| Evanescence – Missing Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| This song is clearly about divorce and the trauma a young child goes through experiencing such a scenario. The lyrics explain it to a T. When Amy says "But I wont be home again", she isn't literally speaking about not being home again. She's saying "I'll never feel whole again". A young child needs parents (both parents) to grow and become a normal adult. Without them, being "raised" feels divided, if not, incomplete. It can really mess with someone and screw with them throughout maturity. When she says "you wont cry for my absence I know, you forgot me long ago" she isn't speaking to a boyfriend...she's speaking to parents that wont take a look at what they're damaging by making such decisions. "Am I that unimportant? Am I so insignificant? Isn't something missing? Isn't someone missing me..." Will someone please think of the children? It's clearly saying "don't you see what this does to me?" Sad. "Even though i'm the sacrifice, you wont try for me, not now. Though i'd die to know you love me, i'm all alone." Children can't decide when two people decide to stop loving one another and split up. They can only sit there and be effected by it. And when two parents are in the throes of divorce, all they can think of is their hatred for one another and not really understand how damaging it is to the child who has no choice but to sit and watch their entire foundation split in half. Literally, a child's entire process of growing up with two loving parents becomes sacrificed for their hatred for one another. They tend to forget the child exists and it's needs for a normal family life and to be raised as a normal human being. "You forgot my absence...i'll bleed knowing you don't care..." Divorce can seriously effect a person, even later in life. "And if I sleep just to dream of you, i'll wake without you there." This closes it off that a person wishes they could feel whole and complete, raised a normal human being but their parents split and now custody is divided and it's damaging. The person wishes they could have both at once, when they felt innocent, needed and wanted but it'll never happen again. Clearly, this song is about divorce and what it does to a child throughout life. | |
| Metallica – The Unforgiven III Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| This song is about being blinded by your dreams of fame and fortune, and losing those close to you (people whom genuinely loved you - despite you not being rich or famous from the start) because you neglected them for what you thought would be a better lifestyle than what you'd previously lived. | |
| KoЯn – Last Legal Drug (Le Petit Mort) Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| This song seems to be about someone who's constantly known only sex as love itself, their entire life. They're constantly told it's a sin but people don't understand, that's all they've ever known. The song even hints at the realization that there could be more than this to love, hence mercy, screaming and crying. The pre-chorus lyrics (when you cum, be a good girl...etc.) are the person's thoughts on how to make the process as painless and love-like as possible without the realization that they're just using themselves up in hopes that in the end, they wont be let go. "Le Petit Mort" translates to "The Little Death", referencing an intense orgasm in erotic literature. This song is about sex, yes. But the lyrics "little dead girl" make it clear that this person (presumably a girl) is willfully being used up (hence - dead) in hopes of finding love, or perhaps even believes sex itself is the only legal means of true happiness and euphoria (aka - believing sex itself is love). | |
| Lil' Wayne – Paradice Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Good song. Gotta love Lil' Wayne for how "real talk" he is within Rebirth. I've noticed that (at most times) all his "real talk" tracks usually contain "young moolah baby" within them. Anyways! The whole album to me expresses a side of Wayne he's not too keen on showing to most. The fact he's honestly humble, and a true gentleman (if you've ever actually met him, you know EXACTLY what I mean by this. He's extremely friendly and thankful to meet everyone he meets.) The meaning to this song however, is obvious. He says the meaning of the song right within the song itself. "It's like I have it all, but what's it all worth?" This song is about realizing you have everything you've ever wanted (purchase-wise), but something that can't be bought is still missing from your life. In the end, what you buy is nothing more than material possessions. Meant to fill the void of something missing. Basically, if it isn't truly entertainment, what you buy is nothing more than a distraction to detour you and make you forget about what you infact, can't buy. In the end, you realize what's missing is still missing. And what's missing, is something that can't be purchased. True love, itself. You can talk about how famous and popular you are, all you want. But in the end, if you've got no one beside you...what's it all worth? You've got no one to back you up, tell you you're doing good, nobody to inspire you, to kick you into gear, etc. This song is a funny way of making me realize that Wayne may no longer be M.O.B. and may have seriously grown up as a person. Afterall, "all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy." Anyone who criticizes this track or even album for being too soft, too melodic, or too rock just...doesn't get it. And I truly pity them for frontin' and acting like they too have never felt this way before. Also, as a (maybe) correction, it sounds more like he says "knowledge on my feet" instead of "mileage on my feet." Basically saying, "I may not have the most money in the world, but i'm a grown man and have the smarts to climb up to the top and ignore ignorance and idiocy." |
