| Other Lives – Bright Eyes Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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Imagine being someone who seeks depth and has a different level of knowledge in their lives. Basically, someone with a degree of enlightenment and a healthy distrust of the frivolous and numbing aspects of pop-culture. You meet someone who seems capable of keeping up with you on this, only to see them slip into in-authenticity and a "Party-girl" Life-style that is anathema to your way of life. Trying to bring her back to the insights she once had proves futile, her eyes are still bright but she rejects her own spark, those who would dull it have her now. Seeing it hurts too much and you're trying too hard, which just hurts the relationship. Leaving you realizing that you have to say Goodbye. |
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| Other Lives – For the Last Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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Simply one of the most beautiful songs about the end of a relationship ever written and performed. I has the time-less quality of something that would play at the ending credits of an epic film, all in a dream. |
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| Other Lives – Weather Lyrics | 7 years ago |
| It's sung from the stand-point of those who are so insane with power that they actually conduct weather manipulation. | |
| Other Lives – Weather Lyrics | 7 years ago |
| It's sung from the stand-point of those who are so insane with power that they actually conduct weather manipulation. | |
| Puscifer – Momma Sed Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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People take it as the message from the Mother being a positive one . . . I'm not sure I agree, pay attention to the dynamics and low quality of the guitar notes, there is a quality of sorrow and unreality. Maybe I'm reading my own personal interpretation into this but imagine it, you've finally managed to cry yourself to sleep despite your broken heart. Only to be woken by your mother telling you this. Would you feel better? Not, "Yes dear, I know it hurts and life can be like that but It's all a learning experience, in time you'll understand that you went through all of this for a reason and you'll feel better about it all. You'll grow stronger and you'll learn more about yourself and how to Love. So don't let this bring you down for too long, okay? I Love you." That's more realistic and what I would want to hear from a Mother. This is someone taking a situation where you already feel bad and telling you life is shit and that you will only pass into shittier moments rather then ever knowing yourself and feeling triumph from how you can gain strength from adversity. It's all her forcing a dark, unhealthy and toxic World-view on the narrator. Maynard in this case. While he was already feeling afraid that this might be true, considering that there are indications of a conflicted and rocky relationship with his Mother and the overall tone of the song . . . Well . . . |
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| Other Lives – Black Tables Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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We should keep in mind that the members of the band changed their name from the comparatively nonsencisal Kunek to Other Lives for a reason. To me, the band is about exploring various probabilities in life, yet not just in the direct sense of what different paths in a single life that one can take. Yet something relating to the more esoteric aspects of past-lives. Which I think that this song is about. Imagine a couple that meets again and learns that they have a past-life connection. Yet It's overwhelming for them both and they go back and forth on believing in the power of their connection and denying it. Hence the first two verses. "Turning Black Tables" would refer to the magic of how they both contribute to the awe and fear surrounding their relationship. |
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| Enigma – Goodbye Milky Way Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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My understanding of this song goes into a really esoteric concept. Going by the subject matter and some of their other songs, I think that Michael Cretu privately identifies as a Star-seed. This is a concept that seems totally schizophrenic at first glance but pay attention to what the people claiming that about themselves are actually saying and how they conduct themselves. The belief may seem improbable but it actually isn't co-morbid with mental illness, in summation, a Star-seed is a person who finds reason to believe that they incarnated here on Earth from an extraterrestrial source. This opens the door onto a deeper interpretation of this song because Star-seeds report that the reason why they incarnated here on Earth is because they took on a mission in order to help uplift existence on this planet. Many of them describe feeling like this could be akin to a Hard-ship mission because they are leaving a peaceful and more advanced society for the turmoil and entrenched psychosis of Earth. Michael captured the feeling of this so perfectly that I can't imagine how he hasn't had the same kinds of feelings. The song represents the choice that all Star-seeds will face once this mission is accomplished: Shall I go, shall I stay Yet It's obvious that the narrator chooses to say goodbye. No reason is given why and the narrator even indicates that this is for personal reasons: Many times, so many doubts But no reason to talk about Many times they've wanted to leave and felt doubt but no reason to talk about it now. I will miss you children of the Sun There are those that will be missed that our Star-seed bonded with who will be remembered fondly. Humanity is encouraged to keep the higher insights and capabilities to heart and with that, their mind is made up, It's time to go back to the stars. It's a sorrowful goodbye but goodbye it is. |
