| Disturbed – Sons of Plunder Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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#1 TDG fan, thank you so much for addressing the comment about the word pimping! Along with a) the awesome driving riff that is the chorus for this song and b) the overall meaning of the song, the fact that Draiman uses the word pimping is one of my favorite things about this song. To call money-grubbing major label record producers and unoriginal, little-or-no-talent hacks pimps - and to regard "pimp" as an insult rather than a compliment (which is the usual use outside of rap culture) - casts them in a revealing light. I don't think this just refers to so-called emo bands either, although Draiman's yearning for "frontmen that [sing] like men, not little boys that were backhanded too much" would certainly implicate them. In reality, the guilt lies with any musician (or really any artist of any kind, for that matter) that says something very unimportant in a very important tone. Instead of trying to provoke our thoughts, most of them simply whip out some mundane life experience of theirs (most often something to do with a romantic and/or sexual dilemma, see: most of Staind's catalog) for use as rhythmic lyrics, insert it into a good musical tune with a great beat and/or some sweet riffs, adopt the "tortured artist" persona, and crap it all out on stage and in the studio, pimping it out to us with the expectation that we'll continue to buy in, funding their egos and their lifestyles with our money and our worshipful attitude. The trouble is, the tortured artist attitude and its corresponding lyrical topics are real for some (like Disturbed, Tool, Nine Inch Nails, and Muse, for example) and fake for others; and the posers' renditions significantly cheapen the gravity of the message of those who actually mean what they say, who are not just "searching for the answers they don't even care to know." Here's what I think is the most important message in the song: If you don't have anything important to say, DON'T PRETEND LIKE YOU DO! It spoils the genre for those who actually do |
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| The Dresden Dolls – First Orgasm Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I'm pretty sure my mom would cry if she saw I was even listening to a song called "First Orgasm," let alone how often I listen to it, but despite my "bland" upbringing, I REALLY appreciate this song. I think it paints a spot-on picture of the inability of casual sex (or sex for the sake of only pleasure, at least) to help get over a breakup - maybe even to show how harmful cheap, meaningless sex can be in any context. At the beginning of the song, we find Amanda just having woken up for the first morning after she broke up with her significant other. She hates that she didn't get to sleep in, particularly since it would have been in the other person's arms. To get her mind off of the person, she decides to masturbate. She hardly even feels herself doing it, she doesn't enjoy it at all, and her orgasm comes so abruptly that it stings even more than it feels good - and she knows she won't even want to TRY to cum again. Despite the fucking intensity (NOT intense pleasure) that her orgasm brings, she's not even paying attention when it happens, because she sees some kids outside her window playing and having good, clean fun, evoking from within her thoughts of long-lost (if she even EVER had it) childlike innocence, or perhaps her own seemingly futile desire to have some children of her own - perhaps with her previous lover - or maybe both of those things. In any case, instead of grinning and glowing from her orgasm, she just wants to cry and/or rage more due to the thoughts that the children brought up in her. She tries once again to get her mind off of the person by resolving to not look for love anymore. She says her life is so busy that she doesn't need friends - let alone a lover, who would only throw a wrench in all of her own plans (because her lovers never wnat the same things as her, and thus leave her still wanting) - so she doesn't need love anymore, and she'll take care of herSELF ("taking matters into my own hands" is definitely a double entëndre, but the figurative meaning is much more important than the sexual one) from now on. She brags that she could probably last at least a whole week without anyone else's attention (actually believing at the time that a week is a significant amount of time). Moments later, she realizes she's not even fooling herself and she bursts into tears as if it's happening all over again, begging for SOMEONE - perhaps even the listener, I often feel like she's begging me - to hold her. and I usually cry with her. |
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| Slipknot – The Nameless Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Doesn't Jonathan Stroud write children's books? :s | |
| The Mountain Goats – Up the Wolves Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| pjane, would you elaborate on that comment, please? Call me negligent, but, try as I might, I can't piece together how you got that interpretation at all. I don't mean to discredit it; I'm just really curious how you got there. | |
| Regina Spektor – Uh-Merica Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Did anyone consider that "emptying a cartridge at the sun" is a custom very frequently done in the Middle East in times of a war/battle victory? I feel like that's gotta have something to do with it... | |
