| Huey Lewis and the News – Hip To Be Square Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| Come on people, this is song meanings. This place is dedicated to discussing the meanings behind a song, not paying lip-service to a movie where a song showed up. I love American Psycho and the song itself, but I came here for the song and its meaning not listen to people gush over a movie. | |
| Avenged Sevenfold – Higher Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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Following Exist's theme of leaving earth behind to embrace the cosmic perspective and leave the world and its evil ruling class behind (refer to the stage) Simply put, its about an astronaut leaving earth, and feeling euphoria for leaving the world and its strife behind. One of the easier to understand songs of the album honestly. |
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| Avenged Sevenfold – God Damn Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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The song is about how we, in current society, through our own fears for safety have given the government too much control and power over us, but it didn't happen like a massive martial law takeover or like 1984... it happened because we gave away too much of our freedom for the sake of feeling safe. So there was no big evil big brother, or illuminati. It was us, we did it ourselves. Due to fear mongering of racism, sexism, and guilt for the sin's of the father, the left: big government was created and uses our insecurities on those issues (which aren't as big of issues as we've been led to believe) we've bought their malicious narrative and took it as truth. "It goes beyond big brother in the sky Beyond the threat of martial law no Horus eye No one came to cuff you they just handed you the chains Blind follows the blind and now the one-eyed man is king" Horus eye and one-eyed man are allusions to the illuminati: the all seeing eye. The public accepted the lies of the government and now the even the sheep are fighting people who are against the government; they've become self-herding. |
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| Avenged Sevenfold – Creating God Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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This song is about mankind reaching the singularity and creating AI's. Creating God. But, the AI's as theorized by so many scientists and philosophers, end up enslaving humanity, or even destroying it. The whole album deals with themes of AI, the singularity, humanity in a cosmic sense, space exploration, etc. It seems the band took a decent amount of inspiration from the Matrix as well. |
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| Avenged Sevenfold – Requiem Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| It is a prayer for the destruction of everything. Planets could be seen as the follow-up song with its imagery of cosmic death, a cold uncaring universe. Acid rain, as the band has said in interviews, is the human perspective on planets. People holding their lovers as the world ends before their eyes, children obliviously carrying on unaware of their immanent death. | |
| Avenged Sevenfold – Sunny Disposition Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| @[E4Ducky:16678] To add: perhaps it is a song about realizing that the elite have already won and we are merely circling the drain. They are in a Sunny Disposition. Sunny is also key here because it helps support the nuclear imagery. Sunshine units is a measurement used in nuclear radiation. | |
| Avenged Sevenfold – Sunny Disposition Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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Raising your thumb to the sky, as Fallout has brought to many peoples' attention, is a tactic to test whether or not you are in the blast radius of a nuclear bomb. I think the song is about humanity looking at all the war and destruction it has caused in the name of peace, but only a few high up people are reveling in that peace, while the rest are left to rot away. "I'd make a decision if granted the privilege, but I'm afraid my taste is unrefined And no one likes cheap wine" The one's left to rot would like to have positions of power to fix the issues, but they are hopeless because they do not believe they have the skills to productively undo the issues... taste us unrefined. When the clouds kiss your eye Shadows stain on the high-rise Raise your thumb to the sky Fossilize Upon standing there, as the radiation blast hits you. Shadow stain: people's shadows where etched into building in Nagasaki and Hiroshima after the A-bombs dropped. Fossilize: this is imagery similar to Pompeii, people fossilized by the immediate destruction brought on by the volcano. |
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| Avenged Sevenfold – Paradigm Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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I'd wager the song is about a person, naturally fearing death, succumbing to his wishes for immortality. Technology has created a way for immortality to happen, through what seems to be a Matrix-type computer generated consciousness, but by "plugging in" humanity loses something core to them; perhaps a yearning for freedom. This whole album plays off of the idea of the singularity: an event in which technology gets so advanced and AI's are created. This causes such unimaginable exponential scientific growth that humans become obsolete and are likely to be enslaved by the AI's they've created. The Matrix is an exploration of this event as well SPOILER ALERT: the humans are put into a digital existence and the electricity generated by their perception of reality is used to fuel the AI's ships, etc. |
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| Avenged Sevenfold – Angels Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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Just what I've gathered through listening and reading the lyrics. DO NOT take my words as gold. I don't have a nice full interpretation for the song, but I think it is a continuation of The Stage and its "the government is fooling us all" message, a sort of assertion that an "illuminati group" does exist and has kept it self hidden successfully and is on the brink of unleashing its true plan soon. "Took the road, but should have chased the stars." may be alluding to Exist and the Neil DeGrasse Tyson speech about getting over human conflict and focusing on space exploration instead. "The faster we run now, the closer the gun now and somehow all the bullets bear my name" this seems to allude to a martial law or government take over of the citizens of their country. The government hunting down free thinkers and or just fully enslaving their people through force. "Mother wash the devil from my hands Mother, tell me was it all a lie? Show me where the angels die" Seems like a remorseful person living in this new authoritarian 1984-like hell pondering on how the government was lying about trying to help us all along. The angels may be revolutionaries who failed and were ultimately killed... silenced by the new ruling authoritarian government. Simulation comes directly after and seems to insinuate that the government then went on to make the Matrix a reality. |
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