| Matt Skiba – In Your Wake Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I think most of this song is written in an ironic fashion, and the main theme is to tell this recently deceased person how much of a self-important asshole they were. In one line he says "[your headstone] didn't read / anything about how much we miss you at all" and in a following line he says "Here lies our dreams come true" -- it was their dream for this dick to hurry up and die, and they don't actually miss him at all. It might have been a friend, or a parent, someone who had a lot of aspirations and wanted to be big and important (King for a day, Dreams of Blood Hunger), but they screwed it up and died young and left a bunch of ruined relationships "in their wake". I like the double meaning of Wake in this song, referring both to a funeral, and how things (or people) get tossed around and damaged when something "big" passes through. |
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| Līve – Gas Hed Goes West Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I was reading Stephen King's "The Stand" at the same time I was playing this album over and over, so this song gave me a strong impression of the journey of "The Trashcan Man" from that story. That character was a half-dead radiation-poisoned pyromaniac schizophrenic who survives what is essentially the Apocalypse. He is part of the "bad side", travels West across America and ends up getting destroyed in a nuclear explosion, so the phrases of "gas hed" (Fire), "Memory that dies" (post-apocalypse), "exemplified his clan", "marches on" and "lanced his head with light" (vaporised by a nuke) had a lot of strong correlations. I doubt that's the original meaning of the lyrics, but that's what they mean to me now. |
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