| Regina Spektor – Sailor Song Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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johnemint, to be frank, your idea of interpreting art completely sucks. I mean, COMPLETELY. If I were nice, I'd call you a purist; but if I were honest I'd call you a closed-minded ignorant fool. It seems crazy to me that someone whose "passion" is music (waste of time, by the way; that shit's gonna burn with everything else) would have, by now, heard of bands that write their music specifically saying that it comes with no original meaning, but should be left to the audience's interpretation; 'cause there are definitely quite a few of them now. Also, instrumental music is ALWAYS left open for interpretation; and if you don't believe that, there's no way you can be any kind of original artist - you'd have to be way too closed-minded. Also, I must say it bothers me how highly you value your own opinion, considering that several people on here have already gotten much closer to the original (not REAL, just original) meaning of the song. People above you are clearly closer to the original meaning when they say Mary Ann is a reference to the sea itself (Latin root "mar" means sea, e.g. maritime, mariner, marlin, etc.; French phrase for the sea is "la mer"; Marianna Trench is the lowest point in any ocean; etc.). If you didn't catch that, I don't think you have much qualification to be talking about who deserves to be a "true Regina Spektor fan." Besides, I've seen Regina - she's like the cutest, nicest person ever, and she thanks EVERYONE for coming to listen to her music, not just people who "get it." Finally, the word "retard" is really out of date - just like, you know, "faggot," "nigger," "khaik;" I could keep going...but I won't. I would suggest you quit spending so much time having music as your "passion" (once again, a fruitless, worthless pursuit that ultimately amounts to Jacques Shite. Stay in school, man.) and learn how to speak P.C. Otherwise, I predict you getting socked in the face in the very near future... By the way, your asshole-inine attitude is contagious; I'm not usually this mean. Thanks. >:-( |
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| David Bazan – Backwoods Nation Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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First of all, thewalrusami, you could probably benefit from trying to be a little nicer. Not everyone is necessarily as smart - or as innately cynical - as you and David Bazan. Also, not sure if you've heard, but calling people retarded is kind of not socially acceptable anymore. Harmful jokes only help to perpetuate a hateful agenda. Get wit' da P.C., yo! Second, NorthWriter, he's obviously not jumping on the "Bring Our Troops Home!" bandwagon since he wrote this almost immediately after the WTC attack, long before the occupation of Iraq in 2004. Also, MegaMan2oo6, he drops the f-bomb in Pedro the Lion's "Foregone Conclusions" on the Achilles Heel album, saying, "You were too busy steering the conversation toward the Lord to hear the voice of the Spirit begging you to shut the fuck up. You thought it must be the devil, trying to make you go astray. Besides, it couldn't be the Lord because you don't believe that He talks that way." which is such a good line. But yeah, I just wanted to let you know that. Fourth, farouhk, man, make love, not war! ElimiNATE the HATE! Next, "hate-triots" is such an effective word for nationalists. Kudos, Mr. Bazan. Sixth-of-ly, I think this song is even more straightforward if one would look at it in paragraph format: Calling all rednecks to put down their sluggers and turn their attention from beating the buggers[, so as] to pick up machine guns and kill camel-fuckers. Backwoods nation! Calling the doctors of spin and smokescreen to whip the new hate-triots into a frenzy of good versus evil, ignoring the history of the backwoods nation. Ain't it a shame that due process gets in the way of swift justice? Calling all frat boys to trade in their hazings [and] their keggers and cocaine and casual date-rapings for cabinet appointments and rose garden tapings. Backwoods nation! Finally, could someone please explain to me the "cabinet appointments and rose garden tapings" line? I assume it has to do with the presidential administration, but I don't know the specific reference. Thanks. |
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| Slipknot – The Nameless Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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My idea is very difficult to put into words, and hopefully I'm wrong about this, but: If anyone on this wall knows anything about demonolatry (or diabolatry, frequently misnomered as Satanism), you might remember that the higher-ranking demons tend to have secret names that are usually either kept completely private or only revealed to the particular individual whom they possess, and so they are often referred too as the Nameless Ones. Like I said, I hope I'm wrong about this, but Corey might be in contact with a "Nameless" demon, and if so, this song might have been written to honor that demon. It's kind of out there; but if it were the case, then it seems like he is having some kind of dialogue with "him": Half of the song seems