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| My Chemical Romance – The Kids From Yesterday Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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I think Konstantine is right on. This song is about the band getting old. Also I would add that they feel they are losing their message in the modern world, and they are trying to put together a final plea. I think they are trying to establish what the band was about; their message wrapped up in a song. They don't want to be remembered for eyeliner and makeup, but as a righteous alternative to pop culture. I try to avoid using these famous last words, but, I've been a fan from the beginning; and this song really shakes me. It shows their willingness to admit the dawn of their career. In simple terms I think this song is MCR's way of saying 'it was a good run, thank you.' I just hope there are kids practicing that are ambitious as this group, playing in basements, defying the norms, and blowing people's minds. I feel a 'passing of the torch' feeling to this song, and I hope there are succesors. |
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| The Bled – Meet Me in the Bone Orchard Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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My favorite bled song, I can't believe nobody commented yet,
It's about a rational being dealing with or probably losing control with his addiction. Here are just a few lines and my analysis of them, I could provide more but I don't want to write a book.
desire bleeds you dry, coercion takes too long... easier to give in to temptation rather than force yourself to quit
these idle hands will be the death of us (at least one of us)... the addiction will either kill the man, or the man will get so sick of the addiction he will quit (eg kill it)
These offers I will reject, I won't be swinging by my neck... the man claiming he won't give into the drug
the cold moon will always eclipse the truth spilling from your lips... the drug claiming it has control over the man in his most honest attempts to break free from it
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| Rise Against – Satellite Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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Just what Rise Against needs; to break into the hillbilly market. They have already received enough attention from groups that would be apalled if they knew what the band actually stands for. Of course they don't know, because listening to and interpreting the lyrics is just too taxing for them. This is just one example of how marketing has desynthesized Americans into giving into flashing lights, bells, whistles, etc... Irony? Indeed. |
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| Coheed and Cambria – The Echomaker Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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I don't care where it belongs, this song is amazing! Is it just me or is claudio at his best with an acoustic guitar and a below-industry grade recording device? I hope if theres another PFI album that it's all recorded on his 4 track. |
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| Glassjaw – All Good Junkies Go To Heaven Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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I'm a leaning glassjawjaw fan... I liked parts and pieces of Everything You Wanted to know... but this is amazing; a breath of fresh air in hardcore. Daryl's dynamic presence behind the mic is apparent here and his songmanship approaches flawlessness. I think this song is not about addiction to any illicit substance, but about addiction to money and policy; American decadence... |
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| A Silver Mt. Zion – Teddy Roosevelt's Guns Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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since none of these anwers are very satisfactory... in brief he is saying that Canada is riding on the same western wave of antisemitism, laissez-faire capitolism and war mongering that have made the US unpopular throughout the world but in a passive role, and he is therefore disclaiming his country, Canada. |
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| Against Me! – I Was a Teenage Anarchist Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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this isn't an apology or explanation... or a goodbye to punk rock. It's a nostalgiac recall of his naivete. Sorry to tell you young guys, but wait until you get to your mid 20s and then listen to this song and you will understand what Gabel means. I won't comment on whether it's apathy or enlightenment... but it's natural and rational in this age. I am all for a utopian society but as Gable says "All I saw was a bloodless ideology with freedom as their doctrine" |
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| Circa Survive – The Longest Mile Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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until 0:12 this song could be easily mistaken for the cure... Very impressed with what I've heard so far, I was kind of dissapointed with On Letting Go; but this is quite an impressive rebound. Not to say OLG was horrible... |
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| Coheed and Cambria – The Broken Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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Is this more writer/story drama a la GAIBSIV? I get the feeling this is more personal, like Claudio dealing with his die hard fans of SSTB and IKSSE3 and trying to move on but placate them as well. "swinging honesty across this violence"- taking personal stories and aadapting them into story. "Where was your heart heart when we needed it most?" -dialogue of the die hards... "Live in denial, I'll be your ghost"- Claudio's response... just a thought |
