| The Offspring – Half-Truism Lyrics | 5 years ago |
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I believe the title on the song isn't directly "Half-Truism", but a play between "Half-Truth" and "Altruism", meaning a half-meant, or half-honest altruism. It seems to start with someone being hurt unfairly and deciding to strive for massive changes in society with the idea that through "Your self-liberation [...] You'll make it better", despite all external criticism of "Slings and arrows that rain on our minds". The idea of changing the world, against the world, gives them a sense of being in a heroic fight for the greater good, leading to these, very beaten, lines about self-sacrifice: "If we don't make it alive, it's a hell of a good day to die All our light that shines strong only lasts for so long" Something is off, however. Something that person has tried to "Shake it off" and it is their own hurt. In the bigger picture this person now sees, that's nothing. "It doesn't matter", they say, but the "Twisting knife" that initially hurt them, "turns *all by itself*, on to someone else". Left unchecked, their past hurt turned into resentment and a desire for revenge, and their altruistic motives aren't as heroic as they might have seemed. So now their "banner", their cause, is "Burning and red", it is covered in hate and resentment, "Blocking the sunlight that shines overhead", blinding them from whatever signs of good they come across, now it is about them and the voices inside that churn, and their desire to "Watch the city burn". Now what they'll "leave behind" is not just what hurt them, but *also* "All the slings and arrows that rain on your mind", all critics, everyone who questions them is part of the problem too, and that's when they reach the darkest conclusion: "Don't make it better break it 'cause it never mattered anyway". Everyone is corrupt and out to hurt them. No one understands them. It doesn't matter anymore. Don't make it better. Break everything and raze it to the ground. There's no saving this world. The second half of the chorus reverts the heroic self-sacrifice idea of the first half, saying: "And it's ashes to ashes again, should we even try to pretend?" It isn't about fixing things anymore. It is about destruction for the sake of it, sending the society that rose from the ashes back to ashes. And they know it deep down. Should they even try to pretend it is not about that? I see that a person was hurt, and in what could have been a bright moment of inspiration to do good, they ended in the path of hate and destruction. In a sad twist, the chorus ends by lamenting the death of those powerful, good ideals, stating that: "All our light that shines strong only lasts for so long" |
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| 30 Seconds to Mars – Occam's Razor Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Maybe too obvious, but I think it's about aliens! XD "I've seen the people that they've branded They always come out open handed Come to the mothership is landing They're going to give us what we want" People asking for help from the aliens due their evolutionism. "Open your eyes Push yourself inside Contemplate all of your senses Tell them what you want to lose They'll just spit in your face Push you back in your place" They will not help us and will kick we away. "Concentrate all of your answers Tell them what you think you know" Even our newest discoveries and science is nothing close to their. And so on, lol, I think it does so. One of my favorite songs ever, great work |
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| 30 Seconds to Mars – 93 Million Miles Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I like the way it has some phrases from their other songs like: "Another time, another place" (End of the Beginning) "Welcome to the Universe" (Welcome to the Universe [whatta surprise!]) "The unified divide" (Oblivion) Great song |
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