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Judas Priest – Metal Meltdown Lyrics 11 years ago
The intro soloing has always reminded me of sparks flying off.

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Gojira – A Sight To Behold Lyrics 14 years ago
I think everyone who posted before had the right idea. I thought the song was a bit more about personal disgust with oneself and blaming everyone on their individuality and therefore conforming to being almost too isolated as an individual. I think some lines are fairly self-explanatory.

"Reflecting ourselves in the blood of all the beings we slay"

I eat meat, but for some reason I think this line is about knowing your roots or at least what gives you or enables you to live the way you do.

"The way I see things is so simple"

When you are brainwashed, things are always simple. Brainwashing = suggestion = influence = opinion. Thoughts = words = actions = habits. Everyone knows it's bad, but...

"Exhausted is the realm of nature, friends are dying"

I thought this was more of just a true general statement. The nature of nature is extreme survival. Don't mess with mother nature, nurture vs. nature. The second part that death is inevitable, almost a positive point of the song, whether it be the humans' extinction or earth's demi-eternal recycling.

"The living creatures on our side"

AT first I thought just blood and flesh stuff, but then it made me think like they had to say living like phony and I started thinking about mechanical machines. You become so used to electronics and multimedia. You don't mistake it for a deer in the forest, but when was the last time you saw a deer in the forest? Probably Discovery channel.

"The way I see myself so confused so sophisticated"

Self struggle. We feel empowered by our self knowledge of earth and its workings, but as sophisticated as we are, why are we so confused by something as green policy? We could stop it, but we can justify its superseding ignoring.

"I have to stay away from me"

Everyone bitches about other people. Then you realize you are like other people. Sure, you like this to drink this or you sleep in saturday when they don't. You are the problem though, aren't you?

"But I still don't get the point"

Obvious in its confusion. What do I do? Even me! Why do I know this? How does it help?

"What's worth destroying all the worlds
Try not to get it anymore"

At perhaps a point of desperation, you step outside the petty shit you have(although I did not mention you would be reflecting on this), you're almost ready to go to bed after a night and you think. Was it worth it? And those heavy thoughts come... You're ready to sleep though, and you try to not get it anymore, 'cause hey it's not like you were trying. Everyone was. That's why you're doing it. To get away from me.

"You burn yourself, set fire for good"

Being born. Like I said earlier, influenced. Pretty damn hard to be aware when you're a kid. At least in the Western world.

Born and the typical song interpretation of media influence, etc.

"Lost with no pride, drowned in the filth"

These thoughts rate pretty high though in morality in the sense that, yeah, screwing our own survival plan is pretty stupid? But first we don't live long enough to really care about the survival cycle(my own thoughts). I think Gojira meant more of a being confused theme again and how tricky and misleading society is, leading back to a marketable(media wise) crisis of the environment. Not that it couldn't be or is serious, but also how powerfully we are influenced and the total uncertainty of the the green situation. Therefore the, filth. Drowning in this 50/50 sea that draws you to apathy.

"The giant snake is coming down to eat our heads
and the flood will kill us, Mantus is rising from under"

I do not know the significance of Mantus, but I saw this line as a general earth cleansing itself proclamation. Help me out!

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