 Genius Meanings
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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 – CUBErt (Demo)
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[Verse 1: Serj Tankian] / Preflight delight / Defaced street lights / A pyramid mind fuck / Don't leave your seats now / [Chorus: Serj Tankian] / Popcorn everywhere, canned
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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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8-Bit Arcade – Atwa (8-Bit System Of A Down Emulation)
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[Instrumental]
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System Of A Down – Slow
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[Verse 1] / The piercing radiant moon / The storming of poor June / All the life running through her hair / Approaching guiding light / Our shallow years in fright / Dreams are
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System Of A Down – Metro (Demo)
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[Verse 1] / I'm alone, sitting with my broken glass / My four walls follow me through my past / I was on a Paris train / I emerged in London rain / And you were waiting there
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System Of A Down – Blue
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“Blue” is a song originally found on SOAD’s 1997 Demo Tape 4. The song was later re-recorded and used on Serj Tankian’s 2007 solo album Elect the Dead.
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System Of A Down – Marmalade (Demo)
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[Verse 1: Serj Tankian] / Stretching, filing, against her skin / Blessed are those who are not kin / In sin, we breathe; in sex, we tie / Duct tape her legs to the red sky
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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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – Mind (Demo)
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[Intro: Serj Tankian] / Oh, baby, come close to me / Let me love you / Oh, baby, come close to me / Let me feel you / Look at each other, look at each other / Look at each other
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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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – Darts (Demo)
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[Verse 1: Serj Tankian] / May I please remain in this space / For darts screech by my desires / May I please remain in this space / For darts screech by my desires / [Chorus: 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 – Suite-Pee (Demo Tape 4)
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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 – Sugar (Demo Tape 4)
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[Intro: Serj Tankian & Daron Malakian] / The Kombucha mushroom people / Sitting around all day / Sugar / Sugar / [Verse 1: Serj Tankian & Daron Malakian] / I'm not there all the
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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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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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Serj Tankian – Occupied Tears
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This song is about the Zionist occupation of Palestine, and their stranglehold on The West Bank and Gaza Strip.
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