| Die Antwoord – Beat Boy Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| Literally none of you are right. The song is an almost page-by-page description of the comic "Angel Claw" by Moebius. | |
| Die Antwoord – Ugly Boy Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| Ugly Americans (also known as Ugly Boys) are a gang from Cape Town. It is Yolandi singing about her imaginary gangster boyfriend ("Anies" from Cookie Thumper). | |
| Die Antwoord – Ugly Boy Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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@[sighfulust:5247] Ugly Americans (also known as Ugly Boys) are a gang from Cape Town. It is Yolandi singing about her imaginary gangster boyfriend ("Anies" from Cookie Thumper). Also, the "racial and homophobic slurs"... where? If you're referring to the song "DJ Hi-Tek Rulez", a) the lyrics are taken directly from a Mike Tyson rant, and b) the real DJ Hi-Tek (Justin De Nobrega) is gay, so the whole song is tongue-in-cheek. |
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| Nile – Unas Slayer Of The Gods Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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@Dreihaddar Actually, the two main melodies of this song DO rip off Candlemass. Go listen to "Gothic Stone/The Well Of Souls" from the album Nightfall. Same exact melodies. Karl Sanders has admitted the homage himself. |
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| Genesis – Watcher Of The Skies Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Close, but no, it's more likely to be about Clarke's "Childhood's End", which is about mankind evolving to leave Earth and their bodies behind and to join a cosmic consciousness called the Overmind. "From life alone to life as one, Think not your journey's done" |
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| David Bowie – Oh! You Pretty Things Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Kyop is right, it's based on "Childhood's End". | |
| Opeth – Hex Omega Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Last two lines are actually: We saw a mother cry And left a space here Which kinda supports what wishafur said, which is interesting because I feel there's a concept to the album about a family breaking up due to the infidelity of one of the parents, ending with the mother dying either from sickness or suicide. |
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| Opeth – Hessian Peel Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Some corrections: Her longing for me coming down like hail Why did you leave me Come here inside and tell me how How in my final days I'd find the rhyme And: You felt abandoned in a flock of friends Singing praise for the dead Awaited the face of the moon to ascend And followed the sound in your head The rest I'm not sure of, but the above was confirmed via the code in the lyrics booklet. |
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| Opeth – Porcelain Heart Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Eternal skis? Hahahaha. No, the real lyrics are: I lost all I had (that April day) I turned to my friends (nothing to say) I wrote down a name (and read it twice) I wallowed in shame I said that I loved (eternal schemes) I cling to my past (like childish dreams) I promised to stay (and held my breath) I went far away Icy roads beneath my feet Lead me through wastelands of deceit Rest your head now, don't you cry Don't ever ask the reason why Kept inside our idle race Ghost of an idol's false embrace Rest your head now, don't you cry Don't ever ask the reason why |
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| Opeth – Burden Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Correct lyrics: I once upon a time Carried a burden inside I sung a last goodbye A broken rhyme I had underlined There's an ocean of sorrow in you A sorrow in me I saw a movement in their eyes That said I no longer knew the way I had given up the ghost A passive mind submit to fear And the wait for redemption at hand Waiting to fail Failing again If death should take me now Count my mistakes and let me through Whisper in my ear You have taken more than we've recieved And the ocean of sorrow is you |
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| Opeth – The Lotus Eater Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Not about politics. Actually appears to be about a marriage breakup. Which is supported by one of the images in the booklet... | |
| Opeth – Heir Apparent Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Brutal. Absolutely brutal. | |
| Opeth – Coil Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Lyrics are mostly right, but in the chorus, it's "riding", not "running". The code in the booklet, when translated, confirms this. | |
| Dio – Holy Diver Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| It's probably about drugs, but who cares, it's just a great rock song. Also, Killswitch Engage are just metalcore bullshit and their cover is lame. | |
| The Sword – To Take the Black Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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This song refers to the Night's Watch, a group from George R. R. Martin's fantasy series "A Song Of Ice And Fire". They are a group of soldiers who live in garrisons along The Wall, which is a giant series of castles and walls seperating the wilderness of the north from the inhabited lands of the south. To "take the black" is a term for joining the Night's Watch, as they always wear black from head-to-toe, and most of the people who take the black are exiles or criminals, "cast out from the lands of their births". They must swear an oath of duty when joining the Watch, and must stay on The Wall forever. It is a dangerous duty and many people try to escape The Wall, as there are rumours of undead, magical creatures in the forests of the north. The power metal band Hammerfall made a song called "Take The Black" too, which is also about joining the Night's Watch. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night%27s_Watch |
