| Project 86 – A Text Message To The So-Called Emporer Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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"KrillXIII, my god you took that way to literally and should be slapped. Learn what a damn metaphor is and THEN decide what song meanings are." To be clear, I haven't decided the meaning of anything. If it wasn't clear to you that my post was an opinion that is subject to change, improvement, or being entirely discarded, then I will make it clear now. There is no need to be rude because you have a different interpretation. As a final point, I'm not sure how the posted interpretation implies that Schwab is a Communist. In fact, it points to the opposite, although that depends on whether or not you assign a positive connotation to "cast stones". |
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| Project 86 – A Text Message To The So-Called Emporer Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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It's about the uprise of the poor and downtrodden workers. The poor who have "for too long cast aside, stripped of dignity, opportunity", spent "countless sleepless days in underestimation". So now the poor, the "The have-nots" are "calling in the listless wind Whispering for retribution" "From the bottom where you left them", at the bottom of society where society has left them to hunger. "So onward friends from our battered homes" The impoverished live in homes that are poor quality (not being able to afford better) "Forward to the onrush of cast stones, crushed bones And the gallows" Calling for the downtrodden to overthrow their oppressors. It ends on an ironic note. I think it's a commentary on Communism. Our sympathies lay with the downtrodden up until the last two verses, which are where Communism comes in. Communism sees the obvious social inequity and calls for the workers to rise up in violent revolution and to "cast stones". Basically, I think it's both indicating the problem of poverty, but also the irony of solving it via Marxist solutions. |
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| Project 86 – Independence Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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It's about homosexuality. "Turn your back on the obvious facts and watch the city gnash and burn on you" The city of Sodom. "now the lifestyle's evidence too" Speaking of a homosexual lifestyle. "You're so proud of your arrogant mindset of lusts unspeakable, continue to drool" Gay Pride day, the adoration of sexual lust (which happens in straight culture as well, mind you) "Your rainbow's a symbol" I think this one is pretty apparent. "And now you want to try to separate independence from your bonded state?" Wanting to seperate from the state they were created to be in. "Worship your created self with unnatural debased states of mind" Once again, the pride in an unnatural homosexual lifestyle. "Uncleanness assumes an image that's reflecting the faraway cry from creation" Humans were not created homosexual, which is a "faraway cry from creation". This is just me pointing out what I think the lyrics say, not an expression of my own views. I think it's pretty apparent it's about the desire of homosexuals to gain independence and worship their own lusts as good things. |
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| Project 86 – Pipe Dream Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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"Downhill downtrodden left a slave New day on the verge to find the GRAY Floors swing and slope downhill to bring MIDDLE GROUNDS set on wavering TWO SIDES to flip and coax a brink" "Off to buy HALFWAY" "I'm not willing to MEET IN THE MIDDLE End tragedy solve the riddle And dissipate IDEALS OF INDECISION" "GRAY fades to late" "What's right not BALANCED" "You're tripped by intent to STRETCH Searches coerce a MESH But find no chance to clench against Facts still remain unbalanced" "I'm no longer the same as the HALFWAY days" "Cause that RELATIVE STANCE is inadequate" "It's dark or it's light so decide and face Dark So decide and face Light So decide and face Dark So decide and face Light So decide" It's about the writer's movement away from an old ideology of shades of gray, stretching and meshing beliefs to "meet in the middle". They realize that there aren't shades of gray. Just "dark and light" and thus learns that we must "decide and face" the consequences of our decision. |
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| Project 86 – Sad Machines Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I disagree, mavrikz. This song is about the problem of evil. In relation to the Judeo/Christian God, this is "An ageless question, universal They’re asking why" Why, if God is almighty, all knowing and perfectly good and loving, does God allow for suffering? "Now so many wonder why it is So much has gone awry in all of this" So many people look at the suffering in the world. "These cries, this agony, injustices, suffering" and "they say if You are real then take it away". They conclude that God must not be real because if God were, God would take all the suffering away. The problem is that they see the suffering in the world from the wrong lense. They don't see them as "Symptoms of a larger disease Inside of me and you and me So try to close your eyes and make it fade away But open and you’ll see This stain is you, this stain is me" The Fallen nature of man is not apparent to them. They think people are basically good and that all this suffering has not been caused by us, nor is it our responsibility. "Seemingly undeserved is your lot But generations past and you forgot We chose to eat our fill and fell to not" Ultimately the Fallen nature of the world is also an indicator of the Fallen nature of humans, and the guide that indicates that we need something greater and infallible. We need God. "This pain is here reminding us to turn and leave To come back home Pointing to show us the way" |
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