| 30 Seconds to Mars – A Beautiful Lie Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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This powerful song starts out with the one important measure in life: Do you want to be different? The line "The battles of your youth" line is my personal favorite. I believe that early childhood has much more significance than most people give it credit. I vividly remember preschool and my classmates. Our struggles at that age define who we are and how we will live. The truth of our youth is that our minds, separate from reality, can be happy. "Hide behind an empty face...Don't have too much to say...'Cause this is just a game" is the detachment of those who choose to be different. As long as you give reality less authority than your mind, it can't hurt you. This sounds like insanity, and it is by the definitions reality uses. Here's the irony: By definition, reality is only what we can sense. But the people who don't know it's a game believe that's all that exists. The truth is that reality can never match what our minds imagine. The Arts attempt to shape reality into more than what it really is, but they are only an illusion. And now for "Everyone's looking at me...I'm running 'round in circles...A quiet desperation's building higher." Once you separate "reality" from the mind, you're in limbo. Nothing from the mind can fully manifest itself in reality, resulting in disappointment. You lose your faith in all the people who live in it, especially when "Everyone's looking at me". So what does he mean by "That makes me..."? He never finishes that line. It's always followed by music or the final thud at the end of the song. Feel, feel, feel & die. Metaphorically speaking, he beat the game. Well, that's just my two bits. |
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| Muse – Map of the Problematique Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I think it's about global frustration. Bellamy just wants to get away from the poor decisions that other people make. I think "I can't let you go" means that he's in love with something that is corrupted. He chooses to keep that misery, just to be attached. "I can't get it right, get it right" is his being unable to detach from it all. He can't be perfect. His limbo between the purity of what could be and the evil that exists isolates him, hence "Loneliness be over, When will this loneliness be over?" "Life will flash before my eyes," is referencing Death or some other threshold for him to cross. A new mentality where things don't hurt anymore. He wants to achieve this("I want to touch the other side" references to City of Delusion, as well), but he is still hurt by other people. He returns to reveal the human problem: we destroy each other to preserve our own image. His cryptic reply to "And no one thinks they are to blame" is simply that the true solution is not violence(emotional, social, war). Once again, "I can't get it right" goes back to his pain of being caught between these two mentalities: Human and Divine. The rest of the world can't even see what is possible, so they don't know what they are doing wrong. Comments? |
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| Editors – An End Has A Start Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I agree that he's probably singing about death, but this song strikes a different chord in me. At least for me, it applies to entering situations(people, places, friends) completely alone. Those situations become your entire life. And the real message is that no matter what happens, you can come out alone, as a better, stronger person. So that's just my take on it. Powerful, nonetheless. |
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| Muse – Micro Cuts Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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This was my favorite Muse song for a long time, and probably still is. It COMPLETELY captures the essence of misery and agony. You don't even need the lyrics to understand that part of the song. About the word "blaine," I think it's "Blade." It makes more sense, logically. The only google hit on the definition of "Blaine" was a political cartoonist in Canada. |
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| Muse – Glorious Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I don't think it's strictly about faith. I think it's Passion, passion about anything in your life. What I wouldn't do to crawl into Muse's mind for a bit! Just to see what their beliefs are and how the hell they come up with songs like this! |
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| Muse – Invincible Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Yeah, sadly, I'm American, too. Excellent song. It gives honor and hope to the everyone who tries, but feels isolated and rejected. | |
| Juno Reactor – Pistolero Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Good translation. That fourth line is REALLY fast. I hate to be nit-picky, but in that 4th line, she says "voy" and "alli". The "voy" makes no difference, but "aqui" means "here" in english. "alli" means "there". I just felt like a song as freaking amazing as this one deserves equal perfection. If you like this song, get "Dangerous Power" by Cicada. It might change your life. Just have REALLY good speakers/headphones the first time you listen to it. |
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