| At the Drive-In – One Armed Scissor Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Drug interpretation: send transmission from the one armed scissor cut away, cut away Heroin. One armed scissor is a description of a syringe, obviously. Cut away refers to inserting the needle, penetrating the skin, in other words cutting away, and as a metaphor cutting away at life. skin graft machinery sputnik sickles found in the seats Skin graft machinery refers back to the one armed scissor, grafting or cutting the skin when injecting. Sputnik sickles are those long and thin metal rods on the russian sputnik sattelites, resembling needles which is the part of the syringe drug users often scatter around their home when their really addicted. self-destruct sequence this station is non-operational Drug abuse is a self-destruct sequence, a person shooting heroin everyday is a person slowly killing himself both physically and psychologically. bubbles in an IV loitering This is pretty explicit. IV is short for intravenous. |
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| Placebo – My Sweet Prince Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| The heroin breaking the continuous passing of the everyday, yet still very beatuiful, life. | |
| Meshuggah – Straws Pulled at Random Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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A very strong song. I think the beautifully harmonic part at the end of the song could represent the essential sadness and grief that one would experience upon realizing that death is all, we are nothing, we came from nothing and whatever actions we make it means nothing. The invevitable nothingness at the end makes us futile. To me, this part of the song indeed sound like tears falling. |
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| Mogwai – Team Handed Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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This song is so depressing to me. I remember hurting myself while this song happened to be playing. At the time, I was going through the roughest period of my life, and I contemplated ending it. Luckily I did not. |
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| Opeth – Hours of Wealth Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I can really relat to this song. Like some of you already said, I think it's about depression. He sees no meaning in anything or anything interesting in the persons he used to like. He's just trying to wait until the pain goes away, and after that, he will come back strong. | |
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