| Talking Heads – Once In A Lifetime Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| It's about suicide, dummies. | |
| Alice in Chains – Rooster Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I always thought a rooster is the platoon leader. I'm not sure the title...lieutenant, general, whichever is calling the shots for everyone. Going for the leader is a classic tactic, because when the leader goes, everyone else tends to not know what to do. The enemy came to snuff the leader. | |
| Alice in Chains – Rooster Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I always thought a rooster is the platoon leader. I'm not sure the title...lieutenant, general, whichever is calling the shots for everyone. Going for the leader is a classic tactic, because when the leader goes, everyone else tends to not know what to do. The enemy came to snuff the leader. | |
| Alice in Chains – Shame In You Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| It's really not that complicated, everyone. It's about a relationship. He's a sad, jaded, junkie, and the chick couldn't handle that. Yet his complaints with her were often the same thing. YOU must change patterns all we've trained...We're being hypocritical with each other, but still will point the finger about who should fix the hypocrisy. Then one gets hurt, so they retaliate by hurting back. I don't think I've gotta go line by line. Alot of Layne's lyrics were about women, despite everyone thinking he can only talk about heroin. Like Head Creeps. The chorus is about suicide... over a girl. Give the heroin thing a break here and there. Yes, it's a large portion of his lyrics, but there's other topics and intricacies as well. Also, this song has nothing to do with the industry or people judging him. Not slightly. Sorry folks, but the man had girl trouble like anyone else and wrote about it. Sorry if that's not what you want from someone you vicariously shot up through. | |
| Katatonia – Brave Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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My first attempt at a song. Katatonia is my favorite band, but not the most difficult band to understand lyrically. "If you didn't know/All the moments/When I lose myself" This line says that if you cared, or if I meant something to you like you say, you should know that something wrong. 'When I lose myself' means when I hurt. Probably talking to a woman, but 'you' you could mean 'I'. "I would tell the world/I'm catching flies by now"-Suicide. 'Catching flies' is something corpses do "Speaking to someone/Breaking the windows/This house is dead"-things are happening, but it's all unimportant and he is jaded to the world. Talking, violence, whatever...everything around him is dead. Or, 'house' is him. "The sound of falling/When the pictures are moving/Between the memories"-It's what he pictures of his own accord in his thoughts that matter. The actual memories are hazy and, to him, worthless. The 'sound of falling' is him becoming jaded. "The sound of falling/When the pictures are moving/Dead in time"-'Dead in time' because it happened, and he can't let it go. It is not specified (betrayal, death, heartbreak, etc...) "Brave, try the meaning of loss/I know your smile is deadly at this point/Wherever you are I am not"-I'm not cool because of how I act. I act how I do because I hurt. Your smile is deadly because you plan to betray, so I will distance myself from you. You are a fake person...aimed at multiple people. Not just a girl. So called 'friends', women, family, whoever. "If you didn't know/All the moments/When I lose myself/I would tell the world"-Setting up to tell the point of his lyrics in this song "I guess I should know/The limits of the world/There are moments I find myself/Not breathing at al"l-He complains and writes lyrics, but he knows that life is full of pain. And he no longer cares. 'Not breathing' is not being effected; being jaded. He said all this, but realizes that, in reality, he doesn't give a damn...death is fine. Pain is fine. Who cares? |
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