| KMFDM – Disobedience Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| This song is amazing. I absolutely adore it, but have no idea what it's really meaning. I was hoping someone had some idea, but it seems nearly everyone is at a loss to explain it. One of KMFDM's best earlier songs. | |
| Muse – Thoughts of a Dying Atheist Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I'm a committed athiest. While there's no systematic and effectively reasoned proof that there is no god, there have been too many con-jobs in religion for my liking. Life is interesting, death is peaceful. It's the part in between that's a bit difficult... I connect completely with this song. Death is inevitable, but I'm convinced that I've mostly made right and sensible decisions for myself and others, so I'm not really scared of death. It's amazing though, how many old people get conned into wasting their last valuable years to religion. Anyway, the first part of this song refers to a divine 'vision' of sorts, sensing (imagining?) some sort of divine presence and thus, as an athiest, fearful of death. From a previous comment: "Religion kills. Reason FULFILS." - quite definately |
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| t.A.T.u. – Obezyanka Nol Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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^^ (wow, I wrote that?) disregard this. I can be such an emo kid :) I think overall, this song is referring to the manager. tATu's song reflecting on the way they've been WAY overmarketed and have been unable to express their real views properly. As teen stars, their lives have been disrupted and detached by this etc. and that's what it's about |
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| t.A.T.u. – Obezyanka Nol Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I very strongly dislike tatu, but found this song intruiging. It's a shame that they don't write more songs like this. I connected with this one a lot. With me, it assosciates very closely with the 'grey void' feeling, where it is just impossible to enjoy anyone or anything in the emotional struggles of life. The previous and most fitting one is the one regarding their previos manager, but that's not one I choose to believe because there are other elements in the lyrics that express differently. To me, the opening verse means detachment. The phrase "the moon is reflected in each puddle" is imagery, not anything literal, and fits the "grey void" theory better. I certainly feel this a lot - I feel very badly detached, there are just so few people in the world who are genuine friends who match my feelings, understandings and attitudes. "Clouds foolishly miss each other" to me implies missed oppurtunity, as well as perhaps confusion and detachment. "Alive for now" implies a possible suicide or giving up in some way. I read some other interpretation somewhere else a while ago that suggested that "monkey zero" refers to the honest, good people of the world who get constantly crushed by reality, doing their best for themselves and everyone else but consistently lucking out. "Cheerful, ridiculous" pain is exactly the way I feel worst, when I'm supposed to be really happy, finding something funny or good, but just can't. That's when I feel most hurt, it's ironic. If anyone's felt that way, you'll understand exactly what I mean. I find myself equating the monkey idea with the "honest psycho". Many people are much too narrow minded or insensitive to understand. They're the ones that need to learn and improve, not us. So many of us are terrific people that are just misunderstood. My life feels like perpetual imprisonment. The perpetual memories of pain will never subside. I have difficulty finding a girlfriend, because so very many people are so unimaginably fake and predictable. So when I really found someone I liked, who was very likeminded, we were both dismissed as even worse nut-jobs. This interpretation fits very well with the "Null and Void" English equivalent, too. If only tATu would stop with the (fake) lesbian smooching, and write some real, musically mature songs, and perform them accordingly. Then they might be an OK band. |
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| Muse – Assassin Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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This song reminds me very much of the outbreak of World War One. That war was extremely important historically - the end of European world dominance, the start of america's, and it all started with the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, by Serbian nationalists ("terrorists"). The lyrics could mean a thousand other things, but somehow the tone of the guitar and choice of words "lose control in inreasing pace" and so on, the war was on internationally in less than a week from Austria Hungary's ultimatum. People everywhere were furious in one way or another, and quickly anarchy and confusion followed, another theme that seems to run in this song (and at live performances). More specifically: "war is overdue" "the time has come for you" - the furious nationalists "these people are torn, wild and bereft" The oppressed minorities of A-H The only thing that doesn't seem to fit is "destroy demonocracy", which to me implies pursuing some other (new?) political agenda, perhaps fascism or dictatorship of some flavour. But yes, something in this song just screams *JULY 1914* in my face like nothing else |
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