System of a Down - Peephole Lyrics Meaning
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Feb 23rd 2011!⃝Ummmm, as a writer and musician sometimes we have to say one thing and mean another for many reasons. i know for a fact "not mentioning any names at the record company" that this song is a metaphor for sex !...period ! when we orgazm the body releases endorphins wich are the bodies natural pain killers and YES it can give you a euphoric stoned feeling hence the song title basicly gives you a clue to what the song is about without actually saying it in the lyrics. can you say (METAPHORE) ? this is a big duh for those of us that actualy write this way and is the cause for so much scrutiny over lyrics and is also the reason censorship has been weekend. We have had to get more creative over the years to get our message across because of censorship so you will find more often than none that songs will say one thing but mean something totaly different with the song title as a clue for those who want more than just the song. When you read lyrics do it with an open mind this isn't the 60's anymore we have to mask our message ! Believe it or not it all started with the Beatles :
example : "lucy in the sky with diamonds" -- Many people thought this was about drugs, since the letters "LSD" are prominent in the title, and John Lennon, who wrote it, was known to drop acid. In 1971 Lennon told Rolling Stone that he swore that he had no idea that the song's initials spelt L.S.D. He added: "I didn't even see it on the label. I didn't look at the initials. I don't look - I mean I never play things backwards. I listened to it as I made it. It's like there will be things on this one, if you fiddle about with it. I don't know what they are. Every time after that though I would look at the titles to see what it said, and usually they never said anything."
The "Lucy" who inspired this song was Lucy O'Donnell (later Lucy Vodden), who was a classmate of John's son Julian Lennon when he was enrolled at the private Heath House School, in Weybridge, Surrey. It was in a 1975 interview that Lennon said "Julian came in one day with a picture about a school friend of his named Lucy. He had sketched in some stars in the sky and called it Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds."
The identity of the real Lucy was confirmed by Julian in 2009 when she died of complications from Lupus. Lennon re-connected with her after she appeared on a BBC broadcast where she stated: "I remember Julian and I both doing pictures on a double-sided easel, throwing paint at each other, much to the horror of the classroom attendant… Julian had painted a picture and on that particular day his father turned up with the chauffeur to pick him up from school."