| Pain of Salvation – Kingdom of Loss Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| @[DavidLago:7844] @[DavidLago:7844] he is probably talking about the majority race in the U.S., maybe in general, maybe the elite. You know, 6 pm, after work, going home on their comfy cars, listening to the news and all. | |
| Pain of Salvation – Enter Rain Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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@[Longandweirdname:835] Beautiful interpretation mate! But you see, one thing has been in my head since I've got into these lyrics. English is not my first (mother) language, and I hope you, or someone else could tell me something I couldn't find anywhere... What is the meaning of "Soup of the season"? |
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| Pain of Salvation – Beyond The Pale Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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Well, like said before, the main subject here is not the fact that the protagonist remembers having sexual urges back at 8, but it is rather a confession. To me, the most important thing here is his own evaluation of choices during his life. He keeps looking and remembering the past in order to understand himself better now, or at least, to comprehend why he's such a mess, what have led him to this very moment. I believe the comparison made is quite clear on the first two stanzas, being the first about Sex, and second about Love. Personally the Love stanza reminds quite much of Romanticism on Literature, the perfect ideal woman, yet, unattainable, intangible, which somehow explains "watching them turn to flesh again", thus, giving in to (her) own sexual urges. I understand this album as a non-linear (chronological) story about a man and woman, both very young and presumably alone in life, who love each other, start living together, she gets pregnant, loses the child, something happens between them (this point is not really explicit to me, perhaps I am missing something. Probably she has had sex with another man), and then he runs away, leaves her due to the fight and probably because she did something really unforgivable to him. That's why he says "Budapest I'm learning / Budapest you're burning me", it's probably where they used to live or where he ran to. "Undertow" is probably a "prequel" and it is about him breaking free of the relationship, now he can do whatever he wants, no more restrictions (specially sex related), and it can explain his thoughts on these verses: This is not who I wanted to be / This is not what I wanted to see Like I said, he is thinking about his choices, and when the next verses come up, he's actually having sex, with a young hooker or regular girl, but at the same time, he still feels guilty about it, and not free at all... Then, he goes on... he is quite desperate and lost, I guess he really doesn't know how to proceed with his life from now on, the days seem empty and eternal, time passes by and he doesn't really follow it. That's the Remedy Lane he mentions. Of course, a lot of that is just empathy and assumptions. What he really says is that he still "hunts" for women, he thinks it is fun, and it is delightful to him, but the sex sounds like torture and at the same time necessary, he can not hunt and not finishing it, it is disrespectful, to the women. That's the hunger he mentions, his sexual urges and needs. Truth is, he wishes he was not such a human man. It is a paradox, because he has many human wishes and needs, and when he fulfills such desires he feels inhuman, dirty and an exploiter. The verse "Seeking freedom I've touched the untouched / It's too much / I'm Beyond the Pale" is about all these mixed feelings, this paradox. He is beyond salvation, there's no remedy which can heal him, he will have to bury it deep, all these feeling and questions, and live on. A very desperate song. And my second favourite on this amazing album. Sorry if I have not made myself very clear. English is not my mother-language, and somehow it is really complicated to talk about such abstract subjects as feelings. Cheers. |
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| Porcupine Tree – Buying New Soul Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| There's also Dark Matter, where I strongly think they are "talking" about touring's hard life. | |
| Porcupine Tree – Buying New Soul Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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Yeah, I kindof agree with your explanations. I couldn't help not remembering "Stop Swimming". It shows also this metaphorical meaning of "swimming", maybe not going on mainstream, and kind of regreting this. Maybe its time to stop swimming Maybe its time to find out where I'm at What I should do, where I should be But no one would give me a map AMAZING! |
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| Porcupine Tree – Remember Me Lover Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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why would you think that? lol |
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| Porcupine Tree – Open Car Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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Well, your interpretation fits very well, although I think a little bit different about it. I guess the "Open Car" part, he is remembering when things weren't this complicated, and they (him and his to-be lover) were just enjoying a really nice ride, you know? Like, I always thought of this like they having a really nice time together, maybe they weren't even lovers by then, and this, awakened an atraction between them, you know, two good looking people, having a great time, big smile on their faces, you know, things just... sort of happen. (Hair blown in an open car) And then, the sex part, he undresses her, they're about to do it. (Summer dress slips down her arm) |
