| Against Me! – Tonight We're Gonna Give It 35% Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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"I think I played the right moves. You were looking over my shoulder , as I went through the motions of another night." I think it's a lil more obvious than has been pointed out thusfar. He's making love to the girl, the 'motions of another night', and she's looking over his shoulder, not even at him. I'm pretty sure the girl is the metaphor for their music. "My heart is anywhere but here and how tired I was from the past couple of weeks, from the past couple of years, well it hit me all at once. On a balcony overlooking nothing, with snow falling all around, I called just to say good night. And you hadn't done anything wrong, really, it's me not you." And he feels guilty about it. In a sense, this is probably metaphorically about how they feel about their music now. Like their heart was less in it and they had to reconcile with it again. "Can't believe how naive I was to think things could ever be so simple. And can you live with what you know about yourself, when you're all alone, behind closed doors, the things we never said but we always knew were right there. " I think it's commentary on the assumption that they'd always be able to be on level with their music, true to every word for every day. "It's got me on my knees in a bathroom, praying to a god that I don't even believe in, "Dear Jesus... are you listening?" If this is the one chance that really matters, don't let me fuck this up. If you had told me about all this when I was fifteen, I never would have believed it. " The one chance he's talking about is his coming to terms with his changing views of the world. Can he keep singing the words he meant back then with a kind of cold shoulder for his newer views lacing each word and stinging him as he repeats the same playlist, or can he accept that his younger self was different and accept it and remember that he was true to himself then and can be now, and that in itself is meaningful? If he'd told himself when he was 15 that he would think differently, his 15 year old self never would have believed it. That's my take on all of this. It's a metaphor for the hollowness that they feel penetrates a few of their lyrics now and their attempt to reconcile with them. They changed, not the songs, and the songs still have the same heart and soul as the past group, ergo "And you hadn't done anything wrong, really, it's me not you." |
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| System of a Down – Suite-Pee Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| They're talking about how the original idea that Christianity represented was raped by the people heading the followers. They personify Jesus as a woman as a twofold method: First, it implies innocence, secondly, the 'mother fucker' lines. The heads of Christianity fucked the idea to death by bringing violence in the name of religion into the picture. I think the "die for her philosophy" is referring to the idea behind christianity as an unintentionally seductress, a lure for people to see it as non-threatening until they're to the point of denying other's right to thought in it's name. | |
| Imogen Heap – Hide and Seek Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| ^ previous statement modified, after seeing a few live videos of her on youtube I would no longer say it's even near baritone in any case, though still low O.o. Oh, and to add to the number of songs I've heard by her, that'd be about 6 so far, 2 of which are frou frou. SO I could well be wrong. | |
| Imogen Heap – Hide and Seek Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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@nonametish: Imogen has always been solo. Frou Frou was a side project/duo with her then-producer. I gotta say the way she sings this song is the most feminine I've ever heard her voice. Not meant to be offensive, she has an amazing voice, but it's almost baritone in nature in most of the things she sings, whereas this one hits such great highs. |
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| Cat Power – The Greatest Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I agree about most of that being a coffin reference, but I think it's more metaphorical than literal. "Lower me down Pin me in Secure the grounds For the lead And the dregs of my bed I've been sleepin' For the later parade" It's just the sense that the future's gone up in flames and the 'lead' referring to that mood that every time you get out of bed is a fight against yourself. The dregs likely referring to the dirt being thrown on a coffin, even the whole "ashes to ashes" thing.. So it's essentially saying "just wait for me to die, it's not like I'm going anywhere." Really depressing. The 'flood' would be some sort of realization, but thats about as far as my interpretation can go on this song. Anything beyond that is more whimsical assumption than what I think I pretty much have grounded here. |
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| Feist – 1234 Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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@lmethvin: Out of curiosity, what genre? If your direction creatively is near here at all, I'd be interested in looking you up over lastfm or the like, if you don't mind. Even if it weren't I'd be interested to at least hear it. I really love this song, Leslie Feist has a serious talent in channeling emotion into an almost conversational tone. Just like Mushaboom, the way she sings this song keeps it a simple narrative of complicated things. Even though she didn't write it entirely it fits her voice/tone really well. And..I'm glad I knew about Feist long before Apple decided to use that commercial. Music shouldn't be tied down by conventions like that (and I hate introducing a new band's music to someone and hearing "hey, thats from that [insert random car/electronic model] commercial"], though I do admit it spreads knowledge they're around...now if only more than 10% of those credited the artists in text. |
