| Accept – Balls to the Wall Lyrics | 11 years ago |
|
As Dee Snider once said to Tipper Gore in reference to her finding BDSM themes in a song about surgery *clears throat* "As the creator of 'Under The Blade' I can categorically say that the only sadomasochism, bondage and rape in this song is in the mind of Ms. Gore" |
|
| Kix – Don't Close Your Eyes Lyrics | 11 years ago |
|
So the main character definitely dies while on the phone with other main character right? Hold on - Hold on tight I'll make everything all right - Steve (or whoever the main character is) is getting ready to leave and help the girl on the phone out Wake up - Don't go to sleep - Doesn't hear anything back, tries to get a response (loud WAKE UP) pleads her not to go to sleep I pray the lord your soul to keep - Realizes she's gone he recites that old prayer Yay party music! |
|
| Mötley Crüe – Too Fast For Love Lyrics | 12 years ago |
|
The first part is from the alternate version you can find at the end of the Too Fast For Love remaster they put out a while ago... Glad I could help you out 6 years later! |
|
| Mötley Crüe – Take Me To The Top Lyrics | 12 years ago |
|
Personally I think it's the narrator fighting inner demons, didn't really get it until I figured out what Sixx and Mick were singing in the last chorus (I thought something along "Take me to the top and blow me up" or something no "throw me off") I think the narrator feels like his demons are trying to off him, telling him tonight's a perfect night to kill yourself but the narrator keeps telling them no and fighting them in a "a black hearted alley fight" but there's still something in him that screams take me to the top of the building and jump off. After going through this album song by song, line by line I think Sixx was a big fan of the whole put really dark lyrics over what sounds like more upbeat music, add a poppy vocal melody and catchy chorus so it doesn't sound depressing. Van Halen did the same thing with Jump, but that synth in a minor scale and slow it down and it's the most depressing suicide song ever. Most of these lyrics are pretty deep, not what I've been expecting. They first sound fun and rockin when you hear them. They come off as dark and, well, evil when you read them (Live Wire sounds like it promotes rape for fuck's sake!) but then there's a little line or something that gets it to one more level that just makes you realize how brilliant Nikki was of a songwriter, even back in '81! |
|
| Mötley Crüe – Merry-Go-Round Lyrics | 12 years ago |
|
I always took the merry-go-round as a drug metaphor (I know not every song has to be one) but it's a cycle. You take a ride, feel guilty, ask if you're gonna be done yet (This mainly applies to smack, a subject Sixx is pretty familiar with...) and when you're done you repeat the cycle... Does it so much that people start worrying about him since he's gone a lot I don't remember that story about his neighbor in Seattle though... If it was in teh Dirt then I guess that's the meaning then! |
|
| Mötley Crüe – Public Enemy #1 Lyrics | 12 years ago |
|
A couple feels like Bonnie and Clyde... Always on the run and living their life for fun together... I love taking lines and suddenly making the song a couple shades darker... What if the narrator is on the run and sorta kidnaps his girlfriend who doesn't really wanna run away with him which is why he keeps repeating "don't think about nothin" Like their teenagers who dream about running away together and he takes it past fantasy and she doesn't, he takes with him but she doesn't really wanna go... Fun to think about |
|
| Mötley Crüe – Live Wire Lyrics | 12 years ago |
|
This song sounds kinda rapey, I'll give people that... This could be because the narrator of the song sounds like he's a bit unstable, maybe high, and looking for action, any action. He's all aggressive about it when he's talking to himself the whole song but when he's speaking to another character in the bridge, the music slows down and cleans up and so does his voice. He tries to be all calm and cool but ends up letting her know he's a danger... Or it was written by a young songwriter who didn't realize who rapey it sounded when he wrote a looking for action song, but I think the lock your doors line in the bridge redeems the song's potential inadvertent rapeyness because it kind of adds depth to the character warning the people around him what he's about to do because he knows he's unstable or fucked up enough to attack someone like that. So either it's a really clever and super dark character piece about the emotional state of a night prowler put over a happier sounding tune (Like Van Halen's Jump was) or it was written by an, at the time, immature and ametuer songwriter trying to write the first album, not really thinking about lyrics... I'll stick with the former in my mind... |
|
| Mötley Crüe – She Goes Down Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Scream it out is definitely spit it out | |
