Queensrÿche – Someone Else Lyrics | 15 years ago |
This song (along with 'Promised Land' and 'Damaged') is practically Geoff in a nutshell: After the success of 'Empire', his life fell apart - Fame, alcohol, divorce. Something snapped in his head and he realised just who he had become. Moreover, that this person was not him - it was someone else. |
Queensrÿche – I Will Remember Lyrics | 15 years ago |
The resistance (Chemical Youth) lost the battle to regain the planet for humanity. This song reflects how the chaos started. It is a song to lament a civilization's demise. A song before igniting a nuclear missile meant to end machine domination and also whatever is left of humanity. The star that came tonight. "Rage For Order" ends with people choosing suicide over slavery. Once upon a time mankind was threatened with extinction by way of nuclear exchange. Yesterday communism threatened democracy. Now we face environmental disasters no less hideous than nuclear warfare. And free-market democracies are saddled with spiritual rot that transforms humans into consumers knowing the price of everything and value of nothing. http://www.nucleusprog.com.ar/ingles/i-queensryche2.htm |
Queensrÿche – Screaming In Digital Lyrics | 15 years ago |
The supreme danger the rebellion (explained in Chemical Youth) faces is infiltration of the rebellious youth ranks by digital personality transplantation. A deadlier from of brainwashing that turns resistance fighters into collaborators. Machines have studied humanity well by replacing biological and emotional fatherhood with silicon parentage; one's thoughts, feelings and dreams are under their control. Humanity continues to resist: "I'm not your slave You can't control my emotions No Father Please let me keep learning Can't you see I'm human Can't you tell I'm not your slave Oh Father no Please don't keep me from dreaming Oh can't someone hear No one can hear when you're Screaming in digital." The concession that machine is "father" and human "son" has already taken hold. http://www.nucleusprog.com.ar/ingles/i-queensryche2.htm |
Queensrÿche – Chemical Youth (We Are Rebellion) Lyrics | 15 years ago |
In the first song of the mini-conceptual set, Surgical Strike, military operations destroy "enemy" targets. In "Neue Regel", a philosophy is fastened to justify and guide future operations as the new society takes shape. By the third song, "Chemical Youth (We Are Rebellion)", a rebellion is brewing among the youth who finally realize: "if we don't stand together we stand to lose the future." The youth understand their present circumstances all too well: technology has been warped into a religion, eventually mutating into a digital dictatorship. And though born in a computer-operated generation, the first to pervert machines are not the youth, but the elders of society. Tired, bitter old men feeling their mortality seize power through machines only to have machines seize power from them. The Youth are the last hope of every generation - but there's danger.... http://www.nucleusprog.com.ar/ingles/i-queensryche2.htm |
Queensrÿche – Neue Regel Lyrics | 15 years ago |
A clever anthem to "New Order"(english translation of the german Neue Regel) - that historical quest to create a utopian society. You do not need to be a good student of history to know every attempt at establishing new order has failed. Quite simply, the search for a new order is a fool's errand. How can imperfect people develop a perfect governing system for imperfect people? One can proclaim his group "superior," but we know what follows after that fantasy. "Neue Regel" is the theoretical framework forged to bring a semblance of logic - that goes that word again! - to lighten the burden of the crimes and punishments ultimately necessary to implement a Utopia. Bottom line: there's nothing "new" to new order; it's merely semantic window dressing designed to disguise murder and madness. http://www.nucleusprog.com.ar/ingles/i-queensryche2.htm |
Queensrÿche – Surgical Strike Lyrics | 15 years ago |
War has turned into near-bloodless operations executed by pilots quoted as saying "it felt like a video game". As in the song, assessment was not by humans, but by machines peering through a camera lens. With the aid of super machines, man's language about war radically changes into terms about "surgery," "collateral damage" and "target-rich environments." http://www.nucleusprog.com.ar/ingles/i-queensryche2.htm Once dehumanizing language begins, the actions are certain to follow, and nearly impossible to halt. A bloody, terrible war - as all wars are and should be remembered, for our own sake - is reduced to a medical procedure like cutting out cancer. The disease is war, its symptoms deadly technology, the cure - human contact and understanding. |
Queensrÿche – Before The Storm Lyrics | 15 years ago |
"Before the Storm" is a powerful song that perilously straddles hope and hell, reminding us in the present - before the storm - that there still remains time to correct our evil ways. Our system of democracy awaits its ultimate test; can it prevent the destruction of humanity by codifying divine rights, or must we also be conscious of our responsibilities regarding those rights? Sadly, society has learned freedom by choice is not for all men. We build prisons and lock away fellow citizens who abuse their freedoms by committing heinous crimes. http://www.nucleusprog.com.ar/ingles/i-queensryche2.htm |
Queensrÿche – NM 156 Lyrics | 15 years ago |
The song stresses an important element as it tells the tale of man and machine merging into a so-called super being bent on exterminating the imperfect, inefficient human being: emotion is partly what makes us human. The super-logic of machinery able to wipe out civilization is merely a synonym for savagery. There is nothing "superior" in this logic - all humans possess the attributes of emotion and logic. Machines capable of such logic must never be classified "superhuman", for they are but a tiny fraction of what it truly means to be a human being - their cold logic is the worst part of us that forgets, loses or disguises the better angles of a special nature. It can be fairly argued that dictators are machine-like creatures suppressing their own humanity while employing twisted logic to spew inhuman mathematical formulas we now call genocide. http://www.nucleusprog.com.ar/ingles/i-queensryche2.htm |
Queensrÿche – Empire Lyrics | 16 years ago |
By way of comparison, the US is currently spending $3000 a SECOND in Iraq. |
Skid Row – Psycho Therapy Lyrics | 16 years ago |
RACHEL BOLAN!! rocks the world's socks |
Skid Row – Breakin' Down Lyrics | 16 years ago |
Can you say: SAPPY? The one and only skid Row song I don't like. What's so great about it? Bach sounds like shit (well, not shit, that's not possible, but about as un-metal as you can get) and as for the lyrics... |
Nirvana – Been a Son Lyrics | 16 years ago |
oh, and also, for those who have said that it is about Francis, can i remind you that this song was written in 1989; Francis was born in 1992. Now unless i'm much mistaken it only takes 9 months to give birth not 4 years. |
Nirvana – Been a Son Lyrics | 16 years ago |
I know it has been said many a time, but believe it or not, this song REALLY IS about his Kurt's sister Kim. That's all well and good but what i wonder is WHY did he think (or believed other's thought) that Kim should have been a son? Someone said earlier that it was his dad that wanted a son but once again, WHY? Does it possibly (and i am NOT a homophobe, i repeat, NOT) have anything to do with the fact that she is lesbian? |
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