| Ani DiFranco – Wish I May Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| P.S it makes it ten times better than Freakshow is right after this song too. haha complete opposite emotions, and of course, ani is able to capture both ends of the spectrum and put them right next to each other. | |
| Ani DiFranco – Wish I May Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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yeah. you all summed it up. it's about reaching the end of tolerance and joy. completely pessimistic. "trying not to wake up my sleeping self loathing" "i'm staring down the gravel driveway of desire" beautiful lines. do you ever feel that way? where you're on the verge of being completely depressed, but you're doing things carefully so you don't fall into the depression. Ani has such beautiful words.. |
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| Ani DiFranco – 78% H2O Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I think this song is really cool.. It's about religious people. probably a religious person she tried to get close to. first you'll roll your eyes to heaven say you never had love so divine (people who believe in god say they feel this "love") but it will go from more than ever to not enough in no time (self explanatory) you will push and you will push un- til you push me away i hear you cry out for your water and i know you'll curse it someday that part is pretty straight forward. then she says something truely beautiful. "But we are 78% percent water, even our pumping hearts." that really doesn't sound like much, but the first two verses talking about water. "put your feet in, and you would pray" and "i hear you cry out for your water" etc. but then this verses WE are water. To me, it means we are our own gods. We shouldn't have to look for love from some idea in the sky. we should find love from ourselves. from other people. look at the word water in this song as a metaphor for god or religion or that type of stuff. and you'll understand it a lot better. |
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| Ani DiFranco – Evolve Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| This song is fucking brilliant! Ani covers so many topics and describes them so beautifully (as she always does) and her points on these topics are spot on. the part about the moth is about evolution. the part about marijuana is perfectly stated. and the part about the beauty that moves.. PERFECT! everyone should have that kind of beauty. :) | |
| Ani DiFranco – Coming Up Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| God is man.. | |
| Ani DiFranco – Unrequited Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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you are perfect, mickzzzzzzz. i am living the exact description of this song right now. and your explanation has open my eyes to a whole side of things I never saw before. thank you. |
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| The Blood Brothers – The Salesman, Denver Max Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I was stoned the other day. and thinking about music. and i realized, that a voice is an instrument. take away the words coming out of mouths, and listen to the sound and notes hit by this band and other bands. (however, combining meaningful words with beautiful sounds is what makes music perfect. i.e the blood brothers) listen to the way the singer sings. and think of it as a guitar or drum or instrument of some sort. this band has nailed beatific vocalism along with every other member of this band. they're all so talented. i love them :) |
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| The Blood Brothers – The Salesman, Denver Max Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| no... no they will never be. they are too talented for that shit. | |
| Ani DiFranco – Self Evident Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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you're right on everything from A to f. that's exactly what this poem is about. ALL of that stuff wrapped up into one beautiful poem. (art) YES, this is Ani difrancos' point of view, you don't have to pay attention to it if you don't agree with it. YES, alliteration is an art form. everything can be art if there's creativity and meaning behind it. "ridiculously reckless relic of propagandistic poetic pretension" is not art. because (a)propagandistic is not a word. (b) you just pushed a bunch of unnecessary words together that started with the same letter. You didn't understand this poem. she IS blaming America for the 911 attacks, for the 2000 elections where Al Gore won the popular vote, and then Bush was elected president because of the electoral votes. (that does seem kinda fishy, doesn't it?) Take a look at America. what are we? fat. ignorant. "self-righteous." arrogant. She says: "so here's a toast to all the folks who live in palestine afghanistan iraq el salvador here's a toast to the folks living on the pine ridge reservation under the stone cold gaze of mt. rushmore She's raising her glass to the civilians of these third world nations. she's raising her glass to the indians who live on the pine ridge reservation, (which consists of the two poorest counties in the US.) then She says earlier in the poem "we've been strutting around for a century without saying thank you, or please." Our arrogant leaders, who stole this country from the indians, then continued to take and take and involve all of us in other countries business... do you see? our country is a charade. "take away our playstations and we are a third world nation" our leaders and our media and entertainment have built us up to be this wonderful, powerful, "free" nation. but all it took was one hour to totally bring us to our knees. Will you pull your country out of your ass, and open your eyes, and see what our leaders have gotten us into? look through the eyes of the "terrorists" and see why they despise America. I'm not saying 9/11 was planned (i'm not saying it wasn't, either). I'm just saying the same thing Ani does in this poem; we deserved it. |