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| Other Lives – Desert Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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My interpretation is that the narrator has reached a state of resignation but it also has a somewhat resentful after-taste. Feeling that all shall become inverse in time but perhaps not simply feeling above it, he effectively declares that "The fires ahead." are not his concern because he did not wish or intend for cataclysmic events to occur. It's a denial and abdication of responsibility, they see others causing their own suffering: "All of your city lights Turn your brightest days Into Sleepless nights. But It's not me. No It's not me." The narrator feels that they did not cause or play into this, yet the sadness of the refrain and tone of the lyrics invites a reply. You can hear them hanging their head and turning away on the last line. They do care but are masking it with self-righteous disappointment and lamentation. A person feeling like they have not been listened to, acknowledged or valued wishes to turn their back on the world as it ends but their emotions reveal this as a hollow declaration made in sorrow. As though they are begging someone to show them otherwise. Quite a cathartic and beautiful piece. |
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| Other Lives – Dust Bowl III Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| In my opinion, along with English Summer, this song is a perfect example of how Other Lives can not only come up with original compositions but ballads that are somehow eerily timeless. It's not like they've just drawn inspiration from a common archetypal motif but further explored it. | |
| Other Lives – Dark Horse Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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@[Tindalos:7233] That's: "Youtube channel Auroboros." In addition to a couple of other typos I made, where I meant to refer to Other Lives as being amazing with how communicative the emotional context of their music is. This is a common aspect of good music but Other Lives has a very unique but relate-able aspect in this regard. Almost post-modern if I were to use a term. |
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| Other Lives – Dark Horse Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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Youtube channel Auroborus hit on this connection but there is an absolutely hideous effigy of a Horse in front of the Denver International Airport. Despite enforced popular consensus about conspiracy theories: The way that place is set up, it might as well be a Bond villain base. It gets more and more chilling the deeper you look into it. Not just the Horse but murals that were inside the place before being altered or painted over so as not to overly alarm the public. Anyway, bringing down the Dark Horse, takes on an interesting meaning if we look at in this light. Not so much as the monument in front of DIA itself but if we consider that what it symbolizes is ultimately an attempt to subvert positive energies, associations and archetypes of the Human consciousness. This is being bought down as more and more people realize what is really of value in their lives and reject that level of false-hood and cruel trickery. The narrator speaks of how the older generation made mistakes in abetting those in power who erected the dark horse. Pledging to learn from previous mistakes and to bring down that system. Not something out of the norm for Other Lives, Don't let the Get away with this has a very similar message. Other Lives is with what they are able to articulate and express, not just lyrically but musically. Some of the songs in their latest -Rituals, someone find or post the lyrics for that one please- I can barely make out the lyrics too but I can actually feel exactly what they are singing about despite not being able to understand them perfectly. |
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| Deafheaven – Dream House Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| The reason why this song is so raw and captivating is due to the content of the experience and Clarke's ability to express it. The lines themselves are so minimalist but that's a testament to how it affects us. The yearning expressed in the song is that powerful and deeply associated with human experience, both in the positive aspect of wanting to make someone happy and the bewilderment that comes with maturity in realizing that though blissful, desire for someone or something isn't the same as love, it can exist and be authentic but a desire to use the other person to escape from and magically fix something will taint the flow between you. | |
