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| Built to Spill – You Were Right Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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"All that glitters is not gold" is actually a quote from Tolkien, taken from "The Riddle of Strider." The word order is a bit different: Tolkien's reads, "All that is gold does not glitter>" |
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| Tool – Forty Six & 2 Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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By the way, muscle memory refers to the way certain movements become natural after you repeat them enough. It's as if the muscles remember them, although muscles don't actually have the capability to remember (obviously). |
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| Tool – Forty Six & 2 Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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Jeff: they're making it all up. If the poles were going to shift on May 15, I think more people than just some crazy, pathetic conspiracy theorists would know about it. |
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| Modest Mouse – Convenient Parking Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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A song about migration. The reason the convenient parking is way back is because it's easier to leave if you're closer to the exit of the parking lot. |
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| Chevelle – An Evening with El Diablo Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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You are spectacularly stupid. The point of religion isn't to know lots about God and get into heaven. It's to apply what you learn to your life and do well on earth. All preaching should be applicable to everyday life. |
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| Chevelle – Family System Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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Actually, I just got the CD. Several parts on this are wrong:
"had this plan we'd never quit" should read "Endless pain we'll never quit. / The fight within that pride's begun." "When a man's gotta be" should say "What a man's got he'll learn to hate." Finally, the second verse should be "Forget the time I said I would / Replace it with I never will / Beyond the facts held in your face / Ignore the facts beyond your nose." Finally, the little couplet there should be different, but it's 3:24am and I don't wanna go out to the car. |
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| Chevelle – Comfortable Liar Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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Sometimes repetition really drives a song home. In "Tightrope" by Orange 9mm, the singer repeats the line "What if I could see the future?" 18 times, and every time it's more poignant. |
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| Dredg – Triangle Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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It's definitely graves.
I just love the lines "We live like penguins in the desert / Why can't we live like tribes?" I'm not gonna go into some anti-societal rant or anything, because I wouldn't want to live in any other society, but in certain situations in contemporary America this outlook is all too prevalent. |
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| Taproot – Poem Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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What?! Dredg is touring with Taproot? Fuck! That's awesome. Dredg is 1,000x better than Taproot, though. Taproot should open for Dredg. |
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| Chevelle – The Red Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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Chevelle's a great band, but they're certainly not as innovative, nor do they draw from as many influrences, as Korn. However, Chevelle is a cut above most music that's getting airtime on the radio. I personally prefer "Send the Pain Below." It's got a better video, too. It's more performance oriented and incredibly humble. They don't rock out so hard they break a wall of glass ten feet thick, there's no CRAZY SPECIAL EFFECTS, and there's no outlandish costumes. Just three guys standing there, playing their instruments. |
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| The White Stripes – We're Going to Be Friends Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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"I can't believe the power that's expressed in these words. It completely captures the innocence of childhood, something I wish I still had. I'm studying to be an elementary school teacher at the moment and this song expresses the very reason why."
What, you wanna molest kids? YOU LIKE TO FUCK BABY HEADS? ARE YOU A BABY HEAD FUCKER?! |
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| Dashboard Confessional – Hands Down Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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"Lost Messiah - Do you find comfort in degrading others music choice? What is your purpose in posting negative comments about music others enjoy? Does it make you feel as if you've accomplished somethign? Music is so diverse and there are so many different varities of music, you're not going to enjoy every genre of music. But, what is the purpose in degrading music others enjoy? To prove that you are feeble minded? Granted."
Just because music exists, or even because people like it, doesn't make it good music. Dashboard Confessional are shit. |
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| The All-American Rejects – Swing, Swing Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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Fucking Christ, this song is bad.
"Did you think that i would cry
On the phone?
Do you know what it feels like
Being alone?"
