| Veruca Salt – The Museum of Broken Relationships Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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Veruca Salt makes references to songs/music in their songs. I wanted to add a comment to "The Museum of Broken Relationships" because I like to think the line "Jubilation he loves me again" is a reference to "Cecilia" by Simon and Garfunkel, in which they sing "Jubilation, she loves me again." In a way, "The Museum of Broken Relationships" could be seen as one response/answer to "Cecilia." "The Museum of Broken Relationships" sounds like classic Nina + Louise. Nina's voice with attitude, Louise's harmony and bridge (?), Nina's "hoo-ooh," the sliding bar/barre chords, the solid bass, and tight drums. It's a fun song to play on guitar and isn't too difficult (a song doesn't need to be hard to play to be great). Interviews exist explaining the song, but I would feel remiss in not including a meaning on songmeanings. There is an original, actual, physical Museum of Broken Relationships in Zagreb, Croatia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_of_Broken_Relationships, http://brokenships.com/). Since the wrote this song, there is now a Museum in Los Angeles. "Garden of rejection" is a great turn of phrase, as gardens are generally places of life, growth, death and rebirth as contrasted with rejection. But gardens are also where people can go to commune (with nature) and rejuvenate their spirit. I take as an implication that a "relic" contains and is imbued with a (good) memory and emotion that needs to be shared, perhaps to help others, share a common humanity, convey a story or lesson, and then let go. Maybe the new piece will be important to someone else or to a collection, but it is no longer yours, you're giving it away, and moving on. It's being offered up to others and being locked behind the door. "Jubilation, he loves me again" and "I don't care" portray "lock the door" as both a literal door and the door to the possibility of reopening the relationship. Besides, you're better off without the "cheater, a bottom feeder." Keeping "a lock of his hair" would be gross. I've heard of people throwing away or even burning relics of an old relationship. The Museum is different than that. |
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| Alice in Chains – Red Giant Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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@[DoubleD777:28229] Sounds like a lazy reviewer; a reviewer with a hammer and everything looks like a nail; or a reviewer who is looking to find that. I suppose the song could be about a traveling preacher. That would tie it back to the last album (it could be a traveling con-man or shady circus) But yeah, I think Alice In Chains tends to take an experience(s) or feeling(s) and generalize it. I can't imagine they would go the other way and take a generalizeable and trap it in a specific's cage. I didn't get the impression that Jerry was specifically atheist. The last album indicates he's a skeptic of religion, but I have a feeling he believes in something bigger than himself. Not saying that is capital G God.I could definitely be wrong though. I'm not basing that on anything specific. |
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| Alice in Chains – Red Giant Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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I feel this song is pretty straightforward. I find other Alice in Chains' songs meanings harder to interpret. I see the song as describing the life of a performer, an actor, a musician, comedian, etc. I took it to describe what it might be like to be in Alice In Chains specifically, although that may only be the hint of a truth in an otherwise fictional song. Or maybe it just captures a moment in time, how they were feeling at a moment. A clown is a performer, an entertainer. I appreciate a clown is on the cover of the Facelift album. And then there's the red and star imagery of Dirt. Hard to say if there is a Sap allusion in there between the clown and the star. I picture the blowing up like a red giant, expansive, a star to be like a popular band's rise. Maybe "coming to burn this down and laugh my ass off" is the self indulgent or self destructive behavior trap that many who achieve success or stardom fall into. It could also be blowing up like a red giant is the headliner appearing on the stage to an uproarious crowd and burning this down is after having had a great show ("destroying it", "tearing the place apart", etc) I picture the children being devoted fans that look up to the band. Many bands starting out and their fans can be young, so maybe it's "children" entertaining "children". Or an older band bringing in a new generation of fans. There's also an arc through the song, where the beginning starts out fun, the chorus hinting at the darker, in the middle the mask starts to come down, and at the end, show's over and reality sets in. Bands that play darker music (and some types of entertainment) get their edge by "toying with your own fears." I imagine that performers have to put on the same act no matter how they come into the performance feeling. (I relate that to "cause a lie ain't a lie if you're winning 'em over, Amen." Also, rock concert experience can parallel religious experiences in some ways) And an immersive performance can be like a sleight of hand. I think the "too late now, show's over" lines are straightforward. I've heard performers talk about the adrenaline or feeling of a show being slow to wear off, so I can imagine that they've ended the show, taken the makeup off, and real life has set in, but the feeling of the show sticking around. In relating this song to being about a band's experience on stage, during a show, and after a show, the "take the makeup off, you wonder why I look the same only bolder" line makes me think of the band Kiss. |
