| DevilDriver – Bitter Pill Lyrics | 5 years ago |
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It's interesting how the same lyrics can give completely differnt impressions to different people. A lot of lyrics are written with less of a direct, coherent point of view or statement. I've written a lot of lyrics and sometimes the syllables and words sounds great but aren't necessarily communicating any specific reference. Much of poetry and lyrics are written from the heart and can sometimes portray contradicting ideas. Anyway, I take from this song that it's about freedom and how materialism and the pursuit of wealth, or recognition (the chase) and that the rich man (not reach) man bears the burden... what burden? More of "the chase". "the chase is certain". It also seems like another clever and very Dez-like way of yet again calling out the hypocrites. "healer, believer. on bended knee, when push comes to shove." For instance, people who talk a big game but when shit gets real, they bow down. It's the way the world is, and that is a bitter pill; to face the reality of who and what we still are. "break the cycle." the cycle of "racing down the flames while building the coffins" More meat for the machine. We keep doing the same shit over and over and no one ever really seems to be truly happy. He's "broken the cycle" of "death by boredom". His take-life-by-the-balls mentality and fierce independence and self-determination seems to fuel so much of his writing and he always finds a raise-the-hair-on-the-back-of-your-neck way of expressing it. That's what I get out of this song. Also, I can also see @[slayer4150:28388] 's point of view, I get something altogether different. For all we know, we could both be right. ;) |
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| Alice in Chains – Your Decision Lyrics | 6 years ago |
| @[JC98SS:23236] I was with you on this until the very end, my friend. You talk about decisions and about listening to that "little voice" we all have inside us. As children we have this voice and we are taught to ignore it in favor of self-interest. I think this is because we learn to expect authority to tell us how to behave. We don't want to listen to what we all know is right when it doesn't directly benefit us. Expecting some vague idea of god, or scripture to dictate that to us IS the mistake. We need to learn to listen to that voice and recognize that voice IS US, not some mystical, supernatural entitiy in control of everything, yet somehow also granting us free will? I'm not trying to start a debate on the existence of god. I'm just saying that we don't need to be told how to behave, or what's right. We all already know, and we need to start holding ourselves accountable, and then each other, on a human level, instead of dividing ourselves by race, color and religion. 1 Corinthians 10:23, taking in context is really great advice, and there's plenty of good advice in the BIble. That said, the beneficial wisdom in ancient scripture is incidental and clearly not written by people who knew the future. Why not take what is good and leave the rest, from ALL scripture, in all religions and keep refining those ideas based on what works and what doesn't instead of clinging to ancient words that no longer apply? So much of scripture isn't followed by believers anyway, which indicates to me we already do this on some level. The problem is when it gets a little scary, or even just uncertain, we fall back on letting other people do our thinking, or just not thinking at all. I would think an all-powerful creator who granted us the ability to think critically and make decisions would want us to think for ourselves and work things out with each other based on what we know works instead of just blindly following... I don't know your beliefs so forgive me if I've made assumptions that are totally wrong. I completely agree with the sentiment and the end result of what you're saying. I'm saying how we get to that result could be a lot more inclusive, if we could just get past the dogma. What do you think? | |
| DevilDriver – Dead To Rights Lyrics | 6 years ago |
| @[SnarkyFox:21337] If you're interested in what the actual lyrics are, see my latest post. For some reason, when I submit the correct lyrics to this site, they never change. I have verified the lyrics I posted in these comments from the actual, physical liner notes that came with the CD I purchased. You can also find the correct lyrics on other sites. | |
