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Gallows – Will Someone Shoot That Fucking Snake Lyrics

16 years ago

Neo-Nazi? This is a band with an anarchist message that accused NME of racism as well as denouncing the National Front and "rapists, racists all fucking scum" in their second album. And as for attracting violent thugs, the song "Queensbury rules" as a scathing attack on knife culture telling kids to "walk down to the Thames and throw your knives and so we can fucking start again". If this band thought they were as big as the Clash or even wanted to be then they would've sold out a long time ago and gone the way of Green Day with American Idiot, but no- if anything they've gotten MORE brutal and more uncomprimising in both their musical approach and their political apathy. You know shit all mate. Shit all.

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Fightstar – The English Way Lyrics	17 years ago
It's about the decline of English (and by extension western) society, and trying to fix it in an English way, by not giving up on it. It's on the next album which is to be released in the summer of 2009. MTV2 said (wrongly) that it was on the rarities album 'Alternate Endings' but it's still definitely worth buying.

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Fightstar – Out Swimming in the Flood Lyrics	17 years ago
The title was going to be 'out swimming in the flood' but a month before release the tsunami hit, so they changed it to Palanuiks Laughter, because of what he said in one of his books about canned laughter in sitcoms being recorded in the 1920's, so basically its dead people laughing. They thought the idea of dead laughter was pretty cool, personally I think it's a little morbid.

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Deftones – Minerva Lyrics

18 years ago

This deviates a little from what other people have said, but- I think originally when he sings "well god bless you all" it's ironic. The first verse for me has to be about break-ups, "I get all numb when she sings it's over". Note use of the word sings rather than says, I think this is because of the way women try to dress up a dumping to make it seem like they're doing you a favour, like its for your own good. But after the initial bitterness, the "God bless you all" becomes sincere, because he realises that, as other people have said, the power women have over us and appreciation for their beauty is one of the only things that transcends all human cultures. Maybe Minerva is the one thing that can bring ALL our knees to the earth, so all the bitterness is irrelevant and it doesn't matter how many hearts they break. We're suckers for it, every damn time.

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Fightstar – Unfamiliar Ceilings Lyrics

18 years ago

I think its about the end of the world, or maybe just death in general. Think about it- "smoke could fill this room, there'd be nothing left to show" could be about the world being washed away, or about the spirit leaving the body, and then "its hard to see how all of this will end" could be about waiting for death. It's kind of like what you'd think about in your last moments, you'd reflect on all your failures- "the toughest beats will haunt your heart and mind" all the chances you didn't take, all the people you let go. This kind of fits into what mrgaad4 said, and the regret at losing her to someone else. Maybe that's what he'd think about if his world was ending. The bits that the woman sings are just about love in general, or maybe about dying with someone? Knowingly spending your last moments with somebody you love? If anyones ever read the short story "last night of the world" this song really fits into that in every way, I had to analyse that for a GCSE English Language mock and the similarities with this song struck me strait away.

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Fightstar – H.I.P (Enough) Lyrics	18 years ago
I think this is about how the word's forgotten how to care, we've become desensitised to violence and political incompetence. I think it's also about the way governments lie to us "everything printed here is allways full of shit". Ultimately, meeting all these things (apathy, lies, failure) with the violent fury that these things spawn.

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Fightstar – Amaze us Lyrics	18 years ago
I thought it was "we call the one who is without sin to cast the first stone" which is from the bible. That bible story was about judging not lest ye be judged, and I think this song is about changing ourselves and learning to forgive in order to "save us all from the war".

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Fightstar – Our Last Common Ancestor Lyrics

18 years ago

I'm really not sure the lyrics are so cryptic, but since no one else has, let me take a stab at it anyway. I think the words are a plea to God, which makes sense because Charlie's a Christian and this has been a theme in their songs before. I think it's about spirituality and the way that commercialism and modern technology have made our lives so vacuous, and that maybe it would get to the point one day where we've become just like these "machines" and just become empty shells who've forgotten how to love. The only section that doesn't seem to conform to this would be the "my shadow grabbed me" bit. I suppose the shadow could be man's shadow cast over the world, so technology and progress for the sake of progress has undermined everything that being human is supposed to mean, or maybe that the fact man can love and should therefore be "better than this machine" counts for nothing, because the shadow has grown "much taller than I am". The entire album has a post- apocolyptic feel to it just like the one before, so I guess that would have something to do with it as well. The way Charlie sings the song is haunting, the whole thing sounds like a whisper from the dark, a desperate plea. I still find it darkly beautiful even if I can't figure out what it means.

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Fightstar – We Apologise For Nothing Lyrics

18 years ago

It's "grazed fist red mist of vengeance" which I guess is about outbursts of rage. This is a total guess but ~I thnk bits of this song are about immigrants, "would you stand over these shadows and embrace our history" (imperialism, slavery etc) and then "just cut me out of all of this, just cut me out of all of this you said" which could be about deportation and nationalism. Again, that's a guess. I'm never really sure about fightstar's lyrics.

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Fightstar – Grand Unification, Pt. II Lyrics

18 years ago

I like how open to interpretation these lyrics are. I think all the explanations offered so far are right (except the hangover thing, that's just juvenile.) The image of waves could be a literal reference to the end of the world or they could represent death judgment or the rebirth of the world, all of which would be in keeping with the themes of the album. The one thing I can't understand is the narration and why it's included. It could be about feeling lost in the world but that's a wild guess.

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Fightstar – One Day Son Lyrics	18 years ago
Superficially, the song's about the state the world is in and the way its been left for its children. "I'm sorry for this mess" signifies that the world has been left in ruins and this generation isn't prepared to do anything. The chorus (it's take up your aim btw) is about how the younger generation are going to have to continue the war's started by their parents.

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Fightstar – Grand Unification, Pt. I Lyrics	18 years ago
Yeah incubassman is right, the whole album is about people's last experiences. They're new album is much more personal which I prefer, the whole thing resonates with feeling, some of it is really touchingly understated (unfamiliar ceilings...just wow)

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Fightstar – Floods Lyrics

18 years ago

The lyrics are wrong but never mind. The song is about global warming (that's kind of obvious) with lines like "inconvenient truth". It's also about the way people ignore the problem and they'll have to live with the consequences in the end. The lyrics are weirdly clear for fightstar, which I suppose is because they want everyone to understand what they're saying and take it to heart. The words for the chorus are slightly fatalistic as well, the lines are actually "you know we don't have all the time in the world, so make the most of this." I guess this is saying that it's all over anyway thanks to this "rapture we've spawned" so we should all live for the moment, smile like the idiots we are, and swim.

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