Anybody Listening?

Album: Empire (1990)
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Songfacts®:

  • Queensrÿche guitarist Chris DeGarmo wrote in the sleevenotes for the Japanese edition of the Empire album: "'Anybody Listening?' is basically talking about two things. First of all, it is talking about trying to find a freedom of soul. The second thing is about trying to pay attention to what it is that people are saying. It is asking that whether anybody really listening to what we are doing."
  • Lead singer Geoff Tate said of this song in Metal Edge magazine, December 1990: "'Anybody Listening?', as the title suggests, people don't listen to each other, they just talk." >>>
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    DeeTheWriter - Saint Petersburg, Russia Federation, for above 2

Comments: 1

  • Cb from UsaI love double meaning songs. Hard to do. I always wanted to think it was about a rock star on his last run and the destruction that humans are responsible for like war and pollution.
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