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| Disturbed – A Welcome Burden Lyrics
| 1 year ago
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@[Nyg1515:52273] I agree, and I think that the "mother culture" refers to the culture of the new immigrants that English America despised and tried to pressure them into abandoning. (As a descendent of Polish immigrants, I am glad that they seem to have mostly failed.) |
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| Disturbed – A Welcome Burden Lyrics
| 1 year ago
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@[SK995:52272] I agree with everything you say until you talk about the Mother Culture. I think the Mother Culture is the culture that the United States tried to beat out of the new immigrants. |
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| Within Temptation – It's The Fear Lyrics
| 1 year ago
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It seems at first to be an almost typical "enemy within" scenario.
This could easily be an alternative character interpretation of the Hulk. I will leave it at that. |
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| Tegan and Sara – Wake Up Exhausted Lyrics
| 1 year ago
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@[dark_n_depressed:52271] I know that even the booklet uses the word "faith", but that makes no sense in context; they obviously intended the word "fate". |
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| Disturbed – Overburdened Lyrics
| 1 year ago
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Sorry for that nauseatingly long comment. I was mentally disorganized. Basically, I think this song could be a darker, serious take on the way the afterlife operates in the film "Beetlejuice". The biggest difference is that the narrator KNOWS it is going to Hell. |
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| Disturbed – Overburdened Lyrics
| 1 year ago
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I have just read all the previous comments and most of them beautifully explain it, so what I am about to say sounds like a pathetic joke.
Two separate, almost competing concepts are at work here. One is the story of a "righteous" person being sent to Hell, an obedient servant of an evil leader. The other is the idea that Hell can run out of room, or at least that persons are dying in sin more quickly than Hell can "process" them.
Years ago, I had to consider that souls reincarnate in-universe, thus explaining how Hell can not only run out of room but also make room. (I am Christian and believe in Heaven and Hell, but I am open to the concept of reincarnation and not-quite-eternal damnation; it makes more sense to me than the traditional concept of Purgatory.) Finally, in April of 2024, I watched the film "Beetlejuice" for the first time. If you need the Cliff Notes on the movie, ghosts exists because there is a queue to be processed into the afterlife (especially if you want the best case worker); hilarity ensues.
I later remembered this song, and I thought I would never look at it the same way again, certainly not with a straight face. That was before I watched the May 2 episode of "Station 19" (which featured a homeless, post-traumatic, bureaucrat-snubbed veteran—the loyal soldier caught in the "Hell" or "queue to Hell" of a bad postwar life where his government is not taking care of him) and read all of your comments. Now I take it seriously again. |
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| Disturbed – Overburdened Lyrics
| 1 year ago
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Seeing both possible meanings, I would like to add another: the broken post-war reality many enter, filled with post-traumatic stress, homelessness, addiction, mental illness, and not enough help from the Veteran's Association. (I just watched a television drama episode that dealt with those issues.) |
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| Disturbed – Overburdened Lyrics
| 1 year ago
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@[traviswrdunbar:51049] It is sad when the war becomes unpopular and despised back home (and it well may not have been justified) and you come home a villain rather than a hero, assuming you come home at all. |
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| Iced Earth – Damien Lyrics
| 1 year ago
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About the Latin chants:
Go to this page https://genius.com/26705752 and click on the Latin phrases (Mundi universitas flammescorri mi immigreavi), and an annotation appears translating them (World’s university, flames' runs in me, immigrating) and correcting them (Mundi universitas flammas curre in/currunt me immigravi). However, the annotation is unreviewed. |
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| Iced Earth – Damien Lyrics
| 1 year ago
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@[Floe:50053] However, if you type "flamm escorri" into Google Translate, it shows "I ran out of flames". The last word sounds like "cremari": to be cremated, which may be a coincidence. |
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| Iced Earth – Damien Lyrics
| 1 year ago
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I actually watched the entire trilogy, and the song contains a few errors:
1: The actual line from the doomsday rhyme is "...a comet rips the sky..." (but to be fair, Robert Thorn himself gets in wrong in The Omen 1). Furthermore, the conjunction should be "...and the Holy Roman Empire rises, then you and I must die" (not interesting, I know).
2: When I hear "Damien" speak in the song (if not also The Omen 3), he seems to say "wound", not "womb", which can make sense (the womb does not gape; it is too far inside the body, but the orifice could be poetically called a wound).
3: In The Omen 3, Damien clearly says "profaner of vices", which makes far more sense than "profaner of Isis".
4: The final line of the monologue is abridged, as @Aristotle and @raeadhani point out. It makes it sound like Damien wants to avenge the Crucifixion (which could still offend Yeshua). In the film, Damien says, "Satan, I will avenge thy torment."
