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| Danzig – Heart Of The Devil Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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I think this song is about the basic urges/driving forces that we all have as humans. The "devil" represents the personification of our negative or "evil" urges and actions. It's too hard for most ppl to admit that evil lives inside them, so they instead use a made up entity, the devil, to project their evilness onto (separates ppl from the undesirable parts of themselves). SO, "I am heart of the devil" means that mankind is the creator of and the driving force behind all things evil (heart keeps us alive, just like mankind keeps evil alive in the world). "I have heart of the devil" references the negative desires that are inside all of us; they come from within our heart/driving force. The rest of the lyrics could be symbolic examples which show mankind's propensity/capability to be "evil" (killing others; sex with unacceptable partners--"I can make a young girl lay down for me"; drugs--"I can make a pulse pound in your vein"; threatening or scaring others--"...man freeze in his tracks"; war--"I can make the skies thunder and shake...world tremble and quake"=bombs, missles, jets, etc.; medical advances "heart stop and start again"= through medicine we can kill ppl or bring them back to life. I think Danzig is calling out ppl who have not yet came to this realization. |
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| Alice in Chains – Would? Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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It is not about daddy issues...it's about addiction (sorry to those who seem to have some weird aversion to a song they like being about something so "dark"). "master" being your addiction to the substance; once you are addicted, it is almost impossible to break free, especially in the case of heroin (many ppl equate this to being a "slave to the drug". Despite negative consequences, many addicts are chasing the first high they experienced , "Into the flood again...So I made a big mistake. Try to see it once my way". This is talking about giving into the addiction to get one more high, knowing that it is the wrong thing to do. The flying and drifting verse speaks on the feeling you get with heroin. "Teach thee on child of love hereafter" refers to not letting your child experience the same addiction and pain that you did. ("child of love" seems to be in reference to singer of Mother Love Bone--tell his child of his struggles, so doesn't have same fate). "Have I run to far to get home" seems to refer to going too far into addiction in the hopes to find yourself, or get back to feeling the way you did before (when someone is trying to get home, this usually refers to a "safe" place, so trying to get back to that safe place; either mentally, spiritually, physically...) The last verse is a warning. "Have I gone...left you here alone...If I would, could you?" If it is possible for a man to continue with an addiction that he knows will only kill him, leaving his family behind, then it is possible for anyone else to do the same. If Cantrell wrote this, he could have been trying to get a message to Staley: "This is where you are heading...if it happened to him, it could happen to you..." |
submissions
| Alice in Chains – Would? Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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It is not about daddy issues...it's about addiction. "master" being your addiction to the substance; once you are addicted, it is almost impossible to break free, especially in the case of heroin (many ppl equate this to being a "slave to the drug". Despite negative consequences, many addicts are chasing the first high they experienced , "Into the flood again...So I made a big mistake. Try to see it once my way". This is talking about giving into the addiction to get one more high, knowing that it is the wrong thing to do. The flying and drifting verse speaks on the feeling you get with heroin. "Teach thee on child of love hereafter" refers to not letting your child experience the same addiction and pain that you did. ("child of love" seems to be in reference to singer of Mother Love Bone--tell his child of his struggles, so doesn't have same fate). "Have I run to far to get home" seems to refer to going too far into addiction in the hopes to find yourself, or get back to feeling the way you did before (when someone is trying to get home, this usually refers to a "safe" place, so trying to get back to that safe place; either mentally, spiritually, physically...) The last verse is a warning. "Have I gone...left you here alone...If I would, could you?" If it is possible for a man to continue with an addiction that he knows will only kill him, leaving his family behind, then it is possible for anyone else to do the same. If Cantrell wrote this, he could have been trying to get a message to Staley: "This is where you are heading...if it happened to him, it could happen to you..." |
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