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| Rise Against – Blood To Bleed Lyrics
| 8 years ago
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Anyone else notice how Rise Against songs have changed? They used to be a more typical, punk rock, 'about me' feel. But their more recent albums are more about groups, the world than themselves. |
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| Rise Against – Paper Wings Lyrics
| 8 years ago
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I think this has more to do with a runaway who's quickly running out of resources and is going to be trapped and lost, and someone who's spent the time with them hoping they'll eventually return home returning alone, leaving them behind because they haven't figured it out yet. |
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| Rise Against – Halfway There Lyrics
| 8 years ago
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@[ChyldeOfTheLotus:4070] I feel that's part of it; the other part is to not question your ideals. When chaos hits, it's time to act. Don't wait for someone else to do it, rebel. |
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| Rise Against – Black Masks and Gasoline Lyrics
| 8 years ago
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My opinion is this song is about rebelling against an unjust system- maybe not pure anarchy, but destruction to rebuild, to raze a city and build a better one. |
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| Third Eye Blind – Jumper Lyrics
| 9 years ago
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Just felt the urge to point out that "gone to code" refers to police codes. As in what they say into the radio when calling for backup or an ambulance or something. |
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| Feeder – Renegades Lyrics
| 9 years ago
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I get the sense this is about people who feel alienated by society and blamed for its problems; like whenever there's a shooting, people blame either guns or video games. People on either side feel marginalized, feel blamed. If they had been different, they think, they could belong to these groups that persecute them, their lives would be better.
When Columbine happened, people who looked different, were loners, wore trenchcoats, were bullied worse than ever. Because they were different. |
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| The Creepshow – Sleep Tight Lyrics
| 9 years ago
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Was I the only one who found this song genuinely terrifying? Dark and creepy is one thing, but the cheerful tune and the lyrics just kind of broke me. And I've seen The Exorcist. |
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| Rise Against – Make It Stop (September's Children) Lyrics
| 9 years ago
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@riseagainstgreatestftuckingband I'm not inclined to insult religion (never cared for it myself) but that is literally the most stupid apologist response I've read since "The Screwtape Letters". So being gay is equivalent to lying or some other bloody sin? At least bigots are honest about their opinions. You are the equivalent of someone saying, "I'm not racist but...". While tolerance is important, so is acceptance.
Maybe you aren't claiming they're equivalent, but calling it a sin is what started this in the first place. (I'm not saying this from a religious standpoint, just a goddamned common sense one.) |
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| Voltaire – When You're Evil Lyrics
| 9 years ago
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I like this song because it's about evil for evil's sake and nothing more and less than simple, malicious fun. Is it bad I always imagine a guy in a suit with a cane acting out the stuff (tripping a guy, hitting him in the side, hitting him on the head) and the devil just walks by tipping his hat during the chorus and the last time the chorus plays he steals the devil's hat? |
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| Rise Against – A Gentlemen's Coup Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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I think this song isn't just about ancient armies or anything, I think it's meant to cover on the broad spectrum how every time people revolt or try to change the system it winds up exactly the same. I mean, the communist revolution in Russia ended with dictators like Stalin. In the Middle East, all we do is just making it worse, turning it into a ticking time bomb. Even Obama's discovered with the NSA thing that you really can't get rid of National Surveillance, we need it for safety. It's all just a hopeless, nihilistic cycle. |
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| Iron Maiden – Rainmaker Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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I think that this represents that everyone's life has sadness, but if one person cares enough to help, it's all worth it. |
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| Gotye – Somebody That I Used To Know Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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I think that the main point of this was the guy complaining to the girl after they broke up and he saw her with somebody else. He wanted to talk to her, to make up, but she sent her friends to collect her stuff from his place so he didn't have a chance to. The Mosaic pattern represents their relationship, and she and him were both a part of it, but once he starts complaining, it gets worse and worse, him trying to take low blows at her like saying that he doesn't need her phone number, and it develops into this argument, and she tells him about how he screwed her over and she had to read into what he says to understand him, and that she didn't want to live like that, and when she leaves the mosaic, losing the pattern, it signified the relationship was over, friendship or otherwise, and she was, for lack of a better term, washing her hands of him. |
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| Panic! at the Disco – Sarah Smiles Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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I think that it's a guy who found a girlfriend who's keeping him for his fame or money, and he is deeply in love with her but even then, he's not blind and sees her leaving often and wonders if she is cheating on him, but he doesn't want to ask her about it in case she isn't and she'll be offended he thought she was. Possibly they used to be lovers before this, though, and she came back and said she was sorry but didn't mean it. |
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| The Veer Union – Darker Side Of Me Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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I Agree with YourHeroIsDead, but would like to add that the guy is trying to warn her away buts she's still there trying to figure him out, but in the process is making the guy out to be more than he is, which is basically just the kind of guy he thinks she shouldn't want to know. |
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| Simple Plan – Crazy Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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This is a song about someone looking around him and seeing everyone is obsessed with the little things they want (Their eyes closed) and he wants to see the big picture (Open your eyes) |
