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Metallica – The Day That Never Comes Lyrics 15 years ago
http://www.songmeanings.net/songs/view/10263/ here's another taste of what i meant in The Unforgiven.

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Metallica – The Day That Never Comes Lyrics 15 years ago
This one hits home with me, so i understood it from the get go and many of james' songs are about this very upbringing, it's common knowledge he's got daddy issues... however, he never got the chance to get back at his father.

Born to push you around
You better just stay down
You pull away
He hits the flesh [ daddy is abusive ]
You hit the ground
Mouths so full of lies [ he tells you it won't happen again ]
Tend to black your eyes
Just keep them closed
Keep praying
Just keep waiting [waiting for the day you can get back at him ]

Waiting for the one
The day that never comes [where he gets revenge]
When you stand up and feel the warmth
but the sunshine never comes
No the sunshine never comes

Push you cross that line
Just stay down this time
Hide in yourself
Crawl in yourself
You'll have your time
God I'll make them pay [ either both parents sucked, or he was bullied ]
Take it back one day
I'll end this day
I'll splatter color on this gray [ kill him, his blood on your grey life ]

Love is a four letter word
And never spoken here [this isn't love, it's abuse]

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Porcupine Tree – Arriving Somewhere But Not Here Lyrics 15 years ago
After reading the comments that caught my eye, I wasn't satisfied and did about 5minutes research and came up with this:

Deadwing is an album written to either accompany or replace a script for the movie deadwing, which is currently a project trying to get off the ground. The details of the lyric meanings have been heavily guarded by the band as they don't want to ruin the plot. But..

It was let slip at a concert that one of the deadwing songs was about a conversation between son and mother, where the mother is speaking from the grave. Add in the fact that the lyrics/script have been heavily influenced by Hitchcock and Kubrik, I'm thinking the mother is an antagonist....


Never stop the car on a drive in the dark
Never look for the truth in your mother's eyes
Never trust the sound of rain upon a river rushing
Through your ears
[looks like a scene from the movie, possibly a car crash into a river, and she was intoxicated somehow, causing it..]

Arriving somewhere but not here
[ wishing he hadn't been born from her ]

Could you imagine the final sound as a gun
Or the smashing windscreen of a car?
Did you ever imagine the last thing you'd hear as you're fading out
Was a song?

[ he asks if she can hear him, if she thought she would have died differently ]

Chorus:
All my designs, simplified
And all of my plans, comprimised
And all of my dreams, sacrificed

[ everything ruined because of his mother ]

Ever had the feeling you've been here before?
Drinking down the poison the way you were taught
Ever thought from here on in your life begins
And all you knew was wrong?

[ he is speaking to himself here, forced to the drink like she was, and has suffer her past, wishing he could start over ]

Did you see the redness block your part?
Did the scissors cut a way to your heart?
Did you feel the end before the sons of mothers
Tearing you apart?

[ hospital bed scene, blood clot maybe, and the irony of sons who came from good mothers now get to cut into her ]

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