| Dragonland – Calling My Name Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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My, my... no comments on this one yet? That's almost a crying shame - Calling My Name is an absolutely beautiful piece, and while I may be one of the only ones here who can openly admit that I can relate to this song, it doesn't mean people shouldn't state their opinions! This song, I believe, is about the transformation of someone who shows clear signs of being insane into total insanity. --- "This dream is my world - What do you want to call me a murderer for - I never killed anyone I don't uh, I don't pretend to go uptown and be anything fancy I can, but I find more real in the world that I'm in than I do in tinsel And the real world is the one I have to deal with everyday, y'know Uh, believe me, if I started murdering people, there'd be none of ya left" This quote, by Charles Manson, is a glimpse of the after story - the narrator has been caught by the police and is being asked why he did the things he did. To him, engulfed by insanity, it makes perfect sense; he ended an apocalypse that would have reached everyone and everywhere. He doesn't see what he did as a bad thing - it was what he had to do, whether authorities see that or not. "Rain's pouring down from blackened clouds - Blazing storm of chill - The sky is torn from lightning and from rage" The narrator is just grasping his insanity - though he doesn't yet understand the severity of it - by hearing voices in his head. They foretell something similar to a Manson scenario, a great apocalypse. What would be the cause of this apocalypse? The uncontrolled rage and hate of the world's newer generations; their hate for life, their hate for love and their hate for each other. "There is no shelter from the wrath - God-forsaken force - Standing drenched and soaked in ice so cold" These voices whisper to the narrator, telling him that there is no way to hide from the apocalypse. It will reach everywhere and everyone on the Earth. But, there is a way to stop it. The narrator, if only briefly, envisions himself standing in the remains of the apocalypse that he was too late to help put an end to. The voices do not deny him this image - they do not try to tell him that it is incorrect. "Can it be It's my fate All this blazing hate" Simply the narrator questioning his own relationships between people in his life, the way he views the world and life itself. He, like many others, is a victim to the new generation, what with songs that praise suicide and obnoxious depression, if only for attention. He may be the one who cuts, the one who argues with parents or guardians - a total victim to society, or so he thought. "See as I fall So deep into the sky The spirits are calling my name They beg me to free them someday I will be sane" The voices in his head direct the man to free the "spirits" - the people who are corrupt by this world hate. By doing so, he can release himself and stop the apocalypse. Afraid of the image he witnessed become reality, the narrator does as he is told. While it might briefly pass through his head that this could be insanity, the horror of what the world could be without his help makes him sure that he's perfectly sane - to him, everything the voices say make perfect sense. "Snow's falling down from clouds above - Tearing down the sky - I must release the spirits now I must release the spirits now" The narrator, believing himself to be perfectly normal, witnesses an act that shows ever-deepening signs of this apocalypse: a child and parent fighting, lovers breaking up, bullies attacking a victim or just a lone kid dragging a razor across his wrist. Whatever it is, it is enough to make the narrator deathly afraid of this apocalypse, and in this blinding fear, he kills the person in order to free them before the war. "Raging hate Is my fate Is it all too late" The narrator has accepted his place in the world, and kills people frequently, believing that he is saving them from this war of hate. However, this isn't the case - with each person he kills, he is drowning himself deeper and deeper in insanity, even though he doesn't realise it. "Remorse for what You people have done everything in the world to me Maybe I should have killed 4 or 5 hundred people Maybe then I would have felt better Then I really would have offered society something You've got it stuck in your brain that I murdered somebody What do you want to call me a murderer for - I never killed anyone" The killing has been ceased by authorities, and when trying to explain that what he has done is ruthless murder, the narrator only sees that he was trying to help. He explains that he only 'freed' a few people, but if he had been trying to kill, he could have killed so many more before his arrest. Whether the area he is in does not have death penalty, or he was found incompetent, he is not given a lethal injection - he is sent to prison for life. "See my scarred body and mind - Body and mind - As I'm laughing at the sky" Post-prison, the man is left in confinement. Being alone, he has nothing better to do than be angry with the authorities for stopping his rampage - he knows that they will bring forth the unstoppable apocalypse. What he doesn't understand is that he, in turn for being captured, hates his captives as much as they hate criminals, thusly continuing the circle of hate he tried to end. "See as I fall Into the sky" Counselling. After being ruled as incompetent for the injection, the man is forced to see a counsellor who is supposed to try and help him understand the wrongs of his ways. He is listened to, for the first time, and in return he listens to his counsellor - his corruption is soon eliminated, although it becomes clear to him that he has been tricked and lied to by himself, and he has killed innocent people. "Lightning is burning my fate As I fall Into the deep blue sky No spirits are calling my name I'm begging to be freed from pain I am no more" With forever in a cell to feel guilt for what he has done, the narrator faces his insanity with horror. He no longer hears the spirits calling to him when he sees an masochist inmate or hears