| Nine Inch Nails – My Violent Heart Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| You take things way too literally. | |
| Nine Inch Nails – My Violent Heart Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Now that I think about it, me too 0.0 | |
| 30 Seconds to Mars – Fallen Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Trust me, all of their songs have meaning... | |
| Muse – Thoughts of a Dying Atheist Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Being an agnostic atheist myself, I can really relate to this song. "Scares the hell out of me And the end is all I can see" Atheists don't believe in God or the afterlife. We believe that when you die, you die for good. You cease to exist. Evanescence. Everything you ever were, everyone you loved, every moment of your life all doesn't matter anymore. You're gone forever, just gone and nothing more. "Erie whispers Trapped beneath my pillow You won't let me sleep Your memories" The erie whispers are pessimistic worries and thoughts. "You" is referring to the whispers. They're keeping him up with the memories of all that he is (was) and how that will be no more. "I know you're in this room I'm sure I heard you sigh Floating in between Where our worlds collide" He's clinging onto the hope that maybe, just maybe, there is something more. He's deluding himself into thinking he's hearing ghosts and spirits, probably of a dead loved one. Also, the atheist is coming close to death, so maybe he's fading in and out, he's passing between the bridge of life and death ("where out worlds collide") and he thinks he's hearing the dead, like he's on the brink of dying. "And I know the moment's near And there's nothing we can do Look through a faithless eye Are you afraid to die?" There's nothing he can do to stop death. He knows it's hopeless. Looking through a faithless eye is having a non-religious perspective. He's saying, "What if there is no Heaven or Hell or reincarnation? What if we simply disappear?" I love this song so much. It describes my thoughts on death perfectly, and I too have been up at night hearing the "erie whispers." |
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| Muse – Thoughts of a Dying Atheist Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Being an agnostic atheist myself, I can really relate to this song. "Scares the hell out of me And the end is all I can see" Atheists don't believe in God or the afterlife. We believe that when you die, you die for good. You cease to exist. Evanescence. Everything you ever were, everyone you loved, every moment of your life all doesn't matter anymore. You're gone forever, just gone and nothing more. "Erie whispers Trapped beneath my pillow You won't let me sleep Your memories" The erie whispers are pessimistic worries and thoughts. "You" is referring to the whispers. They're keeping him up with the memories of all that he is (was) and how that will be no more. "I know you're in this room I'm sure I heard you sigh Floating in between Where our worlds collide" He's clinging onto the hope that maybe, just maybe, there is something more. He's deluding himself into thinking he's hearing ghosts and spirits, probably of a dead loved one. Also, the atheist is coming close to death, so maybe he's fading in and out, he's passing between the bridge of life and death ("where out worlds collide") and he thinks he's hearing the dead, like he's on the brink of dying. "And I know the moment's near And there's nothing we can do Look through a faithless eye Are you afraid to die?" There's nothing he can do to stop death. He knows it's hopeless. Looking through a faithless eye is having a non-religious perspective. He's saying, "What if there is no Heaven or Hell or reincarnation? What if we simply disappear?" I love this song so much. It describes my thoughts on death perfectly, and I too have been up at night hearing the "erie whispers." |
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| Muse – Eternally Missed Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| I think you're right. Out of all the interpretations of this song, I agree with this on the most. | |
| 30 Seconds to Mars – Buddha For Mary Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I think this song is about a girl who's being raped. "Father" could refer to her rapist, or if taken literaly, she's being molested by her father at night.The verses are about her falling apart --- seeing the sky upon the wall, well, maybe she's hoping for something better. Looking up to the skies, the stars, wishing. So maybe when it's happening, she's imagining being someplace better. "Mary was a different girl" --- there's something not right about her. She's kind of off, different. In result of what her father did of course. He said, "Can you help me, are you sleeping" "help me" = "satisfy me". He's coming in her room at night. She said, "Will you rape me now?" He said, "Leave the politics to mad men" He's not calling what he does rape. He's saying that's just some label, that what he does is different. She said, "I believe your lies" She follows through with him despite the torment it causes her. Sort of like Stockholm Syndrome. He said, "There's a paradise beneath me" She said, "Am I supposed to bleed?" Sex sex sex sex sex.... He said, "You better pray to Jesus" She said, "I don't believe in God" She's given up faith in god. Despite her wishing and dreaming, since nothing has saved her from him, she believes that there is no god. "This is the life on mars" kind of goes in theme of what I was saying about the sky on the wall thing --- she's imagining herself someplace else. Her mind is trying to block the horror and pain, which is why she's so different and martian-like. She's off. She's gone. She's not there in the head. "Tell me did you see her face Tell me did you smell her taste Tell me what's the difference Don't they all just look the same inside?" The singer is asking (rhetorically) if he saw her face (A person's face symbolizes their whole identity) or noticed anything special about these girls, or if they were all just frivolous little sex toys to him. They mean nothing to the rapist, because they all "look the same inside." "Here it comes" The rapist (or her father, which in this case, makes more sense) is about to begin. She knows it's coming and she's agonizing. Now about the title. After but a small bit of research, I found this: "The purpose of Buddhist prayer is to awaken our inherent inner capacities of strength, compassion and wisdom rather than to petition external forces based on fear, idolizing, and worldly and/or heavenly gain. Buddhist prayer is a form of meditation; it is a practice of inner reconditioning. Buddhist prayer replaces the negative with the virtuous and points us to the blessings of Life." So Mary doesn't believe in God because no outer force has helped her get away from the raper, right? She's praying Buddhist prayers, whether she knows it or not. She's calling on her own inner strength and tolerance to help her get through this. She's willing herself to be live on. |