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| Every Time I Die – The New Black Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| the first few are definitely "If everything I do is wrong, then by god I'll do it right" | |
| Ted Leo and the Pharmacists – La Costa Brava Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Knowing Ted Leo's hidden references in most songs, I actually think this might carry a few references to the short story "A Clean Well Lighted Place", by Ernest Hemmingway. It seems a lot lighter in tone than the story though. | |
| Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Sealings Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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@cirquedufunk: The VG OST it's from is the one to Driver: Parallel Lines. This song kicks ass. |
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| The Pillows – Crazy Sunshine Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| to add to the above: It's also about conquering boredom and the sense of depression that comes from that "afterimage" of not having everything good. | |
| The Pillows – Crazy Sunshine Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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This my favorite Pillows song. It's about learning that the ideals everyone holds of happiness and all that aren't actually possible or true. The lines: I realized, the night of our rendezvous To have been seen in high spirits Was just an afterimage completely warped by this generation kinda summarize it well. The rest of it is basically assuring that it's all there and it's all possible, but it's not those stereotypes we see in our culture. You can be happy, and you don't hafta be some overpopular person with a "normal" everything to have that, it's just something that's there, even in the most sullen situations (giving meaning to the "crazy" part of "crazy sunshine". It doesn't always make sense to have a sense of happiness in dark times, but it gets you through them.) |
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| The Coral – In the Morning Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Oh, and I agree it's a one night stand. It's not so meaningless in the context of the rest of the album though. | |
| The Coral – In the Morning Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I was pretty sure it was "an alley cat chewin on dead meat" but I spose dead leaves makes about as much sense. | |
| The Faint – Let the Poison Spill from Your Throat Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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My thoughts are that while it IS about gossip, at least part of it is about those people who 'share secrets' with people they know are untrustworthy, basically intending it to get out for attention but trying to make it look like something horrible has happened to them. specifically, : "Or is the pain that you endure now Something you need Well, you know how to get it" and "You hate this and love that it shows You're insecure, but that's no excuse" show this bit the best. The end is a bit sardonic to me, the lines: "The people abused the trust you had And now you don't want it back " are ironic considering the character wanted it to get out subtly and ruin their friends' image of trustworthiness in the first place. |
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| Immortal Technique – Dance With The Devil Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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"..And crying out to the sky cause he was lonely and scared But only the devil responded, cause God wasn't there And right then he knew what it was to be empty and cold And so he jumped off the roof and died with no soul" Fuckin amazing. Immortal Technique >s. |
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| Nine Inch Nails – Capital G Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Trent wouldn't be that specific, especially as a concept album, the G doesn't stand for George, it's just a reference to authority. It could stand for government, good [lets not forget the 'bureau of morality' emphasized in this story], General [if it's to a degree that a military would have more control over civilian law], etc. The fact that it's capitalized like a name could mean that it implies to people it's important and necessary, like God. The terms may just blend enough to mean the same in the dystopia this takes place in. | |
| Deftones – U, U, D, D, L, R, L, R, A, B, Select, Start Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| It's called the Konami Code, it's famous because it was first used in Gradius and one of it's most famous uses is in Contra. | |
| Nine Inch Nails – Another Version of the Truth Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| While I agree with prettyhatemachine1, I differ in that the "other version of the truth" is already there. It's what the government to this point in the album's plot has been providing, the apathy provided by parepin, etc. A part of the alternate reality game that proceeded this talked about how a kid and his sister started drinking well water, and realized how horrible the world was, and then the boy was hospitalized and drank parepin water again and eventually surrendered to the drug's effect, feeling complete apathy when his sister died of tetanus and noone helped her. I think this somehow relates to it, surrendering to the more pleasant "truth" that's already there out of hopelessness. | |
