| A Perfect Circle – Gravity Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Yeah I agree to the drugs idea. | |
| A Perfect Circle – The Noose Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Well how I look at it: Many songs can be looked at in many different ways and this is one of them. What is important is the meaning the listener gives to the song. If one thinks that it is about religion, then it's ok. If one thinks it is about an alcohol addict who killed people, that's ok too. Some people say the meaning the writer gave to it is most important, but I don't completely agree with that. If an artist doesn't explain lyrics, it means that he wants us to look for ourselfs. As long as you like the lyrics of a song no matter how you look at them, be it religion, be it addicted people, it doesn't matter. Myself: I think the alcohol-thing is a quite good fit. I don't think it's religion since it says: Cast your demons out, and not cast all demons out. So it should be pretty much about one person. The line: Recall the deeds as if They're all someone else's Makes me doubt. The president Bush idea fits more to that I think. |
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| Dream Theater – A Change of Seasons Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Hmn, what I just realised; About the parts called Crimson Sunset and Crimson Sunrise: When the sun rises and the sky is red, it will probably rain that day. In the song it means that in the start of the song MP watched the crimson sunrise which means that he noticed there was a bad time coming. In the end he watches the crimson sunset. When there is a crimson sunset, the day after it will be nice and sunny. So in the start of the song the trouble was coming but in the end of the song MP looks forward and sees there is a good time ahead. |
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| Deep Purple – Child In Time Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I read the lyrics on the official LP and there under the title of each song there is written a short line. For this song there is the line: The story of a loser - it could be you. Can anyone explain this? I couldn't find any connection. | |
| Dream Theater – These Walls Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| According to the line from Octavarium (the song) I think it is about wanting to talk deeply with someone about serious matters but one can't find a way to get to that persons mind. I'm a christian myself, but I can't relate any of the lyrics to God. "Tear down these walls for me" doesn't have to be asked to someone, but it just can be said, for it may fit the song better than things like: "I want to get rid of these walls". I like the lyrics of this song very much. I often have such a situation that I can't find the right words when I really want to talk. | |
| Papa Roach – My Heart Is A Fist Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I think Wilmy91 is right. I believe it's about that case too. Dark song. | |
| Dream Theater – A Fortune in Lies Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I think the earlier albums have better lyrics. I like the music of the newer ones more. | |
| Pain of Salvation – A Trace of Blood Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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This song is about a baby, getting born dead; "I never knew your name.." Even before they had thought out a name for it, it was dead already. |
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| Papa Roach – Blood (Empty Promises) Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Well I think it's about a good friend or something, who keeps dissapointing you by doing things normal friends do not do to each other. And for you cannot really live without this person, because you've been through much together, you will forgive him, but you won't forget the things he did. I feel very much this way, because one of my best friends kind of betrayed me several times. So this is what I see, I forgave him, but I didn't forget what he did and I do not tel him very personal things anymore. | |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers – Dani California Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I'm sorry, I don't want to rape your reliable theory but in the line: "She never knew that there was anything more than four" four = poor. How could I know? I bought the album and read the lyrics in the booklet that is included, so I think that is more reliable than anyting. I think the line is about the peron the song is about (wether it's a guy or a girl) lived in a very poor family so he/she did only know how people live when they are poor |
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| Tool – Right in Two Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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This song is so great, I just got the CD from the library and this is my favorite I think. "Give them thumbs, they make a club and beat their brother down" Fav. line, but the whole song is great, lyrics and instrumental |
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| Dream Theater – In the Presence of Enemies Pt.2 Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I saw them live and they played pt1 and pt2 as one song. They are so great. I like the lyrics, I like the instrumentals.. just love it. | |
| Dream Theater – Octavarium Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| In 'I walk beside you' there is a certain drumpart (about 2:55) that is very much like the drumpart in medicate, so there's the link to Octavarium in that song. | |