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| Conor Oberst – Bloodline Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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It is about being from aprestigious family and only having mediocre success; the feeling of alienation from his own family. |
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| Conor Oberst – Snake Hill Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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Not far off, imo, entirety... This song is about how damaging words can be... particularly the words exchanged in a relationship. |
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| Thursday – Friends In the Armed Forces Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I really debated posting this until I found the line "And in the fold of the body bag, somebody check for a heart.." I only hesitated because I don't want to attach an unnecessary stigma to Thursday... after looking it over many times, this song is definitely about the personal decisions involved in participating in war. Even the more radical bands I listen to are careful to point fingers at decision makers and ignore or sympathize with those with the dirty hands. This song is obviously anti-war and serves its purpose by being direct to the actual instruments of death. "Friends in the Armed Forces" is a good name for the song because it shows exactly why we try to protect the troops from accustions; we all can name someone in Iraq/Afghanistan or a friend that knows someone there. This is frustration and disgust of people not standing up for what they know is wrong. It is pointing not to demonize but rather to show the subjects that they, in being compliant, are somewhat at fault and cannot deny it. |
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| Jets to Brazil – King Medicine Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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by the way I hadn't read all the posts before I put my two cents in, I see that I really just elaborated on maybeillcatchfire's theory and opened up the sex/gender of the subject. We think alike... Sorry about all the typos on the previous post(after all that typing, it's too hard to persuade yourself to proofread) |
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| Jets to Brazil – King Medicine Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I've been pining over this song. I have had this album for over a year but really only listened to "crown of the valley", "I typed for miles", and "sweet avenue" on repeat... yeah, I've heard the whol album.. but I've just recently started appreciating it in whole and I don't know it happened; it's now became a staple in my musical diet. I don't know how I ever passed this song up. This song is just amazing in such a modest way... To comment on what it means; I feel it's about how people hold western medicine as the ultimate problem solver for health. This person has a problem in their life that they can't solve and seek a doctor's intervention for cure. The thing is that a doctor can't solve the problem though he will try:
"know that you will soon go crazy.."
subject has predetermination that they are going insane
"a pointed confession really stripped of all your armor"
describing "symptoms" to a psychologist; it is exposing and like a confession. a pointed confession demonstrates that the subject is exaggerating and chery picking their experiences to be in accord with what they have already determined as a problem in their head
"you've been looking for it, the right blade, all your life"
The subject is looking for an excuse to push all their problems to (in this case a psychological problem) rather than accept themselves
"tell me how you do that crazy trick where you walk around asleep, save it for you doctor friend the one who keeps you under lock and skey"
The narrator is preturbed,he realizes the subject is making problems where there are none. More importantly he is showing that the subject's friends have now been cut off and that the only one the subject now confides in is his/her doctor; and the doctor has influenced the subject to be completely dependent on him as the subject's only confidante
"now you're selling off the house so you can buy the farm"
You're giving up you're house(or home which is a metaphor for friends and family) for the farm (funny farm is another way of saying mental institution)
"King Medicine"
The doctor and his control over the patient; also says how westerner's consider every ailment to be treatable with drugs
"This subject loves you"
Finally the patient now has lost faith in the world and can only trust the doctor and thus with only one source of trust; the subject in vulnerability finds the only the thing he/she can trust and attaches the most inevuitably necessary human emotion, love, to it. |
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| Thrice – Silver Wings Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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Wow... I don't have the time to pour through all the comments but the crucifixion(sorry about the pun) of diguistipated is ridiculous. I know many christians that can express themselves without inserting god anywhere into the equation. And this song is about humans puring CO2 into the earth's atmosphere and taking air for granted. It couldn't be more pointed or more directional than it already is. If you want to make alternate explanations that is fine and I won't say they are wrong. But to rip someone to shreds for saying hey maybe he wasn't implying divine measures is ludicrous and unsettling at the same time. Ease up on the persecution complex already, christianity is king of the West. |
