| Tool – Ticks and Leeches Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| I can't disagree with you, but my opinion that the song could be about the band performing and putting out their hearts to their fans, only to have many of them complain about their deviations from their earlier work, definitely still stands. | |
| Slipknot – Snuff Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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I'm gonna drop some knowledge on everyone saying the song's about Paul Gray: The album came out in 2008. Paul Gray died in 2010. You guys think Corey wrote a song for his deceased friend, Paul Gray, while he was still alive? Just because he's dedicated it to him posthumously and in live performances, doesn't mean it had anything to do with Paul while he was alive. I, personally, think the song is about letting go of love, and the pain that accompanies that. |
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| Sevendust – Home Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| I think Rog nailed it. | |
| Parkway Drive – The Siren's Song Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Yeah, I've always thought it was about a prostitute, strung out, high on something very bad, left for dead "under a streetlight." "Neon lights" brings to mind places like Vegas, Casinos, places where vice are very common place. The reason I thought "prostitute" was because of the lines like "bloodshed, under the streelight." If it were just a girl ODing, what would the significance of those lines be? They may not necessarily infer that she's a prostitute, but I couldn't find any other reason for those words to be significance. |
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| Lamb of God – Dead Seeds Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I have a tough time with their lyrics, but I absolutely, hands down, think these are the most epic lyrics on the album, and in truth, the most epic lyrics I've EVER heard. So fucking unbelievably nasty. Fucking ridiculously sick. If I had to take a stab at what it's about, I'd sound like an idiot, so I'm not going to bother. |
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| Parkway Drive – Five Months Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| The song is definitely about him being away from someone he loves, not about a break-up. Lines like "the hours have become irritations" support this, in that every hour away from his love he grows more irritated and restless. | |
| Trivium – Suffocating Sight Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| It's not about abused kids. "Of every action, I'm guilty of playing the victim" disproves that. I think it's about Matt having been embraced by something he thought was amazing, ended up being something it wasn't. Being made into a particular sort of person by this specific embrace, and then discovering there was something treacherous about it is maybe what caused all the insecurities and stress. | |
| Trivium – Of Promethus and the Crucifix Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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What Junkee said about enduring what is wrought upon you seems to be pretty close to the actual meaning. Knowing that you're in a situation, even if you did the right thing and ended up there anyway, and knowing you can't do anything but suffer through it to the end. It's definitely, in no way, about Jesus. |
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| Trivium – Torn Between Scylla And Charybdis Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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The song isn't about the elections, lest you actually read the lyrics for the bridge section. The song is about being trapped between the proverbial "rock and a hard place," and rather than settling for either of those two options, you forge ahead, carve your own path, overcome the adversity, and become better for doing so. |
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| Trivium – He Who Spawned The Furies Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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As far as I can tell, the song is about Cronus. If I remember correctly, Cronus' father, Uranus, devoured his children, and upon learning such, Cronos severed the genitals of his father. As he threw the severed flesh into the sea, the drops of blood that fell to the ground spawned the Furies. That's how the story goes. The irony, in true Greek tragedy fashion, is that Cronus was doomed to repeat the same sin on his children, Zeus being the one who eventually castrates him for doing so. There's really nothing else it could be about. If you want to start splitting hairs, Uranus was one of two original deities that had just been in existence, without having been born or created, or to put it another way, emerged from Chaos. Descendant of Chaos? Everyone making the connection here? |
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| Trivium – Throes of Perdition Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Well, aside from the title being a pretty blatant rip-off of an awesome Pantera song, I would say this song is about what Malice already mentioned. Being able to think for yourself, and if you ARE able to, you are shot down and punished for doing so. | |