| R.E.M. – Man On The Moon Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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I think It's actually less about Andy Kaufman and more about having the perspective to see through lies and manipulation, the Kaufman references in this interpretation can be considered as the propagandized Court Jester. Acting as a buffoon to distract from significant events, the duldrums indicated by the references to celebrity, board games and other trivia fits into this, recognized in the reply of "Yeah yeah, yeah yeah." Yet import and further manipulation is also heightened in the dialogue over religion and potential disaster. Or drama. The chorus does something odd, as in how the narrator refers to themselves as being the one with something up their sleeve and to be wary of it. Besides that, did they put a man on the Moon? I have reason to consider that they did but that's something that gets even stranger. Try looking up Lunacognita on youtube for starters on that one. |
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| The Handsome Family – Frogs Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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ThunderDownCountry calls Handsome Family a "Criminally overlooked duo." http://songmeanings.com/songs/view/3530822107858760979/?&specific_com=73015751950#comments Certainly apt. Rennie's voice has a depth and richness that I can't compare to any other singer I've heard. Combined with Brett's sweet lilting harmony, it becomes an incredibly sensual ballad but taken as a whole, I don't pick up on a sexual theme to the song. It doesn't seem right to just leave it at a song about life and death either, even though that is there. I see it as being more about when a moment has passed that draws you into a state of contemplation of your nature as a human being. |
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| Dernière Volonté – Coeur De Legionnaire Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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English translation from: https://www.justsomelyrics.com/2369609/derni%C3%A8re-volont%C3%A9-coeur-de-legionnaire-lyrics.html On the surface, It's an explanation of a man to his loved ones why he left for the front but then, we have the narrator referring to himself as an Anarchist with the heart of a Legionnaire. Not only does it speak to a tragic sense of displacement from others, almost making it seem almost like a suicide letter: It also puts me in mind of the Spanish Civil War. The musical accompaniment sounds like a classic battle-march but I'm not sure of It's provenance. If anyone has information on that, please share. |
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| The Mars Volta – In Absentia Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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@[Nuptunutation:3575] Even without knowing that Cedric had an abusive childhood, if you've had to live with a Narcissistic mother, you can recognize what he is attempting to articulate through the lyrics. It burns you out and leaves you incapable of trusting people, yet on a deeper level, once you gain understanding, you realize that you can't blame the individual entirely for it. As he states in the lyrics, It's an infection. As a result, feelings of anger, betrayal and loss become redirected and channeled at the aspects of society that pass on and reinforce narcissism. Thus the eerie declarations of insurrection and: "Check the puzzle, does it fit" Empowered in recognition of his wounds. He looks at the aspects of social discord and entrenched, normalized abuse and recognizes what caused his mother's behavior. "I am alpha and omega" A declaration of personal power: And on the seventh day I rise Past the pangs of my resistance When the son gives up his throne What becomes of this theft He has sworn to oppose that which wounds and creates the narcissistic void and stole from him the life he could have had. Culminating with a prayerful invocation of Dasehra. As long as he is injured, as long as he remembers the pain, good must triumph over evil. |
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| Radiohead – There There. (The Boney King of Nowhere.) Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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Radiohead has this great motif in a lot of their songs where the words sing about the denial of an experience or emotional interaction, yet the internal conflict only serves to illuminate how much we actually want the opposite to happen. In this case, the narrator sings about the archetypical situation of being magnetically pulled towards someone, yet they tell themselves that the grapes are sour. One of the beautiful things about this song is that it doesn't tell us why the narrator does this, which is in keeping with the nebulous, fear-based reasoning that drives this kind of inner monologue. ultimately It's about how doubt can become preferable to the truth but It's as a result of potentially gaining a deeper connection with someone but not taking any determined action to bring that about out of fear of rejection and losing something better. To break it down with credit to @[jrmoreira:2989] for urging us to watch the music-video: Walking in your pitch-dark landscape brings this out of a totally personal rumination and makes it clear that someone else has contributed to where the narrator finds themselves. The broken branches refers to ways in which the other party failed to meet an expected response or start a dialogue that could give an opportunity for the expression of their feelings. They don't, the narrator can't see why and it trips them up. At this point in the video, Thom starts seeing the anthropomorphic animals, which is a