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| System of a Down – Innervision Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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Life is like a bicycle, it only stands in balance when it is in motion. Even though 'there's only one true path in life', you can change the means by which you travel. |
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| George Harrison – Shanghai Surprise Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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No comments on this? I will change that.
George shows some excellent wordplay prowess on this track. Lines like "My straits are dire from the wok into the fire", "sometimes there's no hope in, in chasing opium", and "you could be kinder and show me asia minor" flow so well and really make the song. Even the title, "Shanghai Surprise", has a really nice flow it it's meter and alliteration. Also, some of the lyrics are wrong. He definitely says, "I was knocked on my ass on a dock at yang-tse", and it kinda sounds like he's actually saying "Jing-tse" instead of "Yang-Tse". |
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| David Bowie – Breaking Glass Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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rabbithowl's observation about the line "Don't look at the carpet, I drew something awful on it," is spot on IMO. I'd like to point out how Bowie is saying there is something that you can hear, see, but can never touch. The song is a lot less disjointed than it appears. I think it has to do with Bowie's shattered ego and his attempt to reassemble a new persona out of the pieces. He fucked up his mind with drugs, he strained his psyche with occult practice, and created a persona that's wonderful but has problems. He can experience this ideal through second-hand experience, but he'll never really touch it. I think the entire concept of "Low" itself deals largely with the trials of trying to achieve a state of self-perfection; the frustrations of trying to bring the pureness of thought from Kether into the world of Malkuth. Occultism is the constant, blatant-but-hidden center to Bowie's entire body of work, and to truly grasp some of his lyrics you must have an understanding of these things. |
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| David Bowie – The Hearts Filthy Lesson Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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"I'm already five years older I'm already in my grave"
This could be a reference to Bowie's song "Five Years" off of "Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars", and for me it's a key to understanding the rest of the song. Five years was "all we've got" back in 1972 when Ziggy was released. By 1977, Bowie had totally graduated from the Ziggy phase and released "Low", which was a huge departure in his sound and style at the time. For him this is "a fantastic death abyss", i.e. his reinvention and battle through drug addiction led him to a much better place in life. I think that the references to Ramona and Paddy are people from his past that he's talking to, reminiscing on things that could have been. But the heart's filthy lesson is that we all change, some things are just not meant to be, and as we grow as people our old selves die and we are released into it's death abyss to build ourselves anew upon the ashes. For those aware of the occult influences in Bowie's work, it's best summed up by saying to move from Kether to Malkuth we must pass through the abyss of Daath. |
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| The Mars Volta – Since We've Been Wrong Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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This song reminds me of King Crimson's old pre-Belew era mid-tempo songs. The structure seems very similar. Octahedron as a whole almost sounds like it could be a KC album actually. |
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