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| Nine Inch Nails – Even Deeper Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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Does anyone ever consider interpreting art as art, rather than acting like a bunch of gossiping wives? Stop trying to dissect Trent Reznor. If he simply transcribed his personal life into his songs, you wouldn't have good music. If you can't identify any deeper meaning for yourself in any of his lyrics, then you are precisely the sort of person who gives him something in common with Kurt Cobain: the desire to commit suicide. You're like the shallow whores who loved "Smells Like Teen Spirit" when it contained nothing but contempt for you. |
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| Nine Inch Nails – March of the Pigs Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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MindlessInsanity is correct. The Pigs are all those who conform and want to see the character in the song fail. The character's rebellion against society is really a rebellion against himself. The pigs, therefore, are the voices inside of him that urge him on just as they are the people who get close to him just to see him fail.
The character wants to see society come down, but his true desire, though he doesn't know it, is to see himself come down. "Take the skin and peel it back" refers to the character finally giving into the Pigs, and his own, unacknowledged motive, by allowing society to defeat him. Now, the Pigs can all sleep soundly, and Reznor has set the stage for "Closer," in which the character is now soulless and fucking to tap into God. |
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| A Perfect Circle – Orestes Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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I'd just like to offer this... the line "liberate this will to release us all" seems to imply that the speaker in the song wants to get rid of his desire to help others. He wants to "liberate" his philanthropic goal to "release us all." The umbilical to the mother is a metaphor for the umbilical to the whole human race. |
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| Our Lady Peace – One Man Army Lyrics
| 22 years ago
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The song isn't about marching, it's about falling. "I don't want to remember falling." This guy remembers marching through life, self-assured, his own person. He entered a blaze, some sort of test, it was a lie, and he has fallen. Now, he needs to forget that happened so he can go on marching again. It isn't about individuality so much as it is about each and every individual person's one man march in the world. OLP's general message is about learning to rely on yourself, not how to become an individual (I think the individuality message is just one that people who frequent internet message boards are most apt to see). This song deals with what happens when something makes you trip. |
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| Linkin Park – Faint Lyrics
| 23 years ago
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This is my favorite off the new record. I like that the group is trying to evolve, and I particularly like the less rap-ish feel of this new album, but what I miss is the shouting and screaming. Why do bands tend to chill out when they "grow as artists"? Oh well... "Faint" is fan-frickin-tastic. The most unique sound and the awesomest to sing along with. Gets you pumped. All their lyrics are insightful. It's the most reminiscient of hybrid Theory, I think. |
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| No Doubt – Hey Baby Lyrics
| 23 years ago
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Am I the only one who thinks this song is mocking the culture that Gwen inhabits? The lyrics seem to paint a cynical picture of guys and girls playing each other. The refrain alone makes me think that someone's ways are being mocked, not paid tribute to. By boiling it all down to such a rudimentary level (And the boys say... and the girls say...) I think it is saying something about the maturity level involved. |
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| Nine Inch Nails – Happiness in Slavery Lyrics
| 23 years ago
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What makes Trent's songs cool is that he DOESN'T have any answers. His music is his own dialogue with himself. Should we give into happiness and become a slave, or remain free but cursed to never being happy? Slavery can indeed lead to happiness. It's what society was founded on. Does a slave mentality lead to happiness or does happiness lead to a slave mentality? Does unhappiness lead to being independent or does independence lead to unhappiness? This unanswered paradox is Trent's, and our, plight. |
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| Nine Inch Nails – Hurt Lyrics
| 23 years ago
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This song is not about suicide. It is about choosing not to commit suicide, because you are too in love with yourself, too frightened, or too unassertive. In the song before this on "The Downward Spiral," the narrator confronts himself with suicide, but as this final track reveals, he didn't go through with it. He chose continued life, but a life upon which he's given up, and turns to heroine. He has nothing, but he would "keep himself" anyway. He goes on living because he desires that second chance that he speaks of in the last stanza. |
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| Blink-182 – Adam's Song Lyrics
| 23 years ago
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Regardless of what concrete things this song might be referring to, I tend to interpret in abstract. When I first listened to "the tour was over," I thought of myself as a little kid, visiting the outside world, when it seems like an alien tour. All I wanted to do was go back home to pass the time in your room alone, with your toys. This is a song about profound sadness. It is not optimistic; that last stanza is a trite shift in emphasis. I can see why young people might commit suicide to this song. Its nostalgic tone is TOO effective in evoking emotions. |
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| KoЯn – Thoughtless Lyrics
| 23 years ago
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I think there is a definite trend emerging in our society, with repressed people finding their only outlet through rageful rebellion that results in destruction. First there was Columbine, then there was 9/11. I think this song can describe both of them. We live in a world where corporate interest, advertizement, and consumerism judge you. Conformity is a bludgeon with which we are beaten. It is the new religion. |
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| Disturbed – Conflict Lyrics
| 23 years ago
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The Ecstacy interpretation is fascinating, but I think the song is about war and how retarded it is. Nationalism gets us all fired up against "the enemy" but it's all meaningless. Your nation is the one that claims to love life, yet it is the one inventing new ways to kill life. So, the message isn't that everyone's your enemy, it's that NO ONE is! |
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| Linkin Park – Rnw@y Lyrics
| 23 years ago
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Who is Phoenix Orion and why is he 'rapping' about himself in the middle of the song? Jesus, every rapper has turned into Eminem, doing that vain self-portrait/ranting approach to song-writing. This remixed version SOUNDS awesome, but the revised lyrics SUCK. |
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