| Tori Amos – Blood Roses Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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There's a lot in this song that reminds me of vampires. It's not just the title "blood roses" "killing you after you've died" could be a reference to continual torment, being made to live forever in unlife. Then there's the mention of New Orleans, a city that, thanks to Anne Rice among others, is intimately tied with vampires in the popular culture. add in "when he sucks you deep" and to me half the lines in the song could reference those themes. |
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| Tori Amos – Blood Roses Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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There's a lot in this song that reminds me of vampires. It's not just the title "blood roses" "killing you after you've died" could be a reference to continual torment, being made to live forever in unlife. Then there's the mention of New Orleans, a city that, thanks to Anne Rice among others, is intimately tied with vampires in the popular culture. add in "when he sucks you deep" and to me half the lines in the song could reference those themes. |
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| Tool – Lateralus Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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"as above so below" is half of the central tenet of Hermeticism, a pseudo-religious system of magic developed either in the middle ages, the Renaissance or by their own claims in ancient Egypt. The other half is "as without so within" It also draws from alchemical ideas incorporated into Hermetic beliefs that mankind could transcend to godhood through self-experiment and perfection to become a god-human ("swing on the spiral of our divinity/ and still be a human") the idea of the path of magic and transcendence as being a spiral refers to the fact that the path to enlightenment winds inwards, starting from the external (without) and ending in the internal and intensely personal (within). |
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| The Smashing Pumpkins – The End Is the Beginning Is the End Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Yes the batman movie sucked, but at least WB redeemed themselves by using the song for the Watchmen trailer... I was dissapointed it wasn't in the movie. | |
| Apoptygma Berzerk – You Keep Me from Breaking Apart Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| One of the most beautiful, honest lovesongs ever written | |
| Apoptygma Berzerk – Love To Blame Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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@Ryu, I don't think it's that no one cares, it's just that the lyrics are fairly obvious. Songs that are obtuse or offer puzzles to figure out are the ones with 1k+ comments. But I'll give it a shot: It's about a girl and a boy that have been together for a while now, she feels they've "burned their bridges" and she's regretting lost opportunities. He's talking to her, telling her how far they've come, all the new experiences ("doors of perception") they've done, the lies they worked through as a couple ("the fruits of deception"), and he's asking her when she'll be far enough away from her past that she feels she can give herself over to him. They've walked that long road together and she's blaming loving him for those missed opportunities. |
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| Lords Of Acid – ABC's of Kinky Sex Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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the lyrics are ALL WRONG For A: "catch your breath" not "get your breath For L: "L is for loving licks you offer me" For U: "unbridled lust" not "unbridled love" unless there's some partially-censored version I don't know about. For V: "eroticize your PAIN" not "brain" brain doesn't even make sense in this context... in the "twinkle twinkle" passage: Rumpsteaks, not rumpsticks. |
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| Aesop Rock – None Shall Pass Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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There are a lot of judeo/christian references in this to me. "blood to wine" "Jericho" and so on "judged by the funhouse cast" to me, in that light, talks about being judged by man (the 'cast' meaning people in the 'funhouse' meaning the temporal world), and not by God. |
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| Depeche Mode – Never Let Me Down Again Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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" Promises me I'm as safe as houses As long as I remember who's wearing the trousers I hope he never lets me down again" Another submissive expression, (see "master and servant," ect.) but this time sung to a drug not a lover. "He knows where he's taking me" implies that the drug is in control, he's surrendered to it, drug abuse as total power exchange with a chemical, a chilling and potent metaphor. |
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| Tori Amos – Bells For Her Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I can't help shake the feeling of childhood friendship ruined by romance and/or sexual experimentation. It's pretty explicit that they've grown apart but "brothers and lovers she and I were," and "like sisters blanket girls," seem to imply that they were more than just close friends at some point, maybe this lead to them drifting apart. "but you never thought it was enough of" seems to be a half finished thought, letting trail off what the other party didn't think there was enough of. |
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| Depeche Mode – Master And Servant Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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It's definitely about D/s, pretty standard really. A little conventional, but I'm certain from some subtler expressions (in "Pain that I'm Used to," "Mercy in You," "Behind the Wheel," ect.) that the songwriter is a submissive, he usually just doesn't come out and say it this blatantly. It's actually a pretty good explanation, though I like "Pain that I'm Used to" better. |
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| Naked Ape – Fashion Freak Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I'm not all that surprised there aren't many comments. It isn't difficult to work out the explicit meaning: They very obviously ape the style (no pun intended) or fashion runway announcers while talking about internal organs. Though I'm not sure it's condemning necessarily, I really think it's more ambiguous. Almost in a transhumanist sort of way. |
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| Covenant – Dead Stars Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I'd combine what gothic and dramatica said: I think this song is about what becomes of obsolescent people. Technology and changing fads have a way of making people out-of-date. But dead stars burn still. |
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| Covenant – Invisible and Silent Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| The phrase 'invisible and silent' makes me think of Front 242's "circling overland" which uses the phrase too. I don't think there's a connection except maybe in subtle homage to 242, the lyrics don't seem related at all, but I can't shake the feeling. | |
| Covenant – Replicant Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Some very strong specific allusions to Blade Runner. Specifically Roy Batty's "Tears in the Rain" monolog also referenced in Covenant's song title "Tears in the Rain." "too late to escape, too late to regret no time to hide, no time to forget lights blur shifting slightly, always the rain he's there hunting nightly, driven by pain" References the ending scene in the abandoned hotel and Batty's monolog, especially the part about the shifting lights (from the overhead adblimp in the movie on the rooftop) and the rain. "Comes to his maker as close as he can get," and, " burns fast shining brightly, dies in vain he's there, speaking lightly of life in pain" refer to the conversation with Dr. Tyrell, namely Tyrell's comment "the candle that burns twice as bright burns half as long, and you have burned so very brightly, Roy" and Tyrell's ultimate demise. |
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