| Interpol – Evil Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I thought this song was about Fred and Rosemary West, who tortured and killed young women in their home in England for years. When they were on trial, Fred killed himself, and so leaving Rosemary to face the music by herself. 'Spent a lifespan with no cellmate' She didn't confess to being a willing participant in the killings, or just because her husband asked/told her to. 'But hey, who's on trial' And the 'Semi-erotic' 'exotic' lines, and allusions to a 'game', it makes a lot of sense. I don't know much about how they disposed of the bodies, but one of their victims, who was known in the area and thus many people were worried about her disappearance, they claimed 'had gone to work in a holiday village'. Maybe that's the beach imagery. It's a bit morbid, I know. If this is what the song's about, it certainly isn't the same way it sounds. |
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| Toadies – Possum Kingdom Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I would say assuming that someone is "above" singing about vampires is complete excrement! No topics are beneath or below anyone, as long as, in this context, it can result in an amazing song. If you don't like vampires, then you obviously won't see the reference that those who do like the might. But we all agree that we like this song, right? It could be a vampire, or a serial killer, "Do you wanna die?" But if we all switch off the TV and put on the lights, one could see it as the death of the I, the birth of the We. "Decide to walk with me." "Be my angel." He's saying Let's get together. "I'll not be a gentleman." I'm getting tired of fooling around. He's being very explicit with his intentions, "My blushing bride." "Make up your mind." "Give it up to me." And the obvious repetition. It could just be an amalgamation of everything we have said. That's what I think anyway. |
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| The White Stripes – Black Math Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| The song is about having to learn things that you think you don't need to know, like complicated maths (calc, trig, analytical geometry etc.). You don't have to understand it, you might not need to know it in the future, but here and now, you can only pass beyond this point if you get it right. | |
| Kings of Leon – Four Kicks Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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This is obviously about "being the man". The jeaslousy, the constant need to prove oneself, the very cocky nature of the I, could be any one of us, really. |
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| Slipknot – All Hope Is Gone Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Not to say anything about Slipknot's older stuff, but I think they decided to get serious on this album, in the sense of message, anyway. It's about how our situations are results of our actions. This is from when he says, "we're the problem, but we're also the solution", and the contradiction in the repeated "ALL HOPE IS GONE" is how we know it but we refuse to believe it mostly because we drive it out of our minds, though opposed, like a conscience from a maggot, say, by the softly delivered "we'll find a way". They continue the idea of unity from Pulse of the Maggots in "I'd rather fight than let another die". We shut out the world if we don't like what we see, "Fifty seconds, a hundred murders" and "we have made the present - obsolete", but also how we want to fix it all and stay who we are because we like it, even though we have been called many other things: "I am the reason your future suffers. I am the hatred you won't embrace. I am the worm of a pure distinction. I am the remedy, spit in my face!" "All hope is gone", along with the words above, is a sign to the "others" that the ones they have ridiculed, tried to squash, ignored, hated, are the only hope left to them "What will you do when the war is over? What will you do when your system fails!?". It takes an outsider to tell you how really fucked you are. |
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| Cradle of Filth – Gilded Cunt Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| ANd aslo, "frigger" means: one who betters another by underhanded actions. That says something. | |
| Cradle of Filth – Nemesis Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Fine, there's terrorism and greek mythology covered in this song, but this is what I think: The tie between Luna and "my daughter's eyelid's closed" and "ray of moonlight" have already been established. I think it's a bit of a promise to the world, from Dani. Maybe he heard something from someone questioning his ability to be a parent (you know how people are about Goths, yeah you do!) and he is showing what he would do if they should think to take her away. And also, he reiterates his nature, "black is my heart" and mocks the beliefs of his critics "I am the priest of a new disorder", perhaps to show that he understands them more than they think they he. I doubt he is a bad father, though. Just my thoughts. The band rocks, by the way. |
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| Cradle of Filth – Gilded Cunt Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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First, I thought this song was about someone who gave eally good sex, "gilded cunt". But the rest of the lyrics allude to the person being bad, dirty, dangerous...blah on and on. the cunt may be good, but it comes with "daggers from the swagger", and from the disdain expressed in the rest of the lyrics we can see that the person isn't really a masochist. He was also led on by her, "you used to guide my fingers there" ans he hates her for that, "scissored in the gizzard"; hurt and used, he continues to make light of her own imperfections "nothing is above you... ivory and spite" also showing that she is no better than him, also at the whim of someone else, "sodomite's concubine". There. |
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| Cradle of Filth – Babalon A.D. (So Glad for the Madness) Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I think it's about bringing chaos, because the "I" has been denied, and so he wants everyone else to suffer like he has (and others) "in the sheen... fallen, danse". But he has hope in the end: "midst the lips and the curls of this cunt of a world, in glimpses i would see a nymph with eyes for me". Pleasure from chaos. A bit sadistic, if you ask me. | |
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