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| Budgie – (Don’t Want to) Find That Girl Lyrics
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This song is a bit of social commentary on the growing materialism, image-culture of the time, and the emptiness behind chasing status. It’s not essentially about relationships, as it seems to be, but about identity, self-worth, and the dangers of losing yourself in chasing after someone else’s glamorous world. Budgie is asking if you really wanna be chasing the same fame as celebrities or influencers; A growing trend around 2006 when this album was released. |
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| Machine Head – Scorn Lyrics
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An ostensibly dark, crestfallen track, it's a haunting ballad that delves into themes of manipulation and societal decay, featuring piano-driven melodies that contrast its dark lyrical content. Musically, it speaks of reflection, but the lyrics are saying everything’s broken. Life is dead, and everything's ruined. The inspiration for the track comes from Robb Flynn’s disillusionment with politics and public figures. Flynn said how "It was the last song I wrote on the record. And I know a lot of people think I'm super Mr. Libtard, social justice warrior guy, and that's just not me, but that's kind of just what people think, and the haters think. And I just started writing about — not that — but I just started writing about, I don't believe in Trump, but I think the fucking Democrats are a bunch of spineless fucking pussies. And I don't believe in anything anymore. I believe in myself. And I just wrote all of these lyrics kind of in that mindset. And the last line is, 'The wings of an angel, the heart of a king, the strength of a lion, the power I bring. I've lost faith in everyone, follow no more, my heroes have failed me, they look down on me with their scorn.'" He also said how he'd been trying to write a piano ballad for 15 years, but it always just sounded too dorky. "‘Scorn‘ is… It’s, like, I’ve been trying to write a piano ballad for four albums in a row now, and I failed four albums in a row. And I finally nailed it with this album.” |
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| Machine Head – Shards of Shattered Dreams Lyrics
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The song is basically about the emotional aftermath of losing everything you once believed in, whether it’s love, purpose, religious beliefs, or self-identity. It’s about owning your failures, accepting the scars they’ve left, and trying to rebuild meaning from the ruins. The title, "Shards of Shattered Dreams,” is a metaphor for standing among the pieces of one’s own past, the shards representing all the ambitions, beliefs, relationships, or ideals that have been destroyed by time. It's about the death of hope, looking back at the beliefs you once held and seeing the dreams that died. |
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| Machine Head – Bleeding Me Dry Lyrics
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This track is about the ultimate end of a troubled relationship that started good but ended up in a feud, with a significant other being the one who is causing the relationship to turn sour. They're controlling, always insisting they're right, but only let you win at the end of a fight. In the beginning, their 'love' made you blind to the signs, putting you into a fantasy dream of picket fences and two kids. After years of using alcohol and painkillers to numb the pain of the love-strained relationship, you have to cut the tie and let it die. And in the end, you feel satisfaction, and tell them how soul-sucking being together with them was. It's basically about leaving a bad relationship, escaping someone whose controlling, and never looking back at them. |
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| Machine Head – Addicted to Pain Lyrics
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This song is about the fame-chasing, dopamine-looping, clout-sucking treadmill of modern life, and how it turns people into hollowed-out achievement junkies. They've become addicted to the cycle because they believe it will give them what they want, unaware that the efforts are killing them emotionally and mentally. In the middle of the song, it focuses on the ones who see the cycle they wrapped themselves in, who hate it and think they'll break out, but the cycle encapsulates them again and again in a never-ending cycle. Overall, the song explores that, like actual addictions, how the pursuit of external validation only offers temporary highs. The applause and recognition fulfill the ego, but leaves a deeper emptiness behind each time. |
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| Machine Head – These Scars Won't Define Us Lyrics
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This track is about being resilient in suffering. Wounds remain, but they don’t dictate identity or future. You have one life, and you shouldn't let your pain control who you are. There are also others out there who are the same as you, and together you can find comfort and strength in unity. Don't let the scars left by the wicked weigh you down, or else they'll still win in the end; Even in their absence, they can still win if you let them live rent-free in your mind and soul.