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| KoЯn – Need To Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Alternatively, this could also be about a guy literally fighting himself on the inside to love someone but can't find it possible because he's just apathetic to it all. Just inept of feeling. Therefore, he calls her a slut just for even trying to help him feel when he knows it wont work in the first place. Therefore, why are you taken could not only suggest cheating, but "why are you with me?" Both kind of work. But knowin' Jon, it's probably this one over the first. | |
| KoЯn – Need To Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| This song is about a girl who constantly goes to someone who can treat her better, while already with a boyfriend. So the guy is constantly having sex with her, wanting it to be more than that for once in his life, but she can't leave the boyfriend for whatever reason. Thus, he feels helpless. So he tries to stay emotionally detached, while she pulls him closer ever more, using him for sex and whatever the other guy can't give. Whoever the girl is, it's highly suggested they were close before this. So in the end, he's actually saying that he wants more than just sex. He wants the whole package, and because he can't get it, he then just flatout calls her a slut for even cheating in the first place. The song is called "Need To" because he's asking, "Why should I try, why should I cry?" Why get emotionally attached to something that'll never be more than friends with benefits situation? Why should you...really need to? | |
| Cradle of Filth – Soft White Throat Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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This sounds an awful lot like Mutter by Rammstein... I mean, just sayin'. |
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| Placebo – Happy You're Gone Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Sort of sounds like a sequel to the song "Blind" from Meds. | |
| Lil' Wayne – Prom Queen Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| You really shouldn't be correcting the imaginary people whom said that this song was rock, when you can't even get something as simple as punctuation, correct. | |
| Lil' Wayne – Prom Queen Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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CORRECT LYRICS: Yea! I love the fancy underwea' I sit behin' her every yea' Waitin' for the chance to get To tell her i'm the one she should be with Oh, she's popular with all the guys So innocent in my eyes I could see her in my life She would've had the perfect sweet ol' man But... see, she had other plans I couldn't understand Her and her stupid friends Varsity's biggest fans Never forget the day She laughed and walked away And I couldn't stop her I guess she had it all She had it all figured out But she left me with a broken heart Fucked around and turned me down Cause she didn't think I could play the part But now the prom queen The prom queen Is cryin' sittin' outside of my door See, you never know how How everything could turn around They loved her fancy undawea' Every boyfrien' every yea' She cannot keep 'em entertained When they can hardly remember her name She did everything she could Jus' to make them love and treat her good Jus' to find herself alone Askin' herself where did she go wrong She didn't realize She chased the type of guys That don't believe in ties Tryin' to apologize Never forget the day She laughed and walked away And I couldn't stop her I guess she had it all She had it all figured out When she left me with a broken heart Fucked around and turned me down Cause she didn't think I could play the part But now the prom queen The prom queen Is cryin' sittin' outside of my door See, ya never know how Everything could turn around Yea! She had it all figured out But she left me with a broken heart Fucked around and turned me down Cause she didn't think I could play the part But now the prom queen The prom queen Is dyin' sittin' outside of my door See, you never know how How everything can turn around |
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| The Lonely Island – I'm on a Boat Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I can't listen to this without hearin' "Lollipop" by Lil' Wayne. Lmfao, it almost seems like a play on the song...but about a boat. Lolz. | |
