| AFI – I Am Trying Very Hard To Be here Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Hollywood. Even the trees are fake. | |
| AFI – Too Shy To Scream Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| This about Davey and a discreet gay encounter. When is this dude gonna come out? | |
| AFI – Beautiful Thieves Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| "Take a little life" as in getting away with murder. I agree with raydarat. It's definitely about the feeling of empowerment and invincibility that comes with fame. | |
| Rancid – Radio Havana Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I guess if you don't know much about Cuba you're left scratching your head about this song. You have to understand that before Fidel Castro came into power there in the 1960's, it was an extremely popular tourist location with the best nightclubs and cabaret shows (much like Miami) AND they were very advanced in technology and medicine, etc etc. After Castro and communism however, the Cuba we know today came in to play. Poverty, run down buildings, prostitution... so on and so on. My parents are Cuban and when I compare old videos and pictures they have of the Cuba before to the one I see in documentaries now, it's so different it's bizarre. When he sings "Fugitive of time" it's because it's as if Cuba stopped in the 1960's. All the cars you see are old ones from those times, the streets look exactly the same but very withered and run down, they play the same old music because the government controls everything to a T and doesn't want to let any "liberal" thinking in It's as if time has stopped, they have not progressed. Cuba's a fugitive of time then so to speak. El diablo means "the devil" in spanish. It could be a reference to Castro and the communist speeches broadcast on the radio there maybe. Not sure. Then again the sad song that goes on and on is probably a reference to the sad decline that Cuba made because of communism. |
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| Alkaline Trio – Calling All Skeletons Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I think he's talking about a friend who's unreliable and disappears on him all the time due to a big drug problem. He probably knew them from back in the day when he had a drug problem too so when they suddenly appear in his life again, it brings back all the skeletons in his closet. "Seems it never ends, Double nickels on your dime" --Still buying drugs "Theres a killer on the corner and he's looking for love" --Drug dealer looking for them "And to tell you the truth i lost my faith in you" --He doesn't think they will beat the habit "And these unspoken Lies appear at the worst times" --They deny it He basically wants them to disappear again |
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| Alkaline Trio – Blue In The Face Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I agree with Bobinson about the "Your coffin or mine?" line. Either he kills the habit or the habit kills him. The song is definetly about cocaine addiction, but I could understand why it's hard for someone who's never had a problem with the drug to get it. When I first heard it years ago I didn't pay much attention to it because I thought it was just a shitty breakup song... but now that I'm going through my own issues with the drug, every line suddenly makes sense. |
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| Alkaline Trio – Blue Carolina Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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This song is about him missing his significant other while on the road. "Someday I'll burn this bed/ Only two feet wide/ Where I'll hide/ For the next 17 days" --The 2 ft. wide bed is the bed on his tour bus and he's on the road for 17 more days "I will ask myself how badly do I want this? I really want this" --He obviously wants to get somewhere with his band so much that he would put up with how much he misses her while on the road |
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| Alkaline Trio – Bloodied Up Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I think this song is about a relationship that failed due to his jealousy. "And I don't believe in much of anything/ I'm glad I have people I call friends" --He's obviously not too trusting. He'd question her about where she had been and get suspicious when she wouldn't elaborate which made him explode at her (see red). The allegations that she was cheating "appalled" her and she left him. |
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| Alkaline Trio – Bleed Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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The Anton LeVay thing makes sense. Definetly about people's life-long inner struggle with wanting to do whatever makes them feel alive and good but trying to fight against the urge because it's deemed immoral or wrong. Satanists are hedonists, they just give in. |
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| Alkaline Trio – As You Were Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I think he mentions two different girls in the song (I mean, if he even is talking about girls.) I think the girl who was "passing through to climb a hill" was the girl who put him down and left him because she felt he was holding her down and she wanted to go for better things (climb in life). He was then spilling his guts to either another girl friend or someone he met at a bar about the whole thing and the girl felt so sorry for him that she either slept with him. He feels guilty because it's using the girl, but at that moment he was alone and hurt and just wanted her to fall for him so he didn't go home alone. "I cough up compliments I think/ You're better off walking away while you still can" In the beginning he mentions how he's just complimenting her and hitting on her cos he feels like shit and even warns her to stay away |
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| Alkaline Trio – Armageddon Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I don't think this song is about a relationship OR religion. I think this song is about the pressure of song writing. "Behind your back it goes" might refer to him having to put his personal issues and feelings about a certain someone into a song knowing that friend (or a group of friends) will probably feel betrayed "I'll drink this beer and write in fear of a song everybody hates" Although he's writing it in back of a photograph (which are usually quite small) it's taking him so long to get the words of the song out that the "last call" for drinks has been made at his local bar "I know it's late but do you think you could at least fix it for me" he's asking the bar tender to give him one last beer so he can just attempt to finish the song already and go Releasing that song might be the end of the relationship between him and his friend(s) so "armageddon" (end of the world) is quite fitting. And "let the light in" could refer to him asking for inspiration from the bar tender in terms of another beer. He doesn't think it's too much to ask for, especially since after he writes the song he will surely be in trouble with everyone "one last salute before we sink" |
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