once-only-imagined &laquo; WordPress.com Tag Feed http://en.wordpress.com/tag/once-only-imagined/ Feed of posts on WordPress.com tagged "once-only-imagined" Sat, 25 May 2013 22:28:48 +0000 http://en.wordpress.com/tags/ en <![CDATA[The Agonist: Rise And Fall]]> http://hailthehero.com/2012/05/29/the-agonist-rise-and-fall/ Tue, 29 May 2012 09:14:36 +0000 arcanerecords http://hailthehero.com/2012/05/29/the-agonist-rise-and-fall/ <![CDATA[The Agonist - Business Suits and Combat Boots]]> http://davedamian.wordpress.com/2011/01/20/the-agonist-business-suits-and-combat-boots/ Thu, 20 Jan 2011 22:47:44 +0000 davedamian http://davedamian.wordpress.com/2011/01/20/the-agonist-business-suits-and-combat-boots/ Here is one of my favorite songs to date, if anyone is complaining why my first post is about a metal song, the reason why is because it’s a great song, it’s the song I’m listening to as-I-write, and I just randomly chose  the subject which my first real post was gonna be about, here it goes:

Song: Business suits and Combat Boots

Artist: The Agonist

Album: Once Only Imagined

Year: 2007

Label: Century Media

Lyrics!: (by Metal Archives)

Does history guide you, or do you set out to change it?
Breach not broken

Fuck your…
Skinned- alive designer wear
Fashion shades and salon hair
Heels to help where nature failed
Artificial teeth and nails

The wasp’s nest expands

So clap your hands! It’s her!
The one black woman who’s success you don’t credit to Affirmative Action
The way of the future is corporate sponsors raising your kids
Maternal love is nothing compared to what $7 gives
Put in, suck out plastic body parts
It’s the ever-growing industry of cosmetic arts!
Bombarded with the idealized shots, dysmorphic, self-destructive plots

Physical flaws are a mental blank

So pay your surgeons
It�s your parents you should thank

These eyes are blind to several hundred left behind
(Lest we forget again)
But the border is breached but not broken
Who tries to find the several hundred left behind,
When the border is breached but not broken?

Go-existing in a twisted society
Where youth is a crime and wasteful sweat-shops expenditures are how luxury is defined
Now the KKK has found a new masquerade
Fuck your self-proclaimed supremacy
You hide your face and your shame!

Identify right and wrong when all fact is merely opinion
You cannot know the sweetness of victory without first dwelling in the agony of defeat

These eyes are blind to several hundred left behind
(Lest we forget again)
But the border is breached but not broken
Who tries to find the several hundred left behind,
When the border is breached but not broken?

A little review on the song/lyrics: In this song for my taste, the lyrics are a little too literal, I think that metal songs about social issues should be a little more ‘poetic’ so to say, not too straight forward, and Alissa’s vocals sound a little too forced (if by any random chance any of the members of The Agonist is reading this post, no complains on the song guys!), but EVERYTHING ELSE IS JUST FUCKING GREAT!!!!!!!!!!

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