| Scratch Acid – She Said Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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How about: "Well uh, we got a missing person, and we got an absentee, and we got a no...show..." And, what happened to the "interesting intercourse of events"? Don't mess with this song, man, I dig it too effin much! |
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| Nine Inch Nails – Ruiner Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| To me it seems the Ruiner is that part of you that wants to fuck up and fail, the part that sabotages everything you work hard to achieve. I've tried to deal with isolation and powerlessness before by drinking way too much way too often, and on my way to the bar to start another binge I would often have an internal argument with whatever part of me was pushing me to poison myself when the rest of me didn't want to. And I don't think the ending lines are Trent gloating about achieving victory over anything, because this story doesn't have a happy ending. The ending lines are the Ruiner, asserting it's dominance now that the course to the bottom of the Spiral has been irrevocably set. Yeah, and I agree the guitar solo in this song is majestic, sick and perversely beautiful. | |
| Nine Inch Nails – The Four of Us Are Dying Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I know the title is a reference to the Twilight Zone episode and it featured a man who could alter his features. However, I swear when I listen to this I can actually hear the lives of four people wink out like defective Christmas lights, the bursts of high freq are the final moments followed by the complete destruction of what was there. Repeat. This may be my favorite NIN song, and it's a hell of a way to wake up in the morning. | |
| Fugazi – Song #1 Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Around 93 or 94 this song was on the jukebox in the pool room at Reed College, good times... It seemed to fit the attitude on campus at the time too: Do your thing, and quit bitching about what everyone else is doing! | |
| Prick – No Fair Fights Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Wow, this song always blows me away. It's talking about how lonely he is, and how he tried to reach out to other people through music and through sex. Unfortunately he discovered just how hurtful others can be when you try to get close to them, but he sees that other people are just as lonely and hurt as he is. He's also telling other writers and poets to quit glamorizing romance and love, this is how it really feels and it can hurt like hell. And all's fair in love and war? Nothing's fair, heartbreak will affect anyone, whether you deserve it or if you're ready for it or not. But he's still trying to reach out, "Who didn't know... I didn't know..." He knows this is how people can feel because he feels it too. | |
| Prick – Tough Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I love this song, as good or better than anything Nine Inch Nails ever put out. Nothing against Trent, I just don't know why this guy never got the same amount of attention as NIN or Ministry did. | |
| Helmet – I Know Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Bettyforsmut, you are right about the first two lines, I was gonna correct it til I saw you beat me to it! I've always heard this as a criticism of the self-righteous, of the holier-than-thou types who can't see from another person's point of view. The important part of the song for me, however, is the musical intro. The build-up creates so much tension, then the noise leaves you out in the open waiting for what comes next. Then the drumbeat drops from about a million stories up, right into such a hard-ass riff, it's incredible. Why doesn't anyone make awesome music like this anymore? |
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| Machine Head – None But My Own Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I've seen this song two ways, first as a stand of defiance against an abusive authority figure, second as a warning to someone who would try to get on the singer's good side in order to harm him when his guard is down. Either way it's effin' brilliant, proud and brutal. I love how the intro comes on quiet but unsettling, then that riff drops... fuck yeah! | |
| The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Bold As Love Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Jimi definitely came up with a personal color theory for this song, that's great, I love when artists take common forms of symbology and create personal meanings for them. As for the axis, I think Jimi was personifying that which holds all of us and out universe together. Whether it's gods or a god or the force or whatever, doesn't matter because we all see it differently, but it's a form of universal truth and he's appealing to this beautiful woman to see how truly he loves her, despite how hesitant and conflicted he may feel. I believe this may be Jimi's magnum opus, and I'm almost driven to tears when I listen to it because it's just so beautiful. | |
| Faith No More – Ashes to Ashes Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Lot's of good interpretations here, folks. I love how a piece of art can mean so many things to so many people. For me this song has always been the voice of my loved ones who've passed on already, trying to comfort me and show me love still. They're telling me that if I go to the sea or the forest and let all my manufactured worries fall away then I'll be closer to them, and I can see them everywhere I witness nature's beauty. Anyone else see it this way? | |
| Faith No More – Stripsearch Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Probably way off here, but I always envisioned this as a sequel to Crack Hitler. Perhaps the Crack Hitler tried to leave the country and got caught? Now's he's in the little room with the guards in gloves and he's protesting his "innocence" but he knows it's not working. Why not, seems as valid as anyone else's interpretation. | |
| Down – On March The Saints Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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After I heard this the first time I felt they chose the title as irony, since the return of the Saints to the Superdome was accepted by most of America as a sign of NO's resurgence when in reality, the city is almost as fucked up from the floods as it was right after they happened. "We have seen the change from the season of the storms the irony the cleansing with all our lives at stake from at rest to the present are sitting high among the elect on march the saints." These lines suggest to me that the writer sees what's going on, how instead of taking care of the real problems the underprivileged in NO have had the last few years they got football. The Saints might be inspiring to some, but they aren't gonna shelter or feed anyone. |
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| Faith No More – Mouth To Mouth Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Whether it's about marriage or not, it's definitely about delusion. And the combo of keyboards and guitar on this one are just sick! One of three bright spots on their worst album, Ashes to Ashes and Stripsearch were also great. | |
