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| A Perfect Circle – The Noose Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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Not bad. But one can't succeed like Maynard has with a drinking problem. He may have been as a kid but.... but with a mind refined as his, probably not. |
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| A Perfect Circle – The Noose Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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Maynard's personal meaning is stated on the commentary on the dvd specifically...anyhoo, can any one translate the hidden message that begins at 3:01 until about 3:04. There is a hidden voice. What is it saying? |
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| Tool – Sober Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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I believe only that the first verse is from the point of view of the alcoholic. The second (beginning with 'worthless liar') is from the point of view of the alcohol itself. And the choruses are the desperate and angry addict begging God for mercy and change...praying. In other words, he says, "Why cant You give me anything different?!" "How come I have to wake up and have a beer just like everyday before this one?!" It's like....when you are having a bad day and your phone rings...you say, "Jesus! What now?!" Or when your husband dies and you are miserable everyday without him, you say,"God Damn it! Can't I have a day where I'm not overwhelmed by lonliness like every other day before this?!" ...I myself do not believe in any traditional God. But I see this song as a fight between good and evil and a prayer. I believe that people see the metal-ish band screaming and thrashing around, and the singer belting the words "Jesus" and "Fucking" in the same sentence, and then they automatically think it is anti-God or something. This I thought before knowing how Catholic Maynard's mother was. As the son of devout Catholics, I can say with certainty that it is easy to go against your parent's beliefs as you become more mentally privileged than they ever were. But if there was love shared between your parents and yourself, no matter what they believed, it is impossible to completely abandon what they believed and tried to pass down on you all their lives. In other words, here is Maynard singing a song about prayer. |
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| Porcupine Tree – Dislocated Day Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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Wilson's is the voice on the phone. The song itself seems to act as the voice mail or something. Before the song begins, we hear the phone ringing from the caller's point of view, then the song, then Wilson hanging up after leaving a message. It is also possible that the song is an outgoing message that the caller (Wilson) hears before leaving a message (you know how many people have music as their outgoing messages???) The person that he is calling is not answering...so he is dislocated.
...and then we hear the message that Wilson leaves...One thing that I think I deciphered from it is something along the lines of "...I think it would be an interesting ending...Let me know what you think..." Before that I believe I hear the word "guitar" being spoken in reference to the ending of the song (the song ends with guitar alone). It is Wilson calling a band mate or studio engineer and leaving a message. The message involves an idea for a song and Wilson is calling someone (Maybe Richard) in order to get an opinion of his idea. The "interesting ending" is the voice mail suggesting that the ending of the song should be a voice mail suggesting an interesting ending. ;-P |
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| Tool – Aenema Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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He talks directly to two groups of people. One group: those who he is calling out: people who live for superficiality. Los Angeles is a fine example of a place in which many people dwell on the meaningless. They are viewed as the hopeless. They are being spoken to directly: "Fret for your figure....fret for your lawsuit..." When "see you down" is mentioned, a heavenly rendevous is suggested. The target audience becomes completely different. He now, is NOT talking to the L. Rons and the gangster want-to-bes, he is talking to us. In other words, he calls out the savable, the ones that need to learn to swim, while the others drown. "See you down in Arizona Bay:" I don't think that this is the place in which all the bodies of stupid people gather, I think that Arizona Bay could be a metaphor for a better place to live, a higher ground, perhaps. It could be a place for the remainder when the fools have been cleaned away. It could be a place for us all to live without the "hip gangster wannabees" etc. If the ones that "learn to swim" (which means: elevate ourselves above the superficiality) come together, we can live in a place (Arizona Bay) all our own. When he says, fuck all the 'this, that and the other,' he speaks to us in between. Each time he says, "learn to swim" the target audience changes. "Fuck all you junkies and fuck your short memories" is obviously directed toward junkies with short memories. Then, he says "learn to swim." When he says "learn to swim," he is no longer talking to the junkies; he is talking to us. He speaks to the ones that have to learn to live a better way, the salvageable. He is saying, 'avoid the junkie way of life'! Learn to swim and get past it! So when the hurricane comes, you will live while the weak and superficial drown! And then you can join me! You all can join us in a place without fake ass women, men who don't think and just get fucked up all the time and waste their lifes, people who mask themselves and who need titles and to title everything....We can all stay "occupied" when the poison festers. We can learn to swim and stay unaffected from all of this silly shit. |
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