| Mötley Crüe – Sticky Sweet Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| I think the song is about a dude who is completely infatuated with this chick, he gets turned on just seeing she's calling and whenever she talks and walks. But the girl in this story is using him, having the dude eat her out and then putting him on the ass to tell him to leave... The fact he says it takes longer than ten seconds (sweet reference) sort of indicates the fact it takes forever and it becomes tiresome, especially since she tells him to leave without him getting off, but he can't not go whenever she calls | |
| Iron Maiden – Bring Your Daughter... to the Slaughter Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| I still have no idea why this song got a Razzie... I dug it when I first got into Maiden as a young teenager and when I heard that I chalked it up to me being stupid but here I am many years later after not touching the post-SSoaSS albums in a long time and this tune is still pretty kick ass. This album has a few really great tunes on it, Holy Smoke, No Prayer, Tailgunner, Mother Russia. Despite having a few lack luster filler tracks this is a pretty solid album | |
| Iron Maiden – The Trooper Lyrics | 12 years ago |
|
As the other guy said, Harris wrote this song based off a poem written in 1854. While you could be right aside from that, the burst of rounds is mentioned a few times in the song as a firing line armies implemented in early wars when the troops had single shot muskets (You'll fire your musket). The acrid smoke is also referring to gunpowder (potentially dead bodies if not for smoke) And it's most definitely Russian, Bruce has a pretty clear and enunciated singing voice, you'd be able to hear the p |
|
| Iron Maiden – Children Of The Damned Lyrics | 12 years ago |
|
'Arry liked to write lots of songs off of concepts he's read or seen (Murders in the Rue Morgue, Phantom of the Opera, Flight of Icarus) so he takes the premise or the basic story structure of a certain aspect while leaving out the other details (Like Phantom of the Opera is strictly about a guy who kills people at the opera house, none of the extra story or Murders is about the innocent foreign guy being chased for murder and not the rest of the Poe story) This is the same basic set up, he takes the children being blown up/burned in the house at the end of Village of the Damned and wrote a song strictly around that but kind of gave it a burned at the stake vibe instead of demon children being blown up with a bomb for literary reasons (You can describe being burned, you can't really describe a bomb detonation except for "It went boom") |
|
| Iron Maiden – Prowler Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| The first chunk is what the public wanker is doing (wanking in public), the second chunk is what he's fantasizing (showing the bird how big his prick is and she's in awe) and the third chunk is remembering how the birds aren't feeling his "big" prick but in fact alone (Got me talkin, but nothing's with me) | |
| Iron Maiden – Murders In The Rue Morgue Lyrics | 12 years ago |
|
Ol' 'Arry did the same thing with Poe novel as he did with Phantom of the Opera, took a cool idea from it whether it be an innocent man running from the law in a foreign country or a masked killer who lives in an opera house, and he put it into a rock song. He's not putting every plot point of the story but he's taking the concept from something that he finds is an interesting idea for lyrics and writes about it. I also love how he really stepped up the tempo and made the vocals lines longer than usual to really get this desperate and out of breath point across. The accused's mind is racing and is quickly telling someone the story very unfiltered before the police catch him. Brilliant, what Steve does with first person songs is just superb |
|
| Iron Maiden – The Phantom of the Opera Lyrics | 12 years ago |
|
This song is an adaptation from the famous book "The Phantom of the Opera" While obviously not every concept from there is in the song, I think Steve read the book or took the general story of the book, a disfigured man who has a lair at an opera house, and made it more "horror" themed a la how Sabbath and Misfits write their stuff. He liked the concept of this dude that stalks players at an opera and "scratches, maims and mauls" them. But what I think a lot of people really identify with is instead of just putting these lyrical ideas over a straightforward rock song, Harris put it over some really intricate melodies arranged into this long epic (of which he will be known to do the next 30 years) to give extra bravado to the lyrics. It's quite brilliant. And how he came up with the vocal/guitar melody confounds me, it's hard as dicks to play nonetheless to come up with it |
|
| Iron Maiden – Hallowed Be Thy Name Lyrics | 12 years ago |
|
