think deeply as to what they really mean in their lyrics. "I tried tell you about no control, But now I really don't know, And then you told me how bad you had to suffer, Is that really all you have to offer?" e.t.c.. So they wrote a sarcastic song for this fan perhaps, with this being about the fan; "See I'm a 21st Century digital boy, I don't know how to read but I've got a lot of toys, My daddy's a lazy middle class intellectual, My mommy's on Valium, so ineffectual". Partly helping him/her understand himself/herself aswell probably, which i guess is what bad religion is pretty much about; understanding shit. |
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| Bad Religion – Inner Logic Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Yeah i pretty much agree with what have been said above. This one really reminds me of Chomsky's world view pretty much and of reading Chomsky even. First part; Automatons with business suits swinging black boxes..." i think is about all the businessmen, wallstreet people and such. Living wealthy on the ignorance and making it through the igorance that is expected from them Second part; Graduated mentors stroll in marbled brick porticos..." i think is about universities and/or our school/"educational" system and such Last part; Decorated warriors drill harmless kids on pavement..." i think is about how how grown ups (or many grown ups) and society see kids or anything that isn't like them really as "lower and dumb" expecting them to "grow up" one day, meaning become like them, which they expect and is "the goal above all goals" to them. |
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| Bad Religion – Slumber Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| To me this song is not sarcastic. Actually to me if you change one line to "i've got a peace of news son" instead it makes perfect sense, haha. I think this song is calming, when you can't find peace of mind and life's just fucked up and shit and you're depressed perhaps. And this song is like saying you will definetely for sure find peace and we all strive towards it wheter we want to or not; death. Also i think it's saying that we really can make a difference on this earth in what we do in our life-time. | |
| Bad Religion – Television Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Haha yeah that is funny, scary perhaps. Another thing that is funny and scary perhaps is that i always think of if you switch heroin with television it's pretty much the same in this one.."new" addiciting drugs indeed. | |
| Bad Religion – Infected Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I think this song is just 100% about strong passion and desire. It's some fucked up and intense stuff really that brings intense feelings. That is known to have the ability to make people do (or think) some crazy stuff they otherwise wouldn't. | |
| Bad Religion – Better Off Dead Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Yeah i've kinda changed my opinion about the meaning of this one. I kinda agree with "hardcorepunker". I think it's saying that it's not like you can go back to before you were born and change the universe or society you were born in to just cause you find you don't like it. | |
| Bad Religion – I Want to Conquer the World Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| This song is ironical, like he sounds like a dictator or politician exactly. | |
| Subhumans – This Year's War Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Great new song from the "live in a dive" record. Obviously about the so-called "war on terror" and U.S. involvment in the middle-east, oil rich areas. About imperialism/capitalism. | |
| Bad Religion – Bored and Extremely Dangerous Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Yeah i think this song is about isolation/loneliness and the self-destruction that comes from it, saying it's what happends perhaps. "I'm punishing myself, a book on mental health" e.t.c. I don't think it's about someone wanting to hurt innocent people, i just think it's about someone misunderstood and left lonely and isolated leaving him alone with all anger and frustration not knowing what to do. And all he needs is someone to listen to him really and take him seriously. |
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| Propagandhi – Name and Address Withheld Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I think this one is about the concept of vengeance/revenge. I mean it's about the Iraq war it seems, and is someone not agreeing with the "mainstream" view of it all and just being all tired and sick of it and everything and sickened of it. "..to the bully that never learns I could’ve swore I heard a chorus rise and fall wishing them so many more unhappy returns." - Perhaps saying that he starts hating and wishing them (the troops, and people) bad, hoping they'll get killed. Thoughts of hate taking over. But in every war waged, only kings emerged unscathed." - him thinking that you/we lose ourselves perhaps and lose if we get taken over by vengeance/revenge and same hate and sickness we fight and reject, and the ones guilty or behind it all will still sit at the top "un-damaged". So in short this song is perhaps very "propaGANDHI". |
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| Subhumans – Love Is... Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| yeah awesome song. Love is a bastard. | |
