| I Set My Friends On Fire – ASL Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Everything I thought you'd be everything you thought you'd be I thought before I thought before it. And everything you were of, be, I was thinking of- and then you stood in front of my eyes, you were an optical illusion and I wanted to strangle you strangle you so hard you would choke and bleed and bleed everywhere. And I didn't want to see it but I had to see it, because you enjoyed my- the pleasure as much as I enjoyed the pleasure of killing you, I wanna kill you [?] Amen. Amen. you said that before, you said you believe in Christ. Oh my God. | |
| I Set My Friends On Fire – ASL Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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this is what I got from the fast part, I slowed it down and used an EQ in soundforge to try to get this. There's just one line before "Amen Amen" where I have no idea what he's saying. Everything I thought you'd be everything you thought you'd be I thought before I thought before it. And everything you were of, be, I was thinking of- and then you stood in front of my eyes, you were an optical illusion and I wanted to strangle you strangle you so hard you would choke and bleed and bleed everywhere. And I didn't want to see it but I had to see it, because you enjoyed my- the pleasure as much as I enjoyed the pleasure of killing you, I wanna kill you [?] Amen. Amen. you said that before, you said you believe in Christ. Oh my God. |
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| I Set My Friends On Fire – Reese's Pieces, I Don't Know Who John Cleese Is? Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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So the obvious part of this is that he catches her cheating on him, but it's more than just revenge. The theme of cynicism from but the nuns are watching still kind of exists here. When he says "before we met I wouldn't bet I'd give up nihilism for you" and "took everything I wouldn't touch and made me feel." He's saying that he had reached a point in his life where he had learned to have no expectations and no disappointments, to the point that he thinks life is meaningless. The girl finally had him hoping for something, thinking that he could trust her. He starts thinking that life has meaning and that there are good people. "I had all my faith in you, that you would never commit an act of deceit." But then she turns on him by cheating. He starts to suspect that she is cheating, and leaves a video camera in the room, taping over videos of her and him together "It's a shame I have to tape over..." he then leaves while she stays at home. When he watches the video later seeing that she's cheating, and can't really fully accept what he's seeing for a time "Maybe I should reconsider this diagnosis." His idea of her being good falls apart and he realizes that she's only interested in sex, nothing deeper "But I can obviously tell by the footage here, That you're in love with his machine!" the word 'machine' is used to make her seem more like a robot than a person He then hides in the closet waiting for her and the other guy to have sex, then jumps out. Smashes the other guy in the mouth with a baseball bat, and cuts his balls off and puts them in his mouth. Either the girl is tied up to the chair while this is happening or he ties her up after. I think the ending is the narrator killing himself, but I'm not sure. I think the "stop rewind watch them die" might be the Victorian metaphor of sex=death. The girl being the one watching or another audience watching. I don't think the tape could be of the narrator dying because it says watch "them" die, implying multiple people. This is the only part of the song that I'm not sure about though. |
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| I Set My Friends On Fire – But The NUNS Are Watching Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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cynicism save me definitely my favorite line of this whole song. He's basically saying that if you don't invest your emotions in something you won't get hurt by it. If he never expects a girl to be good, or a relationship to go anywhere, or for someone to be honest and real with him, he won't have to deal with the normal pain of being dumped or rejected. in other words, he'll never get his hopes up because cynicism prevents him from being hopeful. when it turns out he was right to not hope for anything, cynicism will have saved him from being hurt |
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