| System of a Down – Chop Suey! Lyrics | 5 years ago |
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To me, this song is about someone who contemplates suicide as a means to get out of all the pain he has to endure. And at the same time he ponders the unfairness of this world, where 'angels', i.e. the people who live good lives and have the success in life he craves and envies, are not really any better persons than him. They are just perceived that way because they are standing in the light. And he's not, and he can't because his hands and feet are tied, somehow. He can be terminally ill for example, or paralyzed, or maybe he has mental illness - there can be many reasons for it. Anyways, this is why he contemplates suicide as a way out. He considers himself a good person who deserves better, and he feels anger and frustration towards the world. And he feels envy and hate towards the angels that, in his view, don't deserve the good life they are living. These people are standing in 'his' light. He cries, because there are so many angels who should instead die, rather than him. Hence him feeling like a martyr, being sacrificed for their sins. And he has a big problem with that. So it's not fair that he should have to commit suicide. But at the same time as he feels self-righteous, he's stuck in a constant loop of self-doubt. The character talks to himself, questioning if maybe he's not such a good person, or if he's just like the people he envies, whom he wants to die instead of himself. Maybe he's even worse than these people, because of all his hate and anger. He fear that all his hate and anger towards the angels has made him a unworthy of a place in heaven, or everlasting peace in afterlife. Hence the "I don't think you trust in my self-righteous suicide". He then turns to God, telling him he's ready to die, but also asking him why he has forsaken him, a good son, while those who don't deserve it have His grace. He begs God to 'trust in his self-righteous suicide', i.e. he wants God to have faith in him as a good person who has been treated unfairly by life, and deserves a place in heaven. He wants God to see through all the anger, hate and frustration that may have made him, in his own eyes, just as bad as the angels he hates and envies. |
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| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Into My Arms Lyrics | 6 years ago |
| @.:interpreted:. Exactly my thoughts too. Seems like he's saying he believes in a God but not an interventional one, but he hopes that maybe God can make an exception in this case. | |
| Tom Waits – Tom Traubert's Blues (Four Sheets to the Wind in Copenhagen) Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| I think the song is about sacrificing yourself. What i mean is that this guy has lost someone he loves, or is in love with someone he cannot get, and he just can't seem to put her behind him. Actually, part of him doesn't want to. Matilda is the name of this "backpack" , which is always with him, burdening him, yet still strengthening his identity as the martyr. He wears this burden with some pride, even though it wears him out. No matter where he goes in life, there is nothing that compares to this girl, and everything is "broken" withour her. So he gets drunk to ease the pain, and then he sees this "matilda" in every girl. And when he kisses one of them he realizes this person is not matilda. And he feels like losing everything he is, which is the martyr, who's wandering around with the burden on his back. This is the one he wants to be. The one who loves this woman. Still not. So there's a big element of hopelessness in the song. | |
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