| Queens of the Stone Age – The Sky Is Fallin' Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Umm, soo... Firstly, Dave Grohl is rock n' roll royalty, and his presence on this record was fairly obvious if you listen to most other Queens records... in other words, Dave is a igh impact drummer, whether or not you like him. Grohl also left to re-record One By One, and tour with the Foo Fighters. By his own accord. secondly, gueveralives, it's pretty damn obvious this song isn't about Jesus. JC did not "see only wrong," and certainly did not hate. He actually love with all his heart. This song is about despair, and its uselessness. Those who believe the sky is falling have their eyes closed - they cannot truly see. They have no idea what they're talking about, like gueveralives... Every post he says the sky is falling, but his eyes are closed to the truth. |
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| Queens of the Stone Age – No One Knows Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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This song is about Hell, and the choice to abandon God. That which is holy is ordered, there are rules to follow, but, Homme says, no one knows the beauty of chaos. We get these pills to swallow, a generally unpleasant thing - but they taste like gold, a symbol of wealth. Suffering leads to beauty. No one knows the beauty of suffering as Homme does. "I realize you're mine/indeed a fool am I" is a reference to the realization he belongs to the devil, now. He has traveled through "the desert of [his] mind with no hope." He has pleasantly caved in and come undone. the last verse is most telling however. If heaven smiles above him, he must be below. He has reached hell. it is most definately "what a gift here below," if you listen, thank you michaelk, and no one knows it like Homme does. A gift only satan can give to him that no one knows. So, yeah, most definitely devil worship. |
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| Nine Inch Nails – Only Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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This song is about hell. Real hell - not fire and brimstone, but complete alienation, from God and others. |
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| Taking Back Sunday – Cute Without The 'E' (Cut From The Team) Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| showmex3, you are quite possibly the dumbest individual to post on this thread. | |
| Lamb of God – Now You've Got Something To Die For Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| intelligent. | |
| Lamb of God – Omerta Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Does it have to be one or the other? Maybe, and I might be stepping on some toes here, Randy is smart enough to do both in one song. Judas Iscariot betrayed Christ and broke the law of Omerta, appealing to the law against his fellow man. For that, he had to perish, and Randy juxtaposes that story with the mafia code. |
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| Lamb of God – Redneck Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Yeah. It's definitely about country music. | |
| Lamb of God – Remorse Is for the Dead Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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This is about the Abu Ghraib prison scandal. The conditions of the prison deteriorated as time came on... hence, the stink being piled higher and higher. Also, there's the whole "if these walls could talk, they would tell a horror story" bit. The place had things going on it in it so detestable they could base a horror film off of it if they wanted to. then there is the violence - "your beatings will contine until my morale improves" sounds like something one of the sick bastards in Abu Ghraib who used to abuse prisons would say, along with "violence is not an abhorration, it's a rule." they show no fucking remorse, they believe remorse is for the dead, and it's despicable. |
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| Lamb of God – Pathetic Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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"Somewhere between illusion and denial You drown in your own sympathy Profound, at least you thought so at the time a ghost of who you used to be..." I'm sure that's it... Also, it's "keep talking, it crumbles around you." |
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| Paul Simon – Graceland Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Graceland as an album is sheer, unadulterated brilliance. The song was written after his second divorce, and Simon decided to go back to the basics, sort of reground himself, and his music conveys this. He makes the pilgramage to Graceland, visiting the home of the man who brought this eloquent bastardation of blues from the africans and made it accessable to the white man. He strips his music down to the african root, and regrounds it while he regrounds his life. it also works in that he has stated numerous times Graceland is "heaven"; the trip to Graceland is a pilgrimage, a religious trip, a return to from whence Simon's music came. |
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| Scary Kids Scaring Kids – The City Sleeps In Flames Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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the "emo spin" you refer to is exactly why it isn't just capitalizing on an event. They took something tragic and they showed, well, me at least, the way people responded to it - "I said your name and you looked the other way..." and the way people feel about it "because these are my last words, and this is my last breath/I'd give you everything if there were something left." these guys have something to say, something worth saying, so calling them "sellouts" is a perhaps a halfbaked proposition? |
