| From First to Last – ...And We All Have a Hell Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| this song IS about a stalker, but you're all missing the point. The most important lines are the first two. He describes his dilemma, his hell. It's not gross, its just another part of human nature. It's actually ONLY considered gross in a religious context, and that would be applying an irrelevant context to this song. This song is about moral struggle, with society. Clearly, the character in this song is obsessed with the girl. Clearly, he knows that he cannot have her for whatever reason, but, none the less, he takes her. When he says, "I did a beautiful thing" he doesnt mean raping the girl. Obviously, thats a vicious crime, but, THINK! what makes that a vicious crime? Answer: firstly the girl doesnt have the desire to actually have sex with the chracter, and secondly, people have been so conditioned and repeatedly told to believe sex to be immoral, dirty, VICIOUS. this, however, could not be further from the truth. the act of love making, of giving and creating life, is a beautiful thing. The only perversion here, is seeing it as otherwise. AND, the only reason any such crime exists is because of the social context of sex. For example, if religion and law were more tollerant of sex acts, there would be less sex crimes. BUT, NOT BY THE OBVIOUS MEANS. there would be no sexual repression, no one would indulge in sexual acts, they would only do what is natural, not vicious, but natual. This song is about the character being forced to stalk a woman like prey, and take her as though he were stealing. It shows the percersion of society and morals. | |
| Radiohead – Creep Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| this song is quite possibly, one of the saddest songs ever. To me its about insecurity and the way society raises people to think and act. People are told from the moment the're capable of listening that they have to ammount to something, that they have to strive for excelence, and that they have to be comparativly superior. Everyone admires beauty and intelligence and sex appeal, but no one can have all these things. Some people have none, which leaves them thinking that they did something wrong along the path of life that led them to their situation. They would give anything to become the people they look up to. They dont care if it hurts they would kill themselves, redefine who they are to be something admirable. This is commonly known as an inferiority complex. This song has nothing to do with suicide, and social disfunction, or love. It has to do with imperfection. It has to do with the average person and the feelings that get out of hand and spill over when the world turns its back on you. These are the feelings just bellow the surface, that boil over when someone is rejected, thrown away, or told they aren't as good as everyone else. In the song, the character feels out of place because he is being compared to everyone as though he is worse. He doesnt belong here, because he is so unlike everyon; so much worse. At least, he thinks so and has been convinced so. He doesnt blame the people around him, however, for making him feel this way. He takes the blame and can only wish to become someone special, just like the angels around him. He is the only person with his feet on the ground in a world of angels, he is the only one that gets his feet dirtied and hands muddied crawling on teh ground while everyone else floats by, glowing. He cries at the thought of perfection beacuse he knows it is something he can never have. He chokes at the thoughtconfrontation because he knows he is being judged and cannot cope with the silent ridicule. He screams at the thought of abandonment because it is all that he knows. He doesnt have fear of pain anymore, because he is made into an animal willing to give his life for "better people". He is striped of humanity by everyone around him and degraded into slavery and is convinced of his inferiority. He is born dead. This happens, everyday, to everyone do different degrees. This is a song about everyone, but not everyone are so well aquianted with these feelings as the singer. This is one of the saddest songs i have ever heard, because i can relate to what he is saying. I know what its like to be thrown away or rejected, and never be given a chance. I know exactly what its like to look up to everyone and wish that for just a second you could join them, and be ready to give everything u have to realize this dream. I know what its like to know that you are worse than everyone else, and have it reafirmed and proven again, and again, and again. This is the most beautifully written song i have ever heard. | |
| Marilyn Manson – The Speed Of Pain Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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I think this song was written about a relationship, in the superficial sense. Obviously its about some other person, someone special to Manson, but the feelings he describes arent necessarily about the relationship or how it ended. When he says "When you want it, it goes away too fast. Times you hate it, it always seems to last. Just remember, when you think you're free, the crack inside your fuckin heart is me." he could be talking about the constant give and take of life. Everyone has crappy days and days that are just perfect, but everytime you activly pursue a day like that (the "day" is just a metaphore, it could be a relationship, any event that someone can pursue) it never comes out the way u picture it, and u end up having to "outrace the speed of pain". Also, he could just be talking about the girl he broke up with and the time he spent with her, or the breakup and how much it tortured him. If u hear the tones and beat of the music when he's saying Lie to me, cry to me, give to me, I would... Lie with me, die with me, give to me, I would... it doesnt match, at all. The music is bittersweet in the sense that it goes from major to minor chord and a very distorted and dissonant bassline make a huge contrast for a bittersweet sound. It sounds almost like a 50's rock song with the traditional chord progression, but the contrasting tones and dissonant sound creates a mockery of the normal sound of music, and gives the music an ironic and sick deeper meaning. Most songs about loss are just about the loss itself and sorrow, not coping with it or wishing it on other people. this song is perfectly crafted in the way that it captures the feelings and actions of a tourtered soul. The restlessness and feeling of dispair and deprevation: "I wish i could sleep, but i cant. Cuz a knife in my back fro everyday ive known you" This captures the horrible feeling of time wasted: Every second i spent with that person was a second i was wasting and another second building up to this loss and pain. Also, there is hope in the end of the song when he says "at least we'll die holding hands", which could mean two things. Either they are connected by their loss and pain and torment and are the only people that can understand eachother, but ironically hate eachother. So they are holding hands, in the sense that they understand, but the hate has killed them. It doesnt matter that they're holding hands; they're dead. Also, it could mean that they still love eachother but the animosity and loss have put such a barrier between them, that only death can connect them. It's such a good song, i listen to this song everytime i'm down or depressed because even if i cant relate to his situation, the feelings are so tangible and real, that I have to appreciate this song and manson's ability to catpure man's most primal and deep feelings. |
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| Nine Inch Nails – Right Where It Belongs Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| i think this song is talking to the listener, not any specific person, but just using the third person point of view. I think its about people being arrogant and to quick to judge, when they themselves share the fallacies they speak against. Also, it questions the seemingly concrete, "what if you could look right through the cracks, would you find yourself, find yourself afraid to see?". It asks the listener to transcend the superficial and look "through the cracks" into themselves. No one knows who they are, and they spend their lives criticizing, and tormenting others when they should be fixing themselves. The lines refering to people living in dreams reenforces the thought that people are drifting through their lives, oblivious to themselves, and who they truly are, seeing only what they want to see. | |
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