| The Gathering – The Big Sleep Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I think anybody who has ever had at least a couple insomniac nights straight knows these feelings exactly. I don't think it has to mean exactly that the speaker is being kept awake by any particular trouble, even though it might as well be, but that being unable to sleep for whatever reason is enough a problem (and boy, it is), thus all the allusions to anything that ISN'T being awake (warm lullabies, coma, sunken sleep). I also feel the "I'm dreaming" verse could go both ways, meaning as much that the dreaming (as in asleep) is what the speaker wishes the most, so much it's said in the present tense; but also that that's what the waking reality has become (a final loss of sanity). |
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| The Reign Of Kindo – Breathe Again Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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First few times I didn't notice the lyrics either, then when I did I also thought t'was about Santa Claus, like a nutty Santa who goes 'round stealing presents and gets his. It would've made the song kinda funny actually. I agree with russrabbitt's take on it. The guy in the song's a regular Joe with his share of ups and downs that snaps. I think the fact that the melody is so soothing helps to put you in his head and realize that only getting his kids happy could help him. When you hear "I can breathe again" you feel completely relieved, maybe incidentally recalling some desperate time in your life and you're suddenly really really glad you didn't lose it. But who knows where's your breaking point. |
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| Līve – Lakini's Juice Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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"It was an evening I shared with the sun To find out where we belong From the earliest days We were dancing in the shadows" I think the first line just means a night awake. He was up wondering, "to find out where we belong", 'till night gave away to the sun. The other two indeed must be about faith through time, and how it can mechanical, empty and misunderstood. "More wine Because I got to have it More skin Because I got to eat it" And there's an example of how. Most religions or spiritual philosophies not only attempt to soothe one's concerns of higher purpose, that is, aflictions of the "soul" or the equivalent, but also alflictions of the body, such as diseases and urges. In the song, the thirst and hunger have no trigger and no goal other than a cyclic urge and satisfaction, that is, it's an addiction, without a root to be cut, which I gather must warrant a pretty much atomatic questioning of the forces that make such a condition. "Inside the outside By the river Used to be so calm Used to be so sane I rushed the ladies' room Took the water from the toilet Washed her feet and blessed her name" Here, in the midst of the wonderings, he remembers how it all seemed better before he had to question the mechanical, self-satifactory way things went down. But things aren't exactly clearer, their realization actually makes it all harder, bringing to light its damages along the ride. So what to do? Old rituals, still empty, still shadowed. But the next best thing. "More peace Is such a dirty habit Slow down, we're too afraid" Now, the "moral" I think it's laid here saying that for all the much we long for peace within, for appeasing the things we don't graps about ourselves and our beliefs, for releasing ourselves from what damages us... we're too afraid, too eager, too reckless. "Let me ride Let me ride Burn my eyes Let me ride" Unfortunately, he doesn't seem to know how. So, defeated by the weight of realization and the failure to comprehend, he longs for the one thing that, for the destruction it brings, still succeeds in at least providing a momentary, rapturing relief. Well, that's what I read from it =P |
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