| The Smashing Pumpkins – Bullet with Butterfly Wings Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| *butterfly wings -- here representing change. | |
| The Smashing Pumpkins – Bullet with Butterfly Wings Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I think people take this -- especially the lines referring to Jesus and being saved -- far too literally. One look at the song title tells you the song's meaning; a bullet -- here representing death -- with butterfly wings -- representing death. Death through change. The Jesus references are too inferring a sense of change, evolution and transcendence. |
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| Rosetta – Au Pays Natal Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Nah, the album is about a man that runs away to Europa to escape the chaos and disorder of Earth. Soon after arrival he realizes what he has left behind -- a family, friends, all the ones he loved etc. -- but he dies before making the return trip. | |
| Architects – Hollow Crown Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Although my interpretation is biased and most likely doesn't reflect the artists intentions at all, I thought I'd toss in my two cents. "Oh there must be an easier way! To release these feelings! As the sea breeze hits my lungs, it takes me back to where I belong!" -To me, this album reflects a very dark time in my life, when my only thought was of suicide--by drowning to be specific--and my loneliness and depression were only outweighed by the anger and desperation in my heart and mind. This song in particular gives voice to both sides of my mind at the time--one overlooking the ocean from atop a cliff, screaming for release, the other lost somewhere deep inside, searching for meaning. "So...so far from home, In need of your voice to hold my head together. So...so far from home, In need of your voice to lift my lonely state of mind." -At one point, I felt so far disconnected from those around me, that for all I cared, I could have been on the moon. As I said, this is most likely nothing like the intended meaning or associated emotions, but I needed to get it off my chest. Take from it what you will. |
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