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| Alice in Chains – Low Ceiling Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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One interpretation involves the line "why's my ceiling another's floor." Coming from a person with inner turmoil or demons or addiction or perhaps mental illness, the best days of someone afflicted in this way could be the normal or low days of someone who does not have those struggles. Under this view, the beginning of the song speaks of a good day, a ceiling day. The person you are on the good days is always there, just not always able to get out. As summer turns to fall and winter, dark times are around the corner, be it a literal change in seasons or seasonal affective disorder (or the winter blues). On the good days, there is a shadow of the bad days to come. One thing to do is take advantage of it and get some work done. During the bad times, it's hard not to twist past struggles in a way in which it is hard to see your way out. Your mind is busy spinning or dwelling, and it's hard to stay focused or maintain attention. It's easy to feel trapped or claustrophobic in a busy, worried, or depressed mind. One of the worst accusers is a depressed or anxious mind and the negative voices. You know this is just how you're feeling in a moment, and how you deal with that moment can bolster or weaken you. Another thought I had about this song, unlike the interpretation above, is it sounds like the life of a touring musician. Musicians visit towns they've been before ("old mister fun is back"), work on the road ("toiling away on an unlaid track"), tour through seasons ("falls closing in got nowhere to hide this time"), find themselves in hotel rooms ("too big ... or this room's too small" and "why's my ceiling another's floor" literally), have defining moments on the road (both good and bad), are reviewed by writers, etc. It kind of fits. I like the music critic interpretations above. Alice in Chains have been known for those digs at critics and reporters over the years. I heard "Grind me over, false reporter", which I wish were the lyrics. It would be a nice wink to fans and callback to "Grind". I also think "it's a moment in time" is an Alice In Chains-ism in general and a Jerry Cantrell-ism in particular. I've read interviews where their songs are described in this way - that the music and lyrics capture a moment in time and are true to a moment in time. I also want to mention that many times Alice In Chains has been through some sort of inferno or maelstrom and have come through the fire, while changed, still great and as good or better (in my opinion), like a phoenix from the ashes. From a musical standpoint, Alice In Chains and Jerry Cantrell's floor seems to be the sky and the stars (and worldwide success and acclaim), and wouldn't it be nice to have that as a floor? It's easy to look up to a musician like Jerry Cantrell or a band like Alice In Chains and not realize that they have struggles that equal or dwarf are own, though Alice In Chains is great about communicating sometimes dark moments through music. |
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| Veruca Salt – Come Clean, Dark Thing Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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Three interpretations come to mind: a friend experimenting with the nightshade flower while a friend watches over them, a suicidal friend, or coming back from a poisoned relationship. "Deadly nightshade" was occasionally used as a recreational drug. Because it is considered extremely dangerous and risky for overdose, the friend is watching over and observing what the other friend is experiencing. A darker interpretation is a friend has given up and "drank the poison." The other friend doesn't want to see the friend die but doesn't want to leave them alone to die. Maybe they called for help, and the friend was saved: "you can breathe the air again and stop pretending. I like to think the deadly nightshade poison was an event and souring of a relationship. The relationship looks dead and out for the count. They're waiting for the last breaths, grieving at a headstone, and seeing the negative. The relationship and hope is still there if someone will just make the move. In my head, they came back together, and made beautiful songs and performed for us together. The lyrics don't provide that closure but maybe the fact that the song exists does. It's easy to think that one or the other in a relationship is the dark thing that needs to come clean, but maybe the dark thing is the bad parts of the relationship and coming clean is just coming to terms with what happened and that no one was any more at fault than another. |
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| Paramore – Still Into You Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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I had thought it was a love song. From a Beats Magazine interview, it sounds like it was inspired by Chad Gilbert. ("Forever" = "Birdhouse In Your Soul" by They Might Be Giants?) I was really interested in the line "And to your favorite song we sang along, to the start of forever". What song is "Forever" as there are at least 58 "Forever" listed on Wikipedia? I found an answer in "Hayley Williams Interview – Riot On" on BEAT Magazine: "when I started dating my boyfriend Chad we were listening to They Might Be Giants and they have a song Birdhouse In Your Soul." |