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| Iron Maiden – Hallowed Be Thy Name Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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This is about someone who is innocent but is convicted in an unfair trial and is about to be executed for crimes he didn't do, AKA God abandoning him, and when he goes to die, he tries not to cry or scream and takes it stoically and dies, going beyond it all. |
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| Panic! at the Disco – Do You Know What I'm Seeing Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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I think this is about him going on a date and the girl not knowing what to talk about and mentioning the weather as a subject and he just says, "I've never given a damn about the weather and it's never given a damn about him." This song is just it in musical version. |
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| Panic! at the Disco – Do You Know What I'm Seeing Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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I think this is about him going on a date and the girl not knowing what to talk about and mentioning the weather as a subject and he just says, "I've never given a damn about the weather and it's never given a damn about him." This song is just it in musical version. |
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| Panic! at the Disco – Memories Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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This may be a metaphor for what happened between him and the old band; But seeing as everyone else has leaped at that to conclusion like hounds for a piece of bacon, I'm going state something different. It's about a young couple who get together and run away, the girl finds out she's pregnant (The apple of their eyes) and then he and she eventually break up, something he was surprised by (Memories, Where'd you go? You were all I've Ever known) and she returns and he's just looking back. |
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| Panic! at the Disco – Hurricane Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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I think part of it is his anger at the fans who went with the members of Panic at the Disco who left, as well as them. "I Know, You Know, They Don't Look Like Me" and then there is "You'll Dance to Anything"
Part of it is also probably a romance with a girl who he used to argue with (Prelude to Memories?) and then he is also possibly also referring to the one other remaining member of his band (Not Romantically) |
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| Panic! at the Disco – Hurricane Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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I think part of it is his anger at the fans who went with the members of Panic at the Disco who left, as well as them. "I Know, You Know, They Don't Look Like Me" and then there is "You'll Dance to Anything"
Part of it is also probably a romance with a girl who he used to argue with (Prelude to Memories?) and then he is also possibly also referring to the one other remaining member of his band (Not Romantically) |
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| Panic! at the Disco – The Ballad of Mona Lisa Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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I think the song and the music video have two different meanings. I think the song is about a lonely man who hires a prostitute simply for company, but the music video is about a man who was poisoned using gin, and who realized it and hid a note in the pants he'd be buried in, and attends the funeral as a ghost, and is frustrated no one found the note, until he finds one girl who can see him, Mona Lisa, who he convinces to check his body for his note, which simply states, "Mary did It." who is then captured and sent to prison. |
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| Panic! at the Disco – I Constantly Thank God For Esteban Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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I think this song is basically about a atheist who makes himself look like a Catholic and goes to church and hates every moment of it, but he keeps going for some reason. This is his point of view and he thinks, this wouldn't happen with me if they just seemed to believe what their saying, but he looks and knows that almost no one completely believes this and rarely means this and wishes they'd have more conviction. |
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| Rise Against – Hero of War Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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I think this song means that he was told from the beginning how great soldiers were and then when he signed up, he thought nothing of the old quote, "War is Hell." he went to war and arrested some terrorist or something and he was drawn into something much more terrible, ending with him killing his girlfriend and dying of old age in guilt, wishing someone realized he deserved to have penance and not be glorified as a hero. |
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| Rise Against – Prayer Of The Refugee Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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I think you have a great explanation, but i don't think that it has to do with america at all. Its sort of a universal moral about a ridiculously prejudiced system that they recently abolished and now the broken glass that guides there way is just another way to say that while the war to abolish hurt them, they won, and they're on the path to recovery. |
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| Genesis – Home By The Sea Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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I think this one is about one of two things:
1. A person working at a mental hospital by the sea; the people there are insane and delight in telling people their stories.
2. A person who broke into a abandoned facility for the senile citizens, and he is haunted by them. |
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| Lonestar – Walking In Memphis (Marc Cohn Cover) Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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I believe this song is about him going through a spiritual awakening after seeing the ghost of Elvis go to the "Gates of Grace" (He's probably not talking about Graceland, but the literal Gates of Grace, three guesses were.) and he returns to the Hollywood for a dinner (Most likely) and they notice he's a musician and ask him to "do a little number" and since it was serving a Christian dinner (Because they only eat fish on Fridays during lent instead of meat)the woman playing the piano, Muriel, asks him if he's actually a Christian and he replies that he has been converted because of what he had actually recently seen, and he continues to sing, and since everyone else joins in at that point, they're all probably inspired by the story. |
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