| As I Lay Dying – The Plague Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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No idea if the band members intended the album to sound like a Nile album, but it does. Nevermind the heaviness the lyrics all atheistic are everything you'd never guess you'd find on a christian album. That said, I never knew As I Lay Dying was a christian band, or at least that all its members are christians. However, most lyrics on this album really are anti religion and anti God. Though I'm sure most christians would like to interpret it otherwise, not a single person I've shown the lyrics to that didn't know the members are christians thought it was pro religion, on the contrary they thought it was anti religion. Even after I've said that they are christians they thought the album to be anti religion. If that is what the band wanted to say and achieve, job well done since the lyrics are really great and there are some great memorable quotes here and there, if not then I have to say this is the biggest failure in the history of literature and music since the band then achieved the complete opposite of what they wanted to achieve. As off said, you can only interpret so much as pro religion then you stumble against a wall that simply doesn't allow for such interpretation any more. All of the songs on the album, especially this one show why: What is the plague mentioned here? Religion! They even say that religion blames what we cannot see (Lucifer) and that he doesn't abide by such foolish notions, he knows man is the true devil. Then he ultimately denies religious views by saying that there is nothing sacred in every human being believing in only that which he wants to believe in but that religion doesn't leave him any choice by having so many contradictions. The blind guide replacing divine eyes could be only anti religion and not anti God, however...divine eyes could be the eyes of mere men. Authority, subversion, anti God talk right there! |
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| Breaking Benjamin – Rain Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| True, there are various way how to interpret the song which is one of the main reasons I dislike poetry in general. However, poetry tends to be very simple and only few poems or songs can be called deep (mostly poetry written in blank verse like epic poems or poetry written by the metaphysical poets). The problem is that people tend to look for meaning where there is none or even worse tend to interpret something on a more shallow basis simply because it suits them more. If you pay attention you'll see that most people tend to interpret most songs as being about relationships or shallow existential problems only because the song would have no worth to them otherwise. The greatest artists, being writers, composers or painters tend to write about grand epic ideas that have nothing to do with petty things like relationships or riding down the road. Of course, such artists are few and are possibly even extinct today. Of course the first thing I saw was a relationship theme in this song, but I listened to it on a day my thoughts were completely unbiased and devoid of petty individual problems, I then laughed as I found it funny I so concentrated on everything being about me and problems I'm going through I simply interpreted everything as such. Then I saw the utterly obvious theme of the song, the idea which tries to bare universal emotions yet never strays from its own circle of existence. The song either is about rain or should be, this time not because I want it to be or because it suits me but because it doesn't suit me and because I don't want it to be, and ultimately because it's what true art is. If the author said it wasn't I'd consider the song garbage. | |
| Breaking Benjamin – Rain Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I don't understand why people think this song has anything directly to do with a relationship or suicide. The song is called RAIN, so IMHO this song is BY rain, FOR rain and ABOUT rain. Take a photograph, It'll be the last, Not a dollar or a crowd could ever keep me here, (I believe this is like the rain is talking: Take a picture of me, it'll be the last cause you'll never see me again once I hit the ground. Meaning you can never take a picture of the same drop of rain twice. Then he says that nothing could make him stop on his way down, no matter how many people are looking at him or paying him, the rain doesn't stop for anyone. Very beautiful way of describing rain which can if you want relate to so many things in life, but ultimately I believe it's about rain.) I don't have a past I just have a chance, Not a family or honest plea remains to say, (The rain doesn't have a past, though of course no raindrop is new since it's the same water that falls down for millions of years, the life of a single raindrop looked at as a new life is very short, flies by very fast, and because of that the rain has no past, no family to stay with, and no one is bidding the rain to stay anyway) Rain rain go away, Come again another day, All the world is waiting for the sun. (The refrain could be by someone, or in other words most people on this planet, that dislikes rain and wants it to go away. Very sad IMO since I REALLY love rain and snow, I can't stand the damn sun (no I'm not emo lol, I just love the wonders of nature) but sadly most poeple can't stand the rain.) Is it you I want, Or just the notion Of a heart to wrap around so I can find my way around (IMHO the band tries to really make the song about rain but still understood as a metaphor for so many other things which is seen in this part clearly. Clearly can be seen as singing about a girl or about the rain, very innocent yearning for belonging and desire to know where to go in life. I find comfort in rain as I'm sure some people do, everyone finds comfort in the arms of a loving person. So one can say this is the guys wondering if he really wants/needs the rain/her.) Safe to say from here, You're getting closer now, We are never sad cause we are not allowed to be (Obviously can be seen again as being about the rain itself, either can be interpreted as the rain seeing the ground clearly coming closer but not being allowed to be sad. OR one can say that someone is on his back looking at the first rain drops falling from the sky. Though I think it's more likely to be the first interpretation. Here it's clearly about the RAIN with hardly leaving a place to be interpreted as about something else. Why? WE are never sad, WE! That's plural, obviously coming from the raindrops.) To lie here under you, Is all that I could ever do, To lie here under you is all, To lie here under you is all that i could ever do, To lie here under you is all, (Now, to interpret this as being about a relationship could be sexual to say the least, so obviously this is again mostly about the rain and him on his back giving in to the wonders of the rain. "To lie here under you is all that I could ever do," clearly shows that he's giving in, he lets the rain fall on him abandoning the dilemma if he really wants/needs the rain. AGAIN this can be a metaphor for a relationship BUT is CLEARLY about the rain.) IMHO |
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