| Marina and the Diamonds – I Am Not a Robot [Clock Opera Remix] Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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| Marina and the Diamonds – I Am Not a Robot [Clock Opera Remix] Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I'm so glad someone posted this iteration of the song. In the Clock Opera remix there are subtle changes to parts of the chorus that don't necessarily change any meaning, but just fix the remix of their song. I was scratching my head at a couple parts but the translation above makes perfect sense. <3 the remix. |
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| Static-X – Burn To Burn Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Fairly broad interpretation, maybe this does nothing but reveal how cynical I am. I think burn is used as two different metaphors in this song. When he says burn to burn, then says a cryptic line about what he burns to burn I think he's using the first burn to mean desire and the second burn to mean destroy. Burn to burn the seeds we sow would be desire to destroy what we create. I think this song is about the full spectrum of human emotion/mentality/moral beliefs. I don't have any real strong reference in the song... Here's the way I take a few of the lines in it though: "Static in sound" Static is a repetitous chorus of individual sounds or noises. Each individual in the human race is a 'piece' of static in sound. Whether our sound ends up sounding like static or not, I think that's what this metaphor is implying. "Uncurable" Its our nature. There is no cure, there is no disease... depending on the piece of static to which you're listening. "you plant the seed you fill the need we give to take" I think everything about human action and desire is based on other humans. We constantly plant seds in each other by providing point of reference. Reference others use to judge every other aspect of their lives. I almost think this line should be 'you feel the need'. In a way act towards people based on how they act. Specifically based on how they act as compared to our point of reference, compared to what we believe is right. Whenever a need is felt an action is taken and a seed is planted. "our eyes they burn" No matter who you are or what you believe there is a counter. There is another person, or even whole group of people, who believes something you don't. Believes something you think is wrong and vice versa. No matter who you are you will witness your interpretation of filth. It burns your eyes and often compels you to plant a seed (yell at that idiot who offended you, tell that kid its not nice to hit people). "sensing the feel feeling the real" You sense the difference between your baseline point of reference, your belief and what you're actually seeing. This isn't concious but instead a feeling you get. You don't remember the specific experience that gave you a given belief, but you'll act on it concretely all the same. "burn to burn the seed we sow" as humans we desire to destroy eachother, because we all differ. Collectively we feed off eachother just like we feed off the world around us. "burn to flow into the sorrow" Here is where my cynacism comes in and gives me an interpretation for this song: the desire he described using 'burn to burn the seed we sow' takes us all, collectively, to burn. To be destroyed. Our desire to believe and live by what we have seen and experienced (or been told in some's cases) differentiates us. Everything we are is so heavily influenced by those around us yet this drives us to differ ourselves and divide. Sorrow represents the lack of unity. "burn to burn the seed we sow burn to grow into the sorrow" Grow into the sorrow makes me certain of the loopy paragraph above. We grow into a begrudging love and respect of eachother and our differences. Kids fight the growing up process so much in so many places but get awful comfy once they're finished. "I'm staring deep I'm staring bleak I search in vain" Looking for that reason. "Your flower glows Your mother knows" Don't feel strong about this but to me this line illustrates the connected nature of humans. Your flower is your personality or even more basic your self, anything you are. The person who raised you knows you, they made you. The people in your life made you. Maybe better to say you made yourself on the people in your life. You learned how to act and how to behave by the positive or negative feed back you gathered from those around you. This loops back on static in sound, the individual - the whole. "as winter comes as time passes we forget the static in sound" As people age they become more and more set in their ways. They become more specific to the long road they themselves have travelled and more closed off to the potential roads that have been travelled by those around them. You slowly stop branching from those around you and become your own tree, we forget all the individuals. Winter is death by the way. "static in sound delusional you plant the seed you fill the need" When saying 'static in sound' here after the bit about us becoming more closed off individuals makes me feel like he's stating this specifically about the individual now. Before he was using 'static in sound' to give you the scope of humanity. Now he's using it to say you're a piece of static at this point. You're no longer viewed as some of the sound. "we give to take our hands they learn sensing the feel feeling the real" I'd feel more confident in my interpretation if these few lines where at the beginning of the song. 'Our hands they learn' I think supports my whole 'you grow off those in your life' concept. With the idea of learning close by 'sensing the feel feeling the real' makes me think he's now stating what has happened to you, now here at winter's edge. You sensed the feel (the feeling you got from the reactions of others to you) and you felt out the real, determined what felt right and wrong to make up your self. Whew. That was long winded and probably about 9 years too late. |
