| Depeche Mode – Sweetest Perfection Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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It's about heroin. I would think that it's only using heroin as a reference to something/someone else, if it wasn't for a few lines. "When I need a drug in me And it brings out the thug in me Feel something tugging me Then I want the real thing not tokens" -Heroin addiction, during the very beginning stages of withdrawal feels like a "tug" from inside. He wants the real thing, heroin, not tokens. Tokens in this case being pills containing opioids such as vicodin, Tylenol 3, suboxone, oxycotin, etc. "Things you'd expect to be Having effect on me Pass undetectedly But everyone knows what has got me" -Tolerance with heroin addiction is IMMENSE. What one seasoned user takes just to get high could just as easily kill a handful of men with no tolerance. He's taking an immense dose, and feels nothing. This isn't because he was 'ripped off', but simply because his tolerance is so high. Everyone knows that he's addicted. "Sweetest perfection An offer was made An assorted collection But I wouldn't trade" -Trading life experiences for the drug. |
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| De/Vision – New Drug Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I screwed up on part of that last submission. The voice in the background is a countdown. I was just hearing things. Nonetheless my opinion on the song stands. It sounds almost like the song is about a woman, but if you read closely it's definitely heroin. Never heard a more poetic and graceful song about heroin. |
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| De/Vision – New Drug Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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This song is about heroin. "I lost my sight when I got stung" means that he lost sight of himself, his ideals, and his aspirations when he injected heroin, or was "stung" by a syringe as he puts it. Also, during "Do I slide into vice // Till I'm gone?" you can hear a voice in the background. The voice repeats this line three times, "It's heroin. It's heroin. It's heroin." The last instance of the repetition is the easiest to hear. The next verse explains the feeling of heroin. The third verse explains coming down off of heroin, going into withdrawals, and 'being in hell'. "I can't get you out of my mind, I see still I'm blind." He's saying that now that's he's done heroin he can't stop thinking about it now. His aspirations and ideals are still being compromised, and he's 'blind' because of heroin. "I can't get me out of this hug." I believe this is a reference to addiction to heroin, which is usually called having a 'gorilla on your back' (a play on monkey on your back since this addiction is so overwhelming.) |
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| Seabound – Hooked Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I think that this "alien experience" that Ag00n is speaking of might be a woman as well. But I also found something else within the song that makes me think that he might be singing about an addiction to morphine or heroin. First off, the name of the song is "Hooked". This could be a reference to an addiction to heroin or morphine. "Pounding heart you shake me ... Take my word I'm trembling for I know what I have felt." - There is shaking during withdrawals. Now he could be nervous around a woman, but I think that in the context, "been so close to an earthquake", inspires imagery of more violent shaking. "Take my hand and lead me To a place For us to melt Into one another" Morphine or heroin is made into a solution (I won't say how), but it's done essentially by melting it. Then it is put into the person, or, "into one another". "Think the inconceivable Desire the untouchable" Probably a description of the ecstasy felt from the heroin or morphine once it's injected. "I've come to understand that bliss Is quite impossible and if I'll ever find a way I'll claim another life" He looks back and realizes that the drug isn't giving him a true bliss. If he can break the habit he'll start his life over again. "I've come to understand that kiss Was quite impossible and if I'll ever find a way I'll halt the turn of time" The true kiss of bliss isn't possible. But if he could he would stop time while feeling the pleasure of the drug. "Pounding heart awake me I have never been so far From the shore Waves mount up around me Still I don't want to go back" I think this part makes the best argument for this song being about heroin/morphine. Opioid users generally aim to dose at the "nod" where it could be described as being in an ocean of pleasure, and the user wants to stay in an ocean of waves of comfort. He doesn't want to come back to the 'real' world. "Loving heart believe me Your sincerity will Give me the strength to Work my way through the sea Memorize the words you said" He knows his inner strength will grant him the strength to stop using. He will no longer go back to the "sea" again. He wants to memorize his words of strength that will lead him to sobriety. Now my interpretation might be entirely off, the song might be about a woman. But it's not far gone at all to personify an object of love as a woman. And in this case the object of love very well may be heroin. (The person derives happiness from the substance rather than from social ties, and the like. Thus it might be seen as some sort of destructive 'love'.) |