| David Bowie – Bring Me the Disco King Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I've only heard the loner remix, but in that mix at least once when Maynard says "bring me the disco king" he changes it to "Bring me the head of the disco king" | |
| The Coral – So Long Ago Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Why has noone commented this? It's such an amazingly catchy song. | |
| Cake – Mr. Mastodon Farm Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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The best idea I saw of this song is on another site: Mark Daley said... Who the hell is this Mr. Mastodon Farm character? And what the hell is he doing with all those swatches? Here is one theory: 'Mr. Mastodon Farm' is NOT a parallel between McCrea's life and those 'birds that fall like stones.' Rather, McCrea is actually describing (in Cake's typically sarcastic way) the person who reads too much into everything in life. This is indicated by the narrator's need to 'get up and see' the birds everytime they drop, since they are a symbol of his 'entire existence.' He is compelled to make sure they make their 'last second curves toward flight,' because he has read so much into their descent. The refrain/chorus places this revelation beyond a doubt: 'Mr. Mastodon Farm ... cuts swatches out of all materials.' Mr. Mastodon Farm is literally taking slices of material from life and 'growing' huge mastodons out of them. The struggle the narrator faces is with himself, and McCrea pokes fun not-so-subtly at the bondage. Source: 2nd comment, http://leesepea.blogspot.com/2006/05/mr-mastodon-farm.html |
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| System of a Down – Darts Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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It's the same topic as P.L.U.C.K. the way I see it, but this end of it is how a culture by different "May i please remain in this space, for darts screach by my desires," Not wanting to say anything or step out of the crowd because of the 'darts' (threats of violence from doing so). "art thou not human man not human man art thou" That I see as coming from the other point of view, dehumanizing the culture. "life threatening lifestyles, a hitman, a nun, lovers" Hitman - Either an activist who would fight for a cause, or simply someone detached from violence enough to not care about avoiding it. Nun - The threat of violence in the name of religion Lovers - Idealists. People with a vision, and if we're talking about the same idea of genocide, the people who'd have a perfect vision of 'ethnic cleansing' making their world perfect. "clock men for they will fail, fear not the gods that come from the sky, long not for the one who've lost their way," Seems like a "don't join their ways, die with dignity as yourself" kind of statement. The last bit I can't explain thoroughly enough. But I'm assuming what it means is something like "now we become part of history like them, alogn with our ways" |
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| Harvey Danger – Little Round Mirrors Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Heh, I saw the song as completely different, and the cd's comment does make a lot of sense. I always thought of it as someone who's unable to look at themselves in the big picture without feeling loved by someone else. | |
| Ben Folds Five – Air Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I know it sounds a bit simple compared to the elaborate descriptions but I always thought it was about someone in the hospital in a coma. | |
| Nine Inch Nails – Me, I'm Not Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Either that, or it could be about AIR [Art Is Resistance]. The only reason I shifted focus to that POV are 4 lines: "I define myself by how well I hide" If you go to the AIR site and look at the "message board", he was actually someone who went out and spraypainted the outline of an body in a ton of different spots. His message only got out by how well he hid. "I can win this war by knowing not to fight" A lot of the other users on the AIR "board" argue that this is passive civil resistance and that by not turning violent they're convincing more and more to join them. That's the concept behind AIR. |
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| Nine Inch Nails – My Violent Heart Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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"our blood, our ways* will never leave this place" Sounds like "our blood, our race" to me, but I could be wrong. |
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| Splashdown – Running With Scissors Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| The last bit, in english, is a quote from the movie Jacob's Ladder. | |
| Against Me! – Pints of Guinness Make You Strong Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| The acoustic version of this song means a lot to me, it's sung with so much damn feeling...really sad song, and really amazing. | |
| Hed PE – Feel Good (feat. Serj Tankian & Morgan Lander) Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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It's missing 3 words though. "Punk. Bitch. Motherfucker." =P Amazing song. |
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| Hed PE – Feel Good (feat. Serj Tankian & Morgan Lander) Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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It's missing 3 words though. "Punk. Bitch. Motherfucker." =P Amazing song. |
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| Stone Sour – Come What(ever) May Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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@ AaronMykyta, Diabolu$, faileddesign:They switch "live" and "let" each time they ask it twice: How can we ever live this down? How can we ever let this down? |
