| Circa Survive – The Difference Between Medicine and Poison Is in the Dose (Album) Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I mean, the great thing about Anthony Green's lyrics is that anyone can have their own interpretation of them. So I'm not gonna claim that I have the "right" interpretation or anything. I wouldn't say it's about writer's block. Only because the chorus doesn't match that idea at all. I think he's using the metaphor of medicine and poison to talk about religion or spirituality. (There's a plugged-in priest in the music video fuck's sake) He writes as if he's telling someone else what to do. "move one inch at a time don't make shit rhyme would it be easy to repeat the first line?" He's trying to make this person calm down. The person is either not making sense or being really dramatic. "my mind's not a well, it won't run dry just keep drinking water and you'll be alright this is paralysis, with no time at all to let go" He's acknowledging that thinking is involuntary and that the person should become aware of that as well if he/she wants to calm down. "well don't call me by my full name all this is temporary" It sounds like the person thinks he/she is dying, but this obviously isn't the case. Spiritually speaking, the person's unhappiness has possessed him/her and that person feels like all is lost. "it feels much better to know that you won't feel a thing" I honestly don't know what this means, but its an interesting thought (it FEELS much better to know you WON'T FEEL a thing) "well don't talk about it write it down but don't ask for help I can't be honest with even myself" This is where Anthony is telling the person that he/she has to figure it out for himself/herself "did you ever wish you were somebody else?" This is Anthony's question to the person in response to the situation. He is relating to this person's struggle and is still ensnared by the thought that someone else's life must be more figured out than his. "accomplishments are transient they pull me in unremittingly" He's saying that anything someone earns or accomplishes (in the material sense) doesn't matter, but his ego still bases his life on them. "just lasting this long, I feel relieved let repetition save me" He's now acknowledging the cycle of suffering and the relief he feels after it. He's counting on that cycle for those brief moments of peace. Its implied that whenever he's talking to someone else, he's really just talking to himself, first: because the way the song goes from the attention to someone else to himself, and second: because he openly says he wrote Juturna that way and he could be using that again. This song is about the cycle of his unhappiness. He feels depressed and his life spirals further and further down until something happens where he feels a brief moment of happiness and then the cycle repeats. Based on the subject matter for the rest of the album, this unhappiness is probably caused by his search for meaning (enlightenment) but his overanalyzing leads him into depressed confusion. The very thing that could "free" him is "killing" him. The song's title refers to this but portrays it in a metaphor of drug use. |
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| Circa Survive – Living Together Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Yeah and the opening line is talking about looking at things differently to see them the way they really are without sub-verbalizing them. He's letting everyone know that this whole album is about looking at things differently |
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| Circa Survive – Living Together Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Tony's definitely looked into other religions. That whole "rational mind" bit and "attached means identity," and most definitely the chorus, "He makes it up as it goes and it goes away," is very Buddhist. And if not Buddhist, it definitely lines up with Eastern philosophy |
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| Circa Survive – Carry Us Away Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Definitely a Judas reference in the beginning. "This is not a riddle but it's meant to entertain. I'll be your loyal Apostle, just send me in to take the blame." He gave into temptation didn't he? |
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| Deftones – Xerces Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Of course everyone can say "this is what this song means to me..." I'm not gonna talk shit about that, but you can't just write off your own response as what he's actually writing about. Xerces is both a Persian Emperor who failed to conquer the world, but the song title is most likely referring to an extinct butterfly that died off because of urbanization. I say most likely because... "Universe surrounds When you're ready It waits For us to To leave this earth Come on, they're calling your name Out" In so many words, and with romantic undertones, he's inviting us to leave Earth with him. "I don't know I could stay or leave Right away Cause the comet can take us All the way through" This is his response to the call. He's skeptical, but he's presented with an option to leave RIGHT NOW if he wants. Too bad the comet is Halley's Comet and the one asking those to leave is Marshall Applewhite of Heaven's Gate. (google it) "Goodbye Safe, Heaven, new I’ll be waving Goodbye" He's dreaming about what the other side would be like. He wants a world better than ours. Without all the terrible shit that happens in our lifetime. "Reason to see Everything looks the same I don’t know If the change made was great Cause the craving remains the same" He's switching gears now, quitting with the metaphor of Heaven's Gate and probably referring to some kind of change he made in his life LIKE the Heaven's Gate deal. Like some kind of sacrifice he's made. Obviously it didn't solve the problems he was having because he still wants to go somewhere better. Then the chorus repeats, emphasizing that he wishes he could wake up in some safe, secure, tranquil, Heaven and not in this messy universe. So I say its probably about the butterfly because its a commentary on the search for beauty. The world and us human beings, who are fallible, end up destroying that very thing which we strive for. (i.e. Heaven's Gate) |
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