Hands down, Jon Schaffer did not actually watch the third film, fell asleep during part of it, did not maintain attention, or heard things wrong. |
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| Iced Earth – Damien Lyrics
| 1 year ago
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@[Floe:50050] I have read the same, but when I hear the song, they are definitely not pronouncing those combinations of letters. I did run it through Google Translate, however, and it translated it as "I migrated to the universe of my flames." |
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| Rammstein – Puppe Lyrics
| 2 years ago
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@[Snyarhedir:45393] Never mind. At least on the device I am using now, it leaves out the colon after https. |
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| Rammstein – Puppe Lyrics
| 2 years ago
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@[Snyarhedir:45392] https://www.rammsteinworld.com/en/lyrics/translations/rammstein#puppe
It failed again! I needed to get the https part in there. |
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| Rammstein – Puppe Lyrics
| 2 years ago
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https://www.rammsteinworld.com/en/lyrics/translations/rammstein#puppe
Sorry. Something went wrong with my first attempt at posting the link. |
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| Rammstein – Puppe Lyrics
| 2 years ago
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@[Snyarhedir:45391] Please disregard my reply "I stand corrected...". I now have a Deutsch grammar book, and judging by what I have read so far, then I am convinced that the narrator is the older sibling, unless the suffix "-lein" also serves as an affectionate diminutive. |
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| Rammstein – Puppe Lyrics
| 3 years ago
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@[Snyarhedir:44967] I stand corrected, upon further review, research and thought. Clearly, at least in this context, "Schwesterlein" does not mean "little sister". The translator in question on that website has made some questionable choices (such as translating "schon" as "cute" instead of "beautiful/pretty"). |
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| Rammstein – Engel (feat. Bobo) Lyrics
| 3 years ago
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This song may illustrate a young child's attempt to comprehend an over-simplified concept of the afterlife, especially when told that Heaven is in or just above the sky and that virtuous human souls become angels, and when unaware that gravity exists not in the afterlife. It suggest that the child may deconstruct the image to the point where Heaven sounds like a nightmare.
Compare and contrast the Modern Family episode where Jay plays golf on Sunday instead of going to church, and he and Gloria give Manny different images of what Heaven is like. Manny does not understand that even if Heaven were on the clouds, souls could not fall through them. Then when Gloria says there are butterflies in Heaven, Manny freaks out because they terrify him.???? |
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| Rammstein – Hallomann Lyrics
| 3 years ago
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This is about a pedophile rapist, nothing more, nothing less, as far as I can tell. The rapist lures or takes the victim into its vehicle, offers food and fun (in this case, mussels and french fries and a trip to the beach). The double meaning of the word "Rosenkranz" (see footnote) confirms this above all else. Maybe this was based on a true story of a serial rapist/kidnapper who called himself Hallomann.
(I want to say nothing more about this song. Its subject matter and the way it is presented (too beautifully poetic, without the deprecation, condemnation or blatant horror in their other songs about rape) disgusts me! The only thing that can redeem it is if it is meant to teach a lesson like "Don't talk to/trust tricky strangers [who want to give you something or take you somewhere]".) |
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| The Birthday Massacre – Red Stars Lyrics
| 3 years ago
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@[heartsandcrossbones:44948] I read your first parenthetical note and then had to check your username to make sure that I had not made this comment. I am glad to know that at least one other human refuses to use the word "communism" in earnest when referring to Stalinism. |
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| The Birthday Massacre – Red Stars Lyrics
| 3 years ago
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@[Baggie:44947] Well, now I know who voted them down. Please try to respect others' opinions, validate others' experiences, and avoid contributing statements of no value.
Depression is a real problem, but I do not mean to insult your intelligence by implying that you did not already know that. |
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| Rammstein – Stein um Stein Lyrics
| 3 years ago
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I know I've already said my bit about murder, torture and abuse, but I now have another idea.
Some comments here have made an appropriate connection to Stalinism. An excellent music video on You Tube (which I think no longer exists) made an appropriate connection to the Holocaust. I see a connection to the treatment of indigenous peoples of English America. United States wanted more land to settle and "strengthen their economy", and only saw the peoples already living there as obstacles, killing many and relocating the rest, ultimately penning many into reservations with poor living conditions and limited access to natural resources (or so I am led to believe), their fairer and more efficient systems largely destroyed, and bad habits (like drug use and domestic violence) sometimes picked up from colonialism. In Canada, indigenous children were once forced to attend Christian boarding schools where they were hegemonized and physically abused for breaking rules. These peoples are still around, and still bear the scars of what had been done to their ancestors, living in the shadow of the nation(s) that unjustly conquered and tried to eliminate them. And they and their troubles are often invisible. |
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| Rammstein – Zeig Dich Lyrics
| 3 years ago
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https://www.rammsteinworld.com/en/lyrics/translations/rammstein#zeig-dich
I like EduardoSilva's take, but I also see room for more interpretations.
