| The Antlers – Bear Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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The entire album is an autobiographical piece about when Peter worked in a hospital and fell in love with a dying girl. There is no disputing that is what the album is about. So where does this piece fit in the puzzle, then, if it is clearly about abortion? The very last song of this album describes in vivid detail the dreams you can have when someone close to you dies. I don't think it is any stretch that this song takes place in a dream Peter is having (or was having). I think the biggest clues to this is the line: And if this isn't all a dream Well then we'll cut him from beneath That is a huge hint that this is actually a dream sequence. So what does the dream mean, then? Peter loves this girl. He wants to marry her (and does in the song Two ("Two silver rings on our fingers in a hurry" represent engagement and wedding rings). He has a dream that she has something growing inside of her. But instead of a baby, he sees it as a bear, a ferocious animal. But the ferocious bear represents the cancer in the real world. So subconciously, in the dream, they want to abort it. I think that just about covers it. |
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| Coheed and Cambria – A Favor House Atlantic Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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This song is just one of them that aren't about anything specific. Claudio, Ambellina, and Sizer caught a ride from Al on his ship, the Velorium Camper, from the planet of Godder Damm to the planet of Silent Earth. When they arrive, Jesse's forces are already there battling Wilhelm Ryan's forces at the House Atlantic, Wilhelm Ryan's stronghold. If anything this song is about the battle and subsequent retreat of Jesse's forces with Claudio, Ambellina, and Sizer. The sniper is no one specific. The song could be from Claudio's point of view. The "favor" is everyone helping out in the battle that really belongs to Claudio, and Claudio alone. When they begin to retreat, he can't believe they all "made it to safety in one piece." At the end of the battle, they accomplished at least staying alive to fight another day. |
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| Coheed and Cambria – The Camper Velourium III: Al the Killer Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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At this point in the story, we have the group of Claudio, Ambellina, and Sizer. They need to make their way to the House Atlantic on the world of Silent Earth to face Wilhelm Ryan. However, they are stranded on the world of Godder Damm. To get off the planet, they need the help of a character named Al, because he has a ship called the Camper Velorium that can get them off-planet. However, along with the first two Camper Velorium parts, this song is strictly about Al and his backstory. He is a serial killer who kills women that remind him of an ex girlfriend (or possibly ex wife). Her name is Luci. He is obsessed with befriending women that remind him of Luci, and then killing them. The first part are about stalking women and then the actual killing of the women. This part is about what is going through Al's head after he has killed so many women He is just insane. You can just take the lyrics at face value after knowing this fact. "Die white girls, die white girls" is just something he says in his head all the time, as his main objective is killing white girls that remind him of Luci. |
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| Coheed and Cambria – The Camper Velourium II: Backend of Forever Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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At this point in the story, we have the group of Claudio, Ambellina, and Sizer. They need to make their way to the House Atlantic on the world of Silent Earth to face Wilhelm Ryan. However, they are stranded on the world of Godder Damm. To get off the planet, they need the help of a character named Al, because he has a ship called the Camper Velorium that can get them off-planet. However, along with the first Camper Velorium part, this song is strictly about Al and his backstory. He is a serial killer who kills women that remind him of an ex girlfriend (or possibly ex wife). Her name is Luci. He is obsessed with befriending women that remind him of Luci, and then killing them. This song is about him having flash backs to his relationship with Luci, and using the anger to drive him to kill these women. It's not about him attempting to kill Ambellina. "So you had your turn, and you made it work." This line is about him trying a new girl, and him suiting his needs of meeting another girl that reminds him of Luci. "I cried for you when you told me to date all of the things that made you end up in my life. And I'll believe anything." When Luci broke up with Al, she told him to date other girls that made him happy, but that was what Luci was. So he uses this line as a justification for hunting these women that remind him of Luci. So no, the song is just more backstory into Al's character. It really doesn't have any implications on the core story at hand. |
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| Coheed and Cambria – The Camper Velourium I: Faint of Hearts Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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At this point in the story, we have the group of Claudio, Ambellina, and Sizer. They need to make their way to the House Atlantic on the world of Silent Earth to face Wilhelm Ryan. However, they are stranded on the world of Godder Damm. To get off the planet, they need the help of a character named Al, because he has a ship that can get them off-planet. However, this song is strictly about Al and his backstory. He is a serial killer who kills women that remind him of an ex girlfriend (or possibly ex wife). Her name is Luci. He is obsessed with befriending women that remind him of Luci, and then killing them. This song is just about him killing women. He wants to "hold their neck" and have them feel him squeeze. He asks if someone "took their tongue" (because they can't speak while being strangled). As he's strangling them, they struggle, "stretch their legs." The "Coo Coo Cachoo" can be explained by the phrase itself being nonsense. When it was used in "I Am the Walrus" it was used purely because it didn't make sense, just like the entire song. In this song, its use only emphasizes the insanity of the character, Al. It's that simple. Also, this song is not about Al's gun at all. He rarely used a gun at all to begin with. They mention the word "gun" once in this song, and that does not warrant the song being about a weapon at all. In the rest of the song, he uses the term "my love," meaning the woman he is killing. In the last line, the word "love" is changed to "gun" because the woman is essentially the trigger that sets him off. She is the catalyst, or the "gun" that sets him off. |