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| Nevermore – Believe In Nothing Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Marty, check out the lyrics of Warrel Dane's solo album "Praises To The War Machine". Almost every song flat-out rejects religion. In some of Nevermore's songs, I can see him questioning the idea of a god, but in his solo project he is a lot more direct. |
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| Nevermore – The Seven Tongues of God Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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"If this was the theme of the song, why would he add a quote that explains how religion brings social order?" Because to Loomis, it's not "social order" but "control". Voltaire saw it the same way; the quote isn't meant to be positive. |
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| Nevermore – The Seven Tongues of God Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Blackened89 is a moron. That's what this song means to me ;) | |
| Iron Maiden – Flash Of The Blade Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| This song is used during a murder scene in Dario Argento's supernatural thriller movie "Phenomena"; probably the best scene in the film. | |
| Recover – Slower Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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The chorus is a famous transmission that was recorded from Torre Bert, Northern Italy, in the early 60s. It was supposedly a failed cosmonaut mission that Russia covered up. The quote in the chorus was heard before the craft apparently went out of control and disappeared into deep space. As the Russians denied the mission existed, the names of the cosmonauts were never revealed. |
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| Deicide – Bastard of Christ Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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You're all fucking idiots. Especially the Christians. |
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| Kisschasy – Opinions Won't Keep You Warm At Night Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Whenever I hear this song on the radio I want to punch that whiny vocalist in the face. Apparently my girlfriend's sister knows the band, so maybe I'll get the chance one day. |
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| Emperor – Curse You All Men! Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Actually, you morons, Ihsahn is extremely Satanic. He has his own brand of Satanism thouh he was interested in LaVeyan Satanism when he was younger. Read "Lords Of Chaos". There's a long interview with Ihsahn where he says all of this for himself. Emperor aren't pagans and never were; Burzum and Enslaved are pagan bands, but Emperor and other bands like Dissection are actually Satanic. This, of course, is not a bad thing. Unless you're a hardcore Christian. |
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| Dethklok – Go Into The Water Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Nope, here's the right lyrics: We call out to the beasts of the sea to come forth and join us This night is yours Because one day we will all be with you in the blackened deep One day we will all go into the WATER Go into the water Live there, die there Live there, die We reject our earthly fires Gone are days of land empires Lungs transform to take in water Cloaked in scales we swim and swim home We are alive And we'll metamorphisize And we'll sink As we devolve back to beasts Our home is down here And we've known this for years We must conquer from the sea We are an army with water steeds We'll rise From our depths down below Release yourselves Drown with me WE WILL CONQUER LAND WITH WATER Gone are days of land empires Lungs transform to take in water Cloaked in scales we swim and swim home We swim home We swim home |
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| Dethklok – The Lost Vikings Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Sorry dude, but you have a load of mistakes. This is straight out of the lyrics booklet for the album: Riding, and riding, we search across the land The snow, and wind, has frozen the hearts of man But we ride We ride Many days ago we left our home With swords to ride into the night Fighting side by side to destroy our foes And leave them without life We stop, consider the land that we travelled Our map's at home, direction unravelled But we ride We ride Many days ago we left our homes, With swords to ride into the night Fighting side by side to destroy our foes And leave them without life So much time has passed since we left our land That we've become concerned And we'll never find the battle That we should have fought and won But we won't stop searching Lost but still we ride Search until we die We ride We ride Hungry and tired the frigid plain yeilds little We trudge on further, eating pride and snow that's brittle We ride We ride We come upon a witch who takes us in To let us share her mighty fire She asks of us our story and we lie and say We ride around for hire She asks us if we'd like to have her map And points us in some direction But we are far too proud and strong so we keep silent And ignore her suggestion Lost but still we ride Search until we die All the fault of pride The gods weep in the night Lost but still we ride Search until we die All the fault of pride The gods weep in the night We ride We ride |
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| Nevermore – Believe In Nothing Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Blackened: apparently Warrel Dane is agnostic. | |
| Oingo Boingo – No One Lives Forever Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I love this song, especially in "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2" :P | |
| Amon Amarth – The Beheading Of A King Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Yep, it's the battle of Fodevig / Foteviken. The King in the title is King Niels Of Denmark. His son in the lyrics is Magnus The Strong. And of course, the hero of the song is Erik II, "The Memorable", king of Scania and later of Denmark. |