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| A Perfect Circle – Over Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Another perspective is that it's a way to bring the album into a full loop. It's like the way they end it, as if to make the content of the album itself a perfect circle =P | |
| Tool – Lateralus Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I always thought this was "reaching out to embrace the rhythm.", not "random" | |
| The Dandy Warhols – Big Indian Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Just an amazing song overall. The lyrics are really thought provoking and true to those who understand them, and expressed really well. | |
| Raised Fist – Killing It Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I agree, though I think it encompasses more than just the depletion of natural resources too though, I think it takes a stab at commercialism in general. Specifically this line: "And for dollar bills we'll keep on drilling it." It's pointing out the reason why it's happening, commercialism, the end of sanity for a profit |
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| Incubus – Have You Ever Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| amazing song, one of my favorites. I agree with the basic interpretation, the lyrics are pretty straightforward. | |
| The Dandy Warhols – Sleep Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| It's about knowing you've lost someone, and not being able to forget them...even when you try and sleep to stop the pain of not being with them. | |
| Gogol Bordello – Oh No Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Great song, just describes how human nature can be good sometimes. In the downtrodden times, we seem to make the best of things, and act the most 'human'. | |
| Chris Cornell – Can't Change Me Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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It's that his trust is burnt out to an incredible extent, and that changes in the last bit of the song. He doesn't trust that she can honestly change him of all things, he really thinks he's way too fucked up and shouldn't be bothered with. I think when he keeps saying "She's going to change the world" he's not saying she actually could, he's just talking about her determination, sorta dismissing it. "She's going to change the world- but she can't change me." He's kinda shrugging off her determination to understand him. Every time she does something like "I can see that she's trying to read me" he slowly thinks 'maybe she can' but then ("suddenly I know") he shrugs it off again. When he starts saying he can see everything wrong with him, he's realizing she could help him, but that his point of view is the only thing he seems to have left. And then he realizes she's trying to see things from his point of view (I can see that she's trying to need me) and he doesn't want her to change into someone like him so he still dismisses her help. |
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| Audioslave – Exploder Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I presonally think he's praising the chaotic alternatives he gives in the chorus. if you're free you'll never see the walls if you're head is clear you'll never freefall if you're right you never fear the wrong if you're head is high you never fear at all If you're too free you don't see the boundries, even after crossing them. If your head has always been perfectly clear, you won't be able to deal with trauma when it eventually hits. If you're always right, you aren't prepared for being wrong. If you're always assuming like this that your're always right, and you're prefectly level headed, and then don't prepare for when something finally hits you into a downward spiral emotionally, it destroys you. "but when he smiled at me i could understand " He figured out why the 'prinsoner' was a prisoner. He'd crossed these 'walls' of right and wrong once panic finally hit him over something. "there was a daughter of a man took his life too young she swore she'd never do those things then did just what he'd done " Also referring to this cycle of self destruction that comes from assumed perfection. "and a boy whose gone insane voices in his head no one knows what they say now his mothers dead " kind of again referring to the blur between right and wrong for someone who's always been right and therefore thinks the wrong things to do are just fine because they defuse a situation. "there was a man who had a face it looked alot like me i saw him in the mirror and i fought him in the street then when he turned away i shot him in the head then i came to realize i had killed myself " continuing on the story of the first verse, from what he came to understand. I think this is more the speculation on the cycle he'd be trapped in himself, but what he 'understood' from the man in the first verse led him to realize what he'd done, just too late. One of my favorite songs overall. |
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| Chris Cornell – You Know My Name Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Badass song, and fits extremely well with the movie. | |
| Incubus – Aqueous Transmission Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Just plain amazing. Lyrics are a simple metaphor but they convey a lot deeper underlaying pattern of thought (not the only Incubus song to use this method, of course, Wish You Were Here also makes really effective use of this). Peaceful/Deep rhythm and melody accompany, really great song. | |
| The Coral – Far from the Crowd Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Title's off ;] | |
| Fear Factory – Supernova Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| One of my favorite songs. Ever. No question. It's a surprise to me that noone's commented this yet. | |