| Placebo – Devil In The Details Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| This is fucking basically the equal of the Nine Inch Nails track, "Even Deeper". A personal favorite of mine. Basically, realizing you like to get really fucking messed up, because it inspires you. And wanting to go back to that lifestyle again, because it got you more in life. | |
| Nine Inch Nails – Please Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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To me, this seems like it's about a guy who's lived his whole life fucking the pain away. And now realizes he wants, if not needs true love. And not just a fuck buddy anymore. The world being over but in his head, was his idea that fucking was all he'd ever need. But then he came to the realization that love was what he wanted if not needed from the start. And he found this realization through this one person (everything is clear) whom he may have been using strictly for sex the entire time. So the old world (his old ways) he once knew collapsed (is over), and the old him (who believed in nothing) can now disappear, erase the fear of feeling and failing (if that should happen - relationships are about risks and pain), and try to make something that's worth while and real, instead of using her. However, the song may suggest also that she's used up. Can't really see him changing for the betterment and reason of love itself, so it's almost as if he's begging her not to leave and to give love itself a shot. Maybe it also suggests that being used is all she herself was really going for, during this entire thing. And now that he's had a change of heart, he's saying "us simply using one another will never be enough to fill the void in me." When he says "all the flesh, all the sin. There was a time when it used to mean just about everything - just like now." I think it's suggesting that there was once a time when he used to feel love, but it didn't work out, so it lead to him choosing an easier emotionless life of simply having partners for one night stands without the complications of emotional baggage involved. Or maybe one partner alone. Maybe the one talked about here. It's hard to decipher if he's talking to one person in this, or a few. "Breathe, echoing the sound. Time starts slowing down. Sink until I drown. Please, I don't ever want to make it stop." When you're in a real loving IN LOVE relationship, you're no longer having sex, fucking, fooling around, etc. You're making love...and this IS what it feels like to actually make love. Like time is just gone, it's just you two sharing an endless moment that you just want to drown inside of, forever. You never want it to stop, because it just feels so perfect. You're not using one another, you're connecting with eachother. "This is how it begins. Push it away but it all comes back again." Usually, when you're on drugs (remember, Trent was using at this point - or this song was written about when he WAS using before he started again) they (the drugs) tell you whom you're inlove with, when in reality it's really just "lust at first sight". Your better judgment is blocked away. So when you finally get with the person (in bed) you push away the fact that you want to be with them, because you know you're messed up and it'll never work out and may actually destroy them if it ever evolved into anything past friends with benefits. But the fact is, the thought never really leaves your mind because over time, you feel like a dirty person for what you're doing to yourself and them. You're constantly really always asking yourself "what if we could be more than this?" Drugs really do this to you. They throw your emotions entirely out of order, and only when you're not messed up is there a moment of clarity...this song may have been written in a spite of clarity. I remember reading up that Trent quit drinking entirely until he found out that The Fragile went platinum, then celebrated that with a drink...which led him right back down the spiral. He could've written this song about how he felt on drugs, and was saying "i'm fine now...let's do this right." "Watch the White turn to Red. It fills up the hole but it grows somewhere else instead. All my life, but it just left me dead." This is him CLARLY admitting that drugs (specifically heroin I do believe) were getting in the way of his better judgment. He turned a perfectly fine piece of skin (his arm) into a bleeding puncture wound. The feeling of being opiated fulfilled him just enough, but it turned his emotions that he should have been feeling, against him. And they instead grew into just the feelings of lust. Hence it fills up the hole (the void in his soul) but it grows somewhere else instead (becomes lust instead of love). And as noted above, his whole life it just left him feeling empty. But now he's found clarity, and knows that everything he thought he wanted was just all in his mind. Now he knows that the old him can disappear, and he can be reborn anew. This song (I honestly believe) is about not wanting to use someone anymore for sexual gain, and to want to have an honest true relationship with them. But them rather not wanting it because they don't believe you're really clean, or they never really were after real love to begin with. |
