"the dynamite is waiting cause they bankrupted the sky"
it sounds cool but I'm not sure of the significance, what do u guys thik it means?
The dynamite is waiting...
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Well, usually if a business bankrupts, and no one wants the empty building (because that business had to move out), they'd take that one down (dynamite), and build a new one, or leave the lot bare.
It's a really complicated metaphore. I think it may be about how corporations seem to be taking over everything, even, in this case, the sky.
But, I have no idea. That's just a wild guess.
It's a really complicated metaphore. I think it may be about how corporations seem to be taking over everything, even, in this case, the sky.
But, I have no idea. That's just a wild guess.
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ooo that never before made so much sense to me...-
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Raine said that he likes to have his lyrics open to multiple meanings. They can mean whatever you want them to mean. 
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Every now and then I fall out into open air just to feel the wind, rain and everything.
And though the hum and sway gets me down, I'll find the way to peace and openness.
"Robbo" - © Alex (happeningfish)...^5 ^5 v v
Every now and then I fall out into open air just to feel the wind, rain and everything.
And though the hum and sway gets me down, I'll find the way to peace and openness.
"Robbo" - © Alex (happeningfish)...^5 ^5 v v
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I think it kinda means we've taken everything we could from something to the point where it needs to be destroyed because there's no more use for it
I can't wait until the day schools are over-funded and the military is forced to hold bake sales to buy planes.
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Re: The dynamite is waiting...
starseed_10 wrote:"the dynamite is waiting cause they bankrupted the sky"
it sounds cool but I'm not sure of the significance, what do u guys thik it means?
Yeah! That's one that I've thought about... I have a few interpretations of it! I've thought it could have a sort of environmental idea... like we've destroyed a lot of the atmosphere (pollution) to the point of no return. But then again, I don't think the lyrics are meant to be that literal. I don't know.
And then the idea of exhausting something to the point where it is completely useless.
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Bananababy wrote:I love Carnival....
That's exactly what that line means!
I faced death. I went in with my arms swinging. But I heard my own breath and had to face that I'm still living. I'm still flesh. I hold on to awful feelings. I'm not dead... My chest still draws breath. I hold it. I'm buoyant. There's no end.
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I have become the Amish Mouse of the board. I say anything, and some one always starts shit with me. Three times in the past week has some one jumped down my throat for doing the same thing anyone else on the board would do, give an opinion about music. So when I eventually get banned or leave the board, some one on here who actually has an opinion will become me and become everyone's bitch. Just remember, opinions will always start fights, even if some one asks you for one.
I faced death. I went in with my arms swinging. But I heard my own breath and had to face that I'm still living. I'm still flesh. I hold on to awful feelings. I'm not dead... My chest still draws breath. I hold it. I'm buoyant. There's no end.
oooo...I never really tried to interpret that line before, although I've given a lot of thought about the meaning of Carnival as a whole. Okay, here's my best stab at an interpretation. I think it has to do with us, mankind, draining the world of all it's natural beauty...bankrupting the sky, the sun, the beauty of it, and then replacing it with a cheap manmade alternative, dynamite. We've taken away the sun and we're going to replace it with cheap fire crackers..hehe. I'm not too sure what it means, but I interpret it as having something to do with draining the world of it's natural beauty. We don't have the beauty of what the sky has to offer us so we resort to amateur pyrotechnics. Okay, my interpretation is a bit of a stretch I know..hehe...but it's more fan that way.
I also like the one Ax came up with. Very literal and I never thought of it that way.
I also like the one Ax came up with. Very literal and I never thought of it that way.
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Really good ones guys, I've wondered about that lyric before, too.
I thought it meant morally. "The dynamite is waiting, cuz we bankrupted teh sky". Basically we're screwed so bad, let's finish it all off". Kind of pessimistic, but that's how I took it.
I thought it meant morally. "The dynamite is waiting, cuz we bankrupted teh sky". Basically we're screwed so bad, let's finish it all off". Kind of pessimistic, but that's how I took it.
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