| Between the Buried and Me – Disease, Injury, Madness Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sickness_behavior He is describing changes in mental states of humans due to stressful circumstances (falling ill for example). If you've ever been really, really sick (high fever, etc.), think about what it was like, the thoughts going through your mind, then listen to this song. It's no secret that the world "changes", your priorities shift, and often your ability to focus and think is hindered (What's happening to me? etc.). This alludes to the fact that consciousness is fluid and dynamic, and the world we experience (being a sort of illusory reality) is often altered in some way. Obfuscation ties into this nicely. |
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| Between the Buried and Me – Obfuscation Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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This song is about the limits of the nervous system as exhibited in humans. It deals with perception, or rather our primitive foundations which direct our senses. Change blindness: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Change_blindness http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/faculty/healey/PP/movies/Airplane.gif As this relates to the lyrics of the song, we are basically being blinded constantly from the "truth", that is, the purpose of this thing we call reality. We are locked in this physical "shell". Obfuscation is the concealment of intended meaning in communication, making communication confusing, intentionally ambiguous, and more difficult to interpret. You can interpret this as a sort of Big Brother watching you, controlling the media and what knowledge you are permitted to gain, or, you can easily see that without some external force, we as organisms are inherently shielded from knowing everything that is going on around us, from a microscopic to macroscopic scale, due to the fact that we are only as good as evolution will allow, at this present time, which on a relative scale, is practically insignificant. |
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| Between the Buried and Me – Roboturner Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Actually I don't think it's techno that is the culprit but rather artists who don't write their own lyrics or take care of their own instruments. Hence they employ the master of the machines to take shit and make it gold, in the name of fame, and at the sake of human emotion and thought. Much of trance is far from mainstream and it actually requires you to understand the use of music theory; unlike rap and many other genres. | |
| The Doors – The Celebration Of The Lizard Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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This is how I see it: A man seems to be fed up with his surroundings, and after it seems he's lost everything, his mother being recently buried, he goes south of the border, Mexico, where the shaman still exists. We all know Jim was into the shaman experience. One day he wakes up (the trip has peaked!) in a green hotel (its just an image in his mind, doesnt mean he's in an actual hotel thats green), with a strange creature groaning beside him. Sweat oozed from its skin. This is what he's seeing as the trip escalates. He then turns to the audience, like an aside in a play, and says, is everybody in? is everybody in? Presumably, everyone says YES, in other words, we're with you, our trip is also escalating. The ceremony is about to begin... WAKE UP! And now, he AND the audience are back in that green hotel he was describing, when he says he awoke in a green hotel. Now he starts to describe the creature beside US (its not just him now, we're all with him), the snake. It's pale gold, glazed and shrunken, WE were afraid to touch it! The bed was hot, and SHE (now he's given female characteristics to the snake) was beside him. He describes it as young, with dark red hair and soft white skin (perhaps, this snake is symbolic of Pam to him). Now, run to the mirror in the bathroom, look, shes coming in, shes following him, veeeery slowly it seems (effect of psychedelic drug use is the expansion of time). He slides his cheek down the tile (of the bathroom, but to him, its the snake) feel the good, cold stinging blood (cold-blooded creature, perhaps the sting is venom). We see opposites here, the GOOD, cold, STINGING, good and stinging being opposites. The smooth, hissing, snakes of rain is simply the water running. Go in your bathroom, and turn on the shower. What sound is that? Hsssssssss as the water runs from the shower head, right? Now that segment is over, and he's changing paths as the trip continues for him and us. Attention span when you are tripping is limited to what your mind is concetrating on. You can work on one thought, process it through, and by the time youre done, you havent realized that you've strayed from the original topic and have now leaped to something else. He's realizing the game he's playing, he's now understanding the trip, and he wants you to continue with him, if you understand and trust him. So, let's break through, shall we? The hill dwellers segment is probably discussing the thoughts and images that course through your mind under the influence, when nothing can harm you (no pain). Heights, creatures, temperature. If you've tripped, you've understood what kind of world you live in. Everything seems fake. Advertisements are everywhere seducing you, houses repeat, and the hypocrisies and ironies of life show themselves. For example, dust settling under couples' beds vs daughters smug with semen, well shouldnt it be the opposite? Shouldn't couples be the ones having sex while daughters sleep? Hill dwellers is much like his poetry. They are aphorisms, the way Nietzsche and many others wrote, very philosophical, objective statements. Now we're faced with slaughter. We're not sure who's committed the act, but it may be us. Before you go on to read Not to Touch the Earth, we have to understand that this title comes from a chapter in a book written about religion and gods (google it). Basically, all groups of