deeply layered metaphor, bringing in archetypical associations with child-hood innocence, nostalgia and idealism but also with that which is hidden. The narrator in the song is certain that they see signs that a relationship with the object of their infatuation could be as wonderful as a fairytale-romance but It's too good to be true and they feel unworthy. Even Thom's response to these fantastic elements in the video echoes this. Just because you feel it doesn't mean It's there. Anyone who has suffered unrequited Love knows how this goes. Your heart feels for that person and you swear that they do reciprocate on some level but they keep it carefully hidden. It's a more nuanced exploration of the feelings invoked in "Creep." Where the act of loving someone feels foolish and pathetic because something keeps it from flowering. In this interpretation, I would argue that Thom's finding the blazer and boots doesn't refer to finding an outcome where they find some means of nurturing the relationship: It's about armoring oneself with an assurance that being alone is for the best. The birds in the video are not actually Crows but Ravens. Rather that adds a deeper level of symbolism is interesting but I feel that they represent his own doubts about if he is doing the right thing in giving up and running. What his running with the fancy blazer and boots to the verses: Heaven sent you to me To me, to me? We are accidents waiting Waiting to happen Symbolizes is the strange ecstatic feeling that giving up on and denying a relationship can invoke. No, I'll defy Heaven because you can't be the one for me. This would be a mistake so we're both better off this way and I'm doing the right thing and empowering myself even though it hurts. Thom smiles at this as he runs full tilt like a marionette -betraying the in-authenticity of his actions?- through the forest and happy with his choice once he outpaces his own doubts for a moment but something is wrong. At this point, the song and video represents a personal realization on his part that he has rooted himself in a certain response to relationships and traded the empowerment of up-rooting them with the possibility of a worth-while bond. All of a sudden, all the missed opportunities and the way in which they've acted wooden and repressed their true feelings catches up in dramatic fashion. Leaving poor Thom caught in a kind of black-magic spell with the birds coming home to roost. It's that level of self-awareness and relating personal revelations in universally understood terms that really elevates Radiohead and the music is just perfectly evocative of a that grim journey through doubt in the human psyche. |
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| Dark Tranquillity – At Loss For Words Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| I really want to write the Band and ask them exactly what is meant by the Lyrics. I don't care if those of you reading this think I am Crazy for it but I've been having Alien Abduction Memories come back into my Awareness lately. This song fits so well it gives me chills. | |
| The Pogues – The Sick Bed Of Cuchulainn Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| That's some great information Anacharis, Thanks. A Modern Cuchulainn, I like it. | |
| Dark Tranquillity – Insanity's Crescendo Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I can do much better then my first comment; Let me know if the rest of you agree with this statement: Succinctly put: It's a call to free the spirit of Humanity from the warping and torment of endless conditioning and abuse through releasing all negative impressions and pavlovian behaviors through a liberating fit of madness; thus reconnecting with and restablishing the true self. |
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| Katatonia – Chrome Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Another incredibly expressive and potent song from Katatonia; The version off of their Live Poland show is gorgeous. The concept of an out-of-body experience of somekind is interesting however; I've always felt that the primary theme is a sense of desperation. Right from the opening guitar notes opening almost like a cry of frustration: We have a sense of someone who knows that they want something better but is stuck in a dead-end due to their own apathy and they cannot feel enough passion in order to move on to better things. While they know they should be horrified by this; they lack the capacity to even properly appreciate that realization and so they pray for a catalist to make something happen and to cause them to feel something. Finally, I almost hate to mention it because if feels rather pretentious; but I have to note that this song also fits perfectly with the Anime series Full Metal Alchemist. |
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| Therion – Schwarzalbenheim Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Therion pays homage to the Gods of old; telling us their stories so that they might Live again. [English translation] World of the Black Elves [Gold of the underworld] Do you hear the hammers' echo? Hear the the hammers' echo! It's Ivalden's sons, listen, They forge the gleaming treasure The gods' divineness Schwarzalbenheim's worms Forge so gleaming gold Shaping the glory of the gods From the veins of the earth Deep beneath stones and roots You find this rare folk Of the depth and let the eager smith Smartly weld the picture of your wish Meanwhile beneath Fjorgyn's skin In the earth's hidden heart The dwarves of the underworld work With the gleaming gold of the gods Draupnir, Mjölnir and Gullburste Art of the Black Elves Brokk da Eitre and Sindre Let the hammer strike again Schwarzalbenheim's worms Forge so gleaming gold Shaping the glory of the gods From the veins of the earth In the tunnels and the caves Like a mycelium in the underground They press ahead the Alchemy Which gives shine to the earth's fuits Creating memories From far distance to create golden Dreams of tomorrow The gods' runes from the depth's Sun of the earth blossom |
