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By Pages:   1    2    3    4    5    Add Your New Review About The Song The Reviews about Passive (page 3/ 5) ------ performed by A Perfect Circle PASSIVE AGGRESSIVE BULLSHIT | Reviewer: Eck | 2/11/08 Straight away as the lyrics start, "as dead as dead can be" - is talking about depression rather than the literal term of actually being dead in my opinion. One of the clues as to what this song is about is the lyrics at the end where hes saying "Passive aggressive bullshit". "Passive aggressive" is a term used to describe someone that is unbalanced phsycologically (that sounds worse than I mean it to sound, just cant think of a better way to put it!) and I think thats why the lyric "my doctor tells me, but I cant believe him, ever the optimistic one". "ever the optimistic one" seems to me to be sarcasm as he doesn't believe whatever his doctor is saying to him, which I expect is that he can get better. So since the song is titled "Passive", I would say that whoever this song is about (maybe Maynard) is holding back, and he gets wound up and gets angry, thus the passive aggressive circle, going from passive holding it in, to having to let it out in some other way than he wishes he could. "my perfect enemey" sounds also like the passive aggressive behaviour, as he has 2 sides to him conflicting. In the chorus, he is talking to himself saying that he really does need to change but if he leaves it too late then he will dissapoint himself and he might end up staying that way. "maybe im better off this way" - thats his negative side "wake up" - come out of this depression "why cant you?" - asking himself why. Two things I don't get are: 1. in the 2nd verse. "It's your right and your ability, to become my perfect enemy" 2.and also the use of the word "catatonic" - which (from the dictionary) is a medical disease where the patient has very rigid or flexible limbs (i'm sure this isn't meant to be taken literally but I don't understand it in the context of the song. A lot of lyrics don't make perfect sense though and can be taken in many ways which I tend to like, as it makes you think about the different ways to interpret them. Great Song | Reviewer: Anonymous | 1/29/08 Well, this is one of the few songs I listen to, and APC is definitly, over half of my Playlist. Well, its a great song, and it defintely is about ones inner self. to person named kris | Reviewer: Shelby | 1/23/08 apc sounds NOTHING like 10 years. like at all. so yeah. apc is fuhreaking amazing. and i AM agreeing that tool is better. they have more of a twist but i still love apc. meaning | Reviewer: jonas | 1/22/08 i think is about... a man who wants to die when he found that he was going to die for a disease or something like that... but he was so sad that he wanted to front face to face his fears and the dead and... poof! this was all what i understood Passive= Excellent | Reviewer: Haroon | 1/20/08 I would say that this song is not different from any other MJK song in that it can percieved in several ways and forms. It is easy to see the possibility that MJK is literally speaking to a loved one who is essentially subconscious. However, when contemplating it in my mind, I have thought that this is more of an internal struggle between two conflicting psyches which hinders MJK. When looking at MJK's past work, he seems to stress more on self-reflection and social flaws within a song rather than the sole stress of something so mundane as the loss of a loved one. In this song, he depicts himself as attempting to revive or erect this dormant side of him. The song is irrefutable more complex than what it appears. passive | Reviewer: moskotron | 12/25/07 First time i heard this song i thought it was talking about some woman or something , after i read the lyrics i think this song is about ourselves ... maynard is trying to wake himself up because the perfect enemy of someone is himself nobody knows you better than yourself so you are your perfect enemy so you have to be better than yourself so he helps us win the enemy within ,our darkest thoughts so that someday i wont abandon myself saying that "he dissappoints" me i wont live in a passive aggressive bullshit way instead i have to wake up and GO and claim anything i want and be happy i did so i ll wake up someday and be happy with my choices instead of seeing life pass by me ... makes me wanna re-live old experiences i didnt choose correctly , gives me the feeling i should live things at the extent and dispute and argue and cry and do all those things that if i dont i ll dissapoint my self. Enfor | Reviewer: Anonymous | 11/19/07 Totally agree with m. I think is about a person that instead of facing things or problems with courage chooses to be autodestructive in a passive aggressive way. review... | Reviewer: m | 11/8/07 mmm i think this song isn't really talking literally to someone that died, but to a person that instead of facing an issue or problem, decides to "play dead" and ignore it...that's why its passive-aggressive, this person is aggressive by being passive, by avoiding a proper confrontation...so that's why he says "i know that you can hear this" like saying that this person knows for sure how are things and still decides to do nothing about and go on like nothing ever happened. also the attitude of this person, maybe even a change in his personality which made him act this way, is what makes him "his perfect enemy" but well that's what i think...greatest song of apc for sure! Meaning | Reviewer: Anonymous | 11/6/07 I agree with Chatani but i also believe that he is trying to at least hate her, hence the 'enemy' thing since it would be easier for him to let go if he feels that there was no hope for them. That said it could also him challenging her to 'face' him and become his enemy and regain conscienceness inspite of him, he doesn't care what she thinks as long as he knows that shes alright. That was just a little ad on to Chatani. PAB | Reviewer: Chatani | 10/30/07 I read some not all of the reviews and well every one has their own opinion about what they like and what they dont like. Someone did ask for the meaning or what they think the song is talking about and all ive read so far is about who wrote it etc. From this song, i get that he has just found out that the person he loves is no longer alive. The love he felt for this person was very intense that he cannot grasp the fact that she is gone. "Wake up and face me" "dont play dead" then he goes on to say cause maybe someday i will walk away and say you fucking dissapoint me. he really wants this person to come back to him but she is dead and he is telling her all these things in order to try to get her to react to him. then he gives in n says ok den dats how u want it "go ahead and play dead, you fucking dissapoint me". this is why the song is passive aggressive. saying to her that she should be alive like saying plz dont do this to me. that shows a great deal of how much he loved her. i think its an awsome song and forgive me for not expressing myself clearly and being very repetitive. but take a good listen next time you hear this song and listen to the emotion in his voice. think about what ive said if you havent before and see how everything falls together. its a great loss for someone he loved with more than his life! Add Your New Review About The Song By Pages:   1    2    3    4    5