people have something born within them that pushes them to believe in a higher being. Whether you're a christian, jew, muslim, hindu, whatever, you have questions and a certain "being" or "beings" answers them. Jim wants to be that "being". Nietzsche believed that no matter who you are, or what you do, there is always someone above you. Whether you order around hundreds of people doesnt matter if theres one guy above you. You're not at the top. However, he did believe that if a person were to become so detached, so powerful, as to lead everyone yet have NO ONE above him, that man would reach immortality. Can the Lizard reach the top? Lets try. So we begin, but we start by running, and we're running to this mansion. He's luring us to it. The setting is night, with a still moon and a wild breeze, what a night it is! The version i follow is off Aquarius second performance, and the "Mansion is warm..." comes before "Dead president's". In any case, he's still luring us to the mansion, and it seems great, but we won't know what's really going on until we're inside. What are his motives, why does he want us in that mansion? Well he'll tell you. Dead presidents corpse in the drivers car refers to Kennedy, the President until his assassination in 1964. He was supposed to be the good guy, a Catholic Democrat that was supposed to change America and the world before his untimely death. Nothing could save him, his car, ran on glue and tar, and couldnt get him out of there. The Czar refers to Russia before the red revolution, when, as mentioned earlier, Nicholas II and his family, included poor little Anastasia, were taken to from the palace and interred in a MANSION before finally being removed and shot one after the other by the Bolsheviks, who would turn Russia into a communist state. Nicholas II, however powerful and beloved he was by his people, WAS NOT SAFE. See a theme here? What does Jim want? He wants the mansion, he wants us to follow him so he can attain the highest level in humanity, above Kennedy, above Nicholas; he wants immortality. These rulers were not looked upon as Gods, they were simple rulers. The Lizard King wants more. Now the finale! The outlaws living by the side of the lake could refer to the band, the Doors, where Jim channels all his lyric energy through amazing musical prose. They were from Cali, next to the Pacific, which, to a God, would be nothing but a lake. How ironic that a minister's daughter would be in love with a snake? The snake signifies evil in almost all religions, or, if not evil, the defiance of whatever "being" as savior for another one (in our case, a Lizard is the snake. I'm not saying a snake is a lizard, i'm saying the Lizard King, is the snake...) This snake, our Lizard King, arose from near homelessness! Now, he's converting you, we're almost home: the mansion. We should see the gates of the mansion by morning, and we'll be inside by the evening. Remember this mansion is on a hill, and if it took that long to go from the gates to the mansion (morning to evening), imagine how far up the mansion is! Why, it must reach somewhere in the heavens (get where this is going yet??). In fact, the mansion reaches out to the moon, the most prominent object in the night sky. Night, as opposed to day, ties in with the snake, as opposed to good. The minister's daughter having been converted, as are we, the task is complete. The end is him describing a following, coming down the rivers and highways, forests and falls. All the creatures of the Earth are lured in. He can tell you everything, even the things that you know, even the many names of the kingdom which we all seek and he has found. Listening for a fistful of silence relates to cognition and human awareness of our senses, and how much of an impact they play on us (remember, we're still tripping here!). Climbing valleys is an allusion to the hill dwellers, because you must climb hills to get into the shade, since the sun shines down into the valley's center. We are hill dwellers during the day, and at night we come out and run around, praising the moon (Lizard King). And in the end, when the trip subsides, and we've come to accept this new "being", we will retire to our tents and dreams, for tomorrow, the Lizard King, as we've come to exalt him, will be born human again. So in the beginning he is a man alone experiencing something strange. He asks if were in, and it begins. Now we're ALL experiencing something strange, and he's going to use this to gain power no mortal could ever achieve. And that's it! He is simply a shaman, a medicine man who delves into the spiritual world for many native Indian tribes through the use of substances that most people in the world deem "evil", drugs like mescaline, psilocybin, lsd, but these are the substances that STIR the spirit within our minds that forces us to find that "being". So, the Lizard King takes advantage of this and reaches the moon when most men are struck dead. |
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| Led Zeppelin – When the Levee Breaks Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| haha, this song was written first by Memphis Minnie and Kansas Joe, and later repopularized by zeppelin. its about the mississippi river flood of 1927. | |
| Thursday – A0001 Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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"we all look the same someday" on earth we are all different. when we die, we are all simple bones. |
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| Thursday – Division St. Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| there is a real division street in new brunswick, its a few blocks past the wood johnson hospital, on the right. the trees that line the street almost have a lean towards the center of the street. i walked down it, it's not the worst part of new brunswick, trust me. | |
| Between the Buried and Me – The Man Land Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| this song is amazing. | |
| Between the Buried and Me – Selkies: The Endless Obsession Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| sweeeeps | |
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