| Cage the Elephant – Spiderhead Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Damn, I love this song. | |
| Disarmonia Mundi – Common State Of Inner Violence Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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The song is about a father who had a son, and is trying to get a second chance at life by living vicariously through his son. He wants the boy to live the life the father always wanted, ignoring the son's own wishes. The son is telling the father that he shouldn't have had a child if the father didn't feel like he was able to fulfill his own ambitions in life. He should have chased his own dreams rather than have a child whom he was going to force them onto instead. The boy leaves home, his grandfather is happy, and his parents want to have another child to try again with the original plan. |
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| Soilwork – Two Lives Worth of Reckoning Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| I guess its about making a difficult decision, and being unable to pick between to things. Overthinking the decision too much, and making him go insane. | |
| Scar Symmetry – Slaves To The Subliminal Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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To me, this song is obviously about how people are brainwashed, intentionally and unintentionally, by television and other forms of media. People are taught to think in certain ways, whether they realize it or not. This song seems to focus on the part of people learning things (attitudes, reactions, etc.) without knowing it (i.e. subliminally) and never even knowing it. Fake stories and even lies on the TV are literally programming people by showing massive amounts of people the same exact thing. People learn from seeing things, and whether they want to or not, they eventually emulate what they have seen and learned. Media, especially TV does in fact do this, for better or for worse. This song is obviously saying that it is indeed for the worse, which I also believe it is. Even if TV sent nothing but "positive" messages, it would still be negative in a way, because it is robbing people of their true selves. They are no longer individual, and often never have a chance to think for themselves to formulate their own opinions or feelings of things. This reminds me of an uncharacteristically yet true quote from The Pirates of the Caribbean movies, of all places (how ironic, given my interpretation and agreement of this song, right? hahaha!): "The world isn't getting smaller, there is just less in it." This is so true, because everyone in the world is getting exposed (and therefore learning from) the same limited amount of information / experiences due to TV and the media's ever-lengthening reach. People are all becoming less individual and more robotic. |
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| In Flames – Where The Dead Ships Dwell Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Hm. I think the Clayman (=D) is talking about how painful it is for him to look back on the ways in which he has adapted over time. Perhaps the dead ships are a metaphor for the mindsets he has used throughout his life to move through time in this ever-changing world. Maybe he now feels he changed too much, and cannot remember how he used to be during certain times, and it pains him to not be able to return to them. | |
| In Flames – Ordinary Story Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I always loved this song, but now that I have been reading all of In Flames' lyrics, this song is exponentially better. Amazing. I love the depth of lyrics from this band, it is truly awesome. The parts that have the word "to," need to be changed to "too." That annoys me, since it doesn't make sense in its current form... |
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| Soilwork – Silent Bullet Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| The chorus makes me think of being cheated on, which certainly can feel like a silent bullet. | |
| Soilwork – Stabbing The Drama Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| I think this is about a man who was always emotionally invested in others' problems, and has finally decided to stop caring. | |
| Soilwork – Let This River Flow Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Beautiful, inspiring song. From what I gather, it seems to be about seizing your destiny, ridding yourself of your past problems and moving on. | |
| Trivium – Caustic Are The Ties That Bind Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| ^ Thanks for those completed lyrics. I love this song, the slowed part is amazing. | |
| In Flames – The Quiet Place Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Maybe the feature wasn't present when you wrote that, but the comment types clearly include an option for posting your opinion. Also, how is one supposed to interpret a song without using their opinion? | |
| In Flames – Clayman Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Haha. After reading WinterMadness's comment, I take back the final sentence of my interpretation. At any rate, I feel this song is amazing, both in meaning and sound. A true work of art. It was a pleasure to write about, read, and listen to. | |
| In Flames – Clayman Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I'm going to add my interpretation here, as I have to two other site so far. I spent about an hour on it, not including the times I was distracted by the awesomeness of the other In Flames songs that I had playing while writing. I think this song is about the narrator's understanding of life and who he is as a person, and where he fits into the world. He is unsure and unconfident of himself. He perceives others to be extremely sure of who they are and solid, unchanging, plastic. It seems like throughout school, he had an idea of who he was, and what life was about. He felt like he was where he belonged; he knew his place and was in it. Afterwards, he was lost. Ideas that he believed were major parts of life no longer applied to his new reality. After this, I think the narrator finds that he cannot quite pinpoint an exact meaning to life, and is instead a man made of clay; always changing and adapting. He is probably being shaped by his perceived level of acceptance by his peers: the aforementioned plastic people. Perhaps at times he feels invincible when he thinks he has found a meaning or image for himself, but the confidence it instills eventually weakens. Gradually, the confidence this self-image instills within him weans, as he stops getting signs of confirmation from his peers: “I need someone to break the silence before it all falls apart. I need something to cling onto.” Alternatively, for the previous paragraph only, perhaps the fact that he is an ever-adapting clay sculpture is what makes him feel invincible all the time. Either way, maybe this survival tactic is his “supernatural art,” and that is what he wishes to teach to the world, especially people who feel lost and alone in life. After reading some comments here though, I'm more certain of my final paragraph. |
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| Scar Symmetry – The Missing Coordinates Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Damn, this song is fucking awesome. As for interpreting it: Hmmm... kinda vague. Seems like a soldier is given the ability to access some kind of omniscient vision, unbound by space or even time. Eventually, it seems, this reawakens some part of him that has laid dormant within him all his life, and he possibly even becomes addicted to it, and wants to live within it forever. "Waging wars to be on my own." If taken literally, perhaps during times of war are those in which he can use this ability and be within it. If not, maybe it just means he never wants to surrender this godlike ability. |
