| Guano Apes – Wash It Down Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| it sounds to me like a wet teeshirt contest. i love the wildly esoteric interpretations. | |
| Iron Maiden – Remember Tomorrow Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| as an extremely long time Tolkien fan(/scholar i suppose), i had similar thoughts, with regard to the "all seeing eye" and "return out of the fire" lines, at any rate. given what P. Dianno has said, i seriously doubt that there is any intentional reference. remember that the metaphor of the phoenix and the image of the all seeing eye were/are prevalent in literature long before Tolkien wrote anything about them (and he founded much of his writing on such scraps of existing legend... though mostly Norse & Christian). The author says its about a bombing run, so the similarities are probably knitted together by our fertile minds. | |
| Metallica – The Prince (Diamond Head cover) Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| NuclearWinterM, I also heard that, and came here looking for more info, as the song seemed very divorced from anything to do with a little girl or a doll. I understand that the quote at the end of Breadfan is supposed to be at the beginning of this song, but don't get anything else out of either the song or the internet to support the claim about the meaning of the song. Have any of you guys found anything about this? | |
| Metallica – The Prince (Diamond Head cover) Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| an interesting thought. i certainly didn't make that connection. i thought that they were just referring to the prince of darkness, but it certainly bears argument the other way. | |
| Metallica – The Prince (Diamond Head cover) Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Gaurdian, #1 if your offended by this Faustian song, you're OBVIOUSLY going to be offended by lepar messiah, which is their original (not to mention a third of the songs on this album... i mean, small hours?), so why are you bothering with a metallica thread? #2 your faith that there is a hell has nothing to do with either fact nor this songs meaning. if you want other people to believe the same thing as you, make a valid logical argument for there being a hell to convince them, and by all means, do it somewhere more appropriate than in a response to a response to someone else's post about the meaning of a metallica song on songmeanings.net ... ;p #3 those who are not convinced of faith based claims about hell sometimes find mythological stuff to be interesting. Faust (which this is a variation on the theme of) was interesting. i also listen to songs about icarus and Ra... it's interesting, please don't unload baggage on me for finding it so. |
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| The Used – The Bird and the Worm Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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| The Used – The Bird and the Worm Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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good song. i would give the opinion that this song is about hiding inner emotions and impulses from the social world. people watch and judge and you must act according to norms. thus your exterior turns to stone and you hide from your own darker/different impulses. Your impulses need some sort of release, so you do what you need to when your alone, be it write a poem or beat up a punching bag. The first stanza is interesting... it seems to imply that the main character "wears his heart on his sleeve" (the cliche), which means that he has to hide from those who judge him rather than allow his exterior to remain a disguise. maybe that's why the video shows a character retreating to solitude to battle his daemons. agoraphobia perhaps? |
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| The Used – The Bird and the Worm Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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downtownromance, i think you may be putting your own predispositions and ideas into the song more than would allow the song to say what its intended to say. jarhead989, your doing the same thing and your a total asshole about it. hes entitled to his opinion, as you are entitled to yours. you're getting offended by someone else's opinion of the song because you associate yourself with the song, which means that you are way to emotionally involved to be taken as a serious critic. at least downtown had the where-withal to state his opinion as an opinion as opposed to a divine mandate. your synopsis and evidence is no better than downtown's and it's presented in a less respectful manner. look to thy'n own ass first. |
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| The Used – The Bird and the Worm Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| maybe you mean omnipresent (all present or everywhere) or omnipotent (all potent or all powerful)... i doubt you mean omnificent, which signifies that something is unlimited in its creative faculty. | |
| Thrice – Music Box Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Another great song by Thrice. As to the affixing of religious significance to the song: Be wary. Even if the song was very specifically intended to make the allusions that people keep mentioning, you shouldn't assume that it is an intentional part of the song until that has been verified by the composer. When you interpret a peice of art, or even just some straight forward prose, you are attaching your own interpretations to it. MANY a time I have seen people make stunning arguments supporting the hypothesis that a work is making allusions, or working in under-lying themes, only to have the author say that it wasn't intended that way. Don't confuse your ability to see the image of a work (the bible) in a writing with an intentional allusion. Your probably wrong. No offense intended; but if you stare at a picture long enough, you see it on the wall. You probably took the bible to heart and read it (parts or whole) a couple times; this leads to immediately recognizing similarity in other works. I'm not saying there aren't allusions. I'm just saying that I could claim that the work was written alluding to the part in hitchhikers guide when the main characters were cast into space... it works, and could be readily supported with quotes and stuff, but it's probably not true. Be wary. |
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