| Flotsam & Jetsam – Hypodermic Midnight Snack Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Spiraling into heroine addiction. | |
| Flotsam & Jetsam – Forget About Heaven Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I agree Omni. As far as the meaning goes, I think the basic message is that there might be an afterlife/creator but religion has got it all wrong. |
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| Flotsam & Jetsam – Escape From Within Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| This song makes an argument for euthanasia. From the perspective of someone who is being artificially sustained, the song portrays their pain and suffering and their plead to be taken off life support and escape from their useless body. A very powerful song, I can't believe no one has commented on any of the F&J songs! A VERY underrated band who never got their due. | |
| Flotsam & Jetsam – E.M.T.E.K. Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Pretty self-explanatory, human guinea pig is mutated into scaly monster by government experiments. I don't know what EMTEK stands for but I am guessing it doesn't stand for anything, it is just supposed to be like the name of the military or pharmaceutical company who did the experiments on him. | |
| Flotsam & Jetsam – Double Zero Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Obviously about an Arms Dealer/Double Agent/007 type person. | |
| Soundgarden – Fell on Black Days Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I've always interpreted this song to be about someone who goes to prison. The song makes references to being locked up, bound/handcuffed -"doing time", "Don't lock up something that you wanted to see fly", Hands are for shaking not tying". I believe the song is from the POV of someone in prison who never thought they would do something to end up in prison ...but they fell on black days (hard times, bad luck etc.) and their worst fears came true. I think this makes the point that most people probably never think they will ever go to jail until they actually do. The song also paints a picture of him sitting there in prison thinking about his child who he will never cradle again, the people he loved and cared for he has hurt and disgusted. People told him he is smart and has charisma (searchlight soul)but he is thinking it is all wasted and he was probably just faking when he did do right and people loved and thought the world of him but he just doesn't see it and now it's too late to matter anyways. The last verses are a little harder to decipher but I believe it means people stop coming to visit, they choose to remember him before he was bad or went to prison or maybe their inability to see anything but the good in him is part of what lead him to do the things that landed him in prison. |
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| Black Light Burns – Mesopotamia Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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If one looks at this song from a vampirical point of view (as I've come to suspect many of BLB's songs are) this song tells the story of a vampire: "Face down in the bottom of a river Swimming with the dead makes me wanna shiver If you really wanna know, I'd rather just drown alone" The song is about a man in Mesopotamia possibly during one of it's conquests or invasions ends up dead, face down on the bottom of one of Mesopotamias rivers( Mesopotamia basically translates as "Land between 2 rivers"). I guess, swimming with the dead means many others are dead and in the river as well. BUT since the Mesopotamians believed that all life was created from water and worshipped such gods it could also just be a description of his experience of drowning/dying with all the other dead in the Mesopotamian afterlife floating around him as he dies. I tend to lean to the former more than the latter because of the wording of the second verse: "Clay fingers reaching for the ceiling Once numb, now tingling with feeling You'll see in the end that nothing really gets away. And I'd give it all up just to be with you." Mesopotamia in latter years also had among others, a large Christian populace. the use of the second verse's "Clay Fingers" suggest that he is man made of clay/mud, essentially a christian association and when you get down to it, Christianity is also the basis for the most modern idea of what a vampire is and how it looks/acts/feeds etc. The second verse basically describes the man is waking up..coming back to life. He is reaching for the ceiling means he is waking up in a coffin, the celing being the coffin or tomb lid. Burial was used in Mespotomia. "You took back the mud from which you're made And threw it at me like a fucking grenade You keep cutting my throat, then you ask me if i'm feeling ok" The first line also eludes to the "man from mud" association, meaning he lost his life but was given it back but it wasn't the same, he is now a vampire. As the years passhe is still in Mespotomaia though it is always under seige or in battle, possible he lives many lives there, the last two lines suggest he is wounded in battle and taken for dead many times.. He both loves and hates this land. This city is just like any other They keep blowing it up, then building up another If you look in the whole, you'll see it ain't going away And I'd give it all up to just to be with you Now so many years later he is still there, and though Mespottamia has fallen many times, been conqured many times he has seen it rebuilt and changed and still he sees with ancient eyes how little it really has changed..and still he yearns for the old Mespotamia he knew when he was alive., before he became a vampire..and The city creeps him out, he misses the old days but he loves the city so much that it burns and no place else is like home to him. |
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| Voivod – Missing Sequences Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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A few lyrics off here or lefy out, they should be "Nuero link dementia" "Boxite (or Bauxite) double-bind" "Which was that, who knows when? Where was that, way back then?" "Mother lode out" The song is about the connections to aluminum production and alzheimers disease. Areas where there are large amounts of aluminum factories, the effect on the people and the greed and need for a product regardless of the repercussions. As usual with Voivod, this is set in the Voivod universe so there are large spider-like and swarming machines and such digging far underground for minerals (though in reality bauxite is actually strip mined because it lies near the surface) and from the sound of it, the song's protagonist and many others are forgetting who and where they are. |
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| Voivod – Angel Rat Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| My guess; A clown who wished he was an acrobat would go walk by that tent on sundays to see the acrobats do their thing. One night after the circus is closed he climbs up there and is tempted to "fly" but like all the other times before he chickend out and just continued to go by and idly watch on his regular sunday phobia rendevous. | |
| Anthrax – This Is Not An Exit Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| always sounded like a song about two people in a mutually abusive, self serving, co-dependent relationship. | |
| Anthrax – Out of Sight, Out of Mind Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| its about plagiarism and bands ripping off riffs and such | |
| Overkill – Hello From the Gutter Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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For the most part this song is about the band's struggle to make it on the NY thrash scene, but the first verse is also very remeniscient of the serial killer,Son Of Sam's 2nd letter to the authorities which opened with "Hello from the gutters of N.Y.C. which are filled with dog manure, vomit, stale wine, urine and blood. Hello from the sewers of N.Y.C. which swallow up these delicacies when they are washed away by the sweeper trucks." |
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| Overkill – I hear Black Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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About David Berkowitz, aka "Son of Sam" and "44 calibre killer". A serial killer who claimed his neighbor's dog was possessed by a demon and forcing him him to kill. Later he claimed he had not even been at all of the killings and was the victim/scapegoat of a cult he was a member of. Coincidentally, the first sentence of SOS's 2nd letter sent to the police before his capture was, "Hello from the gutters of N.Y.C. which are filled with dog manure, vomit, stale wine, urine and blood. Hello from the sewers of N.Y.C. which swallow up these delicacies when they are washed away by the sweeper trucks. Obviously SOS had an influence on Overkill who wrote the song/album, "Hello From the Gutter" years before "I Hear Black." |
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