| Bad Religion – Sorrow Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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It's kinda funny, cause i bet like 90% of people misunderstand this song. This song is about religion, and basically it's taking a story from the bible (i think) and turn it against religion or show it as proof for religions cruelty and how fucked up it infact is. It's the story of job and begin with him talking to god (father can you hear me..") after god has made a bet with satan to prove there's good in humans, and take job as an example saying he's the most righteous man there is. But then satan says that's just cause he has it so good. And to prove satan wrong, god makes a bet with him and as a part of this bet he lets satan kill job's 10 children, take away all his cattle, and then finally his health after satan argued he's still good and righteous as long as he has his health. A very powerful anti-religion song. |
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| Propagandhi – Fedallah's Hearse Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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"Well, I vote you the best-equipped to shrink from speech that might suggest any thoughts your key target-market might not have already signed-off on and ratified" meaning i think that basically if someone will or would say anything different and more complicated and complex then something bono's or medias keytarget are already ok with or agree with, like something obvious like "fuck poverty!" e.t.c. he'll or they'll shrink and look like total dumbasses cause there's nothing more behind it you know, they just know it's safe to say and they'll gain some press or whatever, sell some more records. Maybe a bit cynic perhaps, but seriously i'd like to know bono's thoughts e.t.c. on capitalism e.t.c or capitalism as a system. But most likely me or no one ever will outside of his little rich mans "club" pretending to be heroes. |
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| Propagandhi – Fedallah's Hearse Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I think this song is about the higher classes and top of society, the capitalists trying to act like heroes or amazing proggressive revolutionaries or something that are trying to change the world. When really it's just an image probably to sell more records and gain more populary and to not loose credibility or something when real revolutionaries or progressive people from the underground (like propagandhi themselves probably e.t.c). just all the time keep taking shit up and fighting for it. And then mainstream media, capitalists millionaire artists take their whole effort away from them and basically spit at it all almost and make it seem like it's theirs and that rather then change coming from below and the bottom from grassroot organisations e.t.c they give illusion of that it comes or will come from the top. And really they're not that interested in actually changing the issues or they're playing it safe instead of actually trying to bring some real change and discussion, and rather then bringing that they bring opposite and make people believe everything's fine and will be and is being taken care of by the ones in the top, and those care more about and maintaining their own interests, power and statous or even increasing it perhaps really. And then since they're the ones in power they basically sit and celebrate eachothers "efforts". Making them look even better and greater, when really they've done nothing and their "effort to bring change" and "make the world a better place" might really and actually be counteractive. |
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| Rise Against – Tip the Scales Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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"These machines feed on the tears of broken lives and dying dreams We’re throwing wrenches in the gears Our lives will not be lived in vain" To me these lines are about working for the system, being stuck in a dead end pointless job e.t.c.. Just living a pointless life without any meaning wasting away. And in 50 or 100 years all you did with your life really was keeping the machinery up in a recklesss destructive sinking ship. So this song is saying that there's so much inside of everyone, dreams, feelings, thoughts, ideas, but most people waste away working for someone elses profit all their life and for someone else getting richer and bigger and it all wastes away, working for someone they don't know or someone they hate (boss/capitalist). "Throwing wrenches in the gear" i think means not participating and blindly following along to the rules they made. Like e.t.c. it'd be bad if Rise Against instead of playing and doing music and what they do would be stuck in a dead end job working for some asshole and his asshole corporation and a fucked up society.. |
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| Rise Against – Prayer Of The Refugee Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I think this song (as most rise against songs) could be interpreted in lots of different ways. It is or could be about an 3'rd world refugee fleeing his own country and home. But it could aswell be about someone living in the first world rebelling against the statous quo and society and/or his parents, leaving what he once knew (or thought he knew behind) for something unknown i think. | |
| Anti-Flag – Confused Youth Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I think this song is about trying to be yourself and be free and going your own way, while society constantly tries to get you to conform and join it and don't take you seriously. "Why don't you go to school, you need to grow up" - like growing up is something that you just shoot up! " I love that line. "Just loosen your grip on our leash you don't have to let go" meaning your still on a leash, their leash and as long as you are they're happy, and you feel more free still cause the grip is looser then it used to, but none the less you're on the leash and controlled. |