This song also features guest vocals on the tour edition of this song, from "In Flames," "Lacuna Coil," and "Unearth," which came about from Machine Head's North American 2025 tour with all the bands as support acts. It's what Robb Flynn described as a "Wu Tang Clan-level thrash collaboration." |
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| Machine Head – Unbound Lyrics
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Essentially, this track is about remaining unbound, unconstricted by society, and breaking free from the restraints. It vocalizes all the anger you release in the reclaiming of your life, no longer confined by others’ expectations. Never forgive those who tried to break you down, and never forget the life they try and impose on you. When you break their chains, you'll become unstoppable. |
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| Machine Head – Dustmaker Lyrics
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This song is meant to be a kind of metal musical intermission. The dialogue here is actually sampled from a song called Fragile Moments by the artist BOP (iambop) from a compilation called Feel Trip, Vol. 4: Reincarnation, put together by the music label Night Owl Collective. |
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| Machine Head – Not Long for This World Lyrics
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This song is a brief reflection on mortality and how life is fleeting. It encompasses everyone's fears and anxiety about death. But it also tries to remain positive, telling us how we should keep going despite these fears that our existence on this world is fleeting. |
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| Machine Head – Outsider Lyrics
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According to Robb Flynn, this track is "an anthem that has kinship with anyone who's had to cut toxic people loose. These last few years, I've had to let go of a lot of relationships, and I know I'm not alone in that. This track is for anyone who's been there." It talks about cutting ties with the toxic ones in your life, becoming the outsider as you witness their deserved downfall. |
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| Machine Head – Atomic Revelations Lyrics
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This song is sort of a wake-up call to humanity's self-destructive tendencies; The destruction we cause to everything around us, our systems failing, and the future being shaped by catastrophe. It wants us to have this revelation of humanity's looming atomic destruction. |
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| Machine Head – Bonescraper Lyrics
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According to Robb Flynn, this song is "for those of us with darkness in our heart, a song about love lost, and a song for those who fail at love... but keep on trying… hence, we scrape our bones to numb the pain." The act of scraping the bones means that pain from love lost runs deep, down to the bone, and you have to scrape away the pain. He also added that the lyrics emerged partly from witnessing divorces among close friends during the pandemic and seeing how relationships break down emotionally. |
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| Machine Head – Exteroception Lyrics
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Exteroception is a psychological term, referring to the perception of stimuli originating outside the body. It's the opposite of interoception, perceiving internal states like heartbeat or pain. Exteroception is awareness of the external world, in that sight, sound, and touch are distinct from the self.
In the context of the story, while this track is an instrumental, the title's meaning alone adds a hidden meaning. It's a metaphor of them waking up from the ideological fog and stepping outside their internal rage to finally see the world as it is. Both lost the ability to see past their hate and were blinded by vengeance. After the dust of the war settles, they can now see their sins and have awoken to the truth. This track serves as the epilogue to the story, the post-credits scene of the two standing in the bloody chaos they created and realizing that they themselves were the ones to blame all along. |
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| Machine Head – Arrows in Words from the Sky Lyrics
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The climactic track, which follows Ares and Eros' emotional conflict in "Terminus." At this point, Ares and Eros have committed acts of violence in the name of lost loved ones, and are confronting the consequences of those acts. The mental anguish that clouded them begins to lift and brings a dawn to their darkest night. Both see the damage caused.
The arrows being drawn are messages of moral judgment, truths descending from above from archers; Something external, yet undeniable. The “Archers” are symbolic agents of change, judgment, or truth, and represent one’s own conscience. Both Eros and Ares' conscience are aiming their messages, the irrefutable realities or facts, that will wound them. But even when the truth hurts, they are encouraged to stand back up instead of running, so they can face the reality and push past shame, humiliation, and grief, in order to face the world again. Each of them recognizes that their potential, the spirit inside, the fire, is meant to be more than pain. That fire from losing their loved ones that drove this senseless war still burns in them, and only now do they realize that it should be a symbol for renewal and defiance; It's not for destruction, but illumination. Illuminating a rebirth of character.
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| Machine Head – Terminus Lyrics
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This interlude is a moment of internal regret where Ares and Eros both realize the crimes they've committed. Both think and speak as one, while Amythest, and Eros' mother, speak to them and comfort them. They ask why they did it, and both tell the two leads that they acted out of believing what they were doing was right. They also tell them that the cities of sin are of their own creation, and if they wish to forgive themselves and repent, the truth will set them free. By the end, they both accept the reality of their sins and wish for their souls to be freed from the rot they've polluted their souls with.