| Trivium – Shogun Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I don't think this is about revenge, so much as it's about another message Matt apparently holds in pretty high regard, as it's kind of a recurring theme in a couple of others songs on the album. To me, the song, and several others in general, are about society and the general sense of apathy gotten from people these days. Mouth of Hell seems to be about people making sure they're doing everything they can in what little time they have, and if they don't they're just "idly marching into the mouth of hell," so to speak. This song is kind of a continuation of that idea. The demons and monsters seem to be representative of the media and the government, the latter controlling much of the former. Lines like, "infecting at transmission" support this idea. The bridge section seems to be a challenge, or call to arms. "Look within to calm the storm," lines like this give off the impression that Matt is challenging us to make up our own minds and decide for ourselves to take matters into our own hands, and to help put the unrest within ourselves at ease, because WE are the only ones who can do so. Don't eat the bullshit the media and governments feed us, if you will. To be honest, I found a lot of the lyrics on this album pretty shallow and kind of derivitive. It seemed to me that Matt was trying just a little too hard to be "fuckin' metal" and badass with the lyrics. The chorus in this song seems like a bunch of gibberish to me, because nothinn in particular in that section seems to be symbolic or representative of anything else in the song. There's not really a lot of cohesion from section to section, which to me was a problem with a lot of the lyrics on the album. |
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| Killswitch Engage – World Ablaze Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I agree with charisma. It's about two people sharing a very deep connection, and knowing that they are there for one another, they can shoulder the burdens together. Shed the weight of this world. The burden has been lifted., let it all fall. Set this world ablaze, we alone remain. Dont fear what awaits, we alone remain. He's just reassuring her that they're there for one another, and they can handle it together, that they can shed the burden and let the weight off their shoulders. That even if the world burns, they will still be connected and helping one another through it. |
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| Killswitch Engage – My Curse Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Your silence haunts me / But still I HUNGER for you. Longer for you? What does that even mean? C'mon, people. Although this song can be interprated as a love song, I believe it to be about someone who's passed on, and Jones' wrote it in mourning over that person, just like Rose of Sharyn. I think someone posted something like earlier, maybe from Wikipedia, but reading through the lyrics, it makes a lot of sense for it to be about someone who's no longer. But, as stated before, that person doesn't necessarily have to be dead, just gone from their life. A very mournful and sorrowful song. |
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| Killswitch Engage – As Daylight Dies Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| To me it's just about the expenditure of human life the government deems ok i.e. our young men and women dying overseas in Iraq. And delving further, it's about taking that step back and realizing that every American death occuring is needless, and takes away just that much more light (contest the lies, we cannot be so blind). | |
| Tool – Ticks and Leeches Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Me and a friend of mine both agree this song is about Tool fans, always telling the band they should sound like this or do this or do that, never taking into consideration that a band grows and does what THEY want to do, not necesarily what will make fans most happy. That's not to say it's about EVERY Tool fan, but a lot of times people that call themselves fans are the most vicious critics there are. At first, I thought the song was just about critics in general, but to be so spiteful and negative towards just normal critics? The band devotes a lot of time and effort to fans, and to have those fans spit back in their face, and tell them that what they're doing isn't any good? That's a knife in the heart. So, to me, this song is Maynard letting all those douche fans know that he hopes they choke on all those words that bleed him dry. |
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| Pulse Ultra – Never The Culprit Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Yeah, the majority of the songs were written before 9/11, if I'm not mistaken. To me, this song is just about all sorts of people justifying the atrocious things they've done. If you look back over history, the Crusades, the Revolutionary War, 9/11, all of these people were lashing out against something different, but to them, it was all ok because it was for a greater purpose, for the greater good. Whether or not they were all right, that kind of remains to be seen. The song does seem especially pertinent to 9/11, though. |
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| Pulse Ultra – Big Brother Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Firstly, I think the lyrics are actually incorrect. I always thought he was saying, "Chains, chains" rather than "change, chains." I do agree with invitalis in that the book 1984 is probably a point of inspiration for the lyrics. With the lyrics, he seems to be accusing some power or entity with malcontent. Accusing that thing of seperating him from the "norm," casting him out into his "solitude." The lyrics are also sprinkled with a little bit of inner reflection, I feel, though. Because he recognizes that while he is in that place alone, it's difficult to be there, and that it's difficult to let go of being "normal" in order to be yourself and to think and live freely. He's a pretty good lyricist. |
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