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Portishead – Cowboys Lyrics 11 years ago
Well, the line is "talons fly as a last disguise". Talons could represent the American eagle and that after more covert means and propaganda fail, it's time to go to war. Way to much emphasis on 9/11 in this thread: governments have and always will lie; the point of democracy being to blunt the potency of such threats to good governance.

With all of that said, it is a great song and does sound like it's about a victim lashing out and taking a day of reckoning against a tormentor, but I am not certain that it is necessarily political in meaning. Why couldn't it be about children taking vengeance against abusive parents for example?

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Portishead – Cowboys Lyrics 11 years ago
Well, the line is "talons fly as a last disguise". Talons could represent the American eagle and that after more covert means and propaganda fail, it's time to go to war. Way to much emphasis on 9/11 in this thread: governments have and always will lie; the point of democracy being to blunt the potency of such threats to good governance.

With all of that said, it is a great song and does sound like it's about a victim lashing out and taking a day of reckoning against a tormentor, but I am not certain that it is necessarily political in meaning. Why couldn't it be about children taking vengeance against abusive parents for example?

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Portishead – Cowboys Lyrics 11 years ago
Well, the line is "talons fly as a last disguise". Talons could represent the American eagle and that after more covert means and propaganda fail, it's time to go to war. Way to much emphasis on 9/11 in this thread: governments have and always will lie; the point of democracy being to blunt the potency of such threats to good governance.

With all of that said, it is a great song and does sound like it's about a victim lashing out and taking a day of reckoning against a tormentor, but I am not certain that it is necessarily political in meaning. Why couldn't it be about children taking vengeance against abusive parents for example?

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Portishead – Cowboys Lyrics 11 years ago
Well, the line is "talons fly as a last disguise". Talons could represent the American eagle and that after more covert means and propaganda fail, it's time to go to war. Way to much emphasis on 9/11 in this thread: governments have and always will lie; the point of democracy being to blunt the potency of such threats to good governance.

With all of that said, it is a great song and does sound like it's about a victim lashing out and taking a day of reckoning against a tormentor, but I am not certain that it is necessarily political in meaning. Why couldn't it be about children taking vengeance against really bad parents for example?

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Black Sabbath – God Is Dead? Lyrics 12 years ago
Seems like its about someone struggling with faith and morality.

They want to believe in God:

"To safeguard my philosophy
Until my dying breath
I transfer from reality
Into a mental death
I empathize with enemes
Until the timing’s right
With God and Satan at my side
From darkness will come light"


But find that the world makes that very difficult:

"Rivers of evil
Run through dying land
Swimming in sorrow, they kill, steal, and borrow, there is no tomorrow
For the sinners will be damned
Ashes to ashes
You cannot exhume a soul
Who do you trust when corruption and lust, creed of all the unjust,
Leaves you empty and unwhole?
When will this nightmare be over? Tell me!
When can I empty my head?
Will someone tell me the answer?
Is God really dead?
Is God really dead?"

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Alice in Chains – Lab Monkey Lyrics 12 years ago
It's about a lab monkey; that is if it could write a song. The theme is animal cruelty, taking a nod from Man in the Box.

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Down – Bury Me In Smoke Lyrics 13 years ago
These seem like the correct lyrics; and lead me to believe that this song is about a gun-fighter...

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Pantera – Cemetery Gates Lyrics 15 years ago

"Well I guess
You took my youth
I gave it all away
Like the birth of a
New-found joy
This love would end in rage
And when she died
I couldn't cry
The pride within my soul
You left me incomplete
All alone as the
Memories now unfold."

Seems to me that this song is about the death of his mother: 'birth', 'youth', incomplete' seem to point to this. Whatever the actual interpretation, this is one of the deepest and most emotional songs ever written: Pantera is the most awesome band ever, period. Amazing guitar riffs and solos. RIP Dimebag Darrell: your departure left the world of music and guitar in particular, incomplete.

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