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| Muse – Hoodoo Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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should be "no love to set us free" instead of "you'll have to set us free". Also "I will take the blow for you" not "I will take the cold for you". These changes are from the album sleeve |
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| Nine Inch Nails – Hurt Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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What are you talking about "Trent doesn't do heroin, every true fan knows that." He overdosed on heroin during the Fragility tour. I also understand that his addictions began around the time that he recorded this album, and though I'm not sure if he was addicted to heroin yet, it certainly makes sense that he's shooting up in the first verse. |
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| Porcupine Tree – Prodigal Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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that verse 'I spend my days with all my friends...etc.' is a joke bro. Spend my days with all my friends, they're the ones on whom my life depends, I'm gonna miss them when the series ends. He's talking about a TV series, not even his friends are real, all he has is television, and not even that is fulfilling. |
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| Tool – Forty Six & 2 Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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I can see the similarity, but it's only a mild one. Also, "Home" was on "Scenes from a Memory" which was released in 1999 while "Forty Six and 2" was released in 1996, 3 years earlier. Just thought I'd mention that. |
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| Tool – Pushit Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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think of Maynard and Jimmy (the eleven year old boy) as the two characters to this and the gap as the place where they will be combined, where one and one are one. Then see what you come up with. |
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| Tool – Jimmy Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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as it turns out your lyrics are aren't quite correct in a few spots, corrections:
opening me with INNER GESTURES
I was too SCARRED to realize
Also, if anyone knows the mumbling that starts around 2:50, they should post it, I know it ends in
...memory
Hold your light
Hold your light
Hold your light where I can see
yep |
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| Tool – Forty Six & 2 Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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This song is about Maynard delving into the painful memories of his past which he has repressed "I've been picking scabs agian", this is represented in Jungian Psychology as his "Shadow", in order to grow and overcome there effects on him. The shadow in this song is the same as the Snake in H "my shadow's shedding skin", which represents urges to treat Devo how his father treated him, abusively. In order to eliminate his shadow he must first elucidate it's comments by looking into what he has repressed in his shadow. The song shows this metaphorically through getting in touch with past uses of his body.
I'm down
Digging through
My old muscles
Looking for a clue
I've been crawling on my belly
clearing out what could have been
The lyrics may also imply that he's been analyzing his dreams to further elucidate these repressed thoughts and feelings "wallowing in my own confused and insecure delusions" also "chaotic and insecure delusions" all to find and bring out these unconscious fears, and urges.
for a piece to cross me over
or a word to guide me in
I wanna feel the changes coming down
I want to know what I've been hiding
In my shadow
The last 2 verses of this song are merely a declaration that he will do whatever is necessary, lie, cheat, steal, love, kill, die, etc. to express his shadow and by doing so understand it, and bring it into consciousness.
He is throughout this song attempting to bring his "shadow" into light, merging it with his consciousness. When he has merged his unconscious fears and urges with his conscious psyche "stepping through (his) shadow" he will have gained understanding of why he feels the way he does towards Devo, and these feelings will no longer be unconscious urges, effectively evolving (but in a psychological way) which is what the line and title "Forty Six and 2" represents metaphorically. Or at least that's what I got out of it.
On a related note: THIS SONG IS AWESOME
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| Tool – Forty Six & 2 Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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it's saying "join in - join in my child - as I'm digging through - my own dark shadow" for the record |
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| Tool – Forty Six & 2 Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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in Jungian Psychology the shadow and the Anima are seperate, the Shadow being merely repressed and uncomfortable parts of your psyche, and the Anima being the feminine part of a male psyche, just as the Animus would be the masculine part of the female psyche. Just thought I'd put that out there. |
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| Tool – Third Eye Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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don't get so upset man, nothing is sacred. Anyway, Rappo was just saying that when Maynard says "A child's rhyme stuck in my head, says that life is but a dream," he is probably referring to row your boat. |
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| Tool – Third Eye Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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the Undertow album is all about having ideologies forced upon you as well as forcing ideologies upon others, so in sober he is questioning his own effect on others. At least that's what I got out of it. Always remember to think for yourself, and in order to think for yourself you must question authority, even if that authority is tool. |
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| Tool – Third Eye Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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I don't know, but it's the same guy who speaks during Porcupine Tree's "Voyage 34" II-IV, if that helps at all |
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| Tool – Crawl Away Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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I would say that it's more he than them that is weak in this moment. He's too weak to walk away and move on and yet not strong enough to stick the knife in, he doesn't wants to destroy them but only because they don't care to "play". In the end he's the weak one, not them. That's just my opinion on that, so don't get too angry about it, besides I don't know if anyone will even read this |
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| Tool – Crawl Away Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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Wow, wishing pain on someone else just because you can't deal with yours, I'm sure that would help |
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| Tool – Swamp Song Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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In my opinion, this song is about someone stumbling into an addiction, being warned but still stumbling head first and going in. Like any addiction, "This bog is thick and easy to get lost in". Though this person is warned, they continue until the person warning them just says, "I hope it sucks you down." This also makes sense to me to be leading into "Undertow," Which develops the idea of the addiction, only in "Undertow" from the view point of the addicted. That's just my guess though, it's a fairly open song for metaphorical analysis |
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| Tool – Swamp Song Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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George H.W. Bush (not his son George W. Bush) was president from 1989-1993, and the Persian Gulf War began in 1991. This is just FYI, I also don't believe that this is at all related to George Bush, but thought we should put a few facts straight |
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| Tool – Swamp Song Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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"Wading Knee deep and going in
and you may never get back again,
so suffocate
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| A Perfect Circle – Imagine Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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An insult, this is a tribute. If anything it says that this song is still socially relevant which I would think would be uplifting, but by no means insulting. |
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| A Perfect Circle – Imagine Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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imagine there's no heaven...
and no religion too
God isn't the answer, and neither is war. And if you believe Bush is what we need, then you may in fact be just as naive. |
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| Porcupine Tree – Strip The Soul Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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In an interview with someone (can't remember who) when asked what was the meaning behind this album Steven Wilson said that he was been interested in Serial Killers and what makes them do what they do. So, I don't think he ever completely explicitly said that it was about serial killers, but you get the idea. |
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| Porcupine Tree – Open Car Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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Honestly man, you need to think about why you see incest in all these songs. It's barely supported at best and the song in no way guides you in that direction. So your randomly putting the idea of incest into things. A psychoanalyst would almost definitely say that it was due to repressed feelings of incest you've had. I'm not sure about that, but you should probably think about that one. Oh, and think up a reasonable interpretation. |
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| Porcupine Tree – Arriving Somewhere But Not Here Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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where do you people get these ideas? Nothing in the song supports the idea of sadistic freaks torturing you to death. It's fairly ambiguous but that doesn't mean you can just say random shit without basis. |
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| Porcupine Tree – Arriving Somewhere But Not Here Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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where do you people get these ideas? Nothing in the song supports the idea of sadistic freaks torturing you to death. It's fairly ambiguous but that doesn't mean you can just say random shit without basis. |
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| Tool – Pushit Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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an interpretation is always part you, it never comes entirely from a song. When you put down an interpretation like this, it says a little about you and what you think about. |
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