| Celldweller – The Last Firstborn Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| LOVE that analysis! I feel like a lot of other people on here have good points but your's was rly thorough and it clicked particularly. I can see it perfectly. c: | |
| Blue Stahli – Corner Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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RIGHTEO KIDS. So I have no idea what this song is about for certain, but I sure as hell have an idea for you. The main theme is madness. This is inspired by the lyrics, which I will analyze shortly, but also by the melody and the singing style. It's so soothing and calm and slow. But it's soothing in a very eerie way. Makes you think of that tiny little voice in your head that eventually takes over your mind. The voice of insanity, yo. Anyway, lyrical analysis time: "Feel me in the corner Beside your mouth Feel me in the inside of the Faintest trace of sound" *~~Assuming that the "me" refers to madness throughout this song, it starts to make a bit more sense. You can never see it, but you can feel it. The "besides your mouth" bit makes me think of someone's mouth twitching. This, I believe, is a common side-effect of certain anti-psychotic drugs. So when you see that twitch it sorta makes you think that this person is mad. Also, finding madness in tiny noises is pretty common. Like the constant dripping of a tap; it's so quiet but it just eats at your sanity. Thus, you "feel" madness. "It's the fire underwater Breathing while you drown Feel me in the saturation When the sun burns out" *~~Madness is an absurdity. It's fire underwater. It just exists. And, it also gets more powerful when someone is struggling. While you drown/struggle/suffer trauma, it breathes. The sun burning out suggests darkness, cold, and the death of everything. So when really bad shit happens that destroys your world, you go crazy. "I am the one inside you And I am the one (Inside your veins) I am the one inside you Over and over I'm here again" *~~Madness is inside you, inside your veins, like a disease. It's always around, so "over and over". Pretty self-explanatory. "Far beyond the bruising Something underneath Feel me in the aftermath when You learn the world has teeth" *~~Bruising is a physical injury. A physical injury people can see, people can treat. But madness lies underneath the physical damage. The final line here makes me think of a loss of innocence. Perhaps someone who was raped or mugged. They were hurt physically but most of the damage was psychological. Thus they learned the world is not all sunshine and butterflies because of some scarring event, and in the aftermath they could sense the madness creeping in. "There is so much more to this than Phantom limbs for amputees Here, dissolving through the trauma This is where You'll feel the breath of me" *~~The first couple of lines make me think of war, and also Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). A soldier loses his arm? NBD! Toss on a fake one. He's healed right? Wrong. Hence there being "more to this" than just fixing physical damage. When trauma "dissolves", or when the physical injuries heal, there is still mental damage, and often soldiers with such violent injuries end up with PTSD. |
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| Blue Stahli – Throw Away Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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This song is absolutely beautiful. I love how calm it is in comparison to some of Bret's angrier songs, as well as how powerful it manages to be despite that. Now for my analysis! c: "We are thrown away, In the house you made of every stolen moment." So this song is about someone who is depressed. To me, this stanza seems to be sung from the perspective of a friend/family member who found out about the depressed person, and they are shocked. Thrown away is similar to blown away. Also, people who are depressed isolate themselves instead of going for help; it's a symptom of the disorder. So this family member/friend feels like they were discarded/thrown away as a source of help. "Don't pretend, I know how this ends, and who you are in secret." Depressed people are always pretending. Withdrawing and hiding your true feelings are a symptom of the disorder. Someone is confronting the depressed person out of concern. "How this ends" would be a reference to suicide. The concerned person doesn't want that to happen. "All our hopes are fast asleep, Spill the wrist of what you'll never be." In a depressive state, hope dies. One feels nothing but the persistent negativity. And the "spilling the wrist" is of course referring to cutting. I also feel like it is describing what one is trying to do when they cut. The physical pain is a distraction, yes, but it's also a release. A release of the inner pain. This person feels like they will never be happy, popular, loved, all that, and they are releasing "what they will never be" along with the blood when they cut. "And I'll never say that everything's alright, That when we're gone we'll sleep with satellites, We're killing more than