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| Leprous – The Flood Lyrics
| 1 year ago
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It is about an emotionally abusive relationship where the abuser alternates between destroying the person and making them feel good.
I've also contemplated "drown me when I reach for air" and thought this is someone who wants someone else to make sure their survival mechanism doesn't kick in when they are attempting suicide.
But I think it's about the abusive relationship. |
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| Leprous – Forced Entry Lyrics
| 3 years ago
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From the viewpoint of someone who is obsessed with someone and wants to force themselves mentally and physically on them. Or they want to murder the person and are imagining that as an intimate act that gives them something they need. Once I looked at and analyzed the lyrics I found them disturbing, so I think the song is very good while also intense and disturbing. |
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| Dream Theater – Lifting Shadows off a Dream Lyrics
| 7 years ago
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Don't get me wrong I love this song. Have loved it since age 14. This is my favorite album of all time. In many ways it's complimentary. And it's kind of my theme song b/c I'm a professional cuddler and I'm always listening to people and letting them talk and helping them feel better. But lately I've just been thinking it's a song saying women's role is to do emotional labor. This one sided relationship where one person is the talker and the other person is the listener/healer. As someone who ends up doing the emotional labor of men and women alike, over time it adds up and it's draining, always doing a little bit more than the other person and being taken for granted as this automatic healing machine. |
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| Hozier – Take Me to Church Lyrics
| 9 years ago
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I've grown to love this song. I used to think it kind of sounded like Elton John for some reason and wasn't that into it, but it really grew on me. The lyrics are truly poetic, can be interpreted lots of ways.
When I first heard it I thought it's about a woman he worships. He is the pursuer in the relationship and he treats sex/love as a religious experience (which it sometimes feels like.) In the chorus he is imploring her to let him "worship" again.
"We were born sick, but we love it" and "there is no innocence sweeter than our gentle sin" reminded me of same sex or other taboo relationships (interracial, polyamorous?) and I saw that the video was about same sex relationships. "That's a fine looking high horse/what you got in the stable?" also makes me think of religious hypocrisy, people who preach against sex and homosexuality and then are caught with their pants down.
I also think of this song because I got into a relationship with someone of a religious tradition, someone who has some cognitive dissonance between what they are supposed to do and what they want to do in their heart/body. Every time I am with them, this song gets into my head. |
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| Porcupine Tree – Anesthetize Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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Part 1 seems to be about someone trying to describe how they feel, but feeling like they're just a whiner talking about their first world problems when they probably have a nice suburban house and all that. "I'm saying nothing, but I'm saying nothing with feel" also captures some feelings of ambivalence. "The curse of 'there must be more'" is also a great line, about how people expect so many different things out of life. Sometimes they can't decide what to do, or they want to do all of them, and they end up disappointed when these things don't happen. It also sounds like someone who has most material things that they want, yet is still dissatisfied with life.
Part 2 is more of this person's feeling aimless and kind of angry, dissatisfied with material possessions. Someone who has been on psychiatric drugs can probably identify with the feeling of being drugged; when I was on prozac (forced on it as a teen) I felt like I had no feelings whatsoever, and used the word "zombie" to describe it sometimes.
Part 3 of this song...MUSICGASM. It's one of the most haunting and beautiful musical passages I've ever heard. I also haven't heard a lot of overlapping harmonies like that. I didn't spend a lot of time trying to interpret it, the lyrics didn't seem to fit with the rest of the song and I even thought maybe they were just there for the poetic sound of the words. But they could also be one of this person's early memories, maybe a traumatic memory of losing someone. |
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| Porcupine Tree – Don't Hate Me Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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A person living an ordinary life and slipping through the cracks, hardly being noticed, being desperate for some semblance of human contact, but also thinking that others won't find them interesting enough to spend time with. "Don't hate me--I'm not special like you" describe an inferiority complex pretty well. |
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| Porcupine Tree – Glass Arm Shattering Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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I interpreted it to be about new relationship energy, when you just feel like you've been knocked over by the intensity of the feelings, about the time your brain starts telling you that you love this person. Touching the person is physical but also emotional and spiritual. I think it could also describe a drug trip with a romantic partner. |
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| Porcupine Tree – Start of Something Beautiful Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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Captures how I feel about unrequited love. In particular a situation where a person thinks that it is requited, but then discovers it isn't. In the present, the person doesn't talk to the one they love anymore, and only has indirect things to remember them by. At some point in the past they allowed themselves to feel really beautiful and euphoric about the person, but they are let down and realize that the person they loved also has issues and maybe isn't as amazing as they thought (even though that doesn't stop them from hurting). This is how I've felt after I had my own whirlwind romance with a guy who seemed so amazing (intelligent, nerdy, sensitive, funny), but later gave me the "tortured intellectual" style rejection. I know he wasn't as wonderful as I originally thought, but that doesn't stop me from feeling the loss. In the song, the person sounds sad, not knowing why this happened, but also a little resigned. I feel resigned too. The middle part is so dreamy and fantasy-like, as if the music itself is describing something beautiful which was lost. The song is also subtle to me, didn't capture me immediately but now it's one of my favorites on the album. |