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| Fatboy Slim – The Rockafeller Skank Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Rockafeller. "Rok rok rok rok rok rok rockafella, rockafella" |
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| Fatboy Slim – Weapon Of Choice Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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This is a 'years-late' reply, but I can stop myself. A lot of music (genre spanning, not just techno) starts with a core meaning, even a specific meaning but gets 'white' washed out by the time it reaches main stream. Even others are intently washed so as to hide their meaning and make the journey for finding the meaning become your meaning. Your only cheating yourself not finding a reason to enjoy songs with no meaning. On the flip side, I'd bet that the songs you say hold the most meaning to you have absolutely no meaning to others and vice versa. Meaning can be placed in songs, I don't think songs ever inherently contain meaning. |
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| The Prodigy – Their Law Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| You must not read much on this website then. Look up a lyrics on a few Tool songs, try Forty Six & 2. | |
| The Prodigy – Their Law Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| No way this is the complete set of lyrics to this song, insert notwithstanding. More is said in this song than what's listed above. | |
| Infected Mushroom – Becoming Insane Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Voy perdiendo English translation: "I'm loosing". After watching the music video for this song I'm convinced its self destruction has something to do with it. I'm still following the lines I drew two comments back, but I'm thinking the song may represent some sort of sub-consciously intentional shift to insanity. |
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| Infected Mushroom – Becoming Insane Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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There's some Spanish later in the song that's not mentioned here as well. I don't know any Spanish so I can only guess at spelling here... It comes during the part of the song where he's saying "Insane, Insane, Insane, Insane ,Insane, I'm becoming insane" Sounds like its something like 'Mui per viendo'. Like I said, though... No idea on Spanish. |
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| Infected Mushroom – Becoming Insane Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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This song hooked me on Infected Mushroom. This sound is so uniquely constructed... Sure its all borrowed sounds and effects but they acheive a feeling in the conglomeration that is supernaturally motivating to me. I think Becoming Insane is about how a person can slowly 'reason' themselves into insanity if they don't have others to correct their path. If you come to a wrong conclusion but don't realize its incorrect immediately you can get caught up building other conclusions incorrectly as well. Being wrong about on thing doesn't make you insane, but being wrong about a fundamental like a common moral can set a plethora of your concepts wrong. This song is a man's realization that he's mistaken and that he's not sure where he was mistaken. He's asking for help from his peers to see his faults and turn back to accuracy. |
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| Infected Mushroom – I Wish Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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There's a Skazi remix of this song that actually sounds more like traditional IM. I Wish has one of their shorter song run times. Skazi's remix adds some instrumental depth keeps the dope vocals and brings the run time up to that of a more standard IM song. Great song, both versions. This song likens life to a game, but takes a couple different dives into and out of that metaphor. Not sure the specific meaning. |
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| Infected Mushroom – I'm The Supervisor Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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This song sounds like two completely different songs from the parts mentioned a supervisor to the parts asking you to come dance. It has strong feeling, even if there is little to no meaning. |
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| Infected Mushroom – Drop Out Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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You turn to drugs for a different angle on your problems. You tune into the mentality changes that they motivate. You drop out of society's idea of a 'good' productive member. My opinion. |
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| A Perfect Circle – The Noose Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I think its about being an ugly, bad person and acting as though you're not. Masking your ugliness and hatred in false positives. Lying to the people around you to make them think you're a good person, amicable. Lying yourself a nice little halo. You kill the people you lie to though, you offset their point of reference and kill any hope of them having true feelings towards you because now they don't know you. Doing this causes the exact opposite effect from what motivates those towards it. The halo you create turns into hatred when those around you see the truth and your relationships are choked out by it. As will all Maynard songs... Many, many meanings. |
