| Opeth – In My Time of Need Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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read the lyrics to the song by trivium "rain" to give you insight into the symbolism of how musicians symbolize rain. http://www.songmeanings.net/songs/view/3530822107858535395/ |
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| Opeth – In My Time of Need Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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the line regarding the rain i mis-interpreted the first time, due to pink floyd and kurt cobaine using the symbolism I first thought it was representing in different forms. an example is Blind Melon as well. "I like when it rains" Generally speaking, when a musician uses "rain" as symbolism, it represents a general belief that if it rains, you must hide from it, or delay being happy, or delay doing what you want to do. What "stepping out of the rain" and "turn away" would symbolize, is him allowing everything in life to rain down on him, and take control of how he feels, so he stepping out of it, turning away from it, deciding its time to move on from "life" as he knows it taking control of him. |
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| Opeth – In My Time of Need Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Vogelfrei is the closest out of all of you that already interpreted it. Remember people, just because you can relate to one line in the song, doesn't mean you should latch onto it and assume you have the song figured out. I will re-iterate one last time. It's not a girl he is talking about, if you read carefully. "I can't see the meaning of this life I'm leading I try to forget you as you forgot me This time there is nothing left for you to take, this is goodbye" I don't understand why people generally think he is talking about a significant other. It is quite neat to see how the mass of people think. I guess if you think of it as depth of thought. People instantly look to one another for happiness instead of within. So they are looking outwards, instead of inwards. If you think its a person he wants to make him happy, that's an outward thought. If you think its life he wants to make him happy, that's an inward thought. It's admitting that maybe, in fact, its you. Instead of blaming others for making you unhappy. Vogelfrei you nailed it when you said "I suppose it just feels more potent to me when interpreted like that, and Opeth has always struck me as dealing in very potent messages and imagery." If you think it's life he wants him to make him happy, instead of a person? it takes A LOT more out of you, and is in fact a lot more potent. |
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| Opeth – In My Time of Need Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Hey I could be wrong though, it might be about a girl that he doesn't like and he want to kill himself. LOLOLOLOLOLLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL | |
| Opeth – In My Time of Need Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| the reason why he is asking for help, is because while you are going through this change. it will be very hard. because the majority of people around you, will be telling you, the way to happiness is the path you already took and realized won't make you happy. So it will just further you into depression. What he is reaching out for, is someone who already found the happiness in summer "miles and miles away". They are really hard to find. | |
| Opeth – In My Time of Need Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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you people who think lyrics have to be about love and happy, or just things that have no validity are lost souls. people who think this song is depressing, are lost souls. What it is, a different look at life. I think what this song is about: Where a lot of you think he is talking to a girl. He is talking to life. His time of need is, he doesn't know what the point of life is. If you work so hard and hard to get something, and it just fades away. All the long while you are consciously thinking, PLEASE STAY PLEASE PLEASE STAY! Everyone else around you is thinking the same thing. But life, life doesn't think that. It thinks the opposite, so how do you think you will beat, or outlast life? Life doesn't think "Please stay" It lets things fade away. The symbolism of "summer is miles and miles away" is pretty much, him making the decision that he will cut himself from all emotion, when it comes to wanting to hold on to materials and possessions. Then what he is saying is, when you cut yourself from those things and forget about that "life" as your current mind state sees it, it might seem like life might forget about you. So when he says summer is miles and miles away. He's saying hes now pushed himself away from all materials and possessions. Now he is looking for life to make him happy. So the symbol "summer" makes everyone feel warm and happy inside. When hes finally in that feeling, no one around him will ask him to stay. Meaning, he will be beyond feeling the need to want something or someone to stay, he will be in a more natural, peaceful mind state. Him "contemplating this change", or asking if he should rather. Is a reflection on how human nature is reluctant to make a sudden change, especially if you know nothing about it. So essentially, its his mind easing him away from his old life, or how he thinks peoples minds would go about it, which I think is very accurate. Hence the "ease the pain" , followed by "I should step out in the rain" Also something people would think, "no ill get wet", so he put the "Turn away" for the people to relate to him, changing his mind. As you can see, his mind is changing over though. He had the thought "I should step out in the