| Tool – Mantra Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| I had heard a song called "Mantra", and it was supposedly by Tool, except there were lyrics. It was really heavy, and I'm not even sure it was by Tool, or if someone put something up and gave it a fake label. Anyone have any idea what that actually was? | |
| Opeth – The Grand Conjuration Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Wouldn't it be great if they came out with an album parodying 80's metal? Singing about themselves and how "hardcore (maaaaan)" they are. Unfortunately, Akerfedt lost his growl, it's evident in their newer live performances, and that's why in their next album there's not going to be any growl/scream. | |
| Opeth – Hours of Wealth Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Oh, but it is a concept album, disregarding the last track. "...initially intended to be a concept album, with numerous tracks linking together a story of a man's turmoil after committing an unconscionable act, symbolised by killing his own mother." - Wikipedia |
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| Opeth – Hours of Wealth Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| The only songs that aren't related in this album are "Ghost of Perdition" and "Isolation Years". Therefore, they ARE related. Look it up. | |
| Opeth – White Cluster Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Thank you. Somebody gets it. Also, he may not necessarily be an atheist, just a man of a different faith. But if he WERE an atheist, I can definitely see the irony in seeing the ghost of his lover, proving to him in the end that there is something afterwards. | |
| Opeth – White Cluster Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| The final verse means that the last thing he saw before they killed him was Melinda, the love interest in the album, calling behind him. | |
| Big Wreck – Knee Deep Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Oh God, this is such a great song. I'm honestly not sure what it's about, I'm guessing depression but that's all the insight I can provide. | |
| Porcupine Tree – Lightbulb Sun Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| has anybody noticed that the album itself has kind of a theme about it? this song seems to kind of start to tell a story of a kid who had a girl- friend [not girlfriend, not yet at least], who then moved away and they had lost touch, and the kid is super depressed about it. just a thought. a lot of their albums seem to have a story built around them, even though it isn't expressed in concept form. | |
| Porcupine Tree – Lightbulb Sun Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| has anybody noticed that the album itself has kind of a theme about it? this song seems to kind of start to tell a story of a kid who had a girl- friend [not girlfriend, not yet at least], who then moved away and they had lost touch, and the kid is super depressed about it. just a thought. a lot of their albums seem to have a story built around them, even though it isn't expressed in concept form. | |
| Porcupine Tree – Lightbulb Sun Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| has anybody noticed that the album itself has kind of a theme about it? this song seems to kind of start to tell a story of a kid who had a girl- friend [not girlfriend, not yet at least], who then moved away and they had lost touch, and the kid is super depressed about it. just a thought. a lot of their albums seem to have a story built around them, even though it isn't expressed in concept form. | |
| Spock's Beard – Crack the Big Sky Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I get a really big hippie vibe every time i hear this. I just can't see Neal Morse writing anything with that strong a message. I might be wrong, but I see the crack in the big sky as lightning. | |
| Spock's Beard – Crack the Big Sky Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I get a really big hippie vibe every time i hear this. I just can't see Neal Morse writing anything with that strong a message. I might be wrong, but I see the crack in the big sky as lightning. | |
| Radiohead – The Tourist Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| even though it seems to be a prelude to "Airbag", it really isn't. They had said in an interview that they didn't mean it. It was a coincidence. So shut up. | |
| Radiohead – Exit Music (For a Film) Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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This is an amazing song, but the movie was HORRIBLE. When I first saw it, I wanted to stab George A. Romero in the face, followed by that overrated shithead, Leo DeCaprio. The use of sword written on a gun isn't clever, it isn't creative, it isn't even funny. It's just stupid. Shakespeare himself wrote horrible plays. He is so overrated just because of his life. But anyway, the song does go with the play. |
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| Radiohead – Paranoid Android Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| okay, first off this song doesn't seem like it's supposed to make much sense. But if it actually does, then it has something to do with society today. And, not much to do with Radiohead, but still sort of relevant, since many people compare it to Bohemian Rhapsody, Freddie Mercury had said in an interview years ago, that he wrote Bohemian Rhapsody without knowing what it was about, and by trying to pick it apart and learn it's meaning, it takes away the mystery surrounding the song. I think the same about this song. Don't try and pick it apart. | |
| Porcupine Tree – Sentimental Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Sentimental is the kid realising he's now getting old, and doesn't want to. But in Normal, he realises he's still young and doesn't want to be there, but longs to be old, to look back on when he's young. "Wish I was old and a little sentimental". Something like that anyway. |
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| Porcupine Tree – Deadwing Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| This seems almost like it's describing the concept as a whole, and the rest tell the story. | |
| Porcupine Tree – Sleep Together Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| It sounds to me like "Let's leave forever", not sleep forever. I could be wrong, though. | |
| Porcupine Tree – My Ashes Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Yeah, obviously there's more to the meaning of this album. I find Steve Wilson's vocals are more emotional, I guess, in this album than any others. | |
