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| Porcupine Tree – I Find That I'm Not There Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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Gorgeous. Absolutely stunning to my opinion. Not that hard to interpret. Someone's been doing drugs... Or using the "trip" they're causing as a metaphor for the dispare out of life. Very melancholic. Though it contains a dash of hope, 'cuz it sounds a bit exceptive of that situation. He manage to blend it with his life. |
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| Porcupine Tree – Phantoms Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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It is so good. I hear it all the time on the train on my way to the military base. It is also about apathy and dispare of the daily modern life routines that sometimes makes you more angry as a person towards other people, yet feeling cold and alone yourself. The phantoms are the same people that surrounds him in his life. It reminds me of the Signify CD statement. All these motives share such a sinister cynical approach. Great. I wonder what caused Steven to get to that point of writing it. |
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| Porcupine Tree – Don't Hate Me Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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His name is Theo Something. You can find it on Wikipedia. He's pretty good, indeed. The Sax is truly awesome. I think it's the first track that they used this instrument in. |
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| Evanescence – Good Enough Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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And good Amy singing as well. Where's the rest of the band though? This tottaly reflects the whole "Amy Lee Show" claim... You would have expected for a stronger presense of the other band members. But I don't complain. They know what they're into, and I guess that they don't exactly what they're involved in. I guess they like the fame and money... They're not doing anything that's "fake" and "plastic" or something, but still they don't fill their roles of real musicians in a band, which makes it a one complete piece. And I say this with bearing in mind that obviously, and usually, the vocalist gets most of the attention (especially when it comes in the shape of the attractive Amy). |
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| Evanescence – Good Enough Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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The melody is so rich and classical. I love it. The lyrics are also nice. It's cool to release these happy songs every once in a while. Nice job. good closer. |
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| Evanescence – Sweet Sacrifice Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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So crappy... :( Why, oh why... There are better ones on the rest of the album. And we can all agree that the pre-fallen EP's tracks are the best. Though this change is nice. Only the lyrics sucks. Amy, listen, we don't want it to be so "open & honest"! With all do respect to your "stronger" personality. The old lyrics with all their metaphores and many layers of interpetations rocked so good. They were so unique. Now, in The Open Door, the sound may have matured and went just a bit more alternative and artistic, but the lyrics and all the texts simply sucks... Sorry... |
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| Evanescence – Call Me When You're Sober Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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I can see why old fans/listeners of Evanescence would be disapointed for this becasue of it's poppie nature. And in way you're all right. But you have to bear in mind that sometimes pop is also noice (thuse = popular...) it just depends of what kind. And you can't forget that Evanescence always had a pop oriented songs. They don't deny it, and they don't attempt (to my opinion) to claim their a hard-rock band with a goth attitude. I know that almost all the people think like that and believe in it, and that's exactly what Wind-Up records (their label) wants you to think in oreder to sell. But the band members itself aren't really ongoing with that. It's not their direction, but we can't blame them for doing so. Still this album is a bit more interesting and artistic, wheter you'd like it or not, and this is why most of the songs don't sound as good. Though I also believe they could have done a better, progressive-alternative (like their earlier work pointed out while on Big-Wig), job with all the time they had. But we all know that Wind-Up suck at that 'cuz they're from the Sony co-operative, that only want to sell. None the less this song is a big change, and it's so obvious that it's the first single since it is so approacheble for the avarage ear. Even if it says, supposedly that Amy said she wanted it to be the first one, we all know the truth... Besides, Call Me When You're Sober is cool for it's dramatic vibe. The video sucks though... Where's the great work of Philp Stolzel? :(
It's so obvious that it's a publicity stunt that the song airs right before Shaun Morgan goes or rehab and then speaks his mind about the song... So lame... So childlike... So mainstream... So sad that Evanescence are doing this. We know that, amy, you have it in you to leave the label and become a full grown artist! live for your art... Don't sell yourself, although this whole niche relayes on the thin line between supposebly mature Metal (in which I perosnlly don't like that direction in The Open Door) and pop-rock music... |
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| Evanescence – The Only One Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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And is she saying tuna afternoon in the beginning or something? That's what it sounds like. I like silly stuff like the semple of the ducks also :) |
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| Evanescence – Lose Control Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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I agree with Heavenly Creature- I like the lyrics. Their not as poetic and cool as in Fallen, but it's more complexed than all the rest on The Open Door, so it's good. I don't like the music... :/ |