like a desperate plea (which would be Corey) and the other half seems to be demanding, abusive, and entirely dominant (the demon). It's hard to pinpoint exactly (the interruptive style is somewhat surreal and difficult to describe) but at the beginning Corey is just sort of describing his own feelings (lower case letters) and the demon is interrupting with his own input (UC LETTERS): Pathetic/BENIGN/Accept it/UNDERMINE Your opinion/MY JUSTIFICATION Happy/SAFE/Servant/CAGED Malice/UTTER WEAKNESS No toleration Then when Corey says invade it becomes a dialogue (C for Corey, D for demon, bracketed parts are my paraphrase): C: [But you] invade! D: [Well, you're] committed [to me]! C: [I feel] enraged! D: [Then] admit it! C: Don't condescend [to me]! D: Don't [you] even [f*cking think you're about to] disagree [with me, you worthless little bitch!] :::The demon is beginning to dominate him completely now::: C: [Yes]...destroy! D: Decay! C: Dissapoint! D: Delay! You suffered then [before you had me in your life], now suffer unto me!!! :::Now paraphrasing the next stanza (the demon is still ranting)::: You're obsessed with me! You need me! Look closely at your life for a minute: Remember, every risk you ever took was only because I empowered you to. So decide right now, either live with me (let me possess you), Or give up any thought you had of ever being free (from your worthless self). Corey is convinced, and pleads: "(Don't go) I never wanted any body more then I wanted you The only thing I ever really loved, was hate" Then Corey explains their relationship a little bit: C: So, I'm not subordinate to anyone (else). D: No, you aren't. C: And I'll do anything you say. D: Yes, you will. C: In any way necessary. D: You'll even take the fall if you have to. C: But I don't belong to anybody (else)! D: You're mine! C: I don't belong to anybody (else)!!! D: Tell me what I want to hear! C: I want you! I need you! I'll have you! I won't let anybody else have you! (meaning I want you to the point of extreme jealousy) D: Obey me! Believe me! Trust me! Worship me! Live for me! Be grateful! Be honest! Be precious! Be mine! C: (desperately) Just love me!!! What follows may very well be a sexual encounter, much like a BDSM experience: D: Stay inside me, but let me take control. C: Dominate me! D: You are so utterly worthless. C: You're the only thing in my life that's innocent and pure! D: You've got a breaking point. You will give in to me. C: You're in every part of me! You're omnipresent like God! D: I'm going to rip you to shreds! (thus the sadomasochism) C: Do it! I want you to!! You deserve it!!! The chorus is just Corey professing his love for the demon again. Finally, at the end: D: (triumphantly and demandingly) You're mine! C: (also triumphantly) I know your name!!! So perhaps Corey knows his demon's real name (if any of this is remotely accurate). OK, so this all frighteningly sinister and I'd love to be wrong about it, but it seems pretty plausible to me... |
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| Avenged Sevenfold – Remenissions Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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This song is alright, but I just need to say right now that "mo money" thinks way too highly of his own opinion. I have had to stomach it several times now looking through this and other A7X songs, and I can't seem to get over the fact that, whether his take on things is right or wrong (it strikes me as most of the time being wrong), he's clearly not open to any other possibilities. [To mo money]: Man, I feel convicted to tell you that if you never become willing to compromise, you will always be stereotyped and prejudice will be held against you, and you will never be able to achieve your own full potential as an enthusiast, musician, human being, whatever. Man is fallible and by no means can you expect yourself to always be right. I'm not going to give my opinion of what this song means because I hardly ever listen to it and I don't claim to have the slightest idea of what it could mean. |
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| Avenged Sevenfold – Remenissions Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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This song is alright, but I just need to say right now that "mo money" thinks way too highly of his own opinion. I have had to stomach it several times now looking through this and other A7X songs, and I can't seem to get over the fact that, whether his take on things is right or wrong (it strikes me as most of the time being wrong), he's clearly not open to any other possibilities. [To mo money]: Man, I feel convicted to tell you that if you never become willing to compromise, you will always be stereotyped and prejudice will be held against you, and you will never be able to achieve your own full potential as an enthusiast, musician, human being, whatever. Man is fallible and by no means can you expect yourself to always be right. I'm not going to give my opinion of what this song means because I hardly ever listen to it and I don't claim to have the slightest idea of what it could mean. |
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| Blindside – Cute Boring Love Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| My take on things: "OK I Faked It" is the opposite of correct | |
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