| Green Day – Holiday Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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"Zieg Heil to the president gasman Bombs away is your punishment" Ok...the first line is a german salute for hitler but it is referring to president bush and comparing him to hitler who gassed (GASMAN) jews to death? Now what could Bush be doing that is comparable to Hitler? He is bombing the middle east and killing innocent muslims. basically bush generalized that muslims are the enemy and not radical terrorist. This is respectable for the fear and anger after 9/11 but it's a very hidebound and racist view in the grand scheme of what America stands for. Muslims are dying for no reason and Bush is like Hitler in the sense of a "genocide" because of you're ethnicity or religion. |
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| Green Day – Holiday Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Alright, So everyone is arguing about this song being anti-bush/war/american. How bout we work backwards and find out? The first stanza is a direct reference to the wars going on right now. Many famous seers have suggested a prediction that the end of the world will come after or during World War III. So, the line "Hear the sound of the falling rain, coming down like an Armageddon flame" could mean that the war Bush has started might cause unfixable damage to the world. "The shame, the ones who died without a name" is referring to everyone who's fallen victim of the political battles that the power-hungry country leaders pull us into. All the soldiers, all the victims of the terrorist attacks - they all "died without a name". Starting a war is never the right answer ("Trials by fire setting fire..."). Holiday could be considered an anti-Bush song to a certain extent. The author shows his disgust towards the power-hungry president who will destroy anything that confronts him "Pulverize the Eiffel towers who criticize your government. Bang, bang! goes the broken glass, kill all the fags that don't agree"). No matter what, the diplomacy of the gov't is directly related to what the president does...so if he launches a war and this song is anti-war...so this song indirectly would bash bush. The song also shows different sides of the political fence - the line "Another protester has crossed the line to find the money is on the other side" is criticizing Democrats ("There's one line that sort of messes with the liberals a little, too, where it says, 'Hear the drum pounding out of time, another protester crosses the line to find the money's on the other side'" - Armstrong). People only care about self-interests (like money) and not the consequences of politics. The Bridge is also very good. "Zieg Heil to the president gasman" really means that the rep of Cali (represents liberalism movement) is trying to show salvation to Bush. It's a funny satire of the gov't and how we tried to handle our problems. In the end, he says we are "outlaws" because we are hypocritical and break our own rules when it comes to being a good country with honest intentions. FINALLY, the chorus sums it up. Billy says he "begs to dream and differ from the hollow lies." In short, he is disgusted how America follows blind lies and wants to break out. This is very hard though since you would try to argue with a brick wall who is stubborn. This line also takes a jab at our gov't for all the ill-concieved actions they wanted everyone to support like starting this war. At first most of us said lets go kill Sadam and terrorism...but now we really see what we are fighting. "This is the dawning of our lives on holiday" is the best point of the song. It literally said everything the song points at: Oblivious America. We lived our lives not really paying attention to what really happens everyday or who we vote for. In turn, our politics are the same way. If you are on holiday you are away from your work and you also are more care free; This sums up our attitude when it comes to politics. We blindly vote or are misguided/lied to and we never take a chance to GO TO WORK and GET OFF BREAK BY LOOKING AT OUR COUNTRY. And it's all because we are on holiday...when should we come back? Also, people wonder how this songs fit into the opera. Part of the album story
: Jimmy breaks free and finally leaves his dead-end town. Now he's entering the City and is obviously extremely excited about it. He's on holiday, he's starting a new life. He thinks that now he's free but really can't see what's going on (refers to America in the 21st century and how we are misguided or lied to). Blvd of Broken Dreams then goes into the depression of Jimmy of the realization of his life (i.e. American society). |
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| The Goo Goo Dolls – Iris Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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As for the title... The iris in our eyes focuses the light for our eyes. In photography the iris effect is able to focus out wanted images and just capture the important object. That object in this song is love and how the singer is trying to put his love in perspective for himself and the girl to understand ("I just want you to know who I am."). Love isn't easy to convey or understand...we all could use some focus... |
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| The Goo Goo Dolls – Iris Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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As for the title... The iris in our eyes focuses the light for our eyes. In photography the iris effect is able to focus out wanted images and just capture the important object. That object in this song is love and how the singer is trying to put his love in perspective for himself and the girl to understand ("I just want you to know who I am."). Love isn't easy to convey or understand...we all could use some focus... |
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| The Goo Goo Dolls – Iris Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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As for the title... The iris in our eyes focuses the light for our eyes. In photography the iris effect is able to focus out wanted images and just capture the important object. That object in this song is love and how the singer is trying to put his love in perspective for himself and the girl to understand ("I just want you to know who I am."). Love isn't easy to convey or understand...we all could use some focus... |
