| A Perfect Circle – The Doomed Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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A few things stand out: - This song is a condemnation of the current US political regime. Not unlike APC's earlier song "Pet" (an obvious jab at GWB for his warmongering ways), "The Doomed" criticizes Trump and all of his pals for their love of wealth, their materialist attitude, and their efforts at lawmaking that benefits the rich and shafts the poor. - Additionally, "The Doomed" is an interesting and literal response to WB Yeat's poem "The Second Coming" (google it). Yeats believed that every 2000 years, there was a "changing of the gods". This song is an answer to the question posed in the last two lines of "The Second Coming": "And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?" - Technically, "... you're on your own" is a curse and not even remotely a 'beatitude', which Bible scholars literally define as beginning with some form of the phrase "Blessed is/are" (ie, "Blessed are the meek, for they ..."). The "Doomed are ..." lines are obvious "anti-beatitudes" and might best be thought of as maledictions: curses backed by seriously evil intent. (Also the brand name of the most popular cigarette in Hell :) |
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| Filter – Take Another Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I think that for any given song, there is at least one person who interprets it as being about drug addiction. "Love Will Keep Us Together", "Girls Just Want To Have Fun", "My Heart Will Go On" ... they're all *really* about addiction, people! But seriously: I think this song is about more than drugs; I think it's about (for want of a better word) "sin". It's about *any* temptation that a person may give in to: "Said no way But knew I'd try some day" And the guilt "Sad but true It still won't wash away" and depression "I got a sieve inside me A pit inside me I got a nowhere point of view" and self-destruction "My ambition fell and hit the ground" and self-loathing "Take another piece Take it out on me" that results from being weak. Drug addiction certainly fits in there, but so does cheating on one's spouse, betraying a friend, gambling away the money in your kid's college fund. Even murder: I suspect that an unfortunate number of people out there have said "I may do some pretty bad stuff, but I'll never kill another person" and then one day ... oops. Also, I have to comment on the music behind these lyrics: I cannot offhand think of another song by anyone that has this kind of in-your-face animal rawness. This song is coming from a person who has fucked up so badly that they've lost their soul. All IMHO, of course! |
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| A Perfect Circle – Pet Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| I think the meaning of this song is Maynard James Keenan really hates George W. Bush a lot. | |
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