| Scanners – We Never Close Our Eyes. Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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"Upside-down people run deep into the ground Chasing shapes of shadows on the wall" This reminds me of the allegory of Plato's cave. |
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| ohGr – Minus Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| It seems to me that this song is about religion. "Sucking the savior" is an obvious reference to people who use religion as a crutch, and "Minus addition is nothing" seems to be making fun of contradictions in religious beliefs, comparing them to "minus addition", which would make no sense and get you nowhere. | |
| Rabbit Junk – February War Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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The lyrics are definitely, "Thank you God for making me an idiot", not "Thank you God for making me an alien". |
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| Broken Bells – The High Road Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Maslow's Hierarchy of needs fits well here. The song is about people who just can't make it to the next level. | |
| Rabbit Junk – Demons Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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"Turn the radio on To the techno station Keep it a few points off So it sounds all rough Then it matches my head All static with its meters in the red I'm feeling half dead" I love how the whole song matches that verse - the chaos, the choir singing epically in the background. |
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| Broken Bells – The High Road Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Perhaps. Very interesting! I love songs where you have to dig to find out the meaning. |
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| Gary Numan – Little Invitro Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Extremely well-crafted and powerful. | |
| Gary Numan – Films Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| I like what you said. When I first heard this song, I imagined that it was about people distracting themselves with things they hardly even enjoy. | |
| Eisbrecher – This Is Deutsch Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| This sounds like its mocking Hitler. | |
| Broken Bells – The High Road Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I think, from watching the music video, the song is about coping with the apparent meaningless in life. The band members are wandering through the night with flashlights, like how people wander through life without being able to see (understand) things clearly. People distract themselves from the foreboding thought of pointlessness in many ways, which are represented throughout the video. Taking advantage of others (the stealing of the toy car), tragedy (the car wreck), entertainment (the kids watching the fire on the screen, which seems to be a subtle reference to the fact that fires are sometimes called "outdoor TVs" because of their tendency to hold our gaze), sex (the dancer), and, perhaps, religion (the white horse, a common symbol in various spiritual groups throughout history) are all seen as possible ways to fulfill us. The drug references in the lyrics also fit this pattern. All of these paths to fulfillment have a binding effect, that is, it's easy for us to get stuck in them ("It's too late to change your mind"). I have more thoughts, but I feel I've typed too much already. I have no idea what the woman who has dropped her things means, though... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWBG1j_flrg |
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| Skinny Puppy – Haze Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| I think "death feels like the butterfly" is referring to the Butterfly effect. The death of some seemingly insignificant person may have large repercussions later in time. | |
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