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| David Bowie – Five Years Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I think the order of the storytelling is cool in this song. We're shown the reaction to the news before the content news. It's interesting that mothers sighing is focused on, knowing the lives of their children will be short. The news guy has a stronger reaction. I'm imagining "The War of the Worlds" in the line "cried so much his face was wet, then I knew he was not lying," since the story goes that it was a radio show about a fictional threat to Earth that caused a public panic. The song's protagonist seems to be taking in as much of the world as he can as if to preserve it in his mind like a warehouse. I wonder if he is trying to take in as much as he can for the purposes of writing "this song". He's taking in people, places, and things. The description of opposites is a way to portray the diversity of what he's seeing and imply that the range in between is also being seen. I think the situations described next are a way to show the diversity of strange ways people are dealing with the news. I would sooner think of boys punching each other than a girl punching tiny children with rage. I take the soldier with a broken arm staring at the wheels of a Cadillac to illustrate someone frozen in a circumstance that requires action. He sees the Cadillac, knows he should get going to seek medical attention, but just sits there staring. And stop me if you've heard this one, but there was a cop, a priest and a queer, and instead of the cop and priest thinking the queer's love turned their stomach, it was the queer who was grossed out at the sight of the reverence (love) the cop had for the priest, who may have been offering the cop solace at the end of the world. There you were, enjoying a milkshake at an ice cream parlor, something that seems unremarkable and not worthy of mention in a song. Maybe that's what everyone should be doing, enjoying the remaining moments, smiling, waving, and looking so fine. The rain sets the mood, makes it seem like a movie, and the protagonist just wants motherly comfort. I take "I want you to walk" to mean he wants us to keep moving (or move on) and not freeze in spite of the news. I like the contrast of expressed affection and the despair sung in "we've got five years." I like how Bowie's singing gets increasingly emotional and the orchestration sounds less structured and organized at the end of the song. |
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| Rush – The Trees Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| What if it isn't about politics or philosophies or trees but a critique of people? Maybe the particular argument is just an example, albeit the most ridiculous one he had in mind at the time. How many debates do we have over trivialities which results in an outcome that is advantageous to none of the parties involved? | |
| Rush – Closer to the Heart Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| I find it interesting that the song "A Farewell To Kings" ends with the line "to lead us closer to the heart". It makes me think that if the suggestion of "A Farewell To Kings" is to cast off the rule of kings, authoritarian rule, and the inertia that keeps it there, the proposed answer is "Closer to the Heart", where everyone from "the men who hold high places" to "ploughmen" contribute to a better place. I don't think the song addresses a specific political system as much as a way to approach life. It's interesting that the lyrics to the song were co-written Neil Peart and someone outside of Rush (Peter Talbot). | |
| David Bowie – Life on Mars? Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| Most of my thoughts on the song have been expressed here already. However, the thought struck me that there is repetition in the creation of things like literature, music, and films. In lyrics and literature, there are often multiple drafts and edits. In music and films, there are often multiple takes and cuts. In that way, I can see another meaning for the line "For she's lived it ten times or more" and "Cause I wrote it ten times or more, it's about to be writ again". An actress performing multiple takes in a movie could me thought of as living the scene multiple times. The actress who is told perform the same scene over again but this time to focus might be so mad she could spit in "the eyes of fools." I songwriter perfecting a song (or performing a song) could be seen to be writing the song multiple times. In performing or writing the songwriter or author is asking us to focus on message or subject they're drawing attention to. I'm just proposing another take. | |
| David Bowie – Life on Mars? Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| I think this comment makes some interesting points. I want to point out that Karl Marx lived in London and was active in the Communist League established there. Also, the Labour Party in the UK, founded in 1900, is socialist. Hunky Dory was released in 1971, just after the Labour Party's leader Harold Wilson's government. | |
