| Metallica – No Leaf Clover Lyrics | 2 years ago |
| I personally think it's about gambling and the fallacy of gambling. You win quick, "sucker for that quick reward boy" but it's the "deceiving light". You wake up and have that "feeling" today is your lucky day and the cards and chips are falling right "the pieces fall to his wish" but in the end as it is with most people, it all falls apart, the tunnel is your mind getting darker the light at the end fading to the idea of taking your winnings and going home, and like a "freight train" it all comes crashing down because the person in the song is likely addicted to gambling, or simply doesn't know when to quit, but the way the song is structured, it sounds to me like the person goes through a cycle, like an addicted gambler. | |
| Metallica – Low Man's Lyric Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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Unless Metallica themselves come out with the meaning, it's all interpretation. I want to offer something different from the "drug" or "suicide" angle. What if it's just about a guy that's an asshole. Hear me out. You also have to assume, because of the lyrics later, that there is a woman in his life. The first verse that repeats. "His eyes seek reality, his fingers feel for veins." Could this be to mean he seeks his meaning and life, veins are the conduit for blood that is the life of the body. In the context of the first verse, "there's a dog at your back step, he must come in from the rain" He could be an asshole, hence dog, and come in from the rain could mean to change his life. Seeking reality of a new life, fingers feel the veins, checking the pulse to see if it's there. The woman eluded in lyrics ahead is giving this asshole a chance. "I fall ‘cause I’ve let go" simply, this guy doesn't care about anyone or anything. "The net below has rot away" what caring there was in the past is no longer there. "So my eyes seek reality, And my fingers seek my veins" again his eyes might "want" this new life, but there might not be a "pulse" there, hence no life. The whole "trash fire is warm" part of the song I attribute to just this guys life roaming around, each place is warm in his comfort zone, but he causes problems everywhere he goes "no where's safe from the storm". He could be an older man now who is starting to get tired of it and tries to change "can't bear to see what I've let me be, so wicked and worn". The next part we assume "so as I write to you" he's writing a Dear John letter to the woman that took a chance. Like he's done in the past, he probably used her for his benefit, "what is done and to do" and is moving on. He hopes that she'll understand that in the end, sometimes you simply just can't change people, and she won't "cry for this man" I struggle with "because Low man is due" because in any context, what is he due, other than failure. Then we have "Touch clean with a dirty hand, I touch the clean to the waste" I interprete this, in the context that this is just about some asshole man, that in his new life, he's cleaned up, stable, but his past "dirty hand" is still there. Again, "my eyes seek reality, my fingers feel for faith" His eyes still seek this new life, but with no pulse previously, he looks to faith to help change him, which ultimately fails. "So low the sky is all I see." This person he is with was a really great person, and he feels especially bad for causing the pain that he did, he's at his lowest point. "All I want for you is forgive me" speaks for itself, but then he does a complete 180 with "so you bring this poor dog in from the rain" she gave the man a chance, "though he just wants right back out again" but in the end, he just wants to continue being an asshole. "And I cry to the alleyway, Confess all to the rain, But I lie, lie straight to the mirror, The one I’ve broken to match my face." I see this as actually triumph on the Low man's part. Think of it like the ending of Shawshank Redemption when Andy breaks through and he's crying in happiness in the rain. Low man confesses what he is unapologetically. The mirror is what he was trying to be, but he breaks it because he can't be that man, thus the broken mirror is who he really is. That's my take, it may not be as deep as other people or as dramatic, maybe it's just not as deep as it's made out to be. |
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| Horse Feathers – This Is What Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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sorry, hit to post before I was finished. And with the "sure as time passes" which I believe is the actual lyric, "distance grows" Again I see this with my own life where as when i moved out I might have visited or called my family every few days, then as i got older it went from once a week, to once every other week, etc. to the point eventually maybe placing family in a home and rarely ever seeing them. |
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| Horse Feathers – This Is What Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I think I can accurately give the meaning because a lot of what is in this song is actually happening to me right now with my family, I guess depends on interpretation, but here goes: I think the song is about family as it grows apart with age. A child grows, starts his own family, or does his own thing and drifts further from his parents and immediate family. I right now am "fruitlessly laboring for show" in my life calling my parents just to call every once in a while to acknowledge we're still here. |
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