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| Dillinger Four – D4 = Putting the "F" Back In "Art" Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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This one's about when punkrock becomes business i think and just a slightly less mainstream mainstream culture, a mainstream culture away from the mainstream. And it's all about knowing the right people and having contacts and all that shit. Stupid hiearchies and "punkrockcops" within the scene and all that stuff i think. Putting the "F" back in "Art" could mean something along the lines of putting the fun back in it and shit and loosen it up a little (fart). Guess "F" means or could mean failure aswell, so maybe taking out the perfection out of it and the elitism. I could be overanalysing now though i guess.. |
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| Ramones – I Wanna Be Sedated Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Well to me this song is pretty clearly related to the huge anxiety and ocd joey ramone suffered from. And this song i'm assuming he wrote when he had nothing else to distract him from that and it just went crazy and he couldn't keep it down and didn't feel like he could control it and stand the pain - I wanna be sedated. I guess that combined with them touring England around X-mas when there was nothing to do, nowhere to go, would make that make sense to and fit. |
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| Bad Religion – Anxiety Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Well i'd say this song is about anxiety.... Saying how it's a natural, or existing part of life at least. Which it is, foundation of society, infact = anxiety. If someone living within the staous quo stops doing that, quits his daily job e.t.c. and daily routine and schemes. Anxiety will most likely kick in after a while and most likely he'll/she'll go back to it's daily routines and schemes cause of it - "a fear that you have nothing more to gain. destroys us but it drives the common man." While someone trying to do something on his/her own living outside the statous quo feels the same anxiety trying to draw her/him to do what everyone else does and into the staous quo. But even if this person does do something different on it's own, still the driving force is most likely the anxiety. - Foundation of society. Basically meaning if we break free from society and stray away from it, anxiety will still lead us to do something. Just that we'll do something different instead. |
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| Propagandhi – Life At Disconnect Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Also another thing i realised that would perhaps make sense. Don't you usually wear a badge by/on your heart? Which would mean that if you cover it with your hand then... you're doing the patriotic shit. | |
| Propagandhi – Life At Disconnect Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I kinda think this song is about social progressive struggle (that propagandhi highly are engaged in). And this song is about when they disconnect from that and disconnect that and stop in the fight and look at their lifes and everything. But the song also starts with and describes the reasons and reminders as for why they are engaged in it i think and do it and are who they are. I'm not sure just what exactly it describes though (if that's what it does). But i'm thinking it could be about war, famine, immigration, complete enviromental devastation perhaps or all in all. And yeah then putting people who don't have to suffer through that and because of that(maybe even people who create it) in the ones who get to suffer from it's place. "Had they been the ones dying under the cooking sun, picking through the dust, scratching at the barren earth, had it been THEIR insides spilling into the sand, they’d see on cracking land their spirit cannot triumph." e.t.c. "Prepare for this one to make you flinch in disbelief. When you catch a glimpse of those just following the paths that got us to where we are. Who are these human shadows with still-beating hearts? Scratching at the door to our paradise. Why do corpses litter the road? Who are these humans? So this is paradise." This i'm kinda thinking could be when he just sits back and relaxes for a while and looks at the movement and sees other people "at the beggining of the road" that he's gone far down. Also really it seems like outside the struggle and the struggle aside propagandhi seem like quite depressed people (could be totally wrong though i guess). Which could explain why at "life in disconnect" he "flinches in disbelief" and can't really believe why someone else would walk down the same path and would want to get to where he is at the time more than anything, "paradise". Afterall "ignorance is bliss". "So this is paradise. Beyond the distant hands of the world. Here we all think we don’t belong but still bow our heads to our Emperors. Is this all there is?" I'm thinking could be the punkrock scene and/or a progressive movement standing outside of society. "Here we all think we don’t belong but still bow our heads to our Emperors" would make that make sense at least kinda, could be about how punks often don't think or