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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 – Peephole (Demo)
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[Verse 1: Serj Tankian] / When your stars are baked and your rivers fly / Do you ever believe you were stuck in the sky / When your castle breaks and your feet are dry / Do you
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8-Bit Arcade – Peephole
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[Instrumental]
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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 – Live @ Whisky a Go-Go (1997) Live Versions
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See all of “Live @ Whisky a Go-Go (1997)” by System Of A Down’s live versions
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System Of A Down – Suite-Pee
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The opening track of System of a Down’s first album is, in general, a criticism about pedophile cases in churches and extremely religious people, it isn’t criticizing people’s
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System Of A Down – Live @ Whisky a Go-Go (1997)
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[Know | 0:00] / (Alright!) / Cursed Earth! / Cursed Earth! / Cursed Earth! / Cursed Earth! / I will never feed off the evergreen luster of your heart / All because we all live in
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System Of A Down – Know (Demo)
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[Intro: Serj Tankian] / Cursed Earth! / Cursed Earth! / Cursed Earth! / Cursed Earth! / [Verse 1: Serj Tankian] / I will never feed off the evergreen luster of your heart / All
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System Of A Down – War? (Demo)
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[Verse 1: Serj Tankian] / Dark is the light, the man you fight with all your prayers, incantations / Running away, a trivial day of judgment and deliverance / To whom was sold this
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8-Bit Arcade – Psycho (8-Bit System of a Down Emulation)
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[Instrumental]
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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 – 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 – Marmalade
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In the Denver concert in 2000, before the song, Daron describes the song as “a song about sex”
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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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – DDevil
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“DDevil” talks about plagiarism, the first verse is self-explanatory and ‘refrigerator’ is a metaphor for the ones that stole. But it also talks about the media,
Double D’s
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System Of A Down – Störagéd
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“Störagéd” seems to be a slightly abstract song about individuality in which the singer uses allusions to abortion. The verses speak of growth, stagnation, and change. In the
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System Of A Down – Suite-Pee (Live)
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[Verse 1: Serj Tankian] / I had an out of body experience / The other day her name was Jesus / And for her, everyone cried / Everyone cried, everyone cried / [Chorus: Serj Tankian
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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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8-Bit Arcade – Legend of Zelda
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[Instrumental]
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System Of A Down – War?
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In this song, System of a Down denounces the reason behind every war: power struggles, using the Christian Inquisition and modern warfare on the Middle East as examples. The song
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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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8-Bit Arcade – Violent Pornography
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[Instrumental]
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Hayku Kyah – Gunfyre
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Death to the warlords / This world is not yours / These bodies are not commodity / Nor currency / Collateral for damages / Financial status turned the world into scavengers / They
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Drag-On – Snipe Out
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[Drag-On] / We the niggas that y'all niggas wish y'all can blaze that / We put niggas where they can't get their days back / So gone brush your hair nigga, we knock off wave caps
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The Kleenrz – Melancholia
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If life is a circus then I'm the creep Show There's an eye that stares back into your peep hole / Normally when you sleep the slaughter house is where the sheep go / You hear moans
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Big L – All Black
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Off Big L’s magnum opus, Lifestylez ov da Poor & Dangerous, he warns other rappers to watch out or he will attempt actual murder. All black referring to the suits worn at funerals
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Kungg Fuu – Vladimir
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[Intro] / Tha-motherfuckin'-God on the beat, man / Yeah / [Verse 1] / Got me livin' like Al Pacino, after C-notes / I'll blast your punk ass through your peephole (uh-huh) / You
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iitscxm – Benz
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[Chorus] / Got the Benz in the back back / If we take it out now we ain’t ever gotta bring it back / Got the Benz in the back back / I be running from my problems like I’m racin on
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