| Army Of The Pharaohs – Seven Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Look how many people who listens to this genre of music actually cares about song-lyrics. In the metal genre, (where the lyrics REALLY matter) everyone has an opinion of how the lyrics are supposed to be interpreted. Lets take an example, lets say.... uh In Flames.. :) If you add the number of comments to each song, you'll get a pretty high mean value. The number of comments change from 4 to 119, but average is about 20. That means that In Flames has about 20000% more comments than AOTP because they have a poor result of 0,1 responses on each song. (actually, there has only been 1 response before me, and that doubles the average value!) Enough of these statistics, lets head for the lyrics! .... I can't write this with a straight face. Just forget it. Lets accept this folks. People who listens to this genre which I immaturely call "Nigga-bang-your-head-because-you-have-nothing-better-to-do" don't really listens to lyrics. They think the rhythm is cool and chill down in their favorite chair. People who listens to this kind of music are as interested in lyrics as a blind guy is to colour-television shows. Why should I even write this down! Maybe I should give this lyric a chance. I admit that you can find a heap of gold on the bottom of a lake filled with garbage (Yes, I talk about mainstream music!) My critics: (Yes, I care for ethical values etc etc) 1. The lyrics should open your mind. 2. The lyrics need a reason to be written down (If the reason is "Yeah, I need some dough, I just make a crappy text and add a nice music video with hot chicks" etc, you fail) 3. The lyrics should affect you in a positive way. That's 3 simple rules. And now, on with THIS lyric. ---------------------------------- OK, after the first verse I must say I was a bit impressed. I thought that this band was something apart from those "Nigga-bang-your-head-because-you-have-nothing-better-to-do"-bands. I feel that they want to revolutionize the "Nigga-etc"-band-lyrics. I was REALLY ready to take them seriously. So, a big A+ for trying to be something different than a "nigga"-band. Sadly, they don't follow up on the second and third verse. I feel that I have been here before. It's like someone promise me a Lamborghini, but when I finally get the car keys, the only place the keys fit to is in that metal scrap that only by accident has to be called a car. The lyric doesn't follow up it's expectations. The verses are full of rhymes that don't make sense. BUT, the fourth verse was promising. I feel the lyric is a punch at the USA about the the war in the middle east and the bad preparation of the Orleans hurricane catastrophe . The fifth and sixth verse is junk. Somehow, they don't keep it up. Take me for example. I can sprint a hundred meters, but i cannot complete a whole marathon. It's like this lyric is trying to sprint from Moscow to Madrid. And it is destined to L-O-S-E. Suddenly in the seventh and eighth verse, they are criticizing Christianity. I felt somehow that this lyric has felt to the bottom of Lake Shittyness. Why you say? Well, because 1. : Criticizing any religion without explaining what kind of theme this band don't like is like giving a carpenter a hammer for Christmas. ( It makes no sense) 2. It's not professionally done. The band I know for sure that has indirectly criticized Christianity is U2 and the song is Sunday Bloody Sunday. And for those who doesn't know what the song is about, here is a link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Sunday_(Northern_Ireland_1972) And guys, that is how it's done with STYLE! That means, this song is a big FAILURE! I don't feel it backs up with the criticism I need to approve this band to be mediocre. The lyric is too long and I feel I have read those words for nothing. Well, music is music. "nigga"-fanboys are all around and they will probably defend their "nigga"-stars because of their style and hip choice of words and the neat rhythm. I must day that if you put a mentally handicapped kid on a mix-board, you will probably have the same rhythm as these guys have. I believe songs should be criticized by the lyrics and the music. And it should be judged equally. (Means that lyrics are as important as the music) So here we go! My score: Lyric: an E because the fourth verse wasn't bad. (Too bad rest of it was shit) Music: a big F for Failure Result: an E, because i don't want to give them a F. Since I feel they really want to fail with style, I wont give them the credit ;) Excuse me for all my grammar mistakes. I wrote this somewhere between 03.50- 04.30. I am tired and drunk ( I guess that is the only reason I wrote about this band and not In Flames) |
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| In Flames – Abnegation Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Ok, enough of this nonsense :P This is not www.whatdoeshesay.net It's www.songMEANINGS.net , so lets discuss the song shall we? I think this song is about the Earth's future. It's about our climate and the poles are melting and so on. We believe but we are diseased Or rather soon to be I act surprised Abused in the seas It's just enough to feed the trees We - humans - are not diseased... yet. But human kind will soon die if we continue to abuse the forest, the sea and the earth. We believe but we are not free This wasteland is our prison I act surprised I see the bones through your skin This radiation from within The Earth will become a wasteland, acting like our prison, because when earth is barren because of overheating and the sea level 100-200 meters higher than normal, we cannot fly to another planet and live on. It will be our prison because we-humans are bound to Earth. And I think the "I act surprised" line, is about the dumb people who don't believe in overheating and when that happens.... Booooom, animal will die because their enviroment changes and humans wont have animals to feed on. Dumb people will say"What a surprise"or "I didn't know that", but it's all logic. And the radiation part is about chemical pollution, I think. It's torn and I'd rather not live here anymore I think Anders is singing about the Earth. We are the scavengers We plunder and rape We can't see the new breed But act like its ours to take We abuse the Earth, so our grand-grand-grand children don't have the same opportunities we had. The new breed is our children. We believe but we don't see If we don't see the severe changes our Earth is going through right now, everything in this song MAY happen or maybe WILL happen. Think of the next generation! |
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