| Spirit of the West – D For Democracy (Scour the House) Lyrics | 6 months ago |
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Democracy gets a D, when it divides up people so much that there can no longer be any community. Paradoxically, the pursuit of a "house united" leads to endless conflict, and further division. Instead, "scour the house". Make a little house in your community. So people need a reality check - form cohesive communities that can learn to live and let live. Don't overly rely on politicians. The "old gray mayor" who is what everyone says he is, turns out... "all politicians are crooks" is not a dismissal of politics, which young people who abstain from voting regard it as. It's a warning. Vote, but be weary of who you vote for. Be wary of politicians, they're all crooks, but how will that serve your community? You must be most critical of those you vote for among those who voted the same. "Shake the tree" |
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| Monster Magnet – Stay Tuned Lyrics | 6 months ago |
| Wyndorf always has a lot of advice in his songs about how to live life. | |
| Monster Magnet – Silver Future Lyrics | 6 months ago |
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@[j113949856:53930] ""We finding out what drives your machine" He wants to understand her, so that he can decide whether or not to give her the steady relationship that she really wants. " But does she really want the steady relationship? Or does she want money? Does she understand what really drives her machine? They're both finding out. That's a part of it too. That's why the song sounds so seedy. It's intimate, but there's a sense of anxiety over the unknown. |
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| Monster Magnet – Silver Future Lyrics | 6 months ago |
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@[j113949856:53929] And the reason it sounds like a creepy song, is because it's basically poking fun at feminism. How feminism thinks this sort of thing is creepy, especially if it's a guy lecturing a woman about it. Typically they would critique such a guy as creepy. Always fun to imagine Wyndorf leaning into the microphone and whispering with a lecherous look in his eyes, "Hey little cookie take a walk my way" :D |
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| Monster Magnet – Silver Future Lyrics | 6 months ago |
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"Hey little cookie take a walk my way I like to hear what you have to say You know the truth and your so put together Baby I could stick you on the lip of forever Even a volcano has a price to pay" He's picking her up and asking her on a date. "hey little cookie, take a walk my way". "I like to hear what you have to say." He wants to listen to her, not just love her for her body. "You know the truth and your so put together Baby I could stick you on the lip of forever" She's smart, she understands how to control men. She's done all that she can to make herself as attractive as conceivable. She knows how to act mysterious. He could "stick her on the lip of forever", perhaps because of her ambition for something vague and "out there". Femme fatales want to preserve their mystique. In keeping with the astronomical theme that Wyndorf alludes to (to get a clue, he has another song called "space lord"), mystery has a connection to the cosmos. The cosmos is infinite. Someone who investigates a mystery, at first, feels as if they need infinite information to solve it, and this continues right up until they get the answer. "Even a volcano has a price to pay" She's smoking hot, like a volcano. But even a volcano has a price to pay to the universe. It doesn't matter how hot or ambitious or strong a woman is. They cannot conquer the universe. Instead, they live in it like the rest of us, and they pay for the consequences that they create. "What kinda creature do we have here It feels like love but it smells like fear" It's the feeling that an attractive woman might feel if their plan is just to have sex with a man, and then leave soon after. The woman who wants to dig for the man's riches, feels fear. He will be angry when she leaves. She wants him to fall in love, and then leave him. The man also feels fear. Will she love me? If she's really attractive, that fear can be greater, because she seems like a bigger catch, one that other men will compete for as well. "Look in the mirror baby what do you dream Look at it harder now and you start to scream" She looks in the mirror, and she dreams of success. Of fulfillment of some vague ambition for some large amount of money. But she looks at it harder, and then she can't see what comes after. What will she do with all that money? Will other men trust her after what she did? Will she ever be able to settle down because of this? Her future looks like an abyss if she ends up old and alone. For all her smarts, for all her time spent heading down this path, will it be worth it? "We finding out what drives your machine" He wants to understand her, so that he can decide whether or not to give her the steady relationship that she really wants. "You stand on the edge of a silver future" A silver future is one in which she may still have some money and some fulfillment, but not the Hollywood golden future of maximum fulfillment and maximum riches. It's also silver in the sense that when she gets old, she'll lose much of her sex appeal. She's standing on the edge, so she has to make her decision now, or while she's