| Tool – The Grudge Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Here is my interpretation of 'The Grudge' "Crown of negativity" The first thing that pops into my head is Jesus' crown of thorns, a burden. The crown is thereby also a symbol of religion – but this is a negative symbol. Because these days Christianity is a controlling power, which has decided for us what we will and will not tolerate. But the crown of negativity represents the reduction of our thinking IN GENERAL. We carry the crown on our heads, the highest place of our body, and it overshadows everything else. "Unable to forgive your scarlet lettermen" "The scarlet letter" is a book by Nathaniel Hawthorne in which a woman who has committed adultery forced to wear a crimson 'A' on her chest for the crime. We stamp other people, judging them and refuse to forgive them. This hatred of a foreign party - another person, another religion, another culture - most people have to maintain. Many people clutch their grudge as if it were a cornerstone, everything their unity (if is a group of people) is build on. But it may also be that the individual clings to this feeling to keep himself/herself together. In such cases we always try to justify denials. We cultivate our hatred and dare not to let it go, because we are afraid to make mistakes. So we put ourselves in a prison cell of ultimatum. The most interesting part of the song deals with Saturn. After a little research has been up to me that everything in the song forms a synthesis. First, it takes Saturn about 29 years to go round the sun. 29 years symbolizes a mid-term crisis, a split. "Choose one or ten" This refers to the zodiac in astrology, Aries is the number one and Capricorn is number ten. So the choice is between Capricorn and Aries. Capricorn is ruled by Saturn (Saturn is the creator of civilization and the social order, representing authority). Capricorn is stubborn, cautious and disciplined. Aries is ruled by Mars (Mars usually associated with strength, spontaneity and energy). Aries is bold and impulsive. In many ways it is the complete contrast to Capricorn. You could say that Aries is the Zodiac pioneer. By the way … Maynard a Ram himself. "Hang on or be humbled again" By choosing Capricorn you will again submit to the Authority and thus be humiliated, bow to other powers. We’ll continue living with this ugly feeling, unaware of how much damage we have caused to the outside world and ourselves. The grudge will narrow thinking further define and say that things can only be one way. "Saturn comes back around to show you everything Let's you choose what you will, will not see and then Drags you down like a stone or lifts you up again Spits you out like a child, light and innocent " This refers to the myth of the Greek god Cronos (which the Romans later called Saturn) who ate his sons, so they would not kill him. Rhea (Cronos' wife) gave birth to another son, Zeus, and she gives her husband a stone instead of the child, and Cronos swallows the stone, believing it is his son. Later Zeus kills his father and sets his siblings free. The song raises the question: Will go down like a stone – just like all the others ones –, or you will be like Zeus (Aries), escaping it all? "Let the waters kiss and transmutate these leader grudges into gold" If we look at everything in an alchemical way, the solid substance, which is associated with Saturn, is lead. Lead represents decay and death. When Saturn ascends, you’ve got the choice between remaining the way you are and fall into decay, or to let go of a part of yourself (death, in a way) and thereby transform lead to gold - dissolve "the cold and fated anchor." Just try to imagine all the energy we would have, if we did not spend so much time on bearing grudges. Like so many of Tools songs, this song is a metaphor for personal development. |
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| The White Stripes – Blue Orchid Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I think this song is about a immature person, who is willing to do anything to get some attention, and, moreover - the person doesn't care whether it's good or bad attention. So she takes a white orchid - possible meaning a love - and turns it blue: sad. Hence she destroys the love, just to get the attention from people around her. But this guy has seen right through her. He knows that she's making up for something, and he knows who she really is. She's acting like an idiot - still, he is in love with her, but she just playing with him too, and she can't take him serious. He spends the whole song criticising her, but although she is acting immature, he still defends her in the end, when other people attacks her: "Get behind me now anyway!" I hope that makes sense. |
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| Nine Inch Nails – I Do Not Want This Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Clearly this about some kind of depression - when you feel dejected. "Maybe this is a cry for help". It's very paradoxical. He wants to be helped, but he can't stand it when people try to help him. He is tired of people telling him how he feels, and he want them to do something about it, instead of coming around with all their supercilious attitudes. But when you're feeling down your view becomes so biased that you can't see, that there are other people out there, who actually understand you and know what they are talking about. "2 feet below the surface I can still make out your wavy face, And if I could just reach you maybe I could leave this place" This makes me think, that maybe Reznor isn't completely lost. There is one person, who can save him. Whoever that is. And the last, repeated part is about how he feels powerless and insignificant in this world. |
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| Utada Hikaru – Kremlin Dusk Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I've always thought that Kremlin Dusk was about moving on after a breakup or something like that. This is why I think so: The first part makes sence, since "Lenore" is a lost love, and the person in the text is drinking because - let's say it's a he, just like Poe; he actually had drinking issues too - misses the lost love. 'The Raven' is a symbol of his madness and self-torture. But then the person realizes that his love isn't going to come back, and he has become sober. In the first part he says that he never will be haunted be the past, but in fact... it's a fight... he is talking to himself. He can't decide whether he'll move on, or wait for the person who's not going to return to him. He is a natural entertainer, so he makes it through the day, it's easy to pretend like everything is fine, but like he says, he's holding pieces of dying ember (in 'The Raven' the dying ember is memories of the lost love). He runs a secret propaganda (and that's my favourite line). He acts like he's fine, but if you look closely, there is so many signs that shows that he isn't, and he is actually calling for help. The last part is about how he wants to move on, although he wants to stay because he still loves 'Lenore'. He is torn by the arms in opposite directions, and asks himself if it's always like that, when you lose someone you love. |
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| Utada Hikaru – Deep River - Translated*~ Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Hi there everybody! I just wanted to say, what I think this song is about. Although I've read a slightly different translation, all in all it's the same. There is some kind of intro to Deep River... I've seen it somewhere on youtube, but it's probably been taken down by now ... Hikki talks about how parents love their children, because the children resemble the parents so much. And then the song starts ... "My finger draws a line Between two points Those points are the road I’ve walked so far and my destination" That's about life, kinda seen from above. "The two of us are joing two points Eventually we’ll reach the sea and become one Though I’m not afraid…" That's about when two people meet each other and their lives get intertwined. "We'll reach the sea and become one" ... to become one is definitely about having a child. "We flow down many rivers without asking for a why We don’t have to accept everything We're as free as the names we were given Now the pain flies away" That's so true. People live their lives without questioning it. You don't have to accept everything, because life isn't always fair. We are all independent individuals - we're free. I still think the last line is about death ... "This sword hasn’t been entrusted to us So that we can hear the sound of one sword striking another Who can we protect with such a contradiction?" It's like Spiderman: "with great power comes great responsibility". lol. With "this sword" Hikkis means individuality. We weren't born and blessed with the ability to think so that we could kill each other or kill the earth. We have to love and appriciate it all. "I’m searching today For you, who changed your form so many times Before you descended before me We don’t need to try To be accepted anywhere We have all been blessed with a sword of individuality" In a way we were always searching for the people we met. We all meet coincidental, nothing is predetermined (at least I don't think so). The person you meet (probably Hikki means the love of your life) has lived for some time and has changed form many times (fx. from baby to teenager to adult) before your meet him/her. "There are times where the rivers flow changes Without carrying anything with it We don’t have to accept everything We're as free as the names we were given Now the birds fly away with the seabreeze" Again, life isn't always fair, so you don't have to accept it. You're free to change your life. "Now the birds fly away with the seabreeze" ... that's about end of life. |
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