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| Alice in Chains – Down In A Hole Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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For me it was always about depression. Especially the line "I'd like to fly...but my wings have been so denied". Either the person has experienced so much hardship they are unable to achieve their dreams, or they have such a long habit of self-sabotaging behavior that they are way behind, and with self-awareness, chances are they're not going to suddenly get cured and suddenly soar. "Down in a hole and I don't know if I can be saved" is how people feel when they've really screwed up their lives or have a long history of depression, they don't think they can get out of it. "Put all the stones in their place" and "see my heart I decorate it like a grave" seem like a person who is resigned, sees no way out, and feels suicidal but isn't attempting suicide. "who they thought I was supposed to be" could be about people's expectations in general for being a productive person or having accomplishments. "Look at me now, a man who won't let himself be" is a person who keeps beating themselves up for their mistakes. "I've eaten the sun so my tongue has been burned of the taste" is an interesting line, sounds like the person had a history of being reckless, and they are burned out and maybe callous from it. "I have been guilty of kicking myself in the teeth" could be another line about self-sabotage. "I will speak no more of my feelings beneath" I thought of as how a depressed person doesn't want to come off as a whiner, or negative, or make people uncomfortable with how unhappy they are, or they think that nobody cares about how they feel, so they just shut up. "Losing my soul" I think of as the feeling of callousness, lack of engagement with life. This is one of the best sets of lyrics that really feelings of depression, even if it was written about something else. |
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| Alice in Chains – Junkhead Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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So yeah, this song is overtly about drug use, and my parents weren't too happy that I liked the song, but I also interpreted it more broadly as to be about defending something that society says is indefensible. Any kind of person who is looked down on, told that they are sick, disgusting, and textbook-analyzed by some expert who went to college but has never been in that situation. This is from that maligned person's point of view, and whether right or wrong, they are defending themselves not by denying, but by being proud and reveling in it. In that sense it was liberating. |
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| Alice in Chains – Dam That River Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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I didn't realize the song was about a fight. The chorus is still a great line for interpretation. I thought of it like someone was trying to keep the person from some force that was alluring but also destructive, and they couldn't, and the person was overpowered. |
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| Renaissance – Ocean Gypsy Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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I really like your interpretation of this song. I heard it ever since I was a kid and didn't think much about the lyrics. Now it is making me think of how people usually either have someone fall in love with them, or fall in love with someone, and how rarely it's reciprocal.
And The Giving Tree. It always bothered me that people thought it was a happy story, when it's about someone who takes and takes and doesn't even really think of the one who gives them so much. |
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| Rush – The Pass Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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I put this song on a mix tape when I was about 11, didn't think about it for many years, then listened to it again recently and wondered why I was so dense about the actual lyrics. When I saw the video and realized what the song was really about, I listened to it over and over again bawling my eyes out. I don't know if had I paid more attention to the lyrics, I would have developed a different thought pattern about suicide and not attempted it later, but it still is a succinct description of the feelings people often go through and why they are misguided. It says everything that it needs to say and not a word more or less, and it says it with compassion and encouragement. |
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| Rush – The Pass Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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Interesting, I thought he was saying it in the manner of "Jesus Christ!" but yeah it could also be interpreted as questioning the message that being a martyr has given to other people... |
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| Phantogram – Fall In Love Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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I first really noticed this song when it played in the car the last time I dropped off the person I was in love with. When I would say goodbye and drive home that was when it would really hit me, my brain telling me that I love him, and that it's probably not going to end well (it didn't). This is such a beautiful, euphoric yet also sad song, and I'm stuck thinking of him whenever I hear it.
Seems the main character notices that someone is in unrequited love with them, recognizes the pain the person is going through and feels responsible. Either that, or it is written from the viewpoint of "Love". ("Fall in me") |
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| Queensrÿche – Sacred Ground Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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I don't see anything in there about "you bring me to the sacred ground that only heterosexuals can have". Let me look again. Nope...nothing. |
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| Queensrÿche – The Killing Words Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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Oh, that does sound stupid...I never saw using female flesh to sell your music as very effective, when women listen to music too and get sick of it. |
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| Dream Theater – Bridges In The Sky Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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The psychedelic comment is really interesting. I thought it had to do simply with a person coming to terms with their own mortality, maybe at the end of their life, because there are lines about "the piece of me that dies will return to live again". It could be that a person on a psychedelic trip IS coming to terms with their own mortality.
The matter from lifeforms that die end up nourishing, and becoming a part of, other lifeforms, and this is what has happened since the beginning of time--this leads me to think of how interconnected living things really are.
I think Petrucci wrote the lyrics? He is Catholic but I like how he explores other spiritualities in his music too (meanwhile I'm nonreligious). |
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| Depeche Mode – Enjoy The Silence Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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For the longest time, my interpretation was that this was a song of SELF love, and it became a self-love anthem for me. I pictured a person literally embracing themselves. "All I ever needed is here in my arms". This sounded like being self-sufficient, and in control of one's own destiny, but mostly loving of the self. |
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| Queensrÿche – I Don't Believe In Love Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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This song has totally influenced how I feel about the concept of linear, monogamous, soul-mate, romantic love in the mainstream sense.