| Tool – Schism Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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My personal opinion is that it's about how conflict obscures and bias' thought. The song uses personal connection as a means to convey the idea (thats why, while it begins with the example of juxtaposed lovers, it also includes "between supposed brothers" in the cold silence line). The use of lovers with juxtaposed intentions explains it perfectly, how two lovers in an arguement point out and focus on the others' faults, their thoughts become biased and ends to that kind of conflict cannot be met without an objective view or a moment to separate one's self from the conflict. "I know the pieces fit 'cause I watched them tumble down No fault, none to blame, it doesn't mean I don't desire To point the finger, blame the other, watch the temple topple over To bring the pieces back together, rediscover communication " It's human nature, it's not one's fault to place blame on and therefore there is no blame at all for the outcome, but that doesn't mean the person who started it doesn't wish to be able to place some blame so it can be over with and everything turns out fine over time. "The poetry that comes from the squarin' off between And the circling is worth it, finding beauty in the dissonance " Rather self explanatory at this point. The argument is worth it to some end, because it makes them examine themselves. "There was a time that the pieces fit but I watched them fall away Mildewed and smoldering, strangled by our coveting I've done the math enough to know the dangers of a second guessing Doomed to crumble unless we grow and strengthen our communication " The conclusion. Talk again, or forever lose connection. You grow stronger from talking again, from the experience, but if you don't.. "Cold silence has A tendency to Atrophy any Sense of compassion Between supposed brothers Between supposed lovers " ^ Which, I might add, strikes me as one of the most impactful parts of any song I've ever heard. This part of the song filled me completely with awe, I found it amazingly powerful, both in lyric and the way it was sung/played. "I know the pieces fit" People can come together again, as many excuses as the arguers might try and come up with to separate themselves from it. |
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| Oasis – Guess God Thinks I'm Abel Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Definitely one of my favorite oasis songs, quite underrated sometimes imo. | |
| Stephen Lynch – Halloween Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| This song's hysterical. | |
| Stephen Lynch – Love Song Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Easily one of the funniest songs ever. I love how in both the Live at the El Ray DVD AND the Craig Machine the crowd starts laughing at the first line thinking they know what's coming, and he just quietly stops and starts over. | |
| Stephen Lynch – Beelz Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| agreed with Knuxman, only when hearing it can you laugh so hard. | |
| Nine Inch Nails – The Becoming Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I got a far different interpretation of this song. I view his references to pain not as problems, but as indicators of problems. So I basically think that he's talking about being afraid of his own newfound courage. "I beat my machine it's a part of me it's inside of me I'm stuck in this dream it's changing me I am becoming" He resolved an inner conflict, and while he wants the memory of the conflict itself and why it started to remain, he finds that the victory is a defeat of sorts because it's erasing the means and changing him. "the me that you know he had some second thoughts he's covered with scabs he is broken and sore the me that you know he doesn't come around much that part of me isn't here anymore" A new strength is rising in him, the result of the aforementioned change. "all pain disappears it's the nature of of my circuitry drowns out all i hear no escape from this my new conciousness" How he mentions 'no escape' implies that it's not pleasant, because he knows what it means. To forget pain in this case is to forget the source of the pain. "the me that you know he used to have feelings but the blood has stopped pumping and he is left to decay the me that you know is now made up of wires and even when i'm right with you i'm so far away" Again, he feels this inner change has destroyed parts of him, and this also hints through the use of "decay" that the damage done will have effects that last into the future (foreshadowing the end of the song) "I can try to get away but I've strapped myself in I can try to scratch away the sound in my ears I can see it killing away all of my bad parts I don't want to listen, but it's all too clear" Something seems to be telling him to move on ("sound in my ears"). He sees himself moving on, caring less, it's inevitable and it's forthcoming because it's how his mind works by nature, and he doesn't want it to happen. "hiding backwards inside of me I feel so unafraid annie, hold a little tighter I might just slip away" As the music cues to this kind of inner zen-like state as opposed to the rest of the song (and in fact, is my favorite part of the song by far because of the sudden change), the lyrics acknowledge that it's the center of the problem. I think what he's saying here is that he wants to remember the pain, to remember what it's like, to not let go, so that he won't repeat the mistake and freshly experience it again, because the pain he's talking about works in a cycle. The recurring line at the the end of the song also highlights this type of cycle, and how what he's ultimately trying to avoid his own thoughts drifting into apathy or he'll destroy himself experiencing it over and over again. |
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