| Fair to Midland – Short-Haired Tornado Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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To expound on the death of an atheist idea, I believe it's more about death in general and how atheists and theists view it and how that affects their lives. "If you croak, I hope you know I'm gonna toss you in the trash You can't really blame us; we're only doing what you asked" To an atheist once your life ends then that's that. Without life your body is essentially trash, as opposed to many religion's views that your body is a vessel to be treasured or preserved. So, to them, ritualistically preserving a body should be viewed as a waste of time. "If you have yourself a son, I'm gonna tell your baby boy That Father Time's chock full of lies, so don't jump in just yet" You come into the world being told you'll live a full life into old age, but that isn't the case for many. This is compounded by many religion's promising an eternal life following your mortal death. So, essentially, you're telling a child to live life to its fullest and to not be shackled to the promises of long and everlasting life since "Father Time's chock full of lies." "Doubting Thomas deserves much more than we can give If we win the lottery, let's buy an island just for him So when that hurricane tries beating down the door We can make him bat its eye 'til it can't see what's a... Until we can't see what's ahead" The atheist (Doubting Thomas) is at death's door so the theist's attempt to convert him, for they think he is a good man and deserves more than they believe he'll get (hell) so they can get him his own island in paradise, provided that they are correct in their beliefs and thus win the afterlife lottery. So, the hurricane is beating on the door (death is knocking) and they attempt to make him blink and make him abandon his beliefs, or lack thereof. But at the end of the day, they can't see what's ahead despite all their assurances in their beliefs. "Until we can't see what's ahead You can sew me in stitches Curse at the cautious While it lasts Cause soon we'll all forget" The atheist rejects their attempts. They can attempt to repair him, curse his non-belief, while it lasts because eventually everyone dies and thus forgets their beliefs. "If we croak, I hope you know it's gonna be in single files Hunting for models that were never worth the while" The religious die and they believe they'll line up for paradise as they have spent their entire lives striving for something people dream for and desired during life but resisted due to the promise of it being there in paradise for them after death. "Each one of us caught heat for throwing Jack Frost in July Staring at the sun 'til our eyes were done, we could not see what's a..." They threw snow balls in the middle of summer, or generating controversy over the impossible. They blinded themselves and attempted to blind others to believe in something they could not see in the first place. |
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| Beirut – Scenic World Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Sometimes life gets you down and sometimes you're on top of the world. | |
| Kid Cudi – Pursuit of Happiness (Nightmare) (feat. MGMT & Ratatat) Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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The song has double meaning, like most of the album... possibly triple. On one hand you have the pursuit of happiness by ignoring social norms and doing what you want to do that will make you the happiest in the end (eg. Going into entertainment instead of going to college for a business degree, or as he implied in the song to avoid gangs and 'avoid bullets'). Once you do this you don't turn back and if you fail then let people know you lived life to the fullest instead of being a drone. On the other hand you have the pursuit of "happiness" through intoxication to numb the pain you have. This is clearly a case where not everything that shines is gold, but once he forgets his problems/finds the 'happiness' then he'll be good. Still yet! Both could be at play with each other. The first verse was about pursuing happiness while the second was about pursuing 'happiness'. It is possible he attempted to pursue happiness, failed, and then turned to pursuing 'happiness' to deal with the pain of failure. This would explain why this song is labeled as a Nightmare: He tried to do what he loved, failed, and is now a broken addict. |
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| COG – What If Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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"What if Life was Just an Illusion Made up By you" This reminds of the the philosophy question of "Prove that this chair exists outside of your mind." |
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| Deathstars – Synthetic Generation Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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In monotheistic religions God is seen as everything, except the evil parts of the universe of aspects of the religion. This leaves the aspect of God in these religions to be paradoxical as something that is everything is not everything. Either God is everything or is nothing at all. |
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| Fair to Midland – Walls of Jericho Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| This is about the atomic bombings of Japan in WW2, which has been mentioned before. But what I haven't seen mentioned is "shedding the shade we made yesterday" as more proof of this. When a nuclear weapon is detonated the shadows it creates are burned into whatever surface they are on, so you quite literally have to shed off the shadows made days before afterwards. | |
| 3 Doors Down – The Real Life Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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It's about overcoming depression and the mental walls one puts up to protect oneself from traumatic situations (eg. abuse). You try to find a place to hide and you do by making walls so you cannot be hurt anymore. Then the situation passes but they are still there, causing you pain due to the loneliness that such typically brings with it. One day you decide that it isn't worth running from those "long days" anymore, for you can't hide from pain when hiding causes pain and look inside until you find the better part of you again. |
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