| A Perfect Circle – The Hollow Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| I agree with most of the comments here but theres something more to this song. When keenan says "conquer and devour," he is referring to the *obsession* for sex. And he accepts it, in fact encourages it. "Run desire," "grow libido," are commands he is giving himself. | |
| A Perfect Circle – The Hollow Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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First and foremost its (correction in the **'s) Run, desire, run Sexual being, run him like a blade To and through the heart, no conscience, one Motive, to cater to the hollow Screamin' feed me here Fill me up again Temporarily Pacify this hungerin' *so cruel* So grow, libido, throw ... etc 2nd most its about sex contrasted to relationship. Mostly 2nd person mostly from a man's perspective ONLY because it says "run HIM like a blade." So the woman takes the sexual being man, runs to and through his heart to fill her hollow. Eventually she will bridle her indiscretion (marriage or permanent relationship) long enough to edify (the rest of her life) to [hopefully] permanently fill her hollow. Alas it fails. Thus the closing chorus. Emphasis on things being temporary. |
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| Tool – The Pot Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I think the song is about general hypocrisy. I think the writer intentionally invokes anti-drug hypocrisy theme to give people somewhere to start. But I agree with anyone who says thats not all that the song is about. Anti-drug rhetoric is just the most glaring hypocrisy in the USA. | |
| Tupac Shakur – Changes Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I think tupac hit on something more than racism. WEB Dubois said something about a new form of slavery at the time of reconstruction. It transcends race. If you drive anything but a shiny new car in the middle of the night, you are bound to get pulled over eventually. If you're poor, you're going to jail eventually. | |
| Tupac Shakur – Changes Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Tupac says... Cause I always got to worry 'bout the pay backs some buck that I roughed up way back comin' back after all these years rat-a-tat-tat-tat-tat that's the way it is uhh indeed. thats the way it is. |
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| Nirvana – Heart-Shaped Box Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| its about a dude that has a kid with a chick he doesn't like. | |
| Seether – The Gift Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Can't the gift be anything else than love or the person? I get the feeling that those are not the right answer. Like to me it seems the song is more about a broken relationship. He was defeated, in the process lost the reason to believe in himself, he's ashamed. When he says hold me now - he comes right out and says so he can feel relief - from what? not being held - from feeling incomplete cuz he's alone and the one he needs isn't there (anymore?). So why would he be afraid of a gift of love since it seems to be what he's asking for -and the lack of- what he's blaming his problems on? |
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| Tool – Stinkfist Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Clearly the song is about anal fisting (stinkfist? cmon people). But its only an example of what I think Keenan is trying to get across. I mean seriously, who gets anal fisted the first time they have sex? The song is about the progression of taking things farther to alleviate boredom. The same old thrills just don't cut it anymore. It can be drugs. But it can also be any obsession. Video games, music, fishing, cars, sex, money. For example I used to like nintendo growing up. But then nintendo doesnt do "it" for me any more, so I go farther across the borderline with super nintendo, then n64, then ps, ps2, ps3, im shoulder deep here. As far as the desensitized part goes, its just that like, with things that are more limited you will find that more subtle differences make a huge impact on the amount of satisfaction one gets from it. Like vanilla ice cream. Theres not much you can do to improve on vanilla ice cream. Its the little subtle differences that make all the differences. But in our society of technology (and media) constantly pushing limits theres no need to worry about subtle differences with many things. For example audio speakers. It used to be that subtle differences made a good speaker. Better sound quality was something people went for. But now speakers and amps can just get so much louder for so much less money. They have dramatic new appearance too. Theres nothing subtle about the audio equipment industry anymore. Like my examples? lol |
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