| Silversun Pickups – Circadian Rhythm (Last Dance) Lyrics | 1 year ago |
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The song, as stated, was written by Nikki Monninger in reference to a friend who died. The opening lines seem to refer to someone who died, as the speaker is spending "Another night alone" and some ghost-like figure, "out of reach," came in through his window "sleepwalking" (i.e. entered via the speaker's dreams; the speaker dreamt about someone who died during a lonely night) On that note, I think the song is an entreaty to live in the moment, here and now. Forget all you have to do ("there's nowhere left to go"), and forget all that you want to do ("I've got nowhere left to dream"). And just pay attention to people who are around you here and now, "stay awake" and "stay with me." That means you should forget all your duties, plans, and wishes and live in the here and now, since all that is here and now won't be around forever. |
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| Avatar – Silent Songs Of The King Pt. 2 - The King's Palace Lyrics | 2 years ago |
| This is the second of the two instrumental songs that close the album "Avatar Country." The frontman Johannes Eckerstrom said: "It´s all about doing stuff we haven´t done before. ... it´s a really interesting challenge for us to work on an instrumental which also tells a story. Just like the other songs - they ended up on the album because they communicated something emotionally. That´s how I end up writing lyrics – this made me feel something and it made me envision something, and then I put pen to paper. It all starts with the music, and to have something with all those emotions in an instrumental song is a true challenge. The electronic song is called “Winter Comes When the King Dreams of Snow”, and to me that is exactly what that song sounds like – it sounds like a dream of snow. Likewise, on “The King´s Palace”, to me that is grand architecture in musical form." | |
| Avatar – Silent Songs Of The King Pt. 1 - Winter Comes When The King Dreams Of Snow Lyrics | 2 years ago |
| This is the first of the two instrumental songs that close the album "Avatar Country." The frontman Johannes Eckerstrom said: "It´s all about doing stuff we haven´t done before. ... it´s a really interesting challenge for us to work on an instrumental which also tells a story. Just like the other songs - they ended up on the album because they communicated something emotionally. That´s how I end up writing lyrics – this made me feel something and it made me envision something, and then I put pen to paper. It all starts with the music, and to have something with all those emotions in an instrumental song is a true challenge. The electronic song is called “Winter Comes When the King Dreams of Snow”, and to me that is exactly what that song sounds like – it sounds like a dream of snow. Likewise, on “The King´s Palace”, to me that is grand architecture in musical form." | |
| Avatar – King After King Lyrics | 2 years ago |
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The song is part of the concept album "Avatar Country." The album, as a whole, centers on the King of Avatar Country. The metaphor basically equates the band's music as a country, which means the King would represent the leader or representative of the band's music. The song is about the death of the king, and the song accordingly recounts the reciprocal affection between the king and the people: the king wants to be buried with the citizens, and the citizens mourn and honor the deceased king, building a throne and singing songs for their king. The line "He was buried at dusk, at dawn he returns" even connects the king to Christ, which shows how much the people have come to adore and love their king ... this metaphor, basically, further bespeaks the close relationship between the band Avatar and the listeners of the band's music. At some point, the band Avatar will have to breakup (or die) too, so the song is about how they evision the end of the band will be: the fans will honor the band, and the band will honor its fans. |
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| Avatar – A Statue Of The King Lyrics | 2 years ago |
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The song is part of the concept album "Avatar Country." The album, as a whole, centers on the King of Avatar Country. The metaphor basically equates the band's music as a country, which means the King would represent the leader or representative of the band's music. This song is about how the people of Avatar Country build a statue for the king. The people are enthusiastic and eager to build the statue for their beloved king (ie "Bigger than the last one, bigger than the best one!"), and the king is appreciatiative of them too (ie "My beloved citizens!"). The song thus demonstrates the relationship between the King of Avatar Country and the people of Avatar Country. Therefore, the song speaks to the relationship between the band Avatar and the listeners / fans of Avatar. |
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| Avatar – The King Speaks Lyrics | 2 years ago |
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The frontman Johannes Eckerstrom said of this skit: . "We wanted to put an example there of what a fine public speaker our King is, and this was an important day. The will of the King is the will of the people and vice versa, and so it goes also with the wellbeing of the King and the people. As the king has problems with his bowel movements, we all feel it, and the whole nation was constipated [laughs]! And of course, because of the richness and usefulness of his bowel movements, we also worried about fall´s harvest and how putting the seeds in the ground would be affected when that fine manure would be around. But luckily for the people it all turned out just fine. As you can hear from the audience in the recording, it was a big deal!" |
