| Bumblefoot – Dash Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| ""Dash" I missed a close family member's funeral while on tour. Not the first time. I was told of the meaningful words that were said. One thing that struck me was how the headstone will have the date of birth, and the date of death... but it's the little 'dash' in-between the two dates that really matters. That dash represents everything that happens in-between those two dates, a person's entire life. In the end, everything we are, everything we care about, is just a 'dash'. We should respect that little line between the numbers, and make it a good one. Like Lennon said about life happening while we're off making plans, I think life is what passes by pointlessly when we concern ourselves with the wrong things. The little battles we wage against each other, those are the markers that life passes by in-between. I don't want to die and have that dash consist of wasted moments, bad choices and regrets. I'm making the effort to keep the poison out. This is the only chance. " | |
| Bumblefoot – Redeye Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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"So we're in this club in Tokyo, the band, crew, my wife, friends, having a great time. Only dim red lights in the club. This beautiful Japanese girl is all over us, couldn't understand a damn thing she was saying but spoke for hours. So there's me, my wife, this girl, we're just being silly, whatever, friends are laughing and taking pictures... get back to the hotel the next morning, go to bed, soon after I'm hearing this "voom voom voom" noise a half-second apart, I'm moving back and forth with it, thinking to myself "wow, the water's choppy." Then I realize I'm in a hotel, not on a boat. F**king earthquake. We get out of bed, the first thing I do is throw on a pair of pants - I WILL not die with my dick out, f**k that. We stand in the doorway of the bathroom, I hold my wife and tell her "this is gonna be a very long 30 seconds, just hang tight..." and we wait. The building didn't crumble, we went back to bed. The next time I saw my friends, the photos they took came up - they said "what was up with that girl?" Did you see the pictures? They showed me the pictures, and the white light of the camera flash revealed that our exquisite lady friend from the night before had some kind of super outbreak of conjunctiva goin' on, I mean one of her eyes was so red it looked like a crime scene photo. The lights in the club were red, so it canceled out the redness of her eye, no one could tell...! And if we died in the earthquake, we never would have known. It makes ya wonder - when people die, what little bit of discovery do they miss out on, what would they have learned if they lived one more day? So deep... For me, it was that the little Japanese girl had a red eye. Great." |
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| Bumblefoot – Glad To Be Here Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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" After getting off a tour, the transition back to civilian life ain't easy - life feels *wrong*, like it isn't yours and ya don't belong there. Within 12 hours, I'm going crazy, have even less tolerance for the little things that piss me off, need to drive faster than a shitty old Hyundai was meant to, and am at a loss on how to budget my time, re-learning what a day is and what it's suddenly supposed to consist of. "Glad To Be Here" came out of one of those moments where you're in the last place you'd want to be. Like in the 80's at the DMV, when the lines went out the door, ya get to the window and the lady says there's another form to fill out, and you have to wait on line again for another 3 hours. Or traffic court, waitin' to see the judge. I think I've seen half the ones in NJ, one in Westchester, got out of having to sit in one in Virginia. But yeah, if you're ever in that spot, in that kinda traffic, in that kinda trouble, or with those kinds of people, think of the verses to this song, it'll say it all for ya." |
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| Bumblefoot – Dash Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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"I hate all my f**king songs. It's not that I hate them, it's just that either I change and don't feel the personal connection anymore, or I've gone through such sh*t to make the song happen, that it's like re-living that time you had to pull a rusty hook out of your foot, and couldn't. Such a song is "Green". I wrote the song 10 years ago. What I mean is I heard the music, the melodies, the arrangement, the instrumentation, and the feeling I got from the song and the message of the words that needed to be written, in my head - just needed to get it out of my head and fill in the missing pieces. Had the music ready for the "Uncool" album I was writing for, but could not get the right words. Nothing said it like it needed to be said. I had to search. I searched for 4 years, sleeping each night with a notebook behind my head, and would sometimes wake up at 4am out of a deep sleep and write down a phrase. I finally had the words, depicting what I saw inside. It took another 4 years before I was *ready* to sing them. I wasn't ready to take on the song, after all of that, it was too big a deal. What the f**k, it's just a song, right? And I'm no Beethoven. So what the Hell's the big deal? I don't know - once in a while a song rules you like that, and you have to be ready to take the leap, it'll destroy you if you act to soon. This was one of those songs. The other was a song called "Heart Attack," written around the same time as Green. That one only took four years to find lyrics for, then record. And it took dying and seeing the white light to get that one out. " |
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| The Faceless – The Ghost of a Stranger Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I feel a bit crazy suggesting this, but this sounds like a morbidly sadistic murdering maniac who has a case of necrophilia.....and ultimately wishes to die next to this corpse which he seems to....love? | |
| The Faceless – Pestilence Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I agree with all of the comments about disease and such, but I think it's more specifically about the plague (The Black Death)- references to boils, falling limbs, people dying by the masses (about 60% of Europe's population died). This plague caused people to live a life similar to a morbid mutation of "Carpe Diem," in anger, depression, mistrust- ravenous animals. What really points to the plague, however, is the line, "Science becomes futile in the chaos," which I think is a clear reference to the blow medieval science took because of the plague- doctors became ultimately untrusted, as they could not do anything for anyone. Then again, it could be a prediction of something similar...who knows? It could also be an extended metaphor, or a combination of the three. |
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| Bumblefoot – Life Inside Your Ass Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I'm surprised nobody has commented on this yet! It's a really funny song about how the main character gets some shitty superficial bitch for a girlfriend. She only appears to care about him when other people are around (because he is a rock star of sorts). He uses all sorts of great metaphors...related to the ass. He has to deal with all her shit, and man does it stink. It's tense and crowded, and he feels like he's got nothing to hold on to. Pretty simple. | |
| Pain of Salvation – Flame To The Moth Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I believe that both of the above commenters are mostly correct, in that in this entire album, the main character is a representation of society (American in particular), and his suicide is a metaphor for the "progression" that society is making, and how it is more or less killing its self as it makes a hopeless leap of faith, believe that maybe this time, they'll fly. | |
| Shpongle – A New Way To Say Hooray Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| The Quote is from a speech by psychonaut Terrence Mckenna, I believe about DMT, and his experiences. The song as a whole probably reflects this and the commonality between the presence of other beings in DMT hallucinations. | |
| Shpongle – Divine Moments Of Truth Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| This song is supposedly about the use of DMT (note: _D_ivine _M_oments of _T_ruth), and probably meant to reflect the psychedelic experience. Often times, DMT users report a more "geometric" quality to hallucinations (I speak from reading, not experience), and I think the rhythm in this song reflect that, especially with the part in the intro where the meter changes around the melody, completely rearranging your interpretation of the melody...sort of like a perspective shift on life maybe. | |
| Shpongle – Divine Moments Of Truth Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| This song is supposedly about the use of DMT (note: _D_ivine _M_oments of _T_ruth), and probably meant to reflect the psychedelic experience. Often times, DMT users report a more "geometric" quality to hallucinations (I speak from reading, not experience), and I think the rhythm in this song reflect that, especially with the part in the intro where the meter changes around the melody, completely rearranging your interpretation of the melody...sort of like a perspective shift on life maybe. | |
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