| Meshuggah – Do Not Look Down Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| I think this song is about what happens to people when they become so obsessed with financial and social success that they lose their humanity. It truly is a sickness. I've witnessed it firsthand. Some of the most financially successful people that I know have gotten there with an equal amount of hard work and inferiority complexes. They are defined only by their assets and can only relate to those who are defined by the same They have the emotional quotient of a concrete block and the attention span of a fruit fly. The song title is great. By not looking down at your own humanity, you can convince yourself that all that matters in life is the plaques on your wall and the amount of money in your 401K. | |
| Further Seems Forever – Wearing Thin Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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I love this song so much. Somebody is done with you. But something tells you that they are trying to walk on water to their next destination in life. They are delusional. You both know it. And you'll leave a light on for them for when they decide to come to their senses and come back home. |
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| Further Seems Forever – The Sound Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| I think this is about reaching the point when you've exhausted yourself trying to reconcile the pain and suffering that you feel when somebody has moved on from you. You've tried to figure it out, but it's gotten you nowhere meaningful. So you pick yourself up, take your emotional lashings, move on, and find yourself again. In time, everything will be alright. | |
| Deftones – Entombed Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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I think this song speaks to the fragility and vulnerability of both new life and the final moments of life. In my opinion, there isn't much difference between the two. Nothing makes sense, It's all just loud noises and bright lights that you don't want..."shapes and colors" are all we see and feel...both at the beginning and at the end of this journey. About 3 years ago I sat with my father in his final moments of life in hospice. He couldn't speak, he couldn't eat, he couldn't drink, he couldn't do anything except let his body shut down. He had become entombed by his own mind and body. His mind had deteriorated to such a point that I imagined that all he was feeling and seeing were those most simple shapes and colors that a newborn child is experiencing. I think we enter into this world and depart this world feeling and seeing the same things. |
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| Deftones – Phantom Bride Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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This is one of my most favorite Deftones songs...and there are too many to name. To me, personally, this song has everything to do with self-realization, whether it's coming to you or you're trying to get it into somebody else. This one really reached me at a very difficult time in my life. A couple of months ago, my wife filed for divorce from me after 10 years and 2 kids together. I was, and still am devastated. One night while feeling sick about the whole thing, I came across this song. It was like a bomb went off in my head. The sound, the song title, the lyrics, it all made sense...."That's my ex-wife!!! She's the phantom bride that wasn't there with me when I needed her during some very difficult times. She was always attached to something else." But then as I kept listening to the song over and over again for the next few weeks, something began to change. I began to realize that the lyrics were more about me than her. Due to many financial and personal tragedies that were beyond my control, I became more and more secluded. I isolated myself from everybody and everything that I shouldn't have isolated myself from, including my own children. I had developed severe social anxiety disorder. The poison that I was attached to was any vice I could find to dull the blade and feel like my old self again. "You don't feel anything out of the rain" is the line that grabbed me the most. After feeling like my life had become so impossible to sustain, I had lost the ability to feel the difference between joy and sadness, so it might as well just be the latter. My ex-wife wasn't the phantom bride I wanted to believe she was. I had lost myself in the whirlwind of chaos and sadness of my own situation and I was sinking. The lyrics were about me, not her. I had become the phantom. |
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