| Project 86 – Sincerely, Ichobod Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Project 86 almost always has multiple layers of meaning in their lyrics. I am a student of theology and I can tell that Schwab is also. This song contains references to the band's career as well as its spiritual meaning. Project 86 makes no effort to hide their Christianity, and those who dismiss the Christian meaning of this song are foolish. Schwab has openly expressed his disgust with postmodern Christianity and the "prosperity gospel" spread by popular media evangelists. I believe this song is both about purging ourselves of that which corrupts us and about purging our religion of those who misrepresent Christ. The violent nature of the song represents the seriousness of the need to "crucify the old man" as Paul writes. The other meaning of this song relates to Project 86 as a band. One thing I love about this band is they allow their fans to experience all their emotions in their career along with them. Just listen to Songs to Burn Your Bridges By, and you will see their anger and hurt over what happened with Atlantic Records. ...And the Rest Will Follow is about the band getting back to its roots. "We once drew some lines in black" is a clear reference to the album Drawing Black Lines, considered one of their more spiritual releases. As you read their lyrics, you will see they are always deep and almost always contain many layers of meaning. I encourage you to be open to both the spiritual meaning and the personal meaning to the band. Ultimately, we may never truly know what was going through Schwab and company's mind unless they choose to tell us directly. |
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| Family Force 5 – Dance or Die Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I agree somewhat with shalanada. Looking at this song and others on this album, I think it's a combination of sci-fi silliness and has a message for us. In particular, look at the lyrics of "Wake the Dead" and "Get Your Back Off the Wall" and I think they are conveying a similar message. For Christians, this would mean to be active in the life you live (dance) or get lulled to sleep by the world (die). | |
| Falling Up – Lights of Reedsport Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| I feel this song is mainly about the need to stop and breathe God in. We are given this opportunity during worship services, and we won't put everything else "on the ground" and let him breathe life into us. We need to be erased and redrawn. | |
| Project 86 – S.m.c. Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| JLew you hit the nail on the head. | |
| Project 86 – Caught In The Middle Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| It reminds me of my struggles as a Christian. One side of me is the one God loves to see, that desires fellowship with him. The other side God hates to see because it seeks only to satisfy the flesh. Caught in the middle is my mind. | |
| Demon Hunter – The Tide Began To Rise Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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This song is pretty easy to figure out. It is getting into sin and not realizing how hard it is to get out until the tide has risen too high. The only way out is to draw close to God, because there is nothing we can do as sinners to save ourselves. The difficult line in this song is the conclusion, which at first seems depressing, but upon review is one of the most honest and awesome lyrics I've ever seen. "If this is all the love my spirit can give, just take it back tonight. There is not a reason more to live." This is the point I have reached in my life when I felt I couldn't get out of a certain sin. It is just being honest with God, telling him that if I can't use my life for good and show the kind of love for others that Christ did, then God should just take the life back. There is no other reason to live than to show the love of Christ. God may as well take us if we aren't doing that. |
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| Demon Hunter – Undying Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| The one final heartbreak is the heartbreak felt by loved ones when a person dies. However, that's the final heartbreak because we're undying, eternal beings. | |
| Demon Hunter – On Thousand Apologies Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| Beautiful song about an extreme regret of hurting someone he cares about deeply. He says in the second verse he "feels the knife" he put in the person and his own heart became just as broken as the one he hurt. I believe this is the heart of the true repentant. | |
| Demon Hunter – I Play Dead Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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This is possibly my favorite DH song. The song is about a person who pretends everything is okay with their Christian life, but in reality are struggling or perhaps have never even had a sincere salvation. The chorus, I believe, is God's promise that he will never leave us nor forsake us no matter how many times we "play dead". The second verse is just awesome. It is the person remembering what it was like to be close to God and remembering what Christ did. "Two broken hands lift seven wounds and fight to stand to keep the lungs from caving." That's an obvious reference to the Catholic tradition of the seven wounds of Christ and the song is Christ on the cross, pushing himself up to keep his lungs from collapsing. |
