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| The Beatles – Glass Onion Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I don't think this ones really about anything, I think he was just having fun with his old song titles. Though all the songs he references were songs written about drugs (or at least heavily acid influenced in the case the The Walrus)... |
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| Thursday – Asleep in the Chapel Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I think its about using religion as a crutch to keep sane, as well as using it to justify violence. Not necessarily and anti-religion song, just anti its misuses. |
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| Thrice – A Subtle Dagger Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I'm an extremely strong atheist, but that's irrelevant...you need to be mature enough to realize that Thrice sings about religion in quite a few songs.
I would argue with Dustin here that it is much, much more arrogant to think that there is a God who created the universe just for us and sits up there and watches us than it is to say that we are just animals, but whatever. |
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| Thrice – Blood Clots And Black Holes Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I think it deals with an "ignorance is bliss" kind of sentiment. "A severed head as a sedative" is like not having a brain and thinking about things will keep you happy. |
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| Against Me! – Impact Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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Great song. This is my favorite part:
"can you hear the dream at night marching
in the sky? marching with god, throwing
stones across the ocean."
A reference to the American Dream and the Manifest Destiny (well at least the religious idea behind it). |
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| Against Me! – Exhaustion Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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This song is obviously about all the people who abandoned Tom because he writes a different style of music now, and how little he cares about them. |
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| Streetlight Manifesto – A Moment of Violence Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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This probably isn't what it was really written about, but I feel like this entire song is about an average citizen living in Soviet Russia.
He feels "deplored, ignored, and self-assured" because they were expected to be part of society and nothing else as individuals. The "ones with everything have nothing inside" refers to the machine like government. This government claimed to be for the people, but really they just took what they wanted and exploited people as much as the czars they hated did.
The next 2 lines of rhetorical questions address the soviet government. "I'm losing faith and I'm running low on things to say / So I guess I have no choice but to regurgitate / The tired anthem of a loser and a hypocrite" is about how easy it was to be thrown in jail for participating in the "counter-revolution" in Russia if you didn't actively participate in soviet social activities.
Then the part about "the west" addresses how the western world really doesn't know anything about communism - at least here in America, most people here communism and think of it as it soviet russia is how communist theory is supposed to be, not realizing the evil of the USSR was the despotism, not the form of economy. |
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| Streetlight Manifesto – A Moment of Violence Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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This probably isn't what it was really written about, but I feel like this entire song is about an average citizen living in Soviet Russia.
He feels "deplored, ignored, and self-assured" because they were expected to be part of society and nothing else as individuals. The "ones with everything have nothing inside" refers to the machine like government. This government claimed to be for the people, but really they just took what they wanted and exploited people as much as the czars they hated did.
The next 2 lines of rhetorical questions address the soviet government. "I'm losing faith and I'm running low on things to say / So I guess I have no choice but to regurgitate / The tired anthem of a loser and a hypocrite" is about how easy it was to be thrown in jail for participating in the "counter-revolution" in Russia if you didn't actively participate in soviet social activities.
Then the part about "the west" addresses how the western world really doesn't know anything about communism - at least here in America, most people here communism and think of it as it soviet russia is how communist theory is supposed to be, not realizing the evil of the USSR was the despotism, not the form of economy. |
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| Neil Young – Rockin' in the Free World Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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It's a satirical song about America. We talk about how we're the free world and the greatest place in the world, but we still have endless wards and homeless children and such problems. The chorus is obviously sarcasm. |
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| Neil Young – Rockin' in the Free World Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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It's a satirical song about America. We talk about how we're the free world and the greatest place in the world, but we still have endless wards and homeless children and such problems. The chorus is obviously sarcasm. |
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| Against Me! – White People for Peace Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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You guys realize that this is a cover, right? Look up Ben Lee.
I think the title White People for Peace refers to the fact that all of the corporate leaders and PNAC and everyone who massively profits from the Iraq War is in fact white, but not all of us are a part of that. |
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| Nine Inch Nails – With Teeth Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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It's ridiculous obvious to me that this is about some kind of addiction. At first it is great, you feel better, it does awesome things for you, be it drugs or whatever. However, the addiction comes "with teeth." After time roles "the roles have reversed" and the addiction controls you. |
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| Nine Inch Nails – Something I Can Never Have Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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Great song, the ending with all the thundering kind of sounds is so emotional...
I don't know what Trent was talking about, but this reminds almost exactly of the relationship I have with a girl I know. |
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| Nine Inch Nails – Down in It Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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The first time I heard this song I was positive it was about falling deeper into drug addiction...he starts out with only the great feelings of using, but then begins to experience the darker side of addiction, eventually losing himself and what he used to be.
Probably wrong, but I feel like it fits. |
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| Linkin Park – Bleed It Out Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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I take this song to be about the songwriting process. As a musician myself I have been through hundreds of times where I wrote a song the best I possible could, putting everything I could into it, only to get to the end and realize it sucks and "throw it away" |
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| Black Flag – TV Party Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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I think this song is part of their sense of humor...they play a type of music chategorized almost entirely by its political views, so they sing about drinking and driving and TV parties.
I suppose it's also a bit of a social commentary too, but not a particularly serious one. |
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| Nirvana – Something in the Way Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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I love this song...probably my favorite Nirvana song even though everyone calls it filler.
I definitely think its about something more literary than literally living under a bridge. |
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| Black Sabbath – Sweet Leaf Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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You realize that the 70s and 80s came after the 60s right? How could there not have been songs about marijuana?
Just read the verses, this song is obviously not about cigs. I've never heard of tobacco "introducing me to my mind" or "giving to me a new belief." |
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| Brand New – Millstone Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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Damn. Amazing.
Yea its pretty obvious what its about. A reflection about how he used to be a good kid and did everything he was supposed to do, but he has changed a lot. |
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| Otep – House of Secrets Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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The second I heard the yelling in the beginning and saw the title I knew this was going to be about child abuse. |
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| The Beatles – Glass Onion Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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I don't know if its really about anything, as much as it was a cool idea to write a song about all their other songs. |
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| The Beatles – I Am the Walrus Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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Like most people said, it isn't about anything...John took 3 different songs he was writing, combined them as well as some random things he wrote down during acid trips and other random rhymes and stuff.
This was his response to fan mail he got about a teacher making students interpret Beatles' lyrics in class. |
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| Nightwish – She Is My Sin Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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I take this song to be about cheating on a loved one.
Dressed as one
A wolf will betray a lamb
Refers to the common image of a lion laying with a lamb, but in the song one ends up betraying the other.
The razors on your seducing skin
In the meadow of sinful thoughts
The person he or she is cheating with is beautiful, but they know is it wrong to do it.
To paradise with pleasure haunted by fear
Sexual pleasure, but fear of getting caught/sinning.
This is just how I interpret it, I could be wrong. |
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| System of a Down – Needles Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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I still think its about drug addictionn. The tapeworm is a drug that has taken over his life, and he only acts now to get another fix. |
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| Fear Factory – Replica Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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I agree with the rape idea...
"Every day I feel anymous hate" because he doesn't know who it is who raped his mother, but he hates him. |
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| Fear Factory – Pisschrist Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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The ending of the song leads me to believe its about something a little deeper than just "God doesn't exist lol!" |
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| Divinity Destroyed – Forsaken Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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This song is actually about absolutely nothing. I was listening to a radio interview with Mark Ward, lead singer of Divinty, and he said most people think this is about Jesus or a fallen angel, but he actually wrote it after he dropped a watermelon in a supermarket. |
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