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| Avatar – The King Wants You Lyrics | 2 years ago |
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The song is part of the concept album "Avatar Country." The album, as a whole, centers on the King of Avatar Country. The metaphor basically equates the band's music as a country, which means the King would represent the leader or representative of the band's music. So this song refers to people who join the army in Avatar Country. The people don't know who or what they're fighting ("I don't know why we're fighting"), but they go anyways to defend the motherland. The metaphor speaks to the loyalty of the people of Avatar Country, which symbolically speaks to the loyalty of Avatar's fans |
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| Avatar – King's Harvest Lyrics | 2 years ago |
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The song is part of the concept album "Avatar Country." The album, as a whole, centers on the King of Avatar Country. The metaphor basically equates the band's music as a country, which means the King would represent the leader or representative of the band's music. The song is about how people of Avatar turn to the king for sustenance, such as food. So the metaphor speaks to the way the listeners of Avatar turn to the band's music as a form of sustenance; the music means that much for people |
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| Avatar – The King Welcomes You To Avatar Country Lyrics | 2 years ago |
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The song is part of the concept album "Avatar Country." The album, as a whole, centers on the King of Avatar Country. The metaphor basically equates the band's music as a country, which means the King would represent the leader or representative of the band's music. This song is about a stranger who enters Avatar Country and learns about the king. The metaphor basically speaks about someone who listens to Avatar's music for the first time and becomes mesmerized (e.g. "Final rebirth / The sky falls right in my face ...This is my final escape") |
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| Avatar – Legend Of The King Lyrics | 2 years ago |
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The song is the 2nd track on the concept album "Avatar Country." The album, as a whole, centers on the King of Avatar Country. The metaphor basically equates the band's music as a country, which means the King would represent the leader or representative of the band's music. This song is basically an ode to the king of Avatar Country, which means the song is basically an ode to the band's music. The first stanza does point in that direction, referring to music as a home inside of each of the band's listeners: "From the innermost sanctum (i.e. your eardrums) / Of the secret halls / A drum is pounding / Calling you home" |
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| Living Colour – Elvis Is Dead Lyrics | 2 years ago |
| The guitarist for Living Colour has said about this song: ““Elvis Is Dead” doesn’t castigate Elvis. Public Enemy was like, “Elvis was racist and simple and plain” [a paraphrase of the band’s 1989 single “Fight the Power”]. But it was maybe not as simple as that. The point of “Elvis is dead” is: You didn’t see him at the shopping mall.” | |
| Living Colour – Elvis Is Dead Lyrics | 2 years ago |
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I think the song is about the way people shamefully try to exploit Elvis’ popularity after his death instead of letting him rest in peace: for example, the first stanza in the song refers to those people, in the years after his death, who claimed his death was fake or staged. Many of those people claimed to have seen Elvis after his death; tabloids and others made money by publicizing those sort of stories. In addition, you can’t deny the criticism of Elvis adulation in the song too . I don’t think Living Colour was a fan of The King. The song admits that people idolized Elvis (“he was crowned king”), but it also notes that he was taught by a black man (whom nobody remembers or talks about today). So the song points back to the way Elvis allegedly plundered black music. The song also points out, harshly, that Elvis died all alone while he was sitting on his throne, or his toilet; so the song is mocking the way he died . The point of all this is to say , basically, that “Elvis wasn’t all that.” So why, the song asks, do we still exploit his name and fame decades after he died when he wasn’t so awesome in the first place? |
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| Slipknot – Unsainted Lyrics | 2 years ago |
