| Strike Anywhere – Infrared Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| It's about not wanting buy into the hype anymore. Feeling tired of trying to live up to the shallow standards of everybody around him. Feeling that first liberating moment when you choose to live outside the influence and judgment of others. Tired of being disenfranchised and medicated rather than understood. Tired of feeling empty and blank. Here I am as myself. Take me or leave me. | |
| Deftones – Hexagram Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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This is through the eyes of a man on his deathbed of a car collision he intentfully caused to end his life because he's grown tired of the world. The song happens in his last moments of consciousness, where he is in between life and the illusion he imagines taking its place. On the pavement, a crowd of paramedics, police, and onlookers grows. People pushing each other aside like 'animals' to get a better view. He looks around and sees all the faint smiles and expressions of disbelief and 'trusts' each of them more as the signify he truly is dead. He begins fading in and out of his fantasy world that is his last lie before death. His "complex prize" is the brief moment before he is fully gone that time stops and lifetimes pass in a pindrop of a second. He envisions himself as somebody loved. Somebody rich and famous. "the crowd goes wild" and "the cameras make you seasick. It's so sweet of you, and your parents are proud." His last thought is the bittersweet realization that the car explosion and the cameras make the same sound. The theme of this song is that even death can be beautiful |
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| Emmure – Last Words To Rose Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| source on the frankie quote? | |
| Have Heart – Pave Paradise Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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How has nobody commented on this?! Amazing song by one of the greatest straight edge bands ever. We've all got a calling. And not all of us want to be confined to the prison of normalcy. |
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| Born Of Osiris – Brace Legs Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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The dying wish part always gets me. I THINK he says: It's not a dying wish It's not a fallacy I don't know for sure But I did take the liberty of deciphering the much debated gutterals. They are as follows: eee toe toe fee doh fee di close fee umptsi de dee tozo be eee umptsi dolphins boxing |
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| Born Of Osiris – Brace Legs Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| hahaha that's badass. Those guys are so cool to talk too. They're not too big to just sit and bullshit with you about nothing. I talked to them for about 40 minutes after the summer slaughter tour. I love BOO! | |
| Born Of Osiris – Exist Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I fully agree with AgressivePro. I've been waiting a long time for some new BOO, and this is everything I had hoped for and more. It's such a emotion packed song. Listening to it makes you feel like you could do anything. It's actually not a 100% new song though, It's actually a remake of one of their old demo songs called "Glass Bluntz" off of their Your Heart Engraved Demo. But the old version didn't have lyrics, and in my opinion, the lyrics make an already great song perfect. |
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| Pixies – Wave of Mutilation Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Wrong form of your. You want the contraction of You and Are. (i.e. You're) Rele is nothing that even resembles a word. I beleive the word you are looking for is "really." Fink is accepted as chav slang, but is annoying as hell nonetheless. Katrina should be capitalized. Have a good day. | |
| Pixies – Wave of Mutilation Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Pixies did Where Is My Mind long before Fight Club. Where Is My Mind isn't the theme for the film; It is only played at the end credits. You spelled coincidence horribly, horribly wrong. Work on that. | |
| I Am the Avalanche – My Second Restraining Order Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Don't stop rockin' Vinnie. IATA for life | |
| The Hold Steady – Lord, I'm Discouraged Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I'm pretty sure that Holly is the hoodrat friend. As it says in "How a ressurection really feels." The "sutures and bruises" bit refers, I think to needle marks from injecting drugs, and the bruises are from her boyfriend. But I do agree on this being about Holly (before her descent) liking another girl that is in a bad relationship. | |
| The Hold Steady – Constructive Summer Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| A great start to another great Hold Steady album. To me it speaks of a group of friends who want to have the "perfect summer." The kind that they'll never forget. | |
| The Hold Steady – Stuck Between Stations Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Amazing song, holy god. To me it really sets the mood for the album. The album is about the early to mid teenage years of carefree partying but towards the end the feeling of inevitable responsibility starts to loom over the heads of all of the kids who want nothing more than to have fun and get off. | |
| The Hold Steady – For Boston Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Such a great song, it sucks you have to get the Austrailian version or DL it just to hear it | |
| The Hold Steady – Banging Camp Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I thought the "big black cars" bit was a reference to cops, but that does make more sense | |
| The Hold Steady – Chillout Tent Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| It almost reminds me of those cheesey old 50's songs or musicals like greese or whatever where the manly-male and the high-pitched female are singing back and forth...only it's not cheesey. It totally kicks ass. | |
