| Hurt – Summers Lost Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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This song is clearly about losing your lover to suicide. In a sense it reminds me of a Disturbed song, Inside the Fire, yet without the sense of desperation to be with her again. Like other Hurt lyrics, he's more angry at himself than anything for being weak. "And I'll believe it's not my fault, Like I have too much time" points to a final conclusion or end-point. The fact that his time ran out is the irony of the statement and causes his hatred of self and God. "Would your maker have opened your eyes if he preferred them closed?" is obvious. He's trying to reason with her that her faith in God should keep her from committing suicide, despite any issues she has. "I know we'll get through this and won't let you do it, so stop" continues in the same vain after the chorus. He'll do anything, even lie to her and willfully have her lie to him, to keep her there with him. "Nights without end seem to bleed into days. Try to forget that it turned out this way. I wear the mark of the permanent stain. Not accidentally, I cursed gods good name. I am still mortified, yet relieved in a way, that when my days are done we'll be in the same place." - It's already happened and you can't reason with the dead. He nearly drowns in sorrow, linked to night, blood, and staining. Given that he willfully cursed God, he'll take his chances with eternal damnation if it gives him a chance to be with her once again. "With Winter means Brimstone, I sail for Euphrates." Winter is a traditional metaphor for the end of a life, while brimstone is the same for purgatory. Euphrates is the border of the Anti-Christ's kingdom. All point towards Satan, Hell, and ... her. |
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| Pearl Jam – Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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This song is from the perspective of a woman who was born in, and never left, her hometown. Her boring, routine-filled life is spent behind a store counter and she's shocked when she recognizes a face she hasn't seen in years. While she can't place a name to it, the face immediately brings up all her old dreams of getting out of her small town. Sadly, "no one's ever taken [her]". The chorus can be read two ways. 1: Her feelings for this person have faded over time until she can't even remember his name, despite their relationship in the past. Still, she swears she can "recognize [his] breath" and this seems intimate. 2: Her dreams of escaping her small-town life, as he did, faded over time until she's resigned herself to her predicted "small town... fate". Either way, she desperately wishes something different had happened in her youth. Sadly, "[she's] not [her] former" and all of her dreams are now memories of what seems like a different life. He doesn't recognize her whatsoever, having come back after so many years for reasons unknown, so despite how much she "want[s] to scream, Hello" the woman stays silent and watches him leave. Rather depressing song, honestly. |
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| Between the Buried and Me – Selkies: The Endless Obsession Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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We stereotype every, tiny piece of society, placing it into a box for easier understanding. The media does this also to place an 'us' versus 'them' mentality into our heads, separating people based off of small, unimportant characteristics. Some recognize this fact, and try to fight the system, but the vast majority are too naive (too innocent) to realize that they are sheep being herded along through life by the western, modern dream of success. That is: Primary education, secondary education, then college and the career of your choice. This leads to a steady income, family, real estate, and that stereotypical 'American Dream' we are told is the only successful future. It's all crap. Real life is too absurd and the politicians and executives leading us down this pipe-dream are con-artists of the highest caliber. Worse though, they are slowly but surely headed towards their own destruction, what with splitting atoms that have the potential to destroy the world because some politician wants more than he has and our technology is at the point that he'll get caught doing it. That, I think, is when we'll learn how to live. People will finally all realize the massive lie we live in daily. Then most will die and hopefully those who learned this lesson will create a better, less corrupt society based off of equality in everything. TL;DR This oligarchy at the top of our society will crash and burn under its own weight and the people that pick up the pieces will make a better future. |
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