What does Peephole mean?

System of a Down: Peephole Meaning

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Peephole Lyrics

When your stars are baked,
And your rivers fly,
Do you ever believe you were stuck in the, sky,

When your castle breaks,
And your feet are dry,
Do you ever believe you were stuck in the, sky,

Do you believe, when you're high,
That your...

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    #1 top rated interpretation:
    DisposableCartman
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    Aug 5th 2008 !⃝

    No, dude, this song is about not misusing the wrong drugs, in fact, the quotation above "Peephole" is pro-weed, proclaiming:

    "The Febuary 18 edition of Britain's NEW SCIENTIST magazine reports that the Geneva-based World Health Organization suppressed (under political pressure) a report confirming that marijuana is safer than either tobacco and alcohol."

    In other words, such a plant does far less damage than alcohol and smoking. That's what this song is about here.

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    #2 top rated interpretation:
    anonymous
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    Jan 6th 2008 !⃝

    Um SOADFREAK,all the member of Soad except for John smoke marijuana all the time, especially Daron. When they talk aginst drugs, they talk against drugs such as heroin, meth, coke, etc... not weed, which is more harmless than acohol and ciggs. Jeez...get your facts straight. There's pictures of Serj, Daron, and Shavo hitting up a bong online.
    http://www.soadfans.com/index.php?module=PhotoGallery&do=showgall&gid=18&p=
    Check that out...

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    #3 top rated interpretation:
    anonymous
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    May 2nd 2008 !⃝

    Alright. I think this song is about Doing drugs and In excess. I thin System is trying to say Don't abuse Drugs. Use in moderation.

  4. JiboiaJin
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    Jul 26th 2023 !⃝

    I think this song is saying don’t get stuck in your ego, do you ever believe when you’re high up on your high horse that your life will be tried (challenged). Don’t you ever stuck in your ignorance when you’re doing well, it can be your downfall, even birds go down to earth. They fly in clear skies, but pay attention for when tornados come, because their life will be tried. The same interpretation can be used for drugs, saying don’t ever get stuck in the sky, meaning don’t do get stuck doing drugs all the time because it will happen if you don’t come down. I don’t think that’s what they meant when they wrote it because that’s only one scenario of so many different ones the first statement could apply to.

  5. anonymous
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    Jul 26th 2023 !⃝

    I dont think this song has anything to do with drugs, I think it’s saying Don’t get stuck high up in your ego, do you believe when you’re on your high horse than your life will be judged? Don’t get stuck in your ego because it can be your downfall. I can also see how drugs can be interpreted, saying do you think everything will just be okay if you’re high? Don’t stay high because you will be stuck there. Both can be interpreted in the same way, ignorance, don’t stay stuck in your ignorance.

  6. anonymous
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    May 27th 2018 !⃝

    Does anyone think it's like, don't get too high to think you can fly to the sky cuz you'll just die..I dunno lol

  7. anonymous
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    Dec 16th 2015 !⃝

    I think the song refers to acid. The lyrics "Don't ever get stuck in the sky when youre high" I think refers to taking too much acid and becoming perma-high or becoming a "vegetable"

  8. anonymous
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    Feb 17th 2015 !⃝

    I think it could have a little deeper meaning than just drugs.

    The line "Do you believe, when you're high,
    That your life is tried" makes me think this song could be about continually growing as a human being.

    When things are going good, do you stop to measure if you are still being challenged as a human being? Are your views and beliefs tried when you are encountering no opposition?

    The drugs references could be viewed as a way to forget about your problems temporarily (your life isn't being tried while high). They then tell you not to get stuck doing this ("don't you ever get stuck in the sky") because you never deal with your problems or grow as a result (your life won't be tried).

    They have other songs revolving around learning and growing to be a better person (Aerials: "When you lose small mind, you free your life"). I think this is in a similar vein.

    You can't become more knowledgeable or a better person if you don't face your problems and are always stuck in the sky.

