| Avenged Sevenfold – Unholy Confessions Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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Think this is a bit more complex, but mostly the other answers have the general dea. I think that this is about the things that mental illness does to people and makes people do. It's clear that the "she" in this story has committed adultery from the first stanza. Not caring about hurting a person you supposedly love but caring about yourself when you've lost that person, or a part of the relationship you lost due to your deceit of that person is a characteristic of many mental illnesses, most specifically NPD (Narcissistic personality disorder). A lack of empathy and the glorification of the self and continuous quest for gratification of the self's emotional energy requirements, fueled by the depletion of other's emotional energy. This is embodied by the 2nd stanza. I think this song is mostly about the burden of forgiveness that adulterous behaviour of emotionally unstable people imposes on the primary victims (ie the one who has been deceived), and how the burden of forgiveness, feelings of pain and fatalistic emotional depletion, ie "the fall", which causes immense emotional damage is placed on the deceived. This is embodied by the first half of the third stanza. The third stanza concludes in the deceived giving in to "the fall", and forgiving the deceiver, embodied by "I know the way to go, no one's guiding me. When time soaked with blood turns its back, I know it's hard to fall." This is evidence of the codependency that often exists in emotional relationships between people that have personality disorders. It ends with the observation that the deceivers behaviour hurts themselves, in terms of the cutting off of their supply of emotional energy, but progressively results in the emotional "killing" of the host, leading to depression, loss of will to live etc. The last stanza basically points out the logical fact that the deceiver is destroying the world for both parties, and ultimately they don't need to care about it because they will be absolved in salvation (I think this is a sarcastic line). That's my interpretation. A bit too . much analytical psychology, but I think a lot of their songs deal with these kinds of mental issues. |
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| Red Hot Chili Peppers – So Much I Lyrics | 7 years ago |
| I think this is about a person understanding and knowing that there is so much (stuff) and so many (people) that they can do, occupationally and relationship wise, but just wanting the person that they're with to replace the need/obligation to go through and explore those things, and reproaching them to do so. This person wants this relationship to be enough, so that they can stop searching for things and people to do and just be who they are instead of having to conform to expectations, both internal and external. My2c. Love | |
| System of a Down – Soil Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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I was giving it some thought, and I think the meaning I draw from "Evil lives in the motherfucking skin" is that 'evil' is a surface phenomenon in the way it manifests. Ie, you can be a bad/evil/ugly person inside, but that only exists in reality (to other people) if you project it outwards (to the skin). You can be 'evil' inside, but if you control it and don't project it outwards, then to others you are not evil. Likewise, you can be 'good' inside, but if what you allow on the surface is evil, then that's how you present. I think it's about the internal/external duality of concepts like good and evil and asking a question of: are you what you think you are or are you what others think you are, ie are you actually what you present to others? This in the context of more extreme external projections that manifest from things like psychological illness makes a lot of sense. I often wonder whether people that are psychologically ill (with things like personality disorders etc) are actually good or evil inside, because if you judge what's on the surface, they can seem pretty evil. |
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| Animal Collective – Lion in a Coma Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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i think this song is about someone that has an image of themselves in their head but cannot fully express it to others for whatever reason, possibly lack of self-confidence - possibly due to being hypercritical of what others might think of them and also because of the fact that they had a shielded childhood in which the vital components of their personality weren't able to be expressed. the title "lion in a coma" - says to me that the person (most likely author, unless he's writing about someone else) is the lion, which should be graceful and majestic, however he/she is said to be in a coma, which brings forth a somberness and piteous attitude towards the lion. the lyric "i pack my bags and feel the family here is cropped by many hands that dig and plant me for the spring" speaks to me of emancipation and being released unto the world, but with an attitude to life and personality as a whole if you will that has been planted by parents/mentors. the lyric "come dig me out my lucid brain" is a reproach to this, saying that they should have rather fostered the personality that was already there rather than imposing their own personalities/beliefs on him/her. "i go up there and light a leaf and wish our turn was not so brief, i'm paler than a summer blouse that's packed inside a haunted house" re-affirms this, as the author implies that the a fair share of the lion's time has been wasted to a degree, and he/she doesn't feel happy/comfortable with the body and mind that has been created for him/her for the next journey in life. there is also sexual innuendo, which i'll leave you to figure out. there is so much more to this song, but i'm bored of writing now and have other shit to do. does anyone agree? |
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