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| Lil' Wayne – Shoot Me Down Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| He's basically sayin' he's raised himself (without a father) to the point of knowin' what it's like to be grown up and be responsible on all mediums (love, life, and inner-struggle). So don't try to bring him down by assumin' anything otherwise, and give him a chance to prove himself. | |
| Coldplay – Fix You Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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It almost sounds to me, like it's from the perspective of a neglectful father losing his daughter to addiction. He wanted to be there for her so badly (after discovering her self-destruction - which she may have learned and picked up from his own) that he kept trying to ween her away from the lifestyle. But she was too caught up in her actions because he was never there for her to be a real father to begin with, and it had only seemed like he was just NOW deciding to care about her in a real way, instead of a "let's get screwed up" way. And so everytime he'd try to fix her, to steer her in the right direction, she'd turn him away and tell him "you're not my father, you were never there for me, why do or should you care now? Besides, you taught me to be this way." Eventually, she ODs and dies. And all he's left with is "I promise you, I will learn from my mistakes." And quits his own lifestyle to save another before it leads to the same road twice. He's literally talking to her memory. The chorus is a reference to her death (lights guide you home), cremation (ignite your bones), and probable rebirth through someone else (fix you). |
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| Sick Puppies – Street Fighter (War) Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Actually, I don't think that this song is literally about fighting at all. It just can be easily (on the surface) treated or seen that way, so it's sort of presented as such in a metaphorical sense. I think this is actually really about a love interest (a girl), that spent her whole time fearing rejection or feared looking desperate, that she never did much to actually step up and prove that she was interested in this dude at all that she really wanted. And that the one time she actually tried to show it (bitch slap - slow attack) it wasn't much to really prove anything at all to him (kind of implying she's taking it too slow - not making her interest obvious enough to him). Thus, suicide. Attempts like that will only lead her to not getting what she really wants from him. She has to step up her game. She has to try a little harder. Act like something Step it up, or next in line. Risk rejection, or risk true happiness. The chorus implies that maybe she still has a chance to try. But that she needs to get off her ass, remember her true purpose, stop running from her true feelings, and fight for what she wants. Or risk losing to someone else whom knows how to show true interest in him. I think this is really just about a dude tellin' a girl to hurry up and prove what she says when she says she wants or basically worships him. If she thinks he's worth it, he's the best, and really wants him so badly, then she should show him that those are her true intentions. And alot better than she currently does. Otherwise, she'll herself end up not being worth it in the end. And he'll just move onto who's next in line, ready to try harder and show him that they ARE serious. |
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| Radiohead – I Will. (No Man's Land.) Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Is it just me, or does this song sound like it could be covered by System of a Down quite well? It seems like it would suit them, pretty much perfectly. | |
| Evanescence – The Last Song I'm Wasting on You Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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This song is a 120% exact precise portrayal of what it's like to be in a very bad relationship with an alcoholic. Senseless hate. Lies. And pleading. Trying to reason with them after it gets too bad, begging them to give up their habit, give up their angry bouts of senseless hate, and to just please cope with reality. Because the real them, the one they wanted to begin with, was the one in pain...showing that they had atleast the courage to not sink as low as they have. Abuse. Both verbal, possibly physical, and substance abuse. Then in the end saying run...go off and hide from who you are. And hate me because i'm telling you what you really are, and what you really have done. You lied. You said you quit. You didn't. And now all I can do is wait for you to mean what you say, and get better. Don't call me "baby", i'm gone. I can't hear your selfish cries anymore. You're not the victim here. Call me when you're sober. |
