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| Porcupine Tree – Dark Matter Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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I guess noboby commented on the title yet. Here's my vision: as the entire album is about music industry and how you try to make your life significant by releasing music and you can't do it as an "alternative" musician, this song sums it up and gives the answer. The theory of dark matter assumes that it fills about 80% of the universe and affects it dramatically, while remaining unseen. That's what "alternative" musicians are to the music industry. There's many of them and they affect lives, but remain unseen. The music appears unappreciated by masses, unheard. It's only as loud as the silence it breaks.
I've always thought that connecting art with science is amazing. |
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| Porcupine Tree – The Sleep of No Dreaming Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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Of course it's a noose. This is an absolutely great line, cause "regarding the cosmos" always suggests admirirng the stars, adoring them, dreaming about something. Yet he does it while looking "through the circle of rope", hence - contemplating suicide at the same time. |
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| Killing Joke – The Pandys Are Coming Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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There are two typical interpretations of the word 'pandys', as far as I know.
First, umm.. cops. Especially in Britain. I think it was a reference made during the colonies times, where officers in India were wearing white uniforms and had darker skins which made them look like panda bears. But the "police are coming" makes very little sense.
It also might be short for Pandora. Opening the Pandora box made all hell break loose. Thus "the pandys are coming" suggests the end is near. Suits well to Jaz's apocalyptic visions. |
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| Mudvayne – Poop Loser Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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Apparently it's about Chad's childhood. If you know "Cradle" lyrics, you know what were his feelings towards his father and the entire childhood. |
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| Porcupine Tree – Sleep Together Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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Katatonia, I totally agree. When I heard this song for the first time, I knew it sounded like that one you mentioned.
And I'm not trying to offend Porcupine Tree, I like them very much. |
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| Nine Inch Nails – Where Is Everybody? Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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Well I find these lyrics quite optimistic. Maybe I'm wrong, but it sounds pretty simple to me - first verses say how miserable his life is/was and then after chorus he says, "come on, there has GOT to be someone.." It's like about he's coming back to life - "Maybe I wish I could try!" He's just tired of that "being depressed" stuff.
He just wakes up and says "Come on, where is everybody!"
Maybe I'm wrong, but I find it very optimistic, like I said, waking up and coming back to life. |
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| Killing Joke – The Wait Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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I watched the live performance of this song and Jaz said right before it a few senetnces of introduction. He asked the audience some questions about unresolved riddles of world history and then said - "I WAIT for the truth". |
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| David Bowie – Warszawa Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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I don't know if they mean anything, but I'm from Poland and I can tell you they have nothing to do with the Polish language. |
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| Killing Joke – Majestic Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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This song describes happiness in its purest form. The pure happiness has nothing in common with relationships and stuff. It's like "the world tries to bring me down, but screw it, I got the greatest gift - LIFE - and I feel fantastic". |
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| Killing Joke – Love Of The Masses Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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In these lyrics there is a sentence that should be remembered as one of the world most important quotes:
"With joy and sorrow mixed we realize
That peace shall come by sacrifice."
Also great music, especially great bass guitar. |
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| Killing Joke – Invocation Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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It's hard to pick the best song of the "Hosannas" album, but maybe "Invocation" is the one. Like Jaz said, "it's a great, epic track that describes everything that is happening in the world".
I might be wrong, but Babylon means Iraque and the destroyer is... Bush, right?
"My enemy's enemy is my friend" - it means that Jaz stands by the side of the poor nations for their blood was spillt by the hand of the rich nations ("a rich man's war in poor man's blood" is a part of the chorus of "Judas Goat"). |
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| Killing Joke – Intellect Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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I guess it's a quite simple critique of the cult of intellect. Jaz wonders, how people dare to analyse such things as acts of love. The dogs don't give a damn why do they bark and they can live a cool life, so why should people analyse everything? And kissing intellect goodbye means returning to nature.
Correct me if I'm wrong. |
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| Killing Joke – Gratitude Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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It sounds like last ever song of KJ. It even sounds like Jaz prepares to die. Of course, I hope they will release more albums, but it's obvious you can hear some optimistic goodbye here. |
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| Killing Joke – Goodbye to the Village Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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This is my favourite from this album. "Rubicon", "Goodbye to the Village" and "Exile" make a perfect, bitter ending of a perfect, bitter album "Brighter Than A Thousand Suns".
The meaning of this song is pretty clear. It describes pain felt inside after realizing that the nature had been replaced with civilisation. I only wonder if it's a 100% metaphor of the changing world or if Jaz really had spent his childhood in a village which later was turned to a city. |
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| Killing Joke – Exorcism Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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Someone said somewhere that if the "Pandemonium" album is a soundtrack to the apocalypse, then "Exorcism" is essentially party tune of the apocalypse. I agree!
Another thing - is it "rise from my unconscious" or maybe "rise from my unconscience"? |
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| Killing Joke – Asteroid Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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In some interview Jaz said that the present world is so f**cked up that only an asteroid could 'fix' it. It would destroy the civilisation and make the world start again, give it a second chance. |
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| Killing Joke – Absent Friends Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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KillingJoker, I agree, it's one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard.
But also, for me, when I listen to it, it's kind of... scary. It is really strange when you realize what Jaz felt writing these lyrics. It's like finding happiness after friend's death. It's not another weepy-song, it's rather a display of power, a strenght you find in yourself after a tragedy. When you think of songs written about the departed you rather see some dark, pessimistic visions. But here is the total opposite. It's strange and it's scary for I cannot imagine how one can move his state of mind that far. When you listen to it, especially the ending guitar, you can hear some sense of victory, a victory of love over death. |
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