| National Product – By All Means Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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This is my interpretation: Those conservative individuals, who are supposedly wiser and more righteous, tell the band what they should do with their lives. Yet if they dwell on these restraints, on these doubts, they will not seize the day like they are supposed to. They will never remember today. Yet I think the song also references the fact that if they get carried away with their task, they will forget their loved ones and the facets of their lives that they took for granted. The song also gives a phoenix reference, which is the band's symbol. So basically, the song's moral is: Embrace the old but do not dwell on the detractions, but rather rise from the ashes of it and seize the day. |
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| AFI – 37mm Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Still, I guess I should allow you to hear what you want to hear, just as you passed on the opportunity to insult my admittedly "out-there" theory. See you on the message board, Lucid Dream. | |
| AFI – 37mm Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Still, what's on the top of the page is what is in the Decemberunderground lyrics book. Did Davey not check his own lyrics book before putting it out? I initially thought the first word of the second verse was "parents" as well, but after listening you only get the P sound from the percussion that leads into the verse. He really does say "Silence". Those message boards probably tried to interpret the lyrics before the actual CD came out, as many fan sites do. | |
| AFI – 37mm Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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to Lucid Dream... you can't just change the lyrics. the lyrics book say that the ones already posted on this page are true, and if you listen closely they are correct in this recording. davey may be liberal with the way his lyrics aren't set in stone... but you can't just change a recording. anyway, this has become one of my favorite songs ever in the past couple months. i have thought over the lyrics time and again, and here are the interpretations i now believe davey had in mind while writing 37mm. no matter what davey says to magazines, AFI lyrics have Christian references. in fact, due to the references throughout decemberunderground, it is my opinion that in this album, the character (whether it be davey, or winter, or whatever... or it could be just one character of many in the album) makes the false claim that he is God, but in doing so shows that he is megalomaniacal and can be compared to the Antichrist (because the Antichrist claims to be God). This Antichrist reference is apparent in the rabbits in the shape of the three sixes on the cover and the release date of the album (666). Miss Murder provides a great deal of evidence for this, as many people have already interpreted that a megalomaniacal individual who eventually kills himself is at the topic of the song (whether that be Hitler, Jesus, Cobain, or symbolically Davey ending AFI). Further evidence for the Antichrist theory can be seen in the album title (hiding from the birth of Jesus), almost all of Sing the Sorrow (the love that Jesus preaches is replaced with sadness and hate, especially in Miseria Cantare), the fall theme throughout their music, etc. The whole CD also plays somewhat like the musical "Jesus Christ, Superstar" in that this megalomaniacal individual finds that the only way he will become immortal is through his death, which he plays off as a murder but is actually a suicide. The end of AFI is also hinted at throughout this album (Miss Murder, The Missing Frame and it's breakdown, and Endlessly, She Said) and their age makes it believable. the songs before this have hinted of the fate of the character, and symbolically of Davey and the band. prelude 12/21 is basically a prelude to the end of the year, the end of time (Mayan reference), the end of AFI. in kill caustic, davey questions if the music is all that he has left, but he knows it will have to end soon, so he knows the detatchment will be violent, hence the title of the song. in miss murder, as i have stated, the character, who could represent many people, asks if he must kill himself (or the music) to preserve his legacy (beauty). summer shudder shows davey's fears that when his fans leave decemberunderground and AFI is invisible and the fire inside has burnt away, their lives will look less important and so small. in the interview, the massively popular character (davey) tells the interviewer the truth... he will lose his name, his dreams of eternal grandeur will fall through, and he tells the fans to calm down and not cry. finally, the character realizes the way that his end can still be epic, and it is through suicide, through decemberunderground, through bringing the fans to take part in the sorrow of decemberunderground, and through becoming a god in this place. in love like winter, he also revives this lover he spoke of earlier... either miss murder or perhaps the interviewer, or if not one of those then someone he meets in decemberunderground who has fled from the same world he has. the first line of affliction gives another hitler reference, reigniting the notion of the character as someone who will take his life in order to try to make himself immortal. the song shows that