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| Clues – Haarp Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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It's pretty likely that this song is about the U.S. government research antenna complex in Alaska, HAARP (High Frequency Active Auroral Research Project). Many people think that when the antennae are turned on, they fire an enormous electromagnetic frequency up into the atmosphere that pushes the ionosphere up into space and alters weather patterns on Earth. |
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| Sparta – RX Coup Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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I'm pretty sure the title refers to living out of a Subaru RX. "Coupe" is intentionally spelled wrong probably as a double entendre for "coup d'état." |
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| Dry Kill Logic – Nightmare Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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This album was released in June 2001. Dimebag was murdered in December 2004. I'd say it's more likely a song about a volatile relationship. |
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| Dropkick Murphys – The Hardest Mile Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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This song tells the true story of a group of Irish immigrants, who, like many others from their country, built railroads in America during the 19th and early 20th centuries. The 57 men mentioned here had worked on the most treacherous mile of a rail, and because the conditions were so rough, the rail company claimed that the men died from natural causes while building it.
Years later, claims surfaced that the rail company simply did not want to pay the workers for the job they did and murdered them instead. Several of the bodies where exhumed and were each found to have bullet holes in their skulls. |
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| Dropkick Murphys – Going Out in Style Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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This song is near the beginning of an entire album that loosely follows a retrospective of the life of fictional character Cornelius Larkin, beginning with his wake, but the lyrics of this song mostly read as a future wake for Dropkick Murphys singer Ken Casey (as seen in the official music video for the song). There are a ton of references and inside jokes in this song related to Casey's life in Boston.
Sister Barbara is a nun that taught Casey in grammar school; Chief Wells is the police chief of Milton, Massachusetts; Bobby Orr is a Boston Bruins hockey player; The Flannigans are a family whose stained glass window Casey broke as a child while fighting with their son; Mr. Sluggo is the owner of a couch Casey peed on in his sleep while drunk; Mrs. McAuliffe is a woman whose bedroom Casey had sleepwalked into while drunk at a friend's house; Tom Menino is the current Boston mayor since 1993; Mount Calvary is a cemetery in Boston where many Irish immigrants have been buried; Fenway Park is the famous baseball stadium in downtown Boston; Wolly Beach is in Quincy, Massachusetts (Dropkick's home town); McGreevy's Third Base Saloon is a bar down the street from Fenway owned by Casey; Desi Queally is a friend of the band who has performed gang vocals on previous albums.
There's probably more in there, but basically, this is a dream of a future wake in which the narrator imagines a massive party with all his friends and everyone he needs to apologize to. |
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| GWAR – Jack The World Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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In 1993, Gwar was nominated for a Grammy award in the category "Best Long Form Music Video" for their movie "Phallus in Wonderland" -- which they lost to the Eurythmics for "Diva." This song is about hijacking the signal of T.V. broadcasts worldwide with Gwar's message. I'm guessing they were pretty pissed off about the Grammy thing. The line "I wanna suck like lovers do" is a reference to a line in the Eurythmics song "Here Comes the Rain Again." No doubt Oderus wants to "kick the teeth" out of Annie Lennox. |
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| KMFDM – Wrath Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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The lyrics to the story at the end of this track are posted under the title "Fairy." |
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| KMFDM – Unfit Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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This song, sung in pricelessly creepy Raymond Watts fashion, depicts a drug dealer intent on hooking people on heroin. "I'll wipe a stripe on you tonight / I'll tee you high, and you will fly," describes the ritual of cleaning the vein with alcohol and injecting heroin. |
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| KMFDM – Megalomaniac Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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"KMFDM - better than the best / Megalomaniacal and harder than the rest."
This is yet another one of KMFDM's many songs promoting themselves. And it is also another one of KMFDM's songs that pokes fun at themselves as well. This particular song makes fun of themselves for promoting themselves. |
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| KMFDM – Adios Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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This song was written as a lead-off track to set the tone of what was to be KMFDM's final album with Wax Trax Records, having fulfilled their contract obligations with the label. KMFDM was generating a ton of money for the label during a time when most bands have left or been sold off to majors. The song is a straight-forward "Fuck You" to the label that's releasing it.
