| Trampled by Turtles – Wait So Long Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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'Fiber' can also refer to someone's character or an aspect thereof. Really. This is exactly why we have dictionaries, please use them. |
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| Trampled by Turtles – Wait So Long Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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It's about a man in love with a whore. Not 'whore' in the figurative, derogatory sense, it's about an actual prostitute. "And you call me in the morning with your troubles Takin' it downtown every night" "But it's better than your fiber 'n fornication And all the dirty money that you earn." |
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| Iron Maiden – The Talisman Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Sounds like it's about Irish emigration in the 1800s, if it's about a specific historical event. | |
| Blind Guardian – I'm Alive Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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It may be about the Death Gate cycle, but I don't think so due to the references to 'level 99' and just doesn't quite seem to fit. I think it's about a book called This Time Of Darkness by HM Hoover. It's about an eleven year old girl who lives on the ninth level of an underground city governed by your typical dystopian Big Brother-like government, supposedly the only habitable location after some sort of apocalypse that happened hundreds of years ago. She's learned to read, which is something discouraged by the government, who instead use pictures and animated signs('magic runes'). Because she can read, she's watched more closely than others. They are told every level of the city is identical, but she meets a boy who claims to be from 'outside', which he describes as sunny, habitable, and otherwise pretty damn nice. She begins dreaming and thinking about it all of the time('dream forever, sunlight instead of neon light'). They decide to attempt to escape, first to level 80, then level 99. The book describes what they find, their attempts to avoid capture, finding better conditions as they go up, discovering the government's terrible secret, etc. |
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| Blind Guardian – Punishment Divine Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Definitely about Nietzsche. Darwin wasn't an atheist, even calling him an agnostic would be pushing it a bit. Nor did Darwin think his work had any bearing on religion in terms of the existence of god. 'Survival of the fittest' in Darwin's view definitely did not equate to 'only the strong survive', it's a fairly meaningless phrase without context in the sense of Darwin's usage. He was using it to express adaptability in terms of speciation. Darwin also never recanted his theories or hypotheses as described in the song, he was a serious scientist to his death. 'Well we all know there's no other side It's good and evil I know right between, there's no borderline This is the punishment divine' Nietzsche described 'good and evil' as simple human abstractions which were fundamentally irrelevant in his view of the world and fairly frequently described god as a useless concept to modern man. There's also the simple fact that Nietzsche died in extremely poor mental health after suffering several strokes, Darwin died fairly peacefully and completely sane. |
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