| Modest Mouse – Novocain Stain Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| 8 years later and at 4 in the morning, I'm replying to your comment just to say that your name is awesome. Isaac Brock and MJK are both lyrical geniuses, who seem to have a lot in common when it comes to their struggles in life, and the way that they both found niches just about fifteen degrees off the mainstream. They both write lyrics regarding parental issues, they both write lyrics regarding drugs. They both had friends whose lives were taken by drugs(notably: MJK with Layne Staley and Isaac Brock with Heath Ledger), and they both got clean. They both moved around a lot when they were younger. They both had abusive step-fathers and passive mothers. They both tease religion in their lyrics. Despite the difference in musical style and quality, I have always seen a subtle common ground between Modest Mouse and Tool. I have always been able to relate to these two more than any other band, and that's why they are my two favorite bands. And that's why I'm commenting even though it's been eight years and it's four in the morning. If you read this which is highly doubtful, then kudos man. | |
| Ugly Casanova – Beesting Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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Like a mix between I Came as a Rat and Parting of the Sensory from modest Mouse. "Don't know, but I've been told, you never die and you never grow old." And, "These fit like clothes made out of wasps." But stripped down to the basic bittersweet sense of irony that Brock loves. And I mean, if you follow the mythology behind UC's music, it is supposedly written by a lunatic MM fan who followed them on tour, gave them a bunch of music that he wrote and then disappeared. It's totally a fabrication, but it serves to explain why the music sounds like an overly simplified MM song, because it was written from the perspective of a crazy MM fan. |
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| Modest Mouse – Florida Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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By the time this album came out Isaac was supposedly sober after a long history of drug use (The last album had "The Good Times are Killing Me"). I think you might be right about Florida as a euphemism for drugs, but in the wrong sense. He's trying to get away and keep away from Florida (drugs). The ridiculous climb and the "whole load" he has to carry sounds more like the struggle to get clean than the rise of a high. |
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| Tool – Parabola Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I've just spent a while reading over some of the great many theories on this song. Some believe the song is about Maynard's love for his son, some think it's about the human spirit and the evolution of our consciousness, some believe, for good reason, that it's about sex or drugs. What I love about Tool is that to every one of these thoughts there is a good degree of truth. I think that it's very possible that every one of these things were sources of inspiration for Maynard in this song; all were running through his head. It is well known that Maynard is a big-time mushroom user, as it is that a good lot of their songs have deep sexual innuendos -- and, though sexual they may be, not one of them is conventionally perverted, as you will see in so much modern pop culture, but rather they convey a far deeper message derived from or using sex as a metaphor, we're seeing quite possibly the same thing here. The beautiful, but progressing weave of poetry in this song was clearly a derivative of Maynard tripping, which, in every way, means it comes from that much deeper within him. I believe that Maynard's son Davo could also play a large part in this song, his feeling 'eternal', in that he may be living on through his son. This song could just as much be about his son as it could be a deep reflection on the night of his son's conception. The act, and the emotions therein. The human consciousness was the constant theme throughout this album, and this song is clearly no exception in that regard. The lyrics "This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality" sound as though they were spoken from the perspective of a soul, about the body holding it. The lyrics "Feeling eternal, all this pain is an illusion" is where I draw validity for my previous statement. In a lot of religions and in most spiritual beliefs, no matter what pain may come, once you're dead your soul lives on forever, your soul can't feel pain, and in this regard pain is an illusion. It's a physical sensation, merely brainwaves. There're a lot theories out there, and Tool has always encouraged people to use their brains, so try to derive a meaning for yourself. Never be satisfied with a thought! Open up your mind and 'spiral out.' Wrong song, I know. |
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