| Led Zeppelin – No Quarter Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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OK, let's all get this straight -- LZ isn't "all about" LotR, but many of their songs ARE heavily influenced by LotR, as well as more direct Norse/Anglo-Saxon/Celtic mythology and history (as others have mentioned, Tolkien himself was heavily influenced by Norse/Anglo-Saxon/Celtic myths). No Quarter is a combination of the LotR scene where Aragorn leads his group along the Paths of the Dead (look it up), plus Norse (winds of Thor, the storm god), plus Celtic (the hounds of doom, the hounds of the Wild Hunt) all brought together -- very effectively, I must add. This definitely one of my favorite LZ songs. |
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| Thousand Foot Krutch – Fly On The Wall Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I love TWPotts interpretation and it's not invalidated by what Pezable reports about Trevor. While I enjoy the music (and the passion within) of Christian rock bands (TFK, Skillet, Red, etc.), personally I'm a secular humanist (agnostic). I can see the religious themes in this song, but I also see it as potentially an anthem AGAINST religious belief! Hearing the first verse the first time really took me down that path (even though I knew TFK is a Christian band). The other night, I had a dream It was a world full of kings and queens [we all have the potential to realize our dreams and potential, but something blocks us] But it was cold, dark as the night We were the fire on a moonlit sky [our intelligence is the candle in the darkness] We were divided, we were the same And we were free, but we all wore chains [though we are all people, everyone coming up with our own faiths and religions just divides and imprisons us instead of bringing us together] We couldn't see it, but we created A place between truth and overrated [by putting our faith in the unseen, we blinded ourselves to the reality surrounding us, and more importantly, to our fellow humans] My ideas on this are echoed in this verse: We had a plan to build a wall A great divide that would never fall To separate us from all the pain And keep our skeletons locked away And brick by brick we built it so thick That it blacked out the sky and all the sunlight [this shows how religion separates us, instead of bringing us together] And one by one we all became numb We were, making the bullets to a broken gun [we are fighting the wrong war (against a mythical Devil) instead of breaking down the barriers that keep us from cooperating to fix our real problems] Sure, this is just my re-interpretation but sometimes Christian songs, looked at from a different angle, can actually highlight the dangers and problems with religion. "If we can just learn to un-believe" :-) |
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