| Neon Horse – Go. Stop. Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| The character reference (Petey keating, Dominique Francon) are from a novel called The Fountainhead. the book is basically about doing things uniquely, not just doing what everybody else does as far as I can tell | |
| Family Force 5 – Party Foul Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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haha i love how the rebellious, party culture that so spurns rules and authority just goes out and sets out its own rules - and the chief one being 'no talking to my girlfriend. ever!' it's like, there are no rules except when your behavior bugs me - then i get to make up rules to get rid of you. great song! |
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| Family Force 5 – Radiator Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I know family force 5 does a lot of party songs without a lot of Christianity or ultradeep meaning. But i feel like this is one where they let their faith speak a little more. I like the concept ppl have brought up about us - the body of Christ - radiating God's love to the world as we bask in the radiation of His love. | |
| John Reuben – Trying Too Hard Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Probably my favorite song ever! Some people are always trying to project this image for themselves. tough, smart, strong, cool. But the reason they want this image is that they are really insecure about themselves. So to cover it up, they tell you and tell you and keep telling you that they are really tough, or smart, or cool, etc. There comes a point where you're like, dude, you're trying too hard! you're trying really hard to look tough, but your trying is what gives you away! John Reuben has a video for this song on his YouTube page that plays on that theme. It is absolutely hilarious! great song |
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| House of Heroes – Field of Daggers Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I see it as a soldier, in the darkest hour of war, crying out to God that there must be more than this cruel world of suffering. The people who try to gain power in this world only find success through wars, suffering, taking advantage of others. I pictured a soldier looking out over a corpse-strewn battlefield while singing the haunting line "Here is your kingdom coming." Because if we make our kingdom in this world, that's all the kingdom we will get. But this particular soldier can see that God has a far better kingdom for him. While he anguishes over the suffering of this fallen world, he knows that there is a God, one who "was and is and is and is to come." Great, great, powerful song! |
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| House of Heroes – If Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Great song! I always found it a bit of a parody on the over-the-top-infatuated love song. The speaker unintentionally betrays the fact that his attraction to the girl is mainly physical (if you wore that dress everyday / with your hair just so) and that he is drawn in like Odysseus to the Siren's Song in "The Odyssey." He also alludes to his own unpredictability (and perhaps his less-than-pure motives) by comparing himself to Frankenstein. What an awesome, deep, yet catchy tune! | |
| Pillar – State of Emergency Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| It's all about the state of the world. it seems everywhere you look is evil and injustice, and everyone sees it, but too many people just say "wow, thats too bad" and expect someone else to fix it. WE ARE THE ONES WHO NEED TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE! I'm done waiting for someone else to change the world! Pillar put together this amazing rallying cry for us all to change the world. great song! | |
| Falling Up – Lights of Reedsport Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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as far as i know, reedsport is a town, and the entire dawn escapes project is somehow about a guy who gets lost in the woods for a night. maybe this song is about the moment he sees the lights of reedsport? |
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| House of Heroes – The Invisible Hook Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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i dont know that this is what the song was actually meant to say, but i think it fits well. it could be about the whole entertainment industry (Hollywood, TV networks, music execs, etc.) and how they are leading our generation away from the truth. By glamorizing drugs, alchohol, dangerous and reckless stunts, and premarital sex, they are causing thousands of media-viewing teens to participate in these activities and end up hurt or dead. But no one calls the media on it because they "keep us entertained" and we "overlook the bloodstains on [their] hands". the media has a lifestyle that they want everyone to follow, basically, an invisible hook they want us to dance to. Has anyone heard the line "sex sells"? that might have some bearing on "they can sell what they took" (they took sex and twisted it away from its original definition into something sinful and dangerous, and now they are selling it back to us). again, im not saying that this is definitely what the songs about, but it's an interesting thought.... |
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| Kutless – Shut Me Out Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I love the defiance in this song. Right now, there is this huge group of atheists in music, TV, writing, etc. who "cant stand these things I'm preaching in the street". this song is a defiant cry saying "there's NOTHING you can do" to stop what i'm saying. It's like a battlecry for every Christian willing to speak the truth in the face of opposition (lovingly of course) with no fear whatsoever. |
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| John Reuben – Miserable Exaggeration Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I dont have an ultimate meaning of this whole song but i must say i love the third verse. i feel like this often, when people, especially Christians, are trying so hard to make people happy that they wont stick to the truth. If someone is sinning, we should tell them that what they're doing is wrong, even if its not an easy message to give ("it's as easy as no and as hard as no"). dont get me wrong, im not saying we should be judgemental creeps about it, but we cant compromise the truth to make others feel good. also, i like the stuff about having conversations in your head. like when someone makes you mad, and you come up with the perfect comeback to defend yourself....three days later! I hold conversations in my head all the time about how i'm gonna defend myself and my actions to those who dont understand them, but the real-life conversation rarely plays out how i planned it ("in my head everyone was interested, everyone was listening") |
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| John Reuben – Word of Mouth Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I think dylanagibson is right on. i just watched a TV informercial on the music of the 60's, and they were saying the same things musicians say now. it's all about rebelling against the system and doing what feels right. It's come to the point now that the media (not just music but movies, TV, etc.) is working overtime to package the same concept 40 years later. I love "hold on to your identities loosely". its like, MTV and the whole media has this image they want everyone to copy. right now it's the surfer/skateboarder/dont-really-care-about-rules person. thats why we all wear ripped polo shirts or shirts from a surf shop (even tho we live hundreds of miles from the ocean) and flip flops or dirty blue jeans and skater shoes. but when the media decides to change, we all have to change our identities too. therefore, we hold on to them loosely. John has a video for this, it's on his youtube page, and it is very interesting because he casts himself as the bad guy. Its his way of making a statement i guess. anyways great song. remember - "hold on to your identities loosely" because MTV might change the styles and you'll want to keep up! lol |
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| John Reuben – Curiosity Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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First off, this is a brilliant song! Reuben is simply amazing. He never ceases to amaze me. OK, to me this song is about a person who has lived their life without a solid life philosophy (or faith or religion to base their life on) and one day "woke up with nothing under my feet". they proceed to look through popular world beliefs and gets "lost in the options" and becomes confused about "what i'm trying to hear". By the third verse, they have become very confused by different theories ("superstition, true religion, the near truth cant tell the difference"). In many belief systems, they are finding "beautifully written contradictions spoken with such conviction", for example, the people who sincerely believe that right and wrong are relative, and left up to the individual. These philosophies sound great ("beautifully written"), but dont make sense when they are played out in real life (making them "contradictions"). this brings us to my favorite line from any song ever: "Thin line between insanity and insight - better hope youre right". so many of these philosophies (relative truth, humans being Gods, all religions worshipping the same Gods) sound like such great insights, but, once you really think about them, they make no sense and become insanity (If truth was relative then serial killers, rapists, even terrorrists arent doing anything wrong, if man is God, then is God all the drunks, murderers, kidnappers, etc., and if all religions worship the same God, why do some consider Jesus God and others just a prophet). this is my take. i love this song! |
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| Discover America – From the 100th Floor Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I think you nailed it. I always feel like there's these rigid social codes we have to follow or we are considered 'wierd' or 'crazy'. For example, it seems like a rule of human nature that a man who has success has to brag about it. Also, like you said, everyone does whatever it takes to get what they want. i often feel like an actor who doesnt understand these social rules and is waiting for a cue. But you know what? The best characters in movies are the ones who are different from everybody else. Why do we root for a Napoleon Dynamite (for lack of a better example)? He doesnt do what people expect him to do. He's different. Keep being yourself gustavo. and that would be a great wedding song. good choice. |
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