| Tides Of Man – Home Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Nice, glad to see this (and the rest of the album) is up here. Just one little thing, "And follow you" in the last stanza is "And blindly follow you" To watch one of these guys play with PMToday would be so great... |
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| Protest the Hero – Bloodmeat Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| da-da-dada-da-da-da-dadada-da-dada-da-da-da-dadada-OHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! | |
| Fear Before – The Waiting Makes Me Curious Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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This is just my twopence. I also apologize for my grammatical complexities. They oftentimes can be quite difficult to understand without several readings through. This song quickly stood out to me upon my first play of The Always Open Mouth. It quickly became my favorite song. Maybe just because of my own experiences, I, personally, would also think the serpent refers to a girl. Yet, the more ambiguous (and more likely to be the intentional) meaning would be death. If I had to choose, well, I simply couldn't. One has made me feel very alive; without that feeling, the prospect of the other, of ending this reality... To me personally, the song means both. As it was intended to be written, there are no other hints at a girl, so it's more likely to be death (or yes, possibly the devil). Twenty seven invincible years. That could very well be the age of him when he wrote it. I don't think the number has much significance. The word "invincible" though... Maybe this song is him convincing himself to go through with it. Maybe this song is more of a realization. A realization that there's no where else to go. "Where do you go where nowhere feels like home?" Also, just as a side note, a vice (by proper definition) is something that kills slowly be suffocation. Something you bring upon yourself that you can't let go of. The idea of death, for some is a vice to those who never achieve it. They dream, or possibly even attempt it often, but an agnostic fear (that god -and therefore hell- might actually exist) keeps them from achieving it. The rest of that line was handled very well by adjectives. With the exception being where my descriptions contradict, I agree completely with adjectives. I also find agreement with pretty much everyone else's comments too. This song seems to be a bit easier to understand than much of there others, while still very powerful, and very depressing.... ....my day will come.... |
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| Fear Before – Review Our Lives (Epic) Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Just gonna go for the "god's twisted game" bit. They thank god in the booklet for OHPS, and with the atheistic themes in TAOM, I think they're just slighting at how god is sometimes there for you, and sometimes not, depending on what you believe during those sometimes. You can't ever truly be sure of his existence, but you can never know that he doesn't exist either. I think the "What you see and what you believe are never gonna be the same" line from somewhere in TAOM, i forget where, could find some help in understanding here. |
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| Fear Before – Lycanthropy Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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hahahahahahahahahaha I'll go with a tripping and thinking he's a werewolf thing. sounds pretty reasonable. and srsly, like, what band doesn't do drugs nowadays? The Jonas Brothers and all that other mega-corporated shit they sell in the mass-media, maybe. Otherwise, music and drugs are probably permanently intertwined. Forever. |
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| Fear Before – I'm Fine Today Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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exact words help a lot, but I'd at least like to understand the gist of this song. Maybe I should take the time to do it myself... or not... |
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| Fear Before – I'm Fine Today Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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exact words help a lot, but I'd at least like to understand the gist of this song. Maybe I should take the time to do it myself... or not... |
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| Fear Before – I'm Fine Today Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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exact words help a lot, but I'd at least like to understand the gist of this song. Maybe I should take the time to do it myself... or not... |
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| Fear Before – Review Our Lives (Epic) Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Not sure I was clear about the first part. I don't know their religious background, but it seems from album to album their opinion shifts. That was the idea I meant to imply at the beginning. My apologies. |
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| Fear Before – Absolute Future Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Also, just noting at the reference of the cockroaches. Cockroaches are known for their natural resilience and the fact that their species will probly outlast us all (they can supposedly live through a nuclear holocaust). It looks like they're making a joke about Darwin's efforts brought the theory of evolution, and how the cockroaches must have had a deal Darwin because their traits gained through evolution give their species immortality in the sense that they'll always exist. Not sure I explained it exactly right. Just thought it was funny. |
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| The Receiving End Of Sirens – This Armistice Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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"Oh, how I've been teething in light of your misleading..." Hey, Music4aNurse, it's cool and all if you want to think that this album is about Christian beliefs, but If that really was the case, they'd have the genre listed as "Christian Rock" "Religious" or something to that extent. They wouldn't put it as "Experimental." Sure, if you want to stretch this within your own perception to apply better to yourself, that's fine, but I honestly find that anyone can grab any old song and find some fucked up way to link it to God. I myself am a devout Christian, but I believe that If these guys wanted to put out a Christian message, they really would've put out a Christian message. No offense, but your no better than the countless others who go to every other song on Song Meanings and post some comment about how this song is totally about God. If you think that it can be related to God in some form or fashion, then that's great, but make it expressly clear that it's your interpretation, and not what the band intended unless you personally know Brendan or Casey or anyone else in this band, or for any band whatsoever. Also, maybe I haven't been listening enough, but in BTHATS and TESMiFaMi I hear not a single reference to God even existing. Maybe they were smart and decided to up their appeal to a larger audience by leaving out the controversy of religion overall for the better of their music? If I was an atheist and I saw your comment, would I not lose some appreciation for this band because of the misinterpreted ideas of a shallow and presumptuous religious zealot? In conclusion, while I believe you may have worked very hard on your... presumptions... I find them overall to be entirely superficial and based on the false belief that The Receiving End of Sirens is a Christian band. Personally, I'm going to agree with Casey, and the comments that vile and blc had to say. What they put is sufficient, I believe, to get the point of the song. |
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| The Receiving End Of Sirens – The Crop and the Pest Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| anyone care to help me with the right / left hand references? I'm trying to nail this song line by line. | |