the character is undergoing affliction (the thorny sticks behind the lyrics can wrap into a crown of thorns) but the affliction is inflicted by himself through bleeding wrists, not through others as he attempts to suggest. in the missing frame, the character is almost in davey's exact situation, as he sees the sanctity and legitamacy of his band is being threatened by his media hype. no one in the band cares, none of the media cares that they are destroying this artist, but his music will inevitably falter and he will die along with it. kiss and control is a night out on the town in hollywood with all the stars, who give you ecstacy and drugs to watch the city lights, but they are really spiraling you toward a quick death which you will forever be glorified through (we all want to die like movie stars, we'll burn like stars, watch the stars turn you to nothing, etc.). in the killing lights, davey realizes that these celebrities, these camera bulbs are killing him, and he knows he is dying through the magazines (they never forget a face when they cut you up). which brings us to 37mm... the scenario: in 37mm, the deranged and conceded character is spiraling down into the suicide he will inevitably inflict. the cameras (hence a 37mm camera) literally become guns (so the interpretation of a 37mm as a gun is correct as well) as the media encircles davey, who feels his music will suffer with this attention (paper airplanes also tells of Davey's worry that selling out will destroy him). he speaks to a fan, or perhaps a lover, who tries to convert, who he tries to make believe in him. his words show that he claims and/or believes that he is Jesus Christ. Bring your secrets to me. (You can confide in me. Here in Decemberunderground, I am your everything.) Just give me your hand and I'll let you feel the wounds they put in me (Direct reference to Jesus placing Doubting Thomas' hands on his wounds. This makes the fan/lover believe that he is real, he is a god, but these wounds are self-inflicted). If you believe in me how can I be dissolving (he knows that through his fans he will live on, just as Jesus has never died for 2000 years)? If you'd believe me I'd tell you everything (I'll tell you the meaning of life [sorrow as opposed to Jesus' love]). Do you fall too? (Question from God, making the fan/lover acknowledge their faith in him) Yes, I fall. (affirmation, oath) Do you want to fall into me? (Also shows that they both arew confused and through this confusion they will only continue to fall together in decemberunderground) Every time that I try to pacify I fall (i think this is a drug reference, especially the word pacify leads me to believe this). Silence can you hear me? (Davey is the music, and he will cure the death of silence, but soon his suicide will make his music live on, for his fans believed in him) Press me to your lips and I'll suck the poison out (the drug previously mentioned must be silence, which makes sense because they would've destroyed Davey's voice). Who will heal me (Davey cannot be healed because he thought by killing himself he took sin away from his followers, but he is forever physically dead)? If you keep killing me how can I keep absolving? Your sins into me, begin the poisoning. (He asks the paradoxical question that how can a death cure death? Is this sacrifice true? Is he really a god? If not, how can he take their sins away?) Time, we're not waiting. Time, we're no one. (Time will take away fame, making them no one. No one will wait or be around later, and he will be dead). |
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| Chevelle – The Clincher Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| plus he probably wrote this song after seeing "The Passion of the Christ" since the movie came out and was in theatres at about the same time Chevelle was writing this album. | |
| Chevelle – The Clincher Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| hard to follow an essay like that, but i have been thinking about this song for the longest time. i immediately came to the conclusion that it's about Jesus' crucifixion. yet when i heard chevelle say it's about claustrophobia and getting scared after getting locked in a guitar case, i became confused. then, it hit me. he's relating the events to make even more parallels and layers to the song. no matter what way you think about it or what you believe, JESUS WAS BURIED ALIVE. this applies in the physical sense if you don't believe in the ressurection, because Jesus had to be buried alive to escape the cave and talk to the disciples, and spiritually if you do believe in the resurrection. this song says that, after God reTOUCHed the Earth in the form of Jesus, after Jesus was nailed to the cross and "tHis body's left the soul", and after Christ's blood in the form of His followers spreading His word (love one another) saturated the Earth, our fate in heaven with God is clinched. | |
| My Chemical Romance – Helena Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| " ...And like a blade you stain... " was his grandma a cutter? | |
| Slipknot – Duality Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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i wonder if Xgoatface's extra testosterone had made him not only look like a goat, but grow lactating nipples as well. that goes for all the other people on here that didn't say anything about the meaning of the song, but just rambled on about how either a) it's good before a football game b) slipknot have sold out c) people who say slipknot sold out suck i think the song is about how destiny and life itself are making him want to die. what a pussy. go ahead and give into the pain, pussy, your music is fruitless and meaningless anyway. go buy yourself some fucking creativity. |
