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| NOFX – Fleas Lyrics
| 23 years ago
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I think this song's about not passing on your bad habits to your children. The father obviously has done some bad things in his life that didn't come out for the better in the end. He's advising his son to follow what he knows what it right and not to mimic his own behavior. |
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| NOFX – Reeko Lyrics
| 23 years ago
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I think it has something to say about our economy and our morale condition in the world is beyond help. Nothing can be done for the party or the United States in the song and it compares the the nicely. When the government tries to help it, they'll only make it worse. |
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| Tool – Jimmy Lyrics
| 23 years ago
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Great story, Uppity, moving and brings the entire song full circle. The alternate personalities of Eleven and Jimmy make quite a lot of sense, and bring together one of the lines I hadn't thought much of in the past: "Until one and one are one." Thanks for the enlightenment. |
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| Tool – Lateralus Lyrics
| 23 years ago
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A masterpiece of a song. Takes an extremely talented group of people to perform a song like this one, with sections in the 7/8 time measure. The lyrics are more than meaningful. The entire message of the album Lateralus and the song that is its namesake is unity, I think, and evolution of the human race. "To feel connected" is to live together as one race, seeing the beauty, power, and feeling the rhythm of the oneness and unity everyone can feel. Spiralling out of our individuality will forth the race to grow out of the bonds of war and greed. "With my feet upon the ground, I lose myself between the sounds..." Maynard's idea is perceptible and tangible to the world, if only everyone would listen, hence having one's feet firmly planted on the ground, even though their head is in the clouds, represents a kind of metaphor for a reachable goal.
Tool claims the "Lateralis" song name was not intended to be spelt the way it was. It was a typo of sorts they say. The working title of Lateralus was "7-8-9" signifying the time measures of the song, and was later named the title track of the album.
And oh yes, antiaverage, Maynard claims it's an odd sound his siamese cat makes recorded and slowed down to make an eerie kind of groaning. Great song, great album. |
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| Tool – Faaip de Oiad Lyrics
| 23 years ago
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"Faaip De Oiad" means the Voice of God in Latin or some closely related language. This track was taken from an Art Bell caller (a long-running late night radio program about the paranormal) who claimed to be running from the government after being expelled from the Area 51 Military and Research Base. He details the government's plan to survive beneath the new rule of a race of aliens who has recently learned to traverse dimensions into our own. "The government knows about them... the few that are left will be more easily controllable." It seems as if these aliens were requesting that in order to survive the government help them destroy the ones that would be unruly and create war. This song definitely brings about a cold sweat whenever I listen to it. At the very end of the track, it suddenly cuts out. On the Art Bell radio program, the signal from the broadcast was cut suddenly off, causing every radio listening in the country and world's radio to go to static. |
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| Tool – Stinkfist Lyrics
| 23 years ago
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My interpretation of "Stinkfist" is how the media and news has pushed the limits over and over in the past hundred years, slowly desensitizing the public to even the horror of plane crashes and school shootings.
Think about it. Fifty years ago you couldn't say the word 'pregnant' on television but now you can say nearly anything on any television show you like. People have been shocked at this, but shock gives people a kind of entertainment. If they like it, they like it, if they don't, they're going to tend to do something about it, which is only further publicizing the television show or band's lyrics by picketing against them.
By now the average person has seen enough shooting in video games, the news, etc. that the true thing wouldn't really shock us all that much. By now, what person who turns on their television and reads about a grizzly murder breaks down crying? Nearly no one. Why? Because they don't feel empathetic, or even sympathetic, any longer. They've heard it all before and it's too late for them to feel anything but numbness about the situation.
The metaphor of fisting exists to show how someone gradually builds tolerance to something and needs more of that something to feel effect or shock. The same goes with drugs. Overall, great song. |
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