| Babylon Zoo – Spaceman Lyrics | 4 years ago |
| @[quiffporn:40042] lol, this comment really aged well. :) | |
| VNV Nation – Serial Killer Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Personally, I believe this song is about wars between nations and the opposing world leaders who smile on TV, have pleasant formal lunch dinners together, and argue politics, while their people (children of the flag) murder each other. | |
| Gigi D'Agostino – The Riddle Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Always thought this song had something to do with society's dependence on fossil fuels... silly me. ^_^ | |
| Nik Kershaw – The Riddle Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Always thought this song had something to do with society's dependence on fossil fuels... silly me. ^_^ | |
| VNV Nation – Holding On Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I'm with you 100%, lastrites. | |
| Belle & Sebastian – I Fought in a War Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| This song was used in the end credits for an amazing documentary called "Why We Fight". It went well with the theme. | |
| VNV Nation – Holding On Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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This song calls out to anyone who has worked to make the world a better place, only to find that the future they desired had manifested into something contrary to their hopes and dreams. Remember growing up? (Depending on how old you are now). Remember the glorious future that was to be? Every generation claims that they will change the world for the better but always come up short in the end. Society's standards--that is the traits that seem to be respected in people these days; Selfishness, greed, blind ambition, money lust, overshadow everything I was brought up to hope for. Whatever happened to peace, enlightenment, honesty, pride, humanity and understanding? I guess I'm lost in my own "broken hall of dreams." |
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| VNV Nation – Perpetual Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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I see this song as a promising hymn to humanity. One of my favorite stanzas: "Across the ages, we have reigned as we endured Through the storm fronts we will ever surely pass To stand as never ending light" To me, this song describes our constant struggle to better ourselves. Throughout history we have struggled through so so much hardship (storm fronts), and will surely experience more in the future, yet in the end, we will always endure, and stand as never ending lights. Throwing away the mantle refers to disgarding our false symbols of authority and realizing that the power to change the world is in our hands. Yet this revalation will not come to us while our hearts and minds remain closed and divided--that is, divided as a race--humanity, as we continue to fight eachother over ridiculous things (if looked at from a broader perspective). But that's just my humble opinion. =) |
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| VNV Nation – Beloved Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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"Beloved" is the first song I had ever heard by VNV Nation. It drew me in, blew my mind, and I've never been the same. I have had one experience with "Beloved" that has defined my interpretation, and I can never shake this image and my association of it with this song. I used to live across the street from a large cemetery, so it came as no surprise to me that, one autumn morning, a funeral procession was taking place across the way. Something I had witnessed many times before. This particular funeral happened at the beginning of fall, and anyone who lives in the state of New Hampshire can attend that the loss of a loved one during autumn would be particularly depressing. However, I continued about my daily routine and paid it no mind. Several days later, I got into my car and it just so happened that "Beloved" was the song playing when I started up. As I was pulling out, I noticed in the cemetery across the street, an old man, propped up in his wheelchair in front of the same grave that the procession was for earlier in the week. THIS SONG, coupled with the cold autumn morning, the dead trees, cloudy skies and blowing leaves, seeing the old man in his wheelchair sitting, staring down at the grave of his beloved wife sent a shiver up my spine. The man returned quite a few times to the grave site over the next several weeks to lay down fresh flowers and brush off the leaves. These two has probably been together for so many years, and now he finally had to say goodbye. Remembering days when they were younger, proud of what they were. It was very sad indeed, and to me, "Beloved" could have no other meaning. I dedicate this song to both of them. |
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| VNV Nation – Airships Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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"Airships" has beautiful imagery. If you look at this from a historic perspective (which is how I view most of VNV Nation's music), this song clearly describes a person's first impression of a zepplin (think Hindenburg). At one point, in the 1930's, before the second world war, people saw the zepplin as a revolutionary form of transportation that would possibly change the world. Children and adults alike would be amazed at the sight of these gigantic, graceful floating "airships." This song alludes to the hopes and dreams people had for the future prior to the horrifying reality of World War II. Remember, "Futureperfect", much like "Empires" is a concept album. Most of the songs in Futureperfect make reference to the future that could have been, the "perfect" future we were all brought up to belive in, and the shattering of this illusion by the hammer of reality. Of course, you're free to interpret these songs any way you please. I've found most of VNV Nation's lyrics to be specific references to human nature and society. To me, these songs are brilliant compositions that truly define the modern world. |
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| A-Ha – Lifelines Lyrics | 21 years ago |
| A beautiful song. Too bad nobody's heard it.... | |
| Alphaville – Forever Young Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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This song was released during the cold war, and the lyrics, I'm sure, had stronger meaning then than they do now. It is not only a song about the dreams of youth, but also of cold-war politics and the overshadowing fear of a nuclear war. There are several key terms that allude to this concept. "Hoping for the best, but expecting the worst. Are you gonna drop the bomb or not." "can you imagine when this race is won" is in reference to the nuclear arms race. "praising our leaders we're getting in tune the music's played by the madmen" While praising our leaders, we're "getting in tune" to their music, even though the music is played by a madman. Sure, it's about wanting to live forever. But it's also about trying to make the best of life amid the fear and paranoia of possible nuclear extintion. |
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| VNV Nation – Genesis Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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To me, this song doesn't refer to a single person, but to humanity as a whole. "With you I stand in hope that God will save us from ourselves" alludes to the notion that we are a destructive race, yet there's still hope for our redemption. "Did we toil in vain and hope that wisdome came from what we'd done"....With this, he's asking if all of the things we've accomplished, all of the tears shed, all of the suffering and joy we've gone through as a growing species; was it all in vain? The astronauts are an allusion to our accomplishments as human beings. But of course, with everything we've done so far, it's left us with "only heaven't silence for an answer." |
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