| The Beach Boys – Santa's Beard Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| This is a good song about Santa! | |
| The Smashing Pumpkins – One and All Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| @[Clark:266] Gable Whenever I try to edit them, they get changed back to this. Apparently it's another song called One And All. | |
| The Killers – Flesh and Bone Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| Okay. I like the Killers and this song. But the lyrics crack me up: "this natural selection picked me out to be a dark horse running in a fantasy." Like, what? | |
| The Smashing Pumpkins – The Imploding Voice Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| A lot of people look at the Machina tracklistings and fail to try and put them in a better order, with which they assume that this song is later in the concept, and therefore more stuff has happened. But it's clear that this song should, like, track three, conceptual. It's from God's point of view. It's God talking to/through Glass. The song is very different from a spiritual perspective. | |
| The Smashing Pumpkins – Wound Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| I had a sudden realization recently that this and The Imploding Voice are about God rather than a girl. These songs take on totally different meanings in that light. I'm not religious, though, and Billy clearly is (especially, it seems, at this point in his career), so it's hard for me to relate to these songs on a spiritual level. So I still pretend they're about love. They clearly aren't, though. | |
| The Smashing Pumpkins – Speed Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| Officially released on the Mellon Collie reissue, though it was part of the Pastichio Medley. Drugs. That's it. | |
| The Smashing Pumpkins – Drain Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| more, not the more | |
| The Smashing Pumpkins – Drain Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| This song makes me feel the more sorrow than any song I've ever heard. | |
| The Smashing Pumpkins – Cash Car Star (Adore Version) Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| As of now, the only studio version we have is the 'Matt Walker Reimagining' on the Adore reissue, so we'll probably never have just the straight up Adore outtake version. But the Matt Walker remix is fucking amazing. It's so cool. | |
| The Smashing Pumpkins – Daphne Descends Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| This song always screams to me of a forbidden romance. Though it's not what Billy had in mind and I just jump to this because of experience, the song always reminds me of an illicit student-teacher relationship. | |
| The Smashing Pumpkins – Tear Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| 'and for the first time heaven seemed insane, cause heaven is to blame for taking you away,' like many Adore songs, it's about Billy's mom. | |
| Mazzy Star – So Tonight That I Might See Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| This is hands down the trippiest son I've ever heard. Up there with "Mary of Silence," "Umbilical," and "She Hangs Brightly," all by Mazzy Star. Oh, and "Glass + The Ghost Children," by Smashing Pumpkins, too. | |
| The Smashing Pumpkins – Try, Try, Try (Machina II version) Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| This version is way better. I also love how, as opposed to the Machina version, it actually fits with the concept, or at least carries some of its themes (most notably "Pop tart/will it matter/if I lose/and just shatter"). I always assumed Billy was referring to God when he said "pop tart". I can't prove it, and I know that there's no real connection between God and a pop tart, but the lyrics seem to relate to Glass questioning God, and therefore his entire life. | |
| The Smashing Pumpkins – Rotten Apples Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| As someone who becomes obsessed with things easily, especially people in my life, this song is so clearly about obsession, though not in a crazy sense, just in the sense of a new set of feelings you may have for someone, though it's someone you can't really be with. It doesn't even have to be romantically, just a great sense of admiration for someone, and that person clearly doesn't feel the same way. Now, this may be where personal experience steps in, but from there, these totally platonic feelings one has evolve into romantic, sexual, and eventually just plain obsessive feelings, simply because they won't requite the initial platonic feelings. It's a really beautiful song, that's helped me through some hard times. | |
| System of a Down – She's Like Heroin Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| This song is stupid, like a couple on Hypnotize and Mezmerize. I like Darren and all, but when he started writing a lot more, and more importantly singing a lot more, on Hypnotize and Mezmerize, the songs seemed to get a bit dumber. It's still a pretty awesome song, but the concept is stupid. And if any one really has to think about what this song is about, they are stupid. | |
| System of a Down – U-Fig Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| I don't know what the "U" means, but "Fig" stands for Flag-waving Ignorant geeks | |
| System of a Down – Lost In Hollywood Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| I feel like every SOAD album has the perfect ending song. | |
| System of a Down – Old School Hollywood Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| I hate people that assume just because it's an SOAD song it has a deeper meaning. Daron said it's about a celebrity baseball game he went to, hence all the celebrity names, Tony Danza, Frankie Avalon. It has no deep meaning, it's simply about Old School Hollywood Baseball. | |
| System of a Down – Chop Suey! Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| I litterally just realized the orchestral synth strings in the versus. Didn't think SOAD would do that. | |
| The Smashing Pumpkins – Bring the Light Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| This song is horrible. Me and my friend use this song as a punishment, we make each other listen to it as a punishment. How can an album that has United States on it, an incredibly heavy and slightly eerie song, have this....a horrible tune that COULD NOT be considered smashing pumpkins. As much as I despise Zeitgeist, some of the songs remind me of Pumpkins songs, like Tarantula reminds me of Bodies, United States reminds me of a long jam like Silverfuck, and this... it's just too happy. You fucked up Billy | |
