| The Doors – Riders On The Storm Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| This song is basically about how each one of us is a rider upon the back of the uncertainty that is life. "The Storm" represents the unpredictable and unforeseeable nature of the world. | |
| Fall Out Boy – Dance, Dance Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Fall Out Boy sucks. | |
| Avenged Sevenfold – Beast and the Harlot Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| It's about the beginning of the End Times, as described in the Book of Revelation (last book of the Bible, prophecies about the end of the world and the second coming of Jesus Christ). Many of the lyrics are taken from or paraphrased from the bible. | |
| Steely Dan – I Got The News Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Wait, did the guy singing try to go out with a lesbian? Example: She says "Slow down, I'll tell you when" in response to him getting worked up, & when he finds out what she's been hiding: "...I may never walk again" |
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| Rage Against the Machine – Bulls on Parade Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Three words: Military. Industrial. Complex. |
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| Steely Dan – Third World Man Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| It's about a veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder. Such a tragic song, really it is... | |
| Rage Against the Machine – Freedom Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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People got most of what I was going to say... The "3 million gone, come on, 'cause you know they're counting backwards to zero..." might be a reference to the AIDS conspiracy, that the US government created AIDS and unleashed it upon African blacks and gays to reduce the "undesirable" population. In 1992, about 3 million people had died of AIDS and there was still no government response. |
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| Symphony X – Accolade Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| edit: Mistake above. Meant to say "a noble night of the Crusades". | |
| Symphony X – The Divine Wings Of Tragedy Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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This is one of Symphony X's "epics", about a war between God and Satan/Lucifer, told from Lucifer's point of view. A few parallels can be drawn to "Paradise Lost" or the book of Revelation. Part I is a quick summary of Lucifer, whose pain has led him to descend into Hell. This Part is first musically, but chronologically comes in the middle of the story, after the "tears of woe" start falling in IV. Part II is an instrumental which segues into the beginning of the story, Part III. This describes the Heaven/Paradise that Lucifer fell from. At first, he's uncertain why he feels his wings "slowly fading". Part IV. Lucifer accepts his fall, and plans a divine war against Heaven. He becomes the ruler of Hell, and starts to mass his forces for the coming holy war. As Part I's "tears of woe" begin to fall, the war begins. Part V. Heaven & Hell have collided, and the resulting chaos is clearly noticed on Earth. Angels and demons fight in the sky as "the prophet cries", signaling the end of current world order. Part VI. This long instrumental is the continuing battle between Heaven and Hell. It begins with a heavy & fast section as the battle rages. After several crashing notes, the music subdues as the battle's tide turns(around 13:40). The music soon picks up again (around 14:45), escalating rapidly as the Last Battle occurs. Part VII: Several "holy notes" precede a calm & tranquil section, then the victor elaborates who won. Peace, truth, and a "blue sky" finally come about, but the last line reveals that Lucifer has defeated Heaven's angels: "All I know/ is MY Paradise has begun". Depending on how you look at it, this song is either looking at the far past or the far future. |
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| Symphony X – Accolade II Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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This song is about the son of the original "Accolade"'s knight, who takes up his dead father's sword and shield against the tyranny his father set out to fight. It carries over a lot of the motifs and themes from the original song. The "From the shadows..." verse may mean that the father isn't really dead... |
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| Symphony X – Accolade Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| This song is a basic Chosen One story, where a noble knight of Arthur's court rises in rank to meet his destiny: "Down his chosen road he rides to save the world". However, he fails in his task and dies before the quest is finished. | |
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