What Harris does with this song is fantastic... Sure he sticks with his favorite chords through the song (E, C and D) but the brilliance of his song writing is the melodies he puts over the ECD gallops found in most every Maiden song. But aside from writing a 7 minute musical epic like this, Harris' mature lyrics he penned to it. Now there's nothing wrong with juvenile lyrics, I'm a huge Poison fan after all, but when a rock song by a successful band can transcend sex, drugs, rock n roll it is just perfect. Harris set up a story featuring a character who goes through an arc. Think about that for a second. In 7 minutes Steve Harris set up a pretty interesting character arc, all in first person, that follows the 5 stages of grief. Something most big budget movies nowadays fail at doing. This song is so marvelous, I'm just a little disappointed they left it out of their Maiden England tour last year here in the States... There's always next time and there's always the record! Rock In Peace Clive |
|
| Queen – Fat Bottomed Girls Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Too bad Brian May wrote the song... But the general story of it is correct, but Freddie isn't singing about himself, he's singing words Brian wrote. | |
| KISS – Nothin' To Lose Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Mike is right, it's about convincing a girl to what what in the butt... Didn't realize it until just recently really listening to lyrics and I just laughed, it's a funny song | |
| Vader – Helleluyah!!! (God Is Dead) Lyrics | 15 years ago |
|
Don't quote me, but I believe this song is from the perspective of a dark angel, or even Lucifer himself, walking across the land witnessing their goals of annihilating religion. The first verse shows the angel passing a house and describing a Crucifix as if it's a foreign object no one's heard of (which they haven't, since God is dead remember?) But as he passes the old, presumably a church i'm guessing, he notices a disciple to the destroyed religion committing suicide "And kneeling man talking to the effigy of steel.." The second verse shows more destruction against everything considered holy, such as virgins, and the last line could be in reference to a Catholic communion or Mormon sacrament... Something to that effect And the third is where I came up with my angel theory. He/she/it says that they have been traveling the world disproving the religious myths being spread like poison among humanity Basically, it's describing a world where religion was violently eradicated |
|
| Megadeth – Last Rites/Loved to Deth Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Love how the band pulls off the Fugue from Toccata and Fugue in Dm by J.S. Bach at the begininning... What a way to start off a career! With one of the most evil Baroque piece ever concieved that leads right into a brutal song about Dave Mustaine killing his girlfriend... Eargasm in every way... I'm using this song for a project in English where we needeed to bring lyrics to a "love song" | |
| Death – Zombie Ritual Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I don't think it's the social commentary type of zombie siegebreaker suggests... I think it's more Chuck came up with a sweet satanicy riff and, since he keeps religion out of his lyrics, decided to make it an "evil" ritual but not have religious overtones, so no one would say they're Venom or Slayer clones... So the song is just a gore fest on the "Scream Bloody Gore" album that he fits into a satan-y riff he came up with but didn't want to sing about satan like the other bands... So there ya have it | |
| The Beatles – She's Leaving Home Lyrics | 15 years ago |
|
The last one by it'sheatherlol is the right one for me personally... I love this song, reminds me of a quote from Paul O'Neill from the Trans Siberian Orchestra: "Once when asked what Trans-Siberian Orchestra was about, Paul O'Neill replied, "It's about creating great art. When asked to define what great art was, Paul said, "The purpose of art is to create an emotional response in the person that is exposed to that art. And there are three categories of art; bad art, good art and great art. Bad art will elicit no emotional response in the person that is exposed to it, i.e.; a song you hear in an elevator and it does nothing to you a picture on a wall that gives you the same emotional response as if the wall had been blank, a movie that chews up time. Good art will make you feel an emotion that you have felt before; you see a picture of a forest and you remember the last time you went fishing with your dad, you hear a song about love and you remember the last time you were in love. Great art will make you feel an emotion you have never felt before; seeing the pieta, the world famous sculpture by Michelangelo, can cause someone to feel the pain of losing a child even if they've never had one. And when you're trying for these emotions the easiest one to trigger is anger Anyone can do it. Go into the street, throw a rock at someone, you will make them angry. The emotions of love empathy and laughter are much harder to trigger, but since they operate on a deeper level, they bring a much greater reward." This is great art by Paul's definition. I'm only 17 and luckily childless, so I've never had to experience the pain of a daughter running away, but hearing this song... Damn... I feel it, I feel the hurt, I feel the betrayal... Funny how I side with the parents in the story and not the daughter, cause I think what she did was just horrible |
|
* This information can be up to 15 minutes delayed.