Topic: I'm common
Euphoric_Dissonance's photo
Thu 06/04/09 05:25 PM

I've been listening to Meshuggah for a long time but generally I write most of their lyrics off. I went combing through their stuff today and found these and just had to share them. Very dark and depressive, but I could relate to the message. See if it strikes you the same way. When it hits the verse, the singer is shouting with such vehemence that I thought each repetition of "I'm common" was "God damnit". Very emotionally charged!

Meshuggah - The Mouth Licking What You Bled

I'm the shallow, the superficial. I'm the Common Man. Faithless, Narrow Minded, Indifferent, Impassive. A Sycophantic Leech. Tantamount to Disintegrity. I'm the vulture feeding on malignancy.

I'm the sin, the lecherous sneering at prostration. I wallow in disease. I rejoice at degradation. I yawn at misery. Spit at others happiness. An advocate of manipulation. I embrace the sickening.

I'm the lost, I'm average
I'm common
I'm infection, I'm human
I'm common
A worm thriving in seas of disgust
I'm common
The mouth licking what you've bled
I'm common

I'm the pampered degenerate. I indulge my inclinations. The only words to my attention are those that I myself create. Disorder. Chaos.

I debar all order, repudiate all purity. Infatuated by contentment. I laugh at lies. Come behold the sickness in my common human eyes.

I'm the greed. The cynic. I'm the indifferent gaze. Mendacity, betrayal; this is not a phase. Ebullient with human filth, here I am. Here I stay. Flourishing in our disgrace. Blessed be the human way.

bastet126's photo
Fri 06/05/09 11:17 AM
you already know what i think!! :wink: