This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
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Attollite portas, principes, vestras
Et elevamini, portae aeternales
Et introibit Rex Gloriae
Qius est iste Rex Glorie?
Sade, dit moi (dis-moi, dis-moi)
Sade, donne moi (donne-moi, donne-moi)
Procedamus in pace
In nomine Christi, Amen
Sade, dit moi, qu'est ce que tu vas chercher
Le bien par le mal
La vertu par le vice?
Sade dit moi pourquoi l'évangile du mal?
Quelle est ta religion, où sont tes fidèles?
Si tu es contre Dieu, tu es contre l'homme
Sade es-tu diabolique ou divin?
Sade, dit moi
Hosanna
Sade, donne moi
Hosanna
Sade, dit moi
Hosanna
Sade, donne moi
Hosanna
In nomine Christi, Amen
The principles of lust
Are easy to understand
Do what you feel
Feel until the end
The principles of lust
Are burnt in your mind
Do what you want
Do it until you find love
The principles of lust
Are easy to understand
Do what you feel
Feel until the end
The principles of lust
Are burnt in your mind
Do what you want
Do it until you find love
Sade, dit moi (dis-moi, dis-moi)
Sade, donne moi (donne-moi, donne-moi)
Sade, dit moi
Hosanna
Sade, donne moi
Hosanna
Sade, dit moi
Hosanna
Sade, donne moi
Hosanna
Attollite portas, principes, vestras
Et elevamini, portae aeternales
Et introibit Rex Gloriae
Qius est iste Rex Glorie?
Sade, dit moi (dis-moi, dis-moi)
Sade, donne moi (donne-moi, donne-moi)
Procedamus in pace
In nomine Christi, Amen
Sade, dit moi, qu'est ce que tu vas chercher
Le bien par le mal
La vertu par le vice?
Sade dit moi pourquoi l'évangile du mal?
Quelle est ta religion, où sont tes fidèles?
Si tu es contre Dieu, tu es contre l'homme
Sade es-tu diabolique ou divin?
Sade, dit moi
Hosanna
Sade, donne moi
Hosanna
Sade, dit moi
Hosanna
Sade, donne moi
Hosanna
In nomine Christi, Amen
The principles of lust
Are easy to understand
Do what you feel
Feel until the end
The principles of lust
Are burnt in your mind
Do what you want
Do it until you find love
The principles of lust
Are easy to understand
Do what you feel
Feel until the end
The principles of lust
Are burnt in your mind
Do what you want
Do it until you find love
Sade, dit moi (dis-moi, dis-moi)
Sade, donne moi (donne-moi, donne-moi)
Sade, dit moi
Hosanna
Sade, donne moi
Hosanna
Sade, dit moi
Hosanna
Sade, donne moi
Hosanna
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It's protesting the philosophy of the Marquis de Sade. Although I don't really support the song's message-, I espescially disagree the "What is your religion? Where are your faithful? If you are against God, you are against man" segment of the song, but I love it nonetheless.
@Kohrah I agree that it's definitely overtly questioning the lifestyle / philosophy and demanding answers from someone who has chosen that path, but I think that condemnation is actually only on the surface, a way to dip her toe into the deep end and allow for her seduction into experiencing it; the song is ultimately a confession of a tormenting attraction to the darker pleasures of life, the morally questionable, the forbidden experiences. <br /> <br /> Here's where I get that layer, in the emotionally heady repetition of the following lines:<br /> "Sade, dis-moi<br /> Sade, donne-moi"<br /> <br /> The song demands an accounting for the sins perpetuated by followers of the Marquis de Sade's lifestyle, but it seems (by tone and obsessive repetition especially) that what the person in the song is truly asking for is to be seduced into the very forbidden experiences she is on the surface condemning. <br /> <br /> The protagonist is begging for a deeper understanding, to be told, to receive an answer, an experience to allow her to come to a place of peace / rest from this obsession. Tell me, she says. Give me, she says. Give me salvation. And she's not sure which kind of salvation she truly would have.
The voice comes from far away, He does not understand what is being said.
But the tone of it was clear, beautiful, and pure. Like shimmering fibers of light, the sound seduced him.
He had never experienced such a sense of warmth. No sound had ever touched him as this one had.
Was it day or nights? Over and over the same voices, They banded together upon a floating rhythm to create a choir. The lights within him began to move, the warmth roamed - always faster, It took possession of him - everything became one. Was that God?
The shafts of lights, the heat and the sound meld together, "pass the frontiers," a voice calls to him, “your journey in life begins".
Only now he notices that no one spoke, Rather it was he himself.
Solve the enigma...
The "religious" text was sampled by Enigma from a recording by the Hilliard Ensemble. It's a recording of a religious hymn, "Attollite portas," which is, indeed, a religious hymn. I seem to recall hearing in an interview with one of the singers of the Hilliard Ensemble that they went to court with Enigma over this. What Enigma was trying to say, is, of course, anybody's guess.
Sade, dis-moi (Sade, tell me) Qu'est-ce que tu vas chercher? (What are you looking for?) Le bien par le mal (The good in the bad?) La vertu par le vice (The virtue in the vice?)
Sade, dis-moi, pourquoi l'évangile a du mal? (Sade, tell me, why the gospel of evil?) Quelle est ta religion, où sont tes fidèles? (What is your religion, who are your faithful?) Si tu es contre Dieu, tu es contre l'Homme (If you are against God, you are against man.)
Sade, es-tu diabolique ou divin? (Sade, are you diabolical or divine?)
*Not a native French speaker, but this is the rough translation.
@discobiscu also: <br /> <br /> Sade, dis-moi (Sade, tell me...)<br /> Hosanna (Hosanna)<br /> <br /> Sade, donne-moi (Sade, give me)<br /> Hosanna (Hosanna)
The song is about the Marquis De Sade.
Are you sure?
yeah, this song is about the Marquis de Sade, alright. which led to this choon being banned all across Europe when it was released, particularly in Italy and Ireland. banned or not, it's a great CD to snog to!