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| Assemblage 23 – Sorry Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Like Trent was walking about, this song is about people that take pride in being depressed. As if being depressed makes them higher and better than the rest of the world. It sounds like since many of his newer songs aren't as depressed as they once were some people were complaining to him about it. I like his new album, great music, great lyrics, and very creative as always. |
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| Apoptygma Berzerk – Cambodia Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Her husband probably went MIA in Cambodia. I think the call coming through, not seeing his face again, only one thing left, etc. means that they found his corpse and were shipping it back. | |
| Assemblage 23 – Damaged Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I believe this to be a song of him thanking the sufferings that he's had to endure throughout his life. He's happy for his past pains and sufferings, because they've given him wisdom. This has a very nihilistic existential feeling to it. That is, he sees suffering as not only something that must be endured in life, but something that is favorable to have in life. Of course no one 'loves' suffering. But people can certainly be thankful for the wisdom that they've gained through their sufferings. |
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| Zeromancer – Doctor Online Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| The version of the song I have is, "If you would like to make a reservation at the end of our drowning pool, please press three." NOT to 'visit the dorwning pool'. I think that there may be two different versions of the song. But there is no mistaking, my version absolutely says, "at the end of", not "visit the end of".(No mistaking something that sounds so VASTLY different.) | |
| Assemblage 23 – Bi-polar Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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This is about bipolar disorder. The extreme ecstatic highs(hypomania/mania). People in this state feel as if everything in the world is right. As if(as he so poetically puts it) "The landscape rises to meet my feet The sky descends to fill my arms For once I finally feel complete For once I know I can't be harmed" As anyone in a hypomanic/manic state would tell you, that is basically what it is there. They often will sleep 3 hours a night while in this state. They'll feel extreme grandiousity, as if they're the smartest or most insightful person in the entire world and that they're doing the work of a dozen people. "I hate my life I want to die I was just pretending all this time A mask I wear so I don't bare My soul to the cold, harsh world out there Try to prevail but only fail Each time on a grander and grander scale My life is worthless and so am I I hate my life I want to die " And the hypomanic/manic episode ends. No longer is the sleep cycle at around 3 hours a night. It usually crashes to 8-10+ hours of sleep a day. He makes strides(try to prevail) while his mood is up, but then he doesn't quite get there and in the depressive episode this is seen as an obscene failure. See "Cocoon", another song by him to understand more about his bipolar disorder(it's another song about his dealings with it). "All I know is light and love I feel that I could live forever While others' troubles seem to grow I have no problems whatsoever" And the depression ends. He's feeling great again. Most likely sleeping 3 hours a day again. He feels as if he's immortal. These manic episodes are the reason that people with bipolar disorder often discontinue their medications, because this ecstatic high is just too much to leave behind. "The epiphany that came to fall Finally helped me reconcile What I felt wasn't joy at all All this time it was just denial" The bipolar cycle continues yet again into depression. (Note: Most people here do NOT have bipolar disorder. Most people DO feel happy at times and sad at times. This is a severe psychological illness.) |