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| Nevermore – The River Dragon Has Come Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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The seventh crown refers to the Book Of Revelations, where there is an evil seven-headed dragon with a crown on each head. Basically although the band is atheistic, they are using a Biblical reference to sum up technology being the world's latest "evil". And you're spot on, CaptNKILL. It's totally about the 1975 flooding and how it serves a warning to the recent completion of the Three Gorges Dam. |
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| Heather Nova – Valley Of Sound Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| It's about Jeff Buckley, and how tragic it is that he died so young. | |
| Opeth – Benighted Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Yeah, now that I think about it, I think it's the main character trying to convince his beloved to forget her religion. | |
| Opeth – To Bid You Farewell Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Ok, I did some thinking, and yeah: Their first two albums are more doom/death/prog metal with folk metal influences. Kinda like Agalloch but with more song structure and complexity, and the heaviness of early Katatonia. Their two concept albums were even more in the field of doom/death, though there was slightly less folk metal influence. Those two are the truly unique albums, I can't think of many doom/death albums that are as complex and epic. Blackwater Park and Delivereance are cleaner melodeath mixed with Porcupine Tree style prog metal/rock interludes (thanks to Stephen Wilson's input in the production of the albums), and Damnation is prog rock with more of their old folk rock leanings, in the style of bands like Camel and Blackwater Park. If you'd like to argue with that, try, but I think you'll find you can't. Anyway, if you like Opeth, check out Disillusion. It's another wicked prog/doom/death mix. And maybe try Katatonia's "Brave Murder Day" album, which is one of the more popular and oft-imitated doom/death albums around. |
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| Opeth – Still Day Beneath The Sun Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| It's about a funeral, and the possibility of the afterlife. | |
| Opeth – Serenity Painted Death Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Supplanter and Kodos86 are correct. Also, her throat was slit - she wasn't decapitated. |
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| Opeth – Benighted Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Anyway, this song is from the Still Life concept album, and is basically the priests from the church asking the main character (or possibly his fiance) why they lost their faith, and telling them that it's not too late to repent. | |
| Opeth – Blackwater Park Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Ok, I did some thinking, and this is what I've come up with. This is the magnum opus of the album; while musically some of the other songs are better (The Funeral Portrait, Dirge For November, Bleak) thematically, Blackwater Park outshines the rest. It is an analogy - on the surface, it talks of a village (Blackwater Park) where sin and disease have taken hold, and where people are dying off, until at last the narrator too is infected and dies. However, the song is an analogy for the evils in the world - Mikael is watching corruption and violence destroy the world slowly because of all the wrongs we've commited. The intro sums that up: "Confessor of the tragedies in man, lurking in the core of us all. The last dying call for the everlost; brief encounters, bleeding pain." The narrator recalls visions of horror... "Lepers coiled neath the trees; dying men in bewildered soliloquys. Perversions bloom round the bend; seekers, lost in their quest. Ghosts of friends frolic under the waning moon ." The whole town around the man is dying out. People wander aimlessly through the world, unsure of their purposes in life. In terms of the story, the narrator is an uninfected person, "an advocate documenting the loss". He sees the sickness but is not a part of it yet: "It is the year of death, wielding his instruments. Stealth sovereign reaper, touching us with ease. Infecting the roots in an instant, burning crop of disease." In a literal sense, he is avoiding the immoral acts of the modern world and trying to live a good life. "Fluttering with conceit; this doesn't concern me yet. Still far from the knell, taunting their bereavement " So far, he is proud of the fact that he has avoided the "disease" of such failings, and he can laugh at those who have given up, but he knows that one day he will end up like all the others. Mikael points out mankind's morbid fascination with violence and terror ("Point fingers at the details, probe vomits for more. Caught in unbridled suspense."), and how we as a society have "lost it now", at every moment "catching the flakes of dismay" - taking in every gory detail of life via the media. He points out the sick attitudes of today's youth in his metaphor about plague survivors who more and more often want to investigate the "disease" rather than exterminate it: "Born the travesty of man, regular pulse midst pandemonium. You're plucked to the mass, parched with thirst for the wicked." Finally, Mikael remarks "Sick liaisons raised this monumental mark; the sun sets forever over Blackwater Park." As the sickening morbidity of the survivors takes over the town, ruining it forever and confirming its eventual destruction, the metaphor is for the doomed nature of our society. If we keep finding entertainment and interest in the dark side of humanity, the sun will set on us all, too. |
