| The Almost – Everyone Here Smells Like a Rat Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Maybe you have been this skeptic before. Maybe you are new to a church group, and as a sort of act of revenge to the church youth group for not completely accepting you, you have decided to think they are all fakes and phonies who act out their spiritual experiences. You swear that you will not cry, you vow to never start acting like everyone around you at the retreat. But this song is all about how the grace of God miraculously still reaches out and touches people who try to resist it. |
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| The Almost – Everyone Here Smells Like a Rat Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Maybe you have been this skeptic before. Maybe you are new to a church group, and as a sort of act of revenge to the church youth group for not completely accepting you, you have decided to think they are all fakes and phonies who act out their spiritual experiences. You swear that you will not cry, you vow to never start acting like everyone around you at the retreat. But this song is all about how the grace of God miraculously still reaches out and touches people who try to resist it. |
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| The Almost – Everyone Here Smells Like a Rat Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I am confident in what this song is talking about. If you are a christian teenager, then you know what it is like at christian youth conferences, church retreats, or revivals. This song is all about those kind of christian revival scenes, the kind where people are crying and shouting out to God, crying their faces out, and jumping up and down while praising God. This song is told from the perspective of a cynical, skeptical person who does not believe in the sincerity of those types of events. We have all thought or felt it before... "everyone here is just acting..." Here is my thorough explanation: 1st verse: "Irresponsible child, get a hold of yourself. You look so different when you lay your everything where peopel can see it." This is the skeptic seeing everyone around him crying their faces out to God, and he is judging them. He calls these people irresponsible children, just babies acting stupid. To the skeptic, these people look nothing like how he remembers them, as fun friends, and normal people, now they are acting all dramatic and emotional. Chorus: "everyone here knows how important this is. their faces make them look so serious." This is talking about how everyone at the retreat/revival/conference knows how precious the oppurtunity is to meet God, and nobody wants to miss out on a chance to truly feel the holy spirit moving. And the 2nd line is a very cynical comment about how when people are praying and praising, they usually close their eyes and change their facial expression into some sort of super-dramatic, emotional look. 2nd verse: "my precious boy, i know how hard this must get. ill give you half a minute, get int the car... scream yell shout etc" This is the response of God talkign to the skeptic. He is saying 'Iknow how hard your life must get." God understands the skeptic regardless of how many defense mechanisms he constructs to resist the power of the holy spirit. God says to the skeptic "if you dont like this stereotypical scene of people crying and praying, then just leave! get in your car and go somewhere where you can be alone andj ust pray to me sincerely without worrying about all these other people. he says scream! yell! shout! do whatever you need to spill your guts out to me and just please tell me what you are truly feeling! Bridge: (Those lyrics are wrong) "something more will have to stop you now, unending grace will make you leave the ground." This is the climax, the breaking through of the holy spirit to the cynical skeptic. As he skeptic begins to pray, he begins to lose his defensive walls and something more is going to have to stop him from becoming emotional as well. the grace of god is going to make him leave hte ground, which is just a clever way of saying he is going to join in with everyone else and start jumping while singing praise songs with everyone else. |
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| Thrice – Broken Lungs Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Yes, this song is clearly about 9/11 but I'm pretty sure the lungs being mentioned are not literally lungs. Anyone who listens to thrice a lot knows that they use lots of imagery and metaphors, and while the issue of the ground zero workers having health complications after 9/11 was unjust, I doubt thats what the song is about. The first two lines are pretty clear, after 9/11, we, americans, were all very hurt. But the 3rd line gives the song away. We swallowed the story, hook and sinker. I think this is talking about how the Bush administration took advantage of the fear that America had right after 9/11 to sell us this completely outrageous story of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. That was proven to be a completely false story, but in our fear, we handed our trust over to Pres. Bush, and americans came out as the suckers. The line "is that what we meant when we said we never would forget" is talking about how we should never forget 9/11, but the way that we've acted as a response to 9/11, invading foreign countries, declaring pre-emptive war, this is all wrong, its a shame and it isnt how the people who died in 9/11 would have wanted to be redeemed for the great tragedy that has befallen them. dustin is saying we are "fools and cowards" to let them (the american gov't) exploit our post 9/11 fear, and even after they have been caught red-handed for lying and sending our nation into an unecessary, multibillion dollar war, after it was all shown to be a lie, we just let them walk away. they are not held accountable. |
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