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| Infected Mushroom – Change the Formality Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I'm not sure every song has a straight meaning and I'm even less sure that this song should be interpreted... but I think its about making decisions and not looking back no matter the consequences. Even if it means killing people. The mention to changing formality doesn't quite match up with that idea, who knows? |
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| Yeasayer – Final Path Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Not sure, because he wings his voice a little funny here... but I think: "You gotta let em sort out the good doeser" Should be: "You gotta let em sort out the good dancers" Possibly referring to the earlier part of the song that mentions dancing 'til we're gone. Given that he says you gotta let 'them' sort out I think he might also be talking about some kind of rapture. The good dancers being those who have lived their lives well (or religiously). |
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| Yeasayer – Sunrise Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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@ technicolorsound: Yeasayer's reference to the sunrise changes through the song, too, so I think your translation of the sunrise's meaning fits well. I think its less about evolution, though, and more so just about the aging process and how perspective changes from young to old. I think he's using 'sunrise' as that which is most desired. The first time he says "I want to get in the sunrise" is after the part of this song sang from the younger perspective. In this first reference 'sunrise' might mean attention or the spot light, maybe even fame. The second time he says "I want to get in the sunrise" sounds more like he's tired of the game he played through his youth and just wants to see the truth or the end. Here I would interpret the 'sunrise' to be death. |
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| 30 Seconds to Mars – From Yesterday Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Someone's already said it, I'm sure... 9 pages of comments >.> He's a leader, any leader fits. Luckily we haven't had a world dictator yet, so every leader we've had has been a stranger to some. He doesn't want to read the message that people don't need leaders. |
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| Rob Zombie – Meet The Creeper Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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So... I could see Rob Zombie joking that this song is about rats, but even at that I don't like that way Mr.Lyricexpert makes it sound obvious then lists some downright wacky interpretations: "Well rats are living creatures and people have been known to have rats on their bed. Duh!", "Do I even need to explain this lyric? No, I won't bother." Those are opinions and far from expert. I think this song is about people's tendency towards doing evil or towards evil urges (not that everyone has these tendencies, just about it them general). I'm not going to try to fit every part of this song to my opinion because I honestly can't make a strong connection to all of it, but here are a few I think support my claim: 'Creature core' refers to the instinctual/primal nature of sinister urges. 'Rats are we/can't break free' speaks to our inability to see the urges for what they are, our inability to resist. Rats are scavengers and are motivated by instinct alone, not at all by thought. He's comparing us to rats in the way that we let our urges move us without at all consider the urge/motivation. 'Stabbin out the city's crowd' crowds tend to be capable of the worst atrocities. |
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| Static-X – Stem Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Most of its pretty obvious once presented with this concept. A few lines that could use a bit of help: "damn good thing it isn't a crime i've got a dirty gun up against my head" It isn't a crime if the goverment is doing it. Proverbial gun against our heads of course. The gun is this research. With it they're going to force us to obey. "cleanse and purge the ill from the inside a burning conscience severs the stem " Cleanse and puge the ill - ill being our ability to act freely (maliciously or otherwise). From the inside meaning from our inside, from our DNA. A burning conscience would be a firey or action oriented conscience, a deep 'burning' feeling that this is the right way to save the world. Severing the stem is severing us from our stem cells, severing us from our means to decide, severing us from our core, our most important element. Both of these comments reflect a personal opinion, I have no references. |
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| Static-X – Stem Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Song is about stem cell research and how its not being used to cure diseases, but being used to cure the human disease - free will. | |
