| Protest the Hero – I Am Dmitri Karamazov and the World Is My Father Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| Something to add to mayneverhave's post is that the court does find Dmitri to be guilty, which is significant in the context of PTH as adolescents. | |
| Horse the Band – Lord Gold Wand Of Unyielding Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I'm pretty sure that the wand is lord gold's dick. (funny because big business is about the same thing, except a different person). Blah blah, some girl is becoming obsessed with having sex with a star, or maybe just putting men/aman on pedestals in general. I think that she eventually catches on that he is an empty man with weird, almost anti-emotions, and that the next two songs tie in. My original idea about the second half of the album was some sort of prostitution ring that lord gold runs, but I haven't been able to analyze everything together. I'm not really all that sure, but all of the songs after shapeshifter tie into each other smoothly. |
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| Horse the Band – Arrive Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| While A Natural Death is more broad in terms of dealing with death in general, I see this song/album to be quite specific. The placement of this song after Rape Escape makes me think of somebody just wanting to die; a bomb or a meteor that will instantly kill you, so everything is over and the pain ends. The end of Desperate Living. | |
| Horse the Band – HORSE The Song Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Who does the "horse the mother fucking band mother fucker" line? Anyway, I would say that this song is about a few things. The first of which is accidentally hurting yourself, but then realizing that you like it. The beginning surfaces to staring at the sun, but it is probably more about a relationship (with a person, or yeah, maybe with the fans). The second is a quick and brutal demise. The third seems kind of like introspection dealing with how to deal with the first two. |
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| Modest Mouse – All Night Diner Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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payment makes me think about a prostitute pavement makes me think about looking down to avoid confrontation I could see him writing about either. |
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| Horse the Band – I Think We Are Both Suffering from the Same Crushing Metaphysical Crisis Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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a chronal aperture is essentially a "time hole", so yeah, on the surface value, the song is about time travel. I think in simplest terms, it is about not having regrets ("I wish I could go back in time and change that"). I agree on the meeting yourself in the past paradox. Also, according to the structure of the album, time is cyclical and therefore travelling 'back' in time makes less sense than it should. oh, and it probably should be 'planes' of time. |
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| Kevin Devine – All of Everything, Erased Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| ferris wheel on fire is an image used by Jeff Mangum, I wonder if Kevin realized that. Anyway, it basically just sounds like humans destroying the Earth and that notion that, "God gave humans a chance and they have squandered it." | |
| Thrice – Cold Cash And Colder Hearts Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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"One of my favorite songs on the record. Similar to a lot of the lyrics I write, there is a lot of hyperbole, but I still think the sentiments in this song are not very far off from the way that we actually think. Scary." -Dustin. For the lack of better terms, this song is exaggerated. The 'we' is the hard part, I don't know if he meant band or Americans or Christians or whatever. I think he means typical white, Christian, American that doesn't realize how big of a problem the world is and with that, they just sort of shut out whatever is going on around them. 'As long as "we" are OK, then there are no problems,' that sort of attitude/"illusion of safety" is what I believe is being expressed (OK, my joke wasn't that funny, but that phrase can still be used). Side note: Teppei's live screams are hilarious. I don't know why I laugh, because it isn't a laughing matter, but I guess it is just how emotional, yet somewhat idiotic / amateurish, he sounds. (I guess I'm more of a fan of Dustin and Eddie screams). |
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| Protest the Hero – Blindfolds Aside Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Drop the gun (PULL) Drop the gun (THE) Drop the gun (TRIGGER) DROP THE GUN! genius. I still adore this song. |
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| Protest the Hero – These Colours Don't Run Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Lebanon is for sure Grenada, I don't know what I was hearing. | |
| Brand New – Bought a Bride Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| I thought about "violets" as well, but I hear more so either "violins" or "violence" (which Jesse would probably pronounce the same due to his accent). | |
| Brand New – The Storm Is Coming Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| if anybody still has this (or is even reading it?) can you please upload this song again (and maybe the guernucca version of take apart your head). thanksss | |