| David Bowie – Life on Mars? Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| I think this comment makes some interesting points. I want to point out that Karl Marx lived in London and was active in the Communist League established there. Also, the Labour Party in the UK, founded in 1900, is socialist. Hunky Dory was released in 1971, just after the Labour Party's leader Harold Wilson's government. | |
| David Bowie – Kooks Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I love how the song keeps going and fades out in the end. It makes me feel like the song perpetually repeats. It's like David Bowie chose to share this song with us. We can't hear it after it fades out but it doesn't stop. Other interpretations make more sense. I took the song to be welcoming a child into a world and took "if you stay you won't be sorry" in two ways. In one way, a lot of things can go wrong in a pregnancy in which a baby could be lost. Paradoxically, I took it as though the choice was being given to the baby. I suppose when you welcome someone, they have a choice to accept the welcome, whereas to our knowledge, a baby doesn't choose to be born. I take some of the lines like "look at what they did to this old fool" to refer the (unintentional or otherwise) damage schools do to children, whether specific to Bowie or in general. I think the song also speaks to an awareness that I don't think many parents have of the needs of a child and how much of an impact the parents have on their children in the things the want to pass along and things they pass along that they don't mean to pass along. |
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| Rush – Something For Nothing Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| I must add that I like the wordplay in this song. From wind and clouds to rainbow and (pot of) gold. From call to answer to answer of questions. From sleep to dreams. The words kingdom, power, glory, and story all fit well together. And yes, I can read into it an Ayn Rand influence and Objectivism, but I prefer the simpler and more direct take - don't sit around and wait for the world to come to you and solve your problems, go out and solve your own problems. Don't wait for someone to give you what you think you deserve, rather go out and earn it (what you want) or take it (opportunities). It is certainly a message that I need to hear from time to time, that I think we can all use being reminded of. | |
| David Bowie – The Supermen Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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Most of the song sounds vaguely tribal to me. Some might think it an enviable state to be one of the supermen, mermen, perfect men. This song mostly paints a gloomy picture and explicates the downsides. It says they're loveless, gloomy browed, with super fear, tragic, solemn, perverse, and chained. Theirs is not one of diversity, as life rolls into one for them with minds in uni-thought and walk in file. Being supermen, they face super fear with no pain, no joy, no power too great and nightmares no mortal mind could hold. They seem to yearn for death as a man would tear his brother's flesh, a chance to die, to turn to mold. The guitar solo near the end reminds me of Queen's Brian May's guitar style (starting around 2:30 from the The Man Who Sold The World Album version). |
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| David Bowie – The Man Who Sold the World Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I first heard this song when I was young and took a more literal interpretation. The world of the song was sold by the man long ago. This event was well known among the population. The singer/narrator of the song is of another generation and happens to meet the (infamous) man who sold the world. They speak about history and this event. The man calls the narrator his friend because he feels he recognizes something in him, but this surprises the narrator as at that time, he wasn't yet born and history taught the man died alone, a long long time ago. In my young interpretation, I didn't know why the man who sold the world wasn't dead. Maybe immortality was the price of the world, or maybe the punishment for having sold the world. They laugh, shake hands, and part ways, but the narrator is greatly affected by the meeting and has taken to a search for meaning ("for form and land"). He now feels separate from society and closer to the man who sold the world. I took that to be the meaning of the shift in pronouns. When I was younger, the song scared me a bit. It scared me the idea that one man could sell the world for all of us. It scared me that maybe I could accidentally sell the world. Of course, maybe the song takes place in the afterlife where the narrator doesn't yet realize he's dead. The man who sold the world didn't but does now and thus relates to the narrator, knowing he must discover this on his own. By the end of the song, he realizes this and realizes they all sold the world. |
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| Rush – In The End Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I can understand the love song interpretation, but I see relevance to relationships in general. I think it speaks about how one person can and can't relate to another. I see aspects of blending of two people in the song and aspects of individuality. It's a good reminder that we need people and that sharing feelings makes us stronger. It talks about understanding, empathy, sadness, emulation, and philosophy (maybe ways of thinking is a better way to put it). The switch from the acoustic part to the electric part blows me away. I love when songs make a well executed, unexpected change. Oh yeah, woah yeah! |
