| Voltaire – Underground Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Truely a lovely song... From what I get out of it, the singer is in a souring relationship, which causes stress, goes through the loss of a child, likely still in the woumb or something - at the very least not known well by the singer hence the switching gender. Sooo! With all this darkening his day, I think he either falls ill due to stress or commits suicide ("In that small cafe, there I wrote it down" suicide note?). Either way, he ends up at his deathbed, more likely than not unconscious, where people say their goodbyes and such, where he gets an epiphany (how he manages to, I don't know) and realizes that everything he fought over with his... lover? Sure... wasn't worth it, and is able to look beyond the arguments (petty or otherwise) and realize that, yes, he still does love her. Too bad for him, it's too late. Thus, he ends up dead, finding out the hard way that dying wouldn't bring peace, as he's yelling at himself for being so stupid by giving up what he hadn't known he still had. -fin- Now, for the abstract version! This may be entirely off, as it is putting the above version in more adaptable terms, but the first verse seems to be the singer's first contemplation of breaking up with/leaving his lover. He thinks that, should he put a nice and comfortable distance between himself and her, he will finally get the peace he wants. The next stanza is a bit foggier... From what I can tell, he starts subtly avoiding her, getting colser and closer to finally confessing his intention to leave. The "child" remark could have to do with the own emotions, 'inner child' as it were. The part of him that experiances uncomplicated joy, innocence, and such died when she showed her controling nature. By the third stanza, it seems the singer has made his intent clear, with those close to him trying to convince him otherwise, or just give thier own opinions and advice. It is at this point that the singer finally realizes what he is opting to give up, seeing his (former) lover in the same/similar way as he first had. Now, unfortunatly, it is too late. He ends without her and, more or less, alone (I could go into the train of thought that the other people also in their 'graves' would be there, also from relationships gone awry or something like that, but that makes my head hurt...). Sooo! He's left with silence, with only his own voice in his head berating him for his mistake in not seeing what he had let go for company. Whaa... That was long... I could be entirely off, but hey, it's as I see it. |
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