| Alice in Chains – Get Born Again Lyrics | 4 years ago |
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@[ViLeMetal:37834] You are so fucking. stupid. OVER HERE EVERYBODY, PRIME EXAMPLE OF THE MENTAL GYMNASTICS REQUIRED RUIN YOUR LIFE, and the LIVES OF OTHERS VIA THE DOGMA OF ASS-BACKWARDS CHRISTIANITY. Okay so no one else sees religious themes in this song? The name of the song is Get Born Again, if you don't recognize that phrase it basically means get saved, ask Jesus to be your savior, etc. I was seeing this song as one of two possible meanings, of course I was hearing some words incorrectly too. One idea I had was that it's a song about people that go to church but honestly couldn't give less of a crap about Jesus. My line of thought there was that I was hearing "Just to eat a couple lies" as 'Just repeat a couple lies', which led me to think that the lies in question were things like "I'm sorry for my sins" that one would say when praying for repentance. Of course, the line "Hope to wish away the lies" doesn't agree with that meaning very well... Hey at least your ears are working even if your brain isn't. Props for noticing the subtle shift from "Just repeat a couple lines, LIES yeah". He is saying this tongue in cheek. Imagine your mom saying, "Yay , how would you guys like mamwhich for dinner?" and you say to your brother, 'more like BLANDwhich" And you two laugh hysterically for a minute. We do this all the time. Subtlety changing a letter or a syllable for comedic effect. Buddy, open your eyes you fool. The LIES, are every word of your FAITH. Every bible passage , every sermon, service, and after-church prepubescent proposition. The lyrics are only ambiguous if your a christian constancy bombarded with things which blatantly contradict your fragile world view and you don't have the power to handle them so you brush them under the rug and pretend the jury is still out. It doesn't make sense to your brain because you know Layne=good guy, so his blatantly anti-religious lyrics =good, but that cant' be because your core axiom your entire reality is based upon is religion=good, but you have no reason to actually believe that if you strip away all the lies, social pressure and nonsensical beliefs based upon misunderstanding reality , or having some preacher incorrectly explain origin of species after it was incorrectly explained to him by a you-tuber who had it explained to him by a "science" teacher in the deep south of the U.S. in their brief 20 minute explanation of why it's wrong and why creationism is right. THIS IS KNOWN AS COGNITIVE DISSONANCE. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance ,https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases We ALL HAVE BIASES. THE PEOPLE WHO DENY THAT STATEMENT SUFFER FROM THE MOST, THE ONLY WAY TO FREE YOURSELF FROM BIAS IS TO ACKNOWLEDGE IT. Start by reading up on all the known biases. Or Don't but don't go around spreading your thousand year old lies then or we got a problem. I live on this fucking rock too, and nobody deserve the endless negative effects of religion existing on this planet. c NEWSFLASH THE JURY IS BACK AND THEY'VE DECIDED, YOUR WRONG. I could attack all religion but I don't even need to I just need to prove how fucking stupid and evil your religion is , and hopefully your logic systems will kick and you'll realize that there's nothing special about your religion and if yours was bullshit then all of them are bullshit. Religion is negatively correlated with all measures of societal happiness. The least religious are the happiest with the highest life expediencies and the highest per capita GDP, as well as overall best health, and the list goes on and on. Scandinavia being the least religious part of the world. Africa being the most , and the worst off by far. Religion is something to be disposed of like training wheels, it at one point served a purpose other than controlling the masses, but now people can read, the priests are not needed, the book can be judged on it's own, and when done so it comes up as complete and utter garbage. Not even worth the paper it's printed on. Those poor poor fucking trees, I'm sure they would have rather been burned than to end up with that garbage printed on them. Condoning rape, racism, slavery, pretending ignorance, dimwitted, illogical faith in that which you have no evidence for are somehow merits, or virtuous. |
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| Alice in Chains – Get Born Again Lyrics | 4 years ago |
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@[ViLeMetal:37833] You are so fucking. stupid. OVER HERE EVERYBODY, PRIME EXAMPLE OF THE MENTAL GYMNASTICS REQUIRED RUIN YOUR LIFE, and the LIVES OF OTHERS VIA THE DOGMA OF ASS-BACKWARDS CHRISTIANITY. Okay so no one else sees religious themes in this song? The name of the song is Get Born Again, if you don't recognize that phrase it basically means get saved, ask Jesus to be your savior, etc. I was seeing this song as one of two possible meanings, of course I was hearing some words incorrectly too. One idea I had was that it's a song about people that go to church but honestly couldn't give less of a crap about Jesus. My line of thought there was that I was hearing "Just to eat a couple lies" as 'Just repeat a couple lies', which led me to think that the lies in question were things like "I'm sorry for my sins" that one would say when praying for repentance. Of course, the line "Hope to wish away the lies" doesn't agree with that meaning very well... Hey at least your ears are working even if your brain isn't. Props for noticing the subtle shift from "Just repeat a couple lines, LIES yeah". He is saying this tongue in cheek. Imagine your mom saying, "Yay , how would you guys like mamwhich for dinner?" and you say to your brother, 'more like BLANDwhich" And you two laugh hysterically for a minute. We do this all the time. Subtlety changing a letter or a syllable for comedic effect. Buddy, open your eyes you fool. The LIES, are every word of your FAITH. Every bible passage , every sermon, service, and after-church prepubescent proposition. The lyrics are only ambiguous if your a christian constancy bombarded with things which blatantly contradict your fragile world view and you don't have the power to handle them so you brush them under the rug and pretend the jury is still out. It doesn't make sense to your brain because you know Layne=good guy, so his blatantly anti-religious lyrics =good, but that cant' be because your core axiom your entire reality is based upon is religion=good, but you have no reason to actually believe that if you strip away all the lies, social pressure and nonsensical beliefs based upon misunderstanding reality , or having some preacher incorrectly explain origin of species after it was incorrectly explained to him by a you-tuber who had it explained to him by a "science" teacher in the deep south of the U.S. in their brief 20 minute explanation of why it's wrong and why creationism is right. THIS IS KNOWN AS COGNITIVE DISSONANCE. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance ,https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases We ALL HAVE BIASES. THE PEOPLE WHO DENY THAT STATEMENT SUFFER FROM THE MOST, THE ONLY WAY TO FREE YOURSELF FROM BIAS IS TO ACKNOWLEDGE IT. Start by reading up on all the known biases. Or Don't but don't go around spreading your thousand year old lies then or we got a problem. I live on this fucking rock too, and nobody deserve the endless negative effects of religion existing on this planet. c NEWSFLASH THE JURY IS BACK AND THEY'VE DECIDED, YOUR WRONG. I could attack all religion but I don't even need to I just need to prove how fucking stupid and evil your religion is , and hopefully your logic systems will kick and you'll realize that there's nothing special about your religion and if yours was bullshit then all of them are bullshit. Religion is negatively correlated with all measures of societal happiness. The least religious are the happiest with the highest life expediencies and the highest per capita GDP, as well as overall best health, and the list goes on and on. Scandinavia being the least religious part of the world. Africa being the most , and the worst off by far. Religion is something to be disposed of like training wheels, it at one point served a purpose other than controlling the masses, but now people can read, the priests are not needed, the book can be judged on it's own, and when done so it comes up as complete and utter garbage. Not even worth the paper it's printed on. Those poor poor fucking trees, I'm sure they would have rather been burned than to end up with that garbage printed on them. Condoning rape, racism, slavery, pretending ignorance, dimwitted, illogical faith in that which you have no evidence for are somehow merits, or virtuous. |
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| Alice in Chains – Get Born Again Lyrics | 4 years ago |
| @[Zlpempleh:37831] Closer to right, but why the fuck would he start off with , "wish away the lines" how doe that make sense. It's wish away the LIES, THE repeat a couple LINES, then he sings, LIES , Yeah. So it goes Lies, Lies, Lies, Lines, Lies, . | |
| Alice in Chains – Get Born Again Lyrics | 4 years ago |
| @[PaperFace:37830] He says "lies" 3 times before that line. Is it too hard to believe he's singling Just repeat a lines, and then the second time he says it he drops the N so he sings "Lies" it's clever and the truth. He sings, just repeat an couple lines, LIES, yeah" . And you're right about he fair-weather friends part. | |
| Alice in Chains – Get Born Again Lyrics | 4 years ago |
| @[Neapolitan2:37829] Thank you finally. Yes it's "Sad suffering" and later on he says "Just repeat a couples lines" "LIES yeah" tongue in cheek subtly dropping the n on purpose. | |
| Failure – Solaris Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| Whole album is about heroin. ENTIRE THING, just different aspects of it. for example, on pillowhead he says hes ashamed to love no one, and that he has a "friend" that he's gotten used to. So the "friend " is obviously a non-human thing, in this case heroin. I know exactly what he means. You probably actually need to have struggled with heroin addiction to understand this album. Each song is about a different aspect of heroin, using different metaphors and things he also likes, such as the movie Solaris, he is comparing heroin addiction to the movie. He says he has been lying in snow , "withdrawing from heroin, you freezing cold all the time" and "treading on ghosts" withdrawing from heroin also gives you restless leg syndrome like a motherfucker. Then he says hes on a mission to escape from what his life as been about, but it changes near the end to , I'm on a mission to escape from what my life has been without you. Every heroin addict knows the struggle of wanting to quit but then once the withdraws get bad enough the only goal you have is to get more and alleviate the symptoms. All the freezing, and cold parts are about cold turkey, then all the burning parts, such as burning up my head, and thawing out my head, are about him giving up and using again. I've seen other artists use the same imagery when referring to heroin. Also , slightly unrelated since it's alcohol, but the muse song , can't remember what it's called, where he says "royal Canadian bender" that uses similar imagery of freezing and thawing . Heroin like alcohol makes your face flush and red and makes you feel warm sometimes hot. Stuck on you is the same thing about heroin but the metaphor is comparing it to having a song stuck in your head. | |
| Them Crooked Vultures – No One Loves Me & Neither Do I Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| @[nolimit24:22412] I agree with almost all of what you said. However ironically over on the genius site they got the lyrics listed as " I know how to be controlled ,do one percent of what your told" and all I'm thinking is holy fuck who the hell fabricated that in their head, he clearly says *do opposite of what your told*, so when I see that's what you have I am releived, but then I notice you have "i know how to beat control" It's certianly "*I kNOW HOW TO BE CONTROLLED" when have you heard of the phrase "beat control" I never have heard somebody say something like that, however "be controlled " on the other hand is extrememly common, plus if you listen carefully there is no T sound at fucking all. He may roll his "ed"'s such as controlled, but he isn't going to leave off half the word "beat" as a stylistic preference, it's clearly "I know how to be controlled, do opposite of what you're told. | |
| Cake – Shadow Stabbing Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| Not saying this has anything to do with it for sure, but this just occurred to me so I thought you I'd share it. There's been quite a few famous writers in the past known for using amphetamines to help the write. As for the tight jaw line, I've never heard of somebody being called a tight haw but I've heard of calling somebody a slack-jaw, and a tight jaw would pretty much be the exact opposite, plus amphetamines are known to make you grind you jaw especially with only occasional use. | |
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