| Brand New – Bought a Bride Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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It is "for violins," but it isn't "stealing," it is "still in" thus: "Where are all the seedlings we grew for violins? Down in Jersey Lumber, still in prosthetic limbs." |
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| Coheed and Cambria – Elf Tower, New Mexico Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| hm at claudio saying this song isn't part of the canon; he mentions 'New Mexico' in Hearshot Kid Disaster. I think he just doesn't like it :p | |
| Between the Buried and Me – Reaction Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Does anybody know what he says on the left track of the song? | |
| Taking Back Sunday – Everything Must Go Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| haha, grammatical error on their sheet; 'threw' should probably 'through'. | |
| Protest the Hero – These Colours Don't Run Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| (Peru, Japan, Russia, Italy, China, Sudan, Cuba, Somali(a), Vietnam, Mexico, India, Lebanon, Syria, Iran, Iraq, nothing will come of it!) | |
| Brand New – Gasoline Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Fade away? This song better be interesting electric, it is boring acoustic. | |
| Protest the Hero – Limb From Limb Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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" by mattlolwtf on 03-31-2008 @ 08:52:59 AM Oooh, look at me. I'm gorgonseye. I went to the store and bought the cd when it came out, then posted the lyrics really fast on every song and commented when people got there before me, CAUSE I HAVE THE LYRICS BOOK WITH THE ACTUAL LYRICS IN THEM, STOOPID. Now I'm awesome. ..douche. " err.. OK? What does stoopid mean? I actually made a typo on this one :( . Some of them, Bloodmeat really, people were arguing over a few key lyrics (Nurjan being the correct one) and other tense issues were corrected. Would you rather have people just guessing what the lyrics are? Some people might prefer to read what the lyrics are supposed to read. Take Goddess Bound for example. There is a whole verse that Rody doesn't sing. I always see this song about a big build up, then anticlimax sort of deal; hyping yourself up for something, but then losing it really fast. Flidias comes and kicks ass and sounds all amazing. She is commanding over nature. But, in an instant, she is conquered by the humans. "She is the forest, she is the rain She is the huntress, she is the prey She is the dusk and she is the dawn She is the moon and she is the sun" She is here She is gone Total balance. I wish Rody has sang "prey" to complete the feeling. All of these require each other to exist sort of deal. In order to have a good thing, a bad thing needs to eventually happen. |
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| Protest the Hero – Palms Read Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| The perfect equilibrium is that only so much of the animal is gone. Some of it is still there. Nature is naturally balanced. | |
| Taking Back Sunday – I'm Not Gay (I Just Wish I Were) Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I thought it might be about their man-crush towards Fight Club. | |
| Protest the Hero – Palms Read Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I think the song is about how humans are killing themselves, (metaphorically of course!) How we don't understand how anything works "convinced the grass is greener on dry earth". We think we can do anything, and we will die because of it. This can possibly be linked to the death of our planet. Humans are cowardice. About the fossils line? The whole line "Understand that only dying is this colossal, creation shedding skin to find a perfect equilibrium like fossils" could be saying that we take death for nothing. Death is the final step in life, and it, at its best, is preserved for everybody to remember, like fossils (and possibly that we should cherish life before we kill it) The closing lines, to me, shout out that we will never realize how humanity came to be, but know that we are here and that we need to make life last. as for the two minutes part about two minutes later, Flidais comes out from the forest to kick the humans in the ass. (about two minutes later, in album time, the first lines from Limb From Limb are sung) As for the title? I think it might be a typo, possibly supposed to be "Psalms Read" Although it is probably supposed to be as in "Palm reading" as in "our future is inevitable, we will die." whewwwwww |
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| Protest the Hero – Goddess Gagged Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Those lyrics are all on there..., but thanks for posting it that way too. I prefer the "paragraph" form of the lyrics. | |
| Protest the Hero – The Dissentience Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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"Down the street half a block away, in a familiar place regular people agree with each other in smoke signals." wow, you're right |
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| Protest the Hero – Sequoia Throne Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Nah, it is still-life, although I'm pretty sure "to terrorize some other planet and bring about its doom" is worded a bit differently. I don't hear all of the words crammed in. | |
| Protest the Hero – Bone Marrow Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I'm pretty sure the only scream Arif does is the really low one in Wretch (3:42) | |