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| Thrice – The Lion and the Wolf Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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In my opinion this song is about hypocrisy. The lion symbolizes blatant evil and the wolf is our less apparent compliance with this evil. "mocking man's best friend" shows us that this entity, the wolf, is deceptive and representing itself as good-natured and on-our-side. "Both the Sowolf and the lion crave the same thing in the end" shows that both of these symbols seek a shared goal. So, that being said, the specific meaning I think this song is taking aim at is the military-industrial complex. The lion represents the government officials, the oil contractors, etc.. the ones that we can point our fingers at and talk about how they have cause all of our problems. The wolf is a symbol for our compliance with these evil doers through consumerism, done unknowingly. For example, purchasing video games that were designed to romanticize war (and in case you didn't know, there is a specific video game corporation that actually involves military officials in the process of making games). The uproar over gas prices spiraling out of control is another great example... It is extremely ridiculous when you watch the news airing segments tying war-mongering elected officials with oil companies and segments of melting glaciers and 6 months later they are airing segments about how people can't afford to drive to work. |
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| Alkaline Trio – Cringe Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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OK, let's try this again I was lit the last post... As I previously established the last time "tounge tied" is another way of saying he's too drunk too speak, "bleeding from your eyes" is just hammering home the point of being drunk(blood shot eyes), and the reference to Christ cringing at scars is related to the subject's emotinal trauma... I think this song is SFO pt. II. San francisco is about leaving san fran for chicago, what or whoever he left is irrelevant at this point. San francisco is about leaving in a drunken sorrow, this song is about the ensuing hangover and longing for home. It is really kind of a good riddance song. He is obviously talking about flying home "standby flight" (which I am more than familiar with....) and the clue to chicago: "headwind cold rain to wake me". If you've ever woken up with a 180 attitude toward your emotions influenced from the previous night of drink; you will understand this song. It is about guilt, anger, and embarassment. The narrator is waking up from his naive state and rebelling from it, so to speak. |
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| Alkaline Trio – Cringe Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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Toungue-tied= slurring
bleeding from your eyes= damn well blood shot eyes
Even christ himself would cringe at the sight of your scars= alcoholic is drinking to "erase" bad memories...
that's all i got, not 100 perccennt convinced on the paper route. But love the air travel references... |
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| Rise Against – Whereabouts Unknown Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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P.S. love the new album, been a fan since RPM.. and I think this album the deserves respect of the punk community. It is elegant in the punk fashion even in the face of success... a feat accomplished by few in recent times, namely; Against Me! |
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| Rise Against – Whereabouts Unknown Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I agree with yoshu... initially reading his analysis I had only listened to the song 3 or 4 times w no attn to lyrics but still thought he was out of the park; it seemed a little too divisive even for the avant-garde Rise Against. In looking at the lyrics I agree... "another place, another time; we saw eye to eye. We towed the same side of the line" establishes that yes; they, the two parties in question, were fighting the same fight. And the dedication to the "tainted crown of thorns" line really puts this argument to rest. Goodjob Yoshu. This song to me really wraps up the album by coming full circle. The band is really making a metaphor here; their former companion is now indefferent to their cause... yet he is still no enemy. He is no traitor. There are many novels/stories about innocent children growing up only to face each other in battle and realize the gift of emotions offered by humanity. Ultimately, I think this song is about returning to innocence and not asking the subject to switch sides back to the narrator's. The song is written in the language of war, but the narrator really wants to ignore the differences of himself and the subject and return to the innocence of one person appreciating another person for who they are disregarding sociopolitical beliefs...Ultimately pulling apart the diviseness aforementioned and promoting unity. |
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| United Nations – My Cold War Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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Great collabarotive effort... Geoff's lyric's puncture the heart as intended... amazing... how I miss real hardcore music.; the goal of this album. Job done well... |
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| Alkaline Trio – Burned Is the House Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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it's about being on the losing end of a relationship where there is no clarity as to whether it is plutonic or not. It's about building a dream around a love interest and finding that person is not interested in love but friendship. "burned is the house. Gone is the street. Here is the same dissapinting retreat." Dream house on dream lane with dream wife is now destroyed in the narrator's mind and he is of course embarassed for surrendering himself in this manner. "Happily in love but the words were all wrong" regards the narrator's misinterpretation of the subject's words. This song is about being led on and falling into the trap of romantic daydreaming and being vengeful in spite of the person of interest's miscommunication.
