| Gamma Ray – (We Won't) Stop the War Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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@[metal10758:23192] Why would they need to be either? I don't think they're a partisan group. Their songs are written by various different members of the group who have different opinions. For example: Real World and Send Me a Sign, both fantastic songs, have very different perspectives on theology. Beside, left/right is a false dichotomy. The political spectrum is far more diverse and complex than that, and it doesn't help anyone to organise everyone into two tribes. |
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| Black Sabbath – Sabbra Cadabra Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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>Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds >L.S.D >Multiple references in the lyrics to the very specific effects of LSD No, you're wrong about that. |
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| Gamma Ray – Time To Break Free Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Gamma Ray are such AMAZING song writers it sucks that no-one notices them :/ | |
| Gamma Ray – Heal Me Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Listened to this more a few months on and I've figued it out, it's even better than I thought. The first half of the song is fairly easy to understand if you can relate to the mindset they're commenting on- He's old, he understands how fucked the world is and wants to help it but he has no idea how to do so. He's continued walking down the same path all his life, the only path available to him because of the western society he lives in. He's seen how happy people who ignore the real world are and is struggling with the idea of surrendering his principles. Now, the part that I and Edboy totally mis-understood starts with "Can you see them? Do you want to be the one who's creeping on the floor? Could it be forever? Could it all be lies? The chaos is a killer and he knows who will fall" This is someone talking to him of fear and paranoia- the way the Media and society in general try to make you follow their rules through fear, telling you it's best to live an easy, simple life, don't take any risks and you'll be fine. There's also an important religious part- early on in the song he says that he is an echo that won't return, in other words that there is no afterlife. This person that is trying to scare him says "Could it be forever? Could it all be lies?" To try and convince them that God exists and there is an afterlife- because that is an easier stance to take, even though it is not logical. The part about creeping on the floor is the person talking to him saying that intelligent but lost people like he is are insects creeping on the floor- below everyone else's standards and pathetic. After that he starts crying out "Help me - I need some help Now is there someone out there What are you waiting for You're on the road to nowhere The only way I know" The first part Help to for is about God- he's given in and he's crying out for God to help him find his purpose in life. The last part is an observation about the fact that he's on a pointless path to nowhere, that at this rate he'll spend his life working away and get nothing from it. It's most likely his own mind talking to him in that part, in fact the person scaring him before may have been his own mind. "Maybe I'm wrong, I haven't got a clue Don't know where I belong - tell me what is true" This is simple. This is him surrendering individual responsibility for his thoughts and wishing someone else to tell him what to think. Now he cries this alot; "Oh won't you come to heal me - hear me " This is him calling to God to help him, it becomes obvious because of the last two words "hear me", he's still uncertain that God is out there and whether his prayers will be heard. Of course, heal me itself is a sort-of reference to Christian so-called faith healings. "Are you out there? Won't you help me? Don't know where I would go Is there real life... forevermore?" This part is real simple, just him talking to God, pondering his existence. "And remember... "Keep smiling... Jesus loves you!" That's what they say... Can you cry forever? It's just a matter of taste But you say, "Do you, do you know what the truth is?" This part, because of "that's what they say.." is evidence that he's still uncertain, but also that he's slowly giving into society's pressure- because he's thinking about the keep smiling Jesus loves you mentality. "Can you cry forever?" is about how pointless his life was beforehand and about the (false) hope that maybe if he takes up God he can make a difference. He says it's a matter of taste- evidence that it's his opinion that some people will think differently to others and there is no objective truth. But that's a very intelligent thought and someone instead says to him "Do you now what the truth is?" In other words, offering him a much easier to accept, simple truth that requires no thought. "Think don't think - what can you see" Is a summary of the last few verses, about his struggle to decide whether he should think or not. "Our life is just a fantasy of someone we will never see Therefore I break down in laughter" This is him giving into Religion- saying that all our lives are just made up on a whim by God, and we'll never even