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System Of A Down – Chop Suey!
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Rick Rubin, who produced Toxicity for System of a Down, cites this song as one of his most important projects. He told Rolling Stone:
This song was originally going to be called “
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System Of A Down – B.Y.O.B.
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“B.Y.O.B.” (“Bring Your Own Bombs”) is the first single released from American heavy metal band System of a Down’s fourth album Mezmerize.
Like their earlier song “Boom!,” it was
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System Of A Down – Know
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“Know” is the second track from System of a Down’s self-titled album. The song was mainly written around the idea of religion, within the lyrics there are multiple references to
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System Of A Down – Suggestions
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“Suggestions” talks about the media and how the authority treats you as nothing. The whole song is a metaphor with the storyline of a ship that is being attacked by another
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System Of A Down – Darts
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“Why do old societies hold the pantheon of 12 gods to be true, while modern societies generally have one God?” – footnote from the booklet for the album
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System Of A Down – Psycho
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“Psycho” is a song that talks about heavy metal and all the things around this music genre. Groupies, a kind of people that tries to be in a relationship with a band member. Being
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System Of A Down – Protect the Land
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Initially intended for the next Scars On Broadway album, “Protect The Land” ended up in System’s hands after Daron—who wrote it—sent the track to his bandmates in System. To the
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System Of A Down – Roulette
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This song’s composition is very atypical for a SOAD song; definitely not metal, and hardly rock. Additionally, the lyrics are considerably more literal (less Dadaist) than the rest
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System Of A Down – Toxicity
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“Toxicity” is one of System of a Down’s biggest hits, the song reached No. 70 on Billboard Hot 100 and No. 3 on Mainstream Rock chart. During a performance at the 2005 Download
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System Of A Down – Innervision
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“Innervision” is a melodic but aggressive track in which Serj Tankian appears to look inward whilst searching for the answers to life and the universe. The bridge is indicative of
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System Of A Down – Shimmy
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“Shimmy” talks, basically, about the mind control of the people. For example, Serj just screams orders in the imperative mood, inducing the people’s mind control. The bridge
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System Of A Down – Tentative
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“Tentative” is a war stance, in which Serj and Daron sing from the perspective of bombing victims—innocent and vulnerable people, crying out to those in charge to save them.
Serj
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System Of A Down – Mind
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“Mind” talks about government mind control, a recurrent theme by the band. As Serj Tankian says, for the government “Freethinkers are dangerous” and because of it, they brainwash
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System Of A Down – Boom!
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“Boom!” is anti-war and directly related to the declaration of war with Iraq. The video clip was directed by Michael Moore and shows footage of the largest protest in the world
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System Of A Down – P.L.U.C.K.
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All the members in System are of Armenian descent and outspoken about their views of the Armenian Genocide of 1915. This song is a giant middle finger to the Turkish government, as
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System Of A Down – X
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“X” (Multiply) is a song about immigration, overpopulation, and the Armenian Genocide of 1915 (a topic that is touched on in many of SOAD’s songs). The 2006 movie Screamers, which
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System Of A Down – Soil
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“Soil” talks about suicide and depression and is dedicated to a friend of the band who committed suicide. Also, “Soil” was the band’s previous name.
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System Of A Down – Peephole
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The song is considerably less thrash metal oriented than most of the other songs on the record, with the chorus being heavier, and the verses having a more polka oriented sound
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System Of A Down – Dreaming
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“Dreaming” talks about the world citizens, and about how they’re, sometimes, careless about what’s around them. The song is based on a poem by vocalist Serj Tankian called “Bottled
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System Of A Down – Attack
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“Attack” starts off Hypnotize with a bang—some would argue the song attacks your ears. The track is sonically the polar opposite of its sister album, Mezmerize’s intro “Soldier
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System Of A Down – Spiders
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“Spiders” is the second single for System of a Down’s debut album. It speaks of June, a girl going through a procedure to insert a v-chip in her brain, controlling her thoughts and
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System Of A Down – Revenga
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This song is about seeking revenge for the loss of a child called ‘Clementine.’ The song is mainly about an abortion that took place against the father’s will. Since the decision
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System Of A Down (Ft. Arto Tunçboyacıyan) – Bubbles
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“Bubbles” uses a prolonged metaphor of life as a ‘bubble jungle’, which could mean a plethora of things, but the pairing of fish would suggest that it’s describing the ocean. The
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System Of A Down – A.D.D. (American Dream Denial)
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“A.D.D” is also a disorder known as Attention Deficit Disorder. The disorder can cause absent-mindedness, difficulty focusing, forgetfulness, or the combination of all three (plus
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System Of A Down – Aerials
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“Aerials” was released in June, 2002 as the third single from System of a Down’s second album Toxicity, which itself was released in September, 2001. It was critically and
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System Of A Down – Streamline
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[Intro: Serj Tankian] / I wasn't there for you / I wasn't there for you / [Verse 1: Serj Tankian] / I know weather's gonna be fine / But I can't see you 'cross the streamline / My
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System Of A Down – Pictures
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[Verse 1: Serj Tankian] / Flaunt your will at every wheel / Perish it, your chocolate soul / Cobblestones under your wheels / [Chorus: Serj Tankian & Daron Malakian] / I got
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System Of A Down (Ft. Arto Tunçboyacıyan) – Science
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This song details the negative effects science has had upon our society. While it is more often than not hailed in a positive ‘omniscient’ light, Serj believes it has robbed us of
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System Of A Down – Thetawaves
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System of a Down has two demo versions of “Thetawaves,” both in Toxicity II, by the names of “Waiting For You (Version 1)” and “Waiting For You (Version 2).”
