| Faith No More – Caffeine Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| @MattJ, the meaning of the song is more than just the context in which it was written. Sure, the band wants us to hear these lines as something written under sleep deprivation, but that doesn't necessarily mean the lines are meaningless. They're meant to evoke. For some they evoke gay storylines, and I can see why. For me these lyrics evoke addiction - not caffeine addiction, but any kind of shameful behavior that you do but hate yourself for doing. Caffeine and sleep deprivation may be nothing more than images that may evoke various interpretations in different listeners. | |
| Faith No More – Kindergarten Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| I think this some is meant to be evocative more than literal. It recalls things that were mundane then, and are uncanny now. These kinds of memories are ruptures in the self, pieces of ourself that we have abandoned, but which still haunt us in the guises of our former selves ("carve my initials in a tree I will never leave"). This encourages the listener (me) to remember their own childhood. Patton chose some specific, traumatic images of his, and when you listen hard you'll find some of your own. | |
| Faith No More – Get Out Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| Maturity or recovery is the "something stronger". This song is written by the self-destructive younger self, which puts "fun" above health. It's losing the battle, and it's arguing its case by accusing the growing healthy self of arrogance ("my blood is not that colour anymore"). "Get out" means, "don't turn into a tool, kill yourself instead". The lyrics are pretty literal. | |
| Queensrÿche – Speak Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Exodus is right that this is about how passionately Nikki feels about his new role as the "angel with a gun", but there's something else too. He's not just a devil with a gun, but an angel, and he's going around getting the testimony of the "weak and poor", enlisting their tacit or passive alliance in X's cause. Problem with this brand of lunacy is it's both sane and rational, and raises valid complaints, which will never be addressed, let alone redressed, in our regime. |
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| Queensrÿche – Operation: Mindcrime Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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It's cruel how quickly X objectifies Nikki and takes him for granted. X fully intends to control Nikki, and sees Nikki as having nowhere to go, nothing more to learn. In essence, X has planned the end of Nikki's life, and it is an abject end. I think the line "nothing to sign" is interesting...reminds me of this common mindset of not wanting to be pinned down to anything, for instance people spending 8 years working through college so they don't have to sign a single loan, even though they make enough money after college to pay those loans back so quick...meh. |
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| Queensrÿche – I Remember Now Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Although this prelude "song" is self-explanatory within the larger plot, it is worth noting that the nurse seems to believe about Nikki what they are saying on the radio in the background. Swallowing the media's lies whole, just like all of us... | |
| Queensrÿche – The Thin Line Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Ok, seriously, Exodus and Hazard are right. Case closed. BDSM. Look up the following things on Wikipedia: BDSM (for the whole song) safeword: "don't speak the Word" leather subculture: "skin-tight leather provides my pleasure" edgeplay: "walking the thin line" is a well-known euphemism for edgeplay in my leather community dominatrix The protagonist is a male heterosexual submissive visiting a professional dominatrix (pro-domme). Women in this line of work are usually much more empowered and better-paid than other sex workers, and furthermore usually don't actually engage in vaginal, oral or anal sex with their clients. If a client is disrespectful or screws things up in the scene, he is "walking away and leaving forever" because she is paid well enough she doesn't need to trifle with losers - does he dare? "Raise my eyes, she stands" - submissives are not allowed to look up unless ordered to. "Wake my fear of divine intervention" - apparently the protagonist is actually afraid that his guardian angel may put a stop to his abuse - that would be awful! "Hand on mouth the game goes on" - a rather primitive gag, but obviously a gag nonetheless If you have to ask how I know all this, well, *ahem* let's just say I'm an expert. |
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| Soundgarden – Little Joe Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Border crossing? Yes, but not from Mexico to America. Fellow Seattleite Jimi Hendrix recorded "Hey, Joe" decades before this song. It's about a man who catches his woman cheating, shoots her, and flees for Mexico. This song is parallel to that one. Joe's kid is the one making the run now. And reptiles is a reference to reptiles. Seriously. There are reptiles in the desert between here and there. I live in that desert now. I've seen them. |
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| Faith No More – Cuckoo For Caca Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Since everyone has figured out that this song both refers to a drug in a white powdered form and to shit, how about we join two and two together? Methamphetamine, a.k.a. Tina, a.k.a. crystal, a.k.a. meth, a.k.a. stuff, a.k.a. shit, is called shit in its powder form when eaten because it tastes like *ahem* shit. And it's also called stuff, by which name it's referred to several times in this song. And it's HUGE in the Bay Area. |
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