| Protest the Hero – The Dissentience Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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"sentience 1. The quality or state of being sentient; consciousness. 2. Feeling as distinguished from perception or thought." "Sentience refers to the ability to feel or perceive subjectively, not necessarily including the faculty of self-awareness." "The Sentience Quotient of an individual is a measure of the efficiency of an individual brain [although not its relative intelligence]" |
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| Protest the Hero – Sequoia Throne Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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My "view" of Fortress (although the band said it doesn't really have a centralized concept like Kezia..) :: I think the first half of C&C is the "Fall of Men viewed as Gods" The second half is a bit different I think this would be telling the people not to be afraid of science. From that, God arises again as something Natural, or possibly Nature itself personified as a Goddess. Isosceles would be the fall of nature and rise of what we now believe. Except, with a bit of a twist, telling us to look 'beyond' what we believe. The last picture in the booklet is a city--skyscrapers-- in the clouds. The disturbing part of the picture is that there is a sword sticking out from the buildings (which are on fire) |
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| Protest the Hero – Bone Marrow Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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growing fat on the throne* I can't type :( |
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| Protest the Hero – Bone Marrow Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Thus now he knelt before the ruins, cold of sweat and heat of flame, to vow the severed heads of those who brought the village to its shame. Those who plundered, pillaged, pilfered lives would now accept the blame. He would find them all with a mighty vengeance paid for in their pain. Shah-jan, the king of kings, wore seven rings and sixty feathers plucked from sparrow's wings. Growing fat on the throng where he sat like a stone as a man who has known no hunger or shown no mercy in promises broke like a bone. Dispersed about his people, rostam calls out for his equals in thirst to rise and cast curse, exact the worst revenge on his enemies to hang from trees. The royalty must die like common beggars and petty thieves. Those who rule against us will be murdered where they stand. Let our arrows rain from sky to drain the blood into the land. If a mortal stands before us, strike him down with sleight of hand. And if heaven rides against us, god himself then must be damned. (for those who prefer the "block" form of the lyrics :) ) |
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| Protest the Hero – Limb From Limb Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Split the sky asunder noble huntress of the clan - in your left hand raise the sword and in your right hand cast the spear. Summon all the slaves and bastards hiding in the woodland - crack their skulls into the cauldron for invading our frontier - the shadows fall, the hammer falls, the stone is placed above us all, forge our weapons in the furnace, sour to the heights like oak trees tall - do not beg before me, I will not heed your appeals - with your final words be grateful that you died by Irish steel - do not crawl before us for your fate has been revealed - the heavens will not desecrate their gates with your admittance - son of flesh I cast you out into exile forever hence - Flidias rides again, she is the forest and the rain, she is the huntress and the prey, she is the dusk, she is the dawn, she is the moon and she is the sun, see her bellow out in anger, see her raise the infant fawn - she is drawn by a cart of cervidae, she is here and she is gone. from the lyrics book |
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| Protest the Hero – Bloodmeat Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Enemies of the khanate strung on hooks like pigs to slaughter. Heads will roll and throats will be slit and blood will flow like springs of water - to the river red, across the ochre steppe. A thousand fathers killed, a thousand virgin daughters spread with swords still wet with the blood of their dead. Nurjan is upon us, he kills in silence after prayers. Ghengis Khan is upon us and he slays his betrayers. thus now the fools of god will guard the city of our birth, hold an ear to the ground to hear the sound of clamoring, and horses stammering as their gallop meets the earth. Tomorrow they will find us, hide the children free of sin. We will meet their blades by morning protected only by our skin. tomorrow we will find them, seek the youngest of their kin. We will meet them with our fury. We will crush them all like vermin. from the lyrics book |
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| Protest the Hero – Sequoia Throne Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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The first 'commotion' kind of sounds like 'pollution' I think this song somehow equates "getting away/freeing yourself" to the modern generation. |
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| Protest the Hero – Sequoia Throne Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Thanks guys. This is kind of tough, I'll leave it how it is now. I didn't really get that it was about a space cult. | |
| Protest the Hero – Bloodmeat Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I think this song has a somewhat political meaning. Maybe it is comparing Americans to Mongols. | |
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