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| Steven Wilson – Postcard Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I really think this song is about reclusion followed by depression and suicide. "The kitchen floor" I believe is where the suicide takes place. He/She wants to get up and seek help, as our natural instinct is to survive as long as we can, but then there's the second verse which is "but is there really any point at all?", which can be interpreted as the depression feeling. I believe the next two verses are self-explanatory. The two verses of the second stanza, (I say stanza because this song, like many others, can or must be interpreted as poems) the person is already losing track of time, maybe because of depression or the suicide act, which we don't know how he/she chose. On the sentece "that I will concede", i guess it's just about giving up, which brings us to the next verses "I'd like to light a cigarette but I cannot The light is dead and the gas has been cut off", It could be a metaphor for both his/her eyes and breath respectively. Now this is the best part of the whole song for me. This stanza is absolutely breathtaking! I'm the one you always seem to read about The light inside my eyes has long gone out There's nothing left for me to say or do 'Cause all that matters disappeared when I lost you On the first verse, I guess its about the news on the following days, where we always read shocking news like suicide and stuff, he/she is thinking about the future, and if people will care or feel sorry for him/her. The second verse is about the person's will to live, the fire, which is a metaphor for life, has long gone out from his/her eyes, so the person doesn't want to live anymore, its just pointless. The next couple of verses are like, the song's climax. The person has finished his thoughts, he/she is prepared to go, because nothing else matters, no worries, no appointments, no rush, just, nothing, eternal darkness. The thing is, we can take this as a love suicide in three different ways. Parenthood, real love or obsession. The "when I lost you" part possess a really whole different possible meanings. One last thing... Did you notice the song "grows"? Like, musically speaking? I guess that's how Wilson chose to express the death of his character, something very brutal and sad but still, beautiful and brave. Its really hard to not use the adjective Genious when talking about Steven Wilson. |
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| Steven Wilson – Postcard (live radio version) Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I really think this song is about reclusion followed by depression and suicide. "The kitchen floor" I believe is where the suicide takes place. He/She wants to get up and seek help, as our natural instinct is to survive as long as we can, but then there's the second verse which is "but is there really any point at all?", which can be interpreted as the depression feeling. I believe the next two verses are self-explanatory. The two verses of the second stanza, (I say stanza because this song, like many others, can or must be interpreted as poems) the person is already losing track of time, maybe because of depression or the suicide act, which we don't know how he/she chose. On the sentece "that I will concede", i guess it's just about giving up, which brings us to the next verses "I'd like to light a cigarette but I cannot The light is dead and the gas has been cut off", It could be a metaphor for both his/her eyes and breath respectively. Now this is the best part of the whole song for me. This stanza is absolutely breathtaking! I'm the one you always seem to read about The light inside my eyes has long gone out There's nothing left for me to say or do 'Cause all that matters disappeared when I lost you On the first verse, I guess its about the news on the following days, where we always read shocking news like suicide and stuff, he/she is thinking about the future, and if people will care or feel sorry for him/her. The second verse is about the person's will to live, the fire, which is a metaphor for life, has long gone out from his/her eyes, so the person doesn't want to live anymore, its just pointless. The next couple of verses are like, the song's climax. The person has finished his thoughts, he/she is prepared to go, because nothing else matters, no worries, no appointments, no rush, just, nothing, eternal darkness. The thing is, we can take this as a love suicide in three different ways. Parenthood, real love or obsession. The "when I lost you" part possess a really whole different possible meanings. One last thing... Did you notice the song "grows"? Like, musically speaking? I guess that's how Wilson chose to express the death of his character, something very brutal and sad but still, beautiful and brave. Its really hard to not use the adjective Genious when talking about Steven Wilson. |
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| Warrel Dane – August Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I think there is a trilogy in it. "Let you down", "August" and "Your chosen misery" really seem to be connected somehow... |
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| Warrel Dane – August Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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You gotta be careful with Dane. I mean, he always keep trolling people on interviews saying that some songs mean something entirely different that what they really mean. Do you remember he saying things about Timmy Leary? I also think this song is about some dead woman. Now that you said, it could really be his mother... Awesome album btw |
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| Kamelot – Poetry for the Poisoned, Pt. II: So Long Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I think this song is about an Incubus* and a mortal, specifically a woman. In this song the mortal is dying or at least it is close to. But there is something about this weird couple: They like each other. I wouldn't say "love" because maybe it is impossible for a demon to have such feeling but he cares with this particular prey. The two first stanzas are respectively Kahn and Simmons (Incubus and Mortal) In the begginig, musically speaking, it's possible to state that the Incubus is not really happy with his prey's death. "A minute more" and "lay down, I know you must be nearly there" would be just a little before he starts feeding and killing her but it could also mean the prey's orgasm and "for the last of your days in the sun" means her death by life force siphon. The second stanza is the mortal dying or maybe in the purgatory since she says "in the white light". The chorus is awesomnes in lyrics! It means death to the mortal and life, or at least a glimpse of it, to the Incubus. "So long, your sorrow be gone" means that in death she has no more concerns with matters of the living. "show me how it feels to be alive" is the Incubus longing or wondering how would it be if he was alive/mortal. This whole part "you fed me long and by god you fed me well, sleep tight, this day belongs to you my dear. And I am bound like a beast onto its prey. We are one of a kind you and I" means the Incubus wishing final peace for his beloved prey, which is now dead, he is thankful but unable to not feed and he finally kills her. *A demon lover in male form, which posses women. Incubus in demonology is a demon that feeds with sex and at the same time the life force/essence of his victim. There is no really male/female since all angels/demons have no sex, but they are classified according to their prey - Succubus relates to men and Incubus to women though they can have any form. |
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