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| Ayreon – Day Ten: Memories Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I go back into this album just recently . . . It's different, it kind of makes me think of what it would be like if Pink Floyd had been a really good 80's Metal outfit with some odd folk influences. This song makes me chuckle a little in a sardonic way though: Wife: But maybe in his head He’s struggling to survive Would it help if we talk to him? Bring him back to life… I know! Lets reminisce about the most humiliating things we can remember about him! That ought to make him feel better and want to come back! |
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| Therion – Summer Night City Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Uhh . . . "Sunrise" is right though . . . | |
| Therion – Summer Night City Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I Love it, It's just one of those songs that urges you to sing to it. The music video is great as well, kind of eerie and uplifting . . . One minor correction if I may however, I've noticed that the chorus to Therions version actually goes: Waiting for the Sunlight Soul dancing in the Summer Night City Walking in the Moonlight Love making in the Summer Night City |
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| Katatonia – Will I Arrive Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I Love this song, it took a long time for me to notice it but now, it is one of my favorites from Katatonia. We have the Narrator trying to escape his fate and the judgement that will be meted out by an agency in pursuit of him that arrives all to soon for the reckoning and his resignation and defeat. The vocals in this piece are so expressive of that state and his apparent challenge to others to avoid his fate. It's an awe inspiring expression of beauty in sorrow and the instrumentation in this piece matches the tone perfectly. |
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| Katatonia – Soil's Song Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| It seems like an obvious theme to me. Death: Death in a very modernized setting where a group of people have gathered in hope of survival; Only to find that it will not be so as they are forced to face death and the "Soil's Song" Calling them down. | |
| Hedningarna – Gorrlaus Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Thanks Ghada. Would someone please be so kind as to translate the lyrics to this and the other tracks listed into English? | |
| Opeth – Bleak Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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[ 6th_sadistic_sniper: "Tindalos, where is your nickname from? Because if it's from where I think it's from, you rule."] It's an H.P. Lovecraft referrence. |
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| Opeth – The Baying of the Hounds Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Uhh . . . You forgot the last two verses: I am to weak to resist Tension vibrating with horror Finding the outcast in my eyes Pushing nerves on a puppet Endless posion in my veins Clean intent now tainted with death And so, cold touch now inhumane Every waking hour Awaiting a reverie to unfold And now they are calling me Louder by the minute The baying of the hounds Calling me back to my home I see this track as being the magnum opus of Ghost Reveries, I can hear influences from their entire musical career in this track alone and that theme also extends through the entire album. |
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| Opeth – Karma Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| This might be my favorite song off of "My Arms; Your Hearse" Simply by virtue of the lyrical content, the verses paint a stark and beautiful picture of isolation, as if you can see yourself walking through a dark forest in the grip of Winter. It's almost as if the narrorator has stayed behind for so long that he witnesses his homeland being abandoned and turning into ruins over the centuries. | |
| Opeth – Into the Frost of Winter Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Such a beautifully chaotic and powerful ballad . . , Can anyone make out the lyrics or obtain them somehow? | |
| Dark Tranquillity – Lethe Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Classic Dark Tranquility. The meaning is pretty obvious, death, time and forgetfulness: The one friend and guide that can bring an end to all regrets. |
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| Nine Inch Nails – Pilgrimage Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I have come to think that this track is based off of Dante's Inferno. I know nothing about if Trent was inspired by it or not. What sways me is the song title: Pilgrimage. If you have read the Inferno you will know that the narrators quest is referred to as a pilgrimage and that he is sometimes referred to as a pilgrim. The song makes a lot of sense when viewed in this light. Imagine it as a chaotic descent into the bowls of Hell with all the souls and demons imprisoned there shrieking out their torment at once. Significantly, at the end of the song we hear three seperate screams. At the center of Dante's Inferno Lucifer sits weeping in a frozen lake of ice forever chewing the souls of Brutus, Judas and Cassius. After which we here a gradual increase in tempo as the narrator and his companion Virgil near The fallen one, for in order to leave Inferno they must scale the body of the beast itself. The music of Hell gradually fades to an echoeing drumbeat as they leave. |