| Porcupine Tree – London Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Except for the chorus, these are all lines from Don't Hate Me, off of Stupid Dream. | |
| Opeth – Bleak Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Vampires are too cliché for Opeth, it would seem, so I highly doubt either song is about vampires. | |
| Opeth – Black Rose Immortal Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I just got an idea. Opeth seem to have more sad stories in their lyrics. So maybe it's like... I 'unno... A guy that died and gets to go back to his lover but only for a bit. I 'unno. Something along those lines. I don't have time to write a whole synopsis. | |
| Opeth – Black Rose Immortal Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I'd say my favorite part is where it builds up with the "I have kept it The amaranth symbol Hiddin inside the golden shrine Until we rejoice in the meadow Of the end When we both walk the shadows It will set ablaze and vanish..." And then everything gets quiet. "Black rose immortal..." Not exactly about vampires. But you gotta remember Opeth are really progressive too, even in their early days, and one of the main aspects of progressive rock is fantasy stories told through the lyrics. Think about that before you decide it's simply about the devil or vampires or anything so... Easy. |
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| Opeth – Dirge For November Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Opeth are so amazing. Blackwater Park has to be their best album to date. | |
| Porcupine Tree – Buying New Soul Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| It does sound a lot like having writers block. But you've got to remember Steve Wilson's lyrics often have more than one meaning. Just something for you to digest | |
| Spock's Beard – The Light Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| It might also just have to do with how it was sung, the same high energy with the same filter over the vocals. | |
| Dream Theater – Endless Sacrifice Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Don't compare Metallica to Dream Theater. Dream Theater is actually good. Metallica is too static when it comes to their knowledge of musical ability. I'm sick of people singing the praises of Kirk Hammett when all he does is play the same thing for four bars, then something slightly different the next four, then after 16 bars, there's gonna be a long bend, followed by a scale of some sort. Dream Theater, on the other hand, has Jordan Rudess and John Petrucci. Easily two of the best musicians in the world. |
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| Porcupine Tree – Trains Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I've had an idea for a music video for this. First, you have a camera panning outwards slowly and subtly from a house. Then you got the inside of one of the rooms, and three kids playing in it: two boys, and one girl. They rush over to the window, and see the train pulling into the station. Then, someone comes in, and says something to one of the boys. Next thing, he's in the back of the car waving to them, and the girl is running over to the house next to it. They both have pretty sad looks in their eyes. When the drums and whatnot kick in, it's years later, and the kid is all grown up. He's jumping off a train with a guitar in one hand, and a bag over his other shoulder. He goes inside the station to get any other luggage or something. The camera follows the train, through the countryside. As that scene fades out, another one fades in, of the guy in a cabin with some girl (You assume it's the one from the beginning). During the solo, she takes off with his pants, and he chases her down the hall, to a dining car, or a washroom or something. Next is just... The guy sitting around, playing banjo for a bunch of people, and then he looks over at the chick as that part ends. When it gets right heavy, they get off, and they're in a larger station with a bunch of people around. He's looking at her through a crowd of people, and she's looking back at him. But when someone gets in his way for a second, she disappears in the people somewhere. |
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| Opeth – Reverie/Harlequin Forest Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| No, you idiot. Not about alcohol at allll. The story was supposed to be about a man who killed his mother, then was bound to the devil by doing this. Isolation Years was the only song that had nothing to do with the story. | |
| Opeth – Demon Of The Fall Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| The whole album is just about a man haunting a woman as the seasons fade into each other. The fact that every song has the name of the one that follows as the last word (And even the instrumentals had lyrics on the insert, to add to the story) | |
| Tool – Jerk-Off Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Just a piece of trivia, (And I got this from another Tool site somewhere) Live, any reference to the "Shoot you in your fucking head" line, he sings "Fuck you up your fucking ass". A seemingly more appropriate message for this day and age, if it is all about the government and their hypocrisy. | |
| Spock's Beard – The Light Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Maybe there's just the allusion in the whole "Man" idea of it. 21st Century Schizoid Man is more or less about modern man, and how dangerous he could potentially be. There may be some more references to Vietnam, because the song came out around then. The second line seems to support that statement, and the third line really cements it there with the line "He's got nothing he really needs." The Light seems to possibly represent modern man also, like a light in the "Dark times", let's say. |
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| Dream Theater – Voices Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Maybe it's a rationalization for doing something wrong, or something like that. I'm not in the right state of mind for analyzing a DT song right now, especially one this long. | |
| Dream Theater – Voices Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| The analyses I've seen here seem pretty accurate. I never really thought about what it all meant. But my favorite line has got to be "Good behaviour brings the saviour to his knees." Don't know what it means, though. | |
