| System of a Down – Stealing Society Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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It seems as if you're saying the "technology proving religion wrong" is a bad thing. But, if technology can prove religion wrong, than wouldn't that make religion wrong? So if technology does prove religion wrong, then wouldn't you want to believe the truth which would not be religion? I'm not at all saying whatever your religion is is wrong, but I'm saying that if something can be proven wrong, it is wrong, and there's nothing wrong with knowing that it's wrong. |
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| System of a Down – Stealing Society Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| It's not necessarily a drug protest song. All songs, no matter what, even if they say clearly what the meaning is, can be interpreted differently. | |
| System of a Down – Stealing Society Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| I think that whatever this means, and it can mean many things, cannot be undone. Why? Well, is it a coincidence that the song starts and ends the exact same way? Think of it almost like a sandwich: bread on the bottom, bread on top. The meat can't escape, it's trapped. So, whatever has or will become of society cannot be undone. This is basically saying we can't change whatever doom society will have, and the song states, although it's hard to find it, why society is doomed to be that way. It is depressing if you think of it that way. That there's a doom that cannot be changed at all. That's just my take on why it's sort of a "full-circle ending," as far as the beginning and end goes. | |
| System of a Down – Stealing Society Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Yeah, before I searched the actual lyrics to the song, I also thought that it was "sons," and Cain and Abel also were the first thing that came to my mind, but it wasn't really hard for me to relate them to the rest of the song, except for the second half, I suppose. | |
| System of a Down – Soldier Side Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| There is no official music video for this song, just fan-made ones. | |
| System of a Down – Chop Suey! Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| I elaborate more on it on the very last comment (41st page, all the way down) | |
| System of a Down – Chop Suey! Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| ... I wanted to see if I could dislike my comment, and apparently I could. :S | |
| System of a Down – Chop Suey! Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| ^ That wouldn't make any sense at all, considering what they symbolize. | |
| System of a Down – Chop Suey! Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| I think the keys thing probably has to do with the fact that there were some things Christ left for others to answer before he died, hence the keys. The keys would belong to anyone who wanted to simply take them off of the table, and the fact that it's plural means there is more than one person that will use these keys. Using these keys would be giving access to have people distort the story by interpretation. Any questions Christ left unanswered, some people answered themselves by taking the keys and opening the door to Christianity, the religion that worships Christ. I am not saying at all that Christianity is fake and stupid, not at all, but I'm saying it's possible people have distorted the story a bit over time. Indeed, the fact that this is a possibility is very hard to think about because so many people have been believing the distorted story, if the story was distorted. Can you imagine if you have been believing the opposite of what you thought you believed in? This is why it is such an issue to those who think about it. | |
| System of a Down – Chop Suey! Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Those are both very interesting takes on it, but I think it mostly has to do with a person that wants to commit suicide because they are forsaken because of their change of beliefs, and they also can't deal with the dullness of a very fast routine. | |
| System of a Down – Chop Suey! Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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This song almost seems as if he's talking about the same thing as Mattie J.T. Stepanek said in one of his poems about how fast the world goes, and how routinely everything is. The majority of the lyrics can be interpreted this way. For example, the whole make-up, hiding scars, and leaving keys on table is about how we all follow a routine everyday that goes so quickly, there's no time for us to ever stop and think about other things. This is our life. Have you ever felt depressed before? If you have, you can tell how this routine can make someone go suicidal. What is the point of living if this is what you do your whole life? The same old thing passing by so quickly. Before you know it, you'll be too old to even do that. These lyrics are saying how so many of us just go by a routine, not even doing anything with our lives. Yes, some people would say "Well, what's there to do?" Write poems! Make music! Paint! Most forms of art can express something, such as world peace, this leads me back to Mattie. If we all slowed down, do you think some of us would try to make world peace a reality? I do. If you go further into the song, you'll see how this is not the only reason the singer (not Serj, but the symbolic singer of this song, the one that does not exist) is suicidal. Their father, someone they care about and someone who probably used to care about them, has forsaken them. This is also symbolic for any other people that forsook the singer. This is why the person is suicidal. The person is unloved. Because of the quotes from the bible, I'd say the singer is forsaken because of religious reasons, most likely because they became atheists or converted, or something similar. "I cry when angels deserve to day." This may refer to how the person is not showing their hurt, but instead killing themself. Think about it, if someone is forsaken, do you think the person that forsook that person would listen to whether the person's hurt or not? You can say it depends on the reason for forsaking them, but if it's a strong enough reason, the person probably wouldn't listen to a single thing the other person says. What's with the name, though? I have no idea. It could refer to how being overweight is one of the 7 deadly sins, and that might insinuate that is the reason the singer is forsaken, but for now, we can say the meaning for being forsaken is unclear. |
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| System of a Down – Chop Suey! Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| @nirvana444 That wouldn't make any sense unless they're mocking religion (which they do do in some songs) because they're atheists and why in the world would they write a song about the crucifixion of Jesus? | |
| System of a Down – Soldier Side Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| You may be right, but remember: it's a song. There's never any right or wrong answer to the meaning of a song. I, personally, don't think it's about any specific war but wars in general, but I can see how you would say it deals with religious wars because there are many mentions of religion in this song. | |
| System of a Down – Soldier Side Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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This song has to be one of my favorite songs by SOAD, and in my opinion, one of the most meaningful ones. It is clear that it's about how soldiers going to war most likely will never come back, and if they do, there's no way they'd be the same because of everything they've experienced in the war. That, I suppose would be the same thing as the life they once had is dead. For the harder-to-interpret lyrics: "Welcome to the soldier side Where there's no one here but me People are grow up to die There is no one here but me." This may seem simple, but there is much more to it than some may think. It sounds as if somebody came into a war in search of a loved one or a friend, and there is just this lone soldier here who tells them that whoever they're looking for is already dead, and in the next verse, comforting them by telling them people all die eventually. When he says "there is no one here but me" it almost seems as if nobody has been looking for him, and you can assume that that's because the only people that cared about him had already died in the war, leaving him with no friends or family. In the next verse: "Welcome to the soldier side Where there's no one here but me People on the soldier side, There is no one here but me." This has a similar meaning, but it is different than the first. If you're on the soldier side, doesn't that make you a soldier? Then why does he say there's no one here but me? Well, he is talking to someone that just joined the army in search of a friend, but the soldier, again, says "there is no one here but me." So now, the soldier is stuck in this war in search of a friend who's already dead. These verses basically emphasize the fact that people, yes, real live, human, people actually die in these wars and lose nearly everything to these pointless wars that don't benefit anyone, only give satisfaction to the people that want us dead. (but other people might have different opinions) Also, these people weren't just people, they were parents, siblings, spouses, friends, and people that other people cared about. It's kind of hard to tell the meaning of the verses: "Maybe you're a joker/mourner Maybe you deserve to die." Clearly those people, if you're only factoring in the fact that they mourn or joke, don't deserve to die, and my best guess for the meaning of these verses is how unfair life is, especially when you don't bother trying to make it as fair as you can because you can do things to make life fairer than it is, it's just that most people don't bother with it. This song is trying to send a message, sometimes ignored, about what these people and the people that cared about these people go through. I remember when I first heard this song, and I went through that phase where I'd just listen to it over and over and over again, and I'd listen to nothing else. (we all know those phases, don't we?) Sadly, I only have one other friend that's actually heard this song, and I fell more people should actually hear this and get the message that not only are people being hurt by these wars, but people (SOAD) that aren't involved in the war at all can actually see the hurt in everyone else, but sadly, even some people that listen to this don't look for a meaning. |
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