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| Savatage – White Witch Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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The song appears to be about drugs, specifically cocaine, personified metaphorically as an evil, destructive seductress. It's not exactly subtle, is it... |
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| Tori Amos – Crucify Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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I think to a large degree this song is about the harmful psychological effects of literalist/strict ("fundamentalist") religion. Specifically, the way it saddles people with guilt for being human (being imperfect and having deisres and drives), especially with regards to sex (IE the lines about dirty sheets, etc.), which results in people beating themselves up over things they often know (but have yet to convince their subconscious) that they shouldn't even feel bad about (crucifying). Furthermore, it inspires a spiteful, judgemental, "holier than thou" attitude (the lines about pointed fingers and a kick for a dog begging for love) which tends to destroy interpersonal bonds, especially between parent and child, and hence often results in children from these families looking for love (or a cheap, easy substitute) elsewhere...like in irresponsible sex (looking for love between dirty sheets again), though they may feel very guilty... |
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| Breaking Benjamin – So Cold Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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I think the "wise men wonder while strong men die" part refers to war in its various manifestations, which leads me to suspect that this song is sort of a general lamentation of the lack of compassion between individuals and cultures in the world... |
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| Pink Floyd – Two Suns in the Sunset Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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Incredible, piperatthewall. I suppose there is somewhat of a panic element, but I think it's less panicking than sort of fearful resignedness. I suppose the panic thing makes sense in terms of the individual lines, though... Still, this is a pretty blatant example of taking a small part of a whole, examining them out of context, and drawing conclusions that have little to do what was actually meant. Reminds me of creationist literature... |
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| Bruce Springsteen – Dancing In The Dark Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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I haven't heard that story, but there's nothing obvious about that connection from the lyrics. I suppose I can see how the second half of the chorus could lead to that conclusion (gun for hire, dancing in the dark/shadows), but the rest of the lyrics seem patently unrelated... |
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| The Smashing Pumpkins – 1979 Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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Ah, here we go:
"It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn't wait to leave." -Anatole Broyard |
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| Seether – 69 Tea Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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[vitriol]What a truly admirable example of a "begs the question" fallacy, No1Special. Let's try a thought experiment: let's pretend for a moment that not everyone shares your ideological/spiritual position (and not simply on account of ignorance) and not everyone accepts extraordinary assertions with zeal but no supporting evidence behind them as sufficient to establish something as true. Now let's stop pretending because that's how society fricking is![/vitriol]. Anyway, I'm inclined to say this song is about someone who feels like s/he has nowhere to turn and no one to lean on for comfort, including religion, but it's not focused specifically on that aspect. The person is disgusted with society and doesn't want anything to do with either social cliques or antisocial cliques. S/he seems to feel looked down on by society as well. The references to mental illness and associated confinement may be metaphorical for a more abstract form of alienation... |
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| The Smashing Pumpkins – 1979 Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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I haven't read through all these comments, but re: the nostalgia thing: I always wonder what people (especially in their 20s) are smoking when they discuss childhood or adolescence as carefree and idyllic (apparently forgetting that when they're older they'll be looking back at their current ages and thinking the same thing), and why they won't share... x.x |
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| Kansas – Dust In The Wind Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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Gunfyter et al: read these and think about it. I do hope you aren't among those who are so closed-minded they'd refuse to look at anything with "atheism" in the link...
http://www.ebonmusings.org/atheism/stardust.html
http://www.ebonmusings.org/atheism/lifeisfleeting.html
As for what this song means to me, not a whole lot...except it's something else to get stuck in my head and find both inspiring and depressing as I'm watching the sunset. I was referred to it by a friend who had been introduced to it by another friend of hers. The man in question lost his best friend and latent lover years ago to cancer, and he sent her this in response to her sending him a couple songs that reminded her of his story... |
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| Fear Factory – Zero Signal Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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I've always thought that with the dramatic buildup and intro, seguing into the fast, powerful guitars, this would make excellent soundtrack music for an epic confrontation between two powerful opponents in a movie or video game (archenemy confrontation or end boss fight), with them warily circling each other, perhaps some sort of verbal exchange, then as it starts into the main guitar theme, the combat begins... |
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| U2 – Pride (In the Name of Love) Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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From what I know of Bono the "Christ" thing is credible, but does anyone else think the rationale used to justify reading it into the lyrics on any other grounds smacks of wishful thinking? The "barbed wire fence" thing sounds like the kind of thing racist whites used to occasionally do to blacks in the old South; equating it with a "crown of thorns" is a stretch by any means. As for the kiss bit, that would describe Samson, or dozens of heroes undone by their erstwhile lovers, much better than Jesus (I don't seem to recall anything in the Gospels about kisses in this context...). The opening stanza's bit about justification might plausibly refer to Jesus specifically, but that's about it. Perhaps it would be more plausible to say that it's about heroes and martyrs in general, with the last song sort of zooming in on MLK... |
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| In Flames – Lord Hypnos Lyrics
| 22 years ago
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I'm not familiar with Hypnagonia, but the structure of the word and its usage suggest that it's a place (the kingdom of Hypnos?) rather than a person. A Pantheon is a temple to all the gods of a polytheistic belief system, hence it also refers to the belief system's gods as a whole. Pantheon could simply mean the abode of the gods, or refer to a godlike state. There's a story by H. P. Lovecraft called Hypnos which this song seems to have little to do with, but it is rather reminiscent of some of his Dreamlands writing. http://www.gizmology.net/lovecraft for more information. |
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| Judas Priest – Turbo Lover Lyrics
| 22 years ago
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Why's it nasty?
