The song lyrics were written by the band Van Halen, as they were asked to write a song for the 1979 movie "Over the Edge" starring Matt Dillon. The movie (and the lyrics, although more obliquely) are about bored, rebellious youth with nothing better to do than get into trouble. If you see the movie, these lyrics will make more sense. It's a great movie if you grew up in the 70s/80s you'll definitely remember some of these characters from your own life. Fun fact, after writing the song, Van Halen decided not to let the movie use it.
"Welcome to the fall"
Welcome millennium, the fall of planet hate
Welcome the end my friend, all the world's the stage
Welcome to the future, the world is black no turning
From the consequence of ignorance
Welcome to the fall
Beyond within, enact, enable
Create the past, nonexistent fables
Welcome to the fall
Tension, delirium, growing everyday
Another suicide shocks the world again, I watch in apathy
Bleed until tomorrow, whosoever does not believe in me
Welcome to the fall
Beyond within, enact, enable
Create the past, nonexistent fables
Welcome to the fall
Can I bring you down again, can I make you feel?
Can I lift you up into the dreaming trip surreal?
Can I taste the future shock, spit out all the games?
Do you know my name, do you know my number?
Cracking under strange constrictions, Mr. Ordinary Visionary
Welcome millennium, the fall of planet hate
Welcome the end my friend, all the world's the stage
Welcome to the future, the world is black no turning
From the consequence of ignorance
Beyond within, enact, enable
Create the past, nonexistent fables
Beyond within, enact, enable
Create the past, nonexistent fables
Welcome to the fall of one man's sanity
Welcome millennium, the fall of planet hate
Welcome the end my friend, all the world's the stage
Welcome to the future, the world is black no turning
From the consequence of ignorance
Welcome to the fall
Beyond within, enact, enable
Create the past, nonexistent fables
Welcome to the fall
Tension, delirium, growing everyday
Another suicide shocks the world again, I watch in apathy
Bleed until tomorrow, whosoever does not believe in me
Welcome to the fall
Beyond within, enact, enable
Create the past, nonexistent fables
Welcome to the fall
Can I bring you down again, can I make you feel?
Can I lift you up into the dreaming trip surreal?
Can I taste the future shock, spit out all the games?
Do you know my name, do you know my number?
Cracking under strange constrictions, Mr. Ordinary Visionary
Welcome millennium, the fall of planet hate
Welcome the end my friend, all the world's the stage
Welcome to the future, the world is black no turning
From the consequence of ignorance
Beyond within, enact, enable
Create the past, nonexistent fables
Beyond within, enact, enable
Create the past, nonexistent fables
Welcome to the fall of one man's sanity
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This is one of my favorite songs. https://fnfgo.io
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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.
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Great version of a great song,
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Same ideas expressed in Fitter, Happier are expressed in this song. We're told to strive for some sort of ideal life, which includes getting a good job, being kind to everyone, finding a partner, getting married, having a couple kids, living in a quiet neighborhood in a nice big house, etc. But in Fitter, Happier the narrator(?) realizes that it's incredibly robotic to live this life. People are being used by those in power "like a pig in a cage on antibiotics"--being pacified with things like new phones and cool gadgets and houses while being sucked dry. On No Surprises, the narrator is realizing how this life is killing him slowly. In the video, his helmet is slowly filling up with water, drowning him. But he's so complacent with it. This is a good summary of the song. This boring, "perfect" life foisted upon us by some higher powers (not spiritual, but political, economic, etc. politicians and businessmen, perhaps) is not the way to live. But there is seemingly no way out but death. He'd rather die peacefully right now than live in this cage. While our lives are often shielded, we're in our own protective bubbles, or protective helmets like the one Thom wears, if we look a little harder we can see all the corruption, lies, manipulation, etc. that is going on in the world, often run by huge yet nearly invisible organizations, corporations, and 'leaders'. It's a very hopeless song because it reflects real life.
the world's going down the drain ... and we all watch it like some bad reality tv show, even though it's going on right outside our windows.
\m/NEVERMORE\m/
I concur.
its not actually to do w/ the current state of the world at all
listen to the very very very end of the song RIGHT before it switches to track 3, hear that?:
"of one man's sanity"
the last line in the song before you hear the above is "welcome to the fall"
put 2 and 2 together:
"welcome to the fall of one man's sanity"
this entire song is about how his girlfriend dissapeared and it drove him to near insanity, look it up on google, this entire album is warrel-heavy (lyrics wise i mean)
thats why there was such a short delay between this album and dead heart in a dead world, most of the songs were written by loomis for Dead heart years before and they were going to release that album but decided to do a concept one instead b/c warrel dane needed to vent.
that pretty much sums it up
Kinda, but not exactly. Dreaming Neon Black is a concept album... This is the second track, right after the intro. It's about how Warell feels the world is fucked up after what happened (you all know the story...)
Bad-ass riff. \m/
DNB is a concept album, but i this song has its own leg to stand on. one meaning i get out of it is that sometimes things really do get so damaged that you can't turn them around. but even then you can sort of find a way to be amused..
This song is the part of the story of Dreaming Neon Black that describes the world that he lives in that describes the world that he is starting to go insane in (and partly because of).