| Probot – Shake Your Blood Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| It's essentially Lemmy telling us that despite all of the crap he's endured and the things he's excpected to do and the things he's done he's not proud of his life is the life he chose and he wouldn't change a thing. The man embodies everything that rock and roll is about. I personally hope he lives forever. | |
| Emperor – With Strength I Burn Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Freedom, inqusition, not simply accepting the bile which higher powers (the master) spews thought. It's about questioning everything and not simply taking the world at first glance. | |
| Scissor Sisters – She's My Man Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Gay pride. It's about the fuck you attitude more LGBTG people need to take toward religious fundamentaists, bigotry and conservatism. 'She's my man and we got all the balls we need' is effectivley saying we don't need your approval of the way we live our lives. Also the idea that all LGBTG people are faggoty little fairys and that this isn't true, they are strong proud people. Brilliant song, I love the opening. | |
| Blind Guardian – Fly Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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It's Peter Pan! The Spirit of Youth, the boy who never grew up. The second one to the right and then straight on until morning light. And it does actaully use the word Neverland. These guys write some great concept songs. |
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| Wintersun – Beyond The Dark Sun Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Reaching the sun implies reaching some sort of higher plane, an afterlife perhaps? Heaven? But he never found it because he never looked back on what he'd done, ultimatly the speaker may have failed but but at least he has no regrets. | |
| Ihsahn – Called by the Fire Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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like a lot of Emperor songs it's about the duality of humanity, and the fact that we fight our more basic, animal instincts. Ultimatly I feel that the speaker loses his battle. |
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| The Haunted – Trespass Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Morticians clad in white? Angels. It's about rejecting religion. |
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| Emperor – With Strength I Burn Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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This song is party of the greater overall concept of Anthems, (tracks 1 to 3) the followers ascendence to and unification with his master; The Emperor, possibly the very same who narrates I Am the Balck Wizards. (tracks 4 to 6) He, undergoes a series of trials to determine if he is worthy, They almost destroy him stripping him of his humanity piece by piece, he succeeds in all of these trails however. During track 8 he questions his original motive in enduring all of this, and realises that in simply taking up his master gauntlet his courage has already surppased him and it is the humanity he tried to deny which has given him this courage. Finally he returns, no more enlightened but knowing enough to known that he knows very little, as well as having the strenght to not need a higher power than himself to believe in. To be honest I always felt that many of Emepror's songs were part of a greater universe much like Tolkien's works not necessarily over lapping but all occcuring within Middle Earth. |
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| Dark Tranquillity – Punish My Heaven Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I agree to an extent with Ddadutta. Although I feel it's less abou a person living a life of sin but more simply a normal life. On their death bed rather than repent for thing they may have done wrong, they decide instead to be judged, be them right or wrong. I suppose therefore that these lyrics could lead into the notion that we are only human and can only try our best. |
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| Champion – Promises Kept Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Straight edge, sticking to your guns, honour and brotherhood. Simple but a marvellous song. |
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| Blind Guardian – Another Stranger Me Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I think the bit where it says "We're in a room now" should read "We're on out own now". Anyhow, I feel it's probably about the duality of man. And that we all have a side we prefer to keep hidden from others and perhaps even deny oursleves. Apparently the character, from whose point of view the song comes, is having to contront his other side. A man fighting his demons? It's a very good song, I think Hansi is awfully talanted vocalist. |
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| Judas Priest – Breaking The Law Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Hmm, a slight over sight on my part, but the same could be said of Birmingham, factories, industries. Basically, industry good, Thatcherism bad. |
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| The Mars Volta – Tetragrammaton Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I feel it's worth noting that the term Tetragrammaton refers to the Hebrew God Yahweh (YHWH; There are no vowles in classic Hebrew). From what I can tell the song is the story of the betrayal, death and ressurection of Christ. "You locked the cuffs, arsenic erupts will you drink the shadow, of my rair hair" Judas is described in the Gospels as having red hair. Interestingly this is sometimes though of as a reason why Catholic cultures distrust people with red hair. For example in Italy people with red hair were shunned for many centuries. "Unwrap my corpse, and let it thaw In the eye of the needle I can't get out This is partly obvious, the Shroud of Turin I suppose. I'd say "the eye of the needle" either refers metaphorically, to the Roman's and Isrealite's belief that Christ really was dead. A similar anology to to thinking in/outside the box. Or it could refer more concretely to chink(s) of light that were said to come through into the tomb in which Christ was buried. It is mainly described as simply a cave with a boulder infront rather than a proper tomb, hence this is quite plausible. They'll check my wrist, I'll faint a pulse I'm not the human, you thought I was" He "faints" a pulse? I'm not sure perhaps he's simply playing dead, when his killers come to check. "I'm not the human you though I was"?, again obvious, as Christ is described, in fundamentalist rather than abstract Chritianity as not being human and actaully being God on Earth. |
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| In Flames – Pinball Map Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Surely it's about uncertainty in life isn't it? The first and second verse is about not hesitating and taking chances when they come. "It seems that life's so fragile I guess I'll fly some other time" The first bridge into the chorus is about wishing we could take those chances wish we could "Rape the day" and take it for it all it was worth, but instead that we follow routine and our lives become boring. "Guided by the pinball map"? Well a pinball machine is all about chance; a player had very little actual affect over where the pinball goes. The hesitation and lack of control over ones life links in again in the next two verses, hoping, waiting For something to rearrange everything so that me might find a place in it. But finally realising that only we can affect what our station in this world is. The final verse however is about not trying to hard as, if we try to place everyone we never please anyone least of all ourselves. So to me it’s about lack of controls over ones life and simply being oneself. |
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| Judas Priest – Breaking The Law Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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True it's about breaking the law, but there are more lyrics than simply the chorus and I’ve always felt the song was more personal to the band. They're from Sheffield, which at one time was one of, or possibly the largest steel-producing city in Britain hence the name of the album "British Steel" (1980) which this song features on. Thatcher’s Tory party came to power in 1979 having gained support by saying that they would increase Britain’s industry and make sure that even with the collapse of its empire post WWII, it would continue to be one of the greatest nations both economically and politically on Earth, the "Golden future" we had all be promised However this was not the case Thatcher quickly set about deconstructing Britain’s industries steel, ship building, oil drilling and coal mining were all sold and instead bought in cheaper from over seas. Only gaining a second term in the wake of victory in the Falklands conflict. No doubt people who worked in these industries felt cheated like they'd had "Every promise broken" as if no one did care if they did "live or die". Obviously with millions out of work, neither trained for new jobs nor offered them, crime rates soured in these once industrial cities hence "Breaking the Law". To those who lived in cities which main economies were banking, insurance and the like and had thus not been affected Halford says, "You don't know what this is like" and "[if you found yourself in a similar situation] You'd be doing the same thing too". This song may seem relatively straightforward however it's actually a massive protest against Thatcher’s government and the collapse of British industry. |
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