| Meshuggah – Mind's Mirrors Lyrics | 2 years ago |
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I tried an experiment: I requested Chat-GPT to analyze these lyrics... the result is nothing short of astounding: "These lyrics are quite poetic and metaphorical, making their meaning somewhat open to interpretation. However, here is a possible analysis: The first verse describes the narrator's intense inner turmoil, which is eating away at them like a hungry animal. They describe themselves as having a kind of protective shell around their inner self, but even that is being gnawed away by their own self-destructive tendencies. The 'twin-and-same' might refer to the narrator's dual nature, with one part of them attacking the other. The second verse seems to describe the narrator's sense of feeling trapped or stuck, unable to make meaningful choices. They may feel as though they are losing their sense of self, and that their reasons for doing things are becoming obscured. The line 'to live through one's own shadow' suggests a feeling of being overshadowed by something dark or negative within oneself. The final line, 'eclipse the golden mirror and the reflection is set free' is perhaps the most hopeful part of the lyrics. It suggests that by overcoming one's own negative self-image, one can become free and clear-eyed. The 'golden mirror' might symbolize the narrator's own idealized self-image, which they need to let go of in order to truly see themselves. The phrase 'the paradox unseen' ties back to the first verse, suggesting that the solution to the narrator's problems is not immediately obvious.". |
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| Meshuggah – Mind's Mirrors Lyrics | 2 years ago |
| @Xander1087 Thanks for your input; 'Into Decay' is as glorious and amazing as terrifying because it just gets truer and truer... ???? | |
| Meshuggah – Mind's Mirrors Lyrics | 2 years ago |
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| Mr. Bungle – The Holy Filament Lyrics | 4 years ago |
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@[jburton:39150] The lyrics were based on plasma cosmology: https://genius.com/Mr-bungle-the-holy-filament-lyrics. Did you write that amazing poetry? Effing fantastic, man. |
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| Pearl Jam – Habit Lyrics | 5 years ago |
| @[richie8092:33382] And, as time keeps going on, it's much worse... | |
| Pearl Jam – Habit Lyrics | 5 years ago |
| @[corporatehell:33381] "This song is about heroin" tends to be a cliché and mediocre generalization regarding 90's (well, mostly Seattle's) Rock lyrics analyzes, but in this case I think, like you, it's obvious; kind of a warning concerning the addictive potential of hard drugs, especially after having observed how it messed up the lives of close people. | |
| Meshuggah – Lethargica Lyrics | 6 years ago |
| @[VainApocalypse:32334] The title is based on a once spreaded, rare disease in the early 20th century (encephalitis lethargica); it surely served a an inspirational template for the song. | |
| The Cure – Doing the Unstuck Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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Saying this song is really the manifestation of a "happy" mindset would be like saying Devo's 'Beautiful World' lyrics are about loving how things happen on this planet... Robert is a genius, off course, and the last particular lines tell me the real story behind the apparently joyful song: 'With the sound of your world Going up in Fire It's a perfect day to throw back your head And kiss it all goodbye'. In fact, it seems like the kind of thoughts someone with manic-depressive disorder tends to generate; this song reminds me of the same style in which 'Friday I'm In Love' was written (he tried to confuse listeners with the absurd lyrics and I think something similar happened here). Anyway, sorry for the lenghty and badly written review; I'm not a native speaker. Thanks to anyone who reads this. |
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| Gil Scott-Heron – Lady Day and John Coltrane Lyrics | 6 years ago |
| @[life1179:30806] Great observation, sir. Sure, Gil himself related to them in that way; the lyrics show a subtle association, I believe. | |
| Marilyn Manson – I Want to Kill You Like They Do in the Movies Lyrics | 6 years ago |
| I was stupid enough to not realize until today (4 years after listening this entire album for the first time) that the "cut, cut, cut" parts were kind of a pun between cinematographic terminology and self-harm; yes, I'm ridiculously slow to understand some things, sometimes. | |
| Marilyn Manson – I Want to Kill You Like They Do in the Movies Lyrics | 6 years ago |
| @[Essica319:29765] The "cut, cut, cut" parts, I just realized today (almost 4 years after listening this album for the first time), being a pun related to self-harm and cinematographic terminology; I don't know if it's that obvious for everyone else, but sometimes I'm fuckin' slow to understand some things... | |
| Meshuggah – Mind's Mirrors Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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"I once described the computer as a second self, a mirror of mind. Now the metaphor no longer goes far enough." (Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other, page 16). I don't know if Tomas or Mårten (as they wrote all Catch 33 lyrics, supposedly) are familiar at all with the work of the aforementioned woman, but once I read her description of the terminal machine, my view on this track changed in a radical manner: the robotic voice -matched melodically to Sum's ending- says it all. And it makes complete sense when you think calmly about the contradictions involved in the use of this powerful tool (much better analyzed in Turkle's books): loner people having hundreds or thousands of deplorable social connections with complete strangers that don't really care about each other, devices chaining humanity up with unstoppable, useless entertainment flows, easy access to sensitive private data, etc., when everyone tends to ignore the dark side of the "golden mirror" and speaks loudly and only about the benefits; "The paradox unseen". I seriously doubt that someone would come to read this, but you and me absolutely know how easy it is to get lost into the screen for hours without convincing reasons to do so, disguising in multiple alter egos, avoiding the issues that TRULY matter; "To live through ones own shadow, mute and blinded, is to really see". Anyway -and ironically-, I just threw my two binary code cents here, wasting considerable time editing them the least worst possible way, and nothing else. Last but not least, the lesser time (please forgive me if I'm gramatically wrong) you spend in front of a computer/cellphone/tablet/, the better: "Eclipse the golden mirror... and the reflection is set free". |
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