meet God. He breaks down in laughter because of how ridiculous this situation is, but even though he knows how ridiculous it is, he wont' go back to thinking about it, he'll just accept it as true. Sign that he is still intelligent, he's just ignoring his intelligence. "Now as I change my point of view There's nothing left to make me blue - never again - no more" Basically, ignorance is bliss. Nothing too complicated about this part. "Come on in my friend and join the ball Everything is beautiful - even the band - it's magic Imagine you're superstar you gonna fly You gonna go far - so far" This part seems to be the person from earlier that scared him into believing in God now telling him to fully join their shall we say "sheeple" ranks and stop thinking. He tells him to imagine he's a super star he's gonna fly, he's gonna go far- in other words giving him false hope, making him dream of riches that he'll never achieve, because he's too busy dreaming. After that he starts crying out to God again, having fully given into society's pressure and stopped thinking. He just wants to depend on God to craft his life for him. So I way off before. It makes perfect sense now. |
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| Iron Maiden – Bring Your Daughter... to the Slaughter Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| HAHA wow, I never realised what this was about before.. Awesome! | |
| Iron Maiden – Hallowed Be Thy Name Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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It's not about Jesus, Hallowed Be Thy Name is a reference to God of the Desert- the Christian God. "Your name is Holy" or something like that. It's about an atheist being hung in London Tower, facing the prospect of death, slowly giving into the pressure until they throw their principles away and start praising God desperately because they don't want to go to hell. But, most people here didn't get that.. |
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| Iron Maiden – Judgement Of Heaven Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Journeyman7, you said all that, but ended up explaining the simplest part of the song and ignoring the far more difficult parts.. I think Olla666 is absolutely right. The first verse establishes that he, the hypothetical, anonymous "he" in the song, believes in God, he relies on God and he doesn't believe in suicide- but this life has not brought him happiness, in fact he's incredibly depressed. The next verse (You're searching in the dark...) explains that religion has not brought him any certainty, that he is still clutching at straws. The last line of that verse is really important because it explains the entire song, if you miss what it meant you won't understand the song at all- "You take the Tarot cards and throw them to the wind". It's a metaphor, as tarot cards are a superspicious, old fake-spiritual trick to pretend to predict the future- Tarot cards are religion, such as Islam or Christianity, and he is throwing them to the wind- this is the only line that explains he has given up on Religion. It doesn't say he's an Athiest however- he may be altruistic. This becomes evident later on as he questions whether God exists or not, rather than so far he has been questioning whether his religion is right or not. The next verse (You question your beliefs...) is always said to say "Your questions your beliefs", but I'm 100% certain it's a typo or mistake that appeared somewhere and became popular with lyric sites, the line is "You question your beliefs". Listen to it, there's no plural in "Question", there's no way it's "Your questions". Also, if it isn't "You question", the entire verse makes no sense. The proper way though, it means that he is, after throwing away his religion, beginning to question all the assumptions and beliefs that his religious values up until now have taught him. The part talking to God is about how throwing away religion doesn't necessarily mean abandoning the idea of God. The structure of this song is really weird and I'm not even sure you can say it has a chorus but, the next verse (If you could live your life again..) is about him reflecting on how he has lived his life religiously, presumably from religious upbringing, and wondering whether he could have been a better person without it. This becomes really obvious with the last line "Are there times when you believe that the right you thought was wrong?", in other words, "Do you sometimes feel your old values are wrong?". Someone abandoning Islam might come to realise that their previous value of hatred against all homosexuals was wrong, or Buddhists may come to realise they were wasting their time with vegetarianism. From there on is the sort-of chorus, All of my life I have believed, Judgement of Heaven is waiting for me. ichigo900 is dot on with his comment, it is sort of a pun- It means two things. He was expecting to go to Heaven, but also that he was waiting to see what Heaven really was, to judge whether his religion was right and whether or not he had wasted his life. |
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| Black Sabbath – Born To Lose Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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What on earth is this song about?! I think there are two separate people- one is "not born to lose", appearing in the second paragraph/stanza, and the other is free of fear, appearing in the first stanza. We don't know what they're competing over and we don't know who wins. The title could be about either of them. |
