| No Trigger – What We Became Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Gay marriage? I don't know what the 2004 references are. | |
| No Trigger – Call It A Day Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Work sucks. | |
| NO-CASH – LIFE SUCKS Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Haha. That wasn't intentional =D | |
| Phil Collins – Sussudio Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I can never listen to this song with a serious face. Say, do you like Huey Lewis and the News? |
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| A Wilhelm Scream – Jaws 3, People 0 Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Does anyone know if this line: "I wait for Troutman, give me clearance for this chopper to fly" is a Rambo reference? A bit far-fetched in context, but I don't know any other Troutman/Trautman. |
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| A Wilhelm Scream – I Wipe My Ass With Showbiz Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| If all that irony wasn't enough, the video clip definitely hammers the message across. | |
| A Wilhelm Scream – Famous Friends and Fashion Drunks Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Agree with darkpunkguy. The last lines are a reality check: People: units sold You can drop the role Let's call us what we are now |
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| Huey Lewis and the News – Hip To Be Square Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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This has got to be one of my favourite comment threads on the site, simply for the American Psycho references. Was Huey Lewis famous for anything aside from AP...? And as ridiculous as Bateman is, he got it spot on: this song IS about the pleasures of conformity. (Now I have to check out whether the Whitney Houston songs are really epic meditations on intangibility.) |
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| The Carpenters – Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Or, you know, watching The X-Files. =) | |
| The Carpenters – Yesterday Once More Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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How is it personal to the singer? Is there any particular history/trivia for it? It's a really nostalgic song for me. Doubly so, I guess, in terms of the theme and also because I used to listen to this song when I was a kid. Favourite line: "Those old melodies still sound so good to me As they melt the years away" |
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| The Carpenters – Goodbye To Love Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| One of my favourite Carpenters songs as well, even though it's really depressing (and emo). But Karen's voice is SO GOOD. | |
| NO-CASH – LIFE SUCKS Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Melodramatic, but my favourite No-Cash song. | |
| Blink-182 – Aliens Exist Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I got into this song because of that last line. It's the mark of a true alien conspiracy theorist, mentioning the MJ-12. | |
| The Offspring – Tehran Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I'm not sure where I read this from, I'm thinking it's from the band themselves but can't be sure, but the lines "Great Satan" and "Islam be damned" show the way America demonises its enemies and paints them out to be horrible to rally up its citizens' support. | |
| The Offspring – Out On Patrol Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I've always taken a fairly literal interpretation to this. Young kid goes to war, thinking of idealism and patriotism and all that, and then he's faced with the realities of danger and death. | |
| The Offspring – Hand Grenades Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Very true, you don't need a degree to figure out how to make a molotov cocktail. All this shows is that Dexter is a geek. And a pyro. But we knew that. | |
| Frank Sinatra – Fly Me to the Moon Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| rofl I also got onto this from Evangelion, it's a lovely song. | |
| The Carpenters – We've Only Just Begun Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Watching 1408 brought back memories of this song, and it DOES sound a bit creepy. Creepy as in haunting or somewhat... melancholic. Mainly the lines: "Before the rising sun, we fly So many roads to choose We start out walking and learn to run" |
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| The Carpenters – Top Of The World Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| When I think of happy, I think of this song. | |
| The Carpenters – Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Well at face value it seems undeniably about aliens... they were big back in the 70s. It's a very nice soothing sort of song though. | |
| A Wilhelm Scream – Route 40 & 1 Six Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| All I can tell you about this song is that the title is based on someone, probably drunk, saying Route 6 and 140 wrong. | |
| Happyland – Don't You Know Who I Am Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Nobody does vapid high-pitched voices like Janet ^_^ Hilarious song. |
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| Spiderbait – Buy Me Pony Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Ah major record labels... My favourite lines: "but wait out in the hall, we've just received a call we'll have to dump you all but don't you try to pass us by 'cause we own you until we're through" |
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| Jebediah – Please Leave Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Are the last few lines official? I've always heard it as: "You can't blame us for everything, we're not stopping you from living" |
