| A Perfect Circle – 3 Libras (Feel My Ice Dub Mix) Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Anyone else think this mix sounds a lot like a Bjork song? I do. Not the lyrics, just the music. | |
| A Perfect Circle – Passive Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Aaaargh, damn the lack of an edit button! That should read fighting FOR, not foe. | |
| A Perfect Circle – Passive Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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This song strikes me as being about someone he loves & is fighting foe, but who is giving up. Like ALL Perfect Circle songs, it reminds me of my manic depressive ex, lol... This song makes me think of the time when he tried to kill himself. I was asleep & he snuck out of bed & ground up all his psych meds & tranquilizers, mixed them with water, and drank it. He laid back down next to me, quietly woke me up, and told me he loved me but that he was gonna die. I of course called 911 & thankfully they were able to save him. He had been talking about suicide for a few weeks prior but had promised me he'd keep taking his meds, stick it out, and talk to me whenever he started to feel depressed. Once I got over the shock & sadness, and after I went to see him in the hospital & saw him lying there like a pathetic little worm with charcoal on his lips, I started to get really mad. I'm sorry, I know it's harsh, but I have no sympathy for people who kill themselves. Nothing is worth dying over, and I see it as a coward's way out. I did EVERYTHING for this guy- let him live with me(he was in a mental hospital when we got back together), fed him, bought him necessities, drove him wherever he needed to go, gave him ALL my love, and was there for him throughout all his bullshit, and he's just gonna roll over & give up like that? The line "You fucking disappoint me!" is PERFECT to describe how I felt. He was SO smart & SO talented, he had all the potential in the world. This guy had the brains to be an astronomer, or a physicist, but he wasted his life getting high & drunk instead. I wanted to shove him off that hospital gurney & demand that he stand up & face me. I wanted to scream at him how much of a disappointment he was to me, and what an asshole he was to reward all my love & support with that bullshit. He recovered after a couple days, and what I said to him once he was coherent was in fact very similar to the last refrain of this song. And I did walk away a few months later, but he never tried to kill himself again. |
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| Slipknot – Snuff Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I really identify with this song. It's similar to how I am in relationships. I never mean to hurt anyone, but because of the way I'm wired I just can't help it. I can love someone more than anything in the world, but I'm just too wierd & sociopathic to keep from hurting them. The only way TO keep from hurting them is to chase them away & make them hate me, cause if you hate your ex it's easier to get over them. This is how most of my relationships end :/ I actually tell all my potential boyfriends to listen to this song and then think long & hard if they still wanna date me after hearing it, hehe... |
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| Slipknot – Snuff Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| This was my first impression too- it sounds much more like A Perfect Circle than Slipknot. I couldn't believe it was even Slipknot at first honestly. It's too emotional and beautiful, lol... | |
| A Perfect Circle – Blue Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Blue is one APC song that speaks to me more than any other. It could have literally been written about me & my ex, and sometimes I'm convinced that it was. I'm the one who's turning blue, I was depressed & dying right along with him as he slowly killed himself with drugs & bad decisions. "Ignore the smoke" means KNOWING that something is very, very wrong, but choosing to ignore it & just hoping that everything turns out okay. It relates to the old saying "where there's smoke, there's fire" meaning that if something seems wrong, then it probably is. I ignored the smoke and smiled with my ex for 10 years, until the smoke got so thick I couldn't breathe anymore. To me, "best to keep things in the shallow end, cause I never quite learned how to swim" means that it's easier to not delve too deep into things cause I wouldn't know how to handle it anyway. This is exactly how things were with my ex. He(and I too) had so many problems that I didn't even know where to begin. I tried to ignore all his demons & hope that they'd just resolve themselves, but everything eventually blew up in my face. "Close my eyes just to look at you" means that I had to close my eyes when I looked at him so I could keep up the illusion that he was normal & happy. If I looked at him with 'open' eyes I would've seen the truth, and I couldn't have handled it. This song disturbs me to no end, cause it hits SO close to home. It's about a girl who loves a man, who- though still alive- is pretty much already dead. At least that's what it means to me. And that's exactly how it was with me & JAW. |
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| A Perfect Circle – 3 Libras Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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3 Libras is by FAR my favorite APC song. It evokes so many memories & emotions that I almost can't bear to listen to it sometimes. It perfectly describes the ten year relationship that I had with my ex. Every time I listen to it all my memories of him rush through my mind & almost overwhelm me. We met in 2000 and I fell in mad, desperate love with him. I'm not a person to fall in love at ALL much less at first sight. I get tired of guys within a month or 2 usually, but my feelings for this one(let's call him JAW) have never wavered at all. He is the only non-familial human being that I have EVER been able to love unconditionally no matter how he acted. We've been on & off for 10 years now, currently off at the moment. We've both got more demons than satan himself, and we're both so crazy that we cancel each other out. We work against each other, and thus cannot be together. It's so heartbreaking because I know we're soulmates, we're absolutely meant for each other but we just can't stay together. We're 2 halves of the same soul, so why can't it just work? It's like being told that 1+1 is 3 even though you KNOW it's 2. Life without him is empty, but life with him is unsustainable. It's either just not the right time for us or else we're destined to be alone forever. I hope it's the former because I've found I'm incapable of loving anyone else. Believe me, I've tried. But anyway... To me, 3 Libras is an apt description of my love for JAW. I often find myself thinking that Maynard must have gotten into my head & read my mind when he wrote a lot of APC songs, but especially this one(and Blue). The emotional way he sings the last chorus just fills me with sorrow. It's so beautiful. It sounds crazy, but I almost feel close to Maynard because I always know exactly what he's talking about in all his songs, and I know what he must have been feeling when he wrote them. I threw you the obvious... I gave JAW my heart, my soul, and my love. I literally THREW myself at him- but he didn't see me at all. It took 5 years for him to realize that he loved me too, and even then he never trusted me, he didn't see how devoted I was and just how much I truly loved him until it was too late. By the time he realized that we were meant to be together, he had hurt me too many times. Eyes of a fallen angel, eyes of a tragedy... HIS eyes. He's a broken, fallen angel- abused, hurt, ruined. He has been through unspeakable things, unthinkable horrors inflicted upon him in childhood that doomed him before he ever had a chance to try & stop the destruction. I tried SO hard to save him but I just couldn't. Oh well... I lied to myself and tried to convince myself I didn't care. Oh well! It's just not meant to be. Made myself think I could possibly, maybe in a million years, get over him. Riiiight... Apparently nothing... After the last breakup & all the hurt and anger, I felt like all the years I spent trying & trying & trying to heal him meant nothing. Nothing at all. You don't see me... and I don't think you ever really will. Excuse me, I hafta go listen to this song & cry now :-{ |
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