Coincidentally, this also became the last album Sascha Konietzko worked on with Gunter Schulz and En Esch. Therefore, it seemed appropriate to end the band's run with an album named "Adios". Of course, they did reform due to "popular demand," according to Sascha. |
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| KMFDM – Disobedience Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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This song is likely a reference to civil disobedience like that preached by Gandhi. Much of Nihil follow a similar non-violence theme. Much of the song describes a culture created by an out-of-control capitalist government and suggests disobedience as an appropriate action to bring about positive change. |
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| KMFDM – Terror Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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During the last week of April 1999, the KMFDM website ceased all traffic except for a message from the band condemning and thoroughly distancing themselves from the shootings that had occured at Columbine High School on April 20th. News organizations had been repeatedly printing stories about how the two murderers involved in that shooting were fans of industrial rock including Rammstein and KMFDM. The news specifically mentioned a line from this song that Eric Harris had been very fond of: "I cannot keep my hate inside / I'm gonna set myself on fire."
The initial shock of the tragedy in Littleton, Colorado left parents, teachers, and pundits scrambling for a reason. Were these two being preached to by bands with violent lyrics? Unfortunately, while many ultimately accepted that music likely had very little to do with the troubled youths' actions, very few ever analyzed the rest of the lyrics of the song.
This song, and this entire album, is clearly an anti-violence mantra. The "set myself on fire" is likely a reference to self-immolation performed by Buddhist monks in Vietnam and Tibet in non-violent protest of oppressive government practices. Other lines, such as "How much longer do we tolerate mass murder?" speak for themselves; the line "We shall use all peaceful means to overcome tyranny" couldn't be more straight forward. Clearly, if any music is to blame, it was most definitely not "Terror" by KMFDM. |
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| Neko Case – This Tornado Loves You Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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In the Feb. 2009 issue of Paste she says that the tornado is, literally, a tornado. The song was influenced by a dream she had in which a tornado was in love with a boy. |
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| Piebald – A Friend of Mine Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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This is no doubt a song about a good friend Travis doesn't see that much. Kind of a theme many people can identify with.
The first line of the song is a reference to "Take it Easy" by The Eagles (which also contains the lyric 'A Friend of Mine') and is a perfect example of some inside joke the two have. The song is filled with these kind of inside jokes. |
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| Piebald – Getting Mugged And Loving It Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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From an absolutepunk.net post by Travis Shettel on 2.09.06:
"hello my good friends. i have a true story to tell. on tuesday night i was riding my bike from our house in south gate towards the imperial wilmington station that is on the edge of watts. not the safest area, but i have never had any problems before. however, the stars aligned on this particular night and i found myself in the presence of four hood rats who blocked off the street so that me and frankenbike could not get through. i was only about forty feet away from the subway and the police station that sits next to it. i always give people the benefit of the doubt, but i should not have done so on this occasion. by the time i knew i should turn around they were on me. the 'talker' of the group grabs bike and says, "what you got in your pockets?" so i repond, "nothing that you are going to have." and while our convo is happening all his brosefs are putting their hands in my pocket and trying to take my bag off of my back and bike from my possession. so i hold strong and the talker says, "don't make it obvious, dont make it obvious. you dont want me to pull my knife on you." and i respond with swears and fu's and something along the lines of, "i am just trying to get to the subway and get on with my life. get your hands out of my pockets and leave me the f alone." so talker pulls the knife and one of the other hood rats pulls another knife and they have them at my neck. they didn't get my bag off, but they did get the wallet out of my back pocket. talker is still saying, "don't make it obvious," and i am still ranting about how they suck and they should leave me alone. finally a car comes by and they scurry off throwing my empty wallet into the street. they got my duckets but didn't get anything else from me. and no one got a knife in the neck either. the rest of the night i just wanted to throw down with anybody just to get out some physical anger. i have since calmed down but it was a crummy night. no more words.
travis" |
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| Piebald – King of the Road Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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From an interview on 30music.com:
30: On your latest album, We Are The Only Friends We Have, you mention that you are a first grade teacher. Is this true?
Shettel: All that stuff… well, most of it hasn’t happened yet. It was just like a look into the future somehow, I guess. I’m not really a first grade teacher and John and Laura aren’t married and they don’t have a kid. Aaron’s not really any fatter. I don’t know… the whole thing is kind of like an expanded truth. |
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