| Dream Theater – Space-Dye Vest Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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This song does remind me a lot of Pink Floyd. Maybe it's just how LaBrie sings it. DT is amazing. I was never into Prog until I heard of Dream Theater. Now, I'm into a lot more, like Spock's Beard, King Crimson, Porcupine Tree, and all of that. This song is amazing. This one, and Voices are my two favorites from this album. I like that section from "A Room With A View", the first part where the guy is talking. It's beautiful. I have yet to figure out why they put parts from a Fifth Estate special in there, or Late Night With Conan O'Brien, for that matter. But it still fits perfectly. |
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| Porcupine Tree – My Ashes Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| "The concept of the album was heavily influenced by Brett Easton Ellis' novel Lunar Park. The novel is told from the perspective of the father, whereas the album is mostly from the son's perspective. Many of the lyrics for Fear of a Blank Planet are lifted directly from the novel, particularly "My Ashes", which is an homage to the last chapter, in which the ashes of a cremated father are scattered and cover the memories of his life." - Wiki | |
| Porcupine Tree – My Ashes Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| The album was based around some book, I read somewhere. There's even a few excerpts from the book in this song. The book is from the father's POV, while the album is from the son's POV. Something like that. Killer song, by the way. | |
| Porcupine Tree – Sentimental Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I have never put that together until now. I recently saw Opeth's Lamentations DVD, and SW was on there. He has to be THE most burnt-out looking guy I've ever seen. He's right scrawny, and short, looking semi-conscious throughout the whole thing, playing with random objects every now and then. But he's also a musical genius. It seems a lot of people with awesome musical talent are a tad eccentric. | |
| Opeth – Still Day Beneath The Sun Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| It could be in reference to a person who had died in the midst of a fight, and who's death had sort of, ended it, could be how the title came to be. The line "Asking you who is the one?" would suggest a spirit not quite yet realizing that he is dead. The part where he says, "Near the site for one who's lost his trials" might also suggest a convict found guilty. This line also gives off a 16'th century kind of vibe, with gallows and all that. But maybe that's just me. | |
| Opeth – Patterns In The Ivy Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Part two, has to have the saddest, most sombre solo at the end. It almost makes you want to cry at it's beauty. Opeth are pretty well known for their beautiful, obscure songs, and this is certainly no exception. | |
| Porcupine Tree – Trains Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Hm, Godzuki, that makes sense. I think you may be on to something. | |
| Porcupine Tree – Slave Called Shiver Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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"When I was writing some of the songs of the album I was very much aware of this contradiction between being an artist, being a musician, trying to be creative and write songs and, then, at the point you finish an album, the music is finished, the creative side is finished, you then have to go out and sell and market and promote. And that's like a completely different experience. It's not a very creative process. It's quite - in some ways - a cynical process going on having to sell your music. But you have to do it. I mean, if a modern musician is going to survive as a musician, you have to - in a sense - 'prostitute yourself' to try and sell your music and your art. And I was very much aware of that contradiction. If you think about that too much, it can drive you crazy, you know. It's an absurd thing to be doing. That kind of led me thinking about when I was a teenager, when I was just starting out and I was interested in being a musician. And I think a lot of teenage kids have this dream of being pop stars, of being a professional musician. This 'stupid dream' of being famous and 'life is a ball and everything is wonderful'. And, of course, actually the reality is that being a professional musician is a very hard work. It can be very heartbreaking, there's a lot of disappointment, there's a lot of hard work, there's a lot of traveling." -Steven Wilson |
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| Porcupine Tree – Nine Cats Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| This sounds like one big mushroom trip. Don't listen to this if you aren't on shrooms, or else you'll start thinking of rational meanings for it, and it will ruin it completely. | |
| Porcupine Tree – Baby Dream in Cellophane Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| And where the hell is the "My lips are sealed" line? Unless the version I have had that line cut out for no particular reason, then I can't hear it anywhere. Not even a whisper of it. | |
| Porcupine Tree – Stop Swimming Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| This song reminds me of my life. I pretty much did fuckall with my life this far. I've been living in kind of a daze for the longest time, and looking back, I probably should have done a lot more.. There's times I thought about ending it all, but I usually try to look at shit from a better point of view. | |
| Porcupine Tree – Stupid Dream Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| It's all just mellotron and weird noises. Spooky. Good shit. | |
| Porcupine Tree – Even Less Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Upon reading the lyrics to the Even Less demo version, I think SW is comparing himself to Jesus. He's saying that he's wasting away from doing nothing, but Jesus did barely anything himself, and he's a martyr because he died. | |
| Tool – Intension Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| It's just all the possible outcomes of homo-sapiens, and Right In Two is what, out of all those possibilities, we've become. Right In Two is implying that we probably could have chose a better path. | |
| Opeth – Windowpane Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| It's just about a ghost. Sometimes there's a ghost in certain instances, sometimes it's gone.The ghost of a child. | |
| Spock's Beard – In the Mouth of Madness Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Spock's Beard is amazing. Neal Morse is the best vocalist in the world. | |
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