Nova

I think this song is a monologue of a person who has found happiness after trying to find it for a long time.

He's talking about a person who is very dear to him who he recently found after searching for a long time to find a soul mate, and this song is a description of how that person makes him feel, but he realizes that we are only very fleeting moments in the universe, and such a thing won't last for ever, no matter how good it is.

He could also be remembering a person who was very dear to him, but for some reason isn't any more, or still is but he can't see them anymore. He's talking about how that person made him feel, and regretting that he didn't cherish the moments they had more, and he spends the rest of his life waiting for that person to return and make him feel that way again.

A lot of VNV's songs seem to be interpretable as a song about relationships present, future, and past. Makes me think Ronan hes experienced a lot of emotional pain in regards to relationships. But then, haven't we all? Maybe that's why VNV's songs are so universal.

I think that bit in the first section is: "Awe and wonder I'd embrace, and the world anew again".

Also, I think it might be "wash this world FOR me", although I do end up saying "from" when singing with it.

I personally see it as an awakened connection with spirt/god, divine light, whatever you want to call it. There are a lot of ancient (and modern) spiritual quotes and mantras that convey the same message. Who will know for sure, but considering how spiritual and themed the rest of the album is, i can't see it as a love song kind of thing, in that way. but up to each i guess. This is my favorite VNV Nation song now, by the way. No doubt.

I think all of the previous suggestions could easily be right. That's the great thing about VNV's ballads. They tend to be vague enough to allow personal interpretation so the song finds a home in more hearts. It is certainly a spiritual song (as in, it invokes a personal spiritual experience to the listener) that can have SO MANY meanings.

Here are some of the meanings I get from it: Cyclical nature of the universe (birth/death/rebirth) be it literal physical death or emotional death Searching for a meaning greater than one's self Seeking cleansing of the grime the world places on us as we move through life (renewal, though not necessarily death) Literal biblical apocalypse (next time, the world is supposed to be destroyed by fire)

I can also see Fortinbras' interpretation, though I had to go back through the song with his meaning in my head to see it. I hadn't seen it on my own.

I think there's a couple of meanings that can be taken from this. I can't decide if it's a description of the feeling of accepting true love, or finding spirituality. Both things could be considered almost rapturous experiences, and there are lyrics that lead me to believe it could be either of the two.

Also, is it "From steel's cold hand" (Which could imply death), or "From still's cold hand" (implying a state of emptiness or nothingness?)

If you read carefully, This song is a warrior's death.

Honestly I can't see it any other way.

It's poetry. I recieve it as a soldier's last words, or his last emotions before his death.

Maybe it's intended otherwise. But that is my visual entirely.

IMHO This is about death Its a modern requiem. "Lay me down and wash this world from me" That's the literal bit but there are so many other references too, its about a spiritual (not necessarily religious) experience of renewal ("the world anew again")

A beautiful song, one anyone would be proud to have at their funeral!

I could be way off but I think this song has to do with the continual destruction and rebirth in the universe in that our planet, sun, solar system was created inside a star that eventually died and went super nova ("fires from which I came") The reason I say this is because every heavy element was made this way. Our sun is only massive enough to create everything up to Carbon. Every heavier atom in your body was forged in the core of a massive star(s) that eventually blew up and eventually converged into smaller stars (our sun) Eventually our sun will engulf, burn and destroy the earth. If by chance our sun is absorbed by another star to become a more massive star then our atoms will be recycled and then blown out across the universe again. Possibly creating new stars and planets. I think this song is a spirtual look at that process. We were created with fire, we will be destroyed by fire and then creation will continue.

I could be way off but I think this song has to do with the continual destruction and rebirth in the universe in that our planet, sun, solar system was created inside a star that eventually died and went super nova ("fires from which I came") The reason I say this is because every heavy element was made this way. Our sun is only massive enough to create everything up to Carbon. Every heavier atom in your body was forged in the core of a massive star(s) that eventually blew up and eventually converged into smaller stars (our sun) Eventually our sun will engulf, burn and destroy the earth. If by chance our sun is absorbed by another star to become a more massive star then our atoms will be recycled and then blown out across the universe again. Possibly creating new stars and planets. I think this song is a spirtual look at that process. We were created with fire, we will be destroyed by fire and then creation will continue.

For me this song is about waiting for my soul mate. It is how I hope to have them complete me and shine their light upon me. To lay me down and love me ...to wash the world away from me.

I can see how other's are interpreting this song and they all are meaningful. The best thing about Ronan's lyrics is that they tend to fit so perfectly into a person's life experiences.

Vax, I think it is steel. Could be referring to death, as in, there is no escaping physical death...so right now he wants the light, to experience while still on this plane