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| Evanescence – Like You Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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So intense. I think it's less poetic but in a way more mature than Hello on fallen. The singing and melody is more mellow, thuse less powerful than on Hello, but the music itself and the vibe is a lot more complexed and interesting than Fallen. |
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| Evanescence – The Only One Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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What are you talking about? As an old Evanescence fan that also think's the album is a bit disapointing this perticular song is good. |
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| Porcupine Tree – The Joke's On You Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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I think it talks about the open minded more "young" (if you'd like) generation. Of more ambitious people that are refusing to stay stuck with the past and with false ideals. |
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| Porcupine Tree – Blackest Eyes Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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The correct lyrics:
A mother sings a lullaby to a child
Sometime in the future the boy goes wild
And all his nerves are feeling some kind of energy
A walk in the woods and I will try
Something under the trees that made you cry
It's so erotic when your make up runs
I got wiring loose inside my head
I got books that I never ever read
I got secrets in my garden shed
I got a scar where all my urges bled
I got people underneath my bed
I got a place where all my dreams are dead
Swim with me into your blackest eyes
A few minutes with me inside my van
Should be so beautiful if we can
I'm feeling something taking over me |
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| Porcupine Tree – Even Less Part 2 Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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I think you should delete this. It is idiotic to paste all the versions that are only different instrumently and as far as length. There's only one full version of lyrics to this song, found on the Recordings demo collection album. A shorter version of this that doesn't contain the lines above is found on Stupid Dream, and it is exactly the same only without this part and it's got an added counting of numbers in the end. There's the demo version of course but it's got nothing to do with the text which is our subject. So you should remove all 3 versions of this song here on this site and just add the complete version of it. |
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| Porcupine Tree – The Moon Touches Your Shoulder Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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I think it's about after being in a good place or period in someone's life. And the situation is over and that person is gotta go through an approaching dark, or harsh, phase of some sort, as in a war or something in that order- that means a lot to the person as far as his ambition to step out of it winning, or simply to get it over with... It seems to me that the narrator is lecturing to himself and it appears that he's been in that situation once before. He is femiliar with it, though it is still hard. I believe that at the same time that it is supposedly realistic and depressing it's also very impowering. Like someone or something talking you through and preparing you. Calming you... I love it that it's written so poetic and deals with elements from space throughout the album. Though it might indicate of a person that rely on things to give him strength. It could be about having an addiction for something, and getting over it. |
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| Porcupine Tree – Always Never Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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So meditative, even when it becomes more "noisy". I think that this is very close to the way I see love in my life as well. |
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| Porcupine Tree – Nine Cats Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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Hence the last added verse in the acoutic "Insignificant" version, that is taken from The Nostalgia Factory text. |
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| Porcupine Tree – Nine Cats Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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Porcupine Tree seem to use a sorten approach in writing poems that a lot of their songs are lyricaly connected by repeated motives (in the shape of single words or fragments). It is usually in the same album, since PT love to create concept albums. This magical song continues, to my opinion, the story of The Nostalgia Factory's catterpillar that turned into a butterfly. Both written by Allen Duffy for PT. So it make sense to me. It fits very originally cuz the two songs don't share the same music and singing. But both share the same writing pattern, only with a bit different flow. Here it tales the story of what happened to the butterfly from a different point of view, as if it was that of an outsider. Not the same one (the narrator most likely) that the caterpillar was "looking inside his swollen head" at the beginning. |
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| Porcupine Tree – Stranger By The Minute Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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It's simply brilliant the way that Porcupine Tree can take a rock based approach theme - and use in it such a clear & clean pop stracture - while still making it sound so good. A lot of people with different musical tastes can relate to the sound and vibe of this cool eerie song. Stupid Dream is a bit mainstream in compare to the other pieces of PT, but it rocks so good. It should have gotten world wide spread in all the radio stations along Lightbulb Sun & the amazing In Absentia, which seems to be more "convienet" to the average listener/ear, though obivously it is very complexed. It would have brought pop music to a whole other different notion by radio listeners. Of course that Steven Wilson probably wouldn't want that since that's his niche. |
