Metaphor lyrics

[Soul of a new Machine]

Maybe someone can help me better understand this song.
As it's title is Metaphor, it suggest it doesn't really talk about what it really talk? I say it's either about a break up or a drug/alcohol addiction.

What do you think?

 

[Mr. Cactus]

you stole my pure intentions
you are the sickness in between
let me in, i'll bury the pain

you taught me to be sad as you
you almost made me take it all
let me in, i'll bury the pain

you bend me and you shake me
you make me then you break me
let me in, i'll bury the pain

you made me feel like a sinner
now you fear you'll die alone
let me in, i'll bury the pain

the sickness that you are
a plague that made me starve
do you think you can show me how i've come this far

the sickness that you are
a plague that made me starve
do you think you can show me
how i've come this far

i feel it's taking over everthing
falls dark break me open,
the desperate cry

the sickeness that you are
a plague that made me starve
do you think you can show me how i've come this far

the sickness that you are
a plague that made me starve
do you think you can show me how i've come this far

Lyrics for those who don't know them or don't feel like looking it up.

If I had to guess, I'd say it's about overcoming cocaine addiction. The line about burying the pain refers to the feeling you get after snorting it. "I feel it taking over, everything falls dark" could be a metaphor for an overdose and subsequent blackout. Fear of dying alone refers to finally casting off the addiction and the addiction dying as the drug is left behind.

 

[Soul of a new Machine]

thanks for pointing that out. It is quite logical.

 

[egonomic666]

i would say it was about his relation ship that he ended before righting the album infact most of his lyrics stem from that

 

[The Heartless]

i would say it was about his relation ship that he ended before righting the album infact most of his lyrics stem from that

i agree with that, to me it has more to do with ending a relationship than drug addiction or something like that

 

[Incendiare]

Both make sense. When I first heard it, I thought it was about a relatively traumatizing relationship.

 

[Iced In Flames]

I think its about a Gingerbread Man.

Gets molded baked, played with then broken. All he wants is a gingerbread man cookie too but he cant have one.





Maybe not....

 

[Steve]

For one thing, the extra time allowed Friden to lyrically delve more deeply into his personal life than ever before.

"I came from a really self-destructive relationship," he said. "That was almost two years ago, [but] I'm still dealing with some of those topics. It takes a while to get it out. I think even the next album will still deal with some of these topics. I mean, it took me down really heavily, so to speak. But I'm out of that now and in a new, way healthier relationship and feeling better as a person."


Source: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1457316/09042002/in_flames.jhtml

 

[Soul of a new Machine]

Thanks Steeve

 

[Steve]

you're welcome

 

[Iced In Flames]

Gingerbread man.....

 

[plfffffft]

He's told me about his current girlfriend the last few times they came to Philly. You could almost hear the angelic choir in the background when he was talking about her.

So I guess he's pretty happy these days

 

[Black Tears]

maybe it has no meaning at all...maybe they were just thinking of things that rhymed

 

[Steve]

*smacks head*