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System Of A Down – Metro
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This song is a cover of Berlin’s song “The Metro”, being featured on the soundtracks of Dracula 2000 and Not Another Teen Movie, as well as being on some official releases from the
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System Of A Down – Genocidal Humanoidz
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This song was written in response to the acts of terrorism done by Azerbaijan with the help of Turkey towards the people of Armenia and Artsakh, also known as Nagorno-Karabakh
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System Of A Down – Sugar
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Like many System of a Down songs, “Sugar” doesn’t have a specific meaning. The term “sugar” is a well-known euphemism for cocaine, which has even worse addictive effects than sugar
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System Of A Down – Forest
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Besides environmental aspects, this song could be viewed as a dialogue between God and Jesus. The line “make the forest turn to wine” certainly alludes to this. When talking about
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System Of A Down – Highway Song
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[Verse 1: Serj Tankian] / I need, I feel, a love, you love to love the fear / I never want to be alone, I've forgotten to / The road keeps moving the clouds, the clouds become
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System Of A Down – Lonely Day
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“Lonely Day” is a song by System of a Down, from Hypnotize. Contrary to popular belief, this song is not about Daron Malakian’s brother, because he is an only child. He wrote this
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System Of A Down – Fuck the System
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If the title of the song wasn’t clue enough; this song is just a big fuck you to the system.
A lot of the band’s personal work goes toward preventing/spreading awareness of war
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System Of A Down – 36
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“36” is named so because it is SOAD’S 36th track on their entire discography. Also, on the leaked version of Steal this Album! (called Toxicity II), this track was originally
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System Of A Down – CUBErt
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“CUBErt” talks about how society is becoming dumber every day, everyone is cliche. How we blindly follow authority without question, we just sit back and watch our society crumble
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System Of A Down – Holy Mountains
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“Holy Mountains” references Mount Ararat—an important symbol in Armenian culture—and details that the souls lost to the Armenian Genocide have returned to rest here.
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System Of A Down – Ego Brain
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Man made shame
This line is the crux of the whole song. It states that humanity as a collective clings to the Ego, believing it to be as real as the source, to our own detriment
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System Of A Down – U-Fig
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“U-Fig” is an abbreviation for “You Flag-waving Ignorant Geeks.” It strongly criticizes the military’s propaganda by extracting the key message as ‘die for us’ and ‘kill for us and
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System Of A Down – Friik
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“Friik” is a demo that originally appeared on System of a Down’s fourth demo tape. The tape was never officially released to the public, having been recorded solely for the purpose
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System Of A Down – Fortress
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“Fortress”, also known as “Outer Space”, is one of two songs from Toxicity Sessions/Toxicity II that never made it to Steal This Album!, the other being “Virgin Tea”, also known as
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System Of A Down – Kill Rock ‘n Roll
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“Kill Rock n' Roll” by System of a Down is the third track from the band’s fifth album, Hypnotize. Written by Daron Malakian, “Kill Rock n' Roll” is about a rabbit Daron ran over
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System Of A Down – Hypnotize
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“Hypnotize” is the eponymous debut single of System of a Down’s fifth album. The song was written after the Tienanmen Square protest, but, in general, it talks about how
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System Of A Down – Johnny
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Johnny was the B-side of the “Chop Suey!” single.
While it is unknown what this song is about, it has been theorized that this song is about multiple personality disorder; Johnny
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System Of A Down – Stealing Society
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“Stealing Society” apparently deals with the degradation of society, and how drug abuse and gang violence contribute to the decline. Unfortunately, the song was never played in
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