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| Ani DiFranco – Self Evident Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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This song/poem is, in every way, perfect. on the live version, the music kicks in right after these lines. "and there's a fine silt on every mantle from hell's kitchen to brooklyn and the streets are full of stories sudden twists and near misses and soon every open bar is crammed to the rafters with tales of narrowly averted disasters and the whiskey is flowin like never before as all over the country folks just shake their heads and pour" and the crowd cheers and it's sooooooo perfect. it gives me chills everytime. because only Ani difranco can summon the emotion the crowd gives to her. can you imagine being her, singing this song and having a huge crowd UNDERSTAND you? and then the deep emotional feedback she gets is one of the most perfect things i have ever seen or heard in my lifetime. and the parking garage and bomb and first time around references are about the Oklahoma city bombings with timothy mcvey. (which a lot of people here have seem to forgotten about) the only thing i don't understand about this is the last line, about see the train.. what is she saying? she mentions trains earlier. does she think trains are better for humanity or? something. i'm stumped. could someone explain it to me? |
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| Marilyn Manson – Four Rusted Horses Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Who'll ride this dying carousel? a carousel; one of those amusment park rides where you sit on a horse or something and the whole thing spins in circles. the carousel could be the world. "who's gonna sit there and ride in circles till the end of the world?" Four rusted horses strangled by their own rope. idk who the four horses could be. there's usually four horses on any mediocre carousel. but idk who he is reffering to. What children love, we're singing "we all know that their tied hearts had broke." what children love. simplicity, peace, amusement parks.. children have an insight to things most adults lose. becaus children don't get involved in most things. they just live in the moment for themselves. so they can see that the adults/rusted horses are dying. spinning in one big megalomanic circle. |
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| Marilyn Manson – Pretty as a ($) Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| i wouldn't consider that to be weird. i would consider it brilliant. most people don't understand the meaning behind most of his songs. but if they did, and if they actually TRIED to accept the meaning. They'd be suprised that there is actually someone this smart in the world. that's all manson is. one smart guy, trying to get people to open their eyes a little bit and look for a deeper meaning to life. | |
| Ani DiFranco – Up Up Up Up Up Up Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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whatever, guy. this song is incredible. all the way through. here's my interpretation. (still kinda sketchy.) up up up up up up, points the spire of the steeple. but god's work isn't done by god it's done by people (People do things. not God. you can't credit someone else for something YOU did.) up up up up up up, points the fingers of the trees. the lumberjacks with their bloody axes are on their knees (hmmm i'm gonna say this is about repentance? maybe cutting trees is not really a good thing. and maybe since they're on their knees, they're realizing what they've done wrong and regretting? (i honestly don't know)) and just when you think that you've got enough, enough grows. (when you think you have everything you need, more things turn into needs and you need more. (for most people)) and everywhere that you go in life, enough knows. (i want to say enough is a noun in this line. the enough that grows in the previous line is the enough that knows. (again, ?) up up up up up up, dances the steam from the sewer. as she rounds the corner the brutal wind blows right through her (I think about big city living. and the numbness that builds up in people because of the city) up up up up up up raises the stakes of the game. each day sinks its bootprint into her clay and she's not the same (same thing. big city numbness.) and half of learning how to play is learning what not to play (self explanitory, and very true.) and she's learning the spaces she leaves have their own things to say (the things she isn't sure about, tell her that she isn't complete.) then she's trying to sing just enough so that the air around her moves and make music like mercy that gives what it is and has nothing to prove (music is ani's escape, and career, ect. obviously. and