| Mudvayne – Everything And Nothing Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I think this song is about life being everything to any given individual while being absolutely nothing in the grand scheme of things; be it through the life they choose to live or in death. In the state of being "everything," we have to live within the confines of the rules set forth by leaders who simply go with what the majority seems to want (i.e. the religious fundamentalists), regardless of what it actually entails. Enlightened people who see through the BS are the ones to ultimately suffer and have to deal with living within the confines of said BS. | |
| Mudvayne – Severed Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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To joe164: No, we are not all equally weak, as you imply. Religion is for the weak where one cannot comprehend existence or rationalize death as being ultimately meaningless. Reality has a way of being cold and harsh and the religious person relying on ignorance is absolutely weak in mind. Likewise, just because someone is a non-believer doesn't automatically qualify them as a leverager of methods of "sinful" escapism. On a moral level, playing music to escape is acceptable where smoking pot is not. Outside of the moral context, even just THINKING outside of the plane of reality could be considered escapism, but does that make one weak? Not necessarily. Religion is a philosophy of ignorance where science is a philosophy of progress. Try educating yourself on the foundations of your belief(s) and you just might suprise yourself... especially if you're a believer in any Judeo-Christian religion. Just because *you* think someone is pretending to know more than you doesn't mean they actually don't. They might just know what you know and a HELL of a lot more. Food for thought... |
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| Mudvayne – Severed Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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As with a couple of songs on L.D. 50, this song appears to me to be religiously focused. Only because I've gone through an experience like this personally, it sounds like Chad was perhaps raised on religion (some form of Christianity) and all of the would-be loving and caring attributes of it. At some point, he sees through the BS of the belief and in that, his realization ends up making him an outcast from all of his friends and loved ones who are believers. Mention of "the cross" and "AIN SOPH AUR" are religious references. Read about AIN SOPH here: http://altreligion.about.com/library/texts/bl_secretteachings30.htm Everything mentioned in the "I divorce..." passage of the song are clearly topics he had issues with and decided he had to let them go. Naturally, there are some pretty deep things in that passage but amongst them are faith. Because I've personally experienced loved ones turning their backs on me because of religious differences, this is the level I'm connecting with this song on and it makes complete sense to me. This sums it up quite well: "Spare your life and leave me to my misery." It's as though he's telling whoever he's talking to to continue focusing on their salvation while leaving him to the misery of having to deal with the nail it drives between them. |
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| Mudvayne – Prod Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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My perception of this song is a deep one. I sense a heavy anti-religious undertone; particularly of the Judeo-Christian variety. To me, this is Chad's perception of religious people where they don't perceive themselves as hateful, greedy (religious salvation is a selfish motive), illogical (relying solely on faith and not listening to anything logical), et al. Lining up cattle and cutting the necks gives me the image of the overwhelming majority of faithful people blindly following their belief all the way through death and gladly giving their lives for the sake of their belief. The whole first part of this song lines up perfectly with your typical Christian who feels like they suffer and are polluted inside because they believe they are a sinner, hypocritically judges non-believers, greedily and selfishly seeks salvation and all of greatness of a heaven, and believes that mass judgment and death is the will of their God. The second half of the song (after "Wash me off inside" but before it repeats "Cannot receive the obvious") appears to be written from the perspective of someone (perhaps Chad) who willingly rejects the Christian faith. He's gone too far into finding personal truth to give a damn about faith and belief. "Callous minds against trust and confidence" seems to relay that point. "Too late to beg pardons from the mother" seems to speak about Mary, the mother of Jesus, who Catholics place more importance on than Jesus himself when asking forgiveness. "Now we'll sit and wait...for the coming of the end..." sounds a lot like waiting for the coming of Jesus where all "sinners" will be killed by God with no mercy. Yes, this is an untrue horror story to Chad, but too many people actually believe this is going to happen... and seem to want it to, thus, "the sickness" he speaks of. "Drain us of life and cleanse the mess" is written from the perspective of a believer and could very well mean to drain believers of their life and cleanse the mess, or, remaining sinners. It could also mean for God to drain all humans of life and destroy the earth. Whatever the meaning of this song, it's definitely not pro-religious. |
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