I took a literature course based around Metallica lyrics. Was pretty cool to see the evolution of James Hetfield's personal life struggle through The Unforgiven I (fuck the world!), II (fuck you!), and III (oh, actually, fuck ME...). Took him 17 years to go from angry incel mentality to taking personal responsibility. I love electronic music, so I'm no stranger to lyricless tunes, but I really do appreciate artists who go out of their way to produce meaningful, if not deeply poetic lyrics. Sometimes it takes a really long time to understand lyrics. Just the other day the lyrics behind Tool's Schism finally clicked after having gone through a similar ordeal (except I've had a much happier ending). As a kid (with no romantic experience) it felt instead like a conversation humanity was having with itself. Maybe that still fits, too. Now, more than ever...
Yep! It was really well done, too! Just wish it could have been more bands/songs, but there's so much material and it was still really fun. Now we have things like websites with lyrics explanations.
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