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| Megadeth – Forget To Remember Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| ...or he's blaming mercury containing vaccines... | |
| Megadeth – Super Collider Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| This song reminds me of Never Walk Alone from United Abominatons. | |
| Megadeth – Forget To Remember Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I read that this song is about Dave Mustaine and his family dealing with his mother-in-law's diagnosis and suffering with Alzheimer's disease. I haven't had to deal with a loved one with the disease, but this song communicates to me some of the pain that it must be like to have a loved one suffer in this way. At least that's the impression I get from most of the song, particularly the first part. The section starting with "I just want to talk" and ending with "I just wish you could say my name again" sounds like a relationship that has soured. The part about "the culprit was the mercury" sounds like mercury poisoning or when they used to use mercury in treatments. |
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| Megadeth – Kingmaker Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| A kingmaker is someone who is influential in determining who will be a choice for political leader, the power behind the power, but it doesn't sound like the song is talking about that. The song paints a picture of corruption, apathy, and degradation. It sounds like "I want to be the king, kingmaker" means the person wants to feel powerful and be able to get what he wants and make things happen. The lyrics sound like a critique of the state of things and single-minded materialism and hedonism. | |
| Megadeth – Super Collider Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I love the bassline. I think this is a song of hope. The song can easily come off as Dave singing about his beliefs from a superficial perspective, but I think hope and the idea of there being something bigger than you, your problems, society, and the world. There is the promise that there is a bright future that will get brighter. I like the song and see deeper meaning in it, but I've seen it criticized as being sappy, proselytizing, and formulaic. I disagree, but everyone has the right to their opinion. I particularly like the line "life can be wicked, mean, and cruel. The song has a nice way of juxtaposing negatives with positives. |
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| Megadeth – Deadly Nightshade Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| ScorpioN on the site Megadeth.com says the laughter at the beginning of the song and the spoken lines "I don't know what's come over me all of a sudden I feel like I need to lie down" are Electra Mustaine, Dave's daughter. | |
| Megadeth – Deadly Nightshade Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| I had to look this one up. Like others have said, Deadly Nightshade is Atropa belladonna. What struck me about the song was that it sounds like the person in the song doesn't force the deadly nightshade on the person. "The things I've done" comes after "be careful what you touch" and the "victim falls". Maybe I am taking it too literally. | |
| Megadeth – Millennium Of The Blind Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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The changes from the version in with remastered Youthanasia to Th1rt3en are interesting. The lyrics for the Youthanasia remaster version are just "From the start of time..." to "... in the Millennium of the Blind". I thought maybe these lyrics were referring to or quoting something else, but they seem to be completely original. I imagine these lyrics come from a place of frustration of the direction things (a country or the world) are going and that no one seems to have eyes to see, so to speak. The narrator must be the new regime (new world order's leaders? Revelation's leaders?) with "sacrifice your leaders" referring to the old regime. It seems rooted in Revelations. In the song, the population is under such control that they may as well have no eyes and are thus the millennium of the blind. Are we the millennium of the blind or is the millennium of the blind still to come? |
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| Megadeth – Wrecker Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I think it's interesting that the song starts with wrecker and becomes homewrecker. The wrecker could just be someone you're acquainted with who seems to leave messes in her wake. The homewrecker has to be more specific. I imagine the guy has to be in a committed relationship and the woman has to know that and be trying to break that up. I wonder if this is referring to someone in Dave's when he was dating, before he got married, or if the inspiration came from other sources outside of his personal life. Drugs or alcohol could also be "wreckers" but aren't associated with gender. |
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| Megadeth – Fast Lane Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I like the interpretation given that the song is like 502, and it's probably right. I like seeing other meanings in Megadeth songs too and think the song could be about pushing limits in general. The phrase "fast lane" also refers to a fast, hectic, or break-neck pace or style of living life. I hate to fall back on Megadeth song meaning tropes, but I could also see this relating to substance and drug abuse, not that every instance of "white line" has to be a cocaine reference but the thought crossed my mind. I could see it relating to the lifestyle of a touring musician. I could also see it referring to other risky or dangerous behaviors than just outrunning the police. It could be attempting to beat a land speed record or flying a jet. Supersonic speed is probably metaphorical. Supersonic speed is usually associated with aircraft or ballistics, but supersonic speeds have been achieved on land as well. |