rain" followed by his mind "easing the pain" giving him the option to not go into the rain. "Close to ending it all, I am drifting through the stages Of the rapture born within this loss Thoughts of death inside, tear me apart from the core of my soul" The reason why this is in the song is because its basically what the song is about. Since we were all born after the 1900's. We were "born within this loss". What he is saying is. We didn't have a choice. This is the life we know it as. However, there was existence before us. That existence, didn't have as much to lose. You might think, "why" or "how". Well quite simply, possessions and materials. This song is.. living life with things to lose (possessions, materials) vs. living life with nothing to lose (being happy with just the fact that life has summer). Now, if you choose to learn to live life that way. It might feel like you are dying inside. Because essentially you are. I don't know how old you are. However, you have lived that many years of your life to get to the mind state that you currently have. To completely kill that mind state, and change it to the other one, would feel like you are dying inside. It would make you depressed. Until finally, you realize that, it's not me that im killing. its me that I am improving. Some of you might think, I can be happy with my possessions and I can be happy with summer. It's not that simple. You can lead a life, where you work the entire time, and come home to enjoy your materials you worked for, while enjoying the company of your family and friends, and weather. However, the material aspect will never make you eternally happy. Yes, it dose make you happy, when it's new. Then it fades away, and its old again. Then it angers you, causes stress because you have to replace it, then you find yourself consumed into that mind state again. So, if you think you can break free from that mind state, then you can't just think that you already have that other part of you in there, even though you might. You have to face the truth. However, 99% of you won't or think you already have, and keep living your life, until your 95 years old, and all the people that are and were older than you, that actually cared about you, are dead. The only people left in your lives will be the younger part of your family. Children, Grand Children. All the actors and actresses you grew up with will be dead. All the presidents and CEO's will be dead. It will just be you, with the people you gave birth too. Make sure, that's what makes you happy. and NOT whats on TV. Now thineOWNgod you are close to what he is experiencing with his numbness and emptiness. He is in fact giving up on life, and he IS looking for different places for happiness. However, there is no other person involved. There are three entities involved. Himself, as he once was (thought he could be happy with materials, and possessions. Himself as he is now (depressed, doesn't know how to be happy) and finally Himself, as he will soon be, happy, with just plain old life (summer's miles and miles away) |
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| In Flames – Superhero Of The Computer Rage Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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sorry for x7 post. sometimes I proof read. But then when its finally posted. I re-read what I wrote, as a skeptic, and ask myself a question that a skeptic might ask. then I answer it in the next post. then ask myself as a skeptic again, and then answer again, again x7. sorry, I know I should do that when I proof read, proof read, then skeptic read? lol, anyway, I think it's an accurate assessment of what the song is actually saying. |
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| In Flames – I'm the Highway Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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In dark moments,I know better Within destruction, I see clearly bada bing. |
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| In Flames – Disconnected Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| the line "I feel like shit, but at least i feel something" got criticized. I think it got mis-interpreted. Because, if you don't feel like shit about the way the world is, then you don't have any organic attachment to the organic world you live on, and the organism you live in. | |
| In Flames – Disconnected Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| its about feeling awkward when the idea of society and the way it has evolved sits with you. You are disconnected from the ones connected. | |
| In Flames – Behind Space '99 Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| thats behind space. | |
| In Flames – Behind Space '99 Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| trying to attempt to actually grasp the true meaning of this song is beyond the mental capacities of anyone that just listens to music and doesn't write their own. | |
| In Flames – Dial 595-Escape Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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cant figure a song out by going "this means this" and thats why it means that. it would be like looking at a picture on the wall, and seeing one part of it, and drawing the conclusion in your mind that, that is why the picture was drawn. |
