| Bad Religion – The Devil In Stitches Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Not going to parse through it but yours was the top of the pile and kind of hit on what I observed. It definitely seems like it's more intertwined with the song writers (I want to say Graffin but who knows) punk history than with their relationship history, as it immediately appears to be. I don't want to say they're pulling another "You Don't Belong" but there's at least two references "edge of a knife" and "wild in the streets" GBH and CJ respectively. But who knows if its tangential or if its metaphorical (Greg or Brett) because this just throws me off : I know he drove her out out to the brink That's where they stood and looked down Right then he made a decision That's where they made a division Declaring war on the weather |
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| AJJ – Big Bird Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I wish I were a little less of a coward but the big red bird that lives under the city doesn't give a damn about me and it dies every night. So I bought a knife. I am a knife. The phoenix thing makes a ton of sense but why would he be the knife (or need one, for that matter) |
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| Bad Religion – Changing Tide Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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This is Bad Religions swan song. They will probably go on to make four more albums but this song is the song that they should have ended their career on: "But of course the climate's always changing Clinging to the past has got you straining Realizing all your most cherished beliefs are subject to rot and mold (Come on) Brothers say goodbye Sisters don't you cry All embrace the times Wade into the changing tide " They're saying that our social life is a fluctuating thing and even their bedrock lyrics are subject to mold and will rot away (not the majority but ten in 2010 anyone?). It almost a suicide note to the fans, telling us to realize that BR is not the be all and end all (something they've already told us in the lyric "no Bad Religion song will make your life complete" so many years ago) and that even they will rot away and be replaced by others and now its time for us to wade into the water alone and make our own minds up. Absolutely beautiful. I am a HUGE BR fan and I am beyond satisfied with this album (I think it is the best they've made since at least Generator/ATG) but I would be more then happy if they ended on this song. |
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| Bad Religion – The Positive Aspect of Negative Thinking Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Oh and syntax, of course, is the use of structured language. | |
| Propagandhi – Failed States Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Hiroo Onoda? | |
| Sims – One Dimensional Man Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Damn, did you get that from: holier than thou type thing but you did your part you gave your hundred bucks to NPR you joined the co-op now bought the hybrid car switched to peace coffee went to three rallies then wiped your hands with sanitized solution good deeds tallied consumer movement seeking absolution redesign the treadmill, still ain�t moving desperately run in place reapplied the laws of the bluest eye Him calling neo-environmentalists nazi's (blue eyes)? It took me a long time to figure it out. |
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| Propagandhi – Purina Hall Of Fame Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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See the thing is is that with other bands you might be right. Propagandhi is usually fairly "in your face" with their lyrics, meaning that when they make a song about animal exploitation it's about animal exploitation. I'll leave this here to show the actual intent in the song: SBV: Can you tell me about the actual song meaning of ‘Purina Hall Of Fame’ and did Purina hear that song and if so what was their reaction? CH: When an animal saves a human life (like a dog saving a drowning baby for example), Purina adds them to their Hall of Fame. When a human saves an animal life (like a member of the ALF freeing a beagle from a vivisector) they are thrown in prison for the rest of their lives. It's a interesting difference. I doubt the animal exploitation industry cares that a band wrote a song about it. TK: Purina is a company that feed animal parts to other animals. But they have an award for heroic animals that save humans. I'm not sure if people at Purina heard it or not. I'm sure the money they make off their company eclipses any humane thoughts that might occasionally flitter through their minds. |
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| Bad Religion – Wrong Way Kids Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Anyone else love the stanza: The kids today are gone away petitioning the dust With nobody to look up to because they're looking up to us Just misfit melancholy dregs gone lost in the mall Wanderers to nowhere at all G or B really seem critical of their past here. Almost as though they're chastising themselves for living the way they did because NOW they're the parents and the kids TODAY are all vapid little shits because they don't have a decent familial role model to look up to. |
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| Bad Religion – The Positive Aspect of Negative Thinking Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I dunno why this hasn't been posted yet. I don't have a link but could probably track one down if need be but this song isn't a Greg or Brett song. This is a song that was penned by Bentley. The song is poking fun at Graffin for his excessive use of large words. This: Syntactic is our elegance, Incisive our disease The swath endogenous of ourselves will be our quandary, aaaaaand this: Grandiloquent in attitude, impassioned yet inept, gran·dil·o·quent/granˈdiləkwənt/ Adjective: Pompous or extravagant in language, style, or manner, esp. in a way that is intended to impress. Sound about right? |
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| Bad Religion – The Devil In Stitches Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| This is a Brett song right? So it's ABOUT a relationship but that's not what it's about. Graffin is the one that writes the explicitly informational tunes. Brett writes the emotional expansive metaphors ala Generator. I'm pretty confident that this song has a larger subtext to it. Granted I have no idea what's beneath it and probably will not considering Brett is pretty reluctant to explain his shit (he's divulged that Generator is about God. Thats it) but this song seems a little vapid if there isn't anything beneath the surface. | |