about war - there is just silence. While the man does not necessarily die upon accepting his insanity, he dies mentally as he knows he can never repay for what he has done. --- That's just my opinion of what the lyrics mean, though. Oh yes, the lyrics here aren't necessarily the ones above - I don't agree that some of the lyrics above are correct, thus writing my own here. Anyway, a lot of this is just added detail to what I think is the main idea of this song - the whole transformation from normal, partially insane, complete insanity, and reformation. Now, I did say I could relate to this song, didn't I? I'm not one of those whiny teenagers who will say they cut themselves because they're bipolar - no, no. I'm also not one of those kids who believes they are insane with their friends just because they act high without touching weed, because that's not really insanity either - insanity is the affect of some disorders, such as masochism, schizophrenia, pedophilia, necrophilia, amnesia, Tourette's, kleptomania, pyromania, anorexia, bulimia, insomnia, ect. This song hits home for me because, while it isn't doctor diagnosed, I have shown signs of being schizophrenic. So yes, I can some-what relate to this song as I do fear of falling victim to insanity sometime in the future. |
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| Nightwish – The Kinslayer (feat. Ike Vil) Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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"Drunk with the blood of your victims I do feel your pity-wanting pain Lust for fame, a deadly game" That ^ is undoubtedly my favourite part of the song, even though the conversation part is nice too. The lyrics, as many have already said, are relating to the Columbine Massacre. Because it has been said so many times, I'm not going to analyse the song or give my own opinion on what it means since it has all been said to death here. But I will say this to JMFGoldenberg: While I don't know you and I may be wrong on this altogether, you sound to me like another human being who is determined to point fingers away from society. It is how the whole situation was treated, from what I've read, and I'm sort of sick of it. It is true, the killers shouldn't be glorified, but I forgive those who do. After all, the 'martyrs' have been glorified, haven't they? I shouldn't be bringing up this topic with this song, but I feel a need to mention Cassie by Flyleaf - a song of complete fiction, even if it was based on a rumour when it was written. There should be people out there telling these stupid Flyleaf fans that it was a rumour, so they aren't all worshipping Cassie Bernall and Rachel Scott for being 'targetted' as Catholics. As some of you people who researched the topic should know, Cassie Bernall was not asked if she believed in God before she was shot in the head. Another girl was asked if she believed in God, and while she answered yes, she was left alive - is this really an attack on Christianity? But asides from that, which I sometimes get really caught up in as the whole Christianity controversy really annoys me, I'm going to use this board to pay my own respects to those lost in the Columbine. So, R.I.P. Redeemers - shooters, boys, and girls killed in the massacre. While it was a completely unfair thing that happened, I truly believe it could have been stopped. Even if Klebold and Harris did have friends, they were still bullied, and while violence isn't always the way to go, what other options do we have? I've learned, as a fifteen year old student in high school, that a lot of those considered 'trusted adults' don't help worth a damn. -- Stardust Angel "It's interesting, when I'm in human form, knowing I'm going to die. Everything has a touch of triviality to it." - VoDkA |
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| Train – Drops of Jupiter Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Barefootacoustic was sort of right when refering to the meaing of this song. Patrick Monahan (lead singer of Train) did write this song out of experience. But it wasn't anything to do with romance between him and a lover - it was a different sort of love. In 1998 Patrick's mother was diagnosed with cancer. She passed away that December, but at the time the band was trying to get their second album ready for release. Due to this, he had little time to come to terms with the loss. The studio was looking for Train's 'next big hit' but weren't happy with the songs that they had come up with so far. Patrick went back to Pennsylvania for awhile, stressed and still grieving the death of his recently deceased mother. He did what he called 'soul-searching', which is basically the idea of the song, I believe. The first lines of the song came to him while he was sleeping the first night of arriving, which he claims to be a connection to his mother - the rest of the song was written easily afterwards, becoming one of Train's biggest hits. "...Drops of Jupiter was as much about me being on a voyage trying to find out who I am too, through all of this. The best thing we can do by loss of love is find ourselves through it." - Patrick Monahan From all of this, I come to the bitter sweet conclusion as to what I believe this song is about. By losing somebody you love to something vile like cancer, a car accident or even murder, it sends your whole world into a dark spiral of turmoil. You're confused, everything seems chaotic and hectic and part of you is lost. This song, I think, is written for anybody who has lost somebody important to them in their lives. It isn't one of those sad songs that makes you cry because you lost them, though. It's hopeful, and tries to get you to understand that everything has a positive - he lost his mother, but he went on a voyage that helped him discover himself. This song is written towards the audiance - 'Tell me, did the wind sweep YOU off YOUR feet'. It's like a welcome back song from your own long voyage after loss of love. Perhaps I'm wrong on this, but... this is what I get from this song put with what Patrick Monahan has said about his inspiration for the song. Experience. |
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