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| Rammstein – Reise, Reise (English) Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Awsome song, for some reason I just can't help but feel that this song was inspired by a traditional seafaring ballad rather than something that Rammstein wrote on their own. | |
| Rammstein – Mutter (English) Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I can't believe that I'm the only one who wonders if this is someone related to Frankenstein? | |
| King Crimson – 21st Century Schizoid Man Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| It seems like that could be a theme echoed in the mad, racing pace of the music. | |
| King Crimson – The Court of the Crimson King Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I'm wondering if Stephen King was inspired by this song? The central villian in the Dark Tower series is called the Crimson King and he has already included a few pop culture referrences in the epic in unusual ways. Even one of his own books. | |
| Dark Tranquillity – Final Resistance Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I found myself listening to this during the US election. | |
| Roger Waters – Watching TV Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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"So get out your pistols Get out your stones Get out your knives Cut them to the bone They are the lackeys of the grocer's machine They built the dark satanic mills That manufacture hell on earth They bought the front row seats on Calvary They are irrelevant to me But I grieve for my sister" This verse really stands out. He is clearly pleading for people to take action. This song also brings up a theme that I think he also explores in "Too much Rope"; That in spite of televisions tendency to sensationalize world event to the point of meaninglessness, it also shows how it can bring suffering to our awarness. Think about how history might have been different if we had had global media coverage on the colonalization of the America's and the genocide of American Indians? |
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| Love Like Blood – Shed Your Skin Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| That explains a lot. I thought that the lyrics were "Don't, shed your skin". I have this song on a compilation that someone gave me. Great vocals. | |
| Roger Waters – What God Wants, Part I Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| It can be summed up in two simple words: "Manifest Destiny". | |
| Opeth – When Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I love how Opeth can go from full blown, roar one moment, to soft, eerily beautiful vocalization the next. The way they do this transition so smoothly is just another example of their talent. | |
| Opeth – April Ethereal Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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This line alone sends chills up and down my spine: "the forest folded its branches around me. Something passed by, and I went into a dream." Having grown up in a very rural area, I have had moments when I have felt as if the forest were actually folding itself around me in an embrace. |
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| Opeth – Bleak Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Mikael has said that "To Bid You Farewell" is all about his girlfriend cheating on him. I think that he worked through the pain of this with his music in other songs. I think that songs like "The Leper Affinity" and "Bleak" are his way of venting his anger towards the person who broke his heart. | |
| Katatonia – Omerta Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| That's an interesting interpretation. Thinking about it just now; "Nerve" and "For my Demons" have the same kind of dark mood. | |
| Tristania – World Of Glass Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| I love this song. Excellent composition. | |
| Tristania – Angellore Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Here is a link to Poe's Annabel Lee. http://www.online-literature.com/poe/576/ |
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| Tristania – Angellore Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Thanks for posting the complete lyrics, I could never clearly hear everything while listening to the song. I have a hunch that at least some of the songs off of Widow's Weeds might be inspired by the works of Edgar Allen Poe. I think that Angellore might be based on the concept of a dialouge between the narrator of Poe's Annabel Lee and Annabel. I'll post Annabel Lee later. |
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| Katatonia – At Last Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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It makes me think of just wanting to sleep (Prehaps not even meaning death) because being concious hurts to much with all the bad shit in ones head. A depressing song but a beautiful one. |
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