| Bad Religion – Only Rain Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I think you guys put a nice little bow on this song. | |
| Propagandhi – Purina Hall Of Fame Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Here's my interpretation: ------ The song starts with the audio of a heartbeat of an animal symbolizing life. Then we get the audio of those cockfags beating the life out of the pig. Symbolizing death. Sleeping masters roused to burning homes from beds. Steeping toddlers plucked from their watery deaths: ribbons, plaques and soft-soap are the ephemeral rewards paid to the slaves whose selfless acts accord a higher value to their masters, while parting gifts (bolt pistols) console the rest. The remainder.------ Animals have an odd knack for alerting their masters about coming disasters or saving them when their lives are endangered. These animals are rewarded with stupid ribbons and other fleeting rewards IE: The song title is tongue in cheek and coupled with this stanza. Like the link posted up above, Purina posts cute little articles about pets that save their masters which are "ephemeral" and fleeting and meaningless in comparison to what happens to the rest. He's saying that only by saving your life can an animal be saved from our inevitable cruelty. I guess in short, the life savers, the minority get meaningless rewards and ALL the rest get the bolt pistol to the brain. Too bad the tributes paid to lives that relegate these thrones to lives spent valuing the runners-up, are known to be neither fleeting nor desirable. ----- I'm actually kind of confused with his wording here. Someone help me out. But nothing surprises me these days. I just sit and watch the box-cars roll by and wait. Patient. Unattended. -------- He's fed up to the point of action. He's playing out a scenario. He's watching a train with box-cars stocked with livestock rolling by. A package under a terminal bench. A short fuse to scatter steady hands if I forget to remember that better lives have been lived in the margins, locked in the prisons and lost on the gallows than have ever been enshrined in palaces. ---- This is the bombing. A man scared, reminding himself that he is doing the right thing by bombing his target. An animal processing plant, livestock farm, the people at the train depot or whatever you think it is. He's doing what he thinks is right, taking out the people or business of people that take the away so many lives daily, the ones in the margins that no one cares about, the ones that have been locked in prisons/cages their whole lives and then lost on the gallows/slaughtered after living a prisoners life. This is where the song says that there's nothing we can do as the bombing is merely theoretical. "Theres nothing we can do, it's just the way it is. It's not your fault. There's nothing we can do." I almost thought he was serious, then the solo comes in. I don't usually read music like this but the solo at the end is him saying that is bullshit we can do something. The way it sounds is so powerful, it explodes right when you think the song is ending on such a depressing defeatist note. I take the solo as him saying "fuck that, we can do something about this and this is what I do. I play fucking music for people that trys to inspire them to do their own part. I fucking spell it out for people," |
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| Propagandhi – Nation States Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Gonna break it down here: "Publicly subsidized! Privately profitable!" the anthem of the upper tier: the puppeteer untouchable. ---- Essentially, this is what Multi-nationals and their CEO's want nation-states (Canada-'merica etc) to do to their institutions (healthcare etc). If the institutions are all funded partially by the public and privately run then shareholders will earn a much higher return meaning the CEO's will earn an even bigger return. We focus a moment and nod in approval, then bury our heads back in the bottles of these neo-colonials. ---- This is the average response from a normal stiff, "uh sure, that sounds good. Let's let our leaders do that" then we go on with our lives not giving it any further thought. And our former nemesis: (ahh! the romance!) the nation-state now plays fund-raiser for a new-brand power-concentrate. Try again, but now we're confused - what is class war? Is this class war? Yes (I guess?) this is class war!!! And holy fuck! I'm just a kid! I can't believe I'm gonna worry about this kind of shit!!! What a stupid world. And it's beautiful. No regard for principle. What a stupid World. ------ This bit is bashing the fact that our nations are providing these companies with the ease to become far more powerful then ever before while in the process making the gap between the impoverished and the super rich even bigger then ever before effectively creating a class war. Then he's obviously saying he's sick of the fact that the older generations are doing nothing about this and it's absurd that the children (young punks/politically minded youths etc) have to deal with this shit. We're (1)born (2)hired (3)disposed. Where that job lands everybody knows. ------ Just what it says we are born, get jobs and then get disposed of when Multi-National companies ship to third world nations for labour at slave wages. And you can tell by the smiles on the CEOs that environmental restraints are about to go. ---- MN's get third world nations to compete against one another. They get them to give them reduced environmental restraints in exchange for giving that nation the contract for a new sweat shop to be developed there. And you can bet that laws will be set to ensure the benefit of an unrestricted labor clause kept in place by (displaced gov't) death squads. ----- Same thing as above. Wanna know why third world nations get paid slave wages and mistreated all the time? Like I said, the poor nations leaders will do what it takes in order to get a company producing in their county, that means dropping tons of labour laws, killing minimum wage and killing off all saftey laws. They own us. They produce us. They consume us. ----- durrr Can you fucking believe it? What a stupid world. Fuck this bullshit display of class loyalties. The media and "our" leaders wrap it all up in a flag: fucking shit-rag. Hooray! ----- It's a stupid fucking world when our leaders allow Multi Nationals to function like this. It's even worse when they get us to believe in what they're doing by telling us that they're doing it acting in our country's best interest while waving our flag at the same time. sigh |
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