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| Brody Dalle – Meet the Foetus/Oh the Joy Lyrics
| 9 years ago
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The original is way off! You are so much closer. I'm thinking for the second verse it might be "Celestial miracle in disguise / Organ melts, silk blood spills/ It's time to meet the foetus" But yeah... she is tricky to understand! |
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| Tool – Vicarious Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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I don't think there's anything shameful about being fascinated by violence/death/evil. I can't speak for other living things, but we as humans are conscious of our own mortality. Our curiosity seeks to understand it, while our instinct for self-preservation fears it. Since we can't explore it personally and survive to understand it, we can only examine death through the deaths of other people. The same with violence and cruelty. Most of us don't care to experience it first hand, so the only way to learn about it is vicariously. We are fascinated out of fear... "Neither the brave nor bold were writers of the stories told"... what would I do if this happened to me? It can also provide a way to empathize with others and see that we all share the same fears. It seems the shameful thing is that the media has capitalized on this basic need within us and turned it into a way to profit. That's why there is so much violence in movies, tv shows, music, books, etc... The problem seems to be desensitization due to overexposure to it. Just look at the news! And in a way we find pleasure in the desensitization, because it numbs us from the fear. Like "junkies staring at a screen", the more we watch the more we feel safe in accepting violence and death, because we've already 'experienced' it. It also exposes our lack of desire to do as Davesz mentioned. Most people don't care until it affects their life personally. We naturally prefer to look out for ourselves rather than look out for others, which is part of why there is so much violence. We haven't evolved to a point of communal "hippy" thinking, and perhaps it's counter-intuitive to our nature. That's what I get out of it anyway! I'm sure there's more, as there are over 400 comments :-) |
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| Operation Ivy – Jaded Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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Speaking of which... I'm assuming the writing credits on this page are incorrect seeing as it lists the members of Green Day... :P |
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