| Skillet – Rippin Me Off Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Have you ever thought you're ripping off the world with your untrue message of Christianity? I used to be a Christian too, and I used to feel that fury of "They cant believe in a loving God/ Who doesn't believe in atheists!!" God gave us reason, not religion. Jesus of Nazareth was an amazing individual; the miraculous fabrications that have been added to his "factual accounts," however, are revolting. Maybe there is a god, maybe there isn't (I personally believe it is logical to conclude that this universe is the result of Intelligent Design). But to ascribe to the belief of there being such an insecure god who felt it necessary to go to the extents of institutionalizing a heaven and hell for those who do and do not "accept" or "believe" in him is pretty humorous. |
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| Skillet – One Real Thing Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I'm not a Christian anymore, but I still love this song, as well as the rest of the "Alien youth" album... It just had meant so much to me "way" back when. Yeah, it would be nice to believe there was some god who was so real and so caring in a world that seems to not care much at all. "Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know." - Michel de Montaigne "Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favour." - Robert Frost Sorry, I'm not trying to bash on Christianity or religion; it's just every now and then I mournfully reflect upon the religion that had meant so much to me, which has turned out to be just as mythological and preposterous as any other. |
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| The Beatles – Because Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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i know it sounds like they were totally high when they wrote this. And, it wouldn't be any surprise to learn that they were. However, this song is incredible. "Because the sky is blue it makes me cry." Come on. That just strikes me so deeply. Simple, yet haunting. Simple, yet beautiful. Simple, yet profound. The sound they combine with the lyrics is mystifying. Gotta love it. |
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| Līve – The Dolphin's Cry Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Classic song! | |
| Līve – Selling The Drama Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I've willed, I've walked, I've read I've talked, I know, I know, I've been here before hey, now we won't be raped hey, now we won't be scarred like that ... A-feckin'-MEN!!! As a former Christian, i completely adore this song. |
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| Līve – I Alone Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Totally an anti-religious song. It's awesome the way it's written and sung. | |
| Līve – All Over You Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| haha, this song is totally hot. | |
| David Gray – What Am I Doing Wrong? Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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So morose! So sad! So true... David Gray's always so right-on with this stuff. |
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| David Gray – Flame Turns Blue Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Much agreed, CorrieStrandjord. :) Such a good song with which to start the day. |
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| David Gray – Smile Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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THIS SONG IS AMAZING. From my understanding, it's pretty much one of the worst forms of unrequited love. It's like you cared so much for the other person, who led you on about as far as a person is capable of doing so, only to leave you to figure out it didn't mean much of anything to them. "Something in your eyes that make (he doesn't say makeS) me smile, oh yeah." SO depressing. The pain he evokes through the quiver and misery in his voice is completely riveting. I wake up in the darkness Its more than I can stand I'm reaching out to touch it It breaks up in my hand I've never known the headlights To shine so cold God, I wish I could marry this David Gray man! |
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| David Gray – Wisdom Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Definitely! Eva Cassidy's version of "Autumn Leaves" is my favorite. This is such a damn good song. Time no good Wisdom no good Patience no good...to me anymore. Hell of a good song; completely comforting when the other person in a relationship can be difficult to work through a problem or whatever with. The edge Gray unleashes in this song is perfect. |
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| David Gray – Now and Always Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Completely agree, AthenAltena. ;) The combination of the creativity of his music and ingenuity of lyrics is simply captivating. |
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| David Gray – Now and Always Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Ah, like his "Nos da Cariad" song, it's another "we're in it together" ~against the ignorance of the world~ kind of song. Lovely, lovely. Good depth and sincerity. | |
| David Gray – Sell, Sell, Sell Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I love this song. I'm still trying to figure out if it's both religious and political... I think it is? | |
| David Gray – Let The Truth Sting Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Brilliant lyricism here - love it. Questions lighted questions Burnin' holes into my head Hanging like shadows o'er the sun Staring out like the eyes of the dead And sometimes my soul flickers When the wind of change blows cold Over the mire of repetition Down the corridors of rigmarole What I say, what I think What I put down in ink I'm only trying to find a way to understand And I mean no harm I'm just searching for calm In the storm of mankind Prima. |