Welcome to lyrics with the depth of a sixth grader's journal. Yeah, asshole. YOU MUST BE THE ONLY PERSON WHO'S EVER BEEN ALONE. |
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| Tool – Forty Six & 2 Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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Fucking Christ, people. Aborigines do not have forty-four chromosomes. They are of the species homo sapiens, and therefore hafe forty-six, like us. And, wow, I'll bet you deathtards feel really stpuid now that spring is just around the corner and no celestial bodies are flying towards earth at insane velocities! You are over-analyzing this song. It is merely about the evolution of your personality, or who you are. It has nothing to do with your spirit, nothing to do with Christ, nothing to do with flipping 6 upside down until you come up with some inane theory about square numbers, and shit!! Get a life with this fucking "TooL list3n3rs are s00000 sophisticated, man!" People who listen to Tool suck. |
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| Limp Bizkit – No Sex (feat. Aaron Lewis) Lyrics
| 22 years ago
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You are idiots. Limp Bizkit's stuff only comes off funny to idiots. Their first 2 albums are actually pretty serious. They only went for stupid shit in The Chocolate Flavored Squash and the Strawberry Hot Dog Water. |
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| Dredg – 易 (Symbol Song) Lyrics
| 22 years ago
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I saw them today. They were completely awesome. It was well worth my 8 dollars (practically stolen for that cheap) and the two shit bands I had to wade through. |
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| The Dismemberment Plan – 8.5 Minutes Lyrics
| 22 years ago
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Actually, that is not "enough said." It's about what people would do if the world ended. Would they loot, and do things they could never get away with, or would they realize that they're sorry for all the crappy stuff they've done in their lives. |
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| Modest Mouse – Shit Luck Lyrics
| 22 years ago
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The best part about this song is that it would rock just as hard if it were slow and soft. Because Modest Mouse rocks either way. |
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| Rage Against the Machine – Guerrilla Radio Lyrics
| 22 years ago
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Hmm...you are all idiots. First of all, Tom Morello is the greatest fucking guitarist to play in a while, especially on the radio. He's up there with Tim Mahoney, crafting the most energizing riffs of the 20th century (21st now, and I know Rage broke up but I'm sure Tom still plays his guitar), the best rhythm guitar ever, and wailing on it every now and then. I named Tim Mahoney (of 311, duh) because they both play in genre-bending funk bands, and they both write awesome guitar music that complements rapping perfectly, while also being great soloists.
Second...Rage are definitely not politicians, and will be remembered second for their lyrics. THey will be remembered the most for writing such funky music(not weird, I mean actual "funk"), rocking grooves, and a rhythm section that is so dead-on and tight it could squeeze out a damned diamond in a week. Just because they write music that rocks, grooves, and is easy to remember, doesn't mean they should be chastised for it. The best bands are the ones you remember after you hear them, and with hooks like these, they're never leaving my mind |
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| Rage Against the Machine – Sleep Now In The Fire Lyrics
| 22 years ago
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This song has nothing to do with rape or murder. This song is sung literally from Greed's point of view. The song is a personification of greed. Greed is deep inside of our children, greed was at the heart of 'Nam ("agents of orange" refers to Agent Orange, a nerve gas used in Vietnam) and the bombing of Hiroshima.
But what really matters is that this song rocks so hard. I'm 100% serious when I say that Rage is remembered second for their lyrics, and first for their hard rocking and sweet grooves. Tom Morello is a god of guitar. |
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| 311 – Amber Lyrics
| 22 years ago
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Laugh. This song is 311 at their worst. Their lyrics have gotten progessively worse since after they put out Transistor. If you want to listen to a deep 311 song, put on "Taiyed." S.A. Martinez (the true spirit of this band) raps so effortlessly about the afterlife, you don't know whether he was just rapping or singing, and Tim Mahoney's guitar sings along in the background, with a funky groove worthy of The JBs and Average White Band. "Amber" is disappointing. |
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| Tool – Schism Lyrics
| 22 years ago
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I like to not think of Tool lyrics as having to do with "Will I sell records or not?" or "Danny and I had a fight today" or even interpreting them as having to do with relationships. To me, I always thought of Maynard as being more intelligent than someone who writes love songs, or "whine" songs, like the guys from Staind. Besides, if you're gonna interpret it as a love song, then I will counter you with an anti-love song: "The Math Song" by The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets. In between lines of a math equation and gems like, "Negative nine is so fine," and "Three is the number for me," lies the chorus: "You've got a brain, and nobody really needs another love song." |
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| Tool – Opiate Lyrics
| 22 years ago
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This can be related to Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley. He has influenced musicians before. Basically, in his book, Huxley compares religion to a drug called "soma," which is an opiate without any side effects. A character, Mustapha Mond, who is the "World Controller" for Central Europe, could be compared to the Pope or even God. He holds a large amount of the knowledge that is kept from the feeble minds of the populace of the World State, who are kept from anything that would cause them to question anything. Mond says, " 'Religion without tears - that's what soma is.' "
Therefore, it draws a parallel to this song, that religion is merely a tool to control someone, in the same way that a drug can be used. I just wrote a research paper on Brave New World, and come to think of it, I should have written it on religion as related to the book. Damn. |
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| A Perfect Circle – Rose Lyrics
| 22 years ago
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You guys should get into Burning Airlines. I'm just saying, I try to let people know about this band. They don't have any comments on this site, and I have never seen more intelligent discussions about music. They have some really great lyrics, such as:
"a moral gerrymander?" If you know what a gerrymander is, that is a great line
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"now the best you can be is the beast that they don't want to see, but you'll never get over; you're greasing the adding machine,"
They're a great band, check them out. |
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| A Perfect Circle – 3 Libras Lyrics
| 22 years ago
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I can't believe that no one has mentioned that this song could be about GOD! It is a well-known fact that many musicians have very different beliefs about God than those of other people. When I read these lyrics, they smacked of dislike for God. I see it this way: so many people get fucked up every day, that how can you prove the existence of God? He doesn't seem so benevolent if he lets humanity suffer.
