| Bruce Dickinson – Strange Death In Paradise Lyrics | 7 months ago |
| I always had the feeling it was about a nuclear holocaust. It's very vague and I'd love to discover what it's really about. Knowing Bruce, it's probably something quite esoteric. | |
| Judas Priest – Evil Fantasies Lyrics | 7 years ago |
| It's about pudding, right? | |
| Judas Priest – Cold Blooded Lyrics | 7 years ago |
| This seems that it's about someone that has had so many things go wrong for him that he just doesn't care about anything any more. Cool tune. | |
| Judas Priest – Let Us Prey/Call for the Priest Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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As good as some of these lyrics are, I really struggle with the meaning of the song. My best guess is that it's about music itself and our freedom to choose what music we listen to, regardless of what others think ("Let the critics drop dead...") That said, this may very well be the first Speed Metal song ever recorded. Exciter gets a lot of credit for that, but it all started here with this song. |
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| Haken – Falling Back to Earth Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| This song is flat out amazing. I also got the Icarus vibe from the first part of the song. Thanks for the insight sokorny! | |
| Blue Öyster Cult – The Siege and Investiture of Baron Von Frankenstein's Castle at Weissaria Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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First of all, this has got to be one of the wildest song titles ever. Second of all, the singer they got to do this song has a serious set of pipes. I think jhammond5611 is on to the song meaning. Just about everything off of Imaginos is really vague in a specific sense. I'm thinking that the line line "A drug by the name of world without end" is referring to science but for all I know it could be referring to the occult. Regardless, this song kicks all kind of ass. Imaginos was truly a singular album. BTW - That's Joe Satriani playing the solo. |
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| Accept – Teutonic Terror Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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This song is autobiographical. Accept is the Teutonic Terror. "War clubs pounding" should be "War drums pounding" |
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| Accept – Shadow Soldiers Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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This is about the ghosts of the soldiers that gave their lives so that we can enjoy our freedoms. They feel that their sacrifices where worth it as long as we remember and acknowledge them. And yet another outstanding trademark solo courtesy of Wolf Hoffman. The man is a master melodist. |
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| King's X – Repeating Myself Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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Such a sad and beautiful song. It seems to me that it's about a relationship that's in the process of failing. He has communication issues and he feels she wouldn't accept his thoughts and feelings if he expressed them to her. Meanwhile she's ignorant of this and thinks that things are OK. The "Will they find it in the breeze?" part gets me every time. |
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| Bruce Dickinson – Devil on a Hog Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| Oops, should be "LEAVE my rivals in the dirt" | |
| Bruce Dickinson – Devil on a Hog Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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It's about the Devil portrayed as a biker. This song is clever and catchy as all Hell. And yeah, the lyrics listed here are very wrong. Here's what I got: You want to know where legends live At the rainbows end I'll be there There's a place in inner space That's where I get to you I'm not the shy retiring kind Like a supernova for the blind I used to sit at God's Right hand But I quit that show to do my one night stands Coming out of nowhere I'm a godhead rider You won't see my face no more My machine has left the floor Live my rivals in the dirt I seen your world and I got the shirt Before I leave and go my way I've loved it but I couldn't stay There's nothing there for you to feel Just remember me You might see me in Tokyo To the rings of Saturn hey, let's go And you've the trip of your life with me But you won't turn chances never free I'll see you baby once again Maybe three score years and ten I'll be driving a different ship It's when I take you down For your final trip |
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| Bruce Dickinson – Kill Devil Hill Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| This song is flat out incredible. As stated above, it's about the first flight of the Wright Brothers in 1903. The first verse seems to be indicating that the achievement of flight would bring us closer to divinity. You get almost a mythological sense of the event. The chorus is just so stirring and Bruce delivers it with such power and conviction. | |
| Rush – Kid Gloves Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| @[jerambam:3532] - The Enemy Within also occurs within the lyrics of that song. But otherwise interesting that only 2 out of the 8 songs on that album are mentioned in the lyrics. I never noticed that before. | |
| Redemption – Walls Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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It's about communication issues within a relationship. The longer you let it go, the more difficult it becomes to fix it. Eventually you reach a point where you can't even remember what it was like when it was normal. Outstanding tune, perhaps my favorite song by these guys. What a bass line. |
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| Poets Of The Fall – Cradled in Love Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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I agree with you danfiukfon, though I favor the second interpretation myself. If you watch the video, it really seems to be pointing in that direction. Great song. |
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| Moonspell – Abysmo Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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Probably my favorite tune on Sin/Pecado. Seems to be pretty deep. My guess is that it's describing the ephemeral nature of our being. The final chorus brings it home: "sleeping between the storm that was and the wind which fails to come (and finally) blow us away." There is also reference to how we as humans are a contradiction of terms (men with both roots and wings). I could be totally off about this, of course. Doesn't change the fact that this song is ridiculously good! |
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| Insomnium – Revelation Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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Good song, great lyrics. To me this is essentially about your ability to find the positives in life amidst all the negativity. Sadly, only a few of us have the ability to do this consistently. |
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| Ayreon – One Small Step Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| This is from the Dream Sequencer and this part of the story explores Neil Armstrong's landing on the moon from the perspective of a young child watching the event on TV. The instrumentation during the choruses is flat out brilliant. | |
