QUOTE(cainXcore)QUOTE(Guitarded)QUOTE(Firefly)Well I think the lyrics to gunshot are certainly very erm how should I put it awesome  :lol:  thanks for supplying the meanings guitared
No Problem Dude, but you should thank Ninju, I got it off of triviumworld.
who i think got it off me....but Im not sure.... :?
Actually I have them all in a text file on my HD.

The meanings for the ascendancy songs was great. I was reading through all of them and sometimes i feel the same way that Matt Heafy does. For 'Rain' he said that he spent most of his time alone and that's what i'm like most of the time. I can see where he is coming from.
Good work on the interpretations

Yeah...I think that most of the songs are self explanatory if you just actually listen. At least these songs have some meaning to the band!!!

QUOTE(metalfanatic87)Yeah...I think that most of the songs are self explanatory if you just actually listen.
Well you'd have to be a gump not to get the meaning of Gunshot or Dying In Your Arms

That's awesome, i had a feeling of what some of the songs were about, but i guess hearing it from the horse's mouth is the next step.
I can relate to alot of the songs, especially Dying in your arms and Departure, and to an 'extremely lesser' extend, A Gunshot to the head of trepidation. I was never raped with a broom by a family member or anything like that, but when i was younger, my parents were fairly strict about certain things, i personally don't consider getting a smack when you are naughty to be abuse, but nevertheless, that fear is there sometimes.
Alot of the lyrics about freedom to choose and not being forcefed pre-packed beleifs, i agree with very strongly, and i am someone who beleives in God and that whole deal, but i was never forced to beleive anything, and when i was younger i rebelled against the whole idea of religion pretty much because i didn't really have anything else to rebel against at the time, my mum and dad were much more laid back in their 30's than they were in their 20's, and i was pretty much just bored out of my mind. I was going to catholic school, which i was expelled from, and i just turned into a little freak.
I don't agree with the idea of organised religions scaring people into beleiving things, and i realised that this doesn't mean i have to sacrafice one beleif in favour of another, i also realised that i was angry at people, not at God.
Any of you people on here who are satanists, christians, athiests, or anything else, good on you for beleiving what you beleive, and good on you for believing in something, because after all, if you have nothing to beleive in, then how can you beleive in yourself?

Sweet idea man! Thx

There we go, cleaned the thread up a bit. Enjoy.

QUOTE(Jaysin)“ASCENDANCY” SONG INTERPRETATIONS (BY MATTHEW K. HEAFY)
1. Rain.  
Rain is a very personal track about the way I felt about life during a period where I spent much of my time alone - agonizing in anxiety and boredom, failed expectations and treachery from so many I confided in. It seemed like all the while that I was going through this, the whole world kept moving along, happy and content with itself. The last lines of the song are to the world's happiness personified- and all I wanted to do was to kill that happiness, choke out it's every last breath.
2. Pull Harder on the Strings of your Martyr.  
Pull Harder is a look at a villainous tyrant; one who can simply kill and destroy on will, push his faith upon all, be hated by all other powers around - and still be loved by many that he rules.
3. Drowned and Torn Asunder.  
Drowned can be applied to any macro or microcosm/ era or life. Speaking of micro- this can be about a child living entangled in their parents tyrannical ways; in macro terms- about a people living in a mind-controlled dictatorship. Either way this is an anthem to the rebellion of self-empowerment and breaking free.
4. Ascendancy.  
I think the loss of innocence is a time when you realize how truly fucked up the world around you is. This album, as a whole, deals lyrically with many realizations based on this theme. “Ascendancy”, to me, means the overcoming of life's obstacles; to rise above everything that once held me down- and to realize and overcome the corruption of the world around me.
5. A Gunshot to the Head of Trepidation.  
It's a sad and sickening thought that some people live in fear of their own families. Whether spousal abuse, child abuse, neglect or sexual abuse- it's all tragic on a life threatening scale. Monsters will create monsters through their own actions. This song reflects the outright anger that I have for these people who think they can harm another in their own family.

6. Like Light to the Flies.  
This song is about people's attraction to all forms of tragedy. It seems like everywhere you turn to today (e.g., television, newspaper, magazine, movies, etc.) it's all about murder, violence, war, cruelty- and it's because this is what sells; people are totally captivated by subjects in this vein. We are the flies.

7. Dying in Your Arms.  
Being with someone can be like an addiction. Gradually, you can't stand to be without them, everything you once enjoyed- you no longer care about, you become weak and dependent. Like a heroin addiction - you think you can't live without it, but you're gradually dying inside and out. Break free.
8. The Deceived.  
The idea of perfection and utopia brought about by a unified religion or any other system of life is a ludicrous impossibility. It is also a scary thought that people live their lives dependent entirely on upon the principles of a blind faith. It is in our right to break free of helpless conformity.
9. Suffocating Sight.  
Instability, insecurity, and stress wrote this song. “Suffocating” is a look into my personal issues and peculiarities that I go though and recognize. The 'shore' and 'shipwrecked' lines were written at a time I was out by the ocean; 'shore' represents people, 'novel' represents songs and lyrics that I will write about my 'shipwrecked' (disturbed) self.
10. Departure.  
Suicide is a thought that grazes the minds of many; and in any case, it isn't worth it. “Departure” is about every thought and emotion that myself and many have gone through. This song shows that you're not alone and that others have gone through the same and have overcome.
11. Declaration.  
It's time to take action against those who are poisoning this world. The powers that be are telling us how to live our lives, trying to force feed us their fucked up morals. The truth is that "all men are created equal" "no matter race or creed or gender" and it is in the responsibility of the youth to take a stand against the hate that the dictators of this country are creating. Our country is teaching hate against other races thanks to a redneck retaliation agenda, our country is preaching hate against love between people because of their sex, our country is segregating itself in it's methods and it is time to break free. "Burn the scriptures, bury the governing, free yourself, break the structures, declare freedom."
You forgot these 2 songs that are off Ascendancy as well Jaysin.
Blinding Tears Will Break The Skies
There are many who fight for the freedoms that we have today, and for each there is an opposing negativity- albeit person or personal obstacle. As long as we each stay true to what we are, and fight for what we are- we will never lose.
Washing Away Me In The Tides
A song about the outrage and unbridled anger I felt about someone. Writing this song was my release so that I could express myself in musical retaliation, not in a physical disaster.

wow, he is one articulate dude!

QUOTE(Sicko)I never read the little book things.. don't really see the point. unless they have lyrics on them.
man, i cant stop laughin at ur sig.
thats just great