| Seether – Six Gun Quota Lyrics | 1 year ago |
| I think "burned down every bridge that I found" is about cutting ties with the people who disregarded him, all the dead weight he had to get rid of in his life. To me, "six gun quota" makes me think of a small group of friends worth keeping close. | |
| The Used – The Bird and the Worm Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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I believe it to be about someone who wears their heart- meaning their beliefs and passions and emotions- where everyone can see it, and carries it in the open with him everywhere. As many of us may know from experience, this invites judgemental looks from people you dont even know. Those glances are enough to make you feel small and insignificant and like a burden on society as a whole. It sounds extreme but it seems like the only possibility when you are trapped inside your mind with those foreign voices that grow louder as more people send you crippling, devouring glances. Those voices seem to try to push you out of your own mind, trying to take over. Sometimes you can dream about getting rid of them, throwing off the weight of what others think, but to many these are only delusions. The chorus returns to where he is, in public I imagine, wearing his heart before everyone and being shot down by their judging looks. Turning to stone is becoming like a statue, cold, frozen, nameless, without identity, a thing for viewers to judge at their will. He holds his breath half to death as you do when terrified, lest he say something that will spark their anger and bring their words of hate crashing down on him. The next line is very important: "terrified of what's inside" could easily be interpreted as him being afraid of himself, his own emotions. But we already know that those are now outside, pinned to his backpack. I believe that being terrified of what's inside is being afraid of those strangers whose hearts are hidden, whose intent you cannot know but from their glances that shoot you down. To save his life, he crawls like a worm from a bird. To save his heart, he crawls like the judged from the accusers. A worm can never escape the bird by crawling. It is slow, vulnerable, and defenceless. He is the worm, the strangers are the birds. Though they judge him, they will never know him, only what they think they know. The image presented by this line is to me very graphic, it is effortless to see that worm crawling from that bird, and the cruel eye of the bird watching it attempt to escape. The next part, if he can't relieve it then it grows, is why he is trying to get away from them. The weight of their judgement sits heavy on his shoulders and causes pain, and he tries to escape from it to relieve the pain. Their whispering voices in his head are trying to push him out of his mind. After all, what is more dangerous than a free mind? |
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