| Max Bemis and the Painful Splits – Do The Dohnk Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I think this song is about sex being a very spiritual and good thing ("leave our bodies," "you'd be a foold to call it lust") because you connect with someone in a special way that is "unafraid of nothing left" and you "become one" (biblical reference). Max is married now and he's singing this with his wife, so that's what I think. His perception of sex has probably changed. I don't know why there is emphasis on "wasted time." Maybe someone told him sex is bad or a waste of time so he's saying it ironically. |
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| Say Anything – Hate Everyone Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I always thought he was being funny and saying Jay-Z. But Jesus is cool too. | |
| The Early November – A Bigger Meaning Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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i've made another realization about the emphasis on "the best storyline". a lot of times we want big things to happen in our lives, good lives like good stories because we watch some pretty good movies. but life isn't always so big. in fact, life isn't about only those big defining moments. they are only small parts of our lives. it is more realistic to see that everyday moments, all the little things in everyday life, are just as important. these are abundant and more accurately describe our life, as it is literally most of your life. how do you live these moments? are you taking every opportunity in every day life to make it meaningful? or do you shrug off these "lesser days"? do you define yourself in these "worthwhile stories" or do you define yourself with how you live your daily life? routines can feel meaningless, but don't lose your heart in them. people may not even care about this or that moment, but it is still a choice of how your going to live this or that part of your life. more generally put, there are big stories and little stories in our lives but none are to be dismissed, forgotten, or shrugged off. put yourself into every moment of your life. it is where you actually are, not your past nor your plans. |
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| The Early November – Never Coming Back Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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repeating those last lines like that is pretty strong. it could make you think about any relationship that's coming to an end, which can be heartbreaking. i agree with waZZgLE, that this song was from Dean, to his grandmother. his parents left him with his grandparents, so this song tells of the death of his grandmother and it was like he lost his mom, the woman that raised him. this would the part of the story where Dean's grandparents can't take care of him, so he must live with his real parents now. one of my fav's too. it reminds of copeland's beneath medicine tree album, all the hospital bed songs. very strong imagery. |
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| The Early November – A Bigger Meaning Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| good point on "he held on to this story and defined himself through that instead of trying to get past it." i was wondering why he was putting emphasis on stories and having big mouths, but i think what you're saying makes sense: people get caught up in their pasts, their stories, their reputations, and gossip that they become those things. they continue feeling bad for themselves, and let those experiences define them instead of letting them help them grow. although it's good to reflect, we have to see things for what they are, that the past is the past and what is important is the present. see yourself for what you are now (a human with potential) and not what you did in the past. | |
| As Cities Burn – The Hoard Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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for me, i see that the song describes people who are stuck in between two different sides. one side is godly: good and graceful and loving. the other is ungodly: hoarding and hollow and unloving. the people stuck in between are people look good but are not, or people who want/try to be good but cannot, or people who think they are good but are mistaken. pure vs. impure (perfect vs. imperfect). in these two lines, i think he expresses his failure to love. it could be that he wants to love but cannot love (becuz he fails to be loving, kind, giving, patient, etc.) or he wants to accept god's love but cannot (becuz he doesn't deserve it). he tries be one the pure side (to love and be loved) but can't let go of the impure side (living up to love, believing he can accept and/or deserve love). either way, the ending of song calls for grace to cure this. with grace, his impurities and imperfections are erased. this being stuck in between i think ties to "our world is grey," which says we are not light and good nor are we dark and evil but instead grey. however, this problem is cured by realizing god gracefully still loves a failure ("you don't let go") and hoping for (in this song, screaming and begging for) redemption ("say it's redemption"). these two lines also make me think of a more complex failure to love. this failure occurs when he tries to love simply just be heart (pure) and he tries to meet the demands of love (impure [because this attempt to be love is a love of self and his own accomplishments]). |
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| As Cities Burn – Contact Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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i would say airborne made a good lyrical correction, which was really important. although, he was kinda being a whiner. and i disagree: there is only one correction interpretation to song, just like there is only one truth. when you say something, you express many things, but there are also many things you not expressing. so we should not put words in the lyricist's mouth; we should not misinterpret. however, we may share what thoughts it provokes for us individually. |
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| As Cities Burn – Contact Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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good analysis. i think the answer to your final questions are things we can't know quite yet. we don't yet understand the answers becuz there are things we don't see. we know "this can't be the great peace we all seek" and we ask "is this it?" because we know there must be more to life and our existence. we don't see it, but we know it's there. god isn't silent in our lives, we just don't hear him all the time. we're not god and we don't see through his eyes. we don't know everything. in the last acb album, he asks god "show us that we don't see it" becuz we have to realize that god is there and we need him. in the same song (made too pretty), he says, "we know nothing changes too slowly" becuz these answers will come on god's time, not too late but not too soon, and we have to be patient for what we want. |
