| Coheed and Cambria – The Trooper (Iron Maiden cover) Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| This cover kicks so much ass...Travis singing in it adds a new level of badass to Coheed, even though I wouldn't trade Claudio's chops for anything. | |
| Razed In Black – Oh My Goth! Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I don't know if a lot of people realize it, but just because a song appears to mock the goth movement doesn't mean it doesn't also promote it. Gothic self-parody is very common, and it shows how secure it is in itself to allow such parody. You don't see such saturated things like the organizations of christianity satire or mock themselves, do you? That's because they're not secure. This song I interpret as someone speaking to their goth lover, and sharing in the pain fetish together. Also, "welcoming misery with pride" is common among gothic individuals. It is a sort of...how do I say it...Transcendance of emotion. Very much like Buddhist beliefs that require finding ecstasy in the most mundane or hopeless situation. I love this song. Very beautiful. |
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| Atreyu – Lip Gloss and Black Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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This song makes me think he's offering this girl vampiric immortality. Like he's telling her he has a life for her that the two can share, together, if she will accept the desolate nature. And there are probably different levels to this song, like that just being a metaphor...But it's still awesome. The rest of the songs on "Butterfly Kisses" also point to a vampiric theme, just like a lot of Atreyu stuff. Anyway, there's my two cents. |
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| AFI – The Prayer Position Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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After giving AFI's lyrics a careful study, the conclusion I've drawn is this. -"Steal the flesh back from the starving static minds." Static means unchanging, unevolving. By pointing this out, Davey means to say that he himself IS changing. Maybe not the whole band, but people in the straight-edge movement at least. Also, this seems to be related to Darwin's Theory of Evolution. AFI has a song called "Theory of Revolution." Those of the species that don't adapt perish in the change. -"Tradition ingrained, now impermissible." He continues to abstain from things that cause impurity, i.e. drugs and alcohol. He's either so accustomed to being against such things because Davey was born Catholic Christian, from what I know, that he found a grain of truth in the death of his previous beliefs. -"Stature retrieved, regain our form." This goes back to the first line I analyzed. Stealing the flesh back from the dying, unchanging minds would imply combining adaptive minds with bodies that would comply. It's a double meaning. I think, from analyzing lyrics, that the band wants to become deathless. This is an ideal from Buddhism. If one clears themselves of bad karma, or "sins," one can reach a state free of growing old, pain, or sadness. A pinnacle of existence, and a perfection. -"From nature we must stray, to clarity we'll climb. Deadly impulse seems so natural, Just look beyond it and we'll find a brand new evolution. Here begins a brand new line." This agrees with the Straight Edge theory I presented earlier. -"Pushed to our knees so let us pray, and all together we'll bring the real rain. Watch all that's wasted wash away, so let it come." It's more of a spiritual evolution than a physical one, and those that won't change, whether they be bound by stubborn and harmful religious beliefs, violent racial prejudice, or other divisions will be eliminated by more of a spiritual natural selection. "Our will be done." This is very poignant. Davey believes we ourselves are "Gods," but have yet to retrieve our forms. -"I can't help but fear, look to my species and tremble, to think that God is just...And in the distance there's a gathering that no longer seems so far away." The gathering in the distance is a society undivided and noble, accepting and expressive. Looking at his species and trembling, whether it be from Henry Thoreau or not, is symbolic of his idea that humans are "God" all around him. Or so I assessed. I hope I didn't totally get this wrong. |
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| AFI – Don't Change Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I think this song being covered might symbolize Davey's troubled heart might actually be in the process of healing, or maybe he's just content. | |
| AFI – Over Exposure Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Sweetnspicy, first of all, don't take religious material as fact on the history of the world. The world, however, as you basically said, has never been pure. But technically, if you say Eden existed, then at a time to you, there was only purity. As for this awesome song, I agree with punkpirate. |
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| AFI – Clove Smoke Catharsis Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Is it possible that this song, like the Prayer Position, relates to Christianity as well as smoking cloves? Perhaps scorning the fact that Christians believe Jesus was "pure sweetness" being offered for sin, so why does he have this "bitter taste" in his mouth about it? And that God is watching him in futility as he tries to do something impossible, only watching as he tries and laughing at him? Lord Havok is truly skilled. So many interpretations. | |
| The Vogues – Turn Around, Look At Me Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| This song plays several times in Final Destination 3. Everytime I hear it, I think of the Grim Reaper stalking some random person. | |
| AFI – 37mm Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Well, if you turn 37mm's two "m's" sideways...you get two threes...that could have something to do with the whole 3 and 7 theme that AFI likes to put in songs like Rabbits Are Roadkill On Route 37. No clue what that whole thing actually means, but it's cool, either way. If I figure it out, I'll post it here. As for the meaning of the song...I'm with Rebbal Ace. AFI sure does like to make Jesus references nowadays. |
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| AFI – Love Like Winter Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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According to Davey Havok, "decemberunderground is a time and a place. It is where the cold can huddle together in darkness and isolation. It is a community of those detached and disillusioned who flee to love, like winter, in the recesses below the rest of the world." The reason it was released in the summer, is probably because listening to it is like escaping from the illusion of summer's warmth and happiness, because after, it slowly dies and transition to Fall is made, and then Winter. Kind of like an escape, like Davey said. And this is an amazing song. The exact meaning, like all of the songs, revolves around the life and death of romance, and romantic feelings. |
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| Avenged Sevenfold – Sidewinder Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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This is just a small thing, but in the chorus of the song, It's: "You can feel my strength destroy you straight to the heart FROM the venomous bite." Makes more sense, and it's what I heard as well. If anything, snake's venom kills you by going to your heart from the bite. As for comments on the song, this is the second song of A7X I've ever heard, the first being Bat Country. When I first had heard of the band, I thought they were going to be crap, but I've changed my thoughts on the matter strongly. The acoustic solo is a terrific ending to a kickass song, both lyrically and aurally. |
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