| Nine Inch Nails – Only Lyrics | 22 days ago |
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I've struggled, myself, with intrusive thoughts about being judged negatively by everyone around me even when I know that isn't happening. So this song has always really spoken to me on that level, that knowing I have just made up someone to hurt myself -- and still struggling with it anyway. To me the whole song feels like the process of convincing myself that those imagined judgements are not real. |
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| Nine Inch Nails – Something I Can Never Have Lyrics | 5 months ago |
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This song has resonated with so many aspects of my life that aren't what it's actually written about. For one in particular, the first time I heard it was not long after I had lost a grandparent. It felt like such a cathartic rant against God or the cosmos, words like I couldn't find, to say, "why do you get to do this to me, who gave you the right?" even though I could tell from the lyrics that it's not really about that. This is one of those pieces of art where I know what it's trying to say, but I don't care. It's helped me to deal with other, completely different kinds of pain and I feel that's just as powerful. |
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| Coldplay – 42 Lyrics | 7 months ago |
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I love the way the instrumentation helps convey the message of the song. That disjointed riff on a guitar that sounds thin, wispy, almost a little bit broken, but man is it trying. Gradually getting lifted up by all the other parts until the song switches to its relative major -- so it's not really a full switch to a major key but it "made it close". And then the ending which falls back into the depression or the intrusive thoughts or however you interpret it, but by returning to the beginning it carries the implication that even though he didn't quite manage to lift himself out of this, it was worth the effort and he's going to try again. And the title which might imply that all these attempts to find meaning in life are the meaning of life. |
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| ohGr – Dog Lyrics | 1 year ago |
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@[d42kn355:52210] ooooh, that explains something I'd wondered about for a long time Ogre and Mark Walk put together some tracks for a couple of video game OSTs around '95 or '96, and those sound like they could have been outtakes from WELT, they sound so ridiculously similar. And I always thought it was really strange that their sound would have evolved so little in six years. :) |
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| Skinny Puppy – Jahya Lyrics | 1 year ago |
| Funny story -- a few weeks ago I accidentally recreated the guitar tone from this song almost exactly in one of mine, and I didn't even notice until I happened to hear them back to back this afternoon :) | |
| CryoShell – Closer to the Truth Lyrics | 1 year ago |
| I wonder if it's a coincidence the song starts with a riff greatly resembling the first level theme from the 2003 Bionicle video game, or if that was a deliberate easter egg :) | |
| Nine Inch Nails – In Two Lyrics | 2 years ago |
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Had a think about this one the other day, and came to the conclusion that, keeping with the album's theme of reflecting on his time as Nine Inch Nails, it's about the differences between Trent himself and the NIN identity he's built, and is, in a sense, showing both why he had wanted to split himself "in two" by killing off the project and why he ultimately decided not to do that. Going by the song's logic, there's this idea that the person's two identities are growing farther apart while simultaneously getting more and more tangled up in each other -- the "person" and the "artist" feel like different people but at the same time it's hard to tell which one's in control at any moment, or if that even means anything. And there's the declaration that "this is going to hurt" -- pain can sometimes be a necessary part of the healing process, but most of the time it's an indication that you're doing something wrong. While he starts the song seemingly convinced that it's a case of the former, by the end he's questioning whether he should be listening to the pain instead of pushing through it. And ultimately, it comes back to the theme that's also touched on in "Came Back Haunted", "Disappointed" and "Everything" -- maybe more times than that, it's just what I remember -- the decision to keep that second, "artist", version of himself alive but allow it to grow with the first one, instead of killing it and replacing it with something else. |
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| Skinny Puppy – Pro Test Lyrics | 4 years ago |
| @[Ocema:37333] Either way, these are the people who are sitting, scratching their itchy butts, and trying to get somebody else to do the actual work. | |
| Skinny Puppy – Pro Test Lyrics | 4 years ago |
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Actually disagree with most of the comments on here, although I do think it still has to do with politics. I think this song is a rant against people who protest for or against issues only to score political "points" and get attention -- and in doing so they give their cause a bad name. In the best case, these people are sitting in the streets, doing nothing, waiting for someone to "hit them", i.e., to be made a public martyr for a cause that doesn't need one. In the worst case they go out and "rip up the garbage", i.e., take a drastic action that actually worsens the problem they say they're trying to prevent. |
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| Front Line Assembly – Civilization Lyrics | 5 years ago |
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Struck me hearing this the other day how much some of the vocal bits remind me of Ryan Shuck from Julien-K. Then got me thinking about how the two bands' styles might compliment each other and how awesome a collaboration between them might be... |
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| Skinny Puppy – Ambiantz Lyrics | 5 years ago |
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I think the transcription of the chorus is wrong, but I can't for the life of me understand what it actually is. Most of the other lyrics seem right. It seems to have something to do with the U.S. going to war in Iraq and how it seems very convenient for them that they decided to invade a country that's rich in oil... but without understanding the chorus, or what the title has to do with it, I'm sure there's something more that I'm missing. |
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| Skinny Puppy – Pasturn Lyrics | 5 years ago |
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Mythmaker is possibly my least-favourite Skinny Puppy album in general, but this song, Haze, and Jaher are still up there with the best of 'em. Something about the mixing on the synths here makes me feel like my ears just migrated to the inside of my head, though... :-/ :P |