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| Assemblage 23 – Cocoon Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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The singer of Assemblage 23 has bipolar disorder, Zaguis is correct. And that's what this song is about. "Even though I know it's only chemical, these peaks and valleys are beginning to take their toll." -- He's talking about the violent highs(manic episodes) and the extreme depressive lows(depressive episodes). And he's getting tired of being up and down all the time.(Most bipolar people are, thus the completed suicide rate of ~10%-20% amongst people with bipolar disorder; compared to the normal population rate of about .01%) He realizes that it's only chemicals in his mind that are causing his extreme ups and downs, but he's powerless to control it. "Try to convice myself that all it takes is time. But the most derisive voice I hear is mine." -- This is about what he tells himself during his depressive episodes. That it'll go away with time. And the voice that brings him down the most is his own. "It opens all the scars on me It leaves me shaken in my belief It takes my hand just to drag me down It makes me a stranger in the crowd" -- First three lines talk about his depressive episodes, and how he realizes that it's by his own thoughts that he's brought down. It makes him a 'stranger' because most people don't understand what it's like to go through bipolar disorder. "Give me isolation just for now I feel a hard rain coming down I promise that I will be back soon But for now I'll return to my cocoon"-- He's entering a depressive episode. He wants to be left alone for now until his depressive episode goes away. He likens it to a cocoon because he crawls inside his little hole in his depression. But like a cocoon, the depression fades away(the cocoon opens and the butterfly emerges) and he either will be normal, hypomanic, or manic. "There is thunder in the distance and the sky grows gray. There is lighting in the clouds in search of prey It's not a matter of if as much as when The clouds will break and the rainfall will begin" -- It's not if he is or isn't going to go through yet another depressive episode, it's when the next one is going to come. "Cracks in the chrysalis spread out like tiny snakes That hiss a litany of rumors and mistakes But I'm afraid their cause is fraught with futility There is nothing more that they can take from me"-- In his depression he looks to his past and has extreme regrets. He feels as if he's being destroyed(the cocoon won't hatch). |
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| Nirvana – Lithium Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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I just thought I'd clear up some things about bipolar disorder. Lithium first off, is not for violent people, nor violent bipolar patients. It's a mood stabalizer, and that's all that it is. Doctors are very wary about perscribing it because the therapudic dose(the dose to help you with your bipolar disorder) is so very close to the LD-50 dose(dose at which you have severe health complications or die). People who have bipolar disorder do indeed have two polar extremes. But it's not really just happy and depressed. The happy, or manic episodes, can go further, and where thoughts once went fast and you were happy; now thoughts are racing and you become confused, you have so much energy but no output for it and you become irritable. You're confused, irritable, and you may even be experiencing psychotic symptoms(hearing voices, having delusions). This is when many people with bipolar disorder may become violent. They might not. Usually after a manic episode they become very deperessed. This might last days. Weeks. Months. The only savior from this extreme depression is a short relapse into normality, or another manic or hypomanic episode. This is why people with bipolar disorder have a 15% COMPLETED suicide rate. To compare. Three out of every twenty-five THOUSAND people will complete suicide. If you have bipolar disorder you have a 3 in TWENTY chance of completing suicide in your lifetime. Bipolar disorder has one of the highest suicide rates of any psychological disorder. |
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| Marilyn Manson – Doll-Dagga Buzz-Buzz Ziggety-Zag Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Wow. Marilyn Manson is well read, eh? All the goose-step girlies - A reference to nazism, goosestepping was the nazi march. Goose-steppers are the nazi-military boots. Swing and heil, I don't really care what gentlemen prefer. - I'm begining to sense a song most likely about the masochism/sadomasochism scene. "Bonafide ballers, so manically depressed And manically dressed" - Now this isn't exactly about what I've been thinking about. But manic-depression is a psychological disorder now known as 'bipolar disorder'. We got our "Venus Not In Furs" But "In Uniforms." - And we have a song about masochism and sadomasochism. Venus in Furs was a book written by Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch. It was about a man named Severin who was in love with a brutal woman who wore ermine furs and took sexual pleasure from enslaving, beating, and humuliating men. And he took sexual pleasure from the pain she dealt him. And this talks about a Venus in uniforms, which is another big part in the masochism fetish. Many masochists enjoy nazi-esque fetishism when being 'tortured'. It goes on to talk mostly about doppelgangers, etc. A doppelganger is German for 'double', specifically, a 'copy' of a person. Hitler was rumored to have a doppelganger. At this point he may be pointing out how so many people tend to copy one another rather than find who they are individually. |
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