| Lagwagon – The Kids Are All Wrong Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Pretty sure 'the kids' refers to 'the fans' in that way that American bands tend to do. I think this song is about the kids putting bands and people on a pedestal and getting disappointed when they turn out to be human. Lagwagon's done a few songs on this subject before. |
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| Lagwagon – Tomorrow Is Heartbreak Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I think the commenters thus far have been a little off, and I think this song is more straightforward than you're making it out to be - it's less about the girl per se and more about Joey's process of grief. "Yesterday's moving" aka distancing himself from the situation ("It's easier to locate a better nest / Tell them you never lived in such a mess"), "Today is denial" aka denying his previous feelings or that he's jealous of the new love interest ("Can't expect the creep to stay long / But he's not the one who pissed her off") then "Tomorrow is heartbreak" aka acceptance, where the song gets a little more vindictive as he's crushed by the situation ("Emily you'll always be alone"). After acceptance, he wishes it never happened at all ("Sorry I bit that hook"). Side note: who is Emily? Is Emily "E" from "E Dagger"? She's also referenced in Name Dropping off of Hoss ("Emily had sex with Joey"). |
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| The Weakerthans – Psalm For The Elks Lodge Last Call Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Massive freemasons metaphor running through this. See: 'Oh, protect our secret handshake...' and the references to members and the leader. I don't think it's literal; more of a character like in Pamphleteer. Given that Samson was in Propagandhi at a time when they had a song that repeated 'Fuck religion' over and over, I don't get the feeling he believes in a supreme being, which is a requisite for membership. I suppose that song's more of an attack of organised religion than believe in a supreme being though. I interpret the whole thing personally as just romanticising hanging out with your friends, in Samson's brilliantly quirky style. |
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| The Flatliners – I Am Abandoned Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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This song, to me, makes me think of any time I've ever felt at a loss, wronged, in a sticky situation or just plain feeling bad. I think it's about perspective. When things are just going to shit for you, the only thing you can really think about is how awful things are for you, and that's only made worse when you've got some perspective. Chances are, there are millions of other people in the world who have it far worse than you do.. but that doesn't really help you. Perspective just makes you feel guilty for feeling sorry for yourself, and that just makes it worse. Key lines: "It just seems that everywhere I look there's another person having problems Instead of me. What has this world come to when all I see is me?" Perspective and empathy don't help when it's your turn to have your life turn to shit, hence he feels abandonned. Probably not the meaning of the whole song, but that's what I think of with those lines. |
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| The Flatliners – Fred's Got Slacks Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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To me, it sounds like a celebration of music and punk. The chorus: Apathetic, we're pathetic, it's easy to see. The fire's ignited and the flames have gotten the best of me. Hands up, fists high for everyone to see! We're destructive, so disruptive, it's gotten to me. Let's hit the streets and show 'em what we mean. Hey! We've got the heart and mind to mix in with the gasoline. Just screams to me that spark you get from listening to music in a gig setting and how easily the band can ignite the crowd into a firey, passionate frenzy. For that one moment, everything in life takes a backseat - if you're the type of guy who mistrusts people, everyone in the crowd is your friend, and so on. I like Mane Clash's intepretation a lot actually, but it sounds like Chris Cresswell's already got the answers he's looking for. |
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| A Wilhelm Scream – The Horse Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Comment from Trevor Reilly: "Well, The Horse is the story of a horse, from the horse's perspective. It is also about a man stricken with the weakness of addiction. That doesn't make him shitty, that makes him a victim. The "shitty people" stuff only occupies a few lines of the song, after wakes the others and his family are dead. I wanted to write a story about how the horse and the man are the same; they have the same strangleholds on their lives, the same types of dependencies. But more pertinently, i just wanted to write a song about a horse. And i did." Very good stuff. This man could write a song about taking a dump and it'd be beautiful. |
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| A Wilhelm Scream – Me Vs Morrissey In The Pretentiousness Contest (The Ladder Match) Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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What.. Bad lyrically? You're kidding me right? This song is weakest on the album lyrically.. but even then it's pretty much better than 90% of the other shit out there. But seeing as there's no actual stabs at the meaning of the song in all 7 comments on a site called SongMeaning.net, *I'LL* actually stay on topic. Official word from Trevor Reilly: "Me vs. Morrissey is about two things 1) a friend who was taken from us by a girl and changed, or that's how I perceived the situation in the song anyway and 2) starting a new relationship with a wonderful woman. Two sides to a story basically. Hope that doesn't sound too lame." |
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| A Wilhelm Scream – 5 To 9 Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Nice writeup superman9k. You're right about the title, too: Straight from the horses (ahahaha.. The Horse? get it? ..ah..) mouth: "5 to 9 are our hours of operation. Emo scene's an easy target, couldn't help myself." |
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| No Trigger – Tundra Kids Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Life on the road. It's hard work putting your life on hold for a punk band. Living out most of your life exhausted on a stage or in the back of an ass-smelling van. But then, with so many things needing to be said out there.. Well. "If not us, who? If not now, when?" | |
| No Trigger – Owner Operator Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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drummermans pretty much got it, I think. Taking matters into your own hands and making changes when you're "cornerned in a corner" by everyday life. Put to a jailbreak metaphor. |
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| No Trigger – The (Not So) Noble Purveyors Of The Third Or Fourth Coming Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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No Trigger: The (Not So) Noble Purveyors of the Third of Fourth Coming.. No Trigger are a fairly standard punk rock band. No gimicks; just straight up from-the-heart punk with something to say. This song is their two-fist-salute to that very notion: this kind of music has been done over and over.. but who says that's a bad thing? "Like hell am I changing." |
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| A Wilhelm Scream – The King Is Dead Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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No, but it's got a lot of references. I'm pretty sure it's about pussying out of suicide, or at least the start is: "The sight of the drop got me off the roof." It could be about trying to escape something like - as quite a lot of AWS songs ultimately relate to - a fucked up relationship (or the burden of life in general) through suicide: "To finally admit... got another one of their own." I also get the feeling the proganist's mind is telling the story, referring to himself (the mind) as King and his body is the city: "Put me in the back of an ambulance cause my city dies tonight." The story itself seems like the mind's in a fucked up state and has done something stupid: "The knife, or the rope, or the lemon, this brain and I." in the name of "art". Then you sort of see as the song progresses him lying to his body ("I lie to myself, it's my right to do.") that what he did was fine, guilt slowly overtaking him until he realises what he's done to himself ("To wade through the virus of your lies.") ultimately ending up in the back of an ambulance slowly letting go of life ("the guilt is weighing down by arms" - life leaving his body). The story, if interpreted that was, is fairly similar to MacBeth in that respect - and the king references and guilt driving him mad fit pretty well, too. As for what it means? I've no idea. I guess it's sort of showing one choice leads to a set of consequences you can't go back from - which fits in 100% with what Ruiner as an album was all about. Maybe a sort of blunt "this is what we're all about" track at the start to tell you? Well, I'm really not sure. P.S. The lemon is a reference to autoerotic asphyxiation for anyone puzzled on that. That's straight from the Q&A thread on the bands message board. |
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