I'm going to go ahead and actually comment on what I think the song means. Yes, Static-x and Burton C. Bell covered the song. Yes they did an awesome job of it. I am a huge Fear Factory fan, more so than Ministry although I just discovered Ministry. I'm pretty sure these lyrics are wrong so i'll put what i believe are the correct ones.
This is just my own personal interpretation on what the song means and trust me I'm not the best at putting my thoughts to words so don't cry about it.
Will these dreams still follow me
Out of dark obscurity?
Can't you see it up in the sky
As it kicks you in the face and sucks you dry
I think that he is wondering whether he will always have dreams of being a rockstar even after he becomes one, or wondering if the lifestyle is really as great as he thought it would be. Also it drains him physically and emotionally getting there.
You never had the answers
And now you tell me the facts of life
I really couldn't be bothered with you
Get out of my face and watch me die
Perhaps here he is saying that the people who used to lecture him on what to do with his life were wrong and to get out of his face and watch fame and the life of being in a famous band kill him.
Absolution and a frozen room
Are dreams of men below
I try to grab it but the touch is hot
The mirrors collapses, but the image can not
Here he is saying that absolution as in a normal job and a frozen room perhaps meaning an office are dreams of men less great than he. Him trying to grab it means that he's tried having a normal life and it wasn't for him. The mirror collapses, but the image can not i think means that it doesn't fit him, but part of him yearns for it.
I'm scared of the darkness in light
I scare myself cause I know I'm right
I see the evil in your savage eye
As it cuts right through the sky
I think here he says that he's afraid of how a normal life would make him feel. In light refers to how other people make it seem great, and he knows he's right because he's felt what it is to be a wage slave. The evil in their eye perhaps meaning how he feels that the people who push him to get a normal job are evil.
Calling the mantra with a blade in the skin
For the demons within
I feel the pain as we start to decay
But the lesson never fades away
Here he says he feels better by self-harming and he's beginning to feel the effects of old age, but he'll continue pushing on being in a band and living this way for a living because the lesson he learned from having a normal life never fades away
Don't need no shadows, turn them away
Become a man through the window pane
Another slave and a victim of fate
Another lesson in hate
I think that by Don't need no shadows, turn them away he means he doesn't need children and can't have them living life in a band. Become a man through the window pane means he's a man looking in on real life like having a normal family and a normal job and he doesn't really get to experience it. Another slave and a victim of fate Another lesson in hate means he's a slave to record labels, contracts, and fame and it's another lesson on why he is so hateful.
I'm going to go ahead and actually comment on what I think the song means. Yes, Static-x and Burton C. Bell covered the song. Yes they did an awesome job of it. I am a huge Fear Factory fan, more so than Ministry although I just discovered Ministry. I'm pretty sure these lyrics are wrong so i'll put what i believe are the correct ones.
This is just my own personal interpretation on what the song means and trust me I'm not the best at putting my thoughts to words so don't cry about it.
Will these dreams still follow me Out of dark obscurity? Can't you see it up in the sky As it kicks you in the face and sucks you dry
I think that he is wondering whether he will always have dreams of being a rockstar even after he becomes one, or wondering if the lifestyle is really as great as he thought it would be. Also it drains him physically and emotionally getting there.
You never had the answers And now you tell me the facts of life I really couldn't be bothered with you Get out of my face and watch me die
Perhaps here he is saying that the people who used to lecture him on what to do with his life were wrong and to get out of his face and watch fame and the life of being in a famous band kill him.
Absolution and a frozen room Are dreams of men below I try to grab it but the touch is hot The mirrors collapses, but the image can not
Here he is saying that absolution as in a normal job and a frozen room perhaps meaning an office are dreams of men less great than he. Him trying to grab it means that he's tried having a normal life and it wasn't for him. The mirror collapses, but the image can not i think means that it doesn't fit him, but part of him yearns for it.
I'm scared of the darkness in light I scare myself cause I know I'm right I see the evil in your savage eye As it cuts right through the sky
I think here he says that he's afraid of how a normal life would make him feel. In light refers to how other people make it seem great, and he knows he's right because he's felt what it is to be a wage slave. The evil in their eye perhaps meaning how he feels that the people who push him to get a normal job are evil.
Calling the mantra with a blade in the skin For the demons within I feel the pain as we start to decay But the lesson never fades away
Here he says he feels better by self-harming and he's beginning to feel the effects of old age, but he'll continue pushing on being in a band and living this way for a living because the lesson he learned from having a normal life never fades away
Don't need no shadows, turn them away Become a man through the window pane Another slave and a victim of fate Another lesson in hate
I think that by Don't need no shadows, turn them away he means he doesn't need children and can't have them living life in a band. Become a man through the window pane means he's a man looking in on real life like having a normal family and a normal job and he doesn't really get to experience it. Another slave and a victim of fate Another lesson in hate means he's a slave to record labels, contracts, and fame and it's another lesson on why he is so hateful.