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| Megadeth – Sudden Death Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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Sudden Death, what a way to start out an album. The song is very energetic, but I didn't realize there was anything different about the song until I looked it up and found out it was featured and written for Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock. I just took it as another Megadeth song. On closer listen, I heard the complexity. The lyrics fit well with a boss battle at the end of a rhythm game. To me, it's more than that. There are the visuals of a great evil from beneath the depths of hell, created and designed for destruction. There is also the imagery of a near beaten, forsaken, doomed hero who persists against the odds, but the end is not clear, either success or failure. There is so much here to like. I feel may can relate to "Alone and left abandoned with the sentence you've been handed, all your angels will ignore you as your life flashes before you. Even still you keep on fighting through the thunder and the lightning." More dramatic than regular life but relateable. I like the lines "And now Heaven sends its love your sudden death from above" and interpret it in a few ways. The line could be tongue-in-cheek and ironic. Taken with "your angels will ignore you", it could be literal and bleak. It could also be that the salvation in this instance is to be taken from the battle by death. |
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| Megadeth – We the People Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I think the spoken word part in the beginning of We the People is the following from the Declaration of Independence: "When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them" ... and ... "burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people. He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation and tyranny," |
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| Megadeth – We the People Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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Here's my understanding of the line "In greed we trust, in revolution we die". The official motto of the United States is "In God We Trust" as of 1956 and has appeared on currency since 1864. To me, Dave is saying that those who serve greed will die in a revolution. I think this song could apply just as well to previous administrations as current and future administrations and to all levels and branches of government as I don't think it is talking about an act but a trend. This song reads like a warning. The line "surrender your freedom, your social security" could mean surrender your freedom and surrender your social security or could mean an exchange of freedom for social security. |
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| Megadeth – 13 Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| This song sums up the album and Dave Mustaine's music up to this point. It also points out what the number 13 means to him at this point in his life. He says he started playing music at 13 and has wrote 13 albums. It sounds like music for him is introspection. Mistakes he's made or his failures have pained him. Music has a way of bringing us back to the past and remind us of the past. It sounds like this is true for Dave. It really sounds like a bittersweet song. He says he's been lucky and is still alive but he also says he can't take anymore, can't get/jump out, and can't face/erase. | |
| Megadeth – Black Swan Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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The song graphs a course from a drug high to a low. The phrase black swan reminds me that historically it was thought that all swans were white and that finding a black swan was a surprising event. Maybe the addict looks forward to the high and forgets then gets surprised by the low. It also reminds me of inductive categorical inference, seeing a white swan and assuming incorrectly that all swans are white. A single black swan is all that's required to disprove the statement that all swans are white. |
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| Megadeth – New World Order Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I think this song is either a reinterpretation or takes its inspiration from Revelations in The Bible. "A symbol of society today, a must have or you shall pay" and "all rights will be denied, without the mark youshalldie" is the mark of the beast, which all people must have on their right hands or foreheads to buy or sell in society ("or you shall pay" meaning suffer consequences). "Monitoring all wages, New World Order comes in stages, currency is obsolete" is also talking about the mark taking over for currency. This New World Order subsumes the religion of the day, whose apostles join hands with wicked ones. There is a new holy book (a book written by man, used to control and command) and the religion is used to control the people (New World Order will hold a mass). I read that the song New World Order was written in 1991, which was before Alex Jones came to prominence. I would recommend getting information for yourself and not taking Alex Jones' word for it. When it comes down to it, Alex Jones is an entertainer (film producer, author, and radio show host). He does not make his money on (and is not incentivised for) presenting facts an unbiased or dispassionate way. |
