Aerials

[Anastacia]

Could someone please give me a short interpretation? I really love this song and I think it has great lyrics but I don't get them...

[Dr. Rosenpenis]

Never really paid attention to the lyrics, I don't even like that song, in fact.
I don't like System of a Down at all either, so i don't know why i'm responding.

[hobosexual]

yea... why are you responding?

who cares how other ppl interpret the song but how you do? ;)

[Anastacia]

Well... Hard to explain. I hardly understand it in finnish so I really can't tell you in english.

[leftist manson]

hey
hey
so someone finally asked about the new anti-imperialism voice
yup
'system of a down'
well
the song is about drugs,sex and rockn'roll and everything that the fucking capitalist hedonists rant about
hey they have even interpreted rock and metal according to their own judgement.it is not about just getting drunk and partying with a fashion model
it is evryuthing from enjoyment to politics and everything is in their control :(

[Knowledge 6 6 6]

Yeah Aerials is one of my favourite songs off Toxicity...

Deer Dance is also friggin awesome.

just listen to it. Nuff said.

[hazard]

I thought it was spelt ariel

and it went "ariel's, in the sky"

and I remember reading somwhere that ariel was one of God's angels

and so the sog was like about God's angel in the sky

which has to do with being one with the river and putting up our walls and stuff

but now I dunno

I like my interpretation anyway

[sickofyou]

i think its open to lots of different interpretations, but the underlining impression i got was of the rivers of blood running throghout our bodies. Like a waterfall we are trapped until we are forced to lose ourselves and go over the wall. Meanwhile the part about the ariels being up in the air i have no idea, and would have 2agree with hazard.

;(the song is about crazy ppl. sick

[Purple]

Aerials

Life is a waterfall
we're one in the river
and one again after the fall
swimming through the void
we hear the word
we lose ourselves
but we find it all....
cause we are the ones that want to play
always want to go
but you never want to stay
and we are the ones that want to choose
always want to play
but you never want to lose
aerials, in the sky
when you lose small mind
you free your life
life is a waterfall
we drink from the river
then we turn around and put up our walls
swimming through the void
we hear the word
we lose ourselves
but we find it all...
cause we are the ones that want to play
always want to go
I'm gay owje, peace
but you never want to stay
and we are the ones that want to choose
always want to play
but you never want to lose
aerials, in the sky
when you lose small mind
you free your life
aerials, so up high
when you free your eyes eternal prize
aerials, in the sky
when you lose small mind
you free your life
aerials, so up high
when you free your eyes
eternal prize

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[Purple]

hmmm... for me the sounds sounds something like putting up walls in a pardise-"ish" place.. like everything is good, but we contain ourself..

[yes i am arab]

i think id go with a combination of hazard and lost prophet's interpretations, like everything is great and then the ideals and morals that we feel we have to hold for god are putting walls up around us, so therefore by believing i9n dos we are truly restricting ourselves to something great or something like that i guess......