| Earth Crisis – Firestorm Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Isn't it funny how people talk down on stuff they don't understand fully? Especially with how it makes them look as a person, lol Anyway, great song, great band. They way I see it (and like everyone else here there is a good chance I'm wrong with the way it was intended), the song is pointing out the corruptions of society and how people just keep within the status quo. It is telling people to stop following blind, wake up, and start doing something about it. As OhSo pointed out, it isn't speaking only to people who are edge, and it isn't saying to go beat the shit out of everyone (which goes against the core ideology of self-improvement in the first place. Just a side note, but I'm personally annoyed with the guys that go around playing the role of a straight edge missionary. Let people decide on their own!). |
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| BoySetsFire – Full Color Guilt Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I think Shadoruner is as close as you can get. "Ideals of beauty set to color in savvy death camp chic" People going skeletal to be the 'image of beauty' to the point they look like they were in a death camp "The runways turn to gauntlets of disgrace and sickness" they go too far and people start looking down on them in either disgust or pity "Acceptance is the starving girl that you created" society created the image of beauty by accepting it, which in turn caused the problem "For images of tragedy that you take pride in To make her feel ashamed" As I'm sure everyone is familiar with, the media loves to have a feeding frenzy on any little thing that happens to those 'in the spotlight' "Articles will not redeem The dead now lying at your feet" Articles could be the studies behind the increase in cases of belimics (spelling?) "You know she doesn't matter so don't act so coy She's starving for you did you even notice what you took " because of the nature of the industry, people become expendable easily. Not only that, but our acceptance of this 'image of beauty' that was presented to us has taken away so much from people who feel a need to fill it in. People just don't seem to realize what an impact they have. |
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| BoySetsFire – A Far Cry Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Have to agree with you rage, all their songs are well written and played very well. The clearest thing this song is about is war and how the military tries to make it look 'cool' to be in the armed forces. However, there's definately more to it than just that, otherwise I don't think they'd use Still Waiting for the Punchine and "The War Prayer" at the end. I'm thinking mmaybe it came in responce to some of the news footage that came out of the war in Iraq. Still Waiting for the Punchline brings more of a message of "how can we accept this?" or even "don't just sit back and let it happen" to the song. |
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| The Hollies – Bus Stop Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I've always loved this song, it's easy to learn and remember the lyrics, and thinking about the whole situation presented adds a nice feel to the song (but or sone reason, I always used to hear "hue" instead of "queue"...I doubt hue would work very well, heh I sometimes wonder what the purpose behind the way things are said is, like in the begining the way the situation is introduced, "Bus stop, wet day, she’s there, I say, "Please share my umbrella." Bus stop, bus goes, she stays, love grows Under my umbrella." I'm often wondering if there is significance in stating it that way. |
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| Tilt – Dear Wife Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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wow, sad, people post the lyrics and don't even bother trying to tell what it's about...then again, most of Cinder's lyrics are fairly blunt, heh. okay, just in case someone reads this: This song makes me think of Vietnam and the horry stories I've heard from it. It tells of a soldier as he's going out, telling his wife to remain strong while he's gone. The rest of the song is in a format of letters written back home. The first paints a picture of all things going as they should and how everyone still is acting, well, human. As it goes on, it tells how things went FUBAR (pull out a dictionary if you don't know) and almost his entire squad was destroyed, but all that happens is he's patched up and sent back. "So tell me dear the color of your eyes, I cannot remember the glimmer of your hair, you were a guid- ing light emblazoned on my mind, but death has led me far away and I don't seem to care" the whole thing has dragged on a long time, memmories fade and he becomes more immune (for lack of a better term) to the battle and death that surrounds him. The next phrase is what made me think of the stories from vietnam. Soldiers became so used to following orders that, when ordered to slaughter innocent people, they didn't even question it. The leaders are staying in the background and telling the soldiers to decimate everyone in their path. Even though he sees this as "insane" he can't help but to follow along and just doesn't have the will to fight it. In the end, either he is trapped by the enemy or he has gone to the extent that he is like a zombie under the orders of his superiors. This song and War Room go great together in my opinion |
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| R.E.M. – Zither Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Well...the name is the name of the instrument being played...I think...I'd have to hear the recording and the instrument side by side to be sure...but yeah, I think it was just some filler. They played it, thought it sounded nice, and added it in. | |
| Minor Threat – Seeing Red Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Peraonally, I think it's about all people. Back in High School, I tried to stay out of all the little cliques, and I would constantly see people trash talking other people in other groups. The jocks and preps talking on the 'freaky people', and the punks and goths doing the same shit (but the real emo kids (there were some pretending in an attempt to get girls to go for them) didn't seem to be really recognized as much). | |
| Minor Threat – Out of Step (With the World) Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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BBC radio 1, "True 'till Death: The Story of Straight Edge" : (the following is an approximate quote from Ian during the brodcast (I have a copy of it on my computer if anyone wants to listen to it.). Sorry for inaccuracies, I haven't listened to it since I did an english paper on the Striaght Edge movement a couple years back.) I was writing lyrics about how I wanted to live...but people took it as a set of rules for whatever movement I was trying to start. I was not trying to start a movement. Literally, the song is about how Ian lived his life and how he wasn't in step with the world around him (explained in another part of the BBC radio brodcast when Ian is talking about how the 'normal' people were giving them shit for being punks and the punks were saying, "Well, you can't be real punks because you're not self-destructive"). In the later re-recorded version, in the middle of the song he takes a moment to explain this to people (as AllStarMe has pointed out). little piece of information I find humorous (though, my sence of humor is fairly messed up): At the end of the radio documentary, ian is talking about how, because people took his lyrics to heart, he's glad he didn't sing songs about being a junky. |
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