in most of her songs, she isn't trying to ram her thoughts and believes down your throat. "i am just singing my own truth" as she said in another song. Her music has nothing to prove to anyone. her music is simply a relection of herself and her thoughts.) she crawls out on a limb and begins to build her home it's enough just to look around to know she's not alone (I am about to move out of my parents house, and so this verse means something different to me. but i don't think that's what she meant. i think she's saying like.. going out on a limb, doing something drastic. (like her music and the judgment that ensues it.) and then looking around and realizing she's not the only one with the same ideas that she has.) all together, this song is about getting by in whatever circumstance you happen to be placed in. if you are as smart as Ani Difranco, there's gonna be a lot of judgment and critsizm from the more stupid people in the world. idk. that's just my interpretation of this song. and i could be wrong. besides the meaning, the beat is super cool and relaxing too. i love it. |
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| Marilyn Manson – I Don't Like the Drugs (But the Drugs Like Me) Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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This is way cool. For those people who can't see past the surface of anything, this song is about marilyn mansons addiction to drugs. ha but really. it's a bash on people who are "raised to be stupid, and taught to be nothing at all" everone who is just "normal" has a norm life (baby). "we're white and oh so hetro. our sex is missionary" any normal white person is DEFINATLY straight. ask him and he'll deny sort of homosexualism that may run through him. and any sort of sodomy is unheard of to him. missionary only. ha "we're quitters and we're sober." we HAVE to stop smoking. stop using drugs. we HAVE to be sober. Then, when we are, we can go on tv and talk about it. I think that the part "you and I are underdosed and we're ready to fall" is about manson himself. and whoever the 'you' is to. (probably fans, lovers, anyone who doesn't have a norm life) we're not high enough. we're being pulled into sobriety by all the stupid, nothing, normal people. The coolest thing about mansons lyrics (in my opinion) is how well he can use drugs as metaphors. this song pretty much has nothing to do with drugs. it's more about people. but, he uses drugs as a cover up so it shocks those normal people into what they think now ("manson is a bad person who only preaches drugs, sex, violence and suicide") the moral of this song; don't strive to be normal. raise yourself to be smarter, if you're only being raised to be stupid. and teach yourself to be something, if society and teachers only tell us we're going to be nothing. that's just what i take from the song. |
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| Marilyn Manson – I Want To Disappear Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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the first verse he's saying. "LOOK. look what i've become. got no religion, i was a virgin, grew up to be a whore." he used to have religion and be a little virginal kid. but then he opened his eyes, and became the opposite of what he was. and then "Iwant it. i believe it." saying this is what he wants for himself. being who he is, makes him happy. Then chorus. I'm a million different things and not one you know. -that's pretty self explainatory. Hey! And our mommies are lost now. Hey! Daddy's someone else. Hey! And we love the abuse because it make us feel like we are needed. Now, but I know... I wanna disappear -i think, this means, he has changed and seen a different side to our world. and now wants to disappear from it. Not by suicide. since the album is a concept album about the media, "we love the abuse" the media gives us "because it makes us feel like are needed." "but I know.. i want to disappear." get it? the second verse says wanna die young, sell my soul, use up all your drugs, make me come/cum. either the media pleasuring us or something like that. i don't quite get that part. but when he says "yesterday i was a nihilist, now today i'm just to fucking bored." I think he's talking about people today who have become so boring. everyone's bored these days. Nihilism is almost an anarchic belief. but "now today, we're just too fucking bored" to stand up for what we believe. we just sort of sit there and watch tv.. maybe this verse is about teenagers? and the effect the media has on us. selling us death, drugs, and sex. "By the time i'm old enough, i won't know anything at all." I have no idea what this could mean.. I've been listening to this song since i was 14 and i've never been able to figure this line out. (however, with the recent decline in some of mansons music, i think that's what he means. By the time he's old, he'll have lost his music making skills or SOMETHING.) i have no idea. if someone could help me out, that'd be helpful |