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| Opeth – The Funeral Portrait Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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This is a tough one, but I believe it might be about a man who travels from town to town, infecting the townspeople with a disease. He knows he is going to die soon, but he decides that he won't die alone: "Shall I take you with me?" The first half of the song seems to be the man describing a typical victim of his - a bored person in a small town, wishing a stranger would come to bring some excitement. I believe most of his victims are women; perhaps the disease is sexually transmitted: "Opened mirage soothes your sense. Locked on the pinnacle, the best secret within. Like a derelict child, heart burning for a stranger. Ascending to the meek, flock round the liars in awe, caked in the soil beneath." And so he travels to these towns, projecting an image of charm and charisma, making the people (particularly young girls) flock to him, and he knows that when he leaves the town, they will eventually get sick and die ("You will leave me now, you will see it now. Perish at my hands."). He leaves them with a "fresh stigma look"; marks indicating disease - but using the dual meaning of the word stigma, it is also a sign indicating disgrace. He speaks to his future victims: "And you are just like them all, stained by the names of fathers. I'm greeting my downward fall, leaving the throes to others." In other words, all those he infects will suffer the painful throes of death while he happily meets death head on. |
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| Opeth – The Drapery Falls Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I actually think it's about a loveless relationship, or a love-hate relationship with barely any communication ("The silence of your seclusion brings night into all you say."). I think Mikael uses the act of making love ("Pull me down again and guide me into pain.") as a metaphor for her dragging him back into the relationship; using sex as a bargaining point or a focal point for a doomed relationship. I actually think he possibly dreams of killing her - "My gleaming eye in your necklace reflects, stare of primal regrets. You turn your back and you walk away... never again. Spiralling to the ground below, like Autumn leaves left in the wake to fade away." Of course, this only is a dream when you take into account the following line; "Waking up to your sound again and lapse into the ways of misery." I think that it's a relationship he can't escape from, with a woman who has made him bitter and spiteful towards her ("Nails bleeding from the struggle, it is the end for the weak at heart."). |
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| Opeth – The Leper Affinity Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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The more I read the lyrics, the more I think it is nature itself, talking to somebody who has died and been buried: "We entered Winter once again, naked, freezing from my breath. 'Neath the lid all limbs tucked away, this coffin is your abode from now and onwards. Your body is mine to avail." This, to me, is nature or the earth itself speaking. The "breath" of the land is the wind, freezing the ground and all below it. The earth now avails, or uses, the body to its own advantage. The soil itself is nurtured by the corpse, and the decomposition causes the body to return to nature - dust to dust, you know? These lines seem to fit that: "Grew together with your skin, and paced the trails of sin. Your gaze covered with virgin snow; rigid features." All that suggests somebody dead and buried under the cold winter earth. Yeah, I can see it being a metaphor for human failings - it could even be an analogy for a controlling or smothering relationship, in a sick sort of way. But in a literal sense, I believe it's about death and the eternity of burial. |
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| Katatonia – Rainroom Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Another amazing track. Mikael Akerfeldt adds a lot to the Brave Murder Day album, and it's totally shown in this song. | |
| Katatonia – Brave Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Beautiful, powerful song. My god, he holds his roar on "not" for 18 seconds. That's insane. | |
| Opeth – Black Rose Immortal Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Yeah, but before Mendez was a different bassist, wasn't there? | |
| Cradle of Filth – Hallowed Be Thy Name (Iron Maiden cover) Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| ...riiight. | |
| Opeth – The Leper Affinity Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| A "leper" is not always somebody with leprosy, fit4130. It can also be somebody shunned and avoided by most - an outcast. That seems to fit in better with Opeth's themes. | |
| Rammstein – Feuer Frei! (English) Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| You sound pretty much like a 12 year old to me, jerk-off. | |
| Rammstein – Amerika (English) Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| The whole point of the song is that we're all dancing to the same tune, the world over, and that tune is Americanisation. The analogy is comparing American-style capitalism to a dance. And if any countries don't want to follow this dance, they just don't "know yet that they must". It certainly is against the US foreign policy, though more subtle and ironic than some other anti-American anthems. | |
| Roxette – Almost Unreal Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Haha, I remember this one from the Super Mario Bros movie. Very good song. |
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| Bathory – A Fine Day To Die Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| A great song. I can't believe nobody is commenting on Bathory, they're a very good band. | |
| Death – Lack Of Comprehension Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| This is an amazing song. | |
| Pearl Jam – Man of the Hour Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| The only Pearl Jam song I've ever really loved. | |
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