| In Flames – Episode 666 Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| yup | |
| In Flames – Episode 666 Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| For those that don't know, Whoracle is very much a concept album. You can't understand one song without knowing what the album as a whole is about - the past, present and terrible future of mankind. Jotun is a dream/prophecy that foresees the events in this song. Episode 666 is definitely about the media in some sense, like many of you have said, but in the context of the story, it is about the end of the world being perversely televised so we can watch our own destruction. | |
| In Flames – Jotun Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| this is exactly it. good call with the second verse and chorus being about a stealth bomber. and the nuclear missile silos as the "jet-black sinister architecture" is good stuff. love this song/cd. | |
| In Flames – Jotun Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| good stuff. I like the breakdown song by song. Jotun definitely is a prophecy/dream that foreshadows Episode 666. | |
| In Flames – Jotun Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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The song is generally well known to be kind of a prelude to the rest of the album, setting up and foreshadowing the events to be chronicled in the other songs...the past, present, and possible, horrific future of mankind. Specifically, the song seems to be recounting a dream that the singer/narrator has, about basically the apocalypse. I think the song is referring to the detonation of one (or many) nuclear bombs - the "22-kilometer tombstone" and "Mushroom-scattered forever out of context." I'm not sure what the "huge numb buildings" or "Jet-black sinister architecture" are, but i assume they are metaphors for either the bombs, or the nuclear plants used to build them. The fourth verse seems to describe what the world would be like after a nuclear apocalypse, the "Sun-white pulverised desert stone," basically your classic nuclear wasteland. The last verse is chilling. Can we identify them As the flint buried in our reptile skulls Or the time-bomb coded in our DNA? Who is "them"? Perhaps the people who will bring an end to the world, build the bombs, etc. Not sure what the second line is saying. Whoracle talks about evolution a lot, and the reference to our "reptile skulls" suggests this. But maybe the "them" is the "flint buried" in our skulls. The "time-bomb coded in our DNA" seems to suggest that our very biological nature/evolution/genetics will lead us to destroy ourselves and the planet. This interesting connect with a line from "Brush The Dust Away" on 'Clayman' that says "Genetic, it seems to be..., we think we're in control then we become the things we hate, Lets re-unite and brush the dust away". Maybe suggesting that we have to fight not become what our DNA/genes are pushing us become - destroyers. |
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| In Flames – The Hive Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| haha...and you spelled "intelligence" wrong. kind of ironic, huh. | |
| In Flames – Jotun Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| um...Food for the Gods?! | |
| In Flames – Gyroscope Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| this is incredible. I'm a philosophy major, and I wouldn't even have thought of a lot of this stuff. the part about "A diabolical sequence of stabs, written in cunning stones" being about evolution and fossils, and the chorus...that's good shit. The human race really is a steaming pile of failure. Good interpretation man. | |
| In Flames – Food For The Gods Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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well he is Swedish...have you heard of an accent before? |
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| Dark Tranquillity – The Mundane and the Magic Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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this is an incredible interpretation. its obviously an incredibly complex and deep song, and I think this gets really close to what it might mean. i absolutely think that at its core its basically about extreme doubt, and nihilism. i really like your part about the chorus. I think that's really the key. favorite line: "Lies that make me, See beyond the rational, Accept the fate that nothing is meant to be" Awesome. |
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| Dark Tranquillity – The Mundane and the Magic Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| wrong | |
| Protest the Hero – Spoils Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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awesome. great interpretation man. i think it's right on. the part about the Anima and Animus in really interesting. I just took a psychology class in which we talked about Jung, so I'm just gonna correct you a little: the Anima is the archetype of the feminine soul in every man, and the Animus is the archetype of the masculine soul in every woman, both complimenting the "Self", which is the archetype of psychic wholeness of the same gender. |
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| Protest the Hero – Sequoia Throne Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Such a great song. I agree with HeisLegend2676 and KhaalKi. The songs seems to be about how the human race projects its own destructiveness and fear onto aliens and monsters in the movies ("as our movies imply"). We are afraid aliens will come and destroy our planet when WE are the ones destroying our plant ("They're not the ones that cause us harm...we are, we are, we are"). And the "Hellbent on Heaven" part really puts forth the idea that we seem so intent on destroying ourselves, so "hellbent on (reaching) heaven" or killing each other. HeisLegend2676 and KhaalKi were right on about the title of the song: the sequoia is a type of tree, and represents nature, and the fact that it is being used as a throne symbolizes mankind's use and destruction of nature toward our own selfish and shortsighted ends, therefore using nature (the sequoia) as a possession of power (the throne), hence sequoia throne. And... "(While our righteous men are) Stuffing corpses full of shit and faith As they bloviate about a future beyond the moon To bring about another planet's doom To discover peaceful lives And beat a war-drum to it's tune Unless my prayers are answered... Our end is coming...soon!" ...really sums it all up. The "righteous men" are the politicians and priests and actors and military generals that lie to us and convince us to wage war and destroy the environment, promising a "future beyond the moon" if we follow them. Metaphorically referring to a "bright and hopeful" future, but also literally about colonizing another planet "beyond the moon" when we finally destroy the earth, which we would also destroy ("to bring about another planet's doom"). And even if humanity got a new start on another planet, if we managed "to discover peaceful lives", we would start wars and do it all over again, "and beat a war-drum to it's tune". Humanity is incapable of living peacefully. So unless the "prayers" of humanity changing its ways and treating itself and the earth better are "answered", we are going to destroy ourselves and the planet ("our end is coming soon"). There you go. Deep stuff. PROTEST OWNS. |
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| Protest the Hero – Sequoia Throne Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| yup. good insight in the last paragraph | |
| Protest the Hero – Sequoia Throne Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| right on | |
| Protest the Hero – Sequoia Throne Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| um, your wrong | |
| Protest the Hero – Sequoia Throne Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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yeah, you're totally right. hence "they're not the ones who cause us harm (we are, we are, we are)" good catch |
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