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| Marilyn Manson – Antichrist Superstar Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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haha oh wait, you're not a christian anyway because you're not catholic? hah that was both ignorant and biast. everyone on this page? if you're not catholic like this guy is, you're gonna have a bad day. hah we all have to believe EXACTLY what this guy wants you to because, he is catholic. if not, he'll make fun of you and tell you you're going to hell. You, my dear football loving meathead, are exactly the kind of person that inspired the singer of this band to become what he is. hypocritical, self-righteous, and completely discriminitory to anyone who doesn't have the same exact beliefs you do. how do you think you look in your gods eyes? will he be pleased that the only thing you've done with your life is bitch at other people for not believing the same way? for that matter? how do you know your god exists? because a book told you? because millions of people believe the same thing? that just makes you a sheep. herded by false hope and fear of death. you are definatly somebody to look up to philadephia. i hope your death shows you more than you know now. |
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| Ani DiFranco – God's Country Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| this is is incredible! "this is God's country, but this is my country too. Move over Mr. Holiness and let the little people through." and "he's gonna put his two cents in, cause he has a gun. but i'll put in three cause history owes me one." that's a cool ass play on words to say the least, but both of these lines show her ability to stand up to authority and show them fairness. i think. i could be wrong. Ani has too many lessons and meanings in her song to be summed up in one paragraph. ha she's one of the most amazing women who has ever entered my ears. :) | |
| Ani DiFranco – Pick Yer Nose Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| more people need to listen to this song. But then that'd sell Ani out.. dang it. people really need to be themselves. "you can't get it from t.v" ha :)) | |
| Marilyn Manson – Organ Grinder Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I really like the lyric "you're not gonna hear what he don't want to hear because what i say disgusts him. he wants to be me and that scares him." parents censoring what their children hear because it offends the parents. even if what was being said is the truth. like marilyn manson. But what the parent hears makes sense and is logical, even though they reject it in the first place. so then they're confused and scared of themselves. | |
| Marilyn Manson – The Death Song Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I don't think this song is about suicide.. i think "we sing the death song kids cause we've got no future, and we want to be just like you." means we surrunder ourselves to anything that seems stronger than us. we kill our potential and our future, just because we want to be like whatever it is we surrendered to. God, celebrities, JFK, the newspaper. i think that's the overall meaning of the song, but i might be wrong. |
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| Marilyn Manson – We're From America Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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First off. If you're from another country, you probably don't know America as well as we do. So you would have no idea how to hate it as badly as we do. (p.s., australia is slowly becoming another america. the two are almost identical when it comes to igrance and fat people.) ANYWAY. here's what i think the means. (even though it's kinda repetitive) we're from america where we eat our young (stem cell research, abortions, or just the simple fact that we corrupt our residents from a VERY young age.) we're from america it's where jesus was born. (we've come to think that. "we're the shit") we're from america where they let you come on our faces (celebraties, god, the news. we gladly open our mouths and legs to anything something "higher" than us in the social status ladder) we're from america we speak american (hah this ones funny. if ask any typical american what language they speak, they'll tell you they speak american. .... there's no such language as "american" ha it's ENGLISH. (or mexican depending on who you ask ha) we don't believe in credibility cuz we know that we're fuckin incredible (can't be stated any clearer.) i wanna be a martyr don't wanna be victim (Martyr: a person who seeks sympathy or attention by feigning or exaggerating pain, deprivation, etc.. ha I didn't know this deffinition of martyr before i just looked it up. but this makes complete sense now. ha we just want to get whine and get attetion for the bad stuff that happens to us, but we don't want it to actually happen. we don't want to endure suffering but we want people have sympathy for us.) be a killer with a god, so they call me a hero (using god as an excuse to "kill" example; OJ simpson, christian crusades, ect god is an excuse. (holy shit people, you need to see this already!) so sing it with me we're from america we're from america we're from america you can sing it with me. we're from america we're from america we're from america (like siam06 said. this part he's just making the song super dumb and generic to make fun of other boring bands that just repeat the same lyric over and over again. ha ) don't like to kill our unborn, we need them to grow up and fight our wars (self explanitory.) we believe in everything we say we say it because we believe it. (we have no background knowledge of what we're saying. we just act convinced of what we're talking about. and then make other people believe it, just because we do. ha we lie to