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| Streetlight Manifesto – One Foot on the Gas, One Foot in the Grave Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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I personally think that this is a song about finding your own meaning in life, that even though it may not fit a certain religious affiliation, or if it does, that you should find that meaning, that spark that makes your life worthwhile. without it, what do you have at the end of the day? cause we all have one foot in the grave, and we are slowly, and cautiously, moving towards that grave from the day we are born to the day we die, but if we can find a meaning, something to stand by, at the very least a feeling that we can cling to, then we have something to help us move forward, and carry us through the hardships. yet again another song that focuses around the reality of death. with one foot on the gas we drive ourselves forward, and with the other foot in the grave, we are slowly being pulled back down. As for tomas and the members of streetlight, i think they can outrun it long enough to tell the world what is important time and again with songs like this. god i love that band!!! |
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| Streetlight Manifesto – Somewhere in the Between Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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this song is great and you guys have it just right i think. its a celebration and a recognition of the fact that we only have one life to live, at least as far as we know. and when its over we cant just get in line like a ride at disneyworld. this life is all we have and if we dont live it fully, and in the way that makes us the happiest we are wating our time "Somewhere in the between." |
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| Streetlight Manifesto – Forty Days Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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i take a pretty simple meaning from this song and that is this: if we are all born with sin, then can anyone ever really be good enough to go to heaven? and perhaps that since christians believe themselves to already be sinners then maybe the only people who dont have a sin to live with, the only people with nothing on their concience are the atheists, or agnostics, that live good natured lives. as for "so many decent people at the gates", i think kalnoky is reffering to the idea that there are a lot of really good people who cant get into heaven because they werent christian, or because they renounced the idea of a god. i think he is again stating the reasons hes not religious, but he never seems to actually denounce any one religion, or state that they are wrong. i think kalnoky is a decently open minded person, who while not religious himself, for reasons pointed out numerously on this album, doesnt hold the anti-religious sentiments that some of you seem to see in his statements. oh well, im not tomas so i cant really know can i? |
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| Streetlight Manifesto – The Receiving End of it All Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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i agree with lordlemming on this one, it seems this song is about dealing with your emotions after a relationship that breaks your heart. and i also think that it is an anti-suicide song, in certain ways, almost in the vein of "heres to life", and "a better place a better time". idk for sure though this song seems to touch on a lot of the issues of a tough break up, or just a relationship in general, and in ways it seems to move forward chronologically in order from the first bad emotions, to the over the top rebound feelings a few weeks or months after the relationship ends. anyway thats my view hope it helps. |
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| Streetlight Manifesto – Down Down Down to Mephisto's Cafe Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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heres a thought... perhaps rather than one big atheist statement, this is an agnostic reference? look at it this way, he talks about a man who told him hed "never have to choose a side" and that hed "rather see in shades of grey" and even after he asks if the prophets were "telling fables/stories" he says that he doesnt really know. it seems to me that he would rather not decide if there is a god, or not, because either way it cant be proven, and picking one side or the other wont enhance his life in any way. perhaps he is pointing out the reasons he wont be religious, while still saying that religion tho unviable for him, isnt too far out for consideration for those that choose that road. the "sheep" that he talkes about, "asses being led so far astray" could simply be people who take religion way TOO seriously, and could use with a little gray area. who knows. what i know is that im agnostic, and this song replicates my views almost identically, so maybe you shouldnt take this song as a specific statement, and more of an overall view, and a sharing of that view without being so bold as to tell you what side to choose. whether tomas is atheist or not, i couldnt say, but he IS clearly an individual with his own belief structures and values, that he doesnt want anyone to confuse with a religious affiliation. |
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| Streetlight Manifesto – Would You Be Impressed? Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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as i commented under "we will fall together" i think people associate these songs too directly to religion. it seems to me that it is much more about the reality of death, and realizing too late, that you have been placing that reality too much on others shoulders. when a non-smoker sees another non-smoker die of lung cancer they blame the smokers, and the second hand smoke, rather than that persons apparent inability to walk away when someone was smoking a cigarette, and in many ways when something like that happens to us, we do the same thing. we blame the truck driver who hits the kid, rather than the parent who let the kid play in the street, and faulty parachute gets the blame when the skydiver dies, on his 40th plunge. its not about whos to blame, because in the end the only person you can blame for your problems is yourself. you have to be willing to accept the possibilities that come with your descisions when you make them, and take the blame when they turn out to be wrong. its something we all live with, and while religion can fit into one of those choices, and may appear to be the main focus of a song, that doesnt make it the ONLY point being made. kalnoky is too good a song writer for the focus of an entire album to be one simple concept re-written ten different ways from ten different view points, when one would do. i think he would rather people take a broad picture of these ideas than to bicker amongst themselves on the religious implications. |
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| Streetlight Manifesto – We Will Fall Together Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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look i think the point of this song, isnt whether or not you should be religious, but simply that you cant spend your whole life worrying about the afterlife. if you spend all your time devoted to a religion with no room for sway then are you really going to be happy? on the flip side if you are an atheist and spend your time brooding about the meaningless-ness of life, then you wont be happy either. its more of an indication of his personal standpoint, and way of going about finding what makes him happy, without brooding, or moping about the possibilities of death.
And we know not what we do (Can you hear their call?)
Will we ever make it through?
As they watch us fall (from the sky! to the ground! to the sea!)
Woe is me, woe is me, no one will save you now
We can only look away (away!)
We will not be victims there'll be no victims of to speak!
And only then will we be free
And up will rise the meek"
I think he is making an example of the wrong way to see it. As for "therell be no victims", and "only then will we be free", i think he means that since we all die, there is no true victim, its a reality and once we accept and learn to live with that reality then we can finally be free to enjoy our lives, whether our acceptance be through religion, or otherwise. i think its a much deeper statement that most of you are claiming. |
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| Reel Big Fish – Party Down Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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i think thats a misconception, i think they aren't particularly angry or depressed in many of their songs, they are just being sinical, perhaps as a way of dealing with situations that would normally make people depressed or angry, though you cant argue with the fact that songs like "your guts (i hate em)" are angry in nature. and this particular song i think is all about just having a good time, with whoever your with, regardless of who it is, and if your weird enough or silly enough, people will open up to you regardless what scene they belong to. |
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| Reel Big Fish – Beer Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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hey can you guys believe that some dumbass on the streetlight manifesto pages called reel big fish "emo with horns" i actually threw up, went into a seizure and had an anuerism at the same time... can someone plz agree with me that reel big fish is not emo. i am disgusted that someone could get their usually happy, or rightously angry lyrics, mistaken for emo. |
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| Streetlight Manifesto – A Better Place, A Better Time Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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nobody on the streetlight pages is gonna give a shit about your opinion of cradle of shit, or H.I.M. (Harrassing Interacial Males [couples]) black roses, so take it somewhere else, also plz dont leave 7000 exclamation points the next time you want to annoy the hell out of everyone who actually wants to read these things. oh and this is by the way my favorite song of all time. |
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