This could be about corruption and hypocrisy in the Catholic Church, if not also other gentile denominations of Christianity.
Note the Latin word "extraspection". Assuming this is a cognate, it implies, in the context of the Deutsch lyrics, that the Church in question is looking for and condemning [perceived] evil without while ignoring any within. Basically, it takes "Halleluja" and expands its scope.
Perhaps the narrator is imploring God to appear and dispel the doubt and confusion, to show what is truly right and wrong, to show who is right and wrong, to reveal the lies and crimes of the religious authorities. (Compare and contrast the final lines of "Sacrificed Sons" by Dream Theater.)
Perhaps the narrator is telling the Church to show itself: to lay bare all its iniquity and confess its sins. ("Show yourself, you coward!")
In partial agreement with EduardoSilva, this could be a Christian questioning or losing its faith, both due to the corruption of the Church (especially its officials' failure to hold themselves to at least the same standards as everyone else) and to perceived broken promises ("Kein Engel in der Not / In distress, no angel", "Kein Gott zeigt sich / No god shows itself"). |
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| Rammstein – Zeig Dich Lyrics
| 3 years ago
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@[EduardoSilva:44943] An excellent interpretation. Sad (I am a devout Christian myself), but excellent. I especially like how you managed to see overpopulation there (I, too, believe that humanity is overpopulated, or at least consuming too much land, water and other resources). |
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| Rammstein – Radio Lyrics
| 3 years ago
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https://www.rammsteinworld.com/en/lyrics/translations/rammstein#radio
I believe that this song reflects the band's childhood in Stalinist East Germany. Everything fits. The first two lines of verse 1 indicate isolation from the free world and censorship. As the song progresses, the lyrics indicate that the narrator listens to foreign stations, forbidden (but poorly regulated) by his country's government, to get a glimpse of a world outside the sad dictatorship. It provides an escape from the over-controlled world in which the narrator lives.
The final words of verse 3 ("No borders, no fences") indicates the ability to imagine oneself in another country.
The double meaning of the verb "stillen" (indicated by the footnotes at the URL I have included) suggests that the narrator relieves one pain (escaping from his own bleak world) while feeding another (a longing to be able to travel to those other countries). |
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| Rammstein – Puppe Lyrics
| 3 years ago
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On another note, the situation is specific enough and the details vague enough to indicate that these lyrics are based on a true story or existing work of fiction. I will try to research this at my leisure. |
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| Rammstein – Puppe Lyrics
| 3 years ago
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This song has haunted me since I first listened to it a few days ago. (The chorus reminds me of the spoken part of "Down with the Sickness".)
I agree with EduardoSilva that the narrator is in some way very ill--perhaps mentally, physically or both--and that her (I assume it is a female) younger sister must be a prostitute. Some other things may be more open to interpretation, such as what exactly the doll and the medicine are.
Until I reviewed the lyrics (https://www.rammsteinworld.com/en/lyrics/translations/rammstein#puppe), I thought that maybe the doll represents the medicine, and that ripping off the head meant opening the bottle and biting off the neck meant tearing away the seal. I now find this unlikely, if not impossible.
It is possible that the younger sister is merely doing everything she can to afford medicine for the older sister; it is also possible that the medicine is actually a poison the younger sister uses to make the older sister sick.
Perhaps the doll is not a doll at all but, more horrifically, a pet. |
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| Rammstein – Mein Herz Brennt Lyrics
| 3 years ago
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I am seeing some very good interpretations that are very dark, and I cannot hold a candle to them. Instead, I have a joke (in both senses of the word) that I already had in mind before reading these others.
I understand everything about the lyrics except the title ones. Why is this character's heart burning? Then it hits me: someone once told me that acid reflux can give you nightmares!
