| Meat Loaf – Bat Out Of Hell Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I think this song is about a guy in some form of gang (probably a bikey gang) who gets involved in a gang fight and ends up killing someone. He knows he'll have to pay the consequences for what he did but he cant bear to leave his wife/girlfriend/whatever. Even though he escapes the law, he is punished for his crime anyway (signified by the bell tolling at the end). I think it makes sense, but so do a lot of other ideas. |
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| Butthole Surfers – Who Was In My Room Last Night? Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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this band is not nearly popular enough. this song rocks out uncontrolably. no wonder it made guitar hero 2. its about being whacked out of your brain and thinking theres someone lying next to you. it seems so real and undeniable to you, but no one believes you, which just makes it worse. |
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| System of a Down – Suite-Pee Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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What people need to do here is stop bickering, and do some half decent thinking here. Listen to the song while youre reading the comments and the lyrics. This is the conclusion i came to: The song is about the emergence of christianity. Before christianity came along, one of the predominant religions was PAGANISM (sorry if i misspelled). Pagans worshipped WOMEN (the constant mention of religion as a 'her' in the song). The song describes the way that christianity spread at its creation. Even the actual music, the guitar starts off high pitched and happy and then suddenly gets dark and heavy. i dont remember who said it but i once saw a quote that said 'the best way to make a religion, is to confuse a group of people and offer them a solution to their confusion in the form of a religion'. This is the 'out of body experience' that the christians had ('her name was jesus'). They spread the name of Jesus Christ and offered it as a solution to the problems of the world through stories like the story of Moses and the plagues, david and goliath etc. But then, shit got worse. The lines "Crossed and terrored ravages of architecture, lend me thy blades, We’re crossed and terrored ravages of architecture, hoist around the spade." describe the work that was done for the sake of god and religion, and the wars that were faught ('blades' and 'spades'). The lines before those ones however i believe are more significant. They describe the rapid descent into the dark side of christianity that occured: "Try her philosophy, Try her philosophy, Try her philosophy, try. You die for her philosophy, Die for her philosophy, Die her philosphy die." At first, jesus and christianity were seen as the light at the end of the tunnel, but eventually it was turned into a sinister and dark method of manipulating and commanding the masses, and anyone who didnt conform was killed ('Die for her philosophy', see the 1486 book called The Malleus Maleficarum, or 'The Witches Hammer'). The verse "Die.....die......die......why......lie naked on the floor And let the messiah go through our souls, Lie naked on the floor and let the messiah Go all through our souls, die, like a mother fucker, Die, like a mother fucker, die, like a mother fucker, Why, like a mother fucker" describes how jesus-based religions took over the larger part of the world, it was almost like posession. The whole 'mother fucker' thing eludes me. Personally i think that because it is always used in conjunction with killing, it is a reference to the condemnation of the pagans by the christians/catholics/whatever and the whole 'witch hunt' thing. "I wanna fuck my way to the garden" to me refers to the garden of eden, or more accurately the garden of eden as a representation of paradise or heaven. It means that people at the time of the emergence of christianity would do anything to get a one-way ticket into heaven. The last verse refers to the result of people following jesus. It lead to 'the falling of christ'... their own efforts ended up biting him in the ass, as they do today. the religions of today have strayed from their original intentions. In summary, the song is a satirical perspective on the viral nature of the spread of christianity and other god and christ based religions, and the consequences of their existance. The entire message of the song is summed up, i believe, in this verse: "The following of a christ, The following of a christ, The following of a christ, The following of a christ, The falling of christ, The falling of christ, The falling of christ, The falling of christ." This verse portrays the inevitable contradiction of religion, how the infinite different interperatations of it will only inevitably lead to its downfall. 'The following of christ' is juxtaposed with 'The falling of christ' to make them seem like the same thing, which they are. Though not directly. Christ has fallen in the sense that he 'died', but also in the sense that many christians have strayed from his original message, which no one can argue with: 'the world would be so much nicer if everyone could just get along.' |
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| Silverchair – Anthem for the Year 2000 Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| And then theres the rest of us who don't fall in to any stereotype. If you say you belong to a stereotype or mention stereotypes when describing this song you've missed the point. It's about the awakening of youth, and the realisation that the worlds gonna be ours one day very soon and that if we don't "fix it", that is, "Take the fascism away", no one else is going to. Its not about all the different groups of stereotypes its about youth as a whole, black white yellow emo skater nerd hacker everything, the whole package, and about how we will throw out everything our past generation has dont wrong. It is not a song about angst, it inspires hope in me. It's a very strong 'welcome to the future, hang on to your hat, were here to stay' sort of song. It is as the name implies an anthem, and even thought its name is 2000 it still applies and will always apply to our generation and the generation after us that rises up and tries to fix all our cock ups. | |
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