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| Massive Attack – Paradise Circus Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I'm quite certain it's "stone" and "grin." The stone is a problem, and we rid ourselves by finding a way out, or not dealing with it. We give up so easily. We barely try to solve our problems. "But we like it when we're spinning... in his grin..." We're too far gone. So much so that we love the chaos, the intense thrill of evil. His grin is enticing... It draws you in... |
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| Massive Attack – Paradise Circus Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| I totally agree, especially about it being "grin" and not "grip." | |
| Devics – The Smell of Ink Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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This song is fantastic. The way it sounds----not the lyrics, but the way it's sung----sounds like the girl is either possessed (Ghost in The Girl EP) or has a mental illness. Her speaking sounds all disjointed from her brain, raising and lowering at weird places and stressing words that usually aren't stressed. On the other hand, the lyrics seem to suggest someone suffering, from loneliness or just from being broken. Think about it: "Such a sad girl, screaming in your face. But you can't hear her.... You're selfish." The girl has probably become quieter, shyer, timid, and just all around intraverted and then depressed. No one notices, though, that this is her cry for help----her silence is her loudest scream. And no one hears it, because they're too selfish to care. "Safe when you're small.... Safe when you're small..." If she stays like this----quiet, timid, afraid----then nothing can hurt her. If she never lets anyone in, no one can stomp on her again. So if she never really lives, she'll never really feel pain. But she's saying it like mantra---so she's obviously telling herself this is for the better, even though she hates it. "The nights I push play and sing myself to sleep, I mother myself and I’m comforted in the thought that I am." She's trying to soother herself, to find comfort in her loneliness. She's trying to make up for a lack of love by caring for herself, kind of like a really depressing desperate narcissism. And so she's forcing herself to be comforted by telling herself that she is. "Is there no flattering life for this girl? No sun that might lift her... No stars that might kiss her..." She thinks she'll never have happy ending, that she'll never feel true happiness again. Overall, this is just an absolutely beautiful song. |
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| Johnny Hollow – Rasputin Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I absolutely ADORE this song. It's so hypnotic and creepy and fast and slow.... It's just another wonderful masterpiece by the brilliant Johnny Hollow. It's absolutely fantastic. Phantomime pretty much explained it. Rasputin was a mystic who no one quite knew whether he was good or evil. There are stories of him saving a hemophiliac and then there are stories of him raping nuns. No one knows what is and isn't true, for the most part. He had many people under his dark spell and I think that's really what the mood in this song conveys---it's like adrenaline, like your heart pounding, like you're not in control anymore. It's a scary feeling. I love it. |
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| My Chemical Romance – It's Not A Fashion Statement, It's A Fucking Deathwish Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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This song applies to my life so much... If applied in general circumstances (as in, besides the concept album) I'm quite certain he's talking about rising from your own ashes. The name "It's Not a Fashion Statement, It's a Deathwish"----basically, everyone thinks he's doing what he's doing to be cool, but he's pretty much saying "screw it" and doing what he wants, even if it leads to his downfall. And in this, I think it means he's been beaten down to his lowest point, when he "died" (translation: when he broke down/couldn't take it anymore) but then he "rose from the dead" with a new resolve to get revenge and live. He's doing everything he can to spite his old enemies, even if it kills him. In summary: The dude was ridiculed and beaten down in his life, but when he reached his lowest point he finally snapped, and now he's going wild and living for thrills and he wants his old enemies to know that they have no effect on him anymore. At least, that's how it seems to me :/ |
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| My Chemical Romance – Thank You For The Venom Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Another brilliant song from these four brilliant artists... I think this song is about religion. Kind of like an in your face, "no one can save me from the thing s I've done" kind of song. I feel this is the musical equivalent to the phrase "Bring it the fuck on." Of course, that's just my interpretation. The whole concept album is about the man trying to be with his wife in heaven, after all. Maybe he's focusing on the twisted condition---to kill 1000 evil men. A god that gives orders to kill their own people can't be a just one, no? An unfair god. Maybe he's talking about how bizarre some religious beliefs are. |
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| Johnny Hollow – Human Lullaby Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| For some reason, I think this song is about humanity's total distrust of one another. The lyrics just make me think of how no one REALLY knows each other, and everyone holds secrets they'll keep to the grave. No matter what, mankind will always be lonely, because we're too selfish to truly and completely care about others. | |
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