(Yeah, I know it's a lame joke.) |
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| Evanescence – Everybody's Fool Lyrics
| 7 years ago
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For me, this song would be the perfect soundtrack to Jesus's denunciation of the Pharisees (just as long as you put the words "I don't love you anymore" in the mouth of anyone but Jesus) |
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| Elton John – Levon Lyrics
| 8 years ago
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@[Stairwaytoheaven:20179] Why are people voting this comment down while leaving "I love this song" comments untouched?! |
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| Iron Maiden – Infinite Dreams Lyrics
| 8 years ago
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I think that this song may be about "Beyond the Wall of Sleep" by H.P. Lovecraft. I will let the rest of you look it up rather than try to describe it. (I have a bad habit of writing short essays on this site.) I was going to leave this comment perhaps a year ago, and instead made a similar one on Starblind. While Starblind does remind me of the same story (which I read for the first time after having listened to both songs), Infinite Dreams is much more likely to have been inspired by it. |
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| Disturbed – Criminal Lyrics
| 9 years ago
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Tonight I just watched episode 23 (?) of Adam Ruins Everything: Adam Ruins Prison. I was wrong—these lyrics can relate to literally anyone who has ever been in jail (and when I say "jail" I mean legal penitentiary of any kind, not just at the local or county level), especially a parolee or ex-convict. Sometimes, the system is actually rigged against criminals to keep them from successfully rehabilitating. Seriously, for a comedy/educational series, that show can be scary and depressing. |
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| Disturbed – Hell Lyrics
| 9 years ago
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I have been reading Man In The Wilderness by Jack DeWitt, and never before have I seen anything to which the lyrics to this song are so similar. Who else has read or is reading this book? (I will not ask who has watched the movie because I have not and so I do not know how much it leaves out.)
SPOILER:
The lyrics could be connected not only to Zach Bass's abandonment and his thirst for revenge for that, but also to his hatred for Filmore Henry for how the latter had shaped him (forced him to suppress his emotions, made him a killer, and so on). |
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| Iron Maiden – Starblind Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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I feel that there may be a connection between this song and the story Beyond The Wall Of Sleep by H.P. Lovecraft, in which an uneducated man has a psychedelic out-of-body experience beyond his comprehension, and the narrator, hoping to understand what is happening to him, joins him; what they experience is almost completely indescribable but nonetheless beautiful.
Otherwise I more or less agree with many of you. |
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| Dream Theater – The Silent Man Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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Oddly, this song always used to make me think of Jason Voorhees. (At the time, slasher films were a recent interest of mine, so it was probably just a case of the "Tetris effect".) |
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| Disturbed – Hell Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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Hell is sort of Disturbed's answer to Rammstein's Asche Zu Asche, and while not as big of a hit than the latter, it is more dramatic. |
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| Disturbed – Run Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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This song would fit Charles le Sorcier (H.P. Lovecraft—The Alchemist) quite well. |
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| Rammstein – Stein um Stein Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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Over the past year or so I have been reading stories by H.P. Lovecraft, and The Rats In The Walls reminded me of this song.
Wiener Blut, a song that Rammstein would compose later, actually is about Josef Fritzl, thus ruling out his crimes as the inspiration for Stein Um Stein, but Wiener Blut can have just as much connection to The Rats In The Walls.
I wonder if any of this, or any of Rammstein's music in general, could have been at least partially inspired by Lovecraft? |
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| Rammstein – Sehnsucht Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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Literal word-for-word translations tend to suck in general; used with something like Rammstein lyrics, they often get worse. |
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| Rammstein – Sehnsucht Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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Some have said that "zwischen deine langen Beinen..." ("between your long legs...") is a sexual reference. When commenting on the lyrics/translation videos of You Tube user #lyricsoframmstein, I said that "legs" was probably a metaphor for "trees" due to my limited ability to connect snow or sand to the vagina. (Yes, I know it's awkward.) However, after thinking some more and taking the rest of the lyrics and the album art (if nothing else) into consideration, I have decided that the song is about imprisonment and that the "long legs" are bars on a cell window; the narrator longs for freedom and adventure and does not even have a cell with a view of the outside world. |
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| Rammstein – Der Meister (English) Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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Well, since I have heard that Nazism is completely illegal in Germany, and since the United States government is too stubborn about freedom of opinion to condemn an ideology, your second point is probably right. (The first one goes without saying.) |
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| Rammstein – Der Meister Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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I am starting to think that these lyrics may relate to the cosmic horror genre. Perhaps the Master is a Lovecraftian god or demigod? |
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| Iced Earth – Dragon's Child Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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These lyrics could easily be used to refer to something that H.P. Lovecraft wrote about (never mind that Iced Earth by now has a song explicitly based on his literature). After all, all eldritch abominations are basically nature's mistakes, aren't they? |
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| The Birthday Massacre – Blue Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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After having finally looked it up to find out what it was, I think that this song could be a possible allusion or shout-out to Pablo Picasso's Blue Period, considering that he used an overwhelmingly blue color scheme to signify sadness/depression and loneliness and that this song is about those things. |
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