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| David Gray – As I'm Leaving Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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"Through the water, through the rain." This seems to indicate that the relationship or whatever became shaky, a good fight was put up, and the tragedy of it seems to pour down upon the person leaving it (whether they really wanted to or not). Perhaps the other person became so distant that it simply became a standstill, and so a non-closure kind of ending might have had to take place. And it's "mumbleD strange goodbyes", haha. |
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| David Gray – As I'm Leaving Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I believe it's about letting go of someone, as in a relationship. From what I've experienced, it seems like a perfect explanation for the meaning of this song. As I'm leaving A change comes on my eyes These streets persuading me With mumbles strange goodbyes And through the water Through the rain To the soul of everything Throw my heart out On the stones And I'm almost gone "Throw my heart out on the stones, and I'm almost gone." It seems to me like a relationship that went to waste, or faded. Ah, it's so heavy. So tragic. So beautiful. |
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| David Gray – As I'm Leaving Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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It's "Through the water, through the RAIN." This song is so good. Depicts the last year of my life perfectly. "And I'm almost gone... 'Most." I thought I'd never be fully "gone" when it came to this one guy, but I finally was able to move on. And there's no meaning In clothes and coffee cups Cheap hotel furniture Where silence never stops David has such a fluid way with words. |
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| David Gray – Flesh Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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This is probably the most jubilant love song I have heard in my life. The music accompanying these lyrics is absolutely perfect, making it one of the most optimistic (even to someone as cynical about love as me), unfettered illustrations of genuine joy found in "true" love. Bravo. Bravo. |
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| David Gray – Folk Song Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Oh God, this song is amazing! It's like the perfect antithesis to his "Flesh" song. "Let the devil go free!" ...So much soul! Such a raw and powerful conveyance of love's treachery! Bow down, bow down... D-Gray is the man. |
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| David Gray – Disappearing World Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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We’re threading hope like fire Down through the desperate blood Down through the trailing wire Into the leafless wood I think this song - in a way - is a continuation and more happy resolve to his "Ain't No Love' song. I'll be sticking right there with it I'll be by your side Sailing like a silver bullet Hit ‘em ‘tween the eyes Through the smoke and rising water 'Cross the great divide Baby till it all feels right It's a realization and acceptance that we are all we have got - there's no afterlife, and that we need to make the most out of what we get, making every moment in our lives filled with as much meaning as possible. Appreciate the beauty. Love those who matter to you. Here and now is all that matters, so take hold of it. This is one of my favorite songs of all time, not just one of my favorite DG songs. It's very melancholic and beautiful, very powerful. Reminds me of my favorite R. W. Emerson quote: ("To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.") Ah, David Gray once again leaves us mesmerized by the poise expressed through the creativity of his musicianship and profundity of lyricism. |
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| David Gray – Dead In The Water Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Definitely anti-religious; I absolutely love this song. | |
| David Gray – Ain't No Love Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Thank you very much. :) btw - meant to say "I've said my piece" ;) Much agreed, much agreed, bryon41. The sort of naivete you point out is an important element indeed. This song is such a beautiful atheistic ballad. No matter how many times I may listen to it, it still haunts me; I believe it solidly depicts the tragically tantalizing aspects of life. |
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| David Gray – Ain't No Love Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Just have to add one more thing... "That old familiar fear that claws you Tells you nothing ain’t no good Pulling back you see it all Down here so laughable and small Hardly a quiver in the dirt" ... Oh, tear my heart out, David Gray, pick it back up, smack it around some more, throw it at the wall, jump around on it a bit, then give it back to me, why don't you! I couldn't let this sit w/o talking about this part, too. I'm not putting down what you had to say at all, Jag, but I think it IS an awful realization...one of those "realizations" that you have deep inside of you, but then someone else articulates it, and you're like, "Damn!" You know they're so right, and you can't say anything. Kind of speechless. Just..."damn." Alright, I've said my peace. mjohnson10@whitworth.edu |