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| Nine Inch Nails – Even Deeper Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I think Trent wrote this song after his grandmother died, and he'd just gotten sober for the 1st time. Then after finding out about it, began using substances again during the "celebration" of his album's (The Fragile) popularity at the time. This song was then written to express the pain caused from it. And the realization of what and who he used to be, before he threw himself into the state he was in at the time. He was rich, his album was doing well, he could get anything he wanted. Yet still, he was using metaphors during albums to express how he felt because the one thing he had left that truly understood him (his grandmother) had died. So now, he's begging anyone and everyone who will listen to him, to maybe keep him sane, okay and sober. I think "in a dream i'm a different me. With a perfect you, we fit perfectly" is a representation of the possibly strained relationship he might've had with his grandmother while using substances. He might have flatout avoided her altogether, only after just becoming clean the 1st time, being told (or finding out) she had died. I don't think this is really about a real "relationship" at all. But about a man's once-was struggle with addiction coming back and kicking him in the face, because the one immediate person who understood him (his grandmother - the woman whom raised him) and could possibly keep him sane, had died. And now, he's basically admitting it all, here. Or atleast, admitting it once did happen, and and probably has happened again. But this time, with a moment of clarity and self-awareness. |
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| Billy Talent – Surrender Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Yeah. I've been thru this and it sucks, infinitely. This is without a doubt, 100% about a girl who's in a bad relationship with a guy. So she goes to some other guy and confides in him, basically trying to seek help on how to fix what's falling apart. All the while, the dude she's confiding in, is slowly starting to see her for what the boyfriend can't, and begins to fall for her. Maybe even seeing her as probably a soul mate, or near-perfection. In the end, you don't know if it worked or not between them. But her "having a brick wall behind her door" suggests that her relationship with the guy might now be over, but she's too traumatized to want anyone else now. Thus the suggestion he'd go back in time and say what he meant (how he felt), if not only he had no choice but to not cross his own (and her) friendship/trust boundaries due to the relationship she was currently in. He had no right to go and mess with her mind (or relationship) by saying "I could treat you better than this", so he never did. But now regrets it, due to her lack of willfulness to commit any longer. So now all he can do is say "let's try this, surrender, have hope..." And probably watch as it fails to get through to her. Despite it being 120% sincere. |
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| U2 – Ultraviolet (Light My Way) Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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To me, this song is about wanting to be with someone very wrong for you, yet the attraction being so strong between the two, that it doesn't matter how wrong it may end up in the end, and that it just HAS to happen, eventually. One day. So, the guy lays his faults out bare boned for the girl to see, letting her know that he too isn't, or atleast wasn't perfect at a previous time in his life (and may even still not be so perfect). Basically letting her know that he knows how it feels to feel like life's at it's lowest and most confusing stage in itself. He even recalls a time when he once knew her, and they were both stronger people than they are at present time. Like life itself wore them both down with time, and now they're both just somewhat lost but not yet too far gone to be saved. It's a very sincere song. Admitting one's imperfections, realizing someone else too isn't perfect, but setting it aside and wanting to make things right for the both of them on the whole. A very "we can fix eachother, if we try hard enough" song. Almost like holding onto a hopeless situation, and trying to defy it's odds of it all crashing down and becoming worse. |
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| Nine Inch Nails – With Teeth Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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it's about porcelina of the vast oceans, yo! the mid-point DOES sound ALOT like it...but that's no suprize. artists do this all the time. just not so...blatantly. this here almost seems blatant (almost), since it doesn't sound changed enough to be a fluke. but i dunno. it's anyone's guess, and only trent knows for sure. trent openly admitted however, he ripped off david bowie's "crystal japan" for his track, "a warm place". and skinny puppy's "dig it" for his track, "down in it". but in trent's defense, he's also been ripped off a few times as well. i don't know if they did it willingly, but linkin park's "what i've done" begins VERY MUCH similarly to "something i can never have". the piano tune sounds very familiar...it's almost the same melody. also, again, not sure if "willingly", but if you listen to the song "anniversary" by the cure, it sounds quite alot like the mid-point (and end) of the live (and all that could have been) version of "the day the world went away". the melodies are the exact same, given a probable pitch/tempo change. this one almost counts as BLATANT. you can literally say "nah nah nah..." to the song "anniversary" by the cure, and it'll sound NORMAL. just like here, you can say alot of the lyrics to "porcelina" while trent sings "i cannot go through this again", and it'll again, sound NORMAL. almost as if an intentional influence. infact, the cure also possibly "ripped off" the classic songs "ultraviolet" by U2 and "vapour trail" by ride, to make their recent (2008) song, "hungry ghost". which is another one of those VERY BLATANT inspirations/ripoffs. this stuff happens all the time. but like i said, not usually so blatantly like this, and in the few examples i gave above. |
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| Ride – Vapour Trail Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I think it's funny how The Cure and U2 both ripped this song off to some extent. The Cure - Hungry Ghost [2008] U2 - Ultraviolet (Light My Way) [1991] U2's ripoff isn't as noticeable, thus I don't think U2 really did it that much on purpose. Maybe slightly, as an influence. Maybe. However, the resemblence between "Vapour Trail" and "Hungry Ghost" are FAR too similar to be just "a fluke". It's almost like Robert Smith (of The Cure) heard both these songs (by U2/Ride) then decided to create a lovechild for both. Rolled them both into 1 song, and called it "Hungry Ghost". If you don't believe me, listen to "Vapour Trail", then "Ultraviolet", then "Hungry Ghost". After that, tell me i'm not just "hearing things". |
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| The Cure – The Hungry Ghost Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Best song on the new album (in my opinion). But! I DO need to say something that most The Cure fans probably WONT notice. This song HEAVILY reminds me of the songs "Vapour Trail" by Ride, and "Ultraviolet (Light My Way)" by U2. Soundwise, all 3 songs are basically the same when it comes to the verse melodies. I kind of think that Robert Smith might've just maybe (not confirming ANYTHING - but it's VERY close enough to not be a fluke) ripped off Ride and U2 when he made "Hungry Ghost". Not complaining or anything, it's a good song, and a great album. But I DO have to note the MAJOR similarities between the 3...they all borrow the same melody to some extent. If the 2 original songs had a lovechild, it would be "Hungry Ghost". |
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| Nine Inch Nails – Something I Can Never Have Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I do believe Trent wrote this song during the recording and writing of Pretty Hate Machine. This wasn't originally meant to be on the album either, but something happened to Trent during the trip to wherever (can't remember where it was) he was while recording the album, which inspired it's creation. He'd taken a break from it to go to a club (if I remember right), and met one of his ex-girlfriends by chance, there. They caught up with eachother, talked alot, and Trent found himself feeling things for her all over again. Only to end up being told (by someone else) that she was already with someone. But during their encounter with one another, she'd acted like she was entirely into him. Not saying a word about the "other guy". After that, he wrote this song. Trent actually talked a bit about it, during an interview a long time ago. He never said exactly that it's exactly the reason this song was made...but he did talk about the above situation, and it really does fit the song, perfectly. I do believe that's what it was about. |
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| Nine Inch Nails – Lights in the Sky Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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In a REALISTIC (non-ARG) "he" and "she" situation: This song to me, seems like it's about being a guy who's an ex-addict, finally becoming sober to the point of self-awareness. But being very, very close to someone female whom is not clean at all by any means. Watching them steadily go down into a spiral of substance abuse (all too reminiscent of his past), yet caring so deeply for her, that choosing to stay with or close to her, regardless of it leading to a possible relapse, or even worse, death, is not even a question of concern. He does it without a thought, staying beside and trying to support and protect her. Hoping she too can come out of it as he did, and that he can stay aware during it all, and not be tempted back into his own spiral at the same time. Simply put: You're perfect, you're everything I want and need. But you're everything wrong with me that I used to be. But you're so perfect, that I know I can help you, or atleast will try. And will stay with you through anything and everything. Holding onto something seemingly hopeless, but striving. It's almost like "We're In This Together", which eventually became "Deep". So this can almost be a sequel to "Deep". Which has somewhat of a similar meaning. |
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