  9. anonymous
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    Jul 8th 2012 !⃝

    just replying to the songwriter who is talking about john Lennon. Let's assume for a moment that john Lennon was in fact hiding messages in his lyrics and by playing songs backwards and such. Wouldn't you think he is hiding them for a reason? Would you think that in an interview he would just come out and expose himself just like that? he hid the messages and wanted them hidden. and strange coincidence, the clues explode more and more especially in Sgt peppers, then the white album is blank white with nothing. they've been told to shut up. then john get's shot and George gets attacked by a man with a knife in his own house. Ringo never spoke, he never got harmed.
    i like your comment on this song and how we need to look deeper into the songs but i just wanted to clarify you haven't gone deep enough into the beatles and i just skimmed the top

  10. anonymous
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    May 23rd 2012 !⃝

    Wrong, wrong and wrong!! How can this song be about marijuana? "And your diet is shy" sounds to me like doing shrooms. Possibly lsd but more than likelu shrooms. Basically when your high don't get stuck that way and believe you will be that way forever. Have you ever done shrooms? Mountains look fake like you were in disneylands toon town. So the lyric "when your moon is fake" makes perfect sense talking about taking shrooms! And serj is definately pro marijuana. In one of KORN's dvd's you see him next to a huge nug for a brief second when they are chilling around a table. What about the lyrics. "Eat all the grass that you want" lol soad for life

  11. anonymous
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    Aug 21st 2011 !⃝

    umm this song basically says don't smoke too much marijuana & don't get too high. & don't depend on marijuana. Its not an anti drug song because all of them but John smoked bud. But even to a pot head, its not good to get "too" high

    This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway
  12. anonymous
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    Aug 8th 2011 !⃝

    don't you ever get stunk in the sky when you high

  13. anonymous
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    Jun 3rd 2011 !⃝

    Serj tankian was a heroin addict. FACT
    I was at the same rehab he went to in so cal. Not while he was there. That would be cool.

  14. anonymous
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    Mar 27th 2011 !⃝

    Its about airplane.

  15. anonymous
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    Feb 23rd 2011 !⃝

    It is about marijuana. The album booklet has a footnote before the song that reads:
    "The February 18 edition of Britan's NEW SCIENTIST Magazine reports that the Geneva-based World Health Organization suppressed, under political pressure, a report which confirmed that marijuana is safer than either tobacco or alcohol."
    I think it is meant to support either the legalization of marijuana, or something else.

  16. anonymous
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    Feb 23rd 2011 !⃝

    It is about marijuana. The album booklet has a footnote before the song that reads:
    "The February 18 edition of Britan's NEW SCIENTIST Magazine reports that the Geneva-based World Health Organization suppressed, under political pressure, a report which confirmed that marijuana is safer than either tobacco or alcohol."
    I think it is meant to support either the legalization of marijuana, or something else.

  17. anonymous
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    Feb 23rd 2011 !⃝

    Ummmm, as a writer and musician sometimes we have to say one thing and mean another for many reasons. i know for a fact "not mentioning any names at the record company" that this song is a metaphor for sex !...period ! when we orgazm the body releases endorphins wich are the bodies natural pain killers and YES it can give you a euphoric stoned feeling hence the song title basicly gives you a clue to what the song is about without actually saying it in the lyrics. can you say (METAPHORE) ? this is a big duh for those of us that actualy write this way and is the cause for so much scrutiny over lyrics and is also the reason censorship has been weekend. We have had to get more creative over the years to get our message across because of censorship so you will find more often than none that songs will say one thing but mean something totaly different with the song title as a clue for those who want more than just the song. When you read lyrics do it with an open mind this isn't the 60's anymore we have to mask our message ! Believe it or not it all started with the Beatles :

    example : "lucy in the sky with diamonds" -- Many people thought this was about drugs, since the letters "LSD" are prominent in the title, and John Lennon, who wrote it, was known to drop acid. In 1971 Lennon told Rolling Stone that he swore that he had no idea that the song's initials spelt L.S.D. He added: "I didn't even see it on the label. I didn't look at the initials. I don't look - I mean I never play things backwards. I listened to it as I made it. It's like there will be things on this one, if you fiddle about with it. I don't know what they are. Every time after that though I would look at the titles to see what it said, and usually they never said anything."

    The "Lucy" who inspired this song was Lucy O'Donnell (later Lucy Vodden), who was a classmate of John's son Julian Lennon when he was enrolled at the private Heath House School, in Weybridge, Surrey. It was in a 1975 interview that Lennon said "Julian came in one day with a picture about a school friend of his named Lucy. He had sketched in some stars in the sky and called it Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds."
    The identity of the real Lucy was confirmed by Julian in 2009 when she died of complications from Lupus. Lennon re-connected with her after she appeared on a BBC broadcast where she stated: "I remember Julian and I both doing pictures on a double-sided easel, throwing paint at each other, much to the horror of the classroom attendant… Julian had painted a picture and on that particular day his father turned up with the chauffeur to pick him up from school."

  18. anonymous
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    Feb 22nd 2011 !⃝

    its about the surpressed issue of a science and health magazine from brittain that revealed smoking marijuana is less dangerous than tobacco and alcohol. this is even stated inside the album pamphlet

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