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| The Goo Goo Dolls – Iris Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Alright then... Most people have the general flow that this guy wants this girl and he is so stressed over how he is trying to achieve his ideal girl when he knows he is not ideal. Many people are having trouble with the 4th stanza "And you can't fight the tears that ain't coming Or the moment of truth in your lies When everything feels like the movies And you bleed just to know you're alive." I instantly picked up on this the second I just listened to it. I'm going through the same thing right now where there's this girl and I just want her to know how I really feel. Basically this verse describes the impurities associated with love. Ideally, it is true, selfless, and based off of honest intentions. Sadly it's not the case. People will go out of their way to fabricate or hold back emotions (fight the tears that ain't coming). All these feelings are still there though even though they are not evident. If you say to someone you don't care for them you obviously do if you take the time to talk to them. Frankly, we never mean 100% of what we say...and that goes for lying as well. At the same time...i hope everyone is aware of this aspect of our lives. Humans are humans and our social interactions are gonna have a bias to them. We have had past experiences and influences that will shape how we act and it will not be 100% of what we want it to mean or how others would want it to be interpreted as. Basically it is like the movies where actors try to mean what they say but never can. In turn, we try to express love but is seems we never do it in the perfect image. We aren't perfect...but we are trying to live out something that truly is perfect in our meaning of the word. Love is thus something fleeting and when we can not comprehend why our lives seem so false...we can resort to pain which many people would associate with as to being alive (i.e. pinch me...I must be dreaming). Feeling is 100% real since that is how we live our lives or experience love. Although cutting yourself is extreme...doing so would still ensure you that your fleeting love isn't all of your life. We are still real, but in order for the world to "see who you really are" we must experience something that is 100% real. Our lives though are broken in some shape or way. If something is broke it can fall apart...but if an aspect of our lives is 100% true...it can not be shattered. What could that be? LOVE. Love is a universal sign of how real someone can be. Even though we may not give 100%, everyone will understand that it should be 100% real. Despite the world we live in is deceiving and not always true ("I don't think they would understand")...I can still know that the love I would have with a girl should be real if it is love. |
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| The Goo Goo Dolls – Black Balloon Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Ok...the whole black balloon thing is very spot on..pjhuffman said it very well. Black balloons are used to deal heroin in and they can also be used as a tourniquet (although other things like straps are used but if you have the balloon use it). Now then...this song is clearly about heroin in many ways but can also be about a "black relationship". Drug: The ballon makes her "fly" or get "high". Between the "whole in your life' and "not thinking about tomorrow" it's clear this chick has a major crux with heroin. The 2nd verse goes deeper talking about how no one could reach such a messed up chick who's addicted. GGD described this addiction as the girl's womb where she could hide in it and look at and 'watch the world spin beneath you' when she is about to crash. "scatter like ice from the spoon" is a direct reference to heroin...cmon and it's her womb. The chorus is really brilliant. "world turned over" refers to how she crashed out of the womb when she O.D. and was upside literally. She died and angels couldn't even help her get into heaven. Christian beliefs use angels as messengers and guides to humans and the angels can't help when she dies or "isnt there"....aka SHE DIED. So she"get's colder" as a stiff and could be more than just utterly gone in every spiritual/physical way. Here's the connection to the other meaning. The line "someone's prayer" refers to the fact that she could be the help/reason for someone else. Whether she is dead it will mean that she finally got to rest in peace...a prayer to get off the addiction OR its a relationship and she it trying to stop and maybe someone else is waiting for her! Now I know this sounds out there but if you look back on the lyrics this addiction can be played off as a bad clingy relationship that consumed the girl. She was so hard to reach and now the singer realizes that. This reason could be because she is addicted to heroin so the double meaning could be tied into one another seamlessly. Her relationship with a man is like her relation with heroin and That prayer the people who care about here because they are they enable her "when you stand they fall". This connects EXTREMELY WELL TO THE LAST LINE where it says "I'll become What you became to me." In turn the singer will then have this girl's prayer answered. The singer's goal was to answer this girl's prayer to show her love and show her a life. Now, the singer prays for the girl. This interpretation works well for the relationship (if it ended badly he wishes her to get out) or the death (he prays she finds peace). I've been listening to this song for a while so I might have gone to some random realm of understanding but i think it works very well. After all...we all want to really stop addictions...and its a two-faced life of praying to get off the drug and getting lost in the drug. |
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| Oasis – Falling Down Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I think jmk really nailed it...the grand scheme of life and death and how it can just fall down on us. It's seem pessimistic but rationally that is gonna happen to everyone. | |
| Oasis – Falling Down Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| That's really, really good | |
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