| Meg & Dia – Monster Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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I think it's about a child born from rape, or a severely abusive relationship. To illustrate that I'll put the verses out of order or rather, in to potential chronological order. And putting events out of order in order to illustrate a point, accentuate emotions or events or just for artistic license can work really well... though if I'm right, saying it worked really well would be super morbid ... That night he caged her (Backed her in to a corner in order to get sex? A child? Control?) Bruised and broke her (Beat her...) He struggled closer (Forcing himself on her) Then he stole her (rape/coercion) Violet wrists and then her ankles (tied her up?) Silent pain (She was a virgin? Could be this situation was forced on them both and he's resentful and abusive, but that's reading way into things.) Then he slowly saw their nightmares were his dreams (The elusive they. I feel like the "he" changes throughout the song, and the "they" might as well ... but could be that he enjoyed this. Or that the woman and future child's nightmares were his dreams.) Monster (Are judgmental family/outsiders calling the child a monster or his parents? Maybe it was rape and the mother and son are living with relatives, and no good Dad's not involved.) How should I feel? (The child, asking one or both parents? If the mother doesn't love him and the father beats them both well, I'm getting ahead of myself. But if she's distant with him, a human child seeking his mother's love then he would have no emotional grounding. Also, if it's "Monster, how should I feel?" monster could mean either or both parents.) Turn the sheets down Murder ears with pillow lace (Part of what makes me think the parents could be in an abusive relationship. Trying to create silence, block out the atmosphere--or murder his ears with a pillow.) There's bath tubs Full of glow flies Bathe in kerosene (Not sure for those three...) Their words tattooed in his veins (Dad's still around and they're both abusing him? Maybe this is the "they" of this part. Also, maybe the judgmental outsiders are at it again.) Monster How should I feel? Creatures lie here Looking through the windows (People looking in or out on the situation?) I will Hear their voices (Either the abusive parents or the judgmental public, hating him for his origins.) I'm a glass child (Fragile, breakable? Or transparent, showing the image of whatever people think of him?) I am Hannah's regrets (That's why I think Mother is cold with him. I could attribute it all to judgmental outsiders, or even his father, if it weren't for that.) His little whispers Love me love me That's all I ask for Love me love me (Trying to find love from his mother, or from those who could be judging him for what he comes from...) He battered his tiny fists to feel something Wondered what it's like to touch and feel something (And to me those are the two most bleak lines of the song. The cycle, starting again ...) In the end, there are so many angles to see this through that I think like most songs, it's left open on purpose. It could be all or none of the above, and listening to it, I take it as much for its gaps as I do for its words. In doing so, I feel like the unspoken parts of these pains highlight just how broken everyone is by this event and maybe that's the point. Maybe not knowing is supposed to put you somewhere where you can empathize with mother and son, if I'm not mistaken entirely. I can't, I wasn't in a similar situation ... but I know the pain of not knowing. Not knowing how I should feel or why my emotions are supposedly invalid, not knowing how people see me or if they love me, which is something that most of us can relate to on some level. |
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| Dream Theater – Far From Heaven Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| It certainly wasn't related, I'm sure but, someone once played this in a tribute to Tilikum. And I found that profoundly eerie. | |
| Linkin Park – New Divide Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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To me, this song flicks from Sam's point of view to Optimus' and back, and sometimes the two mesh completely. I also have a lot of half-formed, other interpretations that occasionally flit through my mind, but I'll stick with the Transformers ones, unless something stands out... I remembered black skies, the lightning all around me Clearly either storms or war. This is Sam in the desert, trying to organize Mikaela and his parents and get the Matrix to Optimus, surrounded by smoke, fire and Decepticons. This also, emotionally, seems to represent confusion, fear, a cloaked and half-seen sense of terrible premonition. I remembered each flash, as time began to blur Sam running across all that space, confronted by Megatron and his buttload of pissed off Decepticons, narrowly missing explosions and mammoth metal creatures. Everything goes in to the terrible clarity of slow motion... Like a startling sign that fate had finally found me Sam realizes more than ever that his role is so much more than he could imagine, and so does Optimus. There might be more than just Earth and Cybertron, more than humans and Autobots and Decepticons, that will be influenced by this conflict. There seems to be this faint foreshadowing of events of mind-bogglingly epic proportions yet to take place...as if this isn't epic enough! Emotionally it seems to represent a realization or reaffirmation of immense responsibility, an understanding of how much weight the singer carries and how much influence they have. And your voice was all I heard, did I get what I deserve? Sam has his moment to fix his conflict with Mikaela in the midst of world-shaking events. Optimus has his moment to conquer his adversary, an all but indestructible Cybertronian legend...so it could go both ways. Emotionally it seems to represent guilt for the past and acceptance of present and future. So give me reason to prove me wrong, to wash this memory clean. Let the thoughts cross the distance in your eyes. And again, a double-edged or double-sided bit of lyrics: Sam and Mikaela end the struggle to resolve their problems with one another. Optimus confronts and destroys the Fallen, but his memory, being electronic and therefore eidetic, cannot be erased, and there is no resolving the conflict until one side is completely destroyed. As long as one lives, the past is still too horrible to bear. Give me reason to fill this hole, connect the space between Another double sided one. Sam and Mikaela come to terms with the true depth of their love, and finally bridge that connection in truth. But this is a matter of destiny for Optimus, for even he hasn't completely realized the extent of his future, his past, or his potential. Let it be enough to reach the truth that lies across this new divide. Some people have credited this line to the Autobot vs. Decepticon conflict, but that divide is nothing new. Sam and Mikaela's moment is enough to finish connecting them, but that divide existed throughout the movie... So perhaps this line represents the future. Perhaps it even represents the way humanity will react, now that the Transformers are out in the open. That's definitely a new divide, with potential to cause complicated rifts (or realize their existence) because we all know how hung up humanity is on being set in their ways, which include their conflicts. And remember, Megatron's alive, and possibly restoring his ship. Oh shiiiiiit. There was nothing in sight, the memories left abandoned This hearkens back to earlier parts of the movie, where Sam is trying to find out the puzzle presented to him, which is centered in the Transformers' history. There was nothing in sight, past tense, deals with confusion. The memories left abandoned--one of the oldest Transformers in existence is dead. Hell, he could read their oldest language and knew the legend anyway. He remembered times before the conflict. But he realized when it was time for him to go, and everyone salvaged him for spare parts. There was nowhere to hide, the ashes fell like snow. There's nowhere to hide in an ancient village being blown up by Decepticons...hence the ashes. But there's also nowhere to hide when faced with fate, truth, and what have you, with the ashes of the past falling around you. And back to the Primes' tomb, when the Matrix turns to ash, which also reflects on "the memories left abandoned." And the ground caved in between where we were standing. Optimus kills the Fallen practically on top of a collapsing pyramid, which just happens to house a sun killing machine. Simmons is practically under Devastator when he goes boom. Everyone's dodging explosions to get to one another...the ground's definitely doing a lot of caving in... Voice line and chorus again... In every loss and every lie, in every truth that you deny Some people see a lot of Sam/Mikaela stuff in that, but I see a lot of the Transformers' past in it. And each regret, and each goodbye, was a mistake to great to hide continues with that theme. The Decepticons' crimes are too great to go unpunished, and the only ones that can, yet, are the Autobots. Note that I say yet... There's not enough ominous other foreshadowing to include anything else in the area of things that can easily make Transformers go boom, so we won't know if something else shows up until it does or doesn't do so. I wonder how long this series will be, or if it's going to have any of the other stuff the old series did. And the rest is repetition. |
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