| Tori Amos – Bliss Lyrics | 22 years ago |
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This is probably my favorite songs in the world. Beautiful, pounding, passionate and elemental. One of Tori's best |
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| Tool – Stinkfist Lyrics | 22 years ago |
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The illusions to fisting...extreme sexual activity in order to feel, the progression from a finger tip to knuckle to hand to shoulder...hoping to banish a numbness...requiring something shocking that you don't really want just to feel something...what does that say about a person? I think that's the point of the song. What I think is interesting is that he seems to explore both POV here...the person being entered, the person who needs the pain to push past the numbness...and the person who needs to do the pushing, needs to force the envelope, in order to feel. The dichotomy of sado masochism...but more, I think, in an emotional and psychological sense. |
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| A Perfect Circle – Orestes Lyrics | 22 years ago |
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Actually, I think the name of the song actually does say it all. In Greek mythology, Orestes mother killed his father...but that's only the beginning of the story, which parallels the entire song. the first line says as much: "Metaphor for a missing moment, pull me into your perfect circle"... Anyway, Orestes was bound to avenge his father's death, and to do so, he had to kill his mother. And that's the kicker, and the perfect circle, because the Furies (Greek minor goddesses) were involved. Had he not avenged his father's death, they would judge him guilty...but for killing his mother, they also judged him guilty, and as a punishment, they drove him insane. There was no real out for him...he had to kill his mother, but the fact that he was of her flesh damned him. I think the song is about that...relationships that seem to be circular: when things are going wrong, and you feel the need to lash out, to hurt the other person...when you hate them enough to want to chip and peel and scrape away the ties binding them to you, your love for them, so that you can strike at them, kill them the way they're destroying you. It's about those times when we don't want to love someone, we're trying to stop, so that we can destroy the "us" that is causing the pain. |
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