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| Enya – Anywhere Is Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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To me this song is about religion/life. As life keeps going on, the character here is trying to figure out what everything's all about. Maybe the character is trying to find or hear from a higher power/ God, but to no avail: "I wonder if the stars sign the life that is to be mine and would they let their light shine enough for me to follow I look up to the heavens but night has clouded over no spark of constellation no Vela no Orion." An experience of discovery: "I walk the maze of moments but everywhere I turn to begins a new beginning but never finds a finish I walk to the horizon and there I find another it all seems so surprising," Trying to understand the direction and purpose of this life, seeking for truth: "It's either this or that way it's one way or the other it should be one direction it could be on reflection the turn I have just taken the turn that I was making I might be just beginning I might be near the end. " But despite all of the searching, the character is trying to live in the moment and still enjoy life for all that it is, while keeping the big questions and ideas close at hand: “To leave the thread of all time and let it make a dark line in hopes that I can still find the way back to the moment.” However, I can’t quite articulate my feelings or thoughts about the chorus. For me, there’s something so intangible about trying to describe it, yet it makes so much sense: “You go there you're gone forever I go there I'll lose my way if we stay here we're not together Anywhere is.” We’re all in this together, trying to figure this thing called life out. “Anywhere Is.” How could someone come up with such a phrase? Very unique; very colorful; very true. - songbird101@hotmail.com |
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| David Gray – Ain't No Love Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I really like Jag’s interpretation and description; I do think there are some things he discusses in the underlying theme of this song. However, I believe The Sas Man has a better grasp on the true content here. (And, as much as we like to try to interpret songs, we could always be way off. Take the Beatles for example: They were high, not deep in thought! So, I’m just throwing in my two cents.) Anyway… What a poignant and tragic song. The Sas Man picks out the most important line and states what it all really comes down to: “Something is guiding him in this song - if not God - what?” That is exactly where the focus lies. The song is so poignant because for those of us who have separated ourselves from the many beliefs of the world to look at life beyond the concepts formed by religion, the conveyance of emptiness, a melancholic bitterness, and the overwhelming sense of solitude are made tangible (not quite the word I’m looking for, but it’ll have to suffice for now). Only a truly creative and talented artist could portray/ effectively communicate such profound, emotional reflections. There is no question of there being substance in these lyrics. The song is so tragic because it is “the truth [that’s] loading” (from his “Disappearing World”…hang in there with me) for him, the realization that we really have no great figure beyond our world that is generating love and guidance towards us. Maybe there is a god out there (this is more me, not David Gray), but if there is, it sure seems to have left us on our own. So what keeps driving us? What keeps us trudging through all of this heartache and pain? What is the purpose to this existence of ours? And, is it really possible to come to the conclusion that we really aren’t as special or significant as we thought we were? We want to believe that there is a purpose. We want to believe that there is always something “out there,” watching over and caring for us when nothing else in this world seems to. We want to believe that this whole thing called life, existence, the universe, and whatnot, wasn’t just some big accident. And, how could it be? How could this amazing and beautiful life all just be chance? Then my mind wanders in the direction of…Is this really as great as this life gets, with no greater thing beyond us to look forward to? Is it really possible that there could be some greater thing out there just observing us, without wanting to interact with us? One of the most depressing parts of the song – I think – is: “Some days I'm bursting at the seams With all my half remembered dreams And then it shoots me down again I feel the dampness as it creeps I hear you coughing in your sleep Beneath a broken window pane Tomorrow girl I'll buy you chips A lollipop to stain your lips And it’ll all be right as rain.” This portion of the song shows how life just seems a process we all experience and try to struggle through together. We cling on to one another because we are all we have got; we’re each other’s heroes. We try to make the experience of living as wonderful as possible, try to discover and create things that make it seem worth our while. For some reason, the broken window pane seems to me a representation of how we build things to protect ourselves and keep us going. But, just as the window pain is broken and lets the cold and dampness in, allowing the opportunity for one to become ill, so are so many aspects of this beautiful yet sad world imperfect and flawed. The chips and lollipop are the little simple pleasures we get out of life that make it seem not so bad, but the fact that the half-remembered dreams, coughing, and broken window pane are still there is unavoidable/inescapable. Might seem like a simple song, but the gravity of its message is unmistakable. Yes, David Gray’s depictions of life are most unique; so glad I’ve discovered them. |
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