Besides that, this may be my favorite trio song ever, I am dumb founded as to why they didn't put it on Agony and Irony. It and maybe two other songs could have really carried that album... |
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| Two Gallants – Despite What You've Been Told Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I disagree, mrgrimm, I think he's blaming himself in this song. This song is an apology to the new lover. He wants to his new lover to be what he lost but she is not. There is a certain amount of guilt involved with such situations, and this song is expressing that. |
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| The Gaslight Anthem – Red at Night Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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Amazing song... aside from the vague meaning here; a blessing in disguise. I think this about a more specific story; infidelity that begins a relationship with the assailant that touches closer to true love than the relationship with the victim. |
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| Coheed and Cambria – Mother Superior Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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acoustic version is much better...
this is a revisit to the crowing, the crowing was very emotional and full of disbelief on the character's part. The character is set back by some event??? and returns to a weaker state. The crowing showed weakness in that claudio could not cope with the idea of being chosen to save the universe and this song parrallels this weakness not necessarily by doubt but by exhaustion. Suicide is obviously a theme. Claudio is now questioning his ability to cope with his world. |
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| Against Me! – The Ocean Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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This song is about the ambiguity of love and how love is not entirely sex. It is about appreciating love in both plutonic and nonplutonic circumstances. |
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| Rise Against – The Good Left Undone Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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Love is not important??? Without love you would not exist, it is as natural as the dirt and the roots of flowers.As for the video it is feeding straight off the lyrics in case you did not take the time to read them. The narrator is expressing emotions of guilt, desire, longing, fear, and veneration. These feelings do equate to those evoked by nature and also by love. So how do we decide which wins this contest? The answer is that both arguments are valid. As individuals that live within the boundaries of what we are offered by our local resources (NATURE) we are the consumers and are subject to the emotions previously mentioned, and this is a macrocosm of love. If you have been in enough relationships you will realize that love is a game of power, one party seeks domination and the other appeasment. The party of dominion is the provider of something valuable to its subject. The subject acts within reason to achieve its goal of receiving what it wants/needs.The song, whether about nature or love is about a reversal of these roles. |
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| Murder by Death – End of the Line Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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This song is about becoming a man and facing your fears. It is about letting the fluff out and exposing the grime. The children hiding in fear at the beginning are the first phase; obviously children are fearful, we all start this way. Phase Two is the process of growth from child to a man. This can be derived from the lyrics about the growth of barb wire from bullet shells( the rigidity of the language is key). Perhaps the woman is a (single) mother and by feeding the flower she is distancing herself from her son. Phase Three, the man faces his demons. He goes head to head with the devil and notice we don't know who wins... To me this song tells the story of the underprivileged american male. It is a great song and I think my parallels are sufficient enough. |
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| Rise Against – The Good Left Undone Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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This song is about a relationship where the two love each other for two different reasons. The Narrator is truely in love but recognizes the love is impossible due to the circumstances. Flower = girl(purity, innocent, naive). This isn't unrequited love but there is something in the way. I am led to believe that this song is about a relationship between a man and a much younger woman. The narrator speaks of the flower like it was something he took out of selfishness(lust) and returned out of guilt. He says he "pulled until the roots gave in"; he hit on her until she finally said I'll give you a chance. Then he speaks about the consequences of a dissonant relationship "Inside my hands these petals browned". So he "returned this flower to the dirt", broke up with her and freed her. I said that he picked up the girl out of lust earlier, but he truly did fall in love with her, this can be seen in the angel part. However, he knew she was naive and was not able to deal with real issues facing this couple so he let her go. "The coming storm" is a reference to the consequences of the stakes that build in a doomed realtionship over time. He still loves her and he knows that she does not truly love him and has a lot more to go through before she is capable of true love |
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| The Mars Volta – El Ciervo Vulnerado Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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After listening to this album I have come to a theory that vicarious atonement and tetragrammation are about an individual that was brought up to be Christ, the martyr. Not neceaarily feeling any connection the individual just went along with it out of fear. I feel that the first two songs are about the individual coming to terms with being raised to be a legacy he doesn't himself believe in. and I think that this song is about his death and shows that at his end he really believed he was this character. To the point of being slightly arrogant about it... just my opinion, admittedly I am still very unsure. |
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