The Music Thread (Page 12 of 22)

I like Muse though I'm not their biggest fan just because they're so derivative of Radiohead/Jeff Buckley/Queen. Yet, I always seem to end up with their albums. The new one, Black Holes & Revelations, has some mighty interesting lyrics. The lead singer, who has always been into conspiracy theories, is getting kinda gutsy! There's an article in The Guardian talking about the same (although I think they misquote the lyrics of Exo-politics -- it's not  "diseases fill the sky"  but  "Zetas fill the skies.")

See article here if you're interested:
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/omm/revi … 30,00.html

Exo-Politics

Open skies over me,
I have waited patiently,
I wait for a sign.

As conspiracies unwind,
Will you slam shut,
Or free your mind,
or stay hypnotised.

When the zetas fill the skies,
Will our leaders tell us why,
Fully loaded satelites,
We'll tell you nothing but our minds.

And I've waited patiently,
And I wait for the sign.

Carried through the centuries,
Secrets locked up,
And loaded on my back,
Well it weights me down.

When the zetas fill the skies,
It's just our leaders in disguise,
Fully loaded satelites,
We can't get nothing but our minds.

I'm waiting patiently,
And I wait for the sign. (Yeah).
I'm waiting patiently,
And I wait for the sign

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Assassin

War is overdue
The time has come for you
To shoot your leaders down
Join forces underground

Lose control
Increasing pace
Warped and bewitched
Intention erased

Whatever they say
These people are torn
Wild and bereft
Assassin is born

Oppose and disagree
Destroy demonocracy

Lose control
Increasing pace
Warped and bewitched
Intention erased

Whatever they say
These people are torn
Wild and bereft
Assassin is born

I have Jesse Cook's Vertigo and I LOVE IT!

Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.
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Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we might as well dance.
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If you spin around on your chair really fast, things around here will make a lot more sense.

Yea, pretty sure that's the guy from NWA or something or other - "I get a letter from the government . . . like every day . . . I wait and watch and call 'em all suckas . . . they wanted me for Osama or whatever . . . picture me buying the scam I said never" - that line is a straight take from his olden days of rapping with the other group (before they went politically aware and started exposing the powers that be)

I have their album - all of their songs go into detail concerning the history of the conspiracy and how it has become what it is now. The beginning of the first song features a mosaic of cut up Bush speeches re-arranged and pieced back together forming a message which more clearly illustrates the intentions of his administration. "Americans are being caught up in an international dragnet. It has everything to do with hate and evil . . . and murder and prejudice. America is strong." I'll upload a song later.

Awhile back, montalk asked if what resonates with us could be called "the soundtrack of our lives", damn straight I cannot think of a better way to put it.

Here are some lyrics from bands I mentioned way earlier in the thread, whether you like metal or not, I think many here will appreciate these.

"Provoke" by Earth Crisis

a fraction of a fraction
sets the new rules to follow
bind the hands of those who resist
to gag the mouths of all the rest

crush the fight out of those who persist
censor beliefs not allowed to exist
create a state of mass confusion
provoke a response from the trapped victim

LAST of the last of the last of the sane
hated and scorned for the truth that's possessed
last of the last of the last of the sane
now the most persecuted

created an illusion, to trap the prey inside
of the delusion that is forced into our minds
the thought police are winning
infiltrating our brain
to own the soul and body is their point of the game
surest way to bring them down
is to beat the negativity into them
watch them lock into self destruct mode
crush the fight out of the demons
while there is still time

"Escape" by Earth Crisis

conditioned to turn away
from all that was meant to be
programmed to be a machine
locked into chemical captivity
swim out into the darkness
won't return until it's accomplished
sanity lost in madness
obey the orders transmitted

obsessed to tranquilize
white light satiates
the fury that possesses
in their hands there's no escape

controlled by the ones above
from afar they watch and wait
through the deep, search and locate
lock on, assault, exterminate

for the ones killed there was no hate
sent on a mission to obliterate
return to enemy hands
the ones who dictate my commands

break FREE, EVADE the masters
NOT theirs to dominate
OVERcome conditioning
realize time to ESCAPE

and this album is from 2000.......wow

"Ancestry of the antichrist"
           by Byzantine

a fabrication woven from a burning Bush
sent thousands to expire in the desert for oil
our trust floats away in a pool of it's own blood
snuffed out by our leaders to annex the soil

fire at will

let me reiterate we have bought into the scam
Halliburton's running uncle sam
paying our solidarity
abusing our military might
we have to stand up and fight
we cannot cave in now
we have to sacrifice all these sacred cows
forging our solidarity
to upend a civilization
that we do not decree

fire at will

we lived so arrogantly
until the trumpets screamed
and burned the tips of the angels wings
so I'll die in shameful agony
knowing the antichrist
has a southern drawl just like me

this war ignites the flames of anarchy
feeding on the sands of time
let's pass the bill to kill our supremacy
I'll be the first in line

fire at will
fire at will
fire at our freewill

..............more to come              J

you know, it was either NWA or something or other, but he was old school from the '80s and whatnot

Thanks, but next time try http://www.verzend.be to upload your files.

I can only go by the metal that I have heard.

I hope my comments weren't taken as a condemnation of the entire genre since I know little about it.

But, with the exception of Led Zeppelin or Deep Purple I haven't heard much to draw me in, although I like that sonng at the end of The Matrix so I'm sure there is metal music that I could fit into my life. When I need a quick shot of energy I like to listen to loud direct music like Stevie Ray Vaughan or Robin Trower

I don't consider lyrics to be music either.

Lyrics are poetry.