| Slipknot – Eyeless Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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The line 'You can't see California without Marlon Brando's eyes' does have meaning that is pertinent to this song, though kinda side-lined from the main theme. What he's saying when he says 'You can't see California without Marlon Brando's eyes' is that you can't possibly know something without having experienced it yourself. Which makes me think that this song is actually a bash on therapy. Therapists are 'eyeless', trying to describe 'california' without having ever seen it. /stop /think |
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| Slipknot – Sulfur Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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JeffR12345, state your references if possible, please. /agree overall though... This song is about self-doubt and comparing yourself to the average. When you see differences between yourself and the average it makes you think you're wrong, it hurts (like breathing in sulphur), but you should learn to embrace those differences. |
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| Mudvayne – Have It Your Way Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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'You leave us all behind Broken with precision Blind leading the blind Have it your way You've left us all behind Riddled with deception Pepper us with lime Have it your way' That part of this song, specifically, is only mildly political. Our way of life bleeds through into our nation's politics. Blind leading the blind indicates that people who are doing things wrong are teaching others. Celebrities account for a massive amount of entertainment in this country and celebrities are rewarded for being vain and drama-riddled. They are handed money for creating adverse situations that suck in viewers' attention. Reality shows constantly fead a stream of worthless mannerisms and mentalities into the average American. Listen close, I'm not just talking about the 'boob-tube'. Hell, it goes outside of the media altogether. If I make eye contact with the guy in baggy jeans and a puffy coat at the gas station I'm going to get my ass beat. I'm not the kind of guy that looks like an easy target either, its not just for personal gain. People have become riddled with some kind of hate disease that I see everywhere. I see in the office and I work for a major pharmaceutical company - a highly regulated environment where I see people trying to place blame on systems that are working fine because they fucked up and don't wanna admit it. I see people dodging pain they should be responsible for ending and causing pain from nothing! And now I'm going to stop ranting, because if you're reading this you're probably not one of the people I need to be talking to. Just really take a step back and look at what you're doing. Look at who you're affecting and how. Hell, try something different - even if its something that's currently working great - just to see if you can improve it. Solve a problem for no reason other than to help, to feel good. |
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| Mudvayne – Scarlet Letters Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I believe that this part: "Chained and broken Consumed by the light Farewell to you all I'll be fine Goodbye!" Should be: "Chained and broken Consumed by the light Farewell to you all I'll be fine Confined!" And I think this: "Knots in my back All hope is lost Say goodbye!" Should be: "Knife's in my back All hope is lost Say goodbye!" Emphasis on 'think' for both of those. I didn't look this up anywhere else, just the way it sounds to my ear. |
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| Mudvayne – Have It Your Way Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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It stabs a little deeper than Bush. Bush had a nation backing him. |
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| Mudvayne – Fish Out of Water Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I think this song is about the music industry and how it changes artists. I'll try to pull out a few backing lines: "I'm a fish out of water" suggests that he won't allow the process getting signed and produced change him - like it changed everyone else. "Kill me and choke on the bones" makes sense because he's gained so much popularity already. If his label didn't like what he was doing they'd end up screwing themselves if they tried to get rid of him. The next few parts "nothing matters, throw me an anchor, gotta drown this disease" show his hoplessness because of how everyone else allows themselves to be moldecd into what their labels want just to get the fame. "Gotta get back to the reason... etc" suggests that he'd like to see labels take a step out of the equation. "buy my soul so you can sell me" this is the line that made me think of this interpretation... The label buys him with a contract so they can shape and sell him. "All these fallen angels" - refers to all of the other artists in the industry that sold themselves that stopped making music the way they wanted and enjoyed most in exchange for the fame. All those fallen angels hanging up there for us to see. I could spend a bit more time trying to tie every line of this song into this meaning - but I'm not going to because this isn't what I hear when I'm listening to the song. I hear anguish over following a lead that you don't agree with - anger over having listened to a teacher who's teaching you just to help themselves. I hear reason to follow myself and drop those assumptions that the attraction of fame and popularity build into you. |