The name "Terminus" refers to a final point or an end of some kind, which fits this interlude piece as both characters want to bring this war to its end. |
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| Machine Head – Rotten Lyrics
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At the end of the collapse stage of the third act, this song brings their hatred to the highest point, and how it has rotted everything away; They're rotten to the core by pure hate. Their teeth are gritting with rage, their stomach tied in knots, and they both feel that they're about to explode from the anger building inside. At this point, they've already jumped from the ledge and cannot undo their mistakes and actions. Yet, despite the hatred and aggression blinding them, part of them slowly realizes the mountain of regret they've accumulated. However, this feeling of regret gets ignored as they plead for their followers to follow them one last time to end this bloodbath of destruction. Slowly though, it fades out into the next track, "Terminus." |
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| Machine Head – Bloodshot Lyrics
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This one is the moment of raw anger and confrontation, which is helped by the heavy vocals and relentless aggression from Robb Flynn. It's the deadly confrontation of Eros' death cult and Ares' justice seekers. The name "Bloodshot" refers to their burning red eyes, full of tears of vengeance and forever blinded by revenge, blinded from guilt. The lyrics of their "Arteries bursting with hatred and capillaries sickened by blood" describe it best. This song is also the middle point of the collapse, between "No Gods, No Masters" and "Rotten." |
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| Machine Head – Nø Gøds, Nø Masters Lyrics
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This song is the confrontation of the two characters, Eros and Ares, coming into conflict. They both acknowledge that they're both past the point of no return. Both have abandoned their gods, claiming that they have no masters anymore. There is a reference to Sodom and Gomorrah used, as someone else pointed out. While the sins of both cities were homosexuality, in this story, it paints Sodom as a sanctuary and Gomorrah as a place of hedonism.
In terms of the story this album tells, a comparison can be made between the two cities and the main characters: Eros being on the side of Gamorrah and Ares on that of Sodom. Eros, however, tainted Sodom through his actions, leading to them falling to a different sin, that being one of vengeance. Ares formed a group of revenge-seeking, justice-serving people, ruining his city's name. |
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| Machine Head – Kill Thy Enemies Lyrics
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This track directly follows the previous one, "Assinilate," and this is the beginning of his path to darkness. He's adopted their radical ideologies, joined the death cult, full of the tired and blind. Fear made them slaves to violence, making them ignorant of their white privilege, and believing wholeheartedly that a different kind has polluted the nation. They're being fed a bible of lies, led to support the Jim Crow laws. The Jim Crow laws, which existed from the late 19th to the mid-20th centuries, enforced racial segregation and denied African Americans basic rights; They mandated segregation, limited voting rights, enforced discrimination, and criminalized interracial relationships. These are all the laws the death cult that Eros has been assimilated into believes in. That last law, for interracial relationships, is the main cause of why Eros kills Amythest, but not Ares.
It's not described how she died, whether or not Ares saw her killed or came across the aftermath, but it makes sense in the story as to how he knows Eros is the murderer, and not someone else. I may be wrong in assuming he's white and not another race, and if so, I apologise. |
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| Machine Head – Assimilate Lyrics
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While this song is a simple interlude that’s basically the intro to the next track, “Kill Thy Enemies,” it offers a glimpse into the Eros being radicalized by a charismatic leader whose words strung chords deep in him. He's voicing all the things that he thinks deep inside, thoughts he shunned previously, but now surface since he's lost himself to loss and anger. He begins aligning with the sect or ideology, adopting violence, and assimilating into the system of vengeance, becoming more than just a victim. |
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| Machine Head – Unhallowed Lyrics
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After the previous track, this is where Eros sinks deeper into depression and the collapse of his morals. This is where he enters the “depths of depression” stage. He describes himself as an "empty soul" and a "ghost of monumental failure," indicating his deep sense of defeat and insignificance. Eros is just a shell of a man, but by the end, he seems to feel a sense of strength. Something inside him fills him with a desire to stay strong. A feeling of revenge-seeking that makes him want to defeat the malevolence that surrounds him. To find the thing that stole his family, and give justice. By the end, he becomes unhallowed, which is something that's been desecrated, having lost its purity and sacredness; He's becoming an unholy or wicked person. |
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| Machine Head – My Hands Are Empty Lyrics
