| The Vincent Black Shadow – This Road is Going Nowhere Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| send them a message on myspace? :-X | |
| A Perfect Circle – Orestes Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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| Mudvayne – -1 Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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okay, so I was listening to this song last night (this morning), and reading Ecclesiastes at the same time. I don't know, most of you people have probably never picked up the bible in your life, and believe that anyone who reads it is retarded, but that's aside the point. I'm not here to push my views, which are excruciatingly complicated, upon anyone. I was reading it though, and it seemed to parallel this song so much that it blew me away. It was also the first song on the shuffler, so that was kinda cool. So, first off, "to a life meaningless" is pretty much a recurring theme in Ecclesiastes. Nothing you do will get you anywhere, so what's the point of success, right? Also, right when I heard "systematically", I read it in my version of the bible (NIV). Freaked me out lol. This is what it says: "Systematically, he sampled all of life's powers and pleasures, yet all ultimately disappointed him. All proved meaningless." - Student Bible, NIV, pg 693 (Talking about Solomon) "Patience, pleasures and rewards" - "Patience is better than pride". Okay, so that's a simple example. But right after that, the song says "staring at the sun I'm bored", and Solomon says "nothing new under the sun" a lot. Patience comes from the Latin word patior, which means 'to suffer'. It kind of shows a chiasmus of ideas, 'suffer for pleasures and rewards', or something to that extent. "I'm sure that some day we'll wake from the dream of success and focus..." "I thought in my heart, 'Come now, I will test you with pleasure to find out what is good.' But that also proved to be meaningless." Ecc 2:1 "So I hated life, because the work that is done under the sun was grievous to me. All of it is meaningless, a chasing after the wind." Ecc 2:17 "Tell me what it takes to ascend" "Who knows if the spirit of man rises upward and if the spirit of the animal goes down into the earth?" Ecc 3:21 Both this song and Solomon seem to be talking about seeking meaning, and wisdom. By the way, many people wanted to remove Ecclesiastes from the Old Testament, due to its depressing, realistic views on life. I recommend reading Ecclesiastes no matter what religion you are. It holds many truths in it, but it is a very burdensome read. (By the way, "Rose of Sharyn", a Killswitch Engage song, is based on Song of Songs, which is also written by Solomon) |
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| The Vincent Black Shadow – This Road is Going Nowhere Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Okay, sorry for the above post. Here are the real lyrics straight from the source! (TVBS) Eyes surprise the sense with the sting of sight between the color and the black and white of what you see I feel a stranger coming on to me I brought it on but I could never be the one to GET TO THE POINT THEN SHUT UP ask for her another day ask for something worth the price you have to pay the stakes are up and your odds are down step right up for another round the spade's up your sleeve there's sweat on your brow and I will be damned if I let you back into this town you disguised intentions with an olive branch you made a killing and a lot of fans except for me the way you speak is contradictory and all the lies you told got back to me why don't you GET TO THE POINT THEN SHUT UP ask for her another day ask for something worth the price you have to pay the stakes are up and your odds are down step right up for another round the spade's up your sleeve there's sweat on your brow and I will be damned if I let you back into this town ask for her another day ask for something worth the price you have to pay the stakes are up and your odds are down step right up for another round step right up for another round another round you're going nowhere the stakes are up and your odds are down step right up for another round another round, another round some other town that's going nowhere the spade's up your sleeve there's sweat on your brow and I will be damned if I let you back into this town the spade's up your sleeve there's sweat on your brow and I will be damned if I let you back in to this town |
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| The Vincent Black Shadow – Control Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I don't know what any of their songs mean, lol | |
| Bloodsimple – Falling Backwards Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| oh hell yeah it is. I don't think many people have heard it though. Or Bloodsimple for that matter, lol. | |
| Nirvana – Heart-Shaped Box Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Kurt Cobain - A Pisces - 02-20-1967 Courtney Love - A Cancer - 07-09-1964 Hope this clears something up for you guys |
