| Coheed and Cambria – Gravemakers and Gunslingers Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Anyone else get the King reference here? "We keep marching to the top of this tower, to see if god isn't at home" And, Gunslingers? I hear both the CoCa story, as well as The Gunslinger Born. These guys are just too good at writing songs with multiple interpretations, which ties in to Claudios incapability of putting the actual lyrics in the booklets. All in all, this is one of their better songs, I believe, since it is so rockin' and fits together with the whole story. I suppose to fully get it, you'd have to listen to all of their stuff, from Penelope, to Shabutie, then Prise Fighter Inferno, second stage and ICSoSE:3, and both parts of Good Apollo. |
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| Eric Clapton – Lay Down Sally Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Boring? Sorry it doesn't have enough screaming or bass for you. This is Clapton: respect one of the many fathers of rock and roll. Just plain good, a true classic. |
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| Flobots – We Are Winning Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I hate to simply repeat what people are saying, but... wow. Talk about inspiration, yanno? This may be just something that happens to me, but my skin crawls when I hear the song.. especially when it's the spoken word. Not in the bad sense, but, it gives me goosebumps. Its terribly uncommon in todays scene to find touching and thought-invoking lyrics. It is music like this that makes me wonder what has happened to music itself. I'll listen to anything, granted. And I do prefer my fair share of screaming and growling. But, if I had to choose a single album to listen to, nonstop, for months at a time (no-one can listen to the same thing forever)? It would be Fight With Tools. The chaos theory passage needs an edit: bringing Blackhawks (one word; its the helicopters they're referencing). I love how its telling us to be insurgents, to stand up and fight back, but not to actually fight. They reference in other songs how blow for a blow never reaches equilibreum. Their message is deep and their beats are strong. No matter how you slice these guys, no matter what music you prefer, these guys should be among your reportoire of albums. I despise paying for music, but I'll gladly shell the money I have enough trouble scraping together to these artists and their cause. If you have the mp3s, do not pay for the cd. That's dumb. Paypal these guys $5 or something: sure, its not much, but its a helluva lot better than the nothing they get from you buying the cd in stores. |
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| He Is Legend – You Think I'm Pretty? Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Astute observation. This sounds like something out of the "China White" storyline, like where the gardener first comes into play, perhaps a side story or an off-set beginning. I saw a video made for this, portraying a man who was in a mental hospital. He had several progressive flashbacks to his life before (think Memento), involving a girlfriend who dumped him. At the end, you find out his "magic wand" is a starter pistol, a garage gun. He goes to the ex's house and sees her with a new boyfriend. Keep in mind, it appears to have been months since he got dumped. When she doesn't take him back, he takes out the gun, shoots the new man, and perforates the girl. Then it goes to more proof of insanity, where you watch him feel the way he felt all over again. Then he imagines all of the gunshots on him, and the man crumples to the floor because of how bad he feels. Apparently, they never said they'd put him away. This shows me that the cops didn't think that there was enough to prove insanity, but... if you think of the man in this song as the Gardener, it makes perfect sense. We all know the songs intertwine when they're connected, (China White and CW2 have carbon-copied lyrics, as do The Seduction and Dixie Wolf) so think about windows. Those play a big part in the CW story, and its referenced in here. For a lyricist like Schuylar, passing glances might as well be stare-downs as far as references go. They never said they'd put him away, but then they found his garden with the bodies fertilizing it. Sure, they had enough to send him to prison.. But now they have enough to send him away to an institute. They never told him because they never knew. Perhaps this is a side-story to "China White"? I suppose we can't really be certain. But, it certainly seems that way to me. I can appreciate the Hannibal Lecter reference, but... I don't see enough solid ground there. Something to get a thesis out of, but not enough for a persuasive point to be made. |
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| He Is Legend – Do You Think I'm Pretty? Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Astute observation. This sounds like something out of the "China White" storyline, like where the gardener first comes into view. I saw a video of it, portraying a man who was in a mental hospital. He had several progressive flashbacks to his life before, involving a girlfriend who dumped him. At the end, you find out his "magic wand" is a starter pistol, a garage gun. He goes to the ex's house and sees her with a new boyfriend. Keep in mind, it appears to have been months since he got dumped. When she doesn't take him back, he takes out the gun, shoots the new man, and perforates the girl. Then it goes to more proof of insanity. Apparently, they never said they'd put him away. This shows me that the cops didn't think that there was enough to prove insanity, but... if you think of the man in this song as the Gardener, it makes perfect sense. Perhaps this is a side-story to "China White"? I suppose we can't really be certain. But, it certainly seems that way to me. |
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