| At the Drive-In – Quarantined Lyrics | 23 years ago |
| The last word of line 8 of my previous post should be 'warden' not 'warren'. A rabbit hole doesn't fit this song very well, unless someone wants to do some interpertation. | |
| At the Drive-In – 198d Lyrics | 23 years ago |
| When I first heard this song, it sounded like a reminder of our own mortality. I saw the entire Vaya EP as being about time, mortality, and death, as the title (in spanish) means "let me go" (or at least I think it means that, someone please correct me if I'm wrong), possibly referring to the grip of time, or approaching death. Maybe I just have a black veiw on life, but all the references to snow and cold, and the dance, life, being out of rhythm, and espeically the part about "tremors that warn us about ourselves" remind me of death, and time's steady onward march. This is probably the best song on Vaya, and I absolutely agree with prod, you must get this song, or even better, this whole album. | |
| At the Drive-In – Quarantined Lyrics | 23 years ago |
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I'm back for more, but I just thought of some new stuff. The first 2 lines were what really caught my attention in this song. They set up the whole scene. "Autonomous machete for hands" is describing how he feels that he no longer controls his actions, he just kills and feels numb. "Warren and judge hide behind mask" is a reference to their commanding officer, and God, respectively. The CO keeps there there, thus the warren, hiding from the soldiers behind a mask. God is the judge, he also hides from the soldiers, watching their actions ready to judge them. The title, "Quarantined" appears to have no pertinance (sp?) to the actual song, but when you think of the virus in the 7th line of the verse, the virus could represent the men fighting, who are quarantined, kept apart from their families. However, the outbreak, the war, is sanctioned by a higher authority. |
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| At the Drive-In – Quarantined Lyrics | 23 years ago |
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The rain and the bass riff right at the beginning give this song away. The bass is dark and low, reminding me of "Rooster", by Alice in Chains, and numerous Rage Against the Machine songs. Then when the bass stops the guitar does a high solo riff, and it immediately gets louder, like the calm before the storm. "Push becomes shove, days become months, I seem to have forgotten the warmth of the sun", is just describing how terrible the environment is, and how one hostile action leads to a reciprocated action by the other side, and he is becoming numb to it. and the second verse, from "Shackled the grapple and the sentinels found", to "Sanction this outbreak; a virus conspires", is describing how everyone is turning on everyone else, a net is flung over the civilians in the auditorium, binoculars see cardboard refugee camps, and discipline is falling apart, thus "no call to arms". This could be describing Vietnam, or just as easily, any other conflict. "Have trigger, will travel", is a play on words. When something is (supposedly)beneficial, one could say "Have [nameless thing], will travel." I think it used to be an advertising slogan. -tom |
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| At the Drive-In – One Armed Scissor Lyrics | 23 years ago |
| While I see the point that you make for this being a suicide note, or about self-mutilation, there is also some warnings about technology in here, "skin graft machinery / sputnik sickles found in the seats", but then the next few lines go right back to the self mutilation, this being ATDI, it is entirely possible that the song holds both meanings, if not more. | |
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