Queens Of the Stone Age Lyrics

    ------ About the song Like A Drug performed by Queens Of the Stone Age

The reason this song isn't played constantly might have to do with the fact that this isn't by Queens. Josh Homme sings and probably wrote/co-wrote it, but it's from the Desert Sessions, Volume Six.

    ------ About the song Mosquito Song performed by Queens Of the Stone Age

That is likely as close as a explanation as you will get, or should get. I've been listening to this over and over today after it got going through my head after the first couple of times I heard it while listening to the whole album, and this song struck me as particularly memorable. Besides what it seemed to mean to me, this is the conclusion I have finally just reached. Considering what Homme has said about the making of the album, and the genre of the music itself ("Stoner rock" or "Desert rock"), I think its artistic strength comes from the EFFECT the song has while listening to it, rather than the actual meaning. That is usually the way psychedelic rock works in their abstract and surreal lyrical qualities, and Stoner metal has that same attribute as psychedelic rock. Some songs are meant to be appreciated for their imaginative, nonsensical, or surreal wording; and that is to me the official explanation of this song.

When the song was playing, it caught my attention, and as I listened, I began to feel very unsettled by the lyrics, and especially that haunting instrumental section in the middle. But it was not just the lyrics, but the way the song was sung. Besides the lyrics being potent, there was such a powerful quality to the sung being sung so low-key, and apathetically. When I put the lyrics and the music together, I felt like I was in on the dreaded secret. I knew what they were really singing about, and what I felt to be true, it is for me. I like your take, Spleen. It is quite similar to mine, but except that song is not just singing about an abstract concept like life. It is referring to beings. "They." "Mosquitoes." There is a personage and perpetrator affixed to the torment. 'They' "Swallow and chew." "Eat you alive." Everything left in you that is still alive, they suck it out. It's easy for me to tell what this is about.

It's up to the listener to determine what it means, but seriously - some people are aggravatingly unimaginative and stupid as hell, like the moron before you who took the lyrics literally, and says they thought about "Silence of the Lambs." That is just an unforgivably retarded thing to say.

People are such frustrating little thorns in my side. Chipping me away with their small-mindedness. Just like mosquitoes.

    ------ About the song Mosquito Song performed by Queens Of the Stone Age

I'm shure there is as many meaning as there is people to listen to this song, but personnally, I think we dont have to go that far to understand the song.
Because i think the lyrics have mostly an "abstract" meaning. The song brings more an atmosphere of fear and a metaphorical meaning of the cruelty of life itself wich, represented by those mosquitoes, "eating you alive" and "leave you here all alone". I think the song was designed to put a feeling of anxiety and fear deep in your brain, and then makes you think about the absurdity of life, and the sometimes unfair ways of death itself.
But I admit it did make me though of "Silence of the Lambs" too!

    ------ About the song First It Giveth performed by Queens Of the Stone Age

this song is entirely astounding! deym!! queens of the stone age maketh sound that invokes an experience thats from an altogether new dimension of subtle eerie melancholy. i feel gifted to be conscious and aware of this realm where QOTSA subsists. 3 fokin cheers!

    ------ About the song The Lost Art of Keeping a Secret performed by Queens Of the Stone Age

@Chris- I imagine this varies by recording. The live recording from... one of these albums (a very good recording, and that's from a guy who doesn't care for live music) definitely includes the "and." To be fair, it's not fully pronounced or given its own full syllable, something like "never believe them, n'I never assume"- almost as a grace note.

    ------ About the song Little Sister performed by Queens Of the Stone Age

It appears to have already been established but just because they say 'little sister' doesn't mean it is literal. John Lennon referred to Yoko as 'Mum' but that doesn't mean he was rooting his mother. People have pet names or nicknames for just about everyone they know; it's your own fucked up loser Freudian nightmare that you interpret this as incest.

    ------ About the song The Sky Is Fallin' performed by Queens Of the Stone Age

The sky is falling
Human race that we run
Has left me crawling
Staring straight at the sun
All in a moment I notice
Every dog has his day
I paid attention
Cost me so much today

For so long
I saw only wrong
But now to remind
It's a waste of time

Close your eyes and see the skies are falling

I wanted something
Nothing blank I don't know
It's all deflecting
Stones are easy to throw
All in a moment I notice
Hours, days left behind
Of wasted, useless
Selfless, none of a kind

For so long
I saw only wrong
But now to remind
Not to go back to the low
That has drained my life so long
That has drained my life so long
That has drained my life so long

Close your eyes and see the skies are falling

    ------ About the song Leg Of Lamb performed by Queens Of the Stone Age

This song is not about someone eating their girlfriend. He is referring to carnal indulgence. He is indulging in her physical delights with the greed and fervor of an animal tearing into a piece of meat. Despite the fact that the girl is a crazy dipshit. And it is so so good (the sex) that he doesn't want her to break it off. Even though he really doesn't like her and they have nothing in common.

    ------ About the song Burn The Witch performed by Queens Of the Stone Age

First of all; love the song, and the band. Not always the most complex music, but the droning riffs really draw you in, and I can't help but get lost in the music.

Anyways, my thoughts on the meaning of the song are this: I believe that the song is about the Salem witch trials.

The whole thing with the Salem witch trials was that it was 2-3 little girls that were playing with a slave (from the Gulf of Mexico) who was reading their fortunes with voodoo.

Apparently, one of the men walked in on it, but the little girls didn't want to get in trouble for practicing this "devil-worship," and with a slave, no less, so they claimed to be possessed and that the slave was the witch possessing them.

That sure as hell got the town riled up (as most misunderstandings seem to do, for some reason), and though the woman would obviously be killed, the girls didn't want to be in trouble, and just stood there as all this went by.

That's the song to me; it seems like the lyrics describe what's happening to the letter.

    ------ About the song Era Vulgaris performed by Queens Of the Stone Age

Awesome song, one of my personal favs, and I find it to be written about the stupidity of mainstream society, how they'll just "drool in the dark as [they] stare at the lights," or in other words, believe everything on the news, the radio, the internet, and everything they hear, how they're in it for themselves and have no time for anyone else, and how they pretend to be what they're not for the purpose of acceptance