| Bruce Dickinson – Cyclops Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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This song is about how the paparazzi relentlessly follows and documents the lives of celebrities. Many of these celebrities suck this up and wind up over-exposing themselves. Cyclops is a metaphor for a camera. Great song and amazing guitar work from Roy Z here! |
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| Powerwolf – Sanctified With Dynamite Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I read somewhere that this song is a spoof on suicide bombers that perform the act in the name of God. Anybody else see that? And yes, this song is catchy as all Hell. |
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| Agalloch – Into the Painted Grey Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Perhaps it's a reference to a waterfall? | |
| Insomnium – Disengagement Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I'm plagiarizing myself from this page here: http://www.songmeanings.net/songs/view/3530822107858598790/ "The album this song is on is a story about the loss of a person's mother and how he has such a difficult time dealing with it. It also get's into the sorrow of his father at her loss and how the tragedy tears them apart. An incredibly sad album, but still my favorite from this wonderful band." Both the father and son continue to mourn her death. The son has reached the point where he can no longer stand the presence of his father because his grief is so overwhelming that it is dragging his son down. The son chooses to leave his father and chooses loneliness in exchange for some sense of normality and freedom from his guilt and grief. |
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| Insomnium – Under the Plaintive Sky Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I'm plagiarizing myself from this page here: http://www.songmeanings.net/songs/view/3530822107858598790/ "The album this song is on is a story about the loss of a person's mother and how he has such a difficult time dealing with it. It also get's into the sorrow of his father at her loss and how the tragedy tears them apart. An incredibly sad album, but still my favorite from this wonderful band." The two round shouldered figures in the song are the father and son. They are struggling mightily with her loss and the guilt they feel could be for all the things they left unsaid to her or for the fact that they are barely able to function now that she is gone. |
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| Insomnium – Death Walked the Earth Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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The album this song is on is a story about the loss of a person's mother and how he has such a difficult time dealing with it. It also get's into the sorrow of his father at her loss and how the tragedy tears them apart. An incredibly sad album, but still my favorite from this wonderful band. I think this song is a continuation of the main character's struggle to accept the loss and it is not going well for him. |
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| Vanden Plas – On My Way to Jerusalem Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| This is an incredible ending to the truly amazing story that is the Seraphic Clockwork. The main character has found a way to transport himself back in time to betray Jesus so that through his death the world could be saved. His task is a horrible one and he clearly struggles with it ("Why me? Why not anybody else?"). He must take the role of Judas, betray the son of God, and then go down in history as one of the most vilified people to walk the earth. In the end he follows through with his task and the world is saved, but the main character is stuck with the knowledge that he caused a horrible thing to happen to Jesus and he must now live with it. | |
| Rush – The Anarchist Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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This is probably my favorite song off of this fine album. It introduces the antagonist of the story. He feels the world has slighted him, so he plots his revenge against the steam punk society in which he lives. He doesn't view the world the way the rest of his contemporaries as his feelings constantly gnaw at him - "The lenses inside of me that paint the world black". This is also one of Geddy's catchiest bass lines in a career full of catchy bass lines. Great tune! |
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| Redemption – Let It Rain Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| This is such a beautiful song. Like most of the songs on This Mortal Coil it deals with facing mortality through the context of Nick van Dyk's illness. He's learning to appreciate each moment, being brave and hopeful. Very uplifting lyrics from a guy that faced it head on. | |
| Avantasia – Carry Me Over Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Love from afar. He has been longing for her hopelessly and she has no idea. | |
| Avantasia – What Kind Of Love Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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The woman who's love he has been longing for rejects him. "The love you feel, you waste away on me" |
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| Judas Priest – Burnin' Up Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Pretty much straight up lust here. Nothing fancy. | |
| Judas Priest – Heroes End Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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The last line in the second verse is wrong. "But once so strong survive or become weak" should be "But one so strong so long becomes weak" I've always loved this tune and thetrooperr pretty much nailed it. I can't believe that anybody could think that this song glorifies death. "That legend's born from death and that is such a shame" doesn't smack of glorification to me. |
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| Judas Priest – Fever Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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This is a criminally overlooked song and is one of the best songs on what I feel to arguably be their best album. They pack so much goodness into 5 minutes here. The chord progressions, multiple sections, and signature Halford vocal delivery (especially before the final chorus) makes this song a flat-out epic. I just thought that it was about a lover, plain and simple. |
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| Judas Priest – Starbreaker Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| When I was a kid I used to think that this was the second coming of Christ wrapped up in sci-fi imagery. | |
| Divinity Destroyed – Empty the Sky Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| This almost seems like God wanting to un-create the world at the end of time in a final (suicidal?) act. | |
| Divinity Destroyed – Threnody Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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This is an incredible song with such moving lyrics. It blows my mind to this day that this band never received the break it surely deserved. This song is essentially summed up by it's title. A threnody is a song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person. The person is mourning the loss of their soul mate and they can no longer find any real meaning in life. Lines like "As each day passes by celebrate one less to live on this way without you", "She calls to me in my... Broken dreams...", and "You reach for my hand and then pull me away from this " indicates that he feels that she is reaching out to him from beyond the grave and he longs to join her. "In this world of hate for those who have what they love" indicates a despite for people that still have their loved ones. Such a sad, yet wonderful song. |
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