| Project 86 – Shiny Skin Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| A downloadable EP: http://www.amazon.com/This-Time-of-Year-EP/dp/B001L8LGEO/ref=sr_shvl_album_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1326675938&sr=301-3 | |
| DragonForce – A Flame for Freedom Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| It could be about a mythical land, like Gondor. | |
| DragonForce – A Flame for Freedom Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Good points. As an American I love to think of this song as being about the US. | |
| Project 86 – ...And The Rest Will Follow Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Here's the definitive answer to the meaning of "The Hand, The Furnace, The Straight Face": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5kye7YE-OA#t=1m59s | |
| Project 86 – Solace Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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If this song is truly about a record exec and not about something bigger then it's gone from being very deep to very shallow. Record company screwed you? Forget it and drive on. Give me something that will inspire me. I'd like it if P86 would not beat this issue to death for the rest of their careers. But I still love them. |
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| Project 86 – One Armed Man (play On) Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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| Project 86 – One Armed Man (play On) Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Drinking, drugs, one-night stands: anything that they use to try to feel alive but really only kills them. The analogy is that zombies go around trying to eat flesh and yet as much as they eat they are never satisfied. | |
| Project 86 – Spy Hunter Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Where did you get the idea that they dislike each other? And who is Aaron? The singer's name is Andrew. | |
| Project 86 – Breakneck Speed Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| I just finished It's All Downhill from Here, and it all becomes clear. It does appear to be about her, but if it is, I don't know if Schwab is being totally fair to her in this song. But he was certainly honest in the book about how badly he overthought the situation and utterly destroyed any chance of getting to know this young lady. | |
| Project 86 – Six Sirens Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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The last part of this song is missing from the entry. Anyway, the song seems clearly to be about the time limit we all have on our natural lives (hint: rhymes with 'beth'). The first two line appear to be about sitting and thinking about what you'll do with your days, and yet failing to rush headlong into a great cause. "I'm left with fences" indicates sitting on the proverbial fence of indecisiveness. It keeps talking about time passing and the inevitable point where you run out of time. "I smell the stench, unavoidable" seems to be about smelling the stench of death and the grave and knowing that each moment is getting you closer to it. "That this side equates with what awaits" seems to mean that what we do on this side of life, or on this side of the veil, in the physical, before we die and pass into the spiritual, translates into the next life. (Let us please put to death this myth that believing in an afterlife causes people to "focus only on that life" to the neglect of the here and now. On the contrary, believing that what we do here has consequences later gives even greater importance to our actions now.) The rest of the song seems to be about forgetting about the time that was already wasted (you can't do anything about it now so don't worry about it), prioritizing what you do because you don't have all the time in the world, and pushing yourself like hell to make great progress while you still can. |
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| Project 86 – The Spectacle of Fearsome Acts Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I think blondy269 covered the meaning as effectively as possible. This is one of several songs from P86 that serve to create a negative association with wrongdoing, others being Chimes, Sioux Lane Spirits, or Wrought on The Holiday's Eve. It's an idea that you really can't drill into your head too much, and the fact the P86 puts these ideas into their lyrics is something that makes them great. "The spectacle of fearsome acts" is a phrase used by Bill Cutting (played by Daniel Day-Lewis) in the movie Gangs of New York. This song, Two Glass Eyes and The Butcher may make reference to this character, as he was a butcher with a glass eye, as well as a dastardly fiend. He may be a reference point/character image for the destroyer archetype that is The Destroyer that P86 fights against lyrically in this album. If I'm lucky enough to run into Schwab again at the next P86 show I go to, I will ask him if he is indeed making this reference. We see the same theme of resisting evil in other P86 albums, too. You can't destroy evil; you can only keep fighting it. P86 lyrics are a big help in the battle for mankind's soul. Keep fighting, my brothers! |
