| Pain of Salvation – Nightmist Lyrics | 7 years ago |
| Definitely influenced by "Gethsemane" from Jesus Christ Superstar! | |
| Metal Church – It Waits Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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I think that like most of the songs on this album, the lyrics are about lost time and returning back to your true calling after a long absence. Pretty appropriate given Mike Howe's return to the band twenty years after he left. I love the repetition at the end. It has such a hopeful sound, like it's telling everybody who has given up on, or never followed, their dreams that it's never too late. Sounds like it should be the last song on the album. |
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| Metal Church – No Friend Of Mine Lyrics | 7 years ago |
| With racism and hatred being so prevalent is certain subgenres of metal, I love to see one of my favorite bands rocking out against bigotry and being bleeding heart lefties like myself! | |
| Metal Church – In Mourning Lyrics | 7 years ago |
| Inspired by the court case against Judas Priest, where one of their songs supposedly caused two young men to attempt suicide (one of them succeeded, the other left with severe injuries), this song is about the hypocrisy of policing music while ignoring real issues that face young people, like poverty and child abuse. | |
| Skyclad – No Strings Attached Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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This song fits in with the overall theme of Vintage Whine -- heartbreak. Throughout the album the implication seems to be that the speaker (presumably Martin himself) was in a relationship with a woman, but she did not take it seriously and left him abruptly. The phrase "no strings attached" is generally used as a positive way to describe a casual relationship, but here Martin uses it negatively, as he wanted to be attached to this person. "For Romeo I understudied" -- he was ready to die for his love. "Your kiss turns princes into frogs, and passion plays to monologues." The woman apparently left him with a kiss goodbye, which Martin seems particularly bitter about. It's also referenced in the song Bury Me with the line "so to say farewell like Judas is the thing I find absurd." I absolutely love this song, and these are possibly my favorite lyrics of all time. The way he uses instruments, puppets, and then himself as a minstrel as a metaphor for the despair he feels is brilliant. |
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| Skyclad – Isle Of Jura Lyrics | 7 years ago |
| I saw a Facebook post from Martin where he stated that this song is written from the perspective of a suicide bomber. | |
| Skyclad – A Well Beside The River Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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I don't think you're wrong to interpret the word "tupping" as sexual. The whole Vintage Whine album seems to focus on a woman with whom Martin is... not particularly happy. A couple of the other songs (Bury Me, Little Miss Take) suggest that Martin loved this woman very much, but she didn't take the relationship seriously and left him abruptly. So I think that in this song, he refers to himself as her "tupping fool" because she only used him for sex. I feel like every time I read Skyclad lyrics, I have to look up some of the words or phrases used, either because I'm not familiar with chiefly British terms, or because the references are just so obscure. It's part of why I love this band so much -- I always end up learning something new from their lyrics. |
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| Porcupine Tree – Stop Swimming Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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A song about depression and suicide (or at least thoughts of suicide). "I've leave now, this can't continue but I forget which door I came through" The speaker can no longer bear the pain of his depression, and knows he has to make a change, but since he can't pinpoint how his depression started, he doesn't know how to come back from it. "And I know that the lift can be painfully slow so I think I'll leave by the window" Fighting this illness is a very slow and difficult process. Ideally it's done with medication and therapy, but also requires quite a lot of time and effort from the sufferer to change their mentality. Leaving by the window -- suicide -- is the easy way out. I love the version of this song on the Warszawa live album, where SW introduces it by saying "This is a very sad song. But, if you're like me, I always find that the saddest music is also the most beautiful." Very true, and having had my own struggles with depression, I find this song to be incredibly powerful. |
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| Pain of Salvation – Cribcaged Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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I'm surprised that nobody has mentioned the tv show Cribs. Perhaps non-Americans are not familiar with it. In the early 2000s, it was a pretty popular reality show on MTV where a camera crew would tour the home (colloquially known as a "crib") of some celebrity, usually a rapper. They were always mansions, and it was basically just a glorification of wealth and excess, as the song suggests. The lines "fuck the bedroom magic nonsense" and "fuck the stupid throw you out joke" are pretty clear references to the show, as basically every celebrity would say "this is where the magic happens" when showing off their bedroom, and usually end the episode by jokingly kicking the crew out. |
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| Steven Wilson – Happy Returns Lyrics | 7 years ago |
| Although this album is a mostly fictional account of Joyce Vincent's life, according to her Wikipedia page, her body was indeed found surrounded by wrapped Christmas presents, which seems to suggest that she did intend to reconnect with some of the people she had estranged herself from. That one detail makes a sad story so much sadder. | |
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