| VNV Nation – Nemesis Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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| Faithless – Killer's Lullaby Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I love this song. I like your ghost interpretation phlojo, but if you take it a little farther as I have the all the 'ghost stuff' makes more sense. Maxi (the vocalist) frequently seems to tell stories with his lyrics, and they aren't necessarily his own stories or even true stories. One interesting thing to consider here is that Maxi is a Buddhist. In Buddhism stories are considered to be of great value, some traditions don't even distinguish the value of a 'true' story from a 'fictional' story as even a 'true' story is only as true as the storyteller's memories, perceptions, willingness to be honest and the number of people the story has been passed through. Buddhists also often believe that the truth is something humans are incapable of recognizing except (perhaps) at the utmost height of human enlightenment. Considering this I believe that this particular story can be taken from two different yet ambiguous perspectives that both would be fitting to the lyrics. I believe that the narrative character either is a vampire 'cursed' with a hellish eternal life, or is a psychotic delusional who believes he is a vampire. The delusional also fits because while the lyrics state that Jerome is tweaking, that doesn't mean it's tweak the narrator is "learning to be sober" from, it could be he went off his physically addictive medications. This comes to mind considering the absolute hell a good friend of mine has had when ever lowering the dosage of his Zyprexa (an atypical anti-psychotic for schizophrenics) which also frequently resulted in recccurance of his hallucinations until he accustomed himself to the new levels. After a (real or imagined) 700 years the narrator has found his last true love (either herself being a vampire as well, or perhaps more likely her reincarnation, which seems more fitting to the line "I know I'll see you again, on that you can depend, I just dont know how or when.") the narrator stalks the woman (either invisible as some fables say vampires are capable of and then just showing enough of himself to show a faint outline, or stalking her by more conventional means from a vantage imagining the scenario in a different way that is more fitting to his delusion.) Eventually at some point the narrator kills the woman out of jealousy. Now as he realizes what he's done and that he is going to be alone (romantically) for who knows how long he calls his friend and confesses the given story. His friend is in disbelief about points of the story and drives him home. With the delusional interpretation home may well be an mental ward for all we know. Anyways, take it or leave it, but that's the way I have always interpreted the song's story and I don't see anything too contradicting in the lyrics. |
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