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| Three Days Grace – Break Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| It certainly isn't a stretch to see drug references in this song, but I hope that's not the real meaning. There are more uplifting interpretations. The cover of this album shows people breaking television sets. Then the music video shows a really monotonous place where nothing exciting is happening, but when the guys start playing, their colors start interacting and these fans start sharing the air between the rooms they're in. (See the video for this to make sense.) Then paintballs start flying everywhere among them. It seems like the lyrics are encouraging you, if you're living in the doldrums (and TV is the embodiment of the doldrums), get up, interact with good friends, strike up a tune, play games and sports together. While phrases like "light it up" seem to reference drug use, most other aspects of the song and video don't do so. I keep thinking of the lyrics as referencing truly good things like friends and music and games and such. As long as I keep that association in my mind and disassociate it from the possible drug references, it remains an uplifting theme for me. It could even be about finding good things with which to replace one's former drug addiction. | |
| Project 86 – Cavity King Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Geeraff, I think the meaning of this line is actually more like this: I know you ache Put crudely, it means I know you're horny.. But she is alive Meaning the woman that you want to satisfy your ache is more than just a tool for that purpose. She can be devastated. |
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| Project 86 – Breakneck Speed Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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necktieremedy , you're a girl? Who knew.... Bu seriously, where did you get the idea about the Brook Whelan? Is that in one of Andrew's books? |
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| Project 86 – Shelter Me Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| CRT (cathode ray tube)--that is, non-flat--screens involve the use of mercury, among other horrid chemicals. This song seems quite clearly to be about television, IMO. Do the terms "media tablets" or "more screens" seem to make that case? It's about the BS you are fed on TV (consider how real "reality" TV is) and how we just turn our brains off and watch the horrible sh-t the TV feeds us. | |
| Project 86 – Sincerely, Ichobod Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I think we're over-analyzing this song. IMHO it's simply about painfully, forcefully living life in a way where you make a habit of cutting of your stupidity, cowardice, haughty spirit, and everything else that holds you down. The song's title and the phrase "off with your head" relate to the analogy from the story Sleepy Hollow, because at the end of the story, the weird horseman throws what might be his head at Ichabod Crane. In the same way, we are to cut off forcefully and painfully the parts of ourselves that destroy us. |
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| Project 86 – The Kane Mutiny Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Sounds like a prediction of the financial crisis. Actually it seems to be about corruption and bad choices in general, based on the cover and its similarity to that of Rival Factions. | |
| Project 86 – ...And The Rest Will Follow Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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MetaphoricBullet , that double meaning on "Rest" makes so much sense. In the P86 vodcast they say that "the hand, the furnace, the straight face" means being in a trial and keeping a straight face, i.e., not evincing the pain of the trial in your countenance. It's such a vital concept to anyone going through a trial. I think the most important and hopeful line for anyone going through a trial in this song is "never too late to recreate". It goes back to the previous track, "The Hand, The Furnace, The Straight Face", where it says You can take My worst mistakes And use them for excuses Or you can try... This lets you realize that even after all the ways you've managed to hork things, you can always renew. This it totally applicable to anyone's life. And I think P86 doesn't mention God explicitly in their music because they want to be accessible to a non-religious audience. I don't think that means God doesn't come into the equation so much as it means P86 is great at referring to godly things in a tactful or implicit way that won't alienate someone who's stigmatized against spiritual stuff. |
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| Angels and Airwaves – Sirens Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| What's up with Angels and Airwaves making all these happy sounding, upbeat songs that are about atrocious things? | |
| Metallica – The Judas Kiss Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| The bridge makes it pretty obvious. The Judas kiss is the stamp of corruption and evil on every human being (the residue of the betrayal by Judas). It also tells us that this mark is endemic to all mankind. | |
| Project 86 – The Great Golden Gate Disaster Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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It sounds far too religious to be just against Atlantic. Considering lyrics like "The fallen son that bought our freedom Is the I, the I that had to die" and "Outside you there's a remedy A destiny in identity" I think it's speaking to the So-Called Emperor. Many of P86's songs are defiant of some Unseen, Unspoken Power, just like this one. Consider Stein's Theme, The Spy Hunter, and especially A Text Message to the So-Called Emperor and Solace. Consider the meaning of controlling your impulse for taking violent revenge on your enemies that was conveyed in My Will Be a Dead Man. I can't believe they would chew out Atlantic beyond Breakdown in 3/4. And Breakdown in 3/4 wasn't quite as defiant as this song; it was more like sarcastically saying "We'll see how well we do without you now" (and I think it fits the bill as an address to Atlantic). I think highly defiant songs like this, though, one are reserved for the Unseen Power of the earth. |
