Clutch – 10001110101

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  General Comment:I guess I forgot to mention the various ways you could convert it into binary and come up with more jive, but that's been mentioned already.

  Flag RICKtheNOSon March 24, 2012   Link

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  General Comment:The lyrics "Man alive the jive and lyrics" seam to mean that the numbers 10001110101 are just that, jive. Not jive as in jazz music but that it is meaningless, although it could have a double meaning which is typical for Clutch.
  
  As said before (can't be bothered to find who said it) it fits with the rhythm of the song. That doesn't mean it has nothing to do with the rest of the lyrics though. I think the band just wants to make us search for a meaning that isn't there!
  
  "Periodic table with a centerpiece of mind" and "Radioactive don't come near it" would seem to refer to the elements, and maybe make you think that 10001110101 has something to do with them. Atomic numbers, perhaps? Nope, just jive.
  
  "Temple of Syrinx having a bakesale of the year" is obviously a 2112 Rush reference, and you could turn 10001110101 into 2112 with a bit of creativity. 1+0+0+0+1= 2; 11; 0+1+0+1= 2; put them in order and you have 2112.
  
  I think that's enough for now, I don't feel like analyzing the whole song! Besides, it's just "jive and lyrics"!

  Flag RICKtheNOSon March 24, 2012   Link

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  General Comment:This song is about robotics, technology, and science in general taking over. It's sort of an "end of the world" story about how humans will be the minority and religion will go out of business, hence the "temple of syrinx having the bake sale of the year". In this dystopia, religion will be comparable to mental illness and the proponents of science will get their messiah; a robot who will crush the humans. "The shackles of automata will shatter like their bones". In this line, the robot has seized control of his own existence, and plans to take over.

  Flag Ifur555Im666on March 06, 2012   Link

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  General Comment:mmh, I see there's a lot of people talking about it being binary code, but I'm pretty sure that would mean it would have to be 8 digits...
  I'm convinced that its more to do with "no worries, no worries, no, no, no, worries, worries, worries, no" being backwards you know? yeah... y'all can do what you want with that there...

  Flag CaptainToasteron October 13, 2011   Link

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  Song Meaning:With the discovery of RNA/DNA, the Church freaked out and tried to ignore it, turning to god.
  Science is an ever expanding scene yet due to archaic thought, everyone who believed in the newly emerging sciences were committed as insane or labeled heretics (also the long halls could refer to schools).
  Tokyo/Japan, the center of robotics and future technology.
  Smile tastes kittens possibly referring to them eating cats.
  Since hunting on government property was illegal, eating cats was a suitable alternative.
  
  (One robot soldier saying to the other) Are you booted up and running? They all have orders no matter how big or how small, search every inch of Earth and kill everything.
  Among the robots, someone (human) finally will speak out.
  
  (10001110101) The messenger speaking in binary as to not show he's human.
  By using elements from the periodic table we can fight back and destroy the robots with nuclear bombs giving us peace of mind that there is hope.
  
  Man survives, to sing and dance
  but there is warning as to not go near ground zero of the bomb due to radioactivity.
  Temple of Syrinx (oppressive controllers) in this case the robots are having a "bake sale" or trying to scramble to stay alive taking anything they can get, even tempting humans to join them.
  
  There will be an unavoidable war in which both sides are vying for control like people at a festival wanting to find the small trinket, usually a small plastic baby, inside of a "king cake" (circular cakes with bright decorations and a prize baked inside usually served during the holidays)
  everyone will fight for freedom, criminals to ordinary people. (Bonnie and Clyde, the whole dome)
  Human enslavement by technology won't be broken that easily. (robots don't have bones to shatter)
  
  In our final attempt at freedom, humans plan to double if not triple the explosive power of our weapons (three times is jive, "jive" is used differently here than earlier)
  -I think that pretty much wraps it up, thoughts?

  Flag jonnygreenjeanson July 06, 2011   Link

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    three times is jive is refering to WWIII

    Flag MazMan1on February 20, 2013  
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  My Opinion:It may be possible that Clutch are hardcore Battlestar Gallactica fans

  Flag dhramchargeron April 20, 2011   Link

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  Song Meaning:I believe this is a patient in a phsyc ward that tripped their balls off and went insane. They tripped on some new shit that was synthetic or scientifically engineered that was not to be taken or used in that manner. Now he's Fucked ( Ribo Acid freak out, lunatic committed, It's already in their eyes). Royal hunting grounds means what waS taken was something important and probably some scientific breakthru and this guy was given it by his whore. ( Syrinx) Now he's committed and is stuck being poked and proded by scientists and doctors. Among the metal ones could be a CT scan or some imaging machine and a messenger will arrive. Keep in mind this guy has a totally fucked sense of reality. Chorus meaning patient 10001110101 OD'd on some new chemical ( periodic table with a center ) and is now insane, the messenger has come and now has learned he is fucked ( Radioactive). New forbidden chemical has fucked his DNA and is deformed. Temple of Syrinx is the whore who spreads the disease and her body is the temple. Double up, three times is jive meaning Syrinx is a whore that you better double wrap your junk or you'll be deformed next.

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  General Comment:i also think that the title has to do wwith most of the different aspects of the song(refer to posts above)

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  Lyric Correction:the lyrics i see that could be wrong (not sure but it sounds more like this) are "it's already in their eyes" which sounds more like it's already in the rice, and "SMILE TASTE KITTENS" sounds more like smile taste kids, kind of sexual but it fits with all the randomness.

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    or rise

    Flag MazMan1on February 20, 2013  
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  My Interpretation:This song is about scientific studies and the companies outraged greed when their work is copied and sold. Pretty much telling the huge corporations their studies shouldn't harm anyone or anything else and being copied and losing money is what they deserve.
  
  Think of it as Karma and a laugh in the face of those testing on animals or doing spine cell research.
  
  We can clone animals, why is it we cannot CREATE these cells and test with these. I may be way off base.

  Flag Helviraon October 23, 2010   Link

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