| Karnivool – Illumine Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I've always seen this as the most Satirical of their songs... As Sawyejr said, this is clearly a 'love song to the sun' representing to ideologies of a sun cult (ie the majority of religions) and the lines "don't listen, don't even hear a word they say" symbolises each religion's opinion of other religious teachings Though, if you take this from a more philosophical POV, if anything should be worshipped it should be the Sun directly. It is the give of light, heat, fuel, power. Star dust provides us with the Carbon, oxygen and heavy metals we need for life. without the sun, life wouldn't have come to exist and wouldn't survive. |
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| Karnivool – The Medicine Wears Off Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Karnivool's most underappreciated song... The build up in this song is amazing. I think people don't like this because this is the most openly 'druggy' song on the Sound Awake ablum but come on... "All I Know" video... LCD?!?! | |
| Karnivool – Deadman Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Because of the depth of the Lyrics I personally feel these songs are memoirs of Ian's past, and his hope for the future. The ambiguous style and the missing story is typical of someone describing past emotions, missing points as they fill the story in their own head. In this way, Ian creates lyrics that people can project themselves into, filling the gaps with their own life story and thereby create their own memoir that they connect too. This is the Magic of Karnivool. I know that I for one have found these songs incredibly illuminating. This album brought me back from a very dark place in my life. |
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| Karnivool – Set Fire To The Hive Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Almost every line has some sort of religious reference: "Awake in this womb with a crown stinging my self" - Jesus in the womb with his crown of thorns... "The rules they don't explain, so why do we obey?" - Religion (particularly Christianity) is full of rules that have no logical reasoning to them. Ian is asking why people would follow so blindly. "A star for us to adore" - Christianity, Judaism, Ancient greek, roman and egyptian religions are all Sun cults, idolising our star Sol as a God. "I spit in the mouth of your God, who whispers in the minds of the children you've been sold again" - Clearly a "Fuck You" message to institutional religion who feeds off parents 'selling' their children to the church who are then inducted into the religion before they are old enough to thing for themselves and as a result follow blindly without thought. "Set fire to the Hive as you flee" - A message to those who have escaped religions grasp telling them to tear down religious ideology as they leave it's midst so as to help others escape. "It's fiction, a faceless illusion" - religion is fiction... no further explanation needed. Regardless of what priests and rabies tell us, there has never been a physical 'face' to the belief that they spew. You've been had again" - Religion is a trick, just like any other con. "You swing this wrecking ball, A violent pendulum, To hypnotize them all." - A reference to Holy war, Jihad. Religion hypnotises it's followers into hating people outside it's midst causing terror and destruction in the name of a lie. The music video's depiction of Pyramids also suports the religion hypothesis as the pyramids are a religious symbol of the Ancient Egyptians and more recently Catholicism (Four sided pyramids can be found all over the Vatican). |
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| Karnivool – Set Fire To The Hive Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| I highly doubt a bunch of Aussie blokes from Perth would write such a deep song about american politics. We have our own retards in power to write songs about. | |
| Karnivool – Set Fire To The Hive Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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No offence, by all mean you can take what ever personal meaning you want from it but from the bands perspective this song is most DEFINITLY about religion. Almost every line has some sort of religious reference: "Awake in this womb with a crown stinging my self" - Jesus in the womb with his crown of thorns... "The rules they don't explain, so why do we obey?" - Religion (particularly Christianity) is full of rules that have no logical reasoning to them. Ian is asking why people would follow so blindly. "A star for us to adore" - Christianity, Judaism, Ancient greek, roman and egyptian religions are all Sun cults, idolising our star Sol as a God. "I spit in the mouth of your God, who whispers in the minds of the children you've been sold again" - Clearly a "Fuck You" message to institutional religion who feeds off parents 'selling' their children to the church who are then inducted into the religion before they are old enough to thing for themselves and as a result follow blindly without thought. "Set fire to the Hive as you flee" - A message to those who have escaped religions grasp telling them to tear down religious ideology as they leave it's midst so as to help others escape. "It's fiction, a faceless illusion" - religion is fiction... no further explanation needed. Regardless of what priests and rabies tell us, there has never been a physical 'face' to the belief that they spew. You've been had again" - Religion is a trick, just like any other con. "You swing this wrecking ball, A violent pendulum, To hypnotize them all." - A reference to Holy war, Jihad. Religion hypnotises it's followers into hating people outside it's midst causing terror and destruction in the name of a lie. The music video's depiction of Pyramids also suports the religion hypothesis as the pyramids are a religious symbol of the Ancient Egyptians and more recently Catholicism (Four sided pyramids can be found all over the Vatican). I'm not saying that the song doesn't touch on politics, by all mean, religion is in it's own right a form of politics, just simply without the democracy. That is the 'Game' Ian speaks of, the game of power over the mind between free-thinkers and the monarchical religion. If you've listen to the whole Sound Awake album, you will realise that EVERY song is in someway about the tierney of religion and it's inevitable downfall, why would this one (so full of references) be about politics? Also, in the incredibly unlikely case that I am completely wrong and this song is about politics, I highly doubt a bunch of Aussie blokes from Perth would write such a deep song about american politics. We have our own retards in power to write songs about. |
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