Anyway, I heard this on the radio recently. Has a nice beat, and it's pretty good, as I recall... |
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| Sepultura – Arise Lyrics
| 22 years ago
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Suggestion: Progress to vocabulary of third grader, THEN type. Anyway, I like this one...dark and yet epic and fast-paced, with an air of desperation. I can see this as soundtrack music in so many dystopia movies... |
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| Pearl Jam – Do the Evolution Lyrics
| 22 years ago
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SHHHH!!!!!!!! Don't give Bush ideas! Err....too late. };/
Anyway, this song is rather disturbing. I think the attitude it satirizes is derived from religion, particularly Christianity. Which is ironic, given the historical persecution of evolutionary theory by the church. Didn't the Catholics finally accept it in 1995 or something like that? Anyway, I remember an argument with a neo-fundamentalist friend. She went into some spiel about "higher" animals coming from "lower" ones and about how evolution was wrong because there were lower animals in more recent strata than some higher ones. I explained that scientific evolutionary theory is not a hierarchal "ladder," a preordained progression from "low" to "high," as widely believed, but a sort of bush structure in which better adapted species flourish and poorly adapted species die off. She replied that this was essentially saying that humans had no more worth or value than bacteria. I tried to explain that science deals with empirical data, not moral questions like "worth," and then went outside and banged my head on the wall for a while...which actually seemed to make it hurt less. Despite the fact that it bears little resemblance to the biologist's concept of evolution, this absurd idea about "higher" species is very deeply ingrained in people...and, conveniently, it can be used to "justify" all kinds of atrocities. On a related note, isn't it ironic how frequently "the greater good" becomes the greatest evil? |
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| Pink Floyd – Comfortably Numb Lyrics
| 23 years ago
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It really seems a bit narrowminded to ascribe this song to any one subject. It strikes me as a sort of fundamental representation of mental isolation and alienation; an introspective withdrawal, voluntary or otherwise, from reality and especially from human interaction, which could be due to drugs, or psychological stress, or a mental disorder, or... From what I've heard about The Wall, a combination of factors, largely stress, seems to be responsible for Pink's state here; he seems to be in the middle of a combined epiphany and emotional breakdown. I can relate... }:/
On a related note, I first heard this song a little over a year ago, something like a week or two after a (not close, but still missed) friend committed suicide. I couldn't make out the lyrics to speak of, but the dreamy tone and the bits about easing pain that I could hear were sort of comforting. I have no idea how she went about it, having heard from her best friend, who understandably didn't want to discuss the matter. Looking over the lyrics here, though, it seem like the sort of thing that might be going through the mind of someone dying from a drug overdose or bleeding to death... |
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| Flipp – Freak Lyrics
| 23 years ago
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Good song, but goddamnit, it's spelled "anybody." And it sounds more like "they tell me where you can go / I think you already know / that you're the one who is weak / that's why they call me a freak." |
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| Audiovent – The Energy Lyrics
| 23 years ago
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Ooh...Final Countdown *fumbles for winamp* I presume by Old Type you mean "80s hard rock." Anyway, this is a pretty nice song. It is on the radio quite a bit (98.5 and 106.5 in the Sacramento area), though.
And Shea, ffs, how did you manage to miss all the commentary on what people THOUGHT IT MEANT a page or two ago? Yeesh... |
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| Aerosmith – Janie's Got A Gun Lyrics
| 23 years ago
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Heard this on the radio on the way home from class today. Interesting song. Reminds me of some lyrics I wrote a while back; I can't write music worth a damn, though. x.x http://www.geocities.com/azzathoth/lyrics/louder2.3.txt what do you guys think of that one? |
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| Megadeth – Breadline Lyrics
| 23 years ago
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If I had to hazard a guess, it's about a now-homeless guy who used to be someone important before his life got f--ked up by drugs. |
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| Metallica – Hero of the Day Lyrics
| 23 years ago
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Sounds to me like someone's flashbacks about experience in war or other conflict and his musings on the fact that the people who start these fights are always looking for someone to fight for them ("off to find the hero of the day") and how they don't really care what happens to these heroes as long as they "win." It seems to be about the nightmarish nature of war and conflict, contrasted with home and family, and hope kept alive by the latter ("a light that warms no matter where they go"). "Can't you hear your babies crying?" refers to the way soldiers or others off fighting and trying to win various conflicts have left their homes and families, literally or figuratively, behind, and, I think, more broadly, to the way that domestic issues like poverty and homelessness are often ignored in favor of more defense spending. "War sucks. Let's go home" might be a good way to sum it up. |
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