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| Coheed and Cambria – The Crowing Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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This song is about Ambellina, a willing outcast from the Prise, and group of "angels" - blue women-like creatures with wings that guard the Keywork. She has literally had her wings burned off to make her more human. She has had little to no communication with the outside world outside from following Claudio and keeping him safe. Claudio has been hiding in a city on the world of Godder Damm for the past decade or so. Hence, Ambellina severed her ties to shroud Claudio under the streets of "this city." The first half of the song is from Ambellina's point of view, ending with the line "I've parted three ways." The second half of the song is Claudio coming to grips with fact that he is "The Crowing," a sort of savior that is supposed to rise up and save the Keywork from Wilhelm Ryan, the main antagonist of the series. |
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| Coheed and Cambria – Three Evils (Embodied in Love and Shadow) Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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The first three paragraphs of this song detail Mayo's interrogation of Sizer. He is an IRO-bot, a robot, so instead of just killing him, Mayo literally chops his limbs off with a chain saw - "sever the limbs from his torso." The next part starting with "slowly discarded" detail how Mayo tosses Sizer's remains in an alleyway. Claudio, Coheed and Cambria's son, who has been a recluse the past decade, stumbles upon his remains while arguing with Ambellina. He recognizes it as an IRO-bot, something Claudio is as well. He "fixes and restores" him. The last part, "pull the trigger and the nightmare stops," harkens back to the interrogation. It is something Sizer was yelling at Mayo, begging him to kill him so that the interrogation can end. |
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| Coheed and Cambria – Cuts Marked in the March of Men Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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This is, along with In Keeping Secrets, about the first battle between Jesse's forces, and Mayo's forces. In the comics, Chase (an IRO-bot) is never really in danger. She is a huge reason why Jesse and his forces prevail, and Sizer (another IRO-bot) is captured during the battle. However, it sounds to me like there is a slightly different story going on. It sounds as if Chase is captured, and Sizer's capture is explained by him trading himself as a hostage so Chase can be free again. Another few of the lines could be explained from a different character's point of view. In the comics, Chase is injured and Jesse starts to show some affection for her. This could explain the lines "Chase it's you I want." It sounds to me like the first four lines of the chorus could be from Jesse's point of view, and the second four could be from Sizer's point of him handing himself over to get her free. I never really liked this song's relation to the comics. They seem to tell two different versions of the same story. But both end in the same outcome, so I think we need to take it as it is. Both are good stories. |
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| Coheed and Cambria – In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Just a few things I want to clear up: 1) This song is about the first exchange (battle) between Jesse (leader of the resistance) and Mayo (a general for the Red Army, the bad guys). 2) Jackhammers are ships that Mayo's forces use. I'm pretty sure "Man your own jackhammer" is spoken from Mayo's point of view, and "Man your battlestations" is spoken from Jesse's point of view. That would be why claudio's voice is darker and scarier when he says "man your own jackhammer" as opposed to when he says "man your battlestations." The "For you, I'd do anything" stanza is Sizer's point of view, because all he wants is Jesse's affection, but Jesse just sees him, Chase, and the other IRO-bots as tools. The rest should be pretty self explanatory, with most of it from Jesse's point of view from directing the battle and encouraging his troops. |
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| Coheed and Cambria – The Ring in Return Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| It's been said, but at the beginning of the story, Claudio calls Newo, something he's been doing lately. He doesn't know what to say, and hangs up soon after she picks up. He then travels to her house in the middle of the night, where he sees Apollo, her dog. The entire story of this album is told by Claudio to Apollo. | |
| Coheed and Cambria – The Crowing Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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The first half of the song, with the last part being "if erasing them could" is Ambellina's point of view. It is when Ambellina is struggling to tell Claudio about his fate as being The Crowing. After that is Claudio's. It is him struggling with accepting Ambellina has his savior. He admits The Prise really has cast her out to be his protector until he is ready to become The Crowing. |
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| The Killers – Boots Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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The audio of the person talking/praying at the beginning is actually a rip from the movie "It's A Wonderful Life." From about half way through the movie. This is also referenced in the lines in the song, "It's a wonderful life." Obviously, the song is based on the movie. |
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