feel they belong in society and the punkrock scenes willingess to despite that still play along with and conform to society and it's rules (within the capitalist system). "Is this all there is?" could be him questioning it all, feeling kinda dissapointed perhaps asking if there isn't and shouldn't be more. "Maybe we really have nothing to say. Maybe we truly are just shallow and lame and we’re all just waiting for the end, the spectacle, or some kind of catastrophe to bring us back to earth to stun our ever nodding heads. To introduce us once again to the one incorruptible as she flushes us from her veins." Could be about him looking at the movement and just seeing another fad/trend that everyone has got all caught up and stuck in and disillusioned in perhaps. And him not quite being able to believe in it or feeling it and questioning it, not being sure if it is any more real then the society he didn't/don't feel part of and everything he dissasociated himself from in the first place. "To introduce us once again to the one incorruptible as she flushes us from her veins." The one incorruptible must be mother earth herself, basically "bringing us down to earth again". "Kills us to live again." Since we're basically killing her so and not respecting her the way we should. Caught up,dissilusioned in our own worlds/lifes thinking we're bigger then life/earth itself. "In case you wonder - I’m not trying to be cynical. I know how you feel - If your life’s disconnect. In case you wonder - “What the fuck’s wrong with me?” If it all makes sense you’re the furthest fucking gone" Well the line saying "if it all makes sense you're the furthest fucking gone" pretty much says it all here i think. Basically saying it's just natural or normal to question the meaning in what you're doing and what's going on and such and have doubts, it's worse if we'd never ever do that or would have any doubts at all and question nothing ("Then we're the furthest fucking gone"). So basically meaning if we have doubts we're perhaps still in fact on the right track afterall. "They’ve got badges that they cover with their hands while they’re bashing your fucking head. They’ve got graveyards that they’ll fill with that head if you start getting anywhere." I think this means that as soon as we try to or take another road away from society from "the norm" and stop on that road perhaps we'll get filled with shit to make us question ourselves and feel fucked, and we get it from the very same "people" we're fighting perhaps, and it's being done on purpose perhaps. It's a scary thing not being part of the norm and if your life's at "disconnect" you can start to question what you really are (other for sure will as soon as you stop) and it and society will start to fuck you up as soon as you stop on that "road" ("bash your head"). And it will show you and you'll see other really bad examples of people who also tried to stray outside society and do something different. Fucked up people, sick people perhaps, dead people perhaps, troubled people. One interesting thing here e.t.c. as i see it, is that like out of all punk/progressive music, the only one that makes it to the mainsteam media really is depressed/sad/fucked up music it seems to me. Meaning they perhaps get used and use them as tools to fuck up and frigthen people from straying outside the frame/norm of society/the statous que and trying to do something themselves, a change - They're "the heads" in the graveyard. And they bash people's head hard as soon as they start to get anywhere, like purposely planting a virus kinda. "I won’t pretend that we’re on the winning end. But when did that matter before anyway? That never mattered before anyway." Saying it's not for the glory you do it really or just for yourself and to get celebrated and win a fucking prize and make a million bucks or whatever. You do it cause you think it is what's right, a conviction perhaps, staying true to your ideals, it's what you believe in. And that's why you do it. If it's glory and shit in that and if that doesn't make it kinda "glorious" in itself i guess you can argue though..... Again this are just my thoughts on it, could aswell be and maybe is about imigration (to) though i guess. But i think this is an interesting perspective to on it. Propagandhi has some amazing lyrics. |
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| Propagandhi – Ladies' Nite in Loserville Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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When listening to this song i think of like upper-class woman calling themselves feminists cause it's the new trend or whatever while not wanting to talk about and ignoring class and those inequalities e.t.c. and don't see that as a problem. Or like a hurt girl or girl with bad confidence really or whatever, using feminism to stand above and get above men and screw them (in both ways) while saying she does it or believing she does it for equality, using sex as a weapon instead of as a tool and part of perhaps something more and bigger and more meaningful and true equality. When really she's the tool and screwing herself and equality and mutual respect and all that stuff e.t.c. Using men and making and assuming all men are "evil" saying they just want woman as a tool for sex really and now they're gonna take their revenge on all men. "Fuck your bullshit "femi-nazi" crap" meaning she sees true feminsm or equality as a threat. "I fuck to cum" that's what men are to her, sex-symbols and nothing more. "Fuck em and forget them", just write it down in the score board and show it to your little friend club. So i'd say it's about turned around sexism from woman generalising and being sexists perhaps while thinking they're very feminist. But i dunno i could be wrong i guess.. |
