| Pendulum – Propane Nightmares Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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@[dashtk:22183] It's SHELL not SPELL. "Heal the wounds or crack the SHELL" (you can very clearly hear him say shell in this line). And as much as I like your idea of "Lift yourself up once and for all", that simply isn't what he's saying. Too bad, when I first read your comment I really hoped you were right because I've been stuck on this one for a good while. He definitely says "yourselves". After listening to this line dozens of times over the past week the best I can get is "Lift yourselves from parts below", which only sort of makes sense to me. As many people have stated, this song is likely about Marshal Applewhite cult Heaven's Gate, whose members believed they would ascend aboard an alien spaceship by committing suicide, thereby lifting themselves from 'parts below', aka this 'doomed' Earth. Yeah, I know that's not a ton better than the other guesses here, but at least it sounds like what he's saying. |
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| Pendulum – Propane Nightmares Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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@[MPS186282:22071] I hear it too. > Does anyone else hear "History repeats itself" repeated very faintly from 4:03 to about 4:46? |
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| Pendulum – Propane Nightmares Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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The song title is likely a reference to the song "Gasoline Dreams" by Outkast (off Stankonia) http://songmeanings.com/songs/view/11830/ The lyric in the refrain is "From the drowning, to the fire" The other part "Flesh too weak to *something something*" is unclear to me, but I am fairly certain nobody in this thread got it right. It's definitely not "jump yourself", I looked at the waveform in Ableton and I can confidently say that's NOT it. I really wish I could just ask Rob. |
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| Pendulum – Granite Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Because the aliens live underground in the rock layers\caverns! | |
| Pendulum – The Terminal Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Lyrics can and do have meaning for each individual even if the songwriter never intended that meaning. You're free to find your own meaning in any words you hear, so I encourage you to reflect on any song you feel like, and decide what the lyrics MIGHT mean (even if Rob Swire just considers them gibberish). I wish Rob would come chat with us about songs like this one, though. | |
| Ayreon – Waking Dreams Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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It says We are your root We are your blood Come to you in waking dreams Referring to the idea that the Forever are what stirred the sentience of these beings in the first place, as well as the physical basis for their genetics, etc. The origin of humanity; their root, their blood. |
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| Pendulum – Granite Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Perhaps it's a mixture of the alien invasion idea and the future of the children idea. The aliens, which are assumed to be nearby and watching us, are disappointed with the direction our race is taking and the kind of children we are raising. The "new way" "better way" is their new idea for how to correct us as a whole. By bringing back "the cool we know", perhaps an ice age, which will make life so hard as to force us to manner up and cooperate or die. "We are standing by, no time to hide, no meeting half way" - It's too late to hide from this correction or meet them halfway by changing your ways, they are already standing by and prepared to engage their plan, or perhaps they already have. | |
| Pendulum – Granite Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Perhaps it's a mixture of the alien invasion idea and the future of the children idea. The aliens, which are assumed to be nearby and watching us, are disappointed with the direction our race is taking and the kind of children we are raising. The "new way" "better way" is their new idea for how to correct us as a whole. By bringing back "the cool we know", perhaps an ice age, which will make life so hard as to force us to manner up and cooperate or die. "We are standing by, no time to hide, no meeting half way" - It's too late to hide from this correction or meet them halfway by changing your ways, they are already standing by and prepared to engage their plan, or perhaps they already have. | |
| Dispatch – Passerby Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I see even further alludes to homelessness. I read about the sixpence coin and found this verse: I've got sixpence. Jolly, jolly sixpence. I've got sixpence to last me all my life. I've got twopence to spend and twopence to lend And twopence to send home to my wife - poor wife. To me this makes the sixpence sound like an analogy for the lower-class worker's pittance. He slaves away his whole life to earn this wage. "I'm not crazy like my brother, but it's [homelessness] the way that I choose. I don't hang around with a sixpence [poor wage] when I got everything [the years of life] to lose" Perhaps the speaker wanders around and talks to people, living homeless but free, or something of that vein. |
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| Dispatch – Passerby Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I see even further alludes to homelessness. I read about the sixpence coin and found this verse: I've got sixpence. Jolly, jolly sixpence. I've got sixpence to last me all my life. I've got twopence to spend and twopence to lend And twopence to send home to my wife - poor wife. To me this makes the sixpence sound like an analogy for the lower-class worker's pittance. He slaves away his whole life to earn this wage. "I'm not crazy like my brother, but it's [homelessness] the way that I choose. I don't hang around with a sixpence [poor wage] when I got everything [the years of life] to lose" Perhaps the speaker wanders around and talks to people, living homeless but free, or something of that vein. |
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