| Audioslave – Show Me How to Live Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| This is a little out there, but I think it's simply about a man (or woman) who has held on to their beliefs in God for as long as they have lived, but when things go south they start to question it, and angrily so. Hence the chorus, which is asking God why he/she is alive if things have been going so horribly. | |
| Electric Wizard – Funeralopolis Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| And, of course, about what I posted before that. | |
| Electric Wizard – Funeralopolis Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| It's about how humans are all mindless fucking drones who need to wake the fuck up. Basically telling us how war, famine, rape, and murder have overcome the Earth and at this point, nothing can be done about them because humanity has already defiled the world past repair. | |
| Soundgarden – The Day I Tried to Live Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| Depression and doing nothing because you don't feel there's any reason to keep going. The "voices" may refer to schizophrenia. And then finally one day deciding to get up out of his misery, disregard society, and attempt to fix himself; hence "The day I tried to live". | |
| Sunny Day Real Estate – Song About An Angel Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| I think it's about a discussion between a guy and a girl, both with some sort of major problem and each of them acting differently on it. The boy is loud, desperate, and easily hurt, desperately wanting someone's hand to hold, and the girl (his 'angel') is basically telling him in this song "everything will be alright". Beautiful and makes me tear up everytime. | |
| Nine Inch Nails – Beside You in Time Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| Androgyne said it all. Losing someone dear to you, but holding them in your heart forever, knowing nothing can truly separate you. | |
| Sublime – Wrong Way Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| I think it's about a guy who knows a prostitute, and he wants to help her out of that life, but he can't decide between his sympathy or his lust for her (hence him knowing it's the "wrong way"). Eventually, she leaves him wanting to go back to her old life and he feels like shit about it. | |
| Electric Wizard – Satyr IX Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| Zombies duh. | |
| The Smashing Pumpkins – Disarm Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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"The killer in me is the killer in you" God, even after all these years, that lyric still hurts. I think that, since this is proven to be about domestic abuse from a parent towards a child, it refers to birth; when he is born, he kills the parents on their insides because they never wanted him. But when he kills their spirits, he realizes they kill him - someone clearly innocent - as well, making them far worse than the helpless child they sired. |
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| The Smashing Pumpkins – Zero Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| Seems as though it's about a relationship that focuses more on the two parties needing eachother to survive, rather than just wanting to be around eachother. | |
| Nine Inch Nails – My Violent Heart Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| I see this as an ominous prelude to "The Warning", in which The Presence have abducted an individual who they think might be knowledgeable and warns them of the message they are about to send to Earth. | |
| Nine Inch Nails – No, You Don't Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| Who ever said this was about your asshole boyfriend? | |
| KoЯn – It's Gonna Go Away Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| ._. | |
| The Rolling Stones – Under My Thumb Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| What people fail to realize is that the man was being abused initially in this song. What was said about THAT by public people? Well, nothing, of course, since abuse is definitely OK when it's female on male. /sarcasm | |
| Nine Inch Nails – And All That Could Have Been Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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Not crying to a song doesn't mean not having a heart, moron. Anyway, I'd agree that this song is about regret - obviously one formed from a relationship, and the goodness that could have come out of it if it weren't for all the fuckups that happened. Truly a devastating song. |
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| Nine Inch Nails – Wish Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| "I built it up now I take it apart climbed up real high now fall down real far" = bipolar disorder/moodswings? | |
| Nine Inch Nails – We're in This Together Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| OR maybe it could personally mean something to the LISTENER as well. | |
| Nine Inch Nails – Reptile Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| In a desperate attempt to feel something again, the narrator of the album has sex with a hooker, and upon realizing that all his emotions are gone, he takes the final steps into the spiral (suicide). | |
| Nine Inch Nails – The Day the World Went Away Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| I think that it's about a person who is truly depressed, but in order to feel accepted, he has to put on a plastic smile to hide how he truly feels inside. Love it; very applicable to real life and most people in general. | |
| Electric Wizard – Funeralopolis Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| It's about being completely dissatisfied with life and having no other option but to give up and let yourself fall victim to the norms and miseries created by society. | |