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| Megadeth – Never Dead Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I'm not sure of the significance of the line "where angels dare to tread". Maybe the angels it refers to are fallen angels. There is a famous qoute, "for fools rush in where angels fear to tread." I'm not sure if "the realm of the never dead" is purgatory or hell. I think this song is talking about truly evil men going to hell, where I think fallen angels dare to tread. They suffer with their allys and accomplices, those they swear to defend, and that hell feeds off them. At the end of the song, I think the evil man faces a decision whose choices lead to death and is sent to hell. |
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| Megadeth – Guns, Drugs, & Money Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| I don't like when people criticize Dave Mustaine's writing. I'm not trying to put him up against the great poets or authors, but the lyrics do manage to talk about an unfortunate situation and tell the story of man who doesn't compromise his values and dies for it. Plata o plomo means silver or lead and is the choice to take a bribe or be killed. | |
| Megadeth – Whose Life (Is It Anyways?) Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I think this song could be about paparazzi or tabloid media. It could also be about internet comments (or trolls) or the music media. "I see you in the shadows" sounds like a stalker, which was why I thought paparazzi. It could be someone making comments in a dark room behind a computer screen. The subject criticizes his clothes, friends, hangouts, choices, and everything about him. I gets to him, in his head, and underneath his skin. This lends credence to the idea that it could be someone close to him. I deeply relate to the line "you only point out faults; anxiety attack". I've read, heard, or heard about people disparaging me and had it cause that anxious feeling in me. I like the takeaway message from the song: it's his life to live, and he's not going to let it get him too worked up or change him (costs so much more than the price I ain't gonna pay). Besides, if you spend your life, watching, criticising, and pointing out the flaws in others, the quality of your own life suffers. |
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| Megadeth – Public Enemy No. 1 Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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Great song. If the song is chronological, the anti-hero breaks out from jail, fires a gun, and makes his getaway in a stolen car at night. He stops to place roses on a grave (the song addresses a dead loved one?) but can't linger because the authorities and his enemies are after him. I draw a parallel between his opinion of himself as being invincible and others viewing him as dispicable to the punishment being reciprocal. Maybe he lives a violent life of crime as a mob boss and his punishment is solitary confinement. My favorite lines are "I'm unbeatable, my mind is untreatable, crimes unrepeatable, public enemy number one." It mirror's the "invincible" lines. His view of himself, other's view of him, and crime/punishment. I don't know that there is a treatment for psychopathy or sociopathy, if he is one. I view "crimes unrepeatable" as having a double meaning. He commits crimes that others could not repeat and crimes that are unspeakable. A criminal who repeatedly thwarts the authorities in stand-offs makes the authorities crazy, come undone. He may be a thrill-seeker, flirting with death just for fun. I read that Dave Mustaine said this song is about Al Capone. I don't think Al Capone's father was a fugitive, but maybe the line means he was born a fugitive and also born his father's son. I also take the next line to have double meanings. A criminal committing a crime brings trouble upon himself in the form of the law coming after him, but this criminal is likely to keep committing crimes until he's caught or dies, so he is going to continue to cause trouble for the law. Some historical Wanted posters used the phrase "Wanted dead or alive". This public enemy number one is so dangerous that he is wanted dead or dead and is so dangerous that those have tried have themselves ended up dead with a bullet in their head. |
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| Chris Cornell – Arms Around Your Love Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| This song comes across to me as "her revenge." The song is about the guy, the ex, but maybe it is also about the girl. I read reciprocity into that "pain that you can't ignore," especially since it sounds like he did a lot of ignoring in his time. In some respect, it's like we're joining the song at the happy ending -- at least for her. On the other hand, maybe he could have been the guy to give her what she needed and just wasn't ready or mature enough. While on the surface, the song is straight-forward and about a guy missing his chance, I believe it has that other dimension. | |
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