| DevilDriver – Dead To Rights Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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THE ABOVE LYRICS ARE HORRIBLY WRONG. Now that I have your attention. I have made several attempts to change these incorrect lyrics. I guess the author never responds to the change requests. I don't know where they came from but there are similar sites with the exact same errors so the source of these is dubious at best. ANYway, the correct lyrics, as referenced in the actual, physical liner notes I have in my hand: Is this what you came for I know what I'm here for Knocked down right to the floor Commited to kill! What you don't know Can't just let it go! They webbed me in this Take cause you need more Don't ask what's in store! You'll be knocked down right to the floor Committed to kill! What you don't know Can't just let it go With all their hypocrisy! My stomach's in knots Throw at me what you got 'Cause I will break free, of all the webs that bind me My stomach's in knots Throw at me what you got 'Cause I will break free, of all the webs that bind me I'm fit to be tied I've got you dead to rights It's like a suicide Living alongside you So... Get what you came for Fucked up on the floor Kick straight out the door Get yourself up And bend to no man No man Who webbed me in this Take cause you need more Don't ask what's in store! You'll be knocked down right to the floor Committed to kill! What you don't know Can't just let it go With all their hypocrisy! My stomach's in knots Throw at me what you got 'Cause I will break free, of all the webs that bind me My stomach's in knots Throw at me what you got 'Cause I will break free, of all the webs that bind me I'm fit to be tied I've got you dead to rights It's like a suicide Living alongside you Webbed me up! You webbed me up! Hung me out to dry Had no idea I've got you dead to rights Dead...to...rights! Don't take it so personal Its just that trouble is coming You know it to be goddamn true!!! I've got you dead to rights! I've got you dead to rights! I've got you dead to rights! I've got you... I've got you dead to rights! I've got you dead to rights! I've got you dead to RIGHTS! |
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| DevilDriver – The Axe Shall Fall Lyrics | 7 years ago |
| @[AvariceWillKill:20885] OMG yes. I don't know if it's the melody or what but it's like the best thing, musically, I've ever heard in my life. Even the addition of the god damned organ is amazing. It makes you wonder what kind of shit this band would come up with if they weren't a metal band! lol | |
| DevilDriver – Clouds Over California Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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If that's the way it's gonna be Then I'll fuckin go it alone! I think this line is the key to the meaning of this song if any. Ironically, the last line is the one missing line. As a metalhead, vocalist and lyric writer, I can say that not all songs are necessarily "about" anything specific. Most decent writers will compromise a coherent meaning in favor of syllable structure or even rhyme. It's more important that you feel something, even if the actual words themselves aren't grammatically correct, or aren't clearly conveying an idea. Sometimes words just come and just fit right with the music. Sometimes they come out in the wrong order, or sometimes they are utter nonsense, but they just work with the song. Lyrics don't HAVE to be about anything. In fact, on Live's second album "Secret Samadhi", Ed Kowalczyk says while writing lyrics for the album, he focused on finding words that sound good together, have the right syllables and fit the song, with no specific meaning or idea behind them. That said, sometimes songs ARE about something, and it seems most artists are more eager to dicuss a song's true meaning in this case. Otherwise, you'd be hard pressed to find anything, in any interview, that could be definitive of a song's meaning. I've searched around quite a bit and can't find anything other than Dez mentioning people ask him about the meaning of Clouds Over California, in the context of how some songs are clearly about something, and some are less clear. But he doesn't actually go into the meaning. I've heard he said it's about marijuana legalization but that's not the DevilDriver I know. I know vocalists sometimes fuck with the audience about what the songs are about. Tool is famous for that. Maynard will straight up lie (tongue in cheek) about what a song is about. Even the titles of their songs are deliberately misleading: 'Prison Sex' or 'Hooker with a Penis' are song titles meant to confuse people with no sense of humor. Dez, like most lyricists, write about some things more often than others. In every DevilDriver album, you will find at least one song that is clearly about how some people are total fucking liars, cheats, abusers, etc. A lot of his lyrical content is about the behavior of people in his life in the context of people not being who they say they are or being hypocrites, or fakes. The latest album "Trust No One" is clearly about that and many of the interviews leading up to it have Dez talking about all the betrayal and friends turning out to be enemies, and how he had to cut a bunch of people off that were bringning him down/fucking him over. So Clouds Over California may be about something, but more than likely, it's not and even if is, it probably made more sense when Dez was writing it, because of what was going on in his life at the time. Those are arguably the best-written songs, as opposed to the ones written with a formula, or trying to make a statement. Ask Jonothan Davis what "rum-buh-bah-doh, rum-bum-beep-bop" means. |
