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| Thousand Foot Krutch – Let The Sparks Fly Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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I have heard Trevor call it an, "Anthem to Action". When I hear the song, I visualize an epic battle between good and evil. What can I say? My mind and my imagination are are a little out there...lol. Another great from TFK! |
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| Queensrÿche – Home Again Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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There is lot of emotion attached to this song. The whole idea of separation between loved ones is one of my favorite topics, perhaps because I live and breathe it being away from my kids and my wife quite a bit while touring. You miss them so much, and it’s like you live two separate lives. When you’re a soldier and you’re away, it’s very difficult to bridge those two worlds. The song is inspired by a soldier writing a letter to his daughter who he misses very much, and her writing a letter back to him. He was laughing that what was really cute to him was that they were saying the same thing in the letter and using the same terminology. Those kind of coincidences really get to me. Because it was a father-daughter relationship, I asked my daughter Emily, she’s 10, to sing with me. That was really fun, I’d never done that with one of my kids before. It’s one of the toughest songs to sing for me on the record, it’s in a low key, but she did a good job with it. As per Geoff Tate on www.queensryche.com |
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| Queensrÿche – If I Were King Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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This is a song about guilt, about a soldier who lost his friend in a firefight and spent a lot of time feeling guilty, wishing he could have done more to save him. The song is saying that if I were king, if I could do anything, I’d have you back in my life again, back by my side. I thought that was a very interesting and inspiring viewpoint. As per Geoff Tate on www.queensryche.com |
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| Queensrÿche – At 30,000 Feet Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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This song is about a pilot and their experience, which is very different from ground personnel. Pilots have a very different perspective on things, a very different job. The song deals with this particular soldier’s feelings of being separate from the devastation that he was inflicting. He’s above it all, flying 30,000 feet in the air, dropping bombs on targets then going back to the base. He’s not involved in ground combat where you stare someone in the face and kill them hand-to-hand. He said it’s a strange feeling to know that you’ve just wiped out an entire city with a touch of a button, and then you’re back at the bass watching reruns of a TV show. It’s just another day at the office, there’s no emotional attachment to it like a guy who was in a platoon and may have lost buddies. The pilot is dealing with a whole different set of issues that is a lot harder to define… I wrote this song, then months later I got a chance to play it for Lynn, the pilot I wrote it about, and we have it on camera. He was reading it and tears were running down his face. I asked him what moved him, and he said the line, “their tortured, painful cries will never fall upon my ears, and never stain my elder years. My heartbeat is all I’ll feel.” He said that’s what he feels every day. He was disconnected, but he does still think about it every day… Actually, when the breakdown happens and the bombing is taking place, Michael wanted the guitar solo to be representative of the airplane flying over the city dropping missiles and bombs. As per Geoff Tate on www.queensryche.com |
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| Queensrÿche – Hundred Mile State Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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This is one of my favorite songs on the collection. I like the idea of what this song is saying, and the lyrics are almost hard for me to sing, because the guy is saying, “Whatever happened to people feeling a conviction and having faith in an idea and a belief? People can’t stand their ground. I’ve always known that it’s very black and white and I have no fear of any judgment. The military has taught me that…” I find that statement to be really challenging, because I’m one of those vacillators that goes back and forth and try to think of every angle and the cause and effect. That’s definitely not me talking! [Laughing] In the chorus, I really like how they get into this mentality where they bark like dogs when they go in for an attack. These guys come on like a force. If you’ve played a sport, or are a musician on a roll writing music, you know the unstoppable feeling — that’s what these guys are trying to get. It’s a combat song, really. It’s one of my favorite melodic Queensrÿche songs that we’ve done, it’s got really beautiful parts. As per Geoff Tate on www.queensryche.com |
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| Queensrÿche – Unafraid Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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“Unafraid” is an interesting song, it’s different. We wanted to let the words of the soldiers speak on their own, so we used their interviews as the lyrics, and all the verses are the soldiers talking back and forth. It is two soldiers talking about different time frames — one Vietnam and the other Kosovo — and you’d think they were talking about the same conflict, because they were saying the same things. Musically, it’s a pretty adventurous track, it’s very different from anything Queensrÿche has ever done before. Not only do we have other people doing the verses, but they’re not even singing — they’re speaking. We had elements of the music beforehand, riffs and pieces, and then we constructed the music around the verses. If you listen, the guitar in the verses is in mono, not stereo, so you have room to hear what they’re saying. On the chorus, the music goes to stereo again. There’s a lot of that going on with the record, which is what makes it so effective with headphones. You really get that experience of things moving, shifting and changing in your head. It’s a very interesting way to experience it. There’s the line, “You do what you know you have to do, somebody has to stand in the gap…” After you experience war and that hand-to-hand combat, you are unafraid, because you just experienced and imagined hell, and lived. What do you have to be afraid of? “I fear nothing, I am unafraid…” As per Geoff Tate on www.queensryche.com |
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| Queensrÿche – Sliver Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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“Sliver” is the introduction of the soldier into the environment of soldierdom. It’s time to grow up and let go of your childhood experiences and move into the world arena. They use the phrase, “welcome to the show” — they call warfare “the show” — and that’s one of the main lyric lines of the song. These lines were all taken from interviews and are the way people talk about it — “This shit’s for real, this isn’t some easy, make believe situation…” As per Geoff Tate on www.queensryche.com |
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