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| Slayer – Addict Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Does no-one get the meaning of this song? The drug is religion, the addicts are the religious people. Big emphasis on the fact that religion is fuelled by fear- fear of death, fear of uncertainty. "Unbound, I'm the weapon made to sterilize Sterilize all the idiot victims" Religion designed to keep people unthinking, pacify the masses. "Anytime, anywhere, anyone I want Everyone's addicted to this torture I'm the agony in every breath Every breath brings you closer to me You'll do anything, anything You'll do anything to make it stop" Religious followers would do anything, follow any religion to stop their fear of death, thinking that every breath brings them closer to death. "Do you want to feel eternity? Your eternity lies within me" If you want to live forever, you must become addicted. "I'm the terror of your final breath Your final breath brings light to my darkness" In their final breath, the addicted question whether they followed the right faith and they're still scared of what will come. But because they've given their lives to this faith, it's the "light to the drugs (religions) darkness" because others will follow, will see this dedication and believe it is a good faith. The more people die for this drug, the more will take it. Very clever song. Very good comparison, saying religion is a drug. Not a mind expanding, enlightening drug but a close-minded, escapist drug. "addicts" are escaping the reality of uncertainty and the questions of philosophy, choosing a drug that lets them escape from all that, gives them the easy answers. But even in the end they're not satisfied, they're still uncertain, and in their death they give their power to the drug, intensifying it's effect with their fear. |
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| Gamma Ray – (We Won't) Stop the War Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Amazing song about half-apathetic liberals that think they're doing something helpful by talking about issues, when really they're just pacifying themselves and doing nothing for the peace effort. | |
| Gamma Ray – New World Order Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| The illuminati are a metaphore for the rich establishment. Not much more to say than that, pretty simple song, very cool though. New World Order was coined by Hitler but made famous by H. W. Bush, very prominent concept in American politics. | |
| Gamma Ray – Heal Me Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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This song is definitely about "escaping the Matrix", so to say. About accepting the truth, escaping the mundane, slaving life on ordinary workers. However, if we're to say he's a Neo-character escaping the Matrix, he hasn't got anyone there to help him escape (i.e Morpheus, Trinity) and he wants someone to come along and heal him, help him be free. "Is it really me now- could this be the real thing?" Refers to the "My life hasn't begun yet" mentality that runs through most people's life, he's wondering if his meaningless existence is all life has to offer him. "Learn how to give and take it all" Know how to kill, but also how to create. I think the "signs on the wall" they keep referring to are a metaphor for political activity, clues, conspiracies. Being informed, knowing what is going to happen. It could be that when the vocals suddenly change at "Think don't think- what can you see" is when someone turns up to heal him, to share wisdom and help him be free. "Now as I change my point of view" and the amazing lyrics that follow it are him being freed with this persons help, seeing the world now as a beautiful place, and the last lyric of the verse "Imagine you're a super star, you're gonna fly you're gonna go far".. Is really weird. Perhaps he's saying that after all this realisation, he's just become another dreamer. Other than that I mostly agree with Edboy. And what an awesome song, very similar to Opportunity, another amazing song. |
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| Gamma Ray – Man On A Mission Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| State of the world, overthrowing tyranny. Awesome song. | |
| Gamma Ray – Introduction Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| The Illuminati are a metaphor or a label for rich, industrialist bankers that hold the majority of the world's wealth and manipulate the political agenda. Cool start to the NWO album. | |
| Gamma Ray – 18 Years Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| No-one commented on this yet? It's an amazing song. It's very similiar in meaning to "Opportunity" on Land of the Free II. It's pretty obvious, all about how the last easy, peaceful 18 years of one's life have past and it's time now to live independently ("You must learn - you must learn to live your life, just on your own"), throw away all the constraints of childhood ("Mother! Take it all away!")and that despite the difficulty of growing up, your life is not over. ("I'll never give it back, my life's just begun") | |
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