| KMFDM – Craze Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Sounds like it's about a riot. "take a hammer and break a bone for me" could be about police brutality | |
| Nine Inch Nails – Head Like a Hole Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| The line "I'd rather die than give you control" seems especially dark, considering the themes of power and control on the Downward Spiral album...it's almost like a bit of foreshadowing. probably unintentional | |
| Mark Gunnery – What Did You Learn In School Today? Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Wow, no comments yet? This seems to be a remake of another song of the same title by Tom Paxton. And it's so true. When you're in school you learn more in the hallways, cafeteria, and playground than you do in any classroom. This song just describes a modern school and the things that go on. Like girls feel pressured to start dating at younger ages, boys learn that they have to be tough and if you don't fit, well, you're screwed. And when kids don't obey we dope em up on ritalin. Brilliant. |
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| Nine Inch Nails – Me, I'm Not Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I disagree with the angry sniper theories. Isn't "The Great Destroyer" about him? How many songs does one guy need? And I just don't think it fits. Check out this page on the year zero website: http://gracetheteacher.net/ I think this song is at least partially based on it. It's the diary of a teenage boy named Jeremiah Snow who moves to his grandfather's farm. The water there comes from wells, so the affects of Parepin begin to fade and he's confronted with an onslaught of intense emotions and a new feeling of clarity. He's gaining awareness of things for the first time, and becomes angry. Of course he wants to make it stop, but can't. Because he doesn't know what's happening to him or why. Now this kid being only 17, most of the problems in the world of year zero were not created by or even knowingly contributed to by him. So all he can say is "me? I'm not." He feels like a victim of the world so he doesn't want to help out with the resistance or try to make things better. In this way, he is just as responsible as the people who created the problems. |
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| Seether – Six Gun Quota Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| A six gun is a revolver that holds six bullets. I really don't know how that ties in with the song though. Honestly I think the alcoholism thing is a better fit. | |
| KMFDM – The Problem Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I'd like to add that it's also about this older generation's inability (or unwillingness) to deal with these "problems". It's much easier to pretend they don't exist and hope they go away. It's easier to label than it is to take responsibility. But really, you have to remember that most kids who become criminals were raised in our schools, our neighborhoods and our churches. In essence, we created the problem. |
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| KMFDM – Me & My Gun Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I have to agree with derelix here. KMFDM didn't cause Columbine or encourage it. But now they can capitalize on it by stringing a bunch of gun names together and making it rhyme. "Sucks" was tongue-in-cheek. This song is just kind of stupid. If they're going to write about this kind of thing, I wish they'd do it artistically. |
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| Marilyn Manson – I Want To Disappear Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I think this song isn't meant to be taken at face value as some sort of teenage anthem. I think it's a self parody. It's making fun of the people who have been given everything (material possessions, normal family, love) and still want to rebel against something simply for the sake of rebelling. They create their own problems by sleeping around "I was a virgin...grew up to be a whore" and using drugs. And then attempt to push the blame on others: "look at me now!" Maybe people kept telling this person that they would never amount to anything, and now they're acting in self-destructive ways to prove everybody right. And that one line "By the time I'm old enough I won't know anything at all". It might mean that by the time this person is old enough to make a difference, vote, etc. they'll be so burned out by their lifestyle that they won't have any will left to stick up for themselves when they REALLY need to (when the government/religion is suppressing their freedom and such) |
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| Marilyn Manson – Cryptorchid Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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As many people have pointed out, the last 4 lines of this song also appear later in "Antichrist Superstar". In the music video for Cryptorchid, right before the "prick your finger" part starts, you see a picture of a hydra. Then in antichrist superstar, he says "I am the hydra, now you'll see your star". The significance of this could be that this song is when wormboy gets his power, and antichrist superstar is when he becomes the antichrist, or the false idol. |
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