"I'll just pretend she never was real" was what I did when my best friend of 9 years broke up with me. Because friend-breakups are just as bad as relationship-breakups, sometimes. |
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| Queensrÿche – I Don't Believe In Love Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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Oh yeah, my dad hated it b/c he thought it was saying "I believe in hate". My dad was kind of dumb. He should have been glad I liked progressive rock but he even was offended by Dream Theater. |
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| Dream Theater – Space-Dye Vest Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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Best song about a broken heart...EVER.
This can be about a breakup that leads to a general depression. I identified with parts like "nowhere to set my aim, so I'm everywhere" long before I'd experienced the devastation of breakups.
The lyrics are just brilliant. The way the song goes off on tangents, with quotes (some that are meaningful, others, not so much) portrays the spaceyness and aimlessness that he feels.
Before I knew the background of the catalog-girl, I had thought the person in the song had gotten another girlfriend and "as long as she stays on the page" meant as long as she doesn't run off, or as long as he can still relate to her...but he also hints that he's just going through the motions, not really feeling what he is *supposed* to feel, not really opening his heart completely...which is a theme in the song anyway. |
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| Queensrÿche – The Killing Words Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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This might be the sexiest song Queensryche has ever done, with Geoff's voice and the lyrics combined, also the vampiric sounds in the music.
"you forced me to force you" is a great concept.
"the nightmares we shared, the poison of love so pure it's deceiving".
It sounds like the inevitable end of a dysfunctional but addictive relationship. I had one of those. |
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| Queensrÿche – Silent Lucidity Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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The official meaning of the song is about lucid dreaming. Chris Degarmo has said so. In the beginning it's someone consoling a person who had a nightmare, and then telling them that they can do amazing things in their dreams.
People are so unimaginative, thinking this to just be a love song.
I've been interested in lucid dreaming too...and this is the lucid dreaming theme song! |
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| Queensrÿche – Electric Requiem Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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"I want what you feel". She feels nothing because she is dead.
He sees her dead, is devastated, also wants to feel nothing, turns on "the current" (drugs?) to numb himself (and then forgets the whole incident and is looking for her in "Breaking the Silence")
Brilliant lyrics, conveying all of it in just a few words. |
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| Queensrÿche – The Needle Lies Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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In the context of the album it has to do with being drugged in order to do Dr. X's bidding. But in a general context it also is relevant to drug addiction.
I got this album at age 12 and it's amazing how as a kid you don't really think about the lyrics until much later... |
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| Queensrÿche – The Thin Line Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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It is definitely about sadomasochism. Although "screams of entry blur my vision" also made me think someone was getting it with a strap-on. |
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| Queensrÿche – The Thin Line Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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Yes. I first got this album when I was oh...11? And I didn't think to myself "hey, this is totally about kink!" until I was like...26? |
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| Renaissance – black flame Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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It could be about a person's relationship with their own brain, their thought processes, its creative and destructive drive. People don't have all that much control over what goes on inside their heads. These are excellent lyrics. |
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| Lush – The Childcatcher Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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It doesn't necessarily have to be about pedophilia (but could be). I always thought it was about guys approaching middle age that want to date high school girls. It goes through all the reasons why they do this. They don't have the experience that leads to wisdom, cynicism, and equal defense. It also hits on the sexism there is against being an older woman with life experience. Growing older and gaining insight happens no matter how much the man tries to find a young an inexperienced woman...she grows wiser anyway and outsmarts him in the end. |
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| Lush – When I Die Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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"Why are we sitting here, in ourselves?" is one of the best lines. It is the feeling of being trapped in one's own body. I have had this feeling sometimes when I was severely depressed. |
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| Lush – Desire Lines Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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This song always reminded me of lesbian sex, and I think it's more than just b/c I did that particular activity around the same time I got this album. It's the lyrics, and also the middle instrumental sounds like an orgasm. |
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| Dream Theater – This is the Life Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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I'm someone who beats up on myself a lot and compares myself to other people too much. I interpreted this song as a message to stop berating yourself and accept where you are in life...of course it's written by people who are self-actualized about 10 times over, so I think "easy for you to say" but I think it can be about appreciating the life you have, whatever that is. |
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| Dream Theater – The Silent Man Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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Well it's not gonna happen. I liked the albums Moore was on too, but it's ancient history. I still like them today and they're the only band that's had this consistent level of talent for such a long time. |
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| Dream Theater – Metropolis, Pt. 1: "The Miracle and the Sleeper" Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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Although I liked the lyrics, somehow the most meaningful part of this song was the instrumental. At a time when everyone else was into Green Day I was grooving to this song at top volume; especially the middle part. Its message: be as elaborately weird as you possibly can, and take pride in it!
The most liberating instrumental of my life! |
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