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| Mudvayne – Fish Out of Water Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Another incorrect lyric from above: "Up the creek with no paddle (Up the creek with no paddle) Through the oars of a board (Through the oars of a board) No one seems to care at all anymore Gotta get back to the meaning Gonna break backs of the poor" <-Should be-> "Up the creek with no paddle (Up the creek with no paddle) Throw the oars overboard (Throw the oars overboard) No one seems to care at all anymore Gotta get back to the meaning Gonna break backs of the poor" |
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| Mudvayne – A Cinderella Story Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Nice work on those corrections, the comment above seems pretty accurate - no time to try to find an official site on it right at the moment. I'm pretty sure this song is about how a person's actions (specifically them leaving, or just being gone) has affected the singer. That's the general feeling I'm getting anyway. I may try to come back and break it down line by line - I might learn something else about it. Good song, Cud sounds both depressed and angry at the person who's affected him this way. Loving this new CD, its growing on me. |
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| American Head Charge – A Violent Reaction Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I'm going to try to break this song apart. I've been a fan of AHC for a while now - sad the band is no longer together/alive/making music. To me this song is about how a person will try to use you to make gains in their life, but how that usage and that mentality only leads to both parties being let down. Let's start with the interpretations: "Lead me around And nurse my broken wing With all the promises You can never honor" "Lead me around" I think is meant to sound derogatory - Like Martin doesn't like being lead by someone... As if they're interjecting themselves into his life to begin with. "and nurse my broken wing" this line indicates that they're making an effort to help Martin, or at least making it look that way. "with all the promises you can never honor" this indicates that the methods the person is using to help Martin are false or made-up. These lines collectively lead me to believe that someone is there trying to make it look like they're helping you when they're not. "I just don't care enough To react to vain attempts Sent only to perpetuate One's selfish little world" These four lines paint a picture that Martin knows the person is trying to con him, trying to become his friend for personal gains, but he just doesn't care to swat them down for it. "I just don't care enough to react to vain attempts" - vain attempts to look kind or look like they're your friend, vain because Martin sees through the ploy. "sent only to perpetuate one's selfish little world" The vain attempts are being used just to further themselves. "You won't see what I've become You'll wait and watch and still you're only let down" This line can be taken a few different ways within the bounds of my interpretation, but I'd like to think it relates that the person doesn't know that Martin is on to them so they'll try to play out their usage of Martin until they're finally let down and they find out that its not going to work - they're not going to get what they want out of him. "A violent reaction Struggling only to keep myself alive" This line (if following the interpretation given of the few lines before it) reveals how the person finally finds out what Martin has become. Martin gets sick of the person's foolish game and reacts violently, tells them to get lost. Then he says that he's doing so - he's struggling - only to keep himself alive. He's reacting violently in self defense because they approached him with malicious intent to begin with. "Now here I stand For nothing no one at all I lead you down Begging to touch you in the cold" This verse of the song gets a bit loopier and harder to interpret, I'm sure a couple different meanings could be pulled from this and some that contradict my interpretations. I'll continue with my scenario though: "Now here I stand for nothing no one at all" To me this line says that Martin's no longer standing up for himself, he's no longer acting in self defense, he's gone beyond that... which might point to the fact that he's going to over-retaliate for what the person has done to him. "I lead you down begging to touch you in the cold" 'begging' and 'touch' make this line feel funny when interpreting it this way, but I think I'm fairly accurate here. Martin is going to kill this person. It would be easy for Martin to not let on that he knows the person is just looking out for theirself - and it would be easy for Martin to use that to bait the person into a situation that makes it easy to attack back and possibly kill them. Touching them in the cold would be seeing them dead. "You give me a reason I will not be the one Through all the nonsense There is a constant" These lines translate a little roughly too, but I think Martin's saying that they gave him a reason to retaliate and that he'll not be the one that they take advantage of - and throughout this whole game, this nonsense, there is a constant. I believe this line is meant to bleed into the next one saying that the constant is that the person taking advantage of Martin won't see what he's become. "Cause this feeling Has dawned the face of you" These lines detail Martin's reason for feeling that he has to react violently - because he realized what this person was, saw their true face, when he felt that he had to react violently to them. If you think about this situation in real life if you react violently towards someone who's trying to get something out of you maliciously - if you confront them about it they normally attack back, they normally show you what they really are, how ugly they really are - in that sense you reacting violently shows you their true face. |