| The Hold Steady – Chips Ahoy! Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I don't think it is. Seperation Sunday revolved mostly around Craig and Holly. She's mentioned in Boys & Girls but she isn't the focal point. In fact I think she was in the hospital for most of this timeline. (As said in First Night) I'm not sure that the song is even about Craig and some other girl, it might be two entirely different people whose stories Craig is telling. (Much like Chillout Tent) | |
| Modest Mouse – Four Fingered Fisherman Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| i love how raw SSS sounds. it just adds to the whole experience. Its kind of a shame that 99% of these songs dont get any attention during live shows because they're all so easy to jam to. But i couln't imagine what SSS would sound like if it was perfectly produced and clean sounding. What if they re-made all of the songs and turned all the dial-a-songs into full length songs and called it Sad Sappy Sucker 2? OMG i'd have a mouse-gasm! | |
| The Hold Steady – Multitude of Casualties Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Yeah but towards the end of the song it says: And the nite that she got born again he was getting with her little hoodrat friend. And it states several times throughout the album that holly is the "hoodrat" So who is the other hoodrat the male (whom we assume is Gideon) is getting with? Cause it can't be holly, she was at the citadel getting born again.. |
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| Job For A Cowboy – What We Once Called Home Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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About the apocalypse if you ask me. But brought on by human nature instead of the whole "biblical" thing. Davvy is a great writer. But I'm surprised you were able to decypher this cause I can't understand anything when he's screaming |
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| Dr. Octagon – Earth People Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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God KK is the shit. His flow is so weird. He'll start a verse, and in your head you think: "okay, he's gonna rhyme that word with this one." But no. He doens't rhyme shit for another three verses, then he rhymes it with some random word that was in the middle of the verse! Octagon for life |
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| Born Of Osiris – Abstract Art Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| What are the "great shapes" though? | |
| Born Of Osiris – Empires Erased Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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An amazing song. Whenever I hear about it I immediately visualize like an ancient empire falling or being destroyed. Like egypt or china. Very cool lyrics, amazing music. The kind of brutality only BOO can provide |
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| Born Of Osiris – Brace Legs Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| In short. It's about having courage in the face of adversity. And fighting with pride and reason until your death. no matter how inevitable it may be. | |
| Born Of Osiris – Open Arms To Damnation Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Good points | |
| Modest Mouse – Classy Plastic Lumber Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| where'd you read/hear that? | |
| The Hold Steady – Your Little Hoodrat Friend Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| This song is about direct interaction between the storyteller (most likely craig) and Holly the hoodrat. In most of the songs, Craig only talks about seeing Holly or tells storys he's heard about her. In this song, he's speaking about what Holly is like in person. He is repulsed by her, but at the same time, pities her, and in the end, we find that he has feelings for her but she turns him down, claiming to be "saving herself for the scene" He then is taken aback and denies ever wanting to have sex with her (i.e. "what makes you think i'm gettin' withy our little hoodrat friend?") but secretly does. Him and Holly get high and she tells him about the old days with all of her friends. And she tells him about how true love gets troubled by trivial things (still water) by the missisippi river. Which is where Holly got high for the first (and last) time. So true love may be just a metaphor for a simpler, cleaner life. | |
| The Hold Steady – How a Resurrection Really Feels Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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An amazing ending to an amazing album. Creg Finn is one of the most talented lyricists around today. Most of his stuff isn't even lyrics, more like poems set to music. But regardless, he is an amazing storyteller. The song tells of Holly the hoodrat, finally getting what she wanted. She suffers a near death experience and realizes that there is more to life than getting high and sleeping around. She says that she's laid beneath her lovers but never gotten laid. Meaning that she's had a lot of sex, but never actually felt any sense of love involved. The preist at her church and the deacon laugh at her, writing her off as a lost cause until she comes back clean, sober, and pure. She's a classic example of the underdog. A beautiful disaster. Nobody cared or wanted her to pull through except for the person who is telling all of the stories. (we can assume it's Creg.) And through all she's endured and all the things she's seen, she chooses to live clean. And at the end she is telling people to stay away from her with bad influeces, because she doesn't want to get turned on to it all again. And seperation sunday ends happily ever after. :) |
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| Sinking Ships – ghost story Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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"And it scares me to death to know that one day I won't be haunted by your ghost." Fucking amazing. Sometimes you just don't want to forget something, even though you know how bad it'll hurt. |
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| Modest Mouse – March Into the Sea Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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To me it sounds more like a relationship song. And yes, i know about Isaac's distaste for those kind of songs but the verses really make it seem like it. "if food needed pleasing, you'd suck off the seasoning" To me sounds like he was in love with a very promiscuous woman who was always mean to him "treat me like the sea, oh so salty and mean." |