ourselves, then make other people think the same way we do.) we're from america we turn literature into litter. (perfect example, this website. more than half of the people, just on marilyn mansons page, can't spell right.) we're from america we believe in being a quitter (failing and quitting is okay, as long as you tried in america. nobody strives to be better.) i'm in recovery (probably saying.. he's recovering from the stupidity of americans. dissassociating himself from these monkeys, and trying to better himself. we're from america This song is boring as hell to listen to, but i completely agree with the message. I don't know why any american mother or organization has gotten mad and protested this song yet? i would've expected they would have by now.. ha maybe manson got away from scrutinization by conforming to their lame expectations of music, but then bitch slapped them once he got inside? ha and they didn't even realize it. maybe i'm just high |
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| Marilyn Manson – Irresponsible Hate Anthem Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| hahahahahahahaha "Marilyn manson is a fuckin' mother fucker filled with hate, and LET ME TELL YOU! that marilyn manson sucks.. and SO DO YOU! if you don't want to suck, listen to the music that I do." haha damn dude. i have never met another human being, who is so ignorant. it's disappointing that we even have to deal with people like you in the first place. do you really think your god wants you to be as hateful and close minded as you are? what do you think he'll say if you ever meet him? hah "philadelphia eagles is a fuckin' mother fucker filled with hate"... | |
| Marilyn Manson – GodEatGod Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| ha no. JFK was a free mason. | |
| Marilyn Manson – GodEatGod Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| he doesn't hate god. "i never hated a one true god, just the god of the people i hated" | |
| Marilyn Manson – Angel With The Scabbed Wings Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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This song is a slap in the face to both God and the people who follow him, at the same time. The first verse is using a rockstar (pretty face, powdered nose, take your hearts away with his "rock and roll sores") as a metephor to God. god is a rockstar. People LOVE celebraties, rockstars, ect., almost more than they love themselves. Christians love God WAY more than they love themselves. so i think he's saying that's not right. the chorus: Dead is what he is (god) He does what he pleases (god can do anything to anyone and people will just bend over and take it and praise him even more. (if you think it's about rockstars, same type of thinking applies)) The things that he has, You'RE never GONNA to see What you're never gonna be. (God has everything because people give it to him. they dedicate their lives to him (HOPING he exists) but they're never going to see what he is, let alone BE him.) Now Sketch a little keyhole (bible) For looking-glass people (religious, weak people who have to find something cling to in order to stay alive. like the bible and the belief of god) You don't want to see him You only want to be him (people who believe in god, usually use that fact to justify their actions. example; OJ simpson. He was a football player (almost the same status as God, in America at least) and he told everyone he believed in God. and that justified his killing enough to the point that he got off free and could continue living his life, up until a few months ago. the point being, gods followers would rather be god, than just simply look at him) Mommy's got a scarecrow (parents, pastors, the bible (all "mommy's") scare children into believing god. like a scarecrow scares the crows away from cornfields. "mommy's" scare us from asking question and finding out truths about the religion they've forced on us.) like somebody said on a different page "we're not born to believe in god, we're forced to." Gotta let the corn grow (i know corn means children. but i'm not sure if manson means "gotta let the children grow and think for themselves, rather than having the dick of god rammed down their throat every sunday." OR, if he's talking from the "mommy's" perspective and saying "I have to let my children grow in gods fence." i'm not sure, it's up for whatever you guys want to think. but the first one would make more sense with the next lyric, so i'm gonna go with that's what he meant.) Man can't always reap what he sows (this is a pretty powerful statement in my opinion. man can't always tame what he raises. look at manson. born into a christian household, christian school, ect.. but now look at him. he's the complete opposite, and can't be tamed by the people who created him. (teachers, parents, or pretty much anybody). and the same goes for all of us. your parents raised you, and then the school system and everyone else you've met on the way. even manson. and even god. but none of them should be able to tame you, you should think for yourself and ask questions and find the deeper meaning to things. not neccesarily rebel against them, but learn from everyone you meet. that's what will make us untamable (if that's a word ha)). finally, He is the maker (He is the taker) He is the savior (He is the rapper) useYOUrbrain summed this part up the best. good job |
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