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| Demon Hunter – Beauty Through the Eyes of a Predator (feat. Brock Lindow) Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| This song is about a false prophet. Someone is leading people astray posing as a good Christian, and the writer of the song can see through the ploy. | |
| Project 86 – Your Heroes Are Dead Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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One of my personal favorites by P86. This song is satire all the way around, and is a very hard one to completely get a grasp on, but I shall try. The first verse is about how people will turn against their heroes at the drop of a hat. One mistake and the lynch mob shows up ready to hang the once worshipped leader. Perhaps even a church congregation? The second verse, I believe, is a big time play on "fearless fathers" and "dollars", meaning the men whose faces are on our money all died and now most of what they fought for is mocked by the very money on which their faces are printed. Overall, the song is about how people are only satisfied with a "hero" when things are going well, and they will change their mind at the drop of a hat, including those who follow God. Our hero may have died, but he rose again! |
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| Project 86 – The Great Golden Gate Disaster Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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This is Project 86's anger song toward the record company that cut them (Atlantic I think). It's a song of realization that they made a mistake trying to become famous through one of the vampire corporate giants. It's also about the little guy sticking it to the man in some ways. Not the most Christian song, but still it's honest and from Andrew's heart, which is what makes Project such a good band. |
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| Project 86 – Team Black Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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This song refers to anything we seek to fill our emptiness outside of our relationship with Christ. In particular, the media feeds us all this information telling us that beer, sex, music, etc. is what we need and we have no right to say otherwise. Well, like the song says, whatever the object is (beer, cd's, movies, video games, women) we throw them away and look for something else, when the spring of living water is there for us to enjoy for eternity. |
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| Project 86 – Something We Can't Be Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Another song about the church and how it has conditioned us to be gnostic Christians, meaning we think it is between us and God and nobody else. In reality, without the community of faith we are not fulfilling our purpose in God's will. It's about how most Christians present a front that they're swell and happy and have no problems, when in reality we all struggle and have problems. If we'd admit we have problems and confess our sins to one another instead of being hypocrites, then perhaps the lost will see that we are not so different than them, except of course that we have a God to help us overcome our sin. "Devastate the guilt, not the guilty" When you find a brother or sister who has sin in their lives, it's not for you to condemn them. Love them and help them beat the sin, thus devastating the guilt and not the person. |
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| Project 86 – Hollow Again Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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I believe this song is totally about the church. The character goes through life fighting for his/her faith when they've been taught doctrine that's not theologically sound. The second part, "I know you can't hear me, and you won't believe me" is the character's attempt to cry out to the church to change its ways. Either the character is dying or perhaps Christ has come back and he/she believes it is too late to change. The chorus of the song is the character's hopeless belief that the church might never again become what it is meant to be. "Forever we will be hollow." Then the part "How can we open the eyes of the dead when we are hollow?" is definitely a reference to every believer's mission to seek and save the lost. Finally, the reason I believe this song is about the church, is the last part. "And all along here I was told by fallen men in their charade that I could find a hope inside the safety of this empty place." So church, let's start teaching people the right things! Our mission is to seek and save the lost, not entertain people. |
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| Project 86 – The Hand, The Furnace, The Straight Face Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| I think "The hand, the furnace, the straight face" means throwing everything in this life into the fire and keeping a straight face, not caring that its gone. It could also be comparing the salvation process to refining gold in a furnace. | |
| Project 86 – Cavity King Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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The song is about how guys bait girls with talk of love when all they really want is sex. "Bait her in comfort complete then move to kill" The red ink is the girl's love, which is compared with blood in the song as the guy is bleeding her dry, drawing in all her love when he does not return it. The quill is the guy's lust, taking the love and turning it into "curses in cursive." The last part of the song "I know you ache but she is alive" is a cry out for those guys to stop doing it. |
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