This is a good idea! I also think that this will be an interesting thread.

I agree with what you say about "PIANO DUET." Everytime I listen to it, and after I stop crying, it does make me think about frustration and it does sound like a very hopeless song. When I was translating the song about a week ago, I remember that the song kept saying "I can't reach you in heaven," or "I never knew how much you loved me." I think that maybe when Hyde wrote the lyrics, he was thinking of someone that he really misses. I know that anytime I hear that piano playing in the beginning I get flashbacks from when I was younger. But, that's just me.

The song that was most interesting to me on the BEAST album was "RUMBLE." When I first heard it, I thought it was INCREDIBLY sexy. Hyde's distorted voice, the drums constantly banging in the beginning of the song with the piano made me automatically think of a bar or a strip club. I thought that the first thing Hyde sang was "I'm getting hungry," which made me think, "Oh! Maybe this is like an extension to 'BITE' off of their last album." But then the chorus came. I heard "Just a word and it gets hazy" and I began to think like "okay, hazy=drunk=alcohol=bar! Makes sense!" Then I heard "Long violent night," and the part where they constantly shout "SHOT!" over and over and I was totally confused. Eventually I got frustrated and translated it to find it to be an angry song. After I heard it for a second time, I thought that it basically was about having the right conditions to make you just explode and bite someone's head off. Yet, the more I hear it, the more my thoughts about it changes.

That's all I really have any thoughts on so far. I'll have to come back some other time and think about it some more.