| Tool – Stinkfist Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| It's also about how we use artificial things to stimulate ourselves. (constant over-stimulation numbs me). and hence the televisions and all the machines and devices and wires and electronics with unknown dialects written on them. Also note the telephone and the thing they use to scan each other and the "kissing device". and all the knives and Tools (pun intended). draw your own conclusions from that lol. | |
| Tool – Stinkfist Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Ok, i haven't read every single comment here, cause there's like a million, but from what I can tell most of you don't grasp the meaning conveyed in the video. I can't speak for the song, or the fact that like most tool songs, it has many layers of meanings. But it's pretty obvious to me from the video that it's talking about how we repress certain aspects of ourselves that we don't appreciate, then they push their way up to the surface. and the more you deny it the more it shows itself, in yourself and others. kinda the mirror thing ya know? it's Jungian philosophy about the Shadow Aspect. all the repressed aspects and emotions and parts of your self.... keyword PART of yourself. You'll notice in the first part of the video the guy grows a lump on his back and takes it off and seals it away in a jar. That's a metaphor for repressing parts of yourself. you lock it away in a dark corner to collect dust, just to find out that it will always push its way back to the surface, cause you can run but you cant hide from yourself. The female character in the video, who seems really hurt and mistreated/repressed is the Anima (more Jungian philosophy). You also will notice all the other characters who seem deformed and disfigured, they are other parts of himself that the Shadow is revealing to him. Later in the video they both shed their sandy artificial skins, and you see them in their true form, their flesh... and you'll notice the big scar on the guy's back where he cut away his shadow/part of himself. At the very end you see a squirming lump of flesh on the ground, then you see that it's become a big mutated growth on his back that whispers to him. This is the reintegration of the Shadow and the Anima with the Self. Metaphorically, he's done his best to reconnect with this part of himself that he cut off, and become whole again, though altered. It's all one big metaphor though, you can't take anything about Tool songs literally, they are deeply metaphorical. Especially the videos. I hope this has helped some of you to understand the deeper meaning in this song... This isn't really a personal interpretation of mine, i have several others that can apply more to me personally, but this is a broad interpretation that i think the band was trying to convey. Another way to view it is the relation between male and female partners. you see how she tries to reach out to him and caress him and she sticks her thumb in his eyelid, then they both seem to be too distant to communicate (like in Schism) while the male holds his hands out and the female shakes her head in frustration. Another metaphor, like i said, multiple layers of meaning. Be open minded at all times. Peace! |
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| System of a Down – Dam Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I think the first meaning by SEPL is dead on what SOAD was trying convey. At least that's what i thought of when i heard the song... Basically "everyone is sleeping" means the majority of the population have their eyes closed, they are unaware, unawake, unconcious, and mindlessly going about their daily routines without realizing what's going on around them. Sleeping is a metaphor for not being consciously aware. And it's definitely meant to be spelled "Dam", as in a dam blocking life from flowing basically killing us, or making us less alive, as Daron tried to convey by saying 'dying" instead of sleeping, it;s another metaphor. Hope you can see the pattern i'm following here, and think about it for yourself, cause i suck at explaining things. thing is the less words you use, the more meaning you can convey using metaphor and certain tones/sounds which trigger you to perceive it a specific way, which is why the song has so little actual lyrical content and is more about the music/droning sound. Hope this was understandable. |
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| System of a Down – Aerials Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| for me, when its talking about "free your eyes" and "lose small mind" it means open yourself to new things, new ideas or ways of thinking of things, new perceptions. to stay open to receive and perceive... when you stop changing and stop learning new things or being open, then your life goes stale, and becomes restricted to just what you are holding to as Fact and your past experience, restricted to just what you Know to be true from what you've experienced, to your restricted mindset... but when you lose small mind, you free your life, you open up new possibilities and doors to newer better things, etc... | |
| System of a Down – Chop Suey! Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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OK people, get this straight: This and ALL SOAD songs mean Anything and Nothing! They mean whatever you think they mean or want them to mean, or your first impression, or whatever... They are purely subjective, and thus ALL different meanings are equally correct. SOAD does not try to convey specific messages, and they just make up a meaning when asked because they themselves don't know what half of them were suppose to be about anyways. some songs do have a message but its like i said they can mean anything, or nothing, so... i don't know, i hope you understand what i mean... |
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| System of a Down – Pictures Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| i'll bet $20 that Daron wrote this, haha. | |
| System of a Down – Pictures Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| these lyrics are sooo wrong, but "parachute your chocolate soul" is referring to parachuting drugs, though wtf chocolate soul means i have not a clue. | |
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