| Dream Theater – Octavarium Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Man this song is SO great.. Had to listen it a few times but I totally love it now =D Thanks electricfreedom for the explanations!! I saw the 5:8 in the blueprint but I didn't know why it would be 5:8.. I checked song 5 (Panic Attack) but didn't find anything.. DT is so great and the album art is reaal artistic and deep.. Pretty interesting the album really ''ends where it began''. But by the way, has this album something to do with Scenes From A Memory, 6DoIT and ToT? Because they all seem to fit together.. Can someone tell me? |
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| Rainbow – Still I'm Sad Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Great song listen the 'On Stage' version =D | |
| Rainbow – Catch The Rainbow Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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yeah, to me it's about high hopes in something, but after all, you find that this hope was false. Catch the rainbow is Chasing dreams I do not have the original version but the 'On stage' version damn.. great song but it has some extra lyrics which are very VERY great too. But in the end it all means (for me) high (false) hope. |
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| Placebo – Twenty Years Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Maybe the hat is death or life. I think it is about time to come, you don't know what time will bring to you: "There are twenty years to go, And many friends I’d hope. Though some may hold the rose, some hold the rope." In your life to come you will meet friends and some friends will be good, some will be bad. (maybe it isn't even literal..) "There are twenty years to go, The punch-drunk and the blow, The worst of starts; the mercy part; the phone." I think this line is about Bryan who's been threatened by a person who called himself 'evil dildo' over the phone (there you've got the song). And that was the mercy part the part where Bryan didn't got killed or something but was 'saved'. The medicine show is drugs. Concentrate on more than meets the eye is obvious in my opinion,, just follow your heart or something. "But all will pass will end to fast, you know" After the figurative 20 years you will have the feeling like damn.. time passed fast and you have the feeling that you have lost years. The one line that I like most is "you're the truth not I" but I don't know what it means |
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| Dream Theater – Wait for Sleep Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Love this song lyrics are so awesome | |
| Dream Theater – Resurrection of Ernie Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Man.. That title makes me laugh.. | |
| Dream Theater – Vacant Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| This song is SO great. The lyrics are so good man.. James can be a great lyric writer just like JM but they do not write often unfortunately. I think this song can't be seen apart from Stream of Consciousness, just like Wait for Sleep and Learning to Live. | |
| Dream Theater – Stream of Consciousness Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Yeah it's my favorite instrumental and maybe my fav song from DT. I think the song is a continuation of Vacant, that's why Vacant is so short I think. The words 'Train of Thought' is just 'Stream of Consciousness' but then in other words. ToT is truly my fav album =D |
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| Dream Theater – This Dying Soul Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Don't know, just my interpretation; These tormenting ghosts of yesterday Will vanish when exposed You can't hold onto your secrets They'll only send you back alone Your fearless admissions Will help expel your destructive obsessions With my help I know you can Be at one with God and man The tormenting ghosts are the sins. If you are ashamed of your sins, you will do them again, but if you tell someone about them and you don't want to do sins anymore you are able to completely quit doing them (will vanish when exposed). But if you don't talk about it you will never get released of them and you will never feel free. But if you search help from God you will be free of all your sins. That's kind of how I see the lyrics |
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| Dream Theater – The Test That Stumped Them All Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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About that idea of the lyrics being a concert: Standing in the darkness Waiting for the light The smell of pure adrenaline Burning in the night Random blinding flashes Aiming at the stage Intro tape begins to roll Igniting sonic rage Isn't that just the delusion spoken of later in the song? A sufferer of delusional disorder? Well I don't know but I LOOOVE the lyrics. I think it's about someone with delusional disorder. But the doctors don't understand the sufferer and they THINK they can help the poor person by putting him in an intitution or using shock therapy on him (as if that would help). Strangely I like most lyrics of MP. Don't know why it just gets me. |
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| Dream Theater – Repentance Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| This song is indeed about MP's alcohol problem. That's kind of obvious cos every song in his '12 steps of recovery' songs are about it. I read that even after MP wrote 'The Glass Prison', he still had alcohol problems, Systematic Chaos was the first album where he plays completely 'clean'. I don't like the song that much, I think it is kind of long and not even the half of it are lyrics. I don't mind songs being long but I think they've made this song too long. It is original to put in voices from other guys but I don't have to hear 'em actually.. | |
| Dream Theater – The One Who Help to Set the Sun Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I agree with Coleio about the meaning of the song. It isn't that hard to see when you listen to the lyrics very well. |
