Book Ends: Mesmerize and Hypnotize double-album, the one's outro echoing the other's intro."Prison Song" becomes this live, as does the bridge for "War?".
They have been vocal in spreading word about the early-20th-century Armenian genocide (though Malakian has stated that "P.L.U.C.K." is their only song about said genocide). Some of their songs have absurdist lyrics, others are sung as if speaking directly to the listener and feature terse statements & lots of questions/demands. Their lyrics revolve around themes of isolation, insanity, and criticisms of modern society. In 2006 they parted ways to work on various non-System of a Down projects (Tankian's solo effort, Scars On Broadway formed by Malakian and Dolmayan, and Odajian's work with RZA) all of them except Malakian claimed this was an indefinite hiatus, but a lot of fans assumed it was more of a break-up until they reunited for a tour this year. Their sound isn't genre-definable but they sound similar to metal, Alternative Rock, & Progressive Rock, but most of their work fits well enough under the general label of "rock" music. I'm just sitting in my car and waiting for my.System of a Down is an Armenian-American rock group consisting of lead singer/keyboardist Serj Tankian, backup vocalist/guitarist Daron Malakian, bassist Shavo Odadjian, & drummer John Dolmayan, formerly drummer/one-time vocalist Ontronik Khachaturian. I'm just sitting in my car and waiting for my girl She's scared that I will take her away from thereĭreams and her country left with no one there I'm just sitting in my car and waiting for my. Was fashion the reason why they were there? Why don't you ask the kids at Tiananmen Square?
" Psycho" (Live at the London Astoria - Clean) All live tracks were recorded at the Hurricane Festival 2005 show, except where noted.Another meaning that can come from the chorus is that while propaganda is rampant, life goes on. However, from the point of a listener, this may well mean again, the reference to the "simple minded". The chorus is unrelated with the rest of the song: in an interview with MTV, Daron stated that the song was written while he was actually sitting in his car waiting for his girlfriend. The song's lyrics in the verses reference the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 and propaganda. At 1:53 in the video a woman is seen flashing her boobs to a camera on the far right, the exposure could have been unoticed or simply missed by the editing and it is uncensored. Unknown to many, there is brief nudity in the video. This could possibly be the pesticide referred to in the song Attack of the same album. The beginning and ending of the video show a helicopter spraying red matter across Grand Rapids (Forming at the end the album's artwork). The music video is mostly footage from one of the band's September 2005 concerts, (filmed at Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids, Michigan) but includes a CGI scene of painting along with the music the audio is dubbed over with the studio track. The song leads up to a massive crescendo, then ends with a repeated portion of the opening riff with soft singing by Malakian. The Eastern-themed instrumental bridge contains at least four overdubbed clean guitar tracks and a well-crafted, syncopated rhythm. Musical discontinuities like this can be found all over the song and creates heavily psychedelic tone. Even stranger is the minor-key bridge, which loyally follows the chords expected from an F# minor song (F#m, D, Bm, E, A, and C#). This produces a direct switch from a major key to the minor key of the same name. The opening guitar riff and early verses use an upbeat melody that follows the F# major scale, but with a flatted sixth (a D instead of a D#). It is difficult to determine whether the key is F# minor or F# major. Musically, "Hypnotize" is somewhat of an enigma. The combination of the two vocalists gives the song a vocal range, with Serj handling the lower verses and Daron delivering the high parts of the refrains. Serj and Daron perform a harmony in the refrain before and after the instrumental bridge. As in many Mezmerize/Hypnotize songs, guitarist Daron Malakian accompanies Serj Tankian in the vocal sections.
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