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| Scatter The Ashes – Caesura Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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That video creeps the hell out of me. I have no real idea of what the song means, but changing faith sounds likely though. |
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| Screeching Weasel – Science Of Myth Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Back in the days of the old screeching weasel website, Ben put up his rants and one of them was explaining this song: I love it when some uninformed blowhard decides to quote my own lyrics to me. Following is a line for line explanation of my own song, The Science Of Myth: 'If you've ever questioned beliefs that you hold you're not alone.' - Whether you're questioning the Judeo-Christian dogma you've been fed since birth or the big bang theory, if you've gotten to the point where you're listening to a Screeching Weasel record, surely you must have some idea of the spirit of punk rock; surely you must be someone who constantly questions, who never accepts someone else's words as the ultimate truth. 'But you oughta realize that every myth is a metaphor.' - This line states the thesis of the song and provides a lead-in to the next section of lyrics. 'In the case of Christianity and Judaism there exists the belief that spiritual matters are enslaved to history.' - This line is basically self-explanatory. Judeo-Christian thought says that the bible is God's word. It makes few, if any, allowances for added material and misinterpretation. If God told us in the Old Testament that we shouldn't waste our "seed", that must mean that jacking off is wrong. More importantly, Judeo-Christian thought leaves no room for taking into account evolving technology, education, or cultural and technological advances; what was good for Noah should be good for us. 'The Buddhists believe that the functional aspect override the myth / While other religions use the literal core to build foundations with.' - Besides the fact that this lyric is clumsy in order to accomodate a rhyme, it states that Buddhism, unlike most other religions, teaches its followers that religion without practical applications is essentially useless; the Buddhists believe that if you can't see it, hear it, taste it or feel it, then it's of no use to you. They do not demand that you follow the words of the Buddha if those words don't make sense or apply to you. Conversely, Christianity calls for blind faith; a belief in a system of thought no matter how strange or useless it might be to you. You are ordered to defend that line of thinking in all cases or you will burn in the eternal fires of hell. On top of all that, you're ordered to indoctrinate non-Christians. Buddhists don't believe in indoctrination; they believe that time spent trying to convince others to become Buddhists is time that would be better spent meditating and working on one's self. 'See, half the world sees the myth as fact while it's seen as a lie by the other half and / The simple truth is that it's none of that.' - People usually accept all or nothing when it comes to religion. Christians tend to see the bible as divine truth. Hardcore atheists tend to see the Bible as a silly fairy tale with little or no relevance to modern times. But if we look at stories in the Bible, or any holy book, as metaphors, then we develop an understanding that the authors of the Bible were trying to make a point about morality. It might be a point that was clouded by the current political climate, or that might have been re-written by a man with his own screwy agenda, so you have to learn that literal interpretations are usually incorrect. But by studying the work of theologians and translators such as Stephen Mitchell and through developing an understanding of storytelling by reading stories from Greek mythology to fairy tales to Stephen King novels, we begin to see that there are certain themes common to the human experience throughout history, and we then enable ourselves to see those dilemmas from perspectives other than the ones that we happen to hold which are based primarily on our experiences, or stories. Thus, we've learned the value of the Biblical allegory. My main point with this line is to point out that atheists aren't much smarter than fundamentalist Christians if they can't see that even though the Bible is a fairy tale, it still contains some important ideas. 'Cause somehow no matter what the world keeps turning / Somehow we get by without ever learning.' - Despite our inability to come to terms with a hybrid of the spiritual and scientific worlds, we still manage to struggle ahead, often watching technology advance far ahead of our collective intellect and rate of growth of maturity as a species. 'Science and religion are not mutually exclusive.' - Blind acceptance of a doctrine, whether religious or secular, stops the mind from working. If we're going to make advances in medicine, technology and spirituality, we have to use all the tools at our disposal. In his book The Sun My Heart, Thich Nhat Hanh discusses the limitations of conceptual thinking: "Many scientists acknowledge that great discoveries are often realized through intuition. For them, reason is not an agent of discovery but a tool to explain and support it afterwards. These discoveries often occur at the most unexpected times, times when the scientist is not actively engaged in thinking, analyzing, or reasoning. An illuminating perception comes about because the scientist has been paying continual silent attention to the problem - while eating, walking, talking, even sleeping, every moment of the day." 'In fact for better understanding, we take the facts of science and apply them.' - Science should exist to help us to a better understanding of ourselves, nature and the world. Without that primary goal, science is virtually useless. 