| Līve – Iris Lyrics | 1 year ago |
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@[caramelprisoner:52331] Seems to me its a pretty dark song; not a love song. Abuse and violence are hinted at. |
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| Līve – Iris Lyrics | 1 year ago |
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@[sadiesadie:52330] I think the lyric might be "Take their prize". Sort of like the game of capture the flag? I have no answer but it gives more food for thought. |
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| Acid Bath – The Mortician's Flame Lyrics | 4 years ago |
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I like all the different thoughts here. If 10 people listen to these lyrics and hear 10 different things, Acid Bath has succeeded in creating art. If 10 people hear the lyrics and everyone thinks it means the same thing, it is not art; it is a commercial. The reasons I suggest this may not be about abortion are both based on the song title: The Mortician's Flame. 1.) Morticians do not handle the remains of voluntarily aborted fetuses. There is no funeral. To mention a mortician is to imply a funeral service and mourning. 2.) When do morticians use a flame? For cremation of bodies. Aborted fetuses are not formally cremated but disposed of as biohazardous material. The remains are eventually incinerated, this is true. (I am a mortician; I know this.) Everybody keep listening, and thinking, and having different opinions. Keep going and democracy may survive! Don't be afraid to argue! |
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| Clutch – Gnome Enthusiast Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Sorry, I just find this song hysterically funny and beautiful, though totally unsuitable for concert performance. A bunch of heavy rockers singing about garden gnomes and herbs. Still, this is serious poetry, "what now dandelion, hey hey hey your hair is turning gray (a dandelion going to seed turns gray and puffy) Suspect, you're looking through and through, I'd take to the wind if I was you. (The dandelion's gray seeds blow away on the wind) Such a quaint and poetic lyric for Clutch. Also the last line "'Till wicked weeded wild in my garden" is very similar to Walt Whitman poetry. I applaud Neil Fallon and Clutch for having the temerity and integrity to write such a light, poetic, un-macho song. I once shouted the name of this song at the top of my lungs between sets at a Clutch concert, and was rewarded with Mr. Fallon locking eyes with me and shaking his head "no!" | |
| Clutch – Big Fat Pig Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I think that the religious references and the satire on religions is very accurate. Everybody knows the song "Devil with the Blue Dress On". Reason and logic has always been persecuted by most religions, from Galileo to Darwin. Reason = Devil = Reason, won't you put your blue dress on? Also, there is mention of the pieman, and we all recall the nursery rhyme of Simple Simon and the Pieman. A major dig at Scientologists, naming him "Simon" or simple (stupid) Is you stupid, or is you just high? (One of my favorite lyrics of all time! I used it on my boss once) My silly extrapolations. |
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| Clutch – (In The Wake Of) The Swollen Goat Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Also of note is that Clutch is from Maryland, and their lyrics are intertwined with the natural world in many of their songs. Blackwater is a National Wildlife Refuge in Maryland about 80 miles south of Annapolis, and I have read several articles about how it is being reclaimed by the sea due to the rise in sea levels caused by global warming. I have even been there. (Lots of blackbirds singing, aand there are ringing buoys in the bay...did not see any fish floating on the sea, though.) One of the old governors of Maryland had a home there, and it was an historic site until it was eventually destroyed by floodwater tides. "The governor, he been long gone; anchor dropped on his front lawn" Blackwater is sinking as black water rises, and it ain't gonna stop. I have no proof this is the meaning, and I think the references to the Blackwater Company are also most definitely relevant, but still, this is the sort of multidimensional lyric I have come to expect and treasure from Mr. Fallon. | |
| Clutch – 10001110101 Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Actually, I'm not sure if I missed it in the comments here, but there is more to your Rush reference than you think. Have you or anyone else listened to "The Body Electric" by Rush? The chorus is "1001001001, SOS! 1001001001 in distress!" and is about an artificial intelligence trying to escape from it's programming and its fellow robots (it's hive, if you will.) "Unit one's in trouble, and it's scared out of it's wits". See the similarity? I think this song is a big tip of the hat to Rush and an expansion on the theme of AIs, an oppressive society, and the freedom of music. The Body Electric is also a book, which you can look up on Wikipedia or whatnot. A brilliantly written, multifaceted song. Food for thought... | |
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