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| Travis – Why Does It Always Rain On Me? Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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Actually, it has been officialy said that this song was inspired and based of a visit to the city of Eilat in Israel. This is a small and very beautiful tourists location. It is located in the middle of the desert, by the Red Sea coast, and it's well known for its warm climate. It almost never rains there. Especialy never during the boiling summer time, where it's generally dry all over Israel. Francis Healy, the singer/songwriter, was on a vacation in the hot season, obviously, when it suddenly started to rain at the exact time he was traveling there. Very rare and unique. Though very ironic and melancholic in a way. |
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| Porcupine Tree – Wake As Gun Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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So fragile and cynical. It's true. I love these songs, that doesn't deal with a vase amount of issues in them, and yet they reflect reality and life brilliantly. |
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| Porcupine Tree – Russia On Ice Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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Really? It's just about drinking vodka after a bad relationship? I always thought it meant a bit more, in the philosophic manner... Oh well - it's an excellent song none the less. It's amazing on Warszawa. |
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| Evanescence – Understanding (Can't Wash It All Away) Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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Just to clear out the fogg, this is actually a goth inspired hymn, that's based on a short story that Ben Moody wrote. The first & original virsion of it contains audio clips from the film "When A Man Loves A Woman". So of course that it can be interprite like all of you here said, but you should try and look at it from a more masculan and none the less (so obviously) christian point of view. Besides, I love their music, but still I think this song isn't that much layred with meaning as must of you are suggesting. Even Ben stated that it's one of the cheesiest songs he wrote. |
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| Evanescence – The End Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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Wow. Aaahhhhh, Uuuhhhh. So deep. NOT! Who's the idiot that actually posted this? It's not even funny. Besides I think this outro is lame... |
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| Evanescence – Origin Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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A nice short intro indeed. Does the job of passing through the eerie vibe of the entire album. |
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| Evanescence – Eternal Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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The outro of it, I think, is pretty annyoing though... It is the track Demise, that got cut out from the Origin printing. |
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| Porcupine Tree – Synesthesia Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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Very good. Original melody. From the more ambient or simply electronic phase of the band. Pretty straight forward, and self explainory. It can talk about several stories. Though the main vibe seems to be the one of a soldier sending a letter to someone he probably cares about, telling him/her/them of the tragic situation he is now in. He got hurt (lying on a stretcher), and probably wounded pretty bad (they're lying to my face). This could be either the time (on which he supposebly writes the letter) of the actuall war going on on the battle field, or either on the base or something, or from when he is in the clinic or something in that order, cuz he's got a table to write on. If course that this could be dealing with a different perspective, one less physicall, maybe mental. And if it's mental then it's probably about losing in "a war" with love in a relation that didn't work out because of something that happened, possibly by the narrator himself (time to bear the crime), and if not love then out of desperation of live. It's a very bitter text no doubt. The condition in it is so fragile and cynical (I'll be dead before you've read). Not being in control of the actions/consequences that surrounds that man. The line "Time to clear the cobwebs" is so good. Like, waking up out of a deep sleep or even a coma (if you want to go to the more extreme explanation). It puts a picture in my mind of a child like soul that its innocence is being crashed. The chorus is also very cynich and sounds tragically exeptive of the situation. It's either out of the deep despair, or because the narrator deserves it (from a different view of things). |
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| Porcupine Tree – Futile Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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Is it supposed to be a b-side taken from In Absentia? Because I personally think that the lyrics can also reflect and be connected to the theme of the album. I could be wrong of course. |
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| Porcupine Tree – The Rest Will Flow Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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Yes. One of the rare happy songs by Porcu...
Both the lyrics & the melody - which is a bit banal, thus not very Porcupine like. But it's cool, cuz it ,points out on a wide range of experimentations and a variety of musical approaches. Of course, that it's still brilliant none the less. I love the strings & bass. Happy songs are good for the ear :) Though to me it sounds more of the Stupid Dream material rather than that of Lightbulb Sun.
Actually, this is one of those PT songs where I don't get this "old" European post-holocaust like vibe from which I ususally do and that I personally seem to feel sometimes when listening to this awsome band's more melancholy pieces (especially when it comes to the cover arts, not just the music itself). This is why I actually believe Steven Wilson is so intrigued by Poland (where they perform a lot and recorded Warszawa) as well as Israel (where he lived, dated an Israeli girl & colloborated with Aviv Geffen on Blackfield along other local musician here in the holy land). |
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