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| DevilDriver – Clouds Over California Lyrics | 7 years ago |
| @[Hastic:20884] Not even close. | |
| DevilDriver – Clouds Over California Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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I edited these lyrics to add a missing line: If that's the way it's gonna be -Then I'll fuckin' go it alone- I'm a saint in sinners eyes It's a pretty important line that may have been mistakenly left out of the liner notes but is clearly in the song. It happens all the time. I've seen many liner notes with typos. I have yet to dig through my old CDs and verify it is missing for sure. If anyone thinks I'm wrong; that the lyric is something different, please let me know. If you have the actual liner notes, that would be even better. Either way, from the context of the song, and keeping in mind Dez' general attitude and writing style, it fits perfectly and fits the theme of the song. |
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| DevilDriver – Guilty As Sin Lyrics | 7 years ago |
| This is the most DD has ever sounded like Coal Chamber, especially the vocals. This is a great song but I can see why it's a b-side. It doesn't really fit in this album. | |
| Chevelle – Shameful Metaphors Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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@[Throwdown1:16407] Awesome take on this song. Sounds about right to me. Something about either the lyrics, melody or combination makes me tear up: "Why then has all my life made no sound." Not sure why. Oh, and FYI, the expression is 'fool-proof' not 'full-proof'. I thought you would appreciate the corrections. Apologies if not :) |
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| DevilDriver – Feeling Un-god-ly Lyrics | 7 years ago |
| @[sinrise:13999] edit: "..the question mark should NOT be there." | |
| DevilDriver – Feeling Un-god-ly Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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It took me a while to figure out what the heck "What went wrong before? Was I hit this shit looking for loyalty." Dez is a brilliant writer and has written some of my favorite lyrics of all time, but the way the lines are structured in the liner notes usually confuse me. It's customary to separate lines roughly as the measures and bars dictate. But the liner notes sometimes seem to break lines in random places, and add punctuation where it doesn't necessarily fir grammatically. Still, it's usually not to hard to figure out what the lyricist was trying to say in those cases. I kept thinking the liner notes must be wrong because the aforementioned line just doesn't make sense, grammatically or otherwise. Finally it dawned on me. "What went wrong before was I hit this shit looking for loyalty." There's a question mark in there which breaks the sentence and makes the line not make logical sense. The question mark should be there (I didn't change it because that's how it's written in the liner notes.) Put another way, he's saying "Things went wrong in the past, and things went wrong because I "hit this shit" or "came into this situation," looking for loyalty, which was a mistake." This definitely tracks with the main theme of 'Trust No One' as he's basically saying, "don't go into anything expecting loyalty because you'll likely get fucked in the end." |
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| DevilDriver – Feeling Un-god-ly Lyrics | 7 years ago |
| @[murderer:13996] Not according to the liner notes. It sounds like 'you lose the fame' to me. | |
| DevilDriver – Trust No One Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| @[murderer:12383] I understand how it could sound like that. When I was copying the lyrics down, I had to double check because I thought the same thing at first. If you listen close, and think about what he's saying, "If you apologize will it all just go away in my eyes?" Some things can't be fixed with an apology, and whoever he has in mind with this, at some point, probably offered a lame apology and he's asking a rhetorical question. Does that make more sense? | |
| DevilDriver – Trust No One Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| @[murderer:12371] I take it back. I just went and listened to it and that's clearly correct. | |
| DevilDriver – Trust No One Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| @[murderer:12370] Lyrics were copied, verbatim, from the liner notes. I just double checked, and that is what is written. I agree, though, it sounds wrong. | |
| Prong – Face Value Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| This song has a really industrial feel too it, right down to the snare drum, which has a lot of FX on it. The drums almost sound programmed. | |
