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i once posted this in a thread claiming that the Opiate album section deserved more posts, i posted it in arguement to someone saying that Opiate's songs lacked complexity in meaning, and abstract thought.
"i disagree... there are very many ways one could take in the messages for songs such as cold & ugly, i.e. one way to understand it is it's about a very bad trip, another way is it's about anal sex (as maynard once said "every album needs a song about anal sex), and yest a third way of understanding the meaning of this song is it being about someone whom portrays an extremity of vanity, due to the denial of how cold and ugly a person can be, using beauty as a way out of that terror, somewhat promoting the same message as the entire album of undertow, a fear of the unknown."

03-03-2007, 05:56 PM	#4
chaotic_confusion Level 6 - Very Deep Thinker Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: maryland Posts: 124 Bincount™: 0	Re: The meaning of "Cold & Ugly" i once posted this in a thread claiming that the Opiate album section deserved more posts, i posted it in arguement to someone saying that Opiate's songs lacked complexity in meaning, and abstract thought. "i disagree... there are very many ways one could take in the messages for songs such as cold & ugly, i.e. one way to understand it is it's about a very bad trip, another way is it's about anal sex (as maynard once said "every album needs a song about anal sex), and yest a third way of understanding the meaning of this song is it being about someone whom portrays an extremity of vanity, due to the denial of how cold and ugly a person can be, using beauty as a way out of that terror, somewhat promoting the same message as the entire album of undertow, a fear of the unknown."
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