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| Tool – The Patient Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Wow, a lot of comments on this one. I Haven't read them all but I'm going to post what I think this song means from Maynard, and what this song means to me. First what I think Maynard wrote it as: In this song he describes his journey as a musician. I'm going to break apart the main 'paragraphs' of this song sequentially. This might get a bit long... "A groan of tedium escapes me, startling the fearful" He's groaning about how tedious it is to continually analyze his thoughts and translate them into an attractive message designed to get our attention and teach us something "is this a Test? It has to be" He's talking about his life in general. Life is testing him, his way of passing the test is to send his message, teach what he's learned to as many as possible. "otherwise I can't go on Draining patience, drain vitality, this paranoid, paralyzed vampire act's a little Old " In putting his message together he has to contantly think about the ignorant and unaware that he's 'teaching'. Just paying attention to them and trying to lift them up drains him. If this wasn't a test that he thought he was passing then he'd quit. "But I'm still right here, givin' blood, keepin' faith and I'm still right here " He's still living the best he can, passing the test the best he knows how by continually finding new ways to open our minds, to teach us the things he's learned. He's still giving us his attention. "Wait it out Gonna wait it out Gonna wait it out (Be patient) " He's sticking to his path, he's gunna continue to practice his chosen path because he still thinks its worth it. He still has hope for the ignorant. "If there were no rewards to reap No loving embrace to see me through" The rewards = monetary and social gain, the loving embrace = the love and admiration of his fans. "This tedious path I've chosen here" The tedious path is the work he does, him teaching us. "I certainly would've walked away By now " He would have quit trying to lift people out of the gutters, or help them lift themselves out. If it wasn't for the good he could see coming out of it, he would have quit doing it. This next part is where I decided that this song was specifically talking about Maynard's will to continue helping people as he is. "If there were no desire to heal The damaged and broken met along" We, his listeners, are the damaged and broken... He has a desire to heal us, to help us by helping us realize more of ourselves. This small difference from the previous version of this same paragraph points to us, points to his attempts to help us. "This tedious path I've chosen here I certainly would've walked away By now " If he didn't have a desire to heal us, he wouldn't be doing it. "And I still may " I do not like the implications of this line as seen through my interpretation. He's saying he still may quit his life's work, which is helping us... He may quit making music. I'm sure he will someday, I just don't like to hear him considering it yet. I'm sure I have a lot more to learn from him. "Must keep reminding myself of this I must keep reminding myself of this " I think this line comes from the times Maynard feels fed-up with the bad side of his career. He has to keep reminding himself of the rewards and the loving embraces. The rest of the song re-iterates previous parts of the song in ways that time them together: "If there were no rewards to reap (I must keep reminding myself of this)" He has to remind himself of each and every part of the whole to make an accurate decision to continue. "I must keep reminding myself of this" is repeated after every line of the paragraph sung earlier in the song. He's taking the time to recognize each reason each point of why he's doing what he does... This is where my meaning begins to come in. I see this song in a broader light, personally. When I listen to this song I think about the different situations in my life and all of the different factors that affect those situations. I try to look at every person, every feeling, every THING as a whole. I try to see every single part of what I'm thinking about so I can accurately judge how to interact with it. This song reminds me to keep being vigilant, keep taking the entire picture into view before making decisions. It keeps me from being irrational, and makes me think rationally when I'm angry, or depressed. When I can't seem to focus on the right things... I listen to this and step back to take a larger look at the picture. |
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| Tool – The Grudge Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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@ madson4562: I agree with pretty much your entire breakdown of the song, except I think the word 'grudge' in the song itself is a metaphor. I don't think he's only talking about a grudge, or being angry at someone. I think he's talking about the mentality that supports grudges. I think Maynard is referring to that entire way of looking at life and the situations we go through. Things rings true with his example of Saturn too. Saturn didn't really have a grudge against his children, he was just power hungry and afriad of loosing it. Its that sort of mentality that I think Maynard is slinging mud at. I absolutely |
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