| Pantera – Piss Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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The lyrics remind me quite a lot of a more aggressive theme that Anthrax had with "Efilnikufesin (NFL)" the feeling that this person has grown up to be a complete useless piece of garbage to society. I absolutely love the aggressively charged lyrics in this song. The first verse seems to show a person who pissed around for most of his life and done nothing but stand around and be a terrible person. No one likes him and won't help me. He would steal your cast, buy a burning house, and jerk you off with sandpaper (ouch). The chorus is awesome, especially the riff that comes in during the lyrics "piss in the wind." The whole chorus is about beating the crap out of this guy, leaving him crippled, and then he would throw him away like trash. He would do this because he's "piss in the wind," worthless. Then talking about deciding with his fist and beating the crap out of him some more because he's worthless. The second verse is amazing as well. This person is someone who would do anything, but doesn't have any longterm ideas in his head. He'll invite himself, but get left behind. Someone must have clipped his balls (often a common saying that he won't back himself up, or others), or wiped his ass of life (took away ambitions and such). He's a selfish procrastinator and seeks attention, but doesn't actually have anything going on for himself. Wow, I can't believe this song didn't make it onto the Vulgar Display of Power, this song is great. I really wish they were still around, especially Dimebag. I guess I get to live with what was recorded of their amazing career. |
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| Van Halen – Mean Street Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I really don't think this song is about a poor part of town. He makes it out like it is, but I don't see any evidence to why this part of town is poor. There are multiple meanings for several of the things stated before. Let me start with the lyrics: "At night I walk this stinkin' street past the crazies on my block" "And I see the same old faces and I hear that same old talk" Since when can rich people not be crazy, or talk about the same thing? A lot of rich people can be quite boring people. "And I'm searching for the latest thing, a break in this routine" "I'm talkin' some new kicks, ones like you ain't never seen" I'm going to say that means that he has a boring routine, and wants to find a way to break it, new "kicks" being the way he probably will do it. I guess "kicks" would be shoes, but maybe it has some other meaning I'm missing. "An' we don't worry 'bout tomorrow 'cause we're sick of these for walls" Once again, he's bored with the same routine "Now what you think is nothin' might be somethin' after all" It's possible to make something out of nothing. "Now you know this ain't no through street, the end is dead ahead" A lot of rich communities are on dead end streets, I don't know why this is significant. "The poor folks play for keeps down here, they're the living dead" I'm guessing this has something to do with rich people not caring for poor people, and how they treat them like zombies. The chorus, I have no real interpretation for...I don't see a big significance with dancing on this street. "It's always here and now my friend, it ain't once upon a time" Something to do with the present. "It's all over but the shouting, I come to take what's mine" Could have something to do with rich people being very territorial about their stuff. "See, a gun is real easy in this desperate part of town. Turns you from hunted into hunter. You go an' hunt somebody down." I'm going to guess this has nothing to do with poor people killing eachother. It's about getting a gun pretty easily because they trust you, probably because you have a lot of money. Rich people can be desperate to get more and more money, so maybe shooting someone (for insurance money maybe) would be something. "Somebody said 'Fair Warning', Lord, Lord strike that poor boy down!" Survival of the fittest, market economy, etc etc. That's my interpretation if the song was actually about DLR's actual life. Heck, these people could be middle class, but the idea that "Mean Street" automatically means poor, that's probably not what's going on here. Most people don't make songs that don't have to do with their lives, and DLR isn't any different. |
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