| Deftones – Anniversary of an Uninteresting Event Lyrics | 9 months ago |
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I'm sure this song isn't actually about how I interpret it. The way interpret this song is entirely based on my personal experiences and trauma. To me, this song is about grieving someone that isn't dead. The overall process of realizing that even though someone is still alive, you won't ever see them again. Someone you viewed as a close and loyal friend that abandoned you, simultaneously feeling lonely and wishing they would come back, as well as feeling hints of betrayal, anger, and resentment. Again, doubt this is actually what the song is about. Just entirely me projecting my own trauma onto it. |
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| Nine Inch Nails – Big Man with a Gun Lyrics | 11 months ago |
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I'm pretty certain this is not a literal telling of events for The Downward Spiral. There's no way we go from this god awful evil events to feeling sympathy for the protagonist in the title track and Hurt. I take this song to mean one of 2 things 1. This is a twisted power fantasy. The protagonist feels worthless and is imagining a scenario in which he has control over someone he feels wronged him 2. This song is a non-canon event. Instead, it's a song mocking the stereotypical "tough guy." Just mocking the general toxic stereotype/concept that being manly means having a big penis, sleeping with a lot of women, and having a lot of guns. |
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| (Sandy) Alex G – Crab Lyrics | 11 months ago |
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I should warn before I go through with this song. It goes to some very dark places. The song itself is about a traumatized boy in his early teens who has a romantic/sexual relationship with a much, much older woman. A woman who seems to have physically (and likely sexually) abused the boy when he was a young child. The boy seems to justify the woman's actions in his head. This is very common in individuals who have been traumatized from childhood abuse. The song itself is essentially the boy reaching out to this woman, explaining to her that he's forgiven her. He also says that he's lonely and sad, and that he thinks she might be too. The boy and the woman start spending a lot of time together, which quickly leads to a very illegal relationship. This sort of quantifies that the woman is still very manipulative. She uses the fact that the boy is confused and in a state of teenage angst to her advantage to have a sexual relationship with him. |
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| Giles Corey – The Haunting Presence Lyrics | 1 year ago |
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This song's meaning can be found by using the Giles Corey booklet, which comes with most of it's physical releases. It tells the story of a man who sits in front of a piano and puts on the Voor's Head Device, which is a bag-like facial covering that muffles your hearing, blocks your sense of smell, covers your eyes, and makes it difficult to breathe. The purpose of this device is to make your mind more clear so you can make connections with the otherworldy. The track is supposed to be an experiment conducted by the man (He records himself). He wears the device and sits in front of a piano. He blacks out, and something else starts to influence his mind. While under the influence of whatever is trying to contact him, he starts playing the piano. Then, he starts singing, somewhat revealing what he's seeing underneath the mask. He is seeing the trials of Giles Corey, a man executed during the Salem Witch Trials. |
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| Have a Nice Life – The Big Gloom Lyrics | 1 year ago |
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Have A Nice Life's Frontman, Dan Barrett, actually revealed the meaning of this song in a Q&A shortly after Deathconsciousness's viral success. The Big Gloom tells the story of a male protagonist who has lost all hope and has gone into a state of crippling depression. In the song, we are inside the protagonist's head as he lies in an ice bath, contemplating suicide. We see his thoughts as he debates whether life is worth living or not, while also reflecting on his life. It is not made perfectly clear, but it seems that at the end of the song, the man commits suicide while submerged in the icebath. Throughout the man's thought processes, we see several callbacks to the Deathconsciousness booklet. Using the booklet, we can make sense of most of the more cryptic lyrics. Examples of some of the cryptic lyrics are "Oh please, please, please release me." Turning to the booklet, we see a brief segment that has this same quote. In the context of the booklet, we see that the line "Oh Please, Please, Please Release Me" refers to feeling hopeless and seeing your existence as pointless due to knowing that your time is limited and you, along with everyone else, will die someday. "The number that I've become, does it put you inside?" This refers to a quote very early on in the booklet "The realization that you are not a person, but a statistic." (Once again, a callback to the album's overarching concept of feeling hopeless at the sudden realization that your time with everyone is very limited.) "Just Open Up Your Eyes, You Dead Ones (All your ashes on the floor)" "Just open up your eyes, you dead ones" is a feeling of grief and missing someone that's passed away, crying out to no one and begging them to just open up their eyes. "All Your Ashes On The Floor" is another reference to the booklet. In the booklet, there is a story of a fictional cultist named Antiochus who is burned at the stake for organizing a mass murder. As he is being burned, a massive wave of wind blows over him and all his ashes started to blow, and they burned all the nearby observer's eyes and mouths. Most of the members of Antiochus' cult saw this as a miracle. |
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