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| Foo Fighters – Ain't It the Life Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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This is a song Dave wrote after the second album, he left Los Angeles and moved back home to Virginia; The band was in a fairly interesting spot because, as Dave said in an interview with guitar world magazine "we had been released from our record label Capitol Records after our second album, which was our most successful album yet. we were just a band without a deal-friends who made music for the sake of having a good time again. It was a really great place to be. As sappy and cliched as this sounds, it really did remind me of why I did this in the first place." and anybody who bought the dvd "skin and bones" heard grohl say he wrote this song about moving back to Virginia. |
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| Scary Kids Scaring Kids – The City Sleeps In Flames Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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in a recent article by "God's Girls", when someone asked steve and pouyan if the song was about 9-11, he said "totally wrong, dude. It was more about the social changes happening at that time." next time you feel like acting like a pretentious prick, check your facts before you do it. |
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| Red Hot Chili Peppers – Throw Away Your Television Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Well, Anthony also did massive amounts of drugs, so I think we're okay too. | |
| Taking Back Sunday – I'll Let You Live Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I believe the song to be, like terrible__things..., about a man who loves his best friend... "The first degree was a riot" basically means their friendship has been a blast - his first memories of her are "a riot" - hilarious. He's not ashamed, but he's trying - he's not ashamed of the constant efforts to get together with her, even if she constantly denies him. He's come to expect her standards, mainly, in men. "you've settled for less and I'm sure you'll settle again." is fairly self explanatory, and brilliant. then, he changed his mind. he "gets tired, of waiting, the guilt subsides" - the guilt he feels about not being good enough for her. Yet a part of him knows his "gutting her out" (still pretty damn sure it's "gunning you down") is not what she deserves, so He'll Let Her Live. Then of course, is the whole "good friend" bit - she disapproves of his feelings for her, but understands them. |
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| Indigo Sled – Assassin Monkey Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I think this song is about how people weild their "gun"... That is, the power they have over another. Almost like in "Cute Without the 'e' (cut from the team)" by TBS when he asks "and will you tell all your friends you've got your gun to my head?" It's the assertion over power over another inherent in relationships. There's also this nasty bit about his "pathetic self loathing", and her (I assume it's her) finding humor in it. Maybe he thinks she's lead him on? Maybe he thinks she doesn't know he gave her false hope. It is, after all, the hope that starts the broken hearts. Great song. This should be the title of their LP. |
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| Scary Kids Scaring Kids – My Darkest Hour Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I'm pretty sure it's "the longest night, my darkest hour", not "the luck is like my darkest hour" Just a guess |
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| Foo Fighters – Best Of You Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Amazing somg by an amazing band, about the most basic emotion and the inability to properly convey it - unrequited love. He starts off the song admitting he has a confession to make - he's her fool. If they were already in a relationship, he woudn't have to confess it, he wouldn't have to own up to anything. He's confessing he loves her. As for the "chains to break - holding you", Everyone has inhibitions about admitting their true emotions. only, some people are willing to break those "chains" or inhibitions in order to truly be happy. they were born to resist, not be abused. As for someone getting the best of you, That means, I believe, someone has garnered your love, but is unwilling to return it. "Are you gone and on to someone new" is simply a reference to the fact she is gone for him, she loves another, they can never be. "I needed someone to hang my head, without your noose / you gave me something that I didn't have, but had no use" is a reference to basically how bad it sucks to have unrequited love. He didn't have unrequited love before her, but It's a completely useless emotion because he knows he'll never be with her, and it blows. "I was too weak to give in, too strong to lose" is a reference to the fact he's too weak to let her go, he refuses to (He's too strong to lose). His heart is "under arrest" (broken), but he "breaks loose" is a testament to the indecisive nature of his emotions. He wants to let her go, it hurts to think about her, mostly because she'll never truly understand him, but he can't do it. You see this with the too weak to give in, too strong to lose. You can feel it in the riff during the verses - even the riffs are indecisive, scaling up and down. "My head is giving me life or death, but i can't choose" is just a testament to the aformentioned, as is "I swear I'll never give in, i refuse" and then the most important part of the song, the fact that the speakers faith in his future happiness is completely gone, due to the pain he feels, he would die to heal his broken heart. You can tell this is unrequited love from two very telling lines in this song, first being "I've got another confession to make..." and the other being "the hope that starts the broken hearts". He hopes for, pines for her, and when he is dissapointed his heart is broken. The song, interestingly enough, bears close resemblance to "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock... firstly, both are confessions of unrequited love both exaggerate their crises both display a pathetic inability to properly convey ones hopes and dreams - "not once does the speaker actually tell her he loves her" both shun Freytag's pyramid, as most modernists chose to, hoping to display real life occurances more accurately. Even the riffs show no general order... I could go into greater detail, but this is what I've got time for... This is just my interpretation, but I have the feeling it's the right one. |
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