It could also be interpreted that God is not really all-seeing. The obvious line is "You don't see me." Also, however,
"Flew with it on your back, a
Name in your recollection
Down among a million same
Difficult not to feel a little bit
Disappointed and passed over"
These lines could symbolize how God does not see the problems of everyone, because he is well...busy.
Satan was a fallen angel. Perhaps he is also saying not necessarily that he worships Satan, but that he also has a distrust for God because of the hardship he has endured. Perhaps he is speaking of the Libras who haev shunned him. This song could be about both things at once.
Don't forget, when a writer pens something, he does not intend for it to have only one meaning. It may be based off of an experience, but it can also be using that experience to draw a parallel to a particular theme or belief.
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| Tool – Parabol Lyrics
| 22 years ago
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I think that this song, like any good one, can be interpreted in at least two ways; I like the birth and carpe diem themes. |
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| Tool – The Patient Lyrics
| 22 years ago
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Dude, didn't you know? Maynard doesn't ever have to worry about selling records again. He has two of the most awesome rock bands ever, Tool and A Perfect Circle. He said that, oddly enough, A Perfect Circle has become all about the music, because Tool will sell records no matter what. So that is way too shallow of an interpretation, whether or not he will sell records. |
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| Tool – Forty Six & 2 Lyrics
| 22 years ago
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The title of the name does not only have to do with the Anima, it is called Ænima. It is like saying an "Anima enema," or flushing out your old self. That would relate more closely to the theme of the album, which is change. |
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| Tool – Aenema Lyrics
| 22 years ago
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Sorry for the 3 posts in a row, but the line "learn to swim" means a lot more if you interpret it as, "Learn how to live a more complete life," rather than learn how to maintain a floating position in the water. |
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| Tool – Aenema Lyrics
| 22 years ago
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Oh yeah, and I think it's closer to 10 thousand or 10 million years than 10 or 20 years. We are not in any great danger of being swallowed by the sea, my friend. |
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| Tool – Aenema Lyrics
| 22 years ago
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Argh! I'm so damn tired of all these people complaining about their lives. "I wish this would happen to the whole damn world," they say. Or they criticize capitalism, or our government/economic system. The fact of the matter is, the government is paying your welfare, and our capitalist free market system lets your daddy own his run-down gun shop. Because it's always the ones who get screwed over by our system that complain about it. You don't see Bill Gates complaning, do you? And before you say that he had luck or something, that may be true, but he didn't have much else. He was a college dropout, remember? Would you rather try your luck in France, where they're about to elect a president who is nearly fascist?
As for you wishing the world was over, we aren't missing much if you leave anyways then.
As for the song, it is a nice tongue-in-cheek look at Los Angeles, even if it is a little bit over the top. Southern California is not that bad, and I love the weather. |
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| Hed PE – Darky Lyrics
| 22 years ago
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Wow, you are deep!
Lines like "It never occured to me that skin could determine identity" and then going onto singing "I don't give a ****, never did never will" is his way of stating that skin color shouldn't matter.
"His way?" What deep lyrics! He just comes out and says it. |
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