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Lyrics:
Hey man! Look at me rockin' out,
I'm on the radio
Hey man! Look at me rockin' out,
I'm on the video
Hey man! Look at me rockin' out,
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Smithereenz
November 29th, 2007 07:29AM
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Daron Malakian, the group's lead guitarist, is the mastermind behind this song.
This song is about how Daron, along with System of a Down, have become sensationally popular with their music through the last decade. Along with their popularity, comes their songs being played on RADIO stations and shooting VIDEOS for their music. Daron had an epiphany one day while watching a VIDEO of one of his childhood birthday parties. He realized he was at the party with his two best friends or closest cousins, DANNY and LISA. He has not seen them since his childhood. Along with fame comes a lot of stress and hard times, and to help with that, Daron likes to think of the good times when he was younger. THUS, the birthday party with DANNY and LISA - "THEY TAKE ME AWAY FROM THE STRANGEST PLACES, SWEET DANNY AND LISA."
Danny and Lisa haven't seen Daron since childhood and have maybe since forgotten him or don't think of him that much. They probably do now, since SYSTEM has become so popular. The song says, "look at me now." or look how far I've come since our childhood days. "I'M ON THE RADIO/VIDEO!"
To sum it up, System of a Down is famous now, along with fame comes stress, hard times, and strange places. In order to clear his mind, Daron likes to think of his innocent childhood with his pals Danny and Lisa. He likes to go back to the good times and remember them. He simply misses them.
There are no drug references in this song.
anonymous
November 23rd, 2005 05:05PM
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Danny and Lisa were Daron's childhood friends. This is not a metaphor for LSD. "Sweet Danny and Lisa" is SDL and to say that means LSD is stretching it. I could shuffle any word and get something entirely different out of it.
anonymous
May 6th, 2006 12:28PM
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DARON EXPLAINED THIS SONG IN GUITAR WORLD,
he said that it's contrasting memories of his fifth birthday party at shakey's pizza, (prbly watching a VIDEO of it)and the first time he ever heard himself on the radio (sugar was there first single right? or was it spiders? or war? ?
Nocturnal_System
August 7th, 2006 06:41AM
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Apparently he got the inspiration for the song when he walked into a record store and heard system on the radio, and he just thought to himself 'hey man look at me rocking out...' and he sort of came up with the image of him when he was younger, just playing with danny and lisa, his friends. And then sort of contrasted it with the image of him playing his music to all the fans, it's quite an interesting concept, I mean I would find it strange if it happened to me.
anonymous
March 25th, 2009 07:19PM
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This song has no relation to drugs. Daron said in an interview that Danny and Lisa were two childhood friends, I think that maybe when he was little, Daron's dream was to be a rockstar, maybe Danny and Lisa said that wouldn't happen,thus "hey man look at me rockin out, I'm on the radio/video" Maybe when he thinks about them, they take his mind to a happier place "they take me away from the strangest places, sweet Danny and Lisa"
anonymous
July 27th, 2009 04:51PM
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I think this is basically about a guy who becomes a famous rockstar rocking out on radio and video
"hey man look at me rocking out, I'm on the radio!"
BUT because he's so famous, he can't see his friends anymore
"they take me away from Danny and Lisa"
anonymous
September 1st, 2009 12:43PM
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Radio/Video is about S.O.A.D. Not wanting to be in the mainstream , Daron's childhood friends, Danny and Lisa are metaphors to help describe how he is being pacified by the radio, like it is a sort of drug.Its like a subliminal message the way they repeat the lines over and over again.The music also gets more dark and intense as they repeats themselves.
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