| Coheed and Cambria – Mother Superior Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Didn't really feel like reading all of the comments above, but my brother and I are in a heated debate about the meaning of this song. My take: This is an execution. Evidence: "Your answer is in there, just stare down the barrel, the sincerest apologies won't write you out of this one tonight, you'll find the right in the pull of the trigger now bite." My translation: Motherf*cker, you're about to pay for what you've done, you're going to weasel your way out of this one, all the apologies in the world won't get you out of it, that ship has sailed, get ready to meet your maker. My brother's translation: This is a suicide, and that the conversation is internal to one person. I think this is bullsh*t, please agree with me. I'll check for responses sporadically. Thanks. |
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| The Mars Volta – Wax Simulacra Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I'm guessing this isn't the whole thing (The Volta has a history of cutting songs down for release as singles), so I'm sure there will be a much longer version on Bedlam. And I am astounded at how good they are. Apparently they have an aversion for the south United States, because there isn't a show around here at all any time soon. I'm pissed. | |
| Tom Waits – Soldier's Things Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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It's pretty obvious, but: I envision a war veteran having a kind of yard sale, many years after having left the service. In so doing, he is going back over all of the things that remind him of his life in the military. The line "all this radio really needs is a fuse"; "you can pound that dent out on the hood"; "everything's a dollar in this box"; it's almost as if he's really pitching selling these things, really trying to get them sold, almost as if doing so would be a kind of cathartic experience, a cleansing. That's all I got. |
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| The Mars Volta – Frances The Mute Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Honestly, their lyrics are at times very frustrating for me. They make sentences that don't even make sense, way beyond abstract. "Mink hits the shovel fix"; what the eff does that mean? | |
| The Mars Volta – The Widow Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Oh, and the "swollen on the shore" part didn't have an obvious explanation either. The only thing I can think of is a bloated dead body washed up on a beach. | |
| The Mars Volta – The Widow Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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"Fasting black lungs"-He's dead? When people fast they deny themselves a necessity (food), so if his lungs are fasting, they aren't taking in any air? Maybe. "And I hear him every night in every pore and every time he just makes me warm"-The addiction has quite literally permeated throughout his entire physical existence. You get hooked and then you become the addiction. "He knows that the taste is such, is such to die for"-Easy, once you have a taste, you can't be without it, even if you have to die to get it. "And I hear him every night on every street The scales that do slither Deliver me from..."-The appeal, the addiction is wholly inescapable. "He" is ubiquitous. The "scales" and "slither" references allude to, presumably, evil that snakes have traditionally represented. The only part I don't completely understand is the title. Possibly "The Widow" is simply referring to death and loss that often accompany drug use. |
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| The Mars Volta – Take The Veil Cerpin Taxt Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Wow, is all that I'm able to say at this moment. Simply the greatest band in history. And this song...wow. That's all I got. | |
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