| The Dear Hunter – The Lake and the River Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Yes, I know that she is the mother. But I'm speaking metaphorically, she seems to be the reason he continues to try to learn more about his past, she is the light in front of him. But forget me saying she is his god. | |
| The Dear Hunter – His Hands Matched His Tongue Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I think this is about him still wondering where he's come from, the smoke in the sky is a metaphor that he can't see the sun... that he has no enlightenment. He wishes to go to the lake, simply to know more about everything he is. Ms. Terri feeds him lies which she also seems to believe in, and knows that when things come to be that everything she said was false, she won't have her lies to believe in. And he goes dry as well for she's been using him. | |
| The Dear Hunter – The Lake and the River Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Amazing song. I think it's about him leaving the land of the river and the lake, as it says. I wonder if Ms. Terri is the god he talks about in the last stanza, it says she's a light in front of him, who follows him? Maybe, maybe not. | |
| Menomena – Evil Bee Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| So yeah, taking them all as a whole, the lyrics are probably written in an agnostic format since none of them are heavily religious anymore or even sure if they agree with it. | |
| Menomena – Evil Bee Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I have actually emailed them recently, and this is their reply back: Hey Mitch, Thanks for the nice email. We were all raised in Christian homes, with varying levels of repression, so I guess you could say a lot of the spiritual content on the album reflects this upbringing. Now we're at three different levels - one agnostic bordering on atheist, one non-denominational bordering on agnostic, and one non-fundamentalist christian. So, it's still there whether we like it or not. And the "rot in hell" thing is a figure of speech, but I suppose you could read into it more deeply, based on the previous sentences of this email. Thanks for caring! best, Danny / Menomena |
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| Menomena – Weird Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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"how I sincerely feel, here" as in how he feels in the present. This goes back to both The Pelican and Wet and Rusting, those relationships of the other taking all that he has, and her running away from him when things got hard... he was always trying to catch up. |
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| Menomena – West Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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It should be "Initial it with someone special" the way you initial a hear in a tree with two letters of one you love. :) I'm really lost on this one though. What's the west? Maybe this is about the "war" in Rotten Hell, Running, and My My? I think that once this "future" occurs, he wants her to initial the tree so she'll always remember the past, or the good times. And not the bad like how "the people of the future" will remember only the bad times and betrails. |
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| Menomena – Running Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| This expresses the whole symbolism of togetherness from the previous song, Rotten Hell, "Hand in hand, shoulder to shoulder, some may stumble, some may fall behind." Like a war. Or maybe genocide... | |
| Menomena – Boyscout'n Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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It's "I can't believe I lent my hand to help destroy a helpless man Maybe it's a long shot now, but still I say Should my soul survive this fall Then I pray if I pray at all That I could catch my breath and come away unscathed." In this song, I think he's trying to be a god, or just someone with incredible power. |
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| Menomena – Evil Bee Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I think that the "With this ring" line is wrong, I think it has something to do with marriage, "With this ring, be my to thee", that's wrong, but something like that. I think this song has to do with the previous song as well, he previously says, "Should my soul survive this fall, then I pray if I pray at all," well he obviously lost his soul. So now he's a machine. And now he's wanted and and useful, exactly what he wanted to be in Boyscout'N. Almost as if maybe when he did that, he became God... "my whole world is your property." |
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| Menomena – Air Aid Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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"People of the future won't remember names But they're betrails (something else after)" I think this song is how people will only recognize people that have died or those still alive by their faults and not things they've done right. |
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| Cursive – Dorothy at Forty Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Gigolo - predator | |
| Cursive – Dorothy at Forty Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Happy Hollow is split up with 4 different types of people. Dreamers, schemers, preachers, and predators. Babies - schemer Dorothy - dreamer Big Bang - Tim (none) Bad Sects - preacher Flag - schemer Dorthy 2 - dreamer Retreat! - Tim (none) Sunks - preacher Conception - predator Science - schemer Fold - predator Rise Up! - Tim (none) Hymns - (none) |
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| The Mars Volta – Vicarious Atonement Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Demonizing. I can see your reflection. He is she. As mentioned in the last song, she consumed him and now he is one with her has his words are rasped through her throat. Thus, the bones are weak when she's nearby because he becomes one with her, dependant, weak, or even ill. ILL. River Ganges is mentioned in Day of the Baphomets. | |
| The Mars Volta – Asilos Magdalena Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| An obvious hunt for Jesus, one who offered his blood (and bread) but obviously, never got it. A follower of Satanic ways, the narrator holds a knife in hopes of meeting with this god. | |
| The Mars Volta – Meccamputechture Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Amputechture is the effect of losing something. In this case, that something is Jesus. Because of it, churches rose, religious systems were built, and false ideas were inflicted upon people. For one, women lost much of their dignity because of the bible, a male-dominating story. Severing the breast. Any god or superior being is a philistine, a force against any other intelect or artistic abilities other than itself. Satan was the one who tempted the humans to learn, something so evil, something so creative. Wittiness is a bad thing nowadays. We are ornaments on God's arms, nimble and close to falling off, losing faith, as he amputates his own arm. Amputechture. Amputee. God amputates the arm we live on, leaving us humans behind. The holiest of water would destroy Satan, one who could offer the humans things they could only dream of. | |
| The Mars Volta – Day Of The Baphomets Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Although there is a deeper meaning behind it story-wise, the song is basically dealing with opposite forces combined to make something neutrual. Baphomet is a standard for other uses of karma, yin/yang, dark/light, opposing forces. Thus, many lines sounding like utter oxymorons, example, put a muzzle on the lamb. It's about keeping ideas stable, not biased. | |
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