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| Modest Mouse – Never Ending Math Equation Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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The universe works on a math equation than never even every really ends in the end. Pretty much sums up the song. The universe being balanced and the idea of karma are two greatly reoccuring themes in isaacs lyrics. Just him talking about how everything in the universe works so mathmatically perfect together....which it really does if you think about it |
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| Born Of Osiris – Open Arms To Damnation Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I agree with Diamond lights. alot of people peg hardcore lyrics (and metal lryics in general) as being about evil and satan or whatever. but the fact of the matter is, is that if you actually listen to the lyrics and the meaning behind them, you'd find out that its the farthest thing from the truth. most of them are about how evil consumes people and how those people need to change. and thats what i believe this song is about. but not just our generation. the human race in general. "you've got a one way ticket to hell, with open arms to damnation" is the song in a nutshell, and its extremely true. it means what it says, if you've got your arms open to damnation, (if you live a bad life) then there's only one place your gonna go. |
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| Brand New – Sowing Season (Yeah) Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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to me, the song tells somewhat of a story set on a timeline of: a confused teenager a young adult a middle aged adult and a bitter old man. in the beggining, jesse sings about losing his friends to drinking and driving. he then says that he got them back which could imply that he found them again in spirit, or that his friends never even literally died, they just became distanced because of partying and the feedom they were given by their parents. (driving often a metaphor for teenage freedom) he then says that he is on the mend, which would either mean he too fell victim to the "party" lifestyle; or he is experiencing a spiritual upheaval. he asks to be forgiven for anything he may lack, which would mean that he is still trying to work out flaws in his character. next verse jesse is talking to someone instead of about himself or the protagonist of the song. he says: is it in you now? to better hear the truth that you have spoken. twisted up by knaves, to make a trap for fools. is it in you now? to watch the things you gave your life to, broken And then stoop and build them up With worn out tools? which to me means that whoever he is talking to (presumably a girl) recently suffered loss or failure of some sort. (i.e. "watching things you gave your life to, broken") this most likely meaning that something she dedicated her life to, turned out to be not worth it or failed. next, '' nothing gets so bad...whisper from your father couldn't fix it" means that the person is no longer at that point at his/her life where thier parents can get them out of trouble all of the time. its a sort of coming of age scenario where responsiblility must be recognized. "take all that you have...turn it into something you were missing" is simply the protagonist saying to make the most out of what you have and not to strive for things that are out of reach. to make something out of what you already have. at this point in the song, the teen and young adult years are gone and the main character is now a middle man adult and still alone. he feels the looming prospect of death and wants desperatly to, not just have children, ("trying to get the seeds into the cold ground") but to find love and acceptance by other people all together. the next verse is the main character reminiscing about when he was young and how everyone but him grew up and got what they wanted. and finally, the "i am not your friend verse" is the main character as a bitter old man who never found love and resents those who do. claiming himself as "just a man who knows how to feel." |
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| Modest Mouse – Parting of the Sensory Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I think this song really conveys Isaacs disbelief of religion in general; instead he talks about "dehydrating back into minerals" which is an obvious reference, not exactly to reincarnation, but to the cycle of all living things. "lifelong walk to the exact same spot" isn't about a literal spot or location, but moreso a state of being. (i.e. we start as nothing and we begin as nothing and it takes a lifetime to get there) "who the hell made you the boss?" and "any shithead...could take this ship and do a much finer job" Is again referencing his ideas about god in the sense that if he DID exist, who made him the ruler of all things? The second line is saying that anybody could do what god did but he is using it in the context of the earth being a "ship" (staying in theme with the 'dead before the ship even sank' theme of the album) and god being the proverbial "ship captain" "if you were the ship, who would ever get on?!" I think is him saying how if given the choice, none of us would never have wanted to be born because of all the pain involved in life. He again references pain and hardships in the next line "the weather changed for the worst...came down on us like it had been rehearsed!" And i belive the "rehearsed" is talking about fate and how supposedly everything is preordained and layed out before anyones existance. (although i'm not sure on that one) "not like you'd hoped, but change will surely come...awful for most but really good for some'' is isaac talking about the unfairness of life in general as some people were born under better circumstances and have it easir than most. pulling the trigger and forgetting to cock every shot, i think is brock basically saying that nothing will go right regardless of what it is and finally, "someday you will die somehow and somethings gonna steal your carbon" is another reference to the circle of life and how when you die, another organism will obtain energy from your lifeforce |
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