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| Slipknot – Left Behind Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| now, i actually think the song's metaphors indicate that a christian friend he had was preaching to him, and he didn't care and he disowned them. | |
| My Chemical Romance – The Ghost of You Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| i think it's about how he loses someone who dies and she was an atheist, so he'll never see her in heaven | |
| Shinedown – Fly From The Inside Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| this song is obviously about shakespeare's macbeth. go read it. | |
| Lostprophets – Shinobi Vs. Dragon Ninja Lyrics | 23 years ago |
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i have a swim coach named shinobu funny stuff |
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| Breaking Benjamin – Polyamorous Lyrics | 23 years ago |
| anyone who doesnt know what polyamorous means is a dumass. its not a real word but you can see poly and amor so you know what it means ; i agree with DarkSilver | |
| Slipknot – Left Behind Lyrics | 23 years ago |
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plus it wasnt supposed to be calcify, its supposed to be crucify, as in jesus, and the first line is about the millions of christians disapeering, i cant stand to see your thalidomide robot face dont even try it! you had to be a liar just to infiltrate me- im still drowning this is about how the false prophets have no feeling, and he wants them to get away anyway cuz he doesnt want to go to heaven cuz hes a dumfuck, hence the last 2 lines |
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| Slipknot – Left Behind Lyrics | 23 years ago |
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wait and bleed is about masterbating in a bush until you bleed, just like mushroomhead "solitaire unraveling" and yes to anyone who says this song is about the holy rapture- it is |
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| Linkin Park – Crawling Lyrics | 23 years ago |
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linkin park forever dude, they sold the most records of any artist in 2001, so i guess majority rules, linkin park is the best beeatch- theyre better than any punk or ska or death metal crap i ever heard, actually theyre the best i ever heard out of any music, so i guess thats not saying a lot, but i think punk, ska, and death metal suck this song is about feeling like you can't do anything, you feel trapped, you dont know yourself if you like linkin park, go check out trust company and nonpoint if you don't, you can blow hydrogen or golgotha |
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| TRUSTCompany – Downfall Lyrics | 23 years ago |
| ya, they had to change it once they were signed, because there's already sum 41, and there's already down, so its pretty stupid, but i noticed a hella lot of their songs have to do with being down and falling, (notice this song) also "take it all" and "drop to zero" and "shallow" are about this, go check out those songs | |
| TRUSTCompany – Take It All Lyrics | 23 years ago |
| this is the best song besides downfall, go download it if you havent already done so, or add another comment so people check this song out, its tight | |
| The X-ecutioners – It's Going Down Lyrics | 23 years ago |
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linkin park is way better than any punk crap will ever be i dont know why, i just dont find anything artistic in punk or ska but linkin park and other good bands like nickleback, default, trustcompany,glassjaw, slipknot, mudvayne, are super artistic, thats cool but there's other bands that are just along for the ride like static X, disturbed, and saliva and crazy town (SUCK) but linkin park is super good, they were my fav band as soon as i heard one step closer i hate most all the rap that is just plain rap, but when it is mixed with rock, it sounds cool i hope all plain hip hop is swaLLowed by the nu metal wave that is happening now, and i hope linkin park doesnt sell out (looks like theyre starting to do so) but i hope they have a good cd after re-animation i know that was a lot of shi+ to comprehend, but oh well |
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| TRUSTCompany – Downfall Lyrics | 23 years ago |
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i hate how some of the songs on the net are just repeats of the course over and over again PLUS theyre mislabeled sucks, but TC rules |
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| TRUSTCompany – Downfall Lyrics | 23 years ago |
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this song is REALLY good buy the cd on july 9 trust company is the best along with linkin park they are the next rock band make them popular this song is about how someone pushes him down, so he starts again, but this time he's bigger and better than what he was before this happened to me during track season, so now im gonna train and kick everyone's ass next year, just like how TC kicks ass tommy |
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