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| Dream Theater – As I Am Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Yeah, MP did regret falling into infinity, and I think the whole band actually did. We had "An expensive technician who 'understood' our music" and everybody telling how DT should sound, this song is an answer to that from JP only a few years later. I like the whole album, it is a little less prgressive though. | |
| Dream Theater – The Glass Prison Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I don't know but did anyone notice that 'The Glass Prison', 'This Dying Soul', 'The Root Of All Evil' and 'Repentance' On the last four albums are connected to each other? The Glass Prison are the parts I, II and III This Dying Soul are the parts IV and V The Root Of All Evil are the parts VI and VII Repentance are the parts VIII and IX All songs are dedicated to Bill W. and his friends too,, so I think they're connected. |
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| Dream Theater – Metropolis, Pt. 1: "The Miracle and the Sleeper" Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Actually I read somewhere that DT wasn't planning on making a Metropolis part 2, Metropolis part 1 was just the title. Later they heard that the fans where waiting for a part 2, and because they always wanted to make a concept album they just did both. | |
| Dream Theater – Overture 1928 Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I like this song,, it's a good opening of the album I think,, nice transition to Strange Deja-Vu. But I thought, is there a sort of classic verson of an overture from 1928? At the end of finally free you hear someone listening music and I noticed some musical connections between that music and the music of Regression.. | |
| Dream Theater – Resurrection of Ernie Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Actually I don't think this is a real DT song is it? | |
| Dream Theater – Voices Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Hey yeah you're right,, actually I think there IS a connection: "Thought disorder, dream control, now they read my mind on the radio." Never saw it until now. I will listen to the song in a very different way now. I used to think it was about something like (sex)addiction;"Can you rid me of my secrets" and "Don't expect your own messiah" like talking about your sins to let them go, but don't try it on your own because you will surely fail to get rid of the sins. |
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| Dream Theater – Hell's Kitchen Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Ytse Jam or DoE is my fav instrumental song. I like this song very much too though. It's so I don't know, kind of peaceful or something. | |
| Dream Theater – Disappear Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| It was written by James LaBrie,, I think he and his wife divorced or something,, and as in the lyrics: She "accepted the end" but James himself had a hard time. It's a great song,, it's a perfect end for CD 1 of 6DoIT | |
| Dream Theater – The Dance of Eternity Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Songs don't need to have just 1 tight time signature, and that is the point of progressive metal: Don't stick to certain time signatures, feel free to change and do weird things. By the way: Why is posting on an instrumental song pointless!? And why should it be used in another song,, it would only make that song longer and if I want to listen The Dance Of Eternity I need to listen that whole song first. And what if the song has no meaning at all, whats wrong with showing off your talents =P |
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| Dream Theater – Lie Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| On the 5 years in a LIVEtime DVD Mike Portnow said that Kev was growing distant from the band and he wasn't smiling much anymore etc. I also heard that with writing space dye vest Kevin found his own sound, which is totally different from the DT sound. But I don't think Lie is about leaving the band though.. "Don't tell me you wanted me, don't tell you thought of me." Just to name a few, I don't think such lines fit in a song about leaving a band.. | |
| Dream Theater – The Mirror Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I don't know,, but is the song really of MPs alcohol adiction? I thought it was just about a friend who really dissapointed the writer and when the writer left his friend he saw that he wasn't a good friend himself,, (how the hell could you possibly forgive me, after all the hell I've put you through) | |
| Dream Theater – Erotomania Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Yeah, you're right.. But A Change of Seasons was after Erotomania,, But who cares =P Both great songs =D |
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| Dream Theater – The Ytse Jam Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Hehe,, I just watched Live in Tokyo with commentary,, John Myung said: A lot of sad bass parts there. =P I don't understand why he doesn't like them though,, They're great =| =D |
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| Dream Theater – Learning to Live Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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The Mirror and Lie also have instrumental connections, even The Mirror and Space-Dye vest,, but I don't think the second is of great importance.. I think learnig to live is about lost hope or something: "I fell in love to be let down," And: "I look at the world and see no understanding" The 'I person' in this lines is looking for someone who understands his pain and fears, but no one does. |
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