| The Gathering – New moon, different day Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| This is the dream of wanting to go beyond ordinary experience. "I break the storm through the clouds". I overcome the darkness of fear by chasing it to its center and embrace endless possibility. The phenomena of nature reveal in vast variety a seemingly infinite potential of discovery. It is about transcending common experience to grasp a deeper sense of self and universe, the kind of insight and awakening that makes life meaningful. | |
| Katatonia – Right Into The Bliss Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I think it is more about dealing with the troubling conditions of life, the anxieties brought about through dealing with other people and certain social and personal circumstances of existence (verse sections), and realizing the utter futility and emptiness of these situations when viewed from the perspective of fleeting existence. "The Bliss" is the peaceful oblivion of death, or what Schopenhauer calls "the blissful repose of nothingness" of which phenomenal existence can be seen as an interruption. Jonas is reflectively anticipating the eternal escape from the pressures and burdens of life, a time when he will go right into the bliss of nonexistence. | |
| Anathema – Violence Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| The chaotic violence is profoundly enhanced by the tranquil arrangements of fragile piano and delicate guitar ambiance before and after its powerful explosion. I like to think of the pre-eruption passage as a sort of 'calm before the storm', an oblivious moment of false security. The post-eruption passage has a more pronounced tone of sorrow, but also of acceptance of the violence as a necessary condition of reality. The build-up to the violent section is very intense, and Cavanagh's yearning guitar against the backdrop of angelic keyboards provides a wonderful sense of transcendence over the insane blasting percussion of John Douglass. This is one of their more abstract and powerfully dynamic compositions. | |
| Anathema – Temporary Peace Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I think the end result of the lyric is simply the serenity, temporary though it is, of drifting into peaceful sleep next to a loved one, who may or may not be a lover, but in this context seems to be. At the end of a hard and soul-raping day, there is little else that soothes and makes the endurance worthwhile than falling into this temporary sweet oblivion with someone with whom you share a deep and precious connection. | |
| Amorphis – Weeper On The Shore Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Seven times even. | |
| Amorphis – Weeper On The Shore Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| The joyous character of the music contrasts these melancholy lyrics in the typical Finnish way of affirming the sadness of the world through recognizing and embracing its existential substance with festive spirit. | |
| Amorphis – Weeper On The Shore Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| The joyous character of the music contrasts these melancholy lyrics in the typical Finnish way of affirming the sadness of the world through recognizing and embracing its existential substance with festive spirit. | |
| Amorphis – Weeper On The Shore Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| The joyous character of the music contrasts these melancholy lyrics in the typical Finnish way of affirming the sadness of the world through recognizing and embracing its existential substance with festive spirit. | |
| Amorphis – Weeper On The Shore Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| The joyous character of the music contrasts these melancholy lyrics in the typical Finnish way of affirming the sadness of the world through recognizing and embracing its existential substance with festive spirit. | |
| Amorphis – Weeper On The Shore Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| The joyous character of the music contrasts these melancholy lyrics in the typical Finnish way of affirming the sadness of the world through recognizing and embracing its existential substance with festive spirit. | |
| Amorphis – Weeper On The Shore Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| The joyous character of the music contrasts these melancholy lyrics in the typical Finnish way of affirming the sadness of the world through recognizing and embracing its existential substance with festive spirit. | |
| Amorphis – Weeper On The Shore Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| The joyous character of the music contrasts these melancholy lyrics in the typical Finnish way of affirming the sadness of the world through recognizing and embracing its existential substance with festive spirit. | |
| Sentenced – Blood & Tears Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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The complete and accurate lyrics are: What is it that we're struggling for? I don't quite see it anymore. Life kicks us in the teeth yet something makes us crawl back for more. Blood and tears upon the altar of our lives we shed. Blood and tears until the sweet release we share in death. Hours like days, weeks like years Decades of tears yet somehow.. We'll lose the things we've fighted for Each rise is followed by a fall We'll lose the ones we love, the ones we most adore Yet go on.. we go on Blood and tears upon the altar of our lives we shed. Blood and tears until the sweet release we share in death. Hours like days, weeks like years Decades of tears Yet somehow everything seems so worthwhile for a moment What is it that we're waiting for? Looking forward to, preparing for? Life kicks us in the teeth Yet something makes us crawl back for more Blood and tears upon the altar of our lives we shed. Blood and tears until the sweet release we share in death. Hours like days, weeks like years Decades of tears Yet somehow everything seems so worthwhile for a moment |
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| Sentenced – Dance On The Grave (lil Siztah) Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I have an original CD and cassette version of this album, and in both sleeves the only lyrics printed for this song are: "Hell I can't deny it...I fell to the illusion of life! Now, she's taken away everything that I called I!" |
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| Sentenced – Nepenthe Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Interesting. I always thought he said "You bastards!!!" at the end. The Finnish accent is tricky. | |
| Red House Painters – Moments Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| We might say that these lyrics, in both construction and expression, form the thematic quintessence of the Red House Painters. The sentiment within these words seems to echo within each of the band's songs in a definitive sense, even if only in faint whispers. | |
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