still young of body. Her future also tempts her mind, because she still seems to have a lot of time, because she's young. And yet, that's the trick of the devil - she really doesn't have a lot of time. It's deceptive. The silver future could be the glimmer of a knife's edge. "Hey no we don't let go we all need a daddy" And yet, she's young, and this makes the decision more difficult, because it's still early for her. The man who wants to love her for who she is, and not only for her body, is the one who can help her make this decision. This doesn't mean letting go of her independence, however. Someone who loves her will still respect her freedom. --- So it's basically a song that wants a compromise between the messaging of feminism and that of the anti-feminists. Women don't need to be stuck in the home, but the pretty 8/10 and above, also shouldn't go thinking they can live how they want. |
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| Melvins – A History of Bad Men Lyrics | 3 years ago |
| @[j113949856:41517] That\'s because I wrote with spaces and new lines, but the website formatting got rid of that - apparently replacing it with literal \'/n\' and \'/r\'. I guess there\'s something wrong with it, oh well. Must be a dying site? | |
| Melvins – A History of Bad Men Lyrics | 3 years ago |
| @[j113949856:41516] That\'s because I wrote with spaces and new lines, but the website formatting got rid of that - apparently replacing it with literal \'/n\' and \'/r\'. I guess there\'s something wrong with it, oh well. Must be a dying site? | |
| Melvins – A History of Bad Men Lyrics | 3 years ago |
| Careful, this is a psychadelic song, so each lyric is very much loaded with contemplations about the universe itself. \r\n\r\n-------\r\nWake up, you never looked so glum\r\nTell me how do you know they can\'t hear us coming\r\nIt\'s easy for me, I got a head start running away\r\nKeep up for your disease spread quick so\r\nHow did you learn to be sick so\r\nCunning\r\nIt\'s easy to sing, but you just keep on humming along\r\nDid you hear that?\r\nI got a real bad feeling\r\nHow many more do you suppose they\'re keeping?\r\nDon\'t make a sound they\'re not dead, just sleeping.\r\n------\r\n\r\nWake up, it\'s a new day, a new dollar. The same old same old. And it\'s depressing.\r\n\r\nHow do you know that others don\'t know how you\'re feeling? Why should they care?\r\n\r\nIt\'s easy for me to flee social obligations, because I saw it early. But I\'m still a failure.\r\n\r\nMisery loves company, your disease spreads quick.\r\n\r\nHow did you learn to be sick, so cunning? Or rather, how did you learn to be so cunning... was it because you\'re just sick in the head?\r\n\r\nIt\'s easy to succeed and do more if you only just realize it, but instead you just keep fulfilling the minimal responsibilities that come with life, or your job, or whatever it happens to be.\r\n\r\nDid you hear that? Do you see into your future? Do you have a bad feeling?\r\n\r\nHow many more misfortunes do you suppose the mischievous elements of fate are keeping? \r\n\r\nDon\'t jinx yourself. The people who noticed you before and tried to encourage you aren\'t dead. They\'re just \'sleeping\'. If you prove yourself, they will wake up again, and engage you again. But you have to be careful, because they want something from you, and you have to have a clear enough head to recognize whether or not you should give it to them.\r\n\r\n-----\r\nDire dire dire. . .It\'s fleeting\r\nDire dire dire. . .It\'s fleeting\r\nDire dire dire. . .It\'s fleeting\r\nDire dire dire. . .It\'s fleeting\r\nDire dire dire. . .It\'s fleeting\r\nDire dire dire. . .It\'s fleeting\r\nDire dire dire. . .It\'s fleeting\r\n-----\r\n\r\nCareful with your emotions, or you may turn evil. It\'s fleeting. So is reality itself.\r\n\r\n-----\r\n\r\n | |
| The Offspring – Cool To Hate Lyrics | 4 years ago |
| @[j113949856:39585] It's not obvious by the lyrics alone that Dexter felt this way, and he may very well not have. In fact, he was probably afraid of criticism from the rest of the music industry at the time, hence why he didn't blatantly point it out. It's probable that a lot of musicians felt this way - they wanted to be more positive and inspiring. | |
| The Offspring – Cool To Hate Lyrics | 4 years ago |
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I think this has to do with Dexter's feelings about other music of the 90s. A lot of what was what I'd personally term 'misery porn'. "It's cool to hate" That was the 90s trend of a lot of music. It was popular. These were songs that were about being miserable, and feeling sorry for oneself. The nu-metal and emo genres essentially emerged around that. Instead of singing about actual philosophy or contemplation helping the youth to understand their place in the world, and not be so miserable. The only band that broached philosophy was Tool - but other misery bands of the grunge, emo, and nu-metal genres of the 90s, would just say that things were miserable and that they felt terrible, that all they had was drugs (Alice in Chains), that life sucked, because they were losers. Whining, essentially. Still, miserable teens and young adults would listen to it, because it 'represented them', or it was all they had. "I even hate me too" Misery is self pity, self hatred. Note that "it's cool to hate" is the most repeated lyrics of this song. There was too much misery porn. The music sounded good, but it didn't help anyone. |
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