| Streetlight Manifesto – The Big Sleep Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| @[ScourgeXLVII:5804] "Tomas would never write a song about suicide without making a negative statement about it" Actually I think you might be on to something. Being someone who has attempted suicide in the past I can say without a doubt your interpretation is exactly what was going through my head when I tried. Since suicide is clearly the theme of the album I wouldn't be surprised if Tomas wrote a song from the victims perspective | |
| Queens of the Stone Age – If I Had A Tail Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| @[Aleske:5557] A very interesting interpretation of the lyrics. While I do like your explanation of the lyrics, I don't think this is what Josh was writing about. QOTSA pretty much writes about two things: sex and drugs. Writing a song from the prospective of a women who thinks that if she was a man she could have more control in her life seems way outside of their seems waaaaay far outside their MO | |
| Rise Against – Swing Life Away Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| I agree with most of the interpretations on here, but I think they all try to hone in on one specific subject too much. Pretty much every individual subject that these comments bring up are present in the song. Its about life as a whole, and finding joy in the smallest things. Who cares if your minimum wage jobs can't support you for the rest of your life? Who cares if the love you have right know wont be there for ever? Who cares if some of your friends you barely even know? Swing life away! Forget about the worries of the future, and learn to find joy in the present. This is a song about "carpe diem" not in the overly romanticized and idolized idea of going out and taking some massive stand and changing the world, but just seizing the day by finding joy in every little corner of life, realizing what makes you happy, no matter how insignificant and enjoying that | |
| Streetlight Manifesto – Failing, Flailing Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| @[REEEEZ:645] and thats just ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiine | |
| In Flames – Disconnected Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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Not my own interpretation, and probably not at all what Anders was writing about, but one of my friends really related this song to his experience with anti-depressants, probably majorly paraphrasing here but it was something along the lines of "I started looking at the world in really weird ways, well I say weird now but back then it seemed totally normal, I thought of everyone as "dead' I don't know why I thought this way but they all seemed like they were just aimlessly moving about, like the world was just one giant game with absolutely not point. I really wanted to know what people were thinking all the time, jsut to know if there were other people like me in the world becauseI felt, well disconnected, like I was the only person in the world with a situation like mine, and part of me really wanted to know there were other like me, but at the same time I felt like I was one of the dead, just a completely zombie, empty inside, almost the same way everyone else seemed to me, but this was only a tiny nagging in the back of my head, like some rational part of my brain had been chained up and silenced, he was desperately try to be heard but could only barely get through to me. It wasn't until I went off the meds that it put things in perspective, I couldn't put it more perfectly than that chorus. Yeah I felt like shit, I still feel like shit, all the time, but at least i CAN feel. The meds were like the exact opposite, sure I didn't feel like shit, but I didn't feel ANYTHING, I was just content with the way things were, if someone did "change the signs" I probably wouldn't have never noticed. I think the straight jacket is the perfect metaphor, sure I wasn't beating myself up all the time, but if your just totally confining yourself, graying out the world, surrendering all the shape, is that really living?" |
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| Unwritten Law – F.I.G.H.T. Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I saw this more as a song about drug use than a literal fight song. "I heard you were concerned with my life I heard you had a lot to say" Referring to the people trying to get him to give up drugs, "concerning" themselves with his life "I'm gonna do it if it feels right I'm gonna do it any way" Pretty self explanatory "Well I'm sayin' Don't say I'm not all right I'm used and confused and I'm still puttin up a good fight I'm still puttin' up a good" Everyone's trying to tell him he need help, but he disagrees, and as for the fight I saw this as having a double meaning. Part of him knows what he's doing ain't good for him, but he's going to "put up a good fight" and try to control it, and also fight the people who are trying to tell him how to live his life |
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| The Mars Volta – This Apparatus Must Be Unearthed Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| Honestly I'm amazed more fans don't know this. When Cedric writes he works out the melody by singing gibberish, then goes back and works the gibberish into actual lyrics, but alot of the time Omar like the gibberish better and makes him keep it. So sometimes The Mars Volta makes no sense simply because they don't make sense, not because the lyrics are super crazy and deep | |
| Reel Big Fish – In The Pit Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| Actually, its only in "Thank You For Not Moshing" (the re recording on "Why Do They Rock So Hard?") that he says "punch and kick". For "In The Pit" (the original song written for "Turn The Radio Off" though it didn't end up on the album, and was instead released on "Teen Beef") He say "Fuck up shit" both times | |
| Reel Big Fish – Thank You For Not Moshing Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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For all the people talking shit about moshing, you've got it totally wrong. Moshing isn't about beating people up and hurting others, if you're moshing right no one gets hurt. This song is a slam on all the people who think you're actually supposed to be throwing punches and "fucking up shit" in the pit, which couldn't be farther from the truth. This song is calling out those few assholes who give moshing a bad name. Real moshing is just another (albeit a rather intense) form of dancing Also its "Look out fag, there's gonna be a fight" not "look out now" in both versions (in the pit/ thank you for not moshing) |
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| Reel Big Fish – In The Pit Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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For all the people talking shit about moshing, you've got it totally wrong. Moshing isn't about beating people up and hurting others, if you're moshing right no one gets hurt. This song is a slam on all the people who think you're actually supposed to be throwing punches and "fucking up shit" in the pit, which couldn't be farther from the truth. This song is calling out those few assholes who give moshing a bad name. Real moshing is just another (albeit a rather intense) form of dancing Also its "Look out fag, there's gonna be a fight" not "look out now" in both versions (in the pit/ thank you for not moshing) |
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| Chevelle – Clones Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| not sure why my OP is included in my followup post, sorry for double posting | |
| Chevelle – Clones Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I've got to agree with Rudez88, everyone should find their own meaning in music, don't state your interpretation to a song so matter-of-factly, especially when Pete himself has explicitly stated that they are not a Christian band, and that they all feel music shouldn't be a podium for religious preaching, and Pete has also stated that this song was touching on all the criticism they've received for their similarities to Tool. I'm not trying to say that your not intiled to your idea of this songs, infact I love to know that someone has found such a strong connection to such a beautiful songs, but you shouldn't run around talking about songs like music is is so black and white. Maybe this isn't what you meant, but when you say things like "This song's understanding (I assume you meant meaning) is obvious" it sounds like your saying that everyone else here is wrong Also I'd like to hear your interpretation of Envy, to me that song was seemed to be a literal explanation of envy, so I'm curious as to were you got you ideas from |
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| Chevelle – The Clincher Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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NO corkey. Why can't we get past this shit? Chevelle is NOT a Christian band, they weren't even on a christian label, it was a record label backed by a christian company, but the label itself was not strictly christian actual quote from Pete: "To us, it was and is, not that big of a deal. Our first label was owned by a distributorship that distributed to Christian bookstores and things like that. And it doesn't bother us at all to be called a Christian band. Although we have made a specific point to keep our religion out of our band and out of our shows because we believe it is everybody's choice to go and do whatever they want. And though we do have our individual faiths and all those things, it is not something that we'll preach to the people out there. So there were never any misconceptions for us or for our label in that regards. It really was what everybody else was putting out there." |
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| Chevelle – Send The Pain Below Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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Calm the fuck down dude, its just a song. You're supposed to find your own meaning in music, there is no right or wrong answer. Plus Chevelle is notorious for making up fake meaning for there songs just so people don't spend all there time worrying about what Pete meant when he wrote it and make a real connection to the music. Not to mention the music video provides a completely different interpretation of the lyrics. Seriously, take a few deep breaths before you post next time, this site is for intellectual discussion, not 3rd grade name calling |
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