| Rancid – Maxwell Murder Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Maxwell is a chracter from Orwell's 'Burmese Days'. His murder is the catalyst for the indian revolution that starts the non-violence movement of Ghandi. But I doubt that relates to this song. It could....but I think it has more to do with a guy that had a drug overdose. Who really commits the crime in that situation? Dial 999 (911) - they'll tell you it's the drugs and dealers. But no one wants to believe that...they'd rather deny it and go on in their drug enduced fantasies. "Nobody wants to look back" |
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| Bad Religion – Beyond Electric Dreams Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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This one obviously written by Brett, since it's so hard for most people to understand. He says this about it in an interview: "Most of my themes were political on the new record, but the song “Beyond Electric Dreams” isn’t about religion, but about spirituality. It’s about finding hope and a basis for a moral code in nature; not needing to seek that through some kind of transcendental channel." This is basically a good summary of the best song on BR's new record. "Where the Raptor goes" could mean extinction, but, it could also play upon the previous passage of a "raptor, guileless shivering intensity". Besides the confusing, cosmic associations of the lyrics, this song reminds mostly of existential philosophy and Indian Buddhism. Herman Hesse is known for comparing these kinds of philosophies and spirtual observations with "geometric shapes, lines, music, and magic of the imagination" This song also implies that the only way to find spiritual fullfillment is by rupdiating human flaws, or the overall "Maya" of the world. This song is Bretts take on Eastern philosophy (and existentialism). |
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| Bad Religion – Live Again (The Fall of Man) Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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Yes. Many BR songs are about this exact theme, but people still don't quite get it sometimes. Wrinkled is of course, right on the nose. The Modern age is here. Christianity is being disproven again, again and again and again and again.... "Desperate, tenacious, clinging like a grain of sand Watching its foundation wash away" |
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| Bad Religion – God's Love Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| Gepetto almost has it. Yes, it's about how we all go through suffering and Christians believe that as athiests, our pain is God's love. But it's also about how Christians will deliberately "suspend justice", with the assumption that they can only leave God to judge certain acts. (I.E., the way the president bombs people consistently, or the citizens in Iraq) They believe everyone's true judgement will not happen in this life, therefore they pass severe judgement on other Christians. "There's no justice, just a cause and no cure" We only demand temporary reprieve. | |
| Bad Religion – Leaders and Followers Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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Another song capturing BR's "Antitheism". Don't restrict yourselves to a party/religion/institution. Think for yourself. He sees both the "Leaders and Followers" as inherently bad, as he states in the first two stanzas. 'Are you more then they" is the real question. |
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| Bad Religion – Generator Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| Actually....I've spoken to one of the members of the band on this issue (The bassist. Can't remember his name) He said he was a Christian, but he stays in the band because they're against religious institutions, the "Them and Us" shortcommings of holy rhetoric, and the idea that we don't have to take care of our world because we're going to a better one. I know many Christians that love bad religion, and are fully aware of what the lyrics mean. You don't have to be athiest to see that Religion is just plain wrong. | |
| Bad Religion – Evangeline Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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Yes. an Evangeline, is off the original Fall of "Eve", or "Eva", a man who preaches God, usually in an overly euphmatic sense with tricks and many times, with outright lies. A T.V. Evangelist, is who Greg refers to in the song. Many T.V. Evangelists will be deified, in the way that someone might actually believe they are completely pure of heart, or "come from heaven". Greg calls them "Conspirators", because they know that they are posing a false image of a glorious christian, often only to gain money or increase popularity. They are, literally, SALESMAN for God. |
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| Bad Religion – Entropy Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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Entropy. We use the word in a scientific sense, through biology and evolution. This song is about how foolish such a context is, because Entropy is a human issue, and it is always affecting mankind. We are just like our own specimens, "Random blobs of power " |
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| Bad Religion – Destined for Nothing Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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Another song about religion, but not only Judeo-Christian faith. It basically means that you can't spend your whole life searching for "eternity" and "Grand Design", or else your existence won't be significant. Best lines - "Does it make you suffer cuz you have to die Is it best to live a lie " Many Christians deliberately sacrifice the meaning in their lives because they would rather live a lie then think that their lives are ever going to end. |
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| Bad Religion – Boot Stamping on a Human Face Forever Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| This song is about that last desperate moment when you realize all the diligent activism you've gone through has resulted in so very little. Politics is an incredibly ugly world, the quintessential cultural biproduct of humanity's biggest flaws. The ideals we hold to make the world get better, will probably never be accepted or understood to be effective, and in the end all we can do is comfort each other. It also encapsulates the disillusion of idealistic, graduating college students upon entering the real world, with the intent of changing it. | |
| Bad Religion – All There Is Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| Yeah I sort of agree with Safety. There is of course religious distraction as well, and the Christians who believe that the world was made for them to serve God, only to begin and end with the human race. Could this be all there is? Is a question that calls attention to the existential idea that everything is significant. With "atoms" and "butterflys", how could the Cultural doctrine of faith, society, and humanity be "All there is?" We are only a whisper in time.... | |
| Pearl Jam – Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town Lyrics | 23 years ago |
| I heard on a Washington Radio station that according to Eddie Vedder this song is about a womans breats. I guess it was like when he went in a store or something, and when he says "you" He was really referring to her breats. I dunno if it's real or not but thats what I heard. Or it's just about a girl he never had the guts to talk too. | |
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