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This track is where Eros’ grief becomes palpable. He's left without someone important to him, his mother who died from a drug overdose, and feels hollow, betrayed, and lost. He feels nothing but misery, withering in heartache's embrace, and slowly succumbs to the darkness. It leads him to look for someone to blame; Someone to hate and never forgive, even though her death was his own fault, as he had slowly been watching her drown in pills and medication addictions. He could have stopped it, and maybe he tried, but he doesn't want to accept that he's likely the cause of it. His hands are empty, with no one else to hold dearly, and darkness consumes him. |
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| Machine Head – Overdose Lyrics
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Going back to before he kills Amythest, this is where we meet Eros, at the worst moment of his life. This is where he loses his mother to a drug overdose. |
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| Machine Head – Become the Firestorm Lyrics
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Following the previous songs on this album, this song symbolizes Ares' descent into vengeance, burning away everything that meant to him to give justice to his love Amythests' death. He seeks to become the firestorm, asking us, and others in the story, to watch his story as he burns. This is where Ares' vengeance becomes a raging force. Seeking retribution, his story gathers momentum, and soon it forms a group to bring justice to society for this act of hate. Hate, he will justify, and killers and sinners are his flock. |
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| Machine Head – Choke on the Ashes of Your Hate Lyrics
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This track reflects on the aftermath of Ares’ loss, his fury and hatred in pure form, and how revenge has become his main goal. Musically, it’s a fast thrasher, meant to be aggressive and visceral, getting you into his headspace. Aware that his love was killed in a hate crime, he sets his sights on Eros, wanting to choke the life out of him and make Eros suffocate on the hate that filled him. |
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| Machine Head – Slaughter the Martyr Lyrics
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This is the origin story for Ares, where this story begins, the death of the love of his life, Amethyst. She was slaughtered at the hands of Eros and became the martyr for the birth of his rage and vengeance. It’s a large 10-minute epic opening to set up the emotional stakes of this concept album. |
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| Machine Head – Eulogy Lyrics
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In a lot of ways, this song is quite similar to the title song of their third album, 'The Burning Red,' which also encompassed all of Robb's emotions of the late 90s and what was going on in the world and the music scene, especially his band. This final track represents a lot of the topics of the songs on this album. All the fears, anxiety, hate, and depression surrounding not just Robb Flynn, but the culture polluting America. I believe this song is an Eulogy for the pain, heartache, and despair, and that it is time for the healing to begin. |
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| Machine Head – Triple Beam Lyrics
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Put plain and simply, this one's about the consequences of a dangerous life involved in drug dealing. The "Triple Beam" is a metaphorical representation of the delicate balance between survival and destruction. The song repeatedly states that the story here has no morals; It's more of a view into the deadly life of drug dealing than a warning to avoid this lifestyle. |
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| Machine Head – Grind You Down Lyrics
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This is a more confrontational song about refusing to back down, urging others to stand their ground, and not let the bastards "grind you down." It's a call to be assertive and resist the oppressors who try to control or harm you. Simply put, this is a rallying cry to have the strength and defiant attitude to withstand life's challenges. |
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| Machine Head – Razorblade Smile Lyrics
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According to Robb Flynn, this one is a tribute to Lemmy Kilmister of Motorhead. He said to Loudersound, “This one turned into a tribute to Lemmy. I just started writing lyrics and all this crazy, debauched shit just came out. It’s totally Motörhead.” It talks about his rebellious nature and finding pleasure in activities typically frowned upon by society. |
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| Machine Head – Psychotic Lyrics
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This one's pretty simple; it's about mental illness and the feeling of you losing your sanity at any moment. It paints a pretty blunt picture of mental distress, self-destructive tendencies, and the desperate plea for relief from your emotional turmoil. The feeling of being stuck in a straitjacket, it mentions, is a metaphor of the confinement and lack of freedom to escape from your own thoughts. |
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| Machine Head – Behind a Mask Lyrics
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Similar to the song "Damage Inside" from their previous album, this one explores the theme of hidden pain and the masks that we wear to conceal our emotions and struggles. It gives a few examples of those who wear masks. A grieving widow who uses alcohol as a temporary escape from her pain, hoping to fill the void within, and dabbing perfume on her neck and smiling to hide her true emotions. There's also an old man who resorts to alcohol as a means to forget his past mistakes, but instead, it erases his connections to his loved ones. He wants to protect them and maintains a false image, telling lies and spinning tales, but the lies are only causing further harm. It implies that the demons of our past may resurface at times, but that it's essential we confront them instead of hiding them away. |