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| As Cities Burn – Contact Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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yeah it's just like those times when you're, "i need a sign from god." and it's like, "i'll see god someday right?" |
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| As Cities Burn – This Is It, This Is It Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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i agree with alibialibis. it makes me think we shouldn't expect others, or the church, or ourselves to fix our sins. and we don't even need to be fixed really. we just need god and his grace. so we should forget the "war" against our "bodies" (or flesh/each other/sin) and not forget jesus who is seeking a graceful, loving relationship with us. |
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| As Cities Burn – This Is It, This Is It Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| i wish that was true but i don't think it's a perfect reply to all the questions "contact" is asking. this song doesn't make a lotta references to whether or not god exists. good catch on wording though. | |
| As Cities Burn – Made Too Pretty Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| i agree with you generally i think. good point on "someday i might come down" too. i think it's also saying that the lyricist (and the "we" of the song, probably mankind) think we're fine without god but we aren't really. we take pride in our pride and also hate it about ourselves knowing it's wrong, but at the same time we don't wanna lose it (we don't want a god). we think someday things will be restored and redeemed but it will happen on god's time (we know nothing changes to slowly). and at the same time, "whose to really say?" we don't know, which i think could be a good start to humility. | |
| Copeland – Eat, Sleep, Repeat Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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to me, this song is a comfort to those to have struggled with any kind of love, which probably should be all of us. it first verse explains how love can be very complex. the chorus explains how love is be overwhelming and makes us fragile. "do you think it's unwise to go and break yourself on this one?" to me, it can be unwise to let yourself love yet be heartbroken, but it is also an important growing experience. it's humbling that you do not know love. As a brilliant thinker becomes a fool, s/he turns to simplicity described in the second verse, describing a purer love: it is generous, enduring both good and bad. |
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| As Cities Burn – Errand Rum Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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i think that song he's talking about in the beginning could be about "timothy" perhaps. so yeah, i think it's about acb fans who don't know the band and lyricist personally and pretend to. i guess i interpret the second verse from the mouth of a fan. the lyricist is called "old friend" but the reference is sarcastic as they've only just met. "i got everything to say too" is also sarcastic; everything they're saying is probably unimportant, like hollow small talk, as it is not a real, but only temporary, relationship. under this interpretation i'm also guessing that "round and round we go" is just refering to things that keep happening and there's not much anyone can do about it so we just deal with it. in the lyricist's case, dealing with acb fans. i'm also guessing "young" is a nice way to say naive and foolish and just getting by with what we think is fun. i don't know about the very last line though. this is a stretch but it's in my head: we put our hands up in concert while we sing to pretend like we're reaching out and connecting to the music and what it represents, even though we can't pull the band down and have a real relationship with them. (this is like in worship when people raise they're hands in order to "reach out" to god and feel closer to him, which isn't the exact way to actually get close to god.) all just a guess. |
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| As Cities Burn – New Sun Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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"Soon she'll become dim reflected love to light my way, After I trade loving you for loving to obey." to me, this sums up the whole song. the moon is a woman who represents his adultery, his turning away from god. he turns away from god by replacing loving god with loving to obey god, his own self-righteousness. first he says he's losing contact with god. then replaces god with some sin, even if it doesn't look like sin. his feet are "on the path", being a good boy walking straight white lines, but he still loses contact with god becuz it is not always works that bring us to god but rather simply loving him and loving others. however, the last lines are very redeeming: he sins, but he uses this wandering-off to have god call him back. when he feels his conviction from god, he turns from his sin and back to god. he continues to expect to lose/sin but it's not about his obedience to god; it's about allowing god love us through grace. |
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| As Cities Burn – Wrong Body Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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to me, he says his human body is his wrong body because humans are so flawed and bloody(guilty) as hell. so he fears hell and questions if he will go there. he tries to love others (be perfect, not guilty), but it is stopped by his rib(body) and has "no exit" for his well-intended love outside of himself; he wonders if this is his own fault("what does that makes me?"). with that however, i don't know why he uses the word stumbled though. |
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| As Cities Burn – Into the Sea Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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So after reading everyones comments I'm thinking maybe the song is saying our lives aren't exactly about our works, "everbodys a failure", but it's more about our faith. And faith is an invisible thing, we can't see it ourselves or others, "we don't ever see you move", perhaps it still brings us to childlike innocence to god. Just a rough guess. I wouldn't know how to explain "when you climb out you can't climb back in." |
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