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| DragonForce – A Flame for Freedom Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| This song seems to be about the USA standing as the outpost against evil and tyranny in the world. | |
| The Proclaimers – I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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haver Verb 1. Scot & N English dialect to talk nonsense 2. to be unsure and hesitant; dither [origin unknown] |
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| The Proclaimers – I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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haver Verb 1. Scot & N English dialect to talk nonsense 2. to be unsure and hesitant; dither [origin unknown] |
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| Project 86 – Doomsday Stomp Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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According to Project's short-lived podcast, this song is about the band briefly living in Long Beach, and being happy to leave it. And I had thought it was something really profound. |
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| The Offspring – Trust In You Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| It sounds to me like this is Dexter saying, despite all the horrible crap he's gone through in life, he is now finally willing to believe in God. | |
| Project 86 – Shiny Skin Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I think this song is about the untamable lust every man has to deal with. | |
| Project 86 – Wrought On This Holiday's Eve Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Schwab really issues the verbal beatdown on infidelity, especially concerning some father figure. I wonder if someone in his life gave him cause for this. | |
| Metallica – All Nightmare Long Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Could be about terrorists continually trying to hide, but the goodguys will get them eventually. | |
| VNV Nation – Lastlight Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| That doesn't sound far-fetched at all. The idea that this is about dropping acid is far-fetched. If you're seeking "Answers that lay within you all along" then you're not finding them in acid. Plus, I think Ronan/VNV is considerably more wholesome and uplifting than to sing about and celebrate drug use and thus, by definition, addiction. | |
| Project 86 – A Text Message To The So-Called Emporer Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I don't disrespect anyone's interpretation, but I'm certain Schwab would not have a song/poem suggest anything Marxist in nature, Marxism being so emphatically anti-religion. | |
| Project 86 – Spy Hunter Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| How about the empty room that they're playing in in the video? And the fact that no one's watching; they're just playing in front of a wall. The camera angle emphasizes this twice. Is that party of the 'emptiness' metaphor? | |
| Metallica – -Human Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Including what everyone else said about a reincarnation, consider 'don't you leave me Father Time, take me with you'. So he's becoming timeless: immortal, as a vampire. 'tell me, does your sun still shine?' He's a vampire now; he can't be in the sun so he since he can never see it he wonders if it even still shines. The dripping down the throat sounds like the vampire taking the blood he needs for his embrace. 'Barely breathing, minus human...drip it down my throat again.' The moment of ecstasy and death during the embrace, and the all-powerful blood. Then when he must come up for air: he must tear himself away from the blood and take his first breath as a revenant. That's what it sounds like to me, anyway. |
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| Metallica – -Human Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Sounds like the embrace of a vampire. | |
| Muse – Take a Bow Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Thank you for that, LittleLilyGoblin. "Much worse" doesn't begin to describe the difference. | |
| Muse – Take a Bow Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| This song would make a lot more sense in a way applied to Osama but unfortunately it's not. He doesn't run a country; he runs a network of terrorism. And he doesn't *risk* lives, he purposefully *ends* them. 'Now freedom's concealing itself, What we've become is contrary to what we want' also doesn't quite work for Osama: he's more than explicit enough about wanting to eliminate freedoms, as well as wipe out every last American, Israeli, Jew, Christian, and for that matter every non-Islamist on the planet. Again, except for a few technicalities, this song would more adequately apply to terrorists, that is, if we didn't hate ourselves more than they do. | |
| VNV Nation – Genesis Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Genesis by VNV Nation actually seems a lot like Psalm from the Bible. It begins by lamenting about evil phenomena, but then take a 180-degree turn and speaks of hope from On High. The change isn't only in the lyrics, but the music changes and becomes sort of more upbeat in the chorus. IMHO, 'Even lands we once called home/Lie undiscovered and unknown' speaks of a spiritual world. 'Only Heaven's silence for an answer.' We think we know that spiritual world, but we really don't. I think this is an expression of Ronan's doubt, but also of his hope. We cannot clearly hear or see God, but we can still choose to have hope. It really follows the same formula that so many of the Psalms of David follow. |
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