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| Machine Head – Screaming at the Sun Lyrics
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This song sorta channels the collective frustration and moral exhaustion of living in a broken world. The “sun” symbolizes higher powers, God, enlightenment, or the universe itself, and the meaning of the title 'screaming at the sun' is that we, as the protagonist in the track, are standing under the sun, screaming, unable to accept what humanity has quietly become. It also uses chess metaphors to make the comparison that we are all pawns in someone else's game. |
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| Machine Head – Hope Begets Hope Lyrics
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This track is about getting pushed to the edge by fear, betrayal, and your own mental issues, yet choosing to stand anyway. It insists that hope isn't just possible, even when under the weight of the world, but it’s contagious and can be spread. Hope can generate more hope, because one act of hope can inspire and encourage further hope to be generated in people. |
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| Machine Head – Heavy Lies the Crown Lyrics
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This long, 8+ minute epic is about King Louis the Eleventh. As stated by Robb Flynn, “It’s an epic and it’s about Louis XI, the Spider King of France. I’m a history buff, and it’s just a great fuckin’ story. He’d weave these elaborate webs of deceit!” |
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| Machine Head – Kaleidoscope Lyrics
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This song is about the power of music. Robb Flynn told TeamRock, “It’s about the power of music. I’m not a religious guy, but music is as close as I get. The line, ‘Songs fill what religion won’t’ says it all.” The mention of a "kaleidoscope" is a metaphor for the colorful and varied nature of music and how it can provide varied perspectives on topics and raw emotions. |
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| Machine Head – Bastards Lyrics
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Robb Flynn reportedly wrote the track in 40 minutes the day after the US presidential election. Speaking to the That's Not Metal podcast, he said that it was based on a very difficult conversation that he had with my kids. "I was really affected by it. And I just sat down the next day and started writing. And, basically, the first half of it, at least, is based on that conversation. And then it just went on. And then I went into my own thing, and it literally just vomited out of my brain in order and in sequence, and when it was done, I was, like, 'Woah! Holy s--t! I'm saying some shit here."
The song itself is an anthem of resilience and optimism in the face of adversity, encouraging us to stand strong against those who seek to demonize and oppress races, despite their attempts to grind us down. In the face of hatred, racism, and bigotry, it calls for activism, inclusivity, and encourages us to stand together in solidarity with middle fingers raised, despite their attempts to divide us, and understand that everyone deserves to be free and safe. It tells us that we are responsible for educating our youth and that we have to fight for a world that will be better for our children and future generations. |
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| Machine Head – Is There Anybody Out There? Lyrics
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This song was originally written in 2015, but Robb Flynn was disappointed with it and shelved it. It wasn't until the Dimebash controversy of 2016, which happened shortly before the song's release, that the song was rewritten and released. Regarding the lyrics, Robb said that the song "is about love, loneliness, racism, and not getting what is going on in the world/America. It's very much about current events, but applies to a bigger picture." The name of the track and the lyric, Is Anybody Out There, is a call for anybody out there who feels scared about the change happening in the world.
The controversy brought topics of racism and discrimination to the forefront of discussions within the metal community. Robb decided to incorporate his feelings about this incident into the song to reflect a broader cultural shift towards accountability and the rejection of hate in music and society. "I wasn't feeling it, and so I wrote a whole new second verse about how f--king appalled I was that he [Philip Anselmo] did that," Robb Flynn stated when talking about the rewrites. It helps that it came out during a time of heightened awareness around social issues, such as racism and discrimination. Flynn added, "I haven't felt connected to the metal community for some time now. I don't get where things are going. And part of this song is about that: that I don't get where it's going. And him doing that shit again - and this is again; this has been happening for twenty fucking years now, but I never had to stand on stage with the dude. But, you know, I sang some pretty pissed-off lyrics for that second verse.
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| Machine Head – Now We Die Lyrics
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I believe that this song is about embracing change, overcoming adversity, and finding strength in companionship. It tells of shedding the skin on your body, letting go of the limitations placed on you by you and society. Transform and harden yourself to become courageous and relentless like black steel and iron, before becoming like bloodstone and diamonds. One is a symbol of justice, and the other is the hardest mineral on earth. The repeating of the phrase, and song title, Now We Die, is a declaration of embracing change, leaving behind the old and starting anew, facing the unknown, and being willing to let go of the past.
