| R.E.M. – Daysleeper Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Having been a regular nightshift worker for a looong time, I think it is about how people who work nights tend to get divorced from reality. You get used to not being a part of normal life because everything is reversed. How it is so difficult to sleep in the daytime when the rest of the world is carrying on as normal and nobody thinks about people who work nights. You can never really get any decent sleep. |
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| Tool – Disgustipated Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I always took the first part to be a dig at vegetarians in that it is really ridiculous to differentiate one kind of life from another. Everything is alive, including carrots, so why do vegetarians think that destroying one life to sustain your own in one instance is okay (vegetables) but in another instance is wrong (meat). If the right thing to do is live without destroying other life humans should only eat rocks! IMHO it is a bit of a laugh at how ridiculous and non-nonsensical the vegetarian stance is. The second part is a continuation of the first part. This is necessary, life feeds on life. Humans are nothing but educated animals and we need to consume life to live. It is necessary. It is a belief of mine that there is only a certain amount of 'life-force' in the universe, and for one thing to have more life force it has to take it from another thing. By eating life we gain the life force contained within. It is like the thing about energy that is, I think, pretty much proven. Energy never goes anywhere, it just changes form. The energy from the sun comes down to earth and helps a tree grow. If you take a piece of wood from that tree and burn it, the energy from that wood doesn't go anywhere, it changes into light and heat. The light and heat changes into something else ad infinitum. The crickets I think is hint at the fact that we are all part of nature. The last part always confused the hell out of me. Just sounds like insane stuff. Like a monologue expressly designed to screw someone's head up while making absolutely no sense. If god is our father then satan is our cousin makes sense. If we are the children of god, then satan is our cousin because satan is another of gods children, a fallen angel. Not like us but still related. Looking at it again I find myself agreeing with other posters. It sounds like the definition of schizophrenia or some other kind of psychiatric condition, probably homicidal. A man who loses control and wakes up in stange places after a blackout, a man who believes everything belongs to him but doesn't know why. A man who gets angry when other people use his things. Examines just how scary a mental problem can be and how the homicidal maniac can be a scared and confused by his actions as the rest of us. Or it could be a load of crap someone made up to get people like us debating over it's meaning for years and years to come. |
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