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| In Flames – Bullet Ride Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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To me, this song seems like it was written about someone who suffered from anxiety and depression, and eventually committed suicide. The part about the silent screaming really reminded me of this painting about anxiety, featuring a man holding his face with his mouth wide open in a scream: http://www.edvard-munch.com/gallery/anxiety/scream.htm The third paragraph makes me think of paranoia, as if a person is trying to find some kind of hidden meaning in something, reminiscent of schizophrenia, as someone who posted before me has brought up. Overall, this song is amazing in both the way it sounds, and the depth of the lyrics in detailing the subject. |
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| Trivium – Pull Harder on the Strings of your Martyr Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| This song is fucking awesome. As for the people who are comparing CoB and Trivium, stop trying to be cooler than other people by pretending to have special knowledge of something that isn't real. I was listening to CoB for years before I knew of Trivium, and I love them both. If they sound similar to you, then you must have zero ability to distinguish, and therefore a very limited ability to enjoy, music. Know who else says they sound the same? An old woman who has never heard of metal. | |
| Five Finger Death Punch – Crossing Over Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| yeah... from the title of the song and the lyrics, its pretty obvious this song is about death, and meeting up in heaven with your significant other. | |
| Disarmonia Mundi – Celestial Furnace Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Æ’ucking awesome | |
| Disarmonia Mundi – Guilty Claims Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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"booty of war" sounds more like bodies of war. This song is amazing though. Extremely atmospheric. Perhaps about evolving feelings of war as you age? |
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| Disarmonia Mundi – Nihilistic Overdrive Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| epic song indeed | |
| Disarmonia Mundi – A Taste of Collapse Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| love this song <3 | |
| Blinded Colony – Revelation, Now! Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Awesome song. It's obviously about the narrator's disbelief in God, and the reasons why. If he existed, he shouldn't be allowing so many bad things to happen, and should give us a sign that he does exist. "Reveal yourself now." |
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| Blinded Colony – Aaron's Sons Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| This is pretty obvious, in my opinion. It's pointing out the contradiction of how religion preaches peace, yet people kill in its name every day, using their "peaceful" religions as justification. | |
| Blinded Colony – Bedtime Prayers Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| I think it's about how parents introduce their children into religion and tell them that it is fact, when even the parents themselves don't understand it, and they don't give the kids a chance to decide for themselves. Religion is introduced to children at such an early age, they almost have no choice but to believe in it, since it is imbued so deeply in their lives. They never get a chance to see things from another perspective. | |
| Blinded Colony – 21st Century Holocaust Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| I think this song is pretty much self-explanatory. | |
| Blinded Colony – Heart Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| ^ You're right. He's talking about his heart, as it used to guide him and provide his conscience, but no longer does, like he died on the inside. One of the few songs that I have come across that actually grew better once I knew what the actual subject matter was. | |
| Stone Sour – Through Glass Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| There are tons of comments on this song. I have to say that I think the song is about the fake front people put up, hiding who they really are. Sure, it fits nicely with celebrities and a T.V., but I think it also applies to everyone on Earth that and the glass can also be seen as a type of lens that the world sees people through, like how you only see certain sides of people. I think it is also about how you can spend your entire life near someone without truly knowing who they really are on the inside. | |
| Soilwork – Distance Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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| Soilwork – Distance Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I really like the post about it being drug related.. it does seem to make a lot of sense. Before coming to this website, I felt it was about religion. The narrator doesn't understand how everyone can see religion in such a different light than he does, and wants people to take a step back and look it things with logic. From scratch to revelation It's all been there, bleeding for someone to dare Extension of deceptions, brings you to your final collapse Cold and crawling, you made it back Fear is selling and your one with the fact Counting the days for rebirth Lost once again and how it hurts... In religion, fear is the motivation for lying to yourself and going against everything you know to be fact. |
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| Cradle of Filth – Better To Reign In Hell Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Selrach captured this one perfectly. Damnation and a Day is the best album in the history of music. It doesn't get any more epic than a holy war, and I certainly don't mean some misguided jihad or crusade. | |
| Mudvayne – Severed Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| This song is about the false front people put up in order to survive mentally in society. The narrarator is telling about a time love or friendship made him believe he could show his true self to someone just to have that bond evaporate, leaving him exposed and vulnerable. This ends up turning his heart into a block of ice as he vows never to let his guard down again. He is left to just dwell on the past while very depressed, begging for death. I think everyone can relate. Some more than others. | |
| Cradle of Filth – Lord Abortion Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| The part about his dad. He grew up killing the sluts his dad fucked and beat. He cut out their vaginas and jacked off with them when he was a young teen. | |
| Cradle of Filth – Mannequin Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Ha. In this line, which someone mentioned: I tongued the nuns at Louviers But not one word possessed He is saying he tounged nuns, then clarifying he did not mean speaking of them. Overall, I think this song is about bondage, domination, and maybe role playing. It's quite sexy. |
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| Cradle of Filth – I Am The Thorn Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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This is about the evils of Christianity (especially Catholicism) and, I suppose, all religions. They are the thorn. They have set out to rule the desert kingdoms (the middle east). The narrator points out that the religion is not controlled by God, but rather by man with lust for war/power. Verse in point: "Born of jackal in the Vatican To a loathsome flock I have crept behind the drapes And a wizard there is not Just a white flag blackened by Singing weapons that have led A faith that soon dominions over Desert kingdoms of the dead" The masses are fooled by man into thinking that a higher power is directing them. This is why Cradle of Filth is my favorite band of all time. |
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| Chevelle – Jars Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Hmm. I think this is about American and war. Mainly how we (America) are trying to contain and control countries to protect them from communism and generally anything we don't like. I'm about to read an interview they did about it though. | |
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