| Fall Out Boy – Thnks fr th Mmrs Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Is it just me or does this song, especially the beginning, remind you of N*SYNC? I was pretty disappointed with this track because of the boy band-ish sound, though I like all the other songs on the CD. | |
| The Chariot – The Bullet Never Lies, and Time Will Prove All Things (An Allegory of Unfaithful Jerusalem) Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I am continually amazed how thoroughly The Chariot songs are rooted in Scripture. This song comes directly from Ezekiel 16. I'll used Today's NIV. "Well then, I hope that you recieve this letter. I passed by and I saw you. Kicking about in your own blood. Stand, form, grow, are the words I spoke. Promises are what I gave." Jerusalem as an Adulterous Wife 1 The word of the LORD came to me: 2 "Son of man, confront Jerusalem with her detestable practices 3 and say, 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says to Jerusalem: Your ancestry and birth were in the land of the Canaanites; your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite. 4 On the day you were born your cord was not cut, nor were you washed with water to make you clean, nor were you rubbed with salt or wrapped in cloths. 5 No one looked on you with pity or had compassion enough to do any of these things for you. Rather, you were thrown out into the open field, for on the day you were born you were despised. 6 " 'Then I passed by and saw you kicking about in your blood, and as you lay there in your blood I said to you, "Live!" [a] 7 I made you grow like a plant of the field. You grew and developed and entered puberty. Your breasts had formed and your hair had grown, yet you were stark naked. 8 " 'Later I passed by, and when I looked at you and saw that you were old enough for love, I spread the corner of my garment over you and covered your nakedness. I gave you my solemn oath and entered into a covenant with you, declares the Sovereign LORD, and you became mine. "Diamonds. Beautiful queen. How soon we all forget" 13 So you were adorned with gold and silver; your clothes were of fine linen and costly fabric and embroidered cloth. Your food was honey, olive oil and the finest flour. You became very beautiful and rose to be a queen. "Like mother, like daughter." The seas of lament have found their home, dancing around, amongst your bones. Hello America, where is your fortune? Grace." 43 " 'Because you did not remember the days of your youth but enraged me with all these things, I will surely bring down on your head what you have done, declares the Sovereign LORD. Did you not add lewdness to all your other detestable practices? 44 " 'Everyone who quotes proverbs will quote this proverb about you: "Like mother, like daughter." 45 You are a true daughter of your mother, who despised her husband and her children; and you are a true sister of your sisters, who despised their husbands and their children. Your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite. 46 Your older sister was Samaria, who lived to the north of you with her daughters; and your younger sister, who lived to the south of you with her daughters, was Sodom. 47 You not only followed their ways and copied their detestable practices, but in all your ways you soon became more depraved than they. 48 As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, your sister Sodom and her daughters never did what you and your daughters have done. 53 " 'However, I will restore the fortunes of Sodom and her daughters and of Samaria and her daughters, and your fortunes along with them, 54 so that you may bear your disgrace and be ashamed of all you have done in giving them comfort. |
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| The Chariot – The Company, the Comfort, the Grave Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Thanks for that passage WaketoLife. And here is the blind leading the blind reference, Matthew 15:1-20 (NASB), specifically verse 14, which further cements the meaning of the song: Tradition and Commandment 1Then some Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem and said, 2"Why do Your disciples break the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat bread." 3And He answered and said to them, "Why do you yourselves transgress the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition? 4"For God said, 'HONOR YOUR FATHER AND MOTHER,' and, 'HE WHO SPEAKS EVIL OF FATHER OR MOTHER IS TO BE PUT TO DEATH.' 5"But you say, 'Whoever says to his father or mother, "Whatever I have that would help you has been given to God," 6he is not to honor his father or his mother[a].' And by this you invalidated the word of God for the sake of your tradition. 7"You hypocrites, rightly did Isaiah prophesy of you: 8'THIS PEOPLE HONORS ME WITH THEIR LIPS, BUT THEIR HEART IS FAR AWAY FROM ME. 9'BUT IN VAIN DO THEY WORSHIP ME, TEACHING AS DOCTRINES THE PRECEPTS OF MEN.'" 10After Jesus called the crowd to Him, He said to them, "Hear and understand. 11"It is not what enters into the mouth that defiles the man, but what proceeds out of the mouth, this defiles the man." 12Then the disciples came and said to Him, "Do You know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this statement?" 13But He answered and said, "Every plant which My heavenly Father did not plant shall be uprooted. 14"Let them alone; they are blind guides of the blind And if a blind man guides a blind man, both will fall into a pit." The Heart of Man 15Peter said to Him, "Explain the parable to us." 16Jesus said, "Are you still lacking in understanding also? 17"Do you not understand that everything that goes into the mouth passes into the stomach, and is eliminated? 18"But the things that proceed out of the mouth come from the heart, and those defile the man. 19"For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, slanders. 20"These are the things which defile the man; but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile the man." |
