| System of a Down – Chop Suey! Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Extremus, to be more specific "Allah Allah lamma sabcthani" (probably mis-spelled) among the last words of Christ. Translated from the original Hebrew "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" This was not an angry sort of statement, he was actually asking. To help further explain the song, my thought "self righteous suicide"... because Jesus "sacrificed" himself on the cross for peoples' "sins" people around the world "praise" him. Thus his dying (if he is/was God) would be for self righteous reasons. |
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| Brave Saint Saturn – Fortress Of Solitude Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Off Jesusfreakhideout.com, straight from Reese's mouth. "I tried to use a lot of Superman imagery, because what this song is really about is my own unobtainable struggles with achieving perfection.The main reason this album took so long to make, is because I thought that the more of its production that I could control, the better it would be. But that didn't prove to be true. I've never had the ability to sit in the basement every night after work and make music, and in some ways this was great, not having to answer to a label, or anyone else. The problem is that I had to be the only gatekeeper of what I felt should be allowed to go on the album, and so I became obsessive about it.I felt like my whole musical history up to this point had been laden with mistakes, so I had to try to make this album perfect.It's not that I hated any of our fans, it's just that when some kid gets your number off of the internet and keeps calling you to ask if you are going to get Five Iron back together, it puts all of your failure under a microscope.What I hated, at the time, was myself, and that voice in my head that kept telling me that i wasn't good enough, or the songs weren't going to make it. So this song was me fighting that.I made a pretty song, and then destroyed it. Originally, this song had an actual voice mail from that kid calling me, but we took it off, because I wouldn't want that guy to think that I was saying I hated him. (It was Andy on the album version, pitch corrected to sound like a 12 year old). Yeah, I want him to stop calling me, but more than that, I want something that we can only achieve in death, and that is for God to say 'Well done, my good and faithful servant.' And know that I tried my hardest. To know that we don't have to be like Superman, heck... even Captain America *wink*, but maybe to settle for just being Spider-man. Just to know that even though life sucks, you get up each new day, and make tomorrow a better place for somebody else in this world." - Reese Roper |
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| Terra Naomi – The Vicodin Song Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Lol. This song is based off the TV show House. Dr. House has an addiction to vicodin. But he's not hiding any pain, apparent by his personality. | |
| Five Iron Frenzy – Far, Far Away Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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The scriptural basis of this song is John 21:1-8. I'm not really sure about what the chorus is talking about, but overall it seems that the song is encouraging us to have faith in God. That when things seem hopeless and we are broken hearted, we need to remember to trust God and he will deliver us. "When truth can be so distant And hope evades our reach Peter swam across the water And found it on the beach" |
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