| Beastie Boys – Instant Death Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| This is a very beautiful song. According to wikipedia this song was written about the death of one of their friends in 1991 as a result of drug overdose, as well as the death of Adam Horovitz' mother in 1986 due to alcoholism. The lyrics "what do you do when your man kills himself? / Where's my mom?" refer to each respective incident. The speaker is obviously devastated by each incident and is at a loss for what to do with himself. The process/pain caused by these two incidents make the speaker desire his own instant death, probably asap seeing as how he has a bleak outlook on life and wants to rejoin these people rather than, when he does die in the future to die instantly... blah blah blah whatever. | |
| Tricky – Hell Is Round the Corner Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Yep, it's the same bassline as glory box by portishead, except tricky put out this song a couple of months before portishead. any way the beat is actually a sample of Issac Hayes' (RIP) song Ike's Rap (part II I think) long live triphop |
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| Tool – Schism Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I see babel was touched on. hooray. | |
| Tool – Schism Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I don't have time to read all 370 posts so I'm not sure if this has been mentioned yet. Regardless, here is my 2 cents. Listening to this song this morning, I am stricken with a reminder of Genisis 11:1-9, The Tower of Babel. For those of you who aren't familiar with the tale here it is in a nutshell. Mankind is assembled in one unified nation under one language and arrogantly decides to build a tower that reaches "to the heavens" in his own honor. God sees this (about halfway through the building process of the tower), gets a little pissed off, sends man off to various corners of the earth and gives them each new languages. communication is broken between man in his original unified country and the tower is never completed, and after many years falls apart crumbles away etc. etc. It has already been agreed that this song has an extremely religious undertone. This undertone followed by the theme of communication, and the abundant imagery of natural decay and falling apart serve as the basis for the tower of babel relationship. In these modern times, miscommunication is a big issue between the 195 some odd recognized nations of the world. War, hostility, exploitation, famine, hunger, unfair trade, etc. etc. have all resulted from various forms of miscommunication. Maynard is striving to tell the listener to communicate better (though how I do not know), because even when people speak the same language, communication still is an issue. Maynard further asserts that the pieces fit, and that mankind can someday rediscover communication... I don't really feel like doing an in depth analysis of the whole song and how it relates to Genesis, but here's a start, hopefully you can see it in the lyrics. |
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| Tool – Pushit Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I'd like to say that I agree with joshthack. What many people fail to realize is that to say and declare maynard as being a god is a paradox of sorts. The members of Tool are all extremely modest people, and they are just that: people. While they are all equally brilliant and amazing in their own right, they are not on the same level as that of a god. I will say that they are teachers, and through their art and their music strive to teach and encourage us to see more clearly, to open our third eye, think, breathe, live etc. For those of you who still choose to place maynard on the plane of godliness, I would like to remind you that it is maynard who has repeatedly (through his poetry and songwriting) encouraged people to terminate the ego, arrogance, and other negative human actions, over thinking over analyzing -- cutting everything in two. We are all one mind. it means that your negative and positive thoughts and actions have more consequences than you may initially have thought... it takes only a little positive energy to make a great change. I don't know what I'm trying to say anymore. |
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| Tool – Rosetta Stoned Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Question: What kind of an idiot hears the ending lyrics as "Bob help me"? I believe it most definitely is "God help me," as that fits the narrative context of the poem. Forget whatever toolshed says. or am I missing some sort of inside joke? - let me know, thanks. |
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| Rogue Wave – California Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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continuing along the "ice" meaning, and with global warming a currunt "crisis" in today's society, he could be talkin about the polar ice caps a la Tool - Ænema and Bill Hick's Arizona bay theory. Perhaps it is just my prejudice, as I have an extreme dislike for California, Los Angeles, Hollywood, and all it's pretaining B.S. and money. My current girlfriend put this song on a mixtape for me, as she knows how I feel about my homestate. |
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