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| Propagandhi – Rock For Sustainable Capitalism Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Awesome song, awesome and important band. Now who will write the song taking a shot at propagandhi for being on fat wreck haha!? I'll definetely do it...the day i've made an as big difference and impact as them on the world................ I guess you might have to wait, really wait, but it's coming, it's coming. :-) | |
| Subhumans – Subvert City Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| This song isn't about how there's no way to establish an democratic system. But rather saying the power is the reason of the oppression and that's what we gotta take away in order to create an truly democratic system, with power there will always come and be oppression. In this song the once oppressed (subverts) took the power i think, but all it did was change who was oppressed really. And well this has happened and always happens in reality too really, soviet and the communists e.t.c. is an good example of this through history in real life. | |
| Rise Against – Broken English Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Yeah i think it's a metaphor for something else, cause to me it seems like Rise Against is a really metaphorical band. But yeah i totally agree with the the one above, it's one of the greatest things with Rise Against i think. | |
| Subhumans – Mickey Mouse Is Dead Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Or more so their "real" world. "They read the papers watched the films And thought they know the truth" |
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| Subhumans – Mickey Mouse Is Dead Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I think you're all wrong actually, i think it's more about how the people making and behind mickey mouse got all serious about it "they planned out what they said, the purity of comedy, they had to take it seriously" e.t.c.. Cause like has anyone seen really old original mickey mouse? Not serious at all, and he didn't even speak, while nowadays some people at some big corporation do plan out what he says and he does speak and he's pretty serious. I think it might've been something he or someone actually liked once upon a time or something because it was neutral and not serious and gave some distance to the/his real world, but then instead of keeping it that way they got scared or whatever and turned mickey mouse into a part of the real world you know; mickey mouse is dead. | |
| NOFX – 100 Times Fuckeder Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I think this could somehow be the product of Fat Mikes "Rock against Bush" campaign. And how they fought an fucked up dirty system on that systems condition and rules, "bringing raised fists to a knife fight" e.t.c. Or "hitting above the belt" instead of from "the underground" where they could hit below the belt. And how it got them to start to doubt themselves and really fucked them up perhaps and how they got screwed. "Did anyone really expect to win a race already fixed?" , meaning the elections i think and the political system. | |
| NOFX – Wolves In Wolves' Clothing Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Well this is the title track of the record...And the phrase "wolves in wolves' clothing" has been taken out of "1984" by George Orwell i believe... | |
| Bad Religion – Better Off Dead Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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I think it's an anti-hierarchy song aswell kinda, "no gods no masters" and such you know , like saying sarcastically how stupid it really is to have one guy (or more even) in power running and controlling millions of lives, and in this song they take it to the extreme which is god (one man) creating the whole universe basically. And also saying that instead we should all participate and co-operate with eachother to create the best world possible through listening and talking to eachother and taking part of eachothers ideas. Something the ones in power(politicians e.t.c) don't really do to the people in our world today and how helpless and worthless that can make you feel. |
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| Green Day – Letterbomb Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Well i'm pretty sure JOS and St.Jimmy is the same guy like it says in the song "You're not the JOS, The St.Jimmy is a fragment of your fathers rage and your mothers love". And this is a letter from Whatsername/rebel/extraordinary girl to the guy that is "JOS" and "St.Jimmy" and this letter from Whatsername helps JOS/St.Jimmy understand himself and finally change and "destroy" the St.Jimmy side of him. But i think i got another thing about this song maybe. Cause i started thinking of the line: "The underbelly stacks up ten high. The dummy failed the crash test". I think that means Whatsername got pregnant and is carrying JOS/St.Jimmy's son. And if you think of it, "Wake me up when September ends" is coming after that one. Which is about his dad (who in reality died when he was like 10 years old) and then in "Homecoming" he destroys St.Jimmy "Jimmy died today, he blew his brains out into the bay, in the state of mind, in my own PRIVATE suicide. Cause he had to because of the own kid i think. |
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