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| A Perfect Circle – Orestes Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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"Woah, first of all, Maynard does NOT want to sever ties with Tool. This is absolutely ridiculous and a horrible, horrible thing to say." tryqs, did you just read the first and last words of the song, and completely miss what I was saying? I hate to be mean, but you should read before you speak. What I was trying to convey is that at the time of Mer De Noms, Tool was going through record issues with Volcano I believe. Go check it out at wikipedia.org "All of the members of Tool have their own side projects that exist both during and after Tool's own time for recording and touring. Most notable is Maynard James Keenan's band A Perfect Circle, which was formed during the legal limbo Tool encountered with their record label during the late 1990's. A Perfect Circle has since become a band of its own and Maynard has devoted ample time to them" You get it now? The cd was released in 2000, one year before Lateralus. "Schism" is about them reuniting, from what I've gathered. Even if it's not, they're still really cool songs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tool_(band) for more information. I hope you read this. |
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| Stone Sour – Inhale Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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I know one thing - the 'touch his hair and pinch his cheek' remind me of 'compliments' that people would give you that they think bring you up, and help raise your confidence, but really they just feel insincere and condescending. Then he hears the people mocking him, I guess, and it hurts him, but at the same time he wants to get rid of the pain. At the same time, "You've gotta try the inhale that makes the exhale so much better" either seems like a drug escape from the hurtful namecalling, or else a mantra to take a deep breath, and let the exhale sooth you...that part is up in the air IMO. |
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| Stone Sour – Inhale Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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I know one thing - the 'touch his hair and pinch his cheek' remind me of 'compliments' that people would give you that they think bring you up, and help raise your confidence, but really they just feel insincere and condescending. Then he hears the people mocking him, I guess, and it hurts him, but at the same time he wants to get rid of the pain. At the same time, "You've gotta try the inhale that makes the exhale so much better" either seems like a drug escape from the hurtful namecalling, or else a mantra to take a deep breath, and let the exhale sooth you...that part is up in the air IMO. |
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| Bloodsimple – Straight hate Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| this song is amazing. What does it mean to me? It means...I guess it does remind me of the military. How they transform them into monsters, and all they can do afterwards is kill, or be killed. Red, white, and blessed blue...that part sounds like sarcasm, saying that they're praising this nation doing these cruel things to them. They're just being manipulated...like pawns. What a crappy feeling. I'm still going to join the Army, just because I have that feeling inside of me...and college is expensive. | |
| A Perfect Circle – Orestes Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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Personally, I think the song is about the band Tool, and how Maynard wants to sever his ties with them. It was his first successful band, hence his "womb". "Pulled me in to your perfect circle" pretty much illustrates how he has been accepted into A Perfect Circle, and it's also where the band got its name from. 'A Perfect Circle', so I've heard, relates to their close friendship and how great of friends they all are. Notice also that Maynard has been spending a lot more time producing songs for APC than Tool, not that I love either one more than the other, because they're both original as hell. Lyrics in the song: "Liberate this will to release us all" - his will is to end Tool, but he doesn't want to "feel this overwhelming hostility", the hostility of fans. But in other ways, it will relieve the overwhelming hostility of the bandmembers, particularly because he's journeyed over to APC now, and all of them might hold a grudge against it. Holy shit! Now we have another song name! :D "And from pulling you down with me" - He doesn't want his fellow bandmembers to feel the disappointment of having to wait for him to be done recording with APC, and he wants them to continue leading successful musical careers too, because all of 'em kickass! "Slip away and sever this umbilical residue keeping me from killing you" - He wants to finally leave Tool and 'slip away', and the umbilical residue is the feelings of commitment to his first successful band, not counting TeXan and Children of the Anachronistic Dynasty, Maynard's first bands. Think of the facts: Tool wrote "Schism" after 'Mer de Noms' came out, and that signified trying to keep Tool back together, from what I've heard. "Between supposed lovers" portrayed how musicians are supposed to love their band and be faithful to their band, as most bands are 'monogamous' until/if they fall apart anyways. Maynard writes most of the lyrics to APC, with Billy Howerdel sometimes adding a little of his own genious to it. These lyrics most of the time reflect Maynard's own views, and might be added to by other band members to give it that certain A Perfect Circle finesse...then again, that's not fact, that's speculation, lol. Well, take in mind I'm not sure of any of this, but this is from what I've heard. I'm sure that Mer de Noms was before Lateralus though :D |
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