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| Hurt – Danse Russe Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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Actually, "russe" is Russian, and "rousse" is red, however "rousse" is the feminine form, so if you would have to look it up under "roux". It's usually used when referring to hair color, because normally when referring to something as red in French, you simple use the word, "rouge". However, just from listening to this song, I originally thought that on a deeper level it could be talking about killing his wife. "Roll on over. I just need to feel you breathe..." gave that interpretation to me. From what I read, the poem that Hurt based this song off of was meant to have multiple interpretations, so using the word "russe" could have simply been a play on words since "russe" and "rousse" are typically pronounced the same. |
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| Emilie Autumn – Thank God I'm Pretty Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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Definately a sarcastic way of saying being pretty isn't everything, and it's actually blaming being pretty for her problems. No one takes her seriously. Men just look at her as a pretty face to "jerk-off" to, and the whole line of "when it's dark outside, I have to run and hide" makes it clear that the man who raped her in her past probably said the typical line, "I'm so sorry that this had to happen to you. It's just that you're so pretty." And this song is mainly blaming her good looks for being raped. This is a typical thing that girls go through after rape. They blame themselves. They think, "Maybe if I wasn't wearing..." or "Maybe I gave him the wrong message..." or "Maybe it's because I make myself look too enticing..." |
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| Emilie Autumn – Opheliac Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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A relationship had ended, and it was someone she had an obsession for. Drowning was a symbol for the suffering he caused her, so to get even and cause him just as much pain and suffering, she wants to kill herself and let him know that it was all his fault. |
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| Emilie Autumn – Gothic Lolita Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I read up on her and she was raped in the past. If anyone has ever seen "The Greatest Silence: Rape In The Congo", s/he will notice that many of the women refer to the rape as being killed. Wikipedia said that Emilie reported being raped, but won't share with the public when. I think this song is telling us she was raped when she was a child. The Lolita style is meant to make a grown girl look like a child or doll. Anyone whose seen Emilie perform or has even seen pictures of her will know she dresses kind of Lolita, so the lyrics: "If I'm a Lolita then you are a criminal" is quite literal, but at the same time, I see it as he was trying to lie to himself. "She wasn't a little girl. She was a Lolita." is what was on his mind. And this is the conclusion I come to: Either she was never able to tell in the past, and that's why she is now his "worst nightmare", or she did tell in the past and he was the type that everyone likes, so he didn't get his punishment, and now she's going to make his life his "worst nightmare". Emilie is genius. You can tell through all of her work that Shakespeare was one of her main inspirations because she directs her songs toward a particular person, and she rages at them (usually with elements of some sort of "love" obsession), which makes me so in-love with her work. |
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| Siouxsie and the Banshees – Cities In Dust Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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My friend and I took it as a big symbol. Yes, it is about Pompeii (literally), but it is also about a deceitful person (figuratively). Someone who is a liar usually will eventually feel guilt (even more-so after being caught), and the feeling of guilt is like this burning feeling like lava pouring down your throat. |
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| Nightwish – Kuolema Tekee Taiteilijan Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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Wow, Thanks to all of you who translated, I can say what I think this song means now... It reminds me of soviet prison camps. People who were really intellectual that opposed the government were sent there. They recieved really harsh punishment. I visited the Gulogs while I was in Russia, and if one of the prisonners simply looked at an officer the wrong way, he was sent to the isolation chamber while basically was torture. They slept on a wooden bed with no pillow or blanket in the middle of the winter with no heating and a whole in the wall with bars over it to look outside. They would get food only once a week and their sinks doubled as toilets. This person wants to just die and believes s/he is going to, and all s/he is asking God is for his/her child to love him/her and to let his/her spirit watch over the child like a guardian angel. |
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| Nightwish – End Of All Hope Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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I think I'm going to take this from a historical (or biblical if you will) perspective. There are supposed to be lost scriptures of the bible (Jesus's adolescence), and biblical historians believe that the reason they are lost is because no one wants to know that their savior did sinful (but completely normal and human) things. "This is the end of all hope to lose the child of faith" is from the perspective of those people at that time. They were thinking, "If our savior does these things, then we must be lost" |
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| Epica – Solitary Ground Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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Trying to escape reality through the use of drugs, she wonders, is this new way of life okay? She becomes addicted and feels that there's no return, but she longs to get away from them. She realizes that drugs are only a waste of time. |
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| My Chemical Romance – The Ghost of You Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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I don't believe this song is actually about death. My Chemical Romance uses a lot of these types of themes because they grew up watching horror films, and that's a passion that they all share. This song is actually about someone being left and it's obvious that she will never call again or anything. That's what the "ghost" stands for because it got to the point that he wonders if she was all just a good dream. Did she ever even exist? |
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| My Chemical Romance – I Never Told You What I Do For a Living Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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I say both versions are actually about the guilt you feel after having sex when you're not ready (especially if you feel like you're getting something for it). You can tell more in the other version. This is the origional and it was meant to be more cryptic I think, giving you this idea that it's actually about the job of an assassin. But think about it, what do you feel like when you've had sex and you're not ready? The whole song is a very complex double entendre. |
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| Switchblade Symphony – Copycat Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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This song actually remind me of people I know. It actually reminds me of highschool. People try to be accepted by doing what others do. They lose themselves because they're so worried about what everyone else thinks of them. |
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| Switchblade Symphony – Wallflower Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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I took this song as about rape. "Seed of need it will erupt" is about the rapist stalking her in the beginning. The chorus is about the pregnancy after being raped. |
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| Switchblade Symphony – Clown Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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When I first heard this song, I took it as a song about child abuse, honestly. Read the lyrics from that perspective. I can definately see it as a song about someone dealing with someone close who is a cocaine user, though. Switchblade Symphony were an amazing band that put out such poetic lyrics. |
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| Switchblade Symphony – Cocoon Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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This song is about being high on drugs. It gives in away with "floating in the sky, in her state of mind." If you listen to the song, it's obviously meant to sound like a fantasy. The person had a lot of problems. Listen to the classical section in the middle. The music is meant to sound anguished and caotic. "She is soaring, flying through the air up there, my butterfly." is a symbol for she's taking drugs to numb the pain. |
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| Switchblade Symphony – Rain Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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A parent is in search of his/her daughter. She's gone missing. It turns out she was kidnapped, but when they find her, it's already too late. The first part is a description of the little girl (maybe from when the parent went to the police). And the lines, "A floating palace in the sky is where she'll be, and there she stays until she falls so peacefully." is the parent telling himself/herself that the daughter is okay. And the last part is obviously, the search, and to their horror, they find her body... I can't tell if the chamber is literal or figurative, though. It could be literally a chamber, and therefore be someone's basement, or it could be a grave dug by the girl's killer. |
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| Switchblade Symphony – Dollhouse Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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My friend and I thought about this song just yesterday actually. We believe that this song is about someone who was hiding Jews during the halocaust. The Nazi police are raiding their home, while the Jews hide in the attic. |
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| Switchblade Symphony – Wrecking Yard Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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I'm going to analyze this from a historical stand-point. I was thinking that this song could actually be about the halocaust. The Jews were stripped of everything. When discovered by Nazi police, they were to be imprisoned. "The Wrecking Yard" is life after being discovered. And the last four lines of the second verse is about all those that went to the gas chambers. People in that time believed that the only way to escape was death, so that's why they're dancing up above the sky, and the last of those four lines, "You'll see them asleep in the rain tonight" is supposed to represent the bodies after they've died and the fear that people have that they'll be next. |
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