System of a Down: Roulette Meaning
Roulette Lyrics
I have no reason why it should have been so plain,
Have no questions but I sure have excuse,
I lack the reason why I should be so confused,
I know, how I feel when I'm around you,
I don't know, how I...
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#1 top rated interpretation:"I have a problem that I cannot explain,
I have no reason why it should've been so plain,
Have no questions but I sure have excuse,
I lack the reason why I should be so confused."
The boy has a problem. He can't talk to the girl that he likes. Finally, when he does, he believes it had no effect on her because it was a plain conversation. He then thinks of an excuse for such a boring conversation. When that doesn't work, he becomes confused and doesn't know why.
"I know, how I feel when I'm around you,
I don't know, how I feel when I'm around you,
Around you."
When he's around the girl, he gets a specific feeling that he never gets around anyone else. He doesn't know what kind of a feeling it is, though.
"Left a message but it ain't a bit of use,
I have some pictures, the wild might be the deuce,
Today you saw, you saw me, you explained,
Playin' the show and running down the plane."
I suppose this is a few years from now, and he calls her over the phone. She doesn't answer, and he leaves a message. Unfortunately, she never calls him back. He grows through some pictures of high school (or some other grade where he knew her), and looks at the pictures. He wonders where the girl is. Finally, he sees her outside of his home and they have yet another conversation. That night, he dreams of her running down the plane, and such.
"I know, how I feel when I'm around you,
I don't know, how I feel when I'm around you,
I know, how I feel when I'm around you,
I don't know, how I feel when I'm around you,
Around you.
I know, how I feel when I'm around you,
I don't know, how I feel when I'm around you,
I know, how I feel when I'm around you,
I don't know, how I feel when I'm around you,
Around you, Around you, Around you..."
Basically the same thing, he knows how he feels around her, but he doesn't know the feeling he gets. -
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#2 top rated interpretation:I think that the singer, whether Serj or just some guy the song is about, has been blindsided by love. All his cynicism and dismissal of true love gets attacked when he suddenly falls into love that he cannot figure out what it is, how it happened, what to do, or what it is he is even feeling. He knows, he doesn't know, the problem he can't explain, no reason why isn't plain. The true love completely blows his mind.
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#3 top rated interpretation:I think, n I say think this song is about serj's or darons feelings about a girl. The lyrics say...
"I know, how I feel when I'm around you,
i don't know, how I feel when I'm around you..."
this probably jus means he has mixed/confused feelings of her.
He don't know wether he still loves her anymore. Due to something happening.
It also sounds as if daron or serj has tried to ask for an explanation, to talk things through,
"left a message but it ain't a bit of use..."
well there's my interpretation, don't know if its any good. But ohwell. Its what I think it means. -
What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I’ll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I’ve been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills.
I am trained in gorilla warfare and I’m the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words.
You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You’re fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that’s just with my bare hands.
Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little “clever” comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue.
But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it.
You’re fucking dead, kiddo. -
I think this song is about someone who has met someone who they liked, but things didnt work out.(I have a problem that I cannot explain,
I have no reason why it should have been so plain,
Have no questions but I sure have excuse,
I lack the reason why I should be so confused,)
He can't explain the way he feels and he talks to her plainly and the conversations don't go anywhere. He makes up exuses why he cant be with her.He tells himself that he feels nothing, until he sees her,then things get complicated and it becomes clear the way he feels when he's around her. -
Hes confused and at the same time he knows how he fells about that person cause of the time being separated not seeing each other in a long time cause thats what time does to a person you forget how you fell when you move on,but you start to remember how you fell about them one is can be confused on how they fell about that person since the fellings came back as soon as he saw her.
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The song is clearly about someone in his life that he couldnt tell her the way he fells about her but wants to but is really confused on what he wants to tell her,fearing that they might never be the same(really close to each other)after he says what he wants to say....
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The song is clearly about someone in his life that he couldnt tell her the way he fells about her but wants to but is really confused on what he wants to tell her,fearing that they might never be the same(really close to each other)after he says what he wants to say....
