| Younger Brother – Train Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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What I heard: "I feel my heart slow, as we wander I don't bow down Nothing left undecided, upon steel on steel Through these cuts in the Earth No question who was here first" ... (unsure - "in care of"?) "an emotion Alone in crowds just like me I fell between the moments, I fell between the beats As rain runs around the windows, Nothing here is still All the patterns colliding, Through these villages and hills" ... "No one can help me now Help me now Stuck in this moving train" |
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| Thrice – Don't Tell And We Won't Ask Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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"drink from this cup a better life awaits us all you're one of us remember conscience comes before the fall your actions all are justified" When I heard this for the first time I immediately thought of people using their religion to justify their own lives. People who believe that the "better life awaiting" means that our actions in this life lack meaning, and that they can do whatever they feel like because they're going to a better place after it's all over. Like knowing you're getting an ice-cream after you finish a boring task - you'll do the job half-assed to get the reward. |
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| Thrice – Image of the Invisible Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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When I heard the song I didn't immediately assume it referred to some relationship with God or what-have-you, but rather about how each person has a soul and that science hasn't yet explained how we are conscious: "We're more than carbon and chemicals" "Free will is ours" "We're emblematic of the unknown" I took "We're more than static and dial-tone" similarly to "carbon and chemicals" in that our consciousness isn't necessarily just electricity and neurons. "we all are named and we are known" says to me that we are all people who have identities, not just some anonymous clump of cells. "though all the world may hate us, we are named" I understood this as a grim reminder that we are destroying the planet with pollution and whatnot, and that we value our individuality and personalities higher than our environment. "though shadow overtake us, we are known" I saw this as furthering the last line, in that we don't seem to care that we are fucking everything up, because we're people with lives, personalities and needs. A shadow overtaking could also be a dark cloud of smog choking a city. That said, I am not a religious person, which sort of explains how I interpret the lyrics. I think it's great that most of Thrice's songs have alightly ambiguous meanings, as it shows us that no matter our religion, we can all get a moral meaning from something. |
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