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Shattered Pieces Lyrics
And this is how the world died [x2]
I can hear you judging me
I'll hear your confession
I found the best piece of me
Kneel down
Alone
Shivering in the dark
Place your head between my thighs
Three centimeters tall
And talk to god
Eating it's heart
But you will not feast on me today
This is how the world died
Who will slay this thing
I forgive you
Who will play the butcher and
End my suffering
I forgive you
I fucked the minds of the masses with the fingers of liberty
This is not a threat
This is not
A threat
I'm not perfect
I'm not a beauty queen I'm just me
I'm just me
We are all
Prisoners here
All shapes and sizes
I've screamed for all the women I've never been but hoped I would be
I'm proud of who I am
Forever
Chasing the sun
I'm proud of me
She bites her trembling mind
It began as all tragedies do
Forgive me [x2]
With pain and deception
If you'll be the paper I'll be the pen
This is it
I've tasted hell
And it tastes just like you
My final plea
No one is coming to save me
No one is going to change things
The answers will not drop from the sky
I will not one day wake with a different disguise
No
The only solution
Is revolution
Art is war
Fight [x2]
The odds were always against me
Lose weight
Clearly think
I exist I am broken [x2]
If god is my father
Then I am an orphan
I am broken
I am not a mistake [x2]
My ancestry is a ghost story
I'm a prophecy
My love life is a crime scene
I'm an omen
My self-esteem is a string of unsolved murders
The radio is brainwashing me filling my head with these
Self conspiracies
I am an emotional nightmare
I can't hide the pain inside
Builder of my own mythology
Just tell me
You're listening
I can hear you judging me
I'll hear your confession
I found the best piece of me
Kneel down
Alone
Shivering in the dark
Place your head between my thighs
Three centimeters tall
And talk to god
Eating it's heart
But you will not feast on me today
This is how the world died
Who will slay this thing
I forgive you
Who will play the butcher and
End my suffering
I forgive you
I fucked the minds of the masses with the fingers of liberty
This is not a threat
This is not
A threat
I'm not perfect
I'm not a beauty queen I'm just me
I'm just me
We are all
Prisoners here
All shapes and sizes
I've screamed for all the women I've never been but hoped I would be
I'm proud of who I am
Forever
Chasing the sun
I'm proud of me
She bites her trembling mind
It began as all tragedies do
Forgive me [x2]
With pain and deception
If you'll be the paper I'll be the pen
This is it
I've tasted hell
And it tastes just like you
No one is coming to save me
No one is going to change things
The answers will not drop from the sky
I will not one day wake with a different disguise
No
The only solution
Is revolution
Art is war
Fight [x2]
The odds were always against me
Lose weight
Clearly think
I exist I am broken [x2]
If god is my father
Then I am an orphan
I am broken
I am not a mistake [x2]
My ancestry is a ghost story
I'm a prophecy
My love life is a crime scene
I'm an omen
My self-esteem is a string of unsolved murders
The radio is brainwashing me filling my head with these
Self conspiracies
I am an emotional nightmare
I can't hide the pain inside
Builder of my own mythology
Just tell me
You're listening
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Would SOMEONE please try to give their interrputation of this song, and what they think the underlying message is... :)))
to me I think It's about the pain you feel and everything and being perfect and shit that you have to deal with everyday because people like Britney(Spears) are beauty queens and That's not HER(OTEP) and I think it goes way deeper than that. But I know it's about appearances and telling you how your suppose to look and dunno things like that. I don't even know if I'm right. I'm just taking a stab.
I don't know...my theory behind this song is kind of simple. Obviously, Otep is extremely talented and creative. And obviously, from what I've gathered from her music...she's gone through a lot of pain. So I think this song is more or less just about the pain and strife, self-conciousness and insecurity she may feel. It's everything she feels in her head that runs through her mind, released on paper and through song. It's the way society tries to brainwash us. She realizes no one can save her from this, so her solution will be her voice, her poems, her songs. Look at the lyrics really closely, it's not hard to interpret. It's just a deep, intense, emotional song; it's her release. About her feelings and her art. Either way, that's my thoughts on it...wish I could explain it a wee bit better. ^_^ Wonderful song, though...it's so powerful and so fucking intense it gives me cold chills when I listen to it. Insanely, yet beautifully creepy in a way...especially if you're in total pitch darkness when you're listening to it. 'Nuff said. o.O
couldn't say it better myself oh and I get the cold chills too
couldn't say it better myself oh and I get the cold chills too
oh i agree completely x tank kitten x so much emotion and power and through her art she releases all the anger and pain its beautiful and insanely creepy
ive listened to it many times in the dark it was amazing!!!!!
I believe this song tells the flaws of the world we live in.
I always try to pay such close attention to the hidden meanings behind Otep's lyrics.
It tells of her thoughts and the terrible lies hidden behind the beautiful "truth".
"Kneel down. Place your head between my thighs, and talk to God."
I feel as if she is speaking the words of a priest. Priests are known to speak the truth and be pure, yet there are so many who are artificial. Just liars.
The phrase tells how priests in the Catholic church are not what they seem, insinuating that this (one) priest is a pedophile.
i don't know man..
it's always so confusing..
it's just life.
oh. that the only way to "repent" and be closer to God is if a sexual favor is done for the priest.
yea.
i think this song is about her and how she is shatter peices how she feel like her thought are everywhere. That why it changes topic a lot this is how she fills
Somehow listening and reading the lyrics to other songs of Otep, I get the idea that Shamaya's father may have been a priest or religious figure. - 'Cause she always links religion to dirty/obscene/sexual favors, hence relating the sexual assaults from her father.
But then again, it might just be her personal view on religion and God and how its really hard to believe in such a thing.
Just my opinion.