'And if both factors keep evolving then we continue getting information.' - If we grow and mature in our interpretations and understanding of matters of both science and religion, we then gain more of the tools necessary for clarity of vision. Essentially, if we pay attention to all thought patterns, prejudices, concepts and states of mind in our spiritual life as well as our secular life, we're in a better position to understand both the spiritual and scientific worlds, and this is how we progress as a species. 'But closing off possibilities makes it hard to see the bigger picture.' - Deciding that "this is the way things are" means you stop questioning and investigating. No longer are you exploring every possible avenue; you stand still and inevitably stagnate. It is impossible to learn, grow and evolve without constantly questioning and evaluating everything that comes into your line of view. Nothing is off-limits, including the possibility that God may not exist or that the big bang theory is wrong. 'Consider the case of the woman whose faith helped her make it through / When she was raped and cut up, left for dead in a trunk, her beliefs held true.' - This line comes from a case I read about in a Chicago newspaper in which a woman was raped, knifed, beaten within an inch of her life and locked in the trunk of her car. Somebody discovered her after several days and she survived. When a reporter asked her how she'd managed to hold onto her life and not give up hope, she stated that her belief in (a Christian) God gave her the strength to hold on and keep fighting for her life. Whether Christianity saved her or whether it was the psychological force of a belief that might as well have been about worshipping an ear of corn is immaterial. The point was, this was a critical situation and what she believed worked for her. 'It doesn't matter if it's real or not / 'Cause some things are better left without a doubt / And if it works then it gets the job done.' - Someone who is in pain is not going to worry too much about the methods used to relieve that pain. Regardless of the scientific fact that there's absolutely no proof that acupuncture actually works, I've experienced the benefits and developed a wary belief in the existence of chi. Similarly, there are Christians who believe in the power of prayer as a method for curing disease and/or relieving pain. In that sense, it doesn't matter if I believe that the concepts of chi or the power of prayer are so much bullshit. In a crisis, people need to use whatever they can to get through that crisis. The time for debate about those methods comes later. And when that time comes, people have to keep an open mind, particularly people who have a firm belief that a given method of medical or spiritual care works; if we're going to learn, grow and evolve, we have a responsibility to retain a healthy skepticism. |
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| Propagandhi – Showdown Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| re mattt: I think the P stands for Preamble. | |
| A Wilhelm Scream – Month of Sundays Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I really like this song, even though it's a bit... whiny, but the lyrics are so nice. There's probably little doubt it's about a break up, but I just feel like pointing out some nice lines: "I thought time would trade this hopelessness for love, and I believe that they both feel identical" "to cross this line to happiness from hell, I'll have to do alright with someone else" "counting back the other ways I hate you ... now I'm counting backwards, and there is only you" |
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| A Wilhelm Scream – Kursk Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Very true LakeErie, but there was a submarine K-141 Kursk named after the city/battle. And it sank in 2000. I personally think it holds more relevance to the lyrics. | |
| A Wilhelm Scream – Kursk Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Why is it that my favourite songs here have zero comments? Aside from sinking submarines, any takers? I get a sense of inevitability and regrets. |
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| A Wilhelm Scream – Cold Slither II Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| If I'm not mistaken, I do believe this song is about Curtiss. | |
| A Wilhelm Scream – The Horse Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Thanks to Ba5 for finding out the chemicals - it's nice to see that it runs from horse --> human And lyric correction: "they follow too close to our tail" should be: "they followed a course towards hell" source: Trevor on the old message board |
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| Streetlight Manifesto – A Better Place, A Better Time Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I always thought Annie died. I dunno, more melancholic that way. The last lines: "But just know that I'm here and I'll lead you home If you let me She said 'forget me' But I can't" Speaks to me like she didn't let him help her and pushed him away. And even though she tells him to forget her, because she thinks that when she's gone no one will remember her because she wasn't important (life goes on without me), of course, you can't forget someone who's killed themselves. |
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| Strung Out – Vampires Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Really? I mean, given their other stuff, I would have thought vampires were a metaphor for something else, but I've been wrong before. | |
| Strung Out – Scarecrow Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I always thought of this song as being too afraid to go beyond yourself and try new things because you have low self esteem or feel that things are outside your control. | |
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