This song seemingly tackles the methods of deception those who manipulate others use to get victims to follow their demands, as well as diverting attention away from important issues. They'll also use it as a means to convince people to hate or kill others by pretending acts of terrorism were committed by the enemy when the acts themselves were done by the masters of control to promote discrimination and hate. It also reinforces the idea that these manipulative forces operate in various locations, infiltrating everyday life without detection, and propagate any and everywhere.
In general, it highlights the danger of hidden agendas, manipulation, and distraction, serving as a critique of those who exploit chaos and confusion to control and gain power, depicting a cautionary tale against falling into their traps. It encourages us to question the narratives presented to us and remain vigilant against manipulation in various parts of society.
Enter Suicidal Angels;
How hungry we've become;
Like animals naked in shame
Fed with the hooves of apocalypse
That galloped down, disordered worlds behind
From word to a word I was led to a word
That spanned over cultures in rage
Crimson masses, sleeped in decadence
Holding our tongues to the thirsty sun
So, it the future still open?
Then enter, hornet, from our hive-dark hearts
To draw down the end from within
We need not the horns
That emanate from our warty, haunted bodies
Severed and numbered they are
Nihilist, Hedon
The priceless art of their lives
Sorrow is a wing laid atop their heads.
Skin deep, we carve our immeasurable sorrow
In the fold of your shivering arms
Hedon,
Your chindren wild
And filled with death
# Jupiter in our unforgiving eves:
A pandemonium of bodies and gold
Eager, as a part of your face
And the sickness attached to your skin (stone)
As the wine-rush,
Changing from androgynous wombs
To open free the lid of pain #
Hedon,
Rinsed in post-human shadows
A monument scorned by the teeth of time
Stale-faced keeper of secrets,
Loaded with implosive fire
The whore that carried the apostle
To the mating point on the graves of giants
We look at you, afraid
To see what we really are.
How hungry we've become;
Like animals naked in shame
Fed with the hooves of apocalypse
That galloped down, disordered worlds behind
From word to a word I was led to a word
That spanned over cultures in rage
Crimson masses, sleeped in decadence
Holding our tongues to the thirsty sun
So, it the future still open?
Then enter, hornet, from our hive-dark hearts
To draw down the end from within
We need not the horns
That emanate from our warty, haunted bodies
Severed and numbered they are
Nihilist, Hedon
The priceless art of their lives
Sorrow is a wing laid atop their heads.
Skin deep, we carve our immeasurable sorrow
In the fold of your shivering arms
Hedon,
Your chindren wild
And filled with death
# Jupiter in our unforgiving eves:
A pandemonium of bodies and gold
Eager, as a part of your face
And the sickness attached to your skin (stone)
As the wine-rush,
Changing from androgynous wombs
To open free the lid of pain #
Hedon,
Rinsed in post-human shadows
A monument scorned by the teeth of time
Stale-faced keeper of secrets,
Loaded with implosive fire
The whore that carried the apostle
To the mating point on the graves of giants
We look at you, afraid
To see what we really are.
Lyrics submitted by Day_Walker9
Hedon Lyrics as written by Fredrik Johansson Anders Jivarp
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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A hedon is a unit of pleasure in utilitarianism, and one who is motivated mainly by personal pleasure is called a "hedonist." Pretty clearly, the song is about humanity's hedonistic struggle for pleasure and the trouble caused by it.
Man, what the heck, bands like Fall Out Boy have thousands of people discussing their songs on this site, but when it comes to real music you got 3 replies???
Anyway, love this song, the first part of the song, up to the tempo change gives me like this feeling of hopelessness. And that part where Anders Friden screams : "So tell me, Tell ME!!!!" Makes it all really awesome.
Also i agree with the poster above me, we fail to realize that pleasure is temporary, so we spend our lives chasing it.
hmm, Dark tranquility songs are liek tools it seems. There up for interpritations. THis one seems to be about the 4 horsemen and appocolypse, and how we dont need a supernatural catastrophy, we can do it our selfs.
four horsemen?
how do you figure?
Anders was not in the recording of this song. The vocalist on "The Mind's I" was Mikael Stanne
@Noahgoode I know it's 11 years later, but Hedon actually does have Anders in it for that one vocal guest part. You can tell it's him just by the voice difference. Anders has a much deeper voice. He does "Hedon, Hedon!" in the background growls and then, possibly the spoken part that's kind of distorted around 4:40
@kyuss80 That wasn't Anders in the background. And Anders' voice was at no point much deeper than Mikael Stanne's. By the accent in his language, you can tell it's a digitally manipulated track of Stanne's voice. Anders was on Skydancer (1993), and left Dark Tranquillity soon after.
He had a cameo on Hedon.
The apocalypse i think is used here as a metaphor of the anxiety for the time that is passing. This anxiety lead to the constant seek for pleasury ("hedoni" in greek), leads the "cultures in rage".