| The Receiving End Of Sirens – The Crop and the Pest Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Just wanted to help with the "you're my lover / won't you be my concubine?" line. By definition in the dictionary, a concubine is a girl that lives with a man that she isn't married to. He's asking her to move in with him. |
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| Sky Eats Airplane – Numbers Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Yeah, I know. Sky Eats Airplane deserves better. | |
| The Mars Volta – Meccamputechture Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Uhh, as another side note, I'm pretty sure that the Mars Volta website says to check wikipedia, so this entire discussion can be completely ignored. As for the song, people can have personal meanings if they really want to, but the only people that will ever completely and utterly understand the lyrics to any song the way they are intended to be understood are the writers themselves. Unless I hear a description from either Cedric himself, or someone who works with the band and knows what they're talking about, then I'm not very prone to care. This website shouldn't be used to argue about what something means when it means an entirely different thing to each person. As for the discussion of the other albums, it should already be a common known fact to any TRUE follower of The Mars Volta that Bedlam in Goliath, Frances the Mute, and De-loused in the Comatorium are all concept albums and do have very specific meanings, meanings that are simply clouded by the genius metaphors that Cedric employs. Amputechture is the first (and likely only) non-concept full-length album that The Mars Volta has or ever will make. To discuss the exact meaning of a song that everyone can perceive differently is a waste of time. On the other hand, discussing the meaning of songs like Goliath, Metatron, Roulette Dares (The Haunt Of), Take the Veil Cerpin Taxt, and such, is something worth doing , but only if you actually have a clue what you're talking about, and not making random guesses based on what a song means to you. That's not to say you shouldn't post what a song means to you, because doing so is a good way to express opinions and possibly open up a new understanding for someone else. The problem is when people attempt to disprove and opinion. "This is true. This is false. This is that way. This is not that way." Those arguments are a complete waste of time unless something really is that way, or something really is false. That said, everyone can hopefully shut up unless they've got something productive to the discussion. BTW, Johnny Goodness, I highly doubt you've ever even listened to Frances the Mute, or any other Mars Volta album in it's entirety. In other words, you're a fag. |
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| Enter Shikari – OK, Time For Plan B (Re-Recorded) Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Believe it or not, I actually just sorta figured things out. The whole invasion makes for a good idea, and the concept was certainly intentional, but after looking at the E.S. Forums it looks like I might just be looking a bit to deeply. Just a bit. | |
| Enter Shikari – We Can Breathe In Space, They Just Don't Want Us To Escape Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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not on the album, but it's the aliens that own earth that don't want us to escape. the aliens from "Take to the Skies" ... plus, this is the single to the next album, isn't it? or did I just hear wrong... I know they already released it as an EP or something like that... |
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| Enter Shikari – Labyrinth Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| it has to do with the alien theory. it just does. go look at the other songs and figure it out yourselves, i'm too busy... | |
| Enter Shikari – Mothership Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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johnny, ginny, you guys seem to have it about right. This album does have a storyline... I'm pretty sure that this entire album has the theme of aliens invading and telling us to stop the destruction of our entire planet that we ourselves are causing. (pollution) We won't listen (they "tried to communicate" in No Sssweat and they reminded us of this in "Ok Time for Plan B"), so they decide that they're gonna end us and our world, like they did Atlantis (the bottom of the ocean thing) If i really felt like it, I could go into deep explanation of this theory that i've seen on a few comment boards, and that works with just about every song. "adieu" and "anything can happen in the next half hour" are the only ones that don't work... |
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| Enter Shikari – Anything Can Happen in the Next Half Hour... Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| this is the only song I can't relate to the aliens theory | |
| Enter Shikari – Return to Energiser Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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i have to go along with the Aliens storyline... not gonna be all that specific, but the energiser might be some sort of important structure (see the t-shirt at the Enter Shikari merch site) the Aliens are either warning about destroying ("that's not what you want") or actually destroying, because of our lack of care for their planet. They don't turn to "Plan B" until the end of the album because over the course of the album the aliens have been warning us about what they might do if we don't stop for the entire album. They probably are alluding to the NASA thing, and the quasar laser place thing is also an allusion i'm not doubting. Rou's explanation (assuming it's authentic) also makes sense and has that particular meaning in the song... |
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| Enter Shikari – Jonny Sniper (Album version) Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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so they make a joke at a concert and everyone forgets about the storyline? I mean, the sex thing is hilarious, and totally applicable, but as for the album's meaning... This is going along with the Aliens theory that is recurrent throughout the entire album. while this i'm not too well-armed with the knowledge of who exactly Jonny Sniper is, I do know that this is part of the fight between the aliens and the humans. look at some of the reviews for the other songs... |
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| Enter Shikari – OK, Time For Plan B (Re-Recorded) Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Ok, Time for Ex(Plan)ation B. D4N7E pretty much got it, but nobody got the "look what you've done to yourself" line. This is all of course, following the storyline of the album. You'll notice a few crucial songs have more meaning than some of the others. In "Enter Shikari", they're reclaiming the earth rather than invading it. Just looking over the entire album, No Sssweat is about how we're "[biting] the hand that feeds [us]," which is our (or rather, the Aliens') planet. This song alludes to how we've degraded the state of our planet, and used up a lot of our resources. The Aliens are tired of us not listening to them(see *), so now they're coming here to take back what's theirs. {*I suppose this was their Plan A: ("tried to communicate"). They did warn us in"No Sssweat" "Do this one more time and I'll bite your ------- fingers off!"} Their "Plan B," is to eradicate us all in a giant war. As you can see in breakdown, they plan to make the entire earth shake, and the ground to move. The 2nd reprise, which is really just reminding us what they said in "Enter Shikari" and "Reprise One," that "still [they] will be here], and that they always have been. Umm, Spaggy? these songs actually do have set meanings. Although some songs may also have a personal meaning to different people, that's not exactly what the artists always have in mind. Lemme check a few more songs to finish this comment. |
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