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| Panic! at the Disco – Nails For Breakfast, Tacks For Snacks Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Alright, this has nothing to do with any Palahniuk books, as Panic! at the Disco confirms. You guys have basically just been taking out a couple lines and thinking up some reference from a past book... but the song has a coherent meaning that if you read over the words makes sense. It might not be perfect but I'll take a stab at it and if you have any suggestions I'd like to hear. The setting is a hospice... there is a person there who may be suicidal or might just be mentally unstable or very depressed or has some other problems, but somehow he or she is on the edge of dying. He or she comes to and fro from the hospice pretty often and it's a recurring problem. "Watch your mouth, your speech is slurred enough that you might just swallow your tongue. I'm sure you'd want to give up the ghost with just a little more poise than that." Right here the person on the hospice bed is basically rambling on and not making much sense; the person he's talking to can't understand him, and says to the patient to regain his poise, and to start making some sense so that he can help him. "Give up the ghost" means to die (think about it... when you die some say a ghost of you stays behind). The patient doesn't want to die acting like that does he? Does the patient want people to remember him like that? "Or was it God who chokes in these situations? Running late? No, no, he called in." Or was it God.... - he's basically asking, is it God's fault you're here? is he to blame? Maybe God is just running late? No, he's not just late, he's not even coming in today (the big question is why: I think maybe it's that the patient is so hopeless - he's done this so many times - that God is basically letting him be. Not quite sure. I think mostly it's a statement to stop blaming God. "That's when you stutter something profound to the support on the line. And with the way you've been talking every word gets you a step closer to hell." You've been rambling on for so long but you've finally made a bit of sense... up to this point everyone on support thought you were coming closer and closer to death (closer to hell). "A pessimist? No I just can't help it, to say what everyone else is thinking." He's said a few times that the patient is about to die - "give up the ghost..." and "a step closer to hell." Is he a pessimist for saying that? No, or if he is, he's not the only one who's a pessimist - all the support team thinks the person is nearly beyond hope. "The problem: the hospice is a relaxing weekend getaway, where you are a cut above every sick sad patient. When you're on first name basis with all the top physicians." Stay with me. Up to this point it sounds like the person is basically mentally unstable... The patient is not making a lot of sense to the doctors. Here is more evidence that the patient may be bringing this on to himself - the place the patient is brought to, a hospice, is pretty nice and relaxing. It's better than what most patients get, and all the physicians know you." "The Solution: Prescribed pills to offset the shakes.. to offset the pills you should take a day at a time (fix a vice with a vice)." So to appease him the doctors give him pills... apparently the patient is already supposed to be taking pills but he isn't, so these will offset the results from not taking pills. "I am alone in this bed, house and head. She never fixes this but at least she makes me forget." This is the most important line. It's almost an epiphany. The patient puts himself in "these situations" so many times. Maybe here the patient realizes to stop blaming the doctors and God and to start taking care of himself. Notice he's not just alone in his bed and house, but in his head - maybe the patient realizes he needs to start taking care of himself more. Also I want to go back to the line "stutter something profound to the support on the lie.." which gives the doctors a clue that the patient isn't as bad as he's making himself out to be and just needs to get his act together. The doctor never fixes his problem but makes him forget his troubles (more evidence he might be depressed/mentally unstable or what). It's a vicious cycle. --------- So basically what it means to me is there are many people who claim to have all these problems and take all these pills and keep going to doctors to get help... The person needs to stop feeling so hopeless and blaming other people and start taking more care of himself. Stop playing all these games. Feedback? |
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