the loneliness behind the eyes, Sometimes the best you can do is just survive." Someone is depressed will never, ever, admit that everything will be alright. Because they can't believe it. The second line refers to the freedom that comes with death. Being gone = dead, and sleeping with satellites suggests floating freely in space. The third line took me a while. But it seems to me that someone who is depressed is trying to kill "the loneliness behind the eyes" AKA the pain or the depression by cutting. But, in the process, they are self-destructing and causing themselves more pain. It's like...well. Popping a zit, I suppose. You feel some pain but it dissipates quicker since all the disgustingness is outta there. Howevs, this also spreads bacteria so more form. You're super welcome for that tasty analogy. And now for my favourite line. The fourth line refers to the idea that someone who is depressed is just barely surviving. They're not living, not enjoying. Just scraping by, taking it day by day. "Something's wrong inside, We are feeding flies with pieces of ambition." Wrong inside; mental disorder that is killing you without any obvious symptoms. Pieces of ambition; hope and ambition both die when people are depressed. All that exists is the pain, and the feeling that the pain will just continue forever. Thus, you can't hope the future will improve, and you can't be ambitious and make the future better. "Prison skin, Keeps us safety pinned ...I'll whisper your incision." Suggests suicide and cutting. Prison skin; skin, the body, is a prison. And this person wants to be free of it. Thus, they "whisper an incision" or cut themselves. However, this is just a temporary release from the "prison skin"; cuts always heal. Thus it foreshadows suicide. "Hostile strum and icepick tongue, Shelter here from everyone." "Hostile strum" and "icepick tongue" refer to an angry voice and cold, sharp words. The depressed person is pushing everyone away by being angry and aggressive and leaving themselves isolated. They consider this "sheltering". This is a common problem with depression; they push everyone who can possibly help away, and thus the depression worsens. Tbh, I rly feel like I'm missing something with my analysis of this song. There's more to it, I know. But for now, this is my simple analysis I suppose. c: |
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| Celldweller – Stay With Me (Unlikely) Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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My interpretation is that this is about a relationship. One that is damaged by mental illness, however, I believe the illness is something more along the lines of bipolar disorder. This is something I have some experience with, so I may call upon my own life to further my point. "Sick of this mind and the games it plays mental enemy enemy enemy want to push me back again here they come running wanting me up on that tree, crucified (wait a minute)" People with mental illnesses feel as if their minds are their enemies, and it can be a constant fight between what they perceive as "themselves" vs. the disease. "Whatever words they say (you said it) whomever they betray (you did it) whenever they're awake it makes me die" This sounds exactly like bipolar to me. When I am in a depressive or even a manic state, and then I snap out of it, it feels like I am looking back at a different person speaking. But no, it was me, and I have to live with the damage the disease has done. "There's so much on my mind, we're given so little time there's no way to hold on as it passes by so lead me into denial, help me forget for awhile" Here, Klayton is singing to a lover or girlfriend. Someone who was there with him throughout his mood swings, and seen both the good and the bad in him. Has had to deal with the "voice" as well as him. And he is begging her to just be with him, and hold the negative voice off for a while. He is unable to hold onto his own personality when the depression kicks in, so he wants to make the most of the time they have together. "Stay with me, please don't go Don't want to be alone stay with me, please" Self-explanatory. But people with mental illness are far more dependent than "normal" people. He doesn't want to be alone with the voices, when she is one of the only good things in his life. He needs her around. "I don't have much else to say (unlikely) I'd rather you go away (unlikely) I don't need something from you (unlikely)" The "voice" is speaking to her in this stanza. It's not true, and he even admits this by saying "unlikely" but for now he has no control over what he is saying. He pushes her away, then clings and begs her to stay. Eventually, she can't handle the added stress anymore, and she leaves. He is left alone, still begging her to stay, unable to function on his own. This is exactly what I'm going through now with my ex. So I either just twisted this song to fit my life or I discovered a song that fit my life. xD EITHER WAY. The thesis of this whole post has to be "Celldweller fuckin' rocks". c: |
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