| A Silver Mt. Zion – Blindblindblind Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Wow. "We want punks in the palace 'Cause punks got the loveliest dreams And our gang is liquored and lovely And smart and sweet and lame And burn with a curious flame That spits and kicks and shines And trumpets play for Of awakened dreams" |
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| A Silver Mt. Zion – The Triumph of Our Tired Eyes Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Painfully beautiful, because you know that nothing you could ever create could come within touching distance of this music. | |
| Biffy Clyro – Saturday Superhouse Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Given that it says Will Oldham, neither can I. | |
| Alkaline Trio – Hell Yes Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Butthurt much, Christian? | |
| Okkervil River – So Come Back, I Am Waiting Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I think, personally, that this song (and the whole album) is either about how the 'Black Sheep Boy' is an aspect of all of us, how we all have some of him within our psyche, or that he is a type of person. This really comes through, to me anyway, in this song. I think Will is describing all the aspects of him here; how the Black Sheep Boy can be a drug abuser ('A black sheep boy revolves over canyons and waterfalls. A black sheep boy dissolves in syringe or in a shower stall'), a romantic ('He says there's plenty of time to make you mine tonight, there's plenty of time to make you mine') with a love of life, or unwillingness to let it go ('He says there's plenty of ways to know you're not dying, all right. Hell, there's plenty of light still left in your eye'). He's a performer ('A black sheep boy grows horns, breathing smoke through his microphone. The airwaves stretch and they groan, bleeding, birthing his black diapason.'). He's universal, unspecific to the clothes your wear ('He says there's plenty of things to wear when you come to me, every color of sleeve to be rolled.') - clothing being indicative of the part of society in which you try to place yourself - and unspecific to language or national boundaries ('There are millions of rolling eyes that still cling to me. Every language of king is concerned.'). Perhaps rejecting religion, as he 'bawls' or shouts through the 'old holy song' written by a 'liar' who laughed as he composed it('So why did you bawl from the spell of some old holy song, that some liar laughed as he composed - ') The Black Sheep Boy is there through the fun ('A black sheep boy dissolves in hot cream, in sweet moans') and the trauma ('in each dead bed and empty home'), he's within everything ('in each seething bacterium.'), but a destructive influence ('killing softly and serial'), and maybe physically or socially impressive; he has a presence ('he lifts his head, handsome, horned, magisterial'). He could be unexpected or surprising ('He's the smell of the moonlight wisteria')- got kinda stuck here I must admit, having not really smelled moonlight wisteria myself - and he's that feeling of the first time for anything and everything... (He's the thrill of the abecedarian.') We all have to rely on him sometimes to get us through, whether he's within us or is an actual type of person ('See the muddy hoofprints where he carried you?'). But he's divisive, he causes upset or conflict; he's controversial (And there's plenty of ways to claim his crimes tonight, and there's plenty of things to do on his dime. And there's plenty of ways to wear his hide tonight. You've got yours and I've got mine'). He'll infuriate, frustrate and exhaust you but he's addictive; a magnetic, creative influence('So why did you flee? Don't you know you can't leave his control, only call all his wild works your own?'). And he knows you'll be back, despite the inevitable conflicts, despite what other people think of him - 'hated and damned' - to 'take them all on' and struggle with him. The Black Sheep Boy eventually becomes a Black Sheep Man, ready to make you his lamb, to shape the new breed of Black Sheep... ('So come back and well take them all on. So come back to your life on the lam. So come back to your old black sheep man. He says I am waiting on hoof and on hand. I am waiting, all hated and damned. I am waiting - I snort and I stamp. I am waiting, you know that I am, calmly waiting to make you my lamb.') This all kind of fits with the whole rock-star thing, but I think all rock-stars are Black Sheep first and foremost anyway. And that's what I think, anyway. Sorry I kind of went on a bit, thanks to anyone who read it. |
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| Bonnie 'Prince' Billy – Raining In Darling Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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missing 2 lines at the end, 'and I know you love me I know you do' one of the most beautiful songs I have ever heard The last line's delivery has always intrigued me, its almost left hanging(the first time I heard this I had to check my mp3 to see if the song had indeed stopped). It almost turns the affirmation of someones love around and questions it without really doing so. Don't really know why I wrote this given that the last comment was posted near-enough a year ago, guess this song just deserves a little more love. |
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| Bonnie 'Prince' Billy – I See A Darkness Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| One of the best songs of arguably one of the greatest albums ever made | |
| Slipknot – Scissors Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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This song is fucking mental towards the end, and I fucking love it. Not for what it represents but for the sheer energy and depth of rage with which it is delivered. I know there are 2 or 3 other interpretations of the rest of this songs lyrics (the rest of the song after "...biding my time..." ) but I wanted to add my interpretation: Somewhere, (?) Someone, inside me Everyone, against me Everyone, beside me Clawing away, the pieces Scratching away, the absensce One more, two more, everyone wants more One more, two more, everyone, wants more... Inside the places that I hide from you, I want to see you, splayed before me - You - are - the only one, that I would rather see... before me Lie - You want it You need it x4 DON'T LIE - I died - You're mine - (? "I laughed, you cried" ?) I don't - want to - to be - anyone, WHY NOT DIE?! I WANNA DIE! I'D RATHER DIE! I WANANA DIE! YOU BITCH! x3 I DON'T - NEED, you , any - MORE! I DON'T - NEED - you... ...YEAH! I NEED - TIME! (repeated until you here Corey choking, ending the song) I fucking love the sheer emotion in this song, the lines "I wanna die! I'd rather die! I wanna die!" being my favourite; they're screamed with pure, soul-destroying fury. |
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| Slipknot – (sic) Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Hmm... kind of surprised no-one has posted my idea on the 'you can't kill me cause I'm already inside you' lyric: Personally, I think at the time of writing Slipknot viewed themselves as a cancerous musical movement,something that people in the very bland late '90s music business would want to remove. They were 'inside' people already, they were inside the minds people who were listening to their music in a virus-like way. You can pick up on the same themes, though greatly intensified, in other songs - first one that springs to mind is The Heretic Anthem, I'm specifically thinking of the "I'm teaching your brightest they're listening, clamoring..." lyric. Clearly meaning teaching the brightest young people,the future, who're 'listening, clamouring' for Slipknot (The Heretic Anthem is a very anti music business song generally). Just my two cents. (By the way, at what point does the lyric "I - I want it all!" get sung? Maybe an earlier version of something) |
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