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Queens of the Stone Age – The Lost Art of Keeping a Secret Lyrics 22 years ago
Qotsa and kyuss cannot be compared.

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Faith No More – Epic Lyrics 23 years ago
EmbryoSystem, little ironic that interpretation, isn't it? :)

I think "it" is whatever you strive after.

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Nine Inch Nails – Hurt Lyrics 23 years ago
To be honest I enjoy Jonny Cash's version of the song more than Nin's. It's something about his old, kind of grieving voice that does it for me.

/the needle tears a hole
the old familiar sting
try to kill it all away
but I remember everything/
I think this part of the song tells us that the person in the song have done something really bad. Maybe killed a person, I don't know.
He isn't able to forget it, it haunts him everywhere.

/I hurt myself today
to see if I still feel
I focus on the pain
the only thing that's real
the needle tears a hole
the old familiar sting
try to kill it all away/
I think this part tells us that the person sees himself as a person with no feelings, but to try to deny that he hurt himself to just check that he still feels.

/what have I become?
my sweetest friend
everyone I know
goes away in the end/
People turn their backs to him. Stop supporting him through this. He asks himself what he have become after doing this kind of thing. He sees himself as the scum of the earth. So here we have the self-loathing.
/you could have it all
my empire of dirt
I will let you down
I will make you hurt
I wear this crown of shit/
His empire of dirt is his life, the crown of shit is a metaphor to him. The king of his life, but since he think of himself as a kind of worthless person he does not carry a crown of gold, but shit.
/upon my liar's chair
full of broken thoughts
I cannot repair
beneath the stains of time
the feelings disappear
you are someone else
I am still right here/
Everyone but him changes, he still got his thoughts to worry about, the stains of time still are on his clothes.
/if I could start again
a million miles away
I would keep myself
I would find a way/
He would do it all over again, if he'd only had the chance, he would keep the good, old himself, if it only was a way.

Maybe a very shallow interpretation, and will you excuse my english, it sucks :)

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