| Prong – Caprice Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| This is one of the most unusual Prong tracks there is, and I'm including the most recent album: X - No Absolutes. The guitar is almost completely mixed out, but with a super-overdriven buzz to it. It almost sounds like static in the background while the bass actually carries the main melody/riff. For a completely guitar based band, this is really strange. My perspective is completely tainted at this point, as Rude Awakening is easily the most listened to album in my collection, by far, and that's saying a LOT. That said, this song seems like it should have been a B-Side, not because it's not good, but because it's so strangely different from pretty much everything else Prong has done. Lyrically, the song seems to have somewhat of a theme of frustration with people's behavior (much like a lot of Prong lyrical content) but also has a stream-of-consciousness feel to it. It's a wonderful and strange song, nonetheless. | |
| Fear Factory – Dielectric Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| Easily one of the best FF songs ever. | |
| Slipknot – Sarcastrophe Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| I fixed quite a few of the lines that were definitely wrong but I'm stuck on one verse. There's no way the line is "You write, tortured sick In the middle of a novelist pact that'll never obey" That makes utterly no sense. I'm still trying to verify but another version is "Rape crutch and sick in the middle of an evidence bag that'll never obey" but that doesn't make a whole lot of sense, either. | |
| Slipknot – Lech Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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I don't get why these lyrics are wrong. I submitted changes and they have yet to be implemented. "Yellow pastor bones" is clearly NOT correct. It's obvious, if you listen to the song, he says "the alabaster bones" which make a whole lot more sense with alabaster being white, like bones and is a common comparison. Also, "that you worked for beneath your bed" is wrong and doesn't make sense either. "As you hide beneath your bed" makes more sense and it's what it sounds like, if you listen. |
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| Mushroomhead – For Your Pleasure Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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LOVE this song, mostly because of the lyrics but the whole thing is great. Especially love "they campaign in poetry but govern in prose" "society's a game" Sums up planet earth perfectly. The aliens are facepalming. Freaking brilliant writing. |
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| Mushroomhead – Son of 7 Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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"Blinded by the creates that simple" is definitely not correct. I may have to buy a hardcopy of this album because the iTunes version does not include liner notes and I really want to know what he's saying. It sounds more like "blinded by creatures that stumble" which makes slightly more sense but not enough. Also "I pledge allegiance to this patriotic bullshit" is not correct. He is saying something else that I can't make out for sure but it sounds more like "I pledge allegiance to the fact we're all just bullshit" and I am attempting to confirm this. I will edit when I have confirmation either from looking at the liner notes (if the lyrics are there, or by consensus from other sources.) |
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| Mushroomhead – Portraits of the Poor Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| Interestingly, the US version of this song is titled "Portraits of the People" but the UK version is "Portraits of the Poor." I wonder if this was intentional. Still trying to find the answer on the intertubes. | |
| Mushroomhead – Our Apologies Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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I've tried so hard and for the life of me I can't make out what is being said at the beginning of this song, or the intro, if you will. Sounds like "tuah-tawn... too tawn. ... ... .. .. I think it's a recess." but that's clearly not what he's saying so any ideas? :) |
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| Mushroomhead – Conflict - The Argument Goes On Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| This belongs in the 'M3', which for some reason isn't on here. I can't figure out how to add the album without creating a new song, and it won't let me because the song exists. How can we get a new entry made for this album? | |
| Mushroomhead – Slow Thing Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| No it doesn't. | |
| Mushroomhead – Inspiration Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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"My loss is not crossing the sea, on my feet" This part is a little confusing. I wonder what he means, here. |
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| Prong – Detached Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| Since when is posting lyrics with full credit to the writer a copyright infringement? LAME | |
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