The name of this album, Bloodstone & Diamonds, comes from this song. Rob Flynn explained the meaning behind its title, stating that "in many cultures, the bloodstone has been used as an amulet to protect against evil, and is the symbol of justice. Diamonds are the hardest natural material on earth (which is how we feel about our music), and it also represents the diamond logo I drew 22 years ago (in my wife's apartment on Dover St. in Oakland) that has become the symbol for the band." |
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| Machine Head – Take Me Through the Fire Lyrics
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This final track is meant as a positive, triumphant song about taking on the world and believing in yourself. It emphasizes the importance of facing hardships head-on, maintaining inner strength amidst the chaos and deceit surrounding you, and inevitably emerging victorious. |
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| Machine Head – Imaginal Cells Lyrics
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Similar to the instrumental track "Real Eyes, Realize, Real Lies" from their first album, this song is an instrumental with spoken dialogue samples layered over it, sampled this time from an audiobook called Spontaneous Evolution by Dr. Bruce Lipton. He poses the idea that out of destruction (like societal decay, injustice, or even personal suffering), a new, stronger form can be born. A rebirth through fire, so to speak.
When Robb Flynn reached out to Lipton to ask if they could sample his audiobook, he replied that he was already aware of his band and their popularity. Robb told him that he would pay him for the samples, but he said, “Take whatever you want. I’m an old rebel-from-the street-hippie from the ’60s. I think your fan base is open to hearing this shit more than most people. They’re already on the fringes of the culture; they already don’t believe anything that is told to them. I think that they’d soak it in. Take it away.” |
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| Machine Head – Game Over Lyrics
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According to Robb Flynn, this song is about how hard it can be for us to end the relationships that are a strain on our lives. More importantly, this song was inspired by the high tension in the band that had been building up for a while before the album came out, and how they were on the verge of breaking up, all because of their bassist, Adam Duce, who had been getting into arguments with drummer Dave McClain. Reportedly, Dave said that he wasn’t playing with their bassist ever again, or else he would quit the band. When he, Robb, and Phil jokingly quit the band for a day, they decided it was better to fire Adam Duce. Essentially, for this relationship, it was game over. |
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| Machine Head – Sail Into the Black Lyrics
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I believe that this song is a metaphorical journey into the depths of one's inner self, willingly confronting the darkness within and facing the fear head-on. You sail into the blackness of your soul and face the terrifying memories of regrets, heartaches, and mistakes. You must also face the consequences of the choices you made and the damage you've caused by lies and betrayal. The fading black candle it mentions symbolizes the fading of hope and the irreversible nature of certain actions. You fear that the damage you've caused is too great to undo; Whether or not you can accept it and move on is up to you. It's the search and struggle for redemption. |
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| Machine Head – Damage Inside Lyrics
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Music played and written by drummer Dave McClain, the lyrics to this song were inspired by Robb Flynn's time in Gothenburg while touring. But the inspiration is different from its meaning, as it's a rather sorrowful song about depression and reluctantly not wanting to let others see the turmoil within; Feeling disconnected and distant from all around you. |
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| Machine Head – In Comes the Flood Lyrics
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This song is about how people nowadays worship money, praising it, and fighting over it. Similar to the golden idol that people created in Moses' absence, which fits the title of In Comes the Flood. The flood will come to wash away our sins, like in the bible, and rid us of our new money-theistic religion; It's trying to wake us up from our greedy ways like the flood did the sins of the earth. Lest we succumb to the angel of debt. |
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| Machine Head – Beneath the Silt Lyrics
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This song is about feeling the heavy pressure of life weighing down on you, pushing you down further than even silt; Silt being the dust or soil that lies on the surface of the ocean floor. When you're buried beneath the silt, so to speak, you are in a place of darkness and despair that's suffocating. You want to breathe, but you're drowning in pressure and sorrow. |
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| Machine Head – Eyes of the Dead Lyrics
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According to Robb Flynn in the audio commentary for this track, this song is about their fans, the headcases, as they're called. It is partially inspired by the name given to a group of crows. There are names given to groups of animals; a group of ravens is called a judge of raves, and for crows, they're called a murder of crows. With that in mind, this track is about what a group of Machine Head fans is called, Headcases. |
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| Machine Head – Ghosts Will Haunt My Bones Lyrics
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This song is a dive into internal conflicts and one's darker thoughts. The ghosts represent the relentless presence of haunting thoughts and inner demons that they can't shake off. They're a lingering presence of past traumas or unresolved issues that continue to affect the narrator's mental state. It also showcases the ongoing battle to overcome the war inside the mind and heal. |
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