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| In Flames – Evil In A Closet Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| also its "evil" in a closet, because as you choose to ignore it, because its really hard to face what it is, because it is in a way negative, and very hard to overcome and sometimes people hit a point in life where there is literally no possible way to undo what they have done. Because they have to many artificial concepts that are holding them down (ie. mortgages, leases, careers). He wants to connect you to the true person you are, and the evil in the closet, is the best way to do it, by figuring out why its there, and not just ignoring it. This band has incredible depth, naturally as any song does, you can relate to it on many different levels. One way you know you have grasped the entire song, is when you take the song as a whole, and not just as pieces. You can't quote one or two lines, and say you have the song figured out. You have to use those one or two lines, and relate them to yourself, and then try to relate the rest to yourself, as hard as possible, but never assume you have it figured out, or it will take a long time before the true message of the song is revealed, which sometimes happens during the instrumental parts. | |
| In Flames – Evil In A Closet Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| he is talking about himself, you have to think of yourself on a whole different level then you have ever thought. You are a multi dimensional personality. What he is saying is, he wishes he met himself before he turned into himself. What they do in this song is try to connect you to the person you are within, the evil in the closet, is you shoving all these emotions and feelings and concepts into a part inside your mind, and locking it away. continuing as tomorrow pushes you aside, and you don't have anytime to realize what has happened to you. So some of you here are on the right page, as he is talking about two different people, but they are both you. Just like the song, "Like you better dead" he is talking about himself, a part of himself.. | |
| In Flames – Superhero Of The Computer Rage Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Computer rage says: It's when I say "it's over" It's you who's been chosen <-- referring to the superhero |
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| In Flames – Bottled Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| everything is kept inside this person, and they dont give anyone insight into how he feels, because he knows if he did, the majority of people would think he was "weird" which isn't necessarily a bad thing. | |
| In Flames – Superhero Of The Computer Rage Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| its the COMPUTER RAGE talking to the SUPERHERO | |
| In Flames – Superhero Of The Computer Rage Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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A good example is I am a surprise Even to myself I'm a genious Superhero of the computer rage <-- he isn't saying he is, he is talking to him/her/them In plastic I'll bury I am what you fear I've been chosen The world as you know it just died It's the end of all time |
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| In Flames – Superhero Of The Computer Rage Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| so after you read what I have wrote, and then you re-read the lyrics, as though they are talking to you (in the mind frame that you want the computer rage to stop) its the symbol of computer rage, talking to you. Bringing you down. | |
| In Flames – Superhero Of The Computer Rage Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| To sum it up, the lyrcis in this song are talking to the super hero of the computer rage. not the other way, its not the superhero of the computer rage talking to everyone. its everyone talking to him/her/them. | |
| In Flames – Superhero Of The Computer Rage Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| So if you pretend, you are the superhero of the computer rage and you have realized what internet/computer/technology can do to everyone, and you are trying to make everyone aware of it, the lyrics in this song, create the emotion of how you would feel if you were preaching to everyone , what as a superhero of the computer rage, shouldn't feel, but does. | |
| In Flames – Superhero Of The Computer Rage Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| you can then in turn, look at it from the literal perspective that he wrote the song in, or you can look at it from everything that he didn't say, and hold your mind frame in that state, and read the lyrics, as they are talking to the super hero, and trying to get him consumed in the computer rage. | |
| In Flames – Superhero Of The Computer Rage Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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pretty much the entire song he is saying WATCH OUT WHERE COMPUTERS ARE TAKING EVERYONE. but the attempts are futile to everyone that surrounds him "I'll be the devil on this ride" "I am the maggot In your infected life No matter how hard you try I'll leave without a scar I am a legend In your infotainment life It's when I say "it's over" It's you who's been chosen" When you finally realize the superhero was trying to tell you, is when you will realize, what he was saying was an accurate assessment of what will happen. |
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| In Flames – Superhero Of The Computer Rage Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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well, in flames is a little more cryptic then making a song that is called "Super hero of the computer rage" and going along with making it seem like someone is above everyone, and is the super hero of the computer rage by going along with it and trying to be the most powerful person in that sense of life. Such as Bill Gates. The way I look at this song is, the person who is the super hero of the computer rage, is the person who doesnt support computers, and what they are doing to everyone, generating concepts that then in turn, turn into rage. "EVERYTHING YOU SAY IS DENIED" <----- the super hero trying to tell everyone. |
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