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The song indeed targets religion. Specifically, the song argues that the standard of virtue promoted by religion is just not realistic or practical; people (the song argues) are naturally and unavoidably sinners. The song describes the speaker as a bad person --- he is a "villain with an itch to scratch," or a bad guy who craves sinful actions. He reaches "out for the hand of God" but realizes that even he wouldn't shake his own hand presumably because he's so bad (i.e. "did you think you'd shake your own"). He feels the "killing field is all grown over," which hints at his desire to kill; and he "wants it wild," which hints at his desire to generally to do bad stuff. So he's a bad guy. But instead of viewing himself as flawed (as most religious would), the speaker argues that being a sinner is simply who he is; he should therefore try to welcome and accept the notion that he is a bad person. The chorus says, "I'll never kill myself to save my soul." The meaning is that the speaker won't change who he is (i.e. a bad guy) in order to save his soul by reaching Heaven or sainthood. Correspondingly, "I'm finally holding on to letting go" means he is holding on to who he is (i.e. a bad guy); and he is thus "letting go" of the notion that he needs to be good. Hence, "You've [i.e. I've] killed the saint in me" and "I'm setting you free" signify that he's not going to suppress his bad side anymore; just let it out. As for why he chooses to accept his badness in this way, the song argues that being a bad person is simply unavoidable and enjoyable for him--- he says near the end, "Did you think you could win?" The feeling is that he realizes that he can't get himself to stop committing bad deeds, no matter how hard he tries. He just can't win in his efforts to refrain from sin, in other words. The lines, "Pick a lord and you pray to it ... But your stories don't read for me" as well as "But your bibles don't work on me" are corroboratory. These lines hint that he has tried turning to religion to eradicate his tendency to commit sin, but it just hasn't worked: those bible "stories don't read for me" or "work on me." The overall conclusion is that he can't stop being bad through will-power or study of religious texts. In addition, he says, "I'm not your sin, / I was all that you wanted and more, but you didn't want me." Here, the speaker hints that he ostensibly didn't want to be bad (i.e. "but you didn't want me"), but deep down, he really loved it: committing sin "was all that [he] wanted and more." Accordingly, "I'm not your sin" reasonably means that he shouldn't treat his badness as "sin," or something to be shunned and scorned. He should instead accept it and embrace it. In this thought, being bad is something thrilling and enjoyable for people. The ensuing suggestion is that people can't stop committing sin because committing sin is so pleasurable and enticing. |
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| Slipknot – FInale Lyrics | 2 years ago |
| Slipknot – FInale Lyrics | 2 years ago |
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Great song. I've heard that the meaning of the song referred to the band's connection to Roadrunner Records: the band had announced that the album "The End, So Far" would be the last album released under Roadrunner Records. The band had been signed with Roadrunner Records since 1999. Since they were leaving this label after such a LONG time, the band decided to reflect on their career and the reason keep going. I've also heard that the song was meant to be Slipknot's possible farewell, if it came to that point. The song's sad / mournful sound hints at this idea. Looking at the lyrics - the song discusses the many troubles they've had throughout their career (e.g. "sad things," "punishments," "accidents," "bitter pills," "long depressions," "shorter fuse," "darker thoughts," "tangled knots" etc.). Thus, the chorus aptly says, "I know it's a shame." Nonetheless, the song says that the "denominator is you," a likely reference to the fans who listen and support the band because the fans have always been there (i.e. they've been a denominator, underlying their whole career). The "denominator" comparison hints that the fans have been some sort of stabilizing part of the band's tumultuous career. In the second verse, the song indeed references "The populace," which is another likely reference to the fans. The song associates the fans (the "populace") with "stronger wills," "innocence," "common sense," which are all positive." The moments with the fans might be "rare occasions," as the negative stuff happen more often. But those "rare occasions ...exist," and they feel damn good. Hence, the band says in the chorus, "but I gotta stay / Cause I like it here" because of the fans. So basically --- they've gone through a lot of pain and trouble in their career. But they keep going because of the fans, the common denominator. Hence, "I know it's a shame, but I gotta' stay / Cause I like it here" |
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| Alter Bridge – Brand New Start Lyrics | 2 years ago |
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The song is definitely about hitting the reset button on a sour relationship. Things may be difficult (e.g. "the pieces torn apart," "your sorrows," "the disorder"), but the song urges people to move on to better times: look ahead at the "break of day [that] is before us" and "make a brand new start" by casting "your sorrows to the wind," or just letting those problems go. The reference to "the highway" and "desert road" point to being carefree and burden-free, as highways connote freedom. The idea is to just hit the road and forget all that's been bothering you the last few days. The song delivers that message in the context of a romantic relationship. The opening of the song says, "We leave as one." That phrase reasonably points to marriage, a union between two people. So the impression is that the relationship went sour for some reason, so the speaker is urging him and his partner to start over. |
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