| The Smashing Pumpkins – The Celestials Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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Billy Corgan, in the interview "From Mellon Collie to Oceania" with Matt Pinfield, said regarding this song, altough he said "this is very conceptual" said that this song is "almost as if the same guy that was singing on Mellon Collie, is singing to" (I forgot exactly what he says from here on out so I'm not gonna quote him) a kid from today with the expirience he has, almost sort of warning him of what to do. I don't really see that in this song, but this, to me, is one of those songs where you don't see a set meaning, I mean it obviously has to do with a relationship be it with a family member, a friend, or a lover, but the song kicks so much ass, it doesn't matter. This song as well reminds me so much of summer, and not just because it says summer in the chorus. Mostly because it came out in the summertime. Anyway thank you. |
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| The Smashing Pumpkins – Glass + the Ghost Children Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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This song used to be a mystery to me. This song starts out so eerie and kind of chilling, and then the middle section with Billy talking makes this song, to me, feel like one of the only songs on the album strictly about the concept of Machina, and then the section of the song is kind of reassuring to me. Anyway now to explain how I think of the song: Back in 2000 when Machina came out, Billy had a contest for fans to post their interpretations of the concept online, Billy then posted his favorites on his blog. One of the many interpretations was under the title "Glass And The Machines Of God" and went in depth explaining the story. Now, this was the last fan interpretation Billy posted on his blog, which makes me think it's the most accurate. Now, as most fans know Machina is about a rock star named Zero who hears the voice of God in a radio (I Of The Mourning), renames himself Glass (Glass' Theme), renames his band The Machines Of God, and begins telling people the message he heard from God. That's what most fans know, but that is really the only part of the story confirmed by Billy. Now, the interpretation "Glass And The Machines Of God" says that Glass never told anyone that he heard the voice of god, and that his "girlfriend" so-to-speak, June, is a heroine addict. One night Glass comes home and finds June in a druggy haze, as she is one heroine. Glass feels he needs to tell SOMEONE about hearing the voice of god, and figures June wouldn't remember anyway and tells her. This, to me, explains the middle section of the song, where Billy, or Glass I should say, is telling June about hearing god, and it's from June's point of view. This explains why Glass sounds so distorted, and the pitch of his voice changes. It also explains why every now and then you can hear someone, presumably June, going "Mmhmm" or something like that. "Glass And The Machines Of God" also says that sometime after Glass tells Junes, when she is no longer under the influence of heroine, they get in a fight and she tells him she never loved him and says she remembers when he told her about hearing god and that she thinks she is crazy. She drives off in a dark and stormy night and gets into a car accident. This to me explains the last section of the song, "She can hear Glass calling" she's semiconcious and Glass is out looking for her. As for the begining part, I'm not too sure. The fact that Smashing Pumpkins fans are called "Ghost Children" makes me think that it has something to do with Glass' Band's fans. That's all I've got. |
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| The Smashing Pumpkins – Tarantula Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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This song is fucking horrible. The riff is pretty good and the solos are amazing, but it has the WORST vocal melody, that doesn't fit the riff well. The riff reminds me of "Bodies" off disc two of Mellon Collie, if Billy would have just used a similar vocal melody on this, although it would have been unoriginal, it would have shown the reunion had potential. Which it really did, and does, but not until Teargarden and onward. Anyway, Jimmy said this song was a culmination of everything him and Billy had listened to growing up. And Billy said the songs title is nudge to the German rock band The Scorpions. |
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| The Smashing Pumpkins – Rain Drops + Sun Showers Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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Hello. I am going to devote the next couple of days of my life to cracking the concept of Machina and Machina II, so if you like my theories on this song, check out my other thoughts. In my personal opinion, this song has nothing to do with the concept of Machina. Although, I'll still take a crack at the meaning. Billy, on VH1 Storytellers said that this song is about, exactly how it sounds, trying to walk in between the raindrops. More so, trying to do something impossible. The example Billy used was trying to talk to some one closed minded that will never understand. "I'm Just Trying to talk with you" |
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| The Smashing Pumpkins – The Everlasting Gaze Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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Hello. I am going to devote the next couple of days of my life to cracking the concept of Machina and Machina II, so if you like my theories on this song, check out my other thoughts. Anyway, being that this is the first song on Machina, I'd like to give some thoughts on the album as a whole. Although Billy has said that most of the ideas of the concept and touring stage theatrics were abandoned after D'Arcy left the group, it is incredibly obvious that the concept is almost all there. Unlike most concept records, there are a lot of songs that, although they fit into the concept, have inspiration from Billy's life. Of course this is almost inevitable, given that the characters on Machina and Machina II are just exaggerated versions of the band. I believe that this is one of the many songs on the Machinas that has little to do with the concept, of course hints are there, "A God Machine" (An undying, unfeeling god, or maybe a reference to the fact that Glass heard the voice of god through a radio.) and of course "The fickle fascination of an everlasting god" (Glass' inability to believe that such a being exists.) But many of the lines such as "Ya know I'm not dead" and "Now you know, where I've been" are obvious references to the fact that Billy was aware that he kind of dropped off the map after the Mellon Collie tour, with the exception of a few singles, and the, then, mostly panned by classic Pumpkins fans "Adore", Billy wasn't doing much. Although somebody, somewhere could most likely find a way to fit this in the story, it is most likely, if anything, just about Glass' struggle with his spirituality, and if he believes he was hearing the voice of god. As for the albums original order, I think this song takes place sometime after "I Of The Mourning" in the concept, although this is more of a general song, than a critical concept element. |
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