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| The Rolling Stones – Sympathy for the Devil Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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The song is saying that we people are the devil.
It was the crowd of Jews that made Pilate wash his hands - seal his fate.
It was the Bolsheviks that murdered the Tzar and his ministers, ignoring Anastasia's screams.
Obviously Lucifer didn't ride a tank or wear a General's rank - but somebody did.
It was kings and queens that waged the 100 years war.
Then it says if you meet another "devil" er person, have some sympathy and restraint and be polite, you know the golden rule. |
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| Foo Fighters – Aurora Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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In a way, everyone has their Aurora, a point in a life that is innocent and nostalgic, where life was magical to the point that clouds and stars had deep meaning in their shapes and geometry. The song is bridging that point in life. For Dave, his Aurora was the early Seattle Scene. Then you leave and forget about Aurora, there's just the remaining ark of life where you try to get back to that point, but you finally come to rest, perhaps at a point in your past life that you once loved, and once loved yourself and realize Aurora was with you all along. |
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| D.R.U.G.S. – Sex Life Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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This song is so bad that I had to find out who these people are that are out destroy the last vestigas of American Culture. The singer is Craig Owens. Why do I mention the singers name.. because he continually browbeats me with the line "If you had a sex life.. a sex life.. would YOU even worry ABOUT MINE??" and then goes on to insult me further "When your bed is empty YOU'RE a WASTE OF TIME".
OK, first off.. is this not the douchiest lyric line ever penned? I mean.. who is this guy.. that any one is even WORRIED about his sex life to begin with? As far as I can tell,, he's not quite in the public eye - to the point of writing such a douchy line.. amIright? and then to make the statement "When your bed is empty - you're a waste of time". OK? Why is he worrying about MY sex Life to make some sort of quasi judgement?
So I thought.. well maybe this is some sort of metaphorical statement about pop culture - about celebrity worship? But the the rest of the lyric lines don't support that.. it's all just pap lines that don't seem to be about anything at all.. just randomly arranged lines that are supposed to mean something I take it.. but don't add up to anything.
So you are probably wondering why a song like this has me so bugged.. basically the world is on a one way trip to meltdown and humanity seems to be toying with extinction.. but we continually get pop culture that is completely myopic and self centered in the extreme.. That is the problem with American culture, in that we are going to wake up in the not too distant future as a 3rd world nation in some kind of Maus distopia, complete with canibalism and weeping and gnashing of teeth.. but all that we get from manufactured pop is lady gagga and this douchmaster song.. Maybe I'm missing the point.. I don't know..
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| U2 – Bullet The Blue Sky Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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Almost election time in the US.. Nov 2010 - and the big issue is immigration. As I'm thinking about this, I can't help but think of the last stanza of the song. How many murderous right wing dictators has the US supported? how about the promise of CAFTA and NAFTA? How about our pointless efforts at eradicating coca plants in Peru, Guatemala, Columbia etc?.. It's no wonder they are heading north... into the arms of America. |
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| Filter – Jurassitol Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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The song is more generalized than a specific father and son relationship. It's about how the older generation lives out their lives without any concern or consideration of the younger generation to follow. A couple of good examples: Here in the US, I always see this big SUV on my way to work. The older lady that drives it has two bumper stickers, one says "DRILL NOW" with a phallic spurting oil well, the other Bumper sticker says "WORLDS BEST GRANDMA". Now I don't need to convince anyone that oil is a limited resource and that it will run out in due time. So here you have this grandma promoting the mass exploitation of resources that the next generation will need by her consumer and political choices.. yet at the same time saying how she is such a great grandma.
Another area is health care. Is it fair for todays youth / workers to have to pay for the older generations health care ( a major theme throughout Jurrasitol )? I think it is fair if the older generation makes health choices that will lesson the burden on the following generations - things like not smoking, not being an alcoholic, not being a fat ass. Most of our health care dollars our rolled up in taking care of people in the last year of their life - which is fair and just.. we don't want a "Logans-Run" type world where old folks are left to die or are euthanized. But the old folks owe us something in return; they / we all need to take care of ourselves, and our environment to lesson the burden of our choices on the following generations. |
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| Radiohead – Go to Sleep. (Little Man Being Erased.) Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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It seems to me that it would be about heroin addiction. The person is at war with himself/herself.. thus the refrain "over my dead body". Which is an amazing phrase, because it cuts both ways.. him saying no to the addiction.. "over my dead body.." and eventually it literally being "over his dead body".
I love how radio head conjures up these amazing metaphors for death. Here it's "Pretty horses as you sleep"; and in "No surprises" it's "a pretty house - a pretty garden". |
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| Tool – Vicarious Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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I think that there is a lot of hidden meaning in the song, just on another level. If you follow tool, you know that MJK gets a lot of his ideas from many of Jung's psycho/metaphysical theories. Jung talks about a "shadow self"; that part of all of us that harkens back to a more primitive time when we were animals that killed to survive. The shadow is that part of us that we connect with as we are walking through a woods say, and we come upon a baby bird on the ground (I got this from a brief overview of Jung I found on the internet - can't remember the reference), anyway we find this baby bird, a part of us naturally wants to rescue the chick and nurture it back to life. But there is that part of us that thinks just for a moment "I could crush the life out of this thing", and thrills at the prospect. Jung said the more we deny our shadow, the more evident it encrouches onto our psyche. So we deny we have this dark part of our souls, well then we start dreaming of marching through the woods stomping on baby birds. So I think that is a lot of what the song is saying, that we can't deny our shadow self, we need to just admit we are dark souls in order to identify it and deal with it. |
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| Riskay – Smell Yo Dick Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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This song is surreal. I was disappointed though when I watched the video. I was looking forward to some serious shlong sniffing, but she doesn't even look in the general direction of the dick, let alone do any dick smelling. |
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| Rage Against the Machine – Without A Face Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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Wouldn't it be some great irony if some immigration reformer who wants just and fair immigration policy in the U.S. would erect a giant billboard at the new wall being built between Mexico and California that shows a picture of arch conservative Ronald Regan standing by the Berlin wall asking Mr. Gorbachev "to tear this wall down"!? |
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| Clutch – Wicker Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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I think it's about old ICBM's in long forgotten silos spread throughout the midwest... How they no longer seem very relevant. |
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