| Porcupine Tree – How Is Your Life Today? Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| The entire album Lightbulb Sun seems to be centered around a break up, with this song being about the day the girl left him. Did anyone think that the taxi wasn't for him? It seems as though the song begins some time after they split, and he's sinking into depression as a result. In the second stanza, he's remembering the moment she left - perhaps the "kiss on the cheek by a cold mouth" means that they split rather peacefully and/or she plans to stay friends but he knows that he won't see her again. Looking back now, he knows he was right. | |
| Porcupine Tree – Where We Would Be Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I doubt the person he's talking about has died, there's no real hint at that and it works perfectly without a death involved. It seems to be about two close friends (most likely a guy and a girl) who became separated in one way or another because one of them or even both of them began to change. I've been there as I'm sure most people have and it sucks. I get the idea that their split wasn't exactly friendly, perhaps he tried to hang on while watching her go through changes that led up to her ditching him completely. Despite this, he still cares for her and years later, after not seeing her in so long, he is reminded of her and wonders if she too misses what they had and if she'd be willing to bring it back. |
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| Porcupine Tree – Shesmovedon Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Pretty obvious what the song's about, I just got out of a relationship like this myself. Six months together to be taken for granted and ditched without a care after everything, very similar to what NickBush said. Ah well lol. Two small things I didn't like about this song... the sudden accidentals at the end of the first two stanzas kinda caught me off guard and sounded totally out of place, the guitar does the same thing a few times as well if I remember. That and the line "she's moved on" sounds too rushed. Just my opinion, all around though I enjoyed it. |
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| Porcupine Tree – Fear of a Blank Planet Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| In regards to my comment above, the drug is Mogadon, not Modadon. My bad lol. | |
| Porcupine Tree – Fear of a Blank Planet Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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From what I hear, Jack's lyrics are slightly off My face is Modadon Curiosity is good enough for me I'm turning down desires Pills are on the rise Modadon being a hypnotic used to treat insomnia. Turning down desires also makes more sense with the preceding line. I'm through with pornography The acting is lame The action is tame Explicitly dull, arousal annulled. I'd also go with rocinante's lines on bipolar disorder. |
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| Porcupine Tree – Four Chords That Made A Million Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Did anyone else think of the Beatles when they first read the title of the song? | |
| Pendulum – Hold Your Colour Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I mostly agree with ashes, however I think the message is a bit more harsh than that; when I listen to this song it reminds me more of a person's struggle to keep their integrity intact. When everyone else around you seems to be changing, giving up their own beliefs or giving in to something they once stood against, you may feel like its "soaking through" to you, and you're "fading gently". This song tells the listener to "Push in the knife... Open your eyes." In other words, deal with it. At the same time, however, the lines "Hold your colours against the wall, when they take everything away," tells you not to give in, that there's something unique and valuable in you that noone else can take away. This also goes along with the lines "She looked into your eyes, and saw what laid beneath," implying that there's other people out there that will like you for who you are and understand you. Seems like no matter how you look at this song though, there's lines that don't quite fit. The change of pronouns obscures the meaning of "We're reaching out and to take you, nothing else can touch me." And "The circle is complete" doesn't really make any connections in my head. "Fading gently, soaking through" could also be a reference to dying, more specifically murder, as violentavioleta already touched on. All around great song no matter what it means to you. |
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| Dream Theater – Finally Free Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| The consistency of "Open your eyes Nicholas/Victoria" makes sense that the hypnotherapist is the miracle reincarnated... However when I first heard the TV broadcast I thought of the miracle, as he's mentioned as being a senator in the cover notes which led me to believe he had died somehow. Perhaps Nicholas, before actually awakening, is picturing himself watching the news reports of the miracle's death? But that raises the question of what happened to the miracle. Doubt that's the case but its something I've been thinking about. | |
| Rush – 2112 Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Spoiler warning :P This song is a lot like Anthem, by Ayn Rand, as MasterDuncan03 mentioned. Anthem takes place in a futuristic city, although the technology is greatly held back by their societal structure, in which everyone is indoctrinated to work for the greater good of humankind and almost every trace of selfishness has been eliminated. In the book, the main character wanders away from the city to a tunnel left behind from the "Unmentionable Times" and begins scientific experiments, against the law, with stolen equipment from the House of Scholars. He eventually discovers electricity and manages to produce light from the heat of the wires. He takes his invention to the House of Scholars but is criticized and, before they could arrest him, he escapes and flees to the forbidden "Uncharted Forest". This of course, is a lot like Temples of Syrinx through to Presentation. The rest of the story is different in some ways. The character, along with a girl who he had fallen who tracked him down, begin to realize that solitude is much better than they have been taught. They find a house left from the Unmentionable Times, and at the end of the book, the main character is planning to come back to to city and recruit his old friends who he know would be faithful, and form a new city that everyone would be helpless to resist coming to. Not quite the hopeless circumstances as the character in 2112 faced, but there's still a few consistencies. The Elder Race can be a representation of the character in the novel, who plans to bring back the ways of the Unmentionable Times, when humankind didn't base their living entirely on selfless ways. Perhaps the conclusion was taken further by Rush with the line "Attention all planets of the Solar Federation. We have assumed control", implying that in the end both character's beliefs soon became a reality. Apart from that, The Oracle and Soliloquy don't quite relate to Anthem in any concrete way. And that's my rant :P |
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