| Skillet – Alien Youth Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| My thought on this is that it is that Christian Youth are of a category unlike the traditional stuffy church crowd of the past, and thus they are the "freaks," but they also intend to "take over the world" by revolutionize the new generation of Christians. | |
| Streetlight Manifesto – 1234 1234 Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| 1234 is essentially a nothing responce to piss off the people putting him down, kind of like how the most irritating thing you can say to people some times is: "'k". Since he's humming the line as he's just proved them wrong ("The battle's been won"), it's kind of a f*ck you! in numarical form. | |
| Streetlight Manifesto – The Big Sleep Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I have two interpretations, one of which is more of what the general aura of the song seems to me, which is more or less, someone dictating mentally, as he is standing before their impending suicide (personally I picture them standing before a train, but that's just me), to an old ex, or girlfriend, or secret crush, or whatever, who was the only light in a world dark with his cynical outlook on all events in life ("you're the only person with a half decent heart"), and in the few seconds before he is about to die, a whole lot of thoughts are going on in his mind, the most prevalent of which is that they were perfect for each other, but they couldn't be together for whatever reason ("You're impossible"), and that he still wants her to be happy, so long as she remembers him on her deathbed. He also runs through a few other thoughts on the absurdity of life and death ("But neither him or me could decide for ourselves if we wanted to outlive that night"; "THe last two soldiers on the battlefield, survivors of the war" ie, after all the others fall, the two fight, even though they probably are the same inside, only fighting because the other is the enemy; like the scene in All Quiet on the Western Front where Baeumer kills the french enemy soldier then reads his journals, and sees he's just another young man fighting for a cause which neither of them really understands). And as the song slows down in tempo, the train in a slow-motion scene, the train closes in, and the hero, so to speak, of the song, closes his eyes, a split second before impact, where the song cuts off. Now I know this has a lot of holes in it, one main one being that Tomas would never write a song about suicide without making a negative statement about it, considering his personal feelings on the subject, and his distaste of it (as shown in A Better Place, A Better time, Here's to life, and The Saddest Song). This is merely my personal impressions of it from the melody, and a basic, non-analytical (well, not very analytical) observation of the lyrics. My more analytical theory (which I will not write out all of, since it's easier to see), is about the protagonist of the story is leaving home, and wants his girlfriend/ex/crush, to come with him, but she refuses, despite his insistence that she will see that they were meant for each other, and his only parting thought is that he hopes she will remember him in spite of this. |
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| Streetlight Manifesto – We Are The Few Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I think it's supposed to be a bit ambiguous, but the main thing is that it's about a relationship, where the girl is being manipulated by her boyfriend (Mr gepetto the 'puppetmaster'), and the majority of the song, not counting the coda~ish bits, and the chorus. | |
| Streetlight Manifesto – What a Wicked Gang Are We... Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Fairly obviously political, but let's take it one step at a time "When I look back,that's when I see everything was wrong," Looking back on the country's recent past, and seeing that it's 'wrong' "And you looked sad, that's when I said I'd write you a song" And the country's morals and foundations twisted and perverted making it 'sad' prompting the song "Everybody's got their reasons; everybody's got their ghosts to fear When I look back all I see is I've done something wrong." Another perspective, it seems; from someone in charge, who fears the ghosts of his past "Everyone is the one until the one falls down Then we're all just "please please please"" The "everyone is the one" is a reference to democracy as an institution, but it breaks down, as "the one falls down" and then they begin to plead for help. "The painted rust will only fool the fools for just so long. Eventually, that's when they'll see everything was wrong!" "Painted rust" being the quick cheap fixes that recent US history is plagued with "So here's to the boys who fight all the wars you will never fight for yourself!" Ordinary men swept up as soldiers for a war that those in charge "will never fight for [themselves]" "Like a liar looking down on a thief, Looking down on a killer looking down on a creep." Each one looking down on the next worse, thinking "I may be bad, but at least I'm not an 'X'" and using that as their excuses. "Oh! This sinking ship will only hold its course for just so long Eventually, that's when they'll see everything is wrong" America, the sinking ship, can only go forward for so long until the people notice how it's all gone to shit. So in summery, The speaker, probably Kalnoky, is looking on the state of the country, and it's problems and is saying that it's only a matter of time before everyone, no matter how stubbornly patriotic, sees what has become of America. |
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