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The solo represents the complicated feelings he feels and his jumbled thoughts he has.
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I think this song could possibly be about someone with multiple personality disorder, with a familt member or someone they are in love with, but they know them one minute and not the next.
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Imagine a guy had a crush when he was young. It never came to anything, they both lived on and the boy married.
I have a problem that I cannot explain
I have no reason why it should've been so plain,
Have no questions but I sure have excuse,
I lack the reason why I should be so confused.
Now he dreams being together with his crush and it feels secure. Then he wakes up being confused. Does he still has feelings for her or does he has to cope with the fact it never worked out? When It was up to him, their relationship wouldn't be that plain.
He pulls himself together, stops questioning be cause he's happily married but he doesn't really know why he was that confused.
I know, how I feel when I'm around you,
I don't know, how I feel when I'm around you, Around you.
In the dream, he knew how it was to be around her, but when he woke up, he realized he doesn't know.
Left a message but it ain't a bit of use,
I have some pictures, the wild might be the deuce,
Today you saw, you saw me, you explained,
Playin' the show and running down the plane.
He looked her up on the internet and sent a message, wandering how she is, but she never answers. He goes trough the pictures and questions himself why he does this. His "wild" thoughts might be the work of the "deuse"(devil), or he takes a gamble: contacting an old crusch while being married.
Finally he meets her and she puts up a story why she didn't reply to his message and then takes a walk.
I know, how I feel when I'm around you,
I don't know, how I feel when I'm around you,
I know, how I feel when I'm around you,
I don't know, how I feel when I'm around you,
Around you.
Now he's standing there... Knowing what its feels like to be around her, or does he? His dream still confuses him. Probably he knows now how he feels to be around his wife and doesn't he now it feels to be around his crush....
Well thats just my interpretation. -
Okay, this is like what think about this song:
He loves her, but she doesn't. As far as I understand this text, they have had an relationship until she figuered out, that she finally doesn't love him the way he does. He can't explain his problems. He also doesn't know how he feels around her, but at the same time he knows, because he loves her.
He leaves messages to convince her, or just because he's deperatly hoping for her to come back and understand, that she also loves him; he got pictures that are reminding him of her and they're living in the same area, because she saw him acting all happy, but inside he's dying.
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This song is clearly about love, or some similar feeling. I think the title Roulette is most likely used to compare love (or the particular relationship being sung about) to roulette, saying that they both are random and rely on luck...or something like that. To me, it's pretty much just be a straight up love song with a weird title
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I think daron wrote this song (with a tad bit help from serj) but anyways-i think it's about serj. i mean, have any of you ever thought that they had a relationship?? why do you think they split up? why do you think daron's all sad and lost all his confidence? why do you think serj is kinda angry and lonely? there's a reason. Something happened between them, and i'm really worried for both daron and serj. they both miss eachother.
just go look at them when they sing this song together. what two guys sing a love song together? they love each other, and they miss eachother!
Tell me if you think the same thing! -
i like the 3 part song but i think its out of order.
first is roulette.
second streamline.
third. ego brain.
(streamline could be reversed and it still make sense but this way makes more sense)
roulette is the 2 lovers meeting and all the fun stuff :);]
streamline is his breakdown and how he feels he screwed himself over with this girl and its also the goodbye
egobrain is the pain after the break up
but thats me :) -
okay. daron knew a girl named talar. i guess they broke up. daron wrote a song about it. so, talar backwards is ralat, but that would sound weird. so he changed it 2 roulette. there.
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Okay...this song, and I'm sure of this, is about someone realizing that is in love with another person, and is looking forward to what it has been done about the love he or she is feeling, like it has been trying to contact the person, get a response or a clue from the person...however the lines
"I don't know how I feel when I'm around you"
and the changing to
"I know how I feel when I'm around you"
it is clearly pointing something......insecurity from the person who is in love, because he don't know is what is being felt is real......and maybe, I say maybe, it may point that homosexual feelings are around.....
because when you're a homosexual person, and I am a lesbian, you don't know exaclty how do you feel around somebody you like until you've realized wwhat you are.....
i guess this is like that....
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