| The Faint – Machine in the Ghost Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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It's amusing how this song appears to be attacking supernatural/occult beliefs at first, but then invites them into the discussion, all the while being entirely indecisive about everything. In the end, the song is inconclusive, but acknowledges everyone who tried. |
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| We Are Scientists – The Great Escape Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Great song, I love it just to play in the background, even if the lyrics do feel a little repetitive. To me, however, it just rings as a song about learned helplessness. Some poor guy's getting in over his head in something, most likely just that he let a lot of things pile up, ('Everything is adding up, up up'), so it's just easier to let it keep piling up. (I'm gonna wait right here) Half of it is just that he doesn't know how to solve it all. I get the feeling that 'breaking both my hands' isn't supposed to be taken literally. It could simply be referring to a crippling feeling, rather than anything physical. Plus, the song never specified people. Could be the mess piling up that's figuratively breaking his hands, in other words, stress. The 'great escape', as it's called, is therefore just that he's not making any attempt to solve the situation. |
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| Muse – Bliss Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I actually feel as if this song is about someone who has freed themselves from unnecessary shackles, may it be social obligations, everyday stressors, and learned to relax; Has found the path that fits best with them, with which they're happy with. A person who is at peace because they have made peace with themselves. Most people would have trouble achieving this state in an enduring form, and hence the envy that follows. They look up to these people who are at home within themselves, and wish they could be as happy and innocent. Perhaps to a point where they seek spiritual enlightenment from these people, even. Also, I interpret the line 'now I won't settle for less' as the speaker of the song striving for the same perceived perfection. I have been around such a person who appears at peace with the world, and the aura that lingers is very motivating. Though perhaps another good point would be that the person also had natural charisma. As an aside, I think it's possible that the line 'everything about you resonates happiness' could actually be 'everything about you has innate happiness'. However, after double checking by listening to that part of the song... I'm ambivalent. |
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| Muse – Endlessly Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I love how this song subconsciously rick rolls you. "but I won't give you up I won't let you down" That note aside, great song. |
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| The Faint – A Battle Hymn for Children Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I quite like this piece for the image of a lost soul searching for answers. Along the way, asking several people who are supposed to be guides, finding they have no answers meaningful to him. His path towards enlightenment leads him instead to much regret by the time his life ends. In the storyline that progresses in my head while listening to the song, between the sergeant verse and the preacher verse, the speaker is either mortally wounded, or ages to a point where he is naturally just dying. He's on the deathbed talking to his preacher, and realizes at the very least that his whole life was pointless. He then questions the logic that brought him to his end in the first place. The last few notes in the song very clearly bring together the action of the speaker passing away, as the song fades out with a few melancholy notes. As for the meaning of the song, it may be so sharply apparent at first that the song blames video games for the whole mess. In actuality, in the song the protagonist is led to the regretful paths he takes by thinking that he may find answers along the path of what he enjoys (video games), as he has had no better answers before then. Video games in this interpretation are also used as an enabler for a competitive spirit to more easily instill patriotic prides and beliefs, while also enabling curiosity towards certain walks of life and making certain leaders seem more convincing. In such a way, people can be herded into the military, and by their patriotism, they believe they're right for enlisting. In such a way, our wars are more easily fueled so that the US can stay on top. Of course, another major theme is that everyone's looking for answers, so they naturally look to leaders for answers, only to be fed false answers intended to further their own purpose (perhaps also implying that most leaders naturally manipulate their subjects in such a way). In reality, the paths paved for you by pursuing such insights only leads them to a path not fitting to them, or worse, a life of regret. However, I don't think the song says anything about any such individual answers existing for any person, nor does it say anything of the lack of it. Just that looking for it from other people can easily lead you to a path of ruin. I particularly like in the second verse, Is it god against god and the pawns are people? If they're both the same god then the battle's over Details It paints an observation on what appears to be the inciting factor of the wars, but also, though it is said in a dismissive tone, the word "Details" at the end of the verse points off that much of what happens to keep the war going, or what even started it, is unnecessary, perhaps even pointless. Combined with the repeating line of the song, "We had violent games on pause at home." the song appears to further drive in the point that all of this is pointless when he could've been doing what he genuinely enjoyed, despite being equally as pointless, but more meaningful to him. At the same time, the line crosses back on itself to point the finger toward video games for leading him astray anyway. All in all, I much enjoy this song for its content, its sound, and the imagery that springs to mind when listening to it. If I had any skill in animation, I would have the perfect music video, as the idea's been in my head for forever. |
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| Stabbing Westward – Why Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| In all honesty, I first listened to this song when I became rather interested in Depersonalization. Granted, now I don't really care much for psychiatry, but at the time, this song really did sound like some chilling depiction of Depersonalization. I had never truly experienced it, but having researched it for a while made me feel slightly automatonic anyway. | |
| The Faint – Syntax Lies Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Simply put, it's about how language has become superficial. And there's not much else I can say without losing my intended meaning (and that sentence itself means a lot). | |
| The Faint – Let the Poison Spill from Your Throat Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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This song could have a few interpretations. While people here are citing that the song is about gossip, I only believe that is a PART of it. In a greater meaning of it, this song is about those people who allow personal vendettas to overtake themselves. Such a person, to simplify things, will be 'A'. As A takes action to bring down the names of others who he feels slighted him, those who truly know the truth of those that A targetted will turn on A. This creates another personal vendetta, and more slander, which creates more enemies, until the community catches on, and A creates a bad reputation for himself. ("There's no climbing up that list/You just move down it one by one") By the time that A has become a public enemy, he has to deal with such low credibility and a lot of public distrust and hate to the point where he develops a sort of Martyr Complex ("Or is the pain that you endure now/Something you need?" "You hate this and love that it shows") The "No government check can reverse it" line simply refers to the backlash snowballing enough that suing for slander won't gain your credibility back, nor will it probably work in your favor anyway. The only thing that could have a chance of making things right is a formal apology and forgiveness by others. "A royal eclipse of the tongue", which would have a double meaning. He has to change how he treats others, (eclipse of his own tongue) and the community has to change their opinions on him (eclipse of public tongue). Royal refers to either the enormous amounts of effort required to make both happen, or the astronomically low odds of it In another meaning of it, it could refer to those who manipulate others to get what they want, or for attention, but a repeated habit of such creates a public backlash, resulting in no public trust or credibility, and thus a similar end-scenario. |
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