| NOFX – Stickin In My Eye Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I think this song is about money. The entire feel of the song is being insulated in some fashion, senses deprived and experiencing only part of the full world. The sauna, fog, hearing voices but not being able to make out the words, it all reeks of someone on the better half of things with a foundation of wealth to protect them from the ills of the earth. 'Kill beneath the camera, watch the world begin to cry' is a scene all in itself, to be considered as "one" and not two separate things, as it's referenced again "_IT_ comes from what's been stickin in my eye", "_IT_" being the aforementioned scene -- killing on TV and the misery that follows. "The killing" is caused by the imbalance of wealth in the world, insulating some and (quietly) starving others. |
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| NOFX – You Will Lose Faith (7" Version) Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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"fuckinaround" couldn't be more wrong. This song is about losing faith. It's titled YOU WILL LOSE FAITH, as in, you WILL lose faith when the world turns against you and even your so called benevolent and righteous God turns his back on your shitstain of a life. Religion is for tools. Genocide happens every day, billions are slaughtered across the face of the earth in the course of a year simply for being "in the wrong place at the wrong time". If "our God" was a benevolent God then he would have never given mankind free will to begin with. If "our God" actually was a quasi-intelligent being, we would all be sucking soft serve ice cream out of each others' asses and living for a thousand years off of cotton candy. Stop wasting your time in church every Sunday and realize that this is it -- this is all we have, the here and now and then and to-be. We are organisms of complete chance. I won't piss it away believing in something obviously created to control the masses and promote an elite few to the head of the world in the early days of man. |
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| Catch 22 – Giving Up Giving In Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Whoa now laddy, Streetlight didn't lose Catch 22 at all. I know this is six years later, but still. Streetlight was a massive improvement. The quality of the Keasbey Nights CD that they re-released is absolutely awesome and it really feels like they gave all the songs the sort of attention to detail that they needed. Catch 22 CDs were always very shifty feeling -- good!, but still shifty and grainy on quality -- the Streetlight CDs are very well put together in contrast. Also, Everything Went Numb and *ESPECIALLY* Somewhere in Between are AWESOME and only showcase what an awesome -bastard- Tomas is with lyrics and music. I love the guy. ...so, uh...there! |
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| Streetlight Manifesto – Day In, Day Out Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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The band that "claims" to be Catch 22 IS Catch 22. The album was not intended to screw over anyone, Tomas was just unhappy with how shitty the original recording sounded and wanted to do his pieces justice. The next album they're working on is Songs of the Revolution where they record various anthems and hymns from countries across the world in the BOTAR style. |
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| Streetlight Manifesto – The Receiving End of it All Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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My friend and I were discussing this song. I'm sure it's already been touched on, but the general theme is the LAMENT of a man who is trying to love a broken woman, and it's a futile effort. ("And when he left us he said, "It's not so bad" That motherfucker he took everything we had") -- ("Dropped out of every single friendship that you had They nearly loved you, but you never could have loved somebody back") The father figure left early on and the girl, because of it, had grown distrusting of others, not wanting to grow attached for the fear of abandonment. ("Tell me of your sorrows; tell me everything from the start. I'd like to do my part to help a friend in need,") Despite this the boy TRIES to help her in every way he can think about. He wants to LISTEN to her, he wants to BE THERE for her, he wants to be in a relationship with her so badly, but she can't commit. "The Receiving End of It All" can be applied to both the girl and the boy in this relationship. The boy is being pushed away by the girl's broken state of mind, the inability to commit, and on the receiving end of all the "punishment" from her. The girl, obviously, is on the receiving end of some serious injustice done in her past. The title has an excellent duality to it. :D As for the instrumentals, I just want to say that THIS part (begins near 0:55): "And when he left us he said, "It's not so bad" That motherfucker he took everything we had" Is one of the COOLEST fucking parts. My god, you can practically FEEL the anguish pouring from that brooding guitar strumming. I can imagine someone sitting and strumming their guitar like that, speaking of the DOWNTRODDEN as they bow their head, close their eyes and grit their teeth in anger. UGH. Tomas never ceases to give me a stiffy. |
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| Streetlight Manifesto – As The Footsteps Die Out Forever Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Obviously this song is speaking for those who can't, the loved ones who pass before their time, giving the important message that every single one of them would want to pass on -- "Don't wait for me, you got a lot to do, you got a lot to be...and in the end, maybe I'll see you there." Don't get hung up on it. The last thing someone that someone close to you wishes is for you to put your life on hold when they lose theirs. Fucking great song, especially to those of us that have lost someone. Runs along the same lines of It's a Wonderful Life, making the best of a bad situation, etc. |
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