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| ohGr – Minus Lyrics | 5 years ago |
| Addition (haw haw) to the comments above I've got this more specific thought of what the final verse is saying: That no matter how hard you might believe in them, fear and hate have, in particular, no power to save you. | |
| Nine Inch Nails – The Idea of You Lyrics | 5 years ago |
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So I've given this thing a little more thought (couldn't help it!) and this is what I came up with: What you've got here are two small parts of a person's mind at war with each other. The overall person is pretty far gone down a path of self-destruction, and the negative, self-destructive part of their mind wants them to shut out everyone else in the world and keep doing that. But the song itself takes place during a rare moment of lucidity, where, in the verses, the small positive part of the person's mind desperately tries to convince them that this is not who they really are... the voice is weak and the things it says are garbled and slightly nonsensical in its desperation to reach the outside world before this moment of lucidity is over. In the choruses the negative, self-destructive part of the person comes in insisting that the positive voice isn't a real part of them and should be ignored... the positive voice is still there, in the background, trying to tell the mind to wake up and realize that this is just what it tells itself as an excuse to stay self-destructive, but it's nearly drowned out. At the end of the song the moment of lucidity is over and the positive voice has lost the battle... but there is a hint that it will try again, and again, and maybe eventually grow strong enough to be heard. |
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| Nine Inch Nails – The Idea of You Lyrics | 5 years ago |
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Sounds almost like one side of a conversation by itself. But the really interesting thing is that the title reverses it, feels like a response from the other side... wherever that person is. Maybe they're the listener. Another possible piece of the puzzle I see just on first glance is shades of the same themes as Trent explored in The Becoming, but, again, this time in reverse. As if the thing that's "made out of wires" is trying to come back to being "the me that you know". Fascinating stuff. |
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| Pantera – Cemetery Gates Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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I have a little bit of an alternate interpretation here than what some others have written. I see some lines in the song seem to hint at something darker than simple grief. I feel that what might have happened in the story is that the female character died after she and the protagonist had some kind of fight or falling-out, and even after she is dead the main character still can't bring himself to forgive her. When she died he couldn't cry because he was still angry at her. He knows that feeling this way is just poisoning him, and that the only way to save his soul from that toxicity is to let the memories of her become happy again, remember the way they were before their falling-out. He was left incomplete, without closure, with only the memories of his anger remaining. While some have pointed out that the line "Pass the cemetary gates" could mean walking by them, it could also refer to passing through them. The word he wants to believe is his own word, telling himself that he will walk through the cemetary gates to her grave and finally give her a proper goodbye. But throughout the song, it's always in the future tense -- he never manages to actually do it. |
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| Nine Inch Nails – Shit Mirror Lyrics | 6 years ago |
| Huh... I thought Trent Reznor already regenerated... | |
| Skinny Puppy – Mirror Saw Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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I think this is about prominent people who deliberately try to shroud their lives in mystery to conceal some form of crime or indiscretion, and when found out they bluster and deny even though the evidence is plain for everyone to see. A mirror reflects reality without bias and without pity. All you have to do to get to the heart of the matter is look at the facts objectively and find out what the mirror saw. See what I did there? :D Could be way off, it's a beautifully surreal song. Most definitely my favourite track from Last Rights. |
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| Skinny Puppy – Killing Game Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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@[ff45t1z:31376] I think you might have something here. But I think you're just scratching the surface of this interpretation. The way it keeps coming back to the "I" even through its kinda random use of pronouns makes it seem that this isn't about society as a whole realizing its part in its own destruction, but rather about one character's realization that there's nobody else left to blame but himself. Going by your interpretation the first half is about the character's suffering looking for someone to blame for their pain -- tellingly the line that section keeps coming back to is "who taught the killing game?" The second half of the song starting from the first "I taught the killing game first" is the character's realization that he is as much to blame for his own suffering as anyone else in the world. And how, going back in his memory, he can even see how his actions led to his current situation. His mind is no longer "closed in sanctuary". What's really interesting is that the first repeat of the line "I taught the killing game first" is delivered in a tone not of regret or resignation but triumph. That along with the line "strange no stronger feeling" makes it seem that maybe, the realization that you are to blame for your own pain doesn't come as a slap across the face... it comes as a relief. Some more interesting stuff: "Till at last you regret" in the part of the song that's about the character looking into the past, but it is in future tense. The character at this point is looking into the past to find where they went wrong, and assumes that when they find it they will feel regret. "Tortured animals wake up time" the character who felt tortured and helpless wakes up to the realization that they had the power to make at least some small change all along. "Places his weaponry and it's a trap/let go the springs snap shut/gazes show sharper teeth giving into the jaws of death" the character looking back on his past can see how his own actions (the weapon is himself) in part created whatever events led to the trap snapping shut on him and his current pain. |
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