| Evanescence – Going Under Lyrics | 1 year ago |
| @[kellymac23:52357] I believe she was in a long term relationship with an alcoholic, referenced in the song Call Me When You're Sober. Dealing with somebody else's addiction is crazy making and leaves one feeling totally out of control of one's own life. She was literally drowning in his drinking. On top of that she was dealing with her own mental health issues- depression and anxiety. | |
| Evanescence – Whisper Lyrics | 1 year ago |
| This is written by a (highly gifted sensitive) 16 year old tormented by deep depression and anxiety, contemplating suicide, and expressing that emotion in the most dramatic terms. Amy said she used her song writing to deal with her pain, and so was reluctant to give it up. Pain was her muse. "Lithium- I want to stay in love with my sorrow, oh but God I want to let it go". Whisper is a masterpiece. | |
| Evanescence – Whisper Lyrics | 1 year ago |
| @[angelkake310:52356] Ya but, she wrote this song long before she was involved with the music business, just making demos in her basement with Ben Moody. They got their record contract about 4 or 5 years after this song was written. Otherwise, I'd say it fits. | |
| Evanescence – Hello Lyrics | 1 year ago |
| @[BoundenInABond:52354] Yes, Amy was 6 when her 3 year old sister died. | |
| The Devil Makes Three – Poison Trees Lyrics | 1 year ago |
| @[mteblano:50465] It could relate to the Miranda case of 1966, but I don't see how that relates to "turn the cameras off and it doesn't exist". They seem to like to show footage of riot police beating up protesters, as they did in Chicago in '68. It's the substance of the protest that they turn the cameras off for. | |
| The Devil Makes Three – All Hail Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| @[Rednecknation:21531] Gracefully Facedown and Car Wreck were written and sung by Cooper. The rest of the original songs were written and sung by Pete. A reasonable theory, but neither of their mothers did crack, so far as I know. I know Cooper's mom and she's pretty wholesome, as is his dad. They all come from relatively stable middle class homes. Hope this doesn't pop any bubbles. | |
| The Devil Makes Three – Help Yourself Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| @[nuumb:21230] Seems pretty straight forward. Don't wait for divine intervention to save you. Take good care of yourself. | |
| The Devil Makes Three – All Hail Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| This song is hilarious social commentary. Hard to boil it down. I like the line- "Now that they got everything they'd like to sell you some". Once again this is about the Money Masters (See my comment on "Poison Trees") and how they manipulate things for their own gain, "cause everything in sight's got to be sold". This is an apocalyptic vision with a comical tone. "The world is a car and you're the crash test dummy" "really is kinda funny". It's about the herd mentality and the insanity of the modern world and how things are going to hell in a hand-basket (but don't take it too seriously), just stay "uncomfortably numb" by taking the pills they keep telling you to take on TV. That way you'll be easier for them to manage. The Owners of America want obedient workers, as George Carlin said. Just go to work and shop and don't think about what's going on. | |
| The Devil Makes Three – Poison Trees Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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This song was written after the 2008 financial crisis. At that time it looked like the world was coming apart. Nine years later it is amazing that The Powers That Be have been able to hold the system together by printing trillions of dollars. Many think we are still in the eye of the hurricane (admittedly a slow moving storm). This song is a commentary on the Money Masters who run the world and the people who close their eyes to what is really going on, either because they are asleep, or are too afraid to open their eyes. I relate to the line "words from the burning screen will make your stomach knot". I don't watch television for that very reason; it turns my stomach to see and feel the slightly sweetened venom they are constantly putting out- propaganda and disinformation as if it is reality, to create a slight feeling of dread just below the level of awareness. Keep the masses off balance, but the Masters will keep you safe if you just give up your rights. "The loud voices got the signals locked" The loud voices of the media lock out an alternative understanding of what is going on. They'll shout down anyone who questions the establishment presentation of 'reality'. "All the past heroes now outlined in chalk Well that'll teach the world to not walk the walk Show your face out in the light and hear the pistols pop" This phrase speaks for itself, but let's draw attention to it because this is the crux of the matter. People are intimidated about going against the Masters. Look what happened to the Kennedy's, MLK, John Lennon, Ronald Reagan, George Carlin, Gary Webb (of Kill the Messenger fame), Judge Scalia, Seth Rich who leaked the Hilary Clinton emails to Wikileaks, the list goes on... that'll teach the world to not walk the walk. "Old tactics leaves you face down on the bricks This new dog knows some terrible tricks Turn the cameras off and it doesn't exist That's a lesson well learned back in 1966" The old tactics were simple crack'em on the head and put 'em face down on the bricks, the new tricks involve simply turning the cameras off of any dissent they don't want to gain traction. Protest against the outsider Trump? Full throttle coverage. Protest against the Establishment agenda- no coverage or coverage of protesters being brutally abused. During the Viet Nam War protests (1966) they got a lot of coverage- fueling the protests. Big Brother learned "turn the cameras off" and dissent doesn't exist. Yes, the people who are running things are some rotten seeds, and if you acknowledge that fact, it surely isn't any mystery why we are in the mess we are in. People in this country need to wake up. This state of affairs only continues because it all somehow flies under the radar. People do not want to see it. That works out just fine for the Oligarchs. They always operate by stealth, because they are few and we are many. |
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| Tori Amos – Taxi Ride Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| @[piecesofme:19140] Makes sense | |
| Tori Amos – Carbon Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| Tori frequently uses winter imagery to write about her trauma and her relationship with her father, e.g. the songs Winter, Icicle and here the reference is to "double diamond" skiing and ice skating. She has said that all of her songs are about her father, but said Father Lucifer isn't. See my comment below. | |
| Tori Amos – Carbon Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| Excellent exegesis. Often people who have experienced severe psychological trauma, such as incest, are diagnosed as bipolar, when it is really PTSD. It is the trauma that drives much of Tori's creativity. That is her healing process to be able to sing out her pain, after being "Silent All These Years". | |
| Tori Amos – Carbon Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| @[torifan711:19135] The "friend" who was molested was Tori. See the song Icicle. | |
| Tori Amos – Icicle Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| I've only been listening to Tori for a few weeks, but the more I do, and discover new songs, like Icicle, the more I become convinced that Tori was sexually abused by her father. The constant juxtaposition of Christian and sexual images, and her clearly tortured state in reference to same, e.g. "Crucify". In "Icicle", a phallic symbol, we have "greeting the monster (phallus) in our Easter dresses, father says, 'Bow your head (submit), like the good book says', Well I think the good book is missing some pages, Gonna lay down." And at the end she says "I could have, I should have flown, you know, well I could have, I should have, I didn't so..." She blames herself. In the song "Winter" which is about her dad, you also have the the cold imagery, like the icicle. She has a bond with her dad, but it is cold. Sexual abuse of any kind traumatizes, but incest and with a minister no less, truly would throw one into total disorientation. Hence the need for cryptic lyrics. One doesn't talk about incest in polite society, but she needs to exorcise her demons. In "Precious Things" we see that she has sexualized herself in an attempt to get love from those Christian boys, those beautiful boys, but her rage is still there and she wants to smash their faces and spit in their faces. Having been sexualized as a child, that's the best way she knows to try to get love and approval, by giving sexual favors to people who are only using her. This theme runs through many of her early songs. And she sings them so poignantly. It's heartbreaking when you realize what she is really talking about. | |
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