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| ohGr – Minus Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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In addition to Potatoflesh's comments, "addition" might be a metaphor for Christianity, due to the visual similarities between the plus sign and the Crhristian cross. "Minus addition", literally (-+) or (-†), might be read as "negative religion." "Minus addition is nothing" might therefore mean "the religion of fear and hate is worthless." |
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| ohGr – Lusid Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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i find this one surprisingly straightforward for an ohGr song. Something's going horribly wrong and the singer prefers unconsciousness over the living Hell they experience while awake. |
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| ohGr – Pore Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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Sounds to me like the singer is feeling conflicted about their opinion of mainstream culture. They seem to look down on the popular and conventional ("The laughing dying culture pop"), especially television ("The psychotronic talking box \ The mainstream antidepressant"). However, the repeated "Ultra, ultra"* section makes it sounds like their disgust is at odds with a need to belong ("get me in there... get me out"). In the context of songwriting and music production, it could represent the conflicting desires for financial/critical success and artistic uniqueness and creativity, which definitely crops up elsewhere on this album (Cracker).
*It's a very far stretch, but "Ultra" might be a reference to the KMFDM song of the same name. Industrial Metal has always sold better than the weirdness Ogre produces, and while KMFDM are small fry compared to NIN, they still saw a great deal of success about the same time Skinny Puppy fell apart. |
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