| Meshuggah – Nebulous Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Meshuggah is the heaviest band on the planet and their lyrics are very deep. I think this is my favorite song on the Nothing album because it’s so slow and ugly. “Drowned in screaming silence, embraced by shadows, they tear me. The worm holes free my eyes.” The narrator is sitting in silence and surrounded by complete darkness. The shadows he speaks of could be many different things, dark thoughts, evil spirits or hateful memories. They tear at him, causing affliction to his present state being, but the wormholes free his eyes. A wormhole is a theoretic distortion of space-time that links one location or time to another allowing you to travel between them almost instantly. This is a metaphor for his mind or his mind’s eye taking him, by his thoughts, away from his darkened state. “The blood boils - it knows. My thoughts burn as minds liquefy, vaporize, reality scorched by this fixed state.” He can feel the hate boil in his veins because “it” (the darkened spirit) knows he is trying to escape. Everything from his thoughts to his mind and even reality are burning from this struggle, from his “fixed state”. “All beginnings slain by ends, I seep down into the black to breath.” This statement refers to his “fixed state,” the realization that everything dies and the only way he can cope is to “seep” into the darkness (which can mean evil thoughts or evil sprits) just to breathe. “Drifting to merge with the past, my tongue licks the residue of the future.” He thinks of the past, of old beginnings, and he knows what the future will hold because to him all life leads to death. “Bitter taste, the wombs of claws call me, filth rips them open, the stillborn start to move, Lidless eyes twitching beneath a sheet of rot. They reach out they want to kiss – it matters not.” It’s almost sweet to know his own future, but when it is death, the taste is bitter. He can hear the womb (comfort) of false (claws) hope calling him, but filth, or darkness “rips them open” revealing their inner evil. This is a perfect picture of how evil destroys itself. He sees the stillborn (unknowing humans) lives that float in a state of existence where their “lidless,” always open eyes endlessly receive the rot (darkness, sin), the very sheet that is draped over them all. They reach out for him, just for a “kiss” (the longing for guidance), but he knows that they do not want to hear the truth, so to him “they matter not.” “In dreams it speaks to me, the truth that means reality.” A being or spirit visits him in his sleep, telling him the truth of life which to him is death. |
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| Dredg – Hung Over on a Tuesday Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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First of all I would like to say that this is what it means to me, it may mean something else to you, but that's why the lyrics are slightly vague so your listening experience will be more personal. The title of the song is very specific. It just means you live a life where you are hung over on Tuesday, which ultimately means you party it up all week long and live a life of full sin. There is nothing in this song that points directly to any one addiction, except the title, which makes you think of alcoholism. I think the song applies to all addictions and all sins. "So long to the long to the hurt and stormy weather. It's time for a cleansing." The singer is saying that he's done with the life of pain and heartache he has created from an Unfulfilling life style and "It's time for a cleansing. Nice try, but you can't afford this forever" This is his good/evil conscience telling him, "hey buddy, you can't keep living like this way forever, in all of this sin (good)”, but "you know it makes you feel good (evil)." “Feeding on your soul, you'll search for a cure, you want to be sure." Every person on the face of God's green earth has had this feeling. You want to be happy, you want to feel love, you want peace, and we all want that. The sinful lifestyle feeds on your soul and you search "for a cure" and you find the cure, but you want "to be sure" that you don't have to submit and "lose control", you want to be sure that "this is really you." He is thinking of taking the first steps of Faith. "So long since I can't even remember it’s time for renewal." This line is pretty straight forward. It means you have lived the wrong way for so long you can't even remember being a happy person and now it’s time for renewal. The renewal of his spirit, the renewal of his soul and of his mind by filling it with positive influences and blocking out the sin. "You know that you won't have forever. You know it makes you feel good" Here comes his conscience, telling him what to do, but the evil human lustful sin comes back to tell him how good it feels to do wrong. Now the song takes you through the chorus again. After the chorus comes the bridge. "I fell towards the fire, shielding myself from sin." The image of him falling towards the fire is a very much a picture of his Faith in God growing--growing to the point where he can shield himself from sin and "things are looking brighter" because he is now living in the Light and "this is the way I want to live." "So long to the hurt and stormy weather, it’s time for a cleansing." He is say saying good-bye to his old, sinful life and he tells the sin/devil "Nice try but you can't control me forever." "So long to the end." He no longer belongs to death and sin so he says goodbye to the "end". "You'll always be there, but you are gone to me." Even after he takes his step toward Faith, sin and the devil will always be there, but they are gone to him. |
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