| Taking Back Sunday – Sad Savior Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| While I do think it's about a relationship - I don't think it's a bf/gf relationship. Seems like it's about the relationship between Adam and John Nolan. Specifically, "Never, not ever again" is from the end of Nolan's "A Slow Decent" where he sang about finally breaking free of TBS and not "settling for those bastards." After something like seven years, John came back to the band for this album and I think this song (and the album to a degree) is about their (somewhat guarded) reunion. This song in particular seems like Adam is getting in a few shots about all of the stuff John wrote about TBS when he formed Straylight Run. | |
| Paul Brill – Paris Is On Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Not sure if he means the city of a person named Paris. My inclination is that he's talking about an individual, but maybe that's just personification of the city. Either way, it reminds me of Paris Burning ( http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=6707 ) Back in November of 2005, a bunch of angry protesters took to the streets of Paris in a violent demonstration that lasted eight days. On November 3rd "rioters burned 315 cars. In the previous week, they torched 177 vehicles and burned numerous businesses, a post office, and two schools." And today, when I listen to it, it reminds me of the 2009 Tea Part Protesters. I'm so tired of these freaks and their violent streaks. RIP Bill Sparkman. |
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| Green Day – 21 Guns Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Fuck yeah! About time someone said it. We need to surrender. Killing innocents and going into debt for the pride of victory is really fucking stupid. |
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| Green Day – Viva la Gloria! Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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"Don't lose your faith To your lost naivete Weather the storm and don't look Back on last November When your banners were burning down" "Last November" HAS to be a reference to Bush's victory in 2004, which was the lowest point in the last 30 years of American history, and certainly of Gloria's life. Understandably, that would cause her to lose her faith in the American populous, as her banners of hope were burned to the ground. But despite this alienation, the song asks Gloria to buck up, to "weather the storm" and realize that in the wake of Bush's disaster, there's still a country that's worth cleaning up. Let go of the nightmare of the last 4 years and look forward on making sure we get it right this time. Really, and incredible section, and it gets lost in the music too easily. |
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| Green Day – Viva la Gloria! Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQxyxHvlxCY | |
| Green Day – The Static Age Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I think this song is about two different things: lies in the media and over-medication. Both of which obscure true meaning. Part of the song is about the corporations that bombard us with advertising, and how hard it is to figure out "the real deal" through all of the static. The other part is a continuation of the previous song, Restless Heart Syndrome which is almost exclusively about the excessive use of drugs (both illegal and prescriptive) in American society. The best part of the song: "All I want to know is a god-damned thing, not what's in the medicine" = He wants to actually UNDERSTAND what's going on in the real world, he doesn't want to float through life numbed by medicine. "All I want to do is, I WANT TO BREATHE, Batteries are not included" = Similar to Rise Against song, he wants to breathe on his own and embrace life on his own terms, not with the crutch of modern medicine. Again, it's about living the REAL life, not one clouded by medication. The second parts are references to patriotic American songs "Glory, Glory Hallelujah" and "The Star Spangled Banner" (Oh say can you see, by the dawn's early light). You can scream those slogans all you want, but without meaning they are nothing but more static. |
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| Green Day – The Static Age Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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http://www.colombiajournal.org/colombia73.htm Check that out. Coke doesn't like it when it's employees get uppity and start to demand workers rights. The company assassinates union leaders in South American companies to make sure that the people who actually make the liquid aren't paid anything above subsistence wages. Evil... yes, but necessary for walmart prices of $2.50 for a 12-pack. |
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| Fall Out Boy – Disloyal Order of Water Buffaloes Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| "Imperfect boys with their perfect ploys" has gotta be a self-deprecating reference, acknowledging that they're hardly perfect and mocking themselves for thinking that their "perfect" ideas will work. | |
| Fall Out Boy – Disloyal Order of Water Buffaloes Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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"Boycott love Detox just to retox" Something I know from my past life as a whiny emo boy... you're very much aware of the fact that you're a whiny emo boy, and usually not very proud of the fact. You know that "no one wants to hear you sing about tragedy" To a degree, I think that they are "detox"ing from singing emo songs... only to find that it works for them and going back to do it again. An example being the lyrics themselves: "Boycott love" can easily be taken as "I got so hurt this time that I'll never love again, I'm through with girls/boys/whatever" Very few people actually mean it when they say that though... and even if you can "detox" from dating for a little while, you inevitably get sucked back in, and "retox." I think this part of the song is about how he "knows" that he should take a break from emotional roller coasters for a little while... but nonetheless knows that he will succumb the next time he falls in love. |
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| Fall Out Boy – Disloyal Order of Water Buffaloes Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I think the first stanza "I'm coming apart at the seams Pitching myself for leads in other people's dreams Now buzz, buzz, buzz Doc, there's a hole where something was Doc, there's a hole where something was" is about his role in the band. He's the LEAD singer, and in most cases that translates to the lead in the band. But he's singing Pete W's lyrics, and essentially living Pete W's dream. Pete is the driving force behind the band, the one that wants to be a famous rock star. The lead singer, Pat, is just along for the ride, and isn't always keen on how much of his life has become devoted to FOB. To me, the opening line has to be with his frustration that he's the "lead" in Pete's "dream" and he's telling his psychiatrist that he's not feeling fulfilled by the lifestyle. I don't even think it's the opening to the song, I think it's the opening to the album - the fact that they ignore this section in concerts seems to emphasize that fact. |
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