| Nine Inch Nails – Closer Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| It's not about rape. Anyone who looks an inch past the words "you LET me" would know this. | |
| The Prodigy – Smack My Bitch Up Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| I think that it's making fun of extremist feminism; and the controversy is exactly what The Prodigy intended to create when they made this song. It's a common stereotype that women can't be abusers, and it's being mocked in this song especially accompanied with the video. There's nothing wrong with being a feminist, in fact I think that feminism is something that *needs* to happen, but there IS something wrong with being so extremist about it that men end up being stereotyped and put down as well. | |
| Khanate – Dead Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| The idea of clinical depression; so isolated and antisocial that you've become metaphorically invisible, and there's nothing you can do to stop it. | |
| Electric Wizard – We Hate You Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| A possible ode of tribute to the Columbine Massacre murders Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, this song is about how life fucks us all and how people can bring down others for pleasure. All those victims of bullies, emotional torment, child abuse...we wish we could just all take a gun and release our hate. | |
| KoЯn – Counting Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| Reminds me of Tool's "Pushit", except more aggressive. I think that it's about a relationship where he is being abused/used and he doesn't do anything about it because this person is the only thing he has left in his life. | |
| Nine Inch Nails – Only Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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"I'm becoming less defined As days go by Fading away Well you might say I'm losing focus Kinda drifting into the abstract In terms of how I see myself" In a rut, possibly (and knowing Reznor, most likely) depression, the protagonist of this song starts to doubt his boring, monotonous, dull and dreary life as it goes on day by day. Due to this depression, he begins to lose focus and grasp on his life. As a result, he begins to turn towards the route of solipsism, the idea that one's world is revolved entirely around your own mind - "In terms of how I see myself, drifting into the abstract". This is because he lost grasp on his hope and began to see more rationale and logic in having the world revolve around himself. What's the point of doing good deeds for others, if it more or less does nothing for you? "Sometimes I think I can see right through myself I think I can see right through myself I can see right through myself" This line begins to delve more into the protagonists mind. When he says "I think I can see right through myself", he *thinks* that. And also when he says "I think I can see right through myself", it is most likely a recount of how he sees the world as a whole. The world is him, in his own mind, and he can see right through himself. However, the last part of this lyric is the most crucial: "I can see right through myself". Notice there is no "think" in this line. The character replaces the "I think" lyric with stark certainty - he can see right through himself, he can see right through the overrated, bloated shield of the world that hides the dull, rotten things beneath it. "Less concerned about fitting in to the world your world, that is cuz it doesn't really matter no it doesn't really matter no it doesn't really matter anymore None of this really matters anymore" Self-explanatory, to an extent. As a result of his loss of focus as described in the first verse, he begins to lose hope and falls into a nihilistic state (which more or less corresponds with his solipsistic views). "Less concerned about fitting in to the world, your world, that is". As a result of being a solipsist, he believes that there is no such thing as a "you" (and we'll get to that later in the chorus). It is only him, and he realizes that he doesn't need to care about what other's think or do or say anymore, because he's come to his own selfish realization that there is no such thing as others. It's all in his head, a holographic vision. "Yes, I am alone, but then again I always was But maybe that's because you were never really real to begin with I just made you up to hurt myself, and it worked Yes it did" Another crucial spot in the lyrics. The protagonist realizes that he is alone, and knows this with stark certainty. However, what he does not realize is that he is bringing this upon himself, as he is the one who chose personally to abandon the idea of "YOU" and as a result, he begins to grow solitary and bitter. "I just made you up to hurt myself, and it worked, yes it did". This stanza is self-explanatory - by "hurt myself" he believes that he created all of those people around him - the unfaithful lovers, the government, the church, or anyone who ever defied him - were made up PERSONALLY by himself to damage his self. He loves the feeling of being hurt, because he has no other choice - he would rather feel hurt than feel like a complete nothing. There's something inside him that wants to fight off the growing nihilsm - but that part of him is just absent for the time being. "There is no you There is only me There is no fuckin' you There is only me" Again, this one in context with the above interpretation is self-explanatory. In an arrogant fashion, the protagonist continues to wrap himself up in his own little bubble, isolated from the world. He removes the idea of "YOU" - again, there is no "think" - and stamps it with one-hundred percent solid certainty. This world is revolved around HIM and it will work how HE wants it. He made it all up to continue to drive himself into the ground. "Well the tiniest little dot caught my eye and it turned out to be a scab and I had this funny feelin' like I just knew it was somethin' bad I just couldn't leave