| GWAR – King Queen Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Try: I'm gazing at your broken form, I'm feeling lost and so forlorn Another death, another mess, another shroud I have worn Another grave that I begin, another box you'll soon be in I consecrate this lovely hate, but still You're looking kinda thin! With much, ga-ay abandon... Oh, and it's Man that falls down, not life. |
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| GWAR – Horror Of Yig Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Hate and Foul Cheer... awesome! | |
| GWAR – The Years Without Light Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Your Doom, To Die On TV!!! The scariest thing I've ever heard! |
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| Helmet – Turned Out Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| This came out at a time that being "alternative" or "grunge" was in fashion, and a friend of mine and I identified a new teenage marketing persona as the Alterna-Teen. Apparently so did Page Hamilton, since this song is aimed directly at them. Even today it describes so many trendy little fuckheads who have no idea what it's really like for real artists trying to make something for themselves. | |
| Helmet – Driving Nowhere Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Yes I see the connection between Americans who never question that they'll have gas for their cars, and the wars and brutality that make our automobile society possible. I also just love that Page managed to fit United Arab Emirates in as a lyric, he's gotta get some kinda points for that one! |
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| Mos Def – I Against I Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| The first real poetry I've heard about the nature of conflict, and the Massive Attack beat is killer! Only one of us can ride forever so you and I can't ride together, can't live or can't die together, all we can do is collide together. Absolutely brilliant, just about the only good thing about such a shitty movie (Blade II) | |
| Misfits – Bullet Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Texas is the reason that the President's Dead! Makes me wish I was from Texas! |
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| Misfits – Skulls Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| If I ever find a girl who thinks it's romantic when I sing this to her, then she's the girl for me! | |
| Misfits – I Turned Into A Martian Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Discharge is fuckin' right!! The Misfits music ain't real deep kids, it's a lot of horror and early sci-fi movies mixed with mid-century Hollywood fast-lane attitude. Musicians don't always write songs to spill their guts, you emo freaks, sometimes songs are Just For Fun!! |
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| Misfits – Ghoul's Night Out Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Wow, one of my favorites, the only song I have lyrics from tattooed on me (my Misfits skull on my arm has It's My Destiny around it), it has no hidden meanings or agendas. It's about ghouls and zombies roaming the earth eating the flesh of hapless victims, and just how in-touch with that concept Glenn really is. Just fuckin' beautiful. | |
| Fugazi – Public Witness Program Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I've never found the complete lyrics to this song anywhere, does anyone know all the lyrics to the album version? It's such a great song but I can't figure it all out! | |
| Fugazi – Rend It Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| juxtaposedhalf: No. Just, No! The lyrics are printed in the cd liner, the ones posted here are correct. Sorry man, hat e to break it to you but "In lock with the buzzing sound" makes no literal or symbolic sense. Maybe if the buzzing sound were referenced somewhere else in the song but it's not. It is a cool song though, it's one of the reasons this album is one of my Top Ten all-time. Seems to me this guy is in a bitter relationship and is tired of all the fighting, he's saying he doesn't care anymore what got said and what didn't, and it's breaking him down. Hmmm, sounds like my last marriage! | |
| Fugazi – Strangelight Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I can see the ecological concerns in this song but that may be too literal of an explanation. It seems like he's saying, "This is my world, come on over." He's saying you can enter his existence but this is how it is here, be forewarned. And yes, this has to be one of the best pieces of music these guys ever produced, I've never heard anything else like it and I doubt anyone else is making indie rock this sophisticated. But then I never get to hear anything until it's been out for a few years, or it's some kind of new country crap! | |
| Fugazi – The Kill Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Sodium Pentathol is used as a general anesthetic, an interrogation agent (to weaken resolve), to induce coma, for euthanasia, and for lethal-injection executions. This song on the surface seems to describe someone who fights out of sense of obligation, but is captured and either interrogated or executed. This is undoubtedly a metaphor but for what probably depends on the listener's worldview. | |
| Fugazi – Give Me the Cure Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| To me it says this person never had to deal with HIV/AIDS because it hadn't effected them personally before. Now that they have the disease the whole problem is right in their face and all of a sudden, it's important to them. Where they never cared before about finding a cure for AIDS now they are desperate for it. By the way, the third verse isn't licking and sucking, it's thought on the dying, then it's held the hand of dying, and in the faster portion of the song it's walked beside the dying. I think these lyrics add another layer of depth to this song as they make this frightening new experience much more personal for the singer. | |
| Bad Religion – Hooray for Me... Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Here's what I see and hear in this song... The first verse is describing the supposedly "Great Wars" such as WWII and Vietnam that Greg and Brett's fathers and grandfathers had to define their generations, for better or worse. The second verse is the results of the Beat Generation and the drug scenes of the '60s and '70s, and how the participants tended to burn out and fade into mediocre existences. The third verse finds modern man (modern for the '80s and '90s that is) dealing with a life that holds no real challenges or paths to personal glory, where the days blend together like a dirge. That's why the singer asserts his individuality so strongly in the choruses, in doing so he is rejecting all three of the other ways of life and taking his chances on his own path. He is saying he doesn't give a shit if you like how he's living because he likes it and that's all that matters. Or at least that's what I got from it! |
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