it alone, I cut off that scab It was a doorway trying to seal itself shut But I climbed through" The protagonist, again, *knew* that his choices would drive him into the dirt. Knowing full-well, he took this route instead of anything more positive in the option box. The "doorway", which refers to his step into the path of neglect and isolation, was trying to prevent him from making the poor choice. But he climbed through, never heeding the warnings. The "scab" I'm not 100% sure about, however the "dot" was mentioned in their previous song "Down in It" so it's something to look upon. "Now I'm somewhere I am not supposed to be And I can see things I know I really shouldn't see And now I know why, things aren't as pretty on the inside" Compare with the above interpretation. He shouldn't have taken this path, but he did to fulfill his own selfish cravings. As a result, his isolation persists, and the idea that "things aren't as pretty on the inside" begin to shroud out his thoughts even more than they already were. He is trapped now - and he trapped himself. |
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| KoЯn – Beg For Me Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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>fucking sex I see what you did there. |
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| Reverend Bizarre – Anywhere Out Of This World Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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This is Reverend Bizarre's penultimate song and the final conclusion to Albert's trilogy (In the Rectory of the Bizarre Reverend, Crush the Insects, and finally, So Long, Suckers). The general meaning of this song is Albert's reasoning for breaking up the band, but I think it means something deeper. The song is obviously a tribute to victim's of suicide. I think that it is about a person who has a lover (or perhaps a close friend) and they both struggle with severe depression. The "abandoned house" refers to the confinement they feel and the urge to end their life. However, seeing hope and determination, the two continue on in life before ending up in the strange "paradise" that Albert refers to - a place that is not heaven or anything, but a place that is found after all their misery is gone - redemption. |
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| Nine Inch Nails – Down in It Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| Pretty obvious its about heroin. | |
| Nine Inch Nails – Something I Can Never Have Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| Suicide... | |
| Sublime – Waiting For My Ruca Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| Just about a girl, I think. ^^ | |
| Godflesh – Go Spread Your Wings Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| To me it seems to be about a person who tried so hard to hold on to a relationship, and ended up needing them rather than just wanting to be around them, which eventually led to obsession, which then lead into hopelessness and the feeling of confinement. The music certainly helps the claustrophobic atmosphere and meaning of the lyrics. | |
| Nine Inch Nails – Every Day Is Exactly the Same Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| "I can't remember how this got started, but I know exactly how it will end" = suicide, obviously. | |
| Nine Inch Nails – Starfuckers, Inc. Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| k. | |
| Fall of Efrafa – Woundwort Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| It obviously falls into place with Watership Down, but if it had to boil down to an independent interpretation, I'd say the whole song is a metaphor for the idea that humans should overcome their fears of eachother's differences and come together to gain freedom and independence. | |
| Nine Inch Nails – Starfuckers, Inc. Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| I always thought this was a slam against religion. Could be about fame too, though. | |
| Nirvana – Negative Creep Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| It's about a crossdresser obviously. | |
| Nirvana – Drain You Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I also am pretty sure this song is about a tapeworm, or at least some sort of infectious disease of the type. "One baby to another says "I'm lucky to met you" - From the worm's POV. Tapeworm's drain life for food, don't they? "Lucky to met you" as it needs food to live. "It is now my duty to completely drain you" - Self explanatory. "I travel through a tube and end up in your infection Chew my meat for you Pass it back and forth in a passionate kiss From my mouth to yours I like you" - Also quite self explanatory, the tapeworm goes out of its way to literally drain the victim for it's own life source. "Chew my meat for you", "pass it back and forth in a passionate kiss". Overall, really fucked up song but good. |
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| Nirvana – Milk It Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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This is definitely one of Nirvana's most disturbing AND disturbed songs in their ballpark, and it shows. One of Cobain's main talents was to sound like a cornered, ferocious animal at one moment, and then sound like a fragile, scared child in another. Excellent. For me personally, I think this has a very similar lyrical theme to the song "Closer" by Nine Inch Nails. It describes a relationship that is only used for receiving pleasure for both parties involved in the act. Both of the two people in the song KNOW they are using eachother for sex, as they can find no way out of misery other than having hard, animalistic sex. For them, the lovey dovey shit doesn't matter - its the both of them letting out all their pent up aggression by fucking. It could also be about drug use or suicide, but I'm not sure. |
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