| In Flames – The Hive Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I agree with deth that it describes our society as a hive and we are the hornets. Also, I think SomeOtherPerson is correct that we have lost the ability to think. Don't really know what april night-tyme means. My only idea is that april is when we 'run' to get taxes done. The muscles, nodes, blood, synapses are parts of the human body, and it symbolizes how we have lost out abliity to think for ourselves, our individualism. Hence the stars (our unique qualities and good characteristics) have been disarmed. We all just do our jobs as human cells do, and all just serve the brain, or the dictator. We don't think for ourselves anymore. Blood-bridges is just showing how our cities run like body systems. It is like a dark hornet hive, we all work for the purpose of the hive, but not thinking for ourselves. Our wings have been severed, our abilites and freedom have been severed, but we still beat them in vain. I think the inferno of fangs is the hive, the fangs destroy the stars within us. I'll get to the chorus in a moment. The third verse is what still confuses me. A halo of thorns make me wonder if it has reference to jesus, but I remember that it is In Flames singing this. Sips now down makes me think of blood oozing out, but sheets of sharp silver makes me think razor blades or something. If anyone figures this out, let me know. We should have been so much more by now. We had a lot of potential because of our inteligence and each human bean has potential to do great things. But our intelligence got misfired. Too dead inside because ours stars (ability to think) were disarmed. We can't even realize that we destroyed ourselves, and we shouldn't have. In the Whoracle story, this song is exposition describing this hive-like society. It sets up what will happen in the next few songs. |
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| In Flames – Words Within The Margin Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I have always agreed with mikeb, about the infinite alternative universes theory. I have seen this theory just recently in a few places: this song, the book The Great Hunt by Robert Jordan, and sort of in the movie Next. To everybody who thinks these In Flames songs are about wacking off or whatever, you have to make every word in the song make sense. Think about it, Sundin didn't just throw in random words for fun, in his mind everything made sense and related. The first stanza is an example of the butterfly effect, as kodos said. The slighest change in a little thing (the position of a leaf on a street), can cause a major effect (the man falls). The space between his body and the ground is the margin, and I'm not sure but I think the next line is metaphors for disaster that ensue from his fall. Comets cast off their names might be a connection to the last song "stars dissolve". People cast off their logic. Stellar is another reference to the stars, maybe their ideas and intelligence are misfired and used to disastrous effects. Witnesses inhale the seed and spit out a million branches, buds abloom in all directions from which events occur. Either this shows how quickly disaster spreads, or the million branches are millions of alternate universes. Both fit and make sense in relation to the overall ideas. In the margin of butterfly wings relates to the butterfly effect again. Entire cycles of evolution outplayed and faded sparked and leaned back into vacuum-filled nirvana, he is describing how entire universes and totally alternate worlds exist in just the margin of butterfly wings. If so many could fit into a small space, then there are infinite universes all together. In the first part of the song it described how a raindrop caused an enormous effect, so a butterfly's wings flapping could do the same thing. Between the two of my eyes is another 'margin' where universes happen. Not sure what the next three lines mean, only that fractals could relate to the overall chaotic phenomena of all this, and for some reason they are going crazy like they were on drugs. A hasty blink means one mistake can destroy entire futuristic possibilities. The future life-to-comes will never be the same, except that they haven't even happened yet so they never were. Some complex concepts here. The kinetic energy of a moving fist part means every little action you do can create a parallel universe. I think the next stanza explains how this world was chosen, instead of any of the other alternative worlds was chosen. You see there may be infinite universes, but one is more real and probable than the others and that is the one we live in. Coded in the spinal cord...written between the legs...are examples of other 'margins' where the title of the song comes from. The next lines relate to Anders' overall idea of whoracle, about the evils of technology and cities and such. Suburban cities and dictators (the evil things) make their mark in time and all these alternate universes. So I think those last few lines tell how the song relates the Whoracle story: every stupid decision and mistake we humans make has a huge effect on everything. |
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| In Flames – Morphing Into Primal Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I think some of you may be right in that it implies sex, but tha's not what the whole thing is about. The song is about giving into natural 'primal' instincts. Maybe its the kind of basic instincts humans developed before they were civilized and were just a bunch of neanderthal types. I think the main message Anders and Niklas are trying to get across is how monstrous and stupid humans are when they give in to their instincts of war and sex. First stanza is the detonation of his instincts. Fireworks i think are a metaphor for the insticts that are being detonated. Not certain about alchemy, maybe it refers to the chemistry of our genes, or maybe the fireworks. Genes means they are our natural instincts encoded in us. The X and Y chromosomes are split when sperm are made, so that's what spliced means, then they are triggered in her organic cave or vagina. The genes are also passed on to the child, and will be triggered in the future. Seismorgasmic omnipotence: Seismo-earthquakes, orgasmic-pleasureful, omnipotence-power. His power is really orgasmic, or as pleasureful as earthquakes. Scenes of magma describes how chaotic he feels, and relates to eruptions, and basically takes over his body system. The chorus relates to the theme and what I said at the beginning: Animal instincts that blocks the daylight, or any logic or sense. He is morphing into his animal side. I'll cover every particle from there to Andromeda means he's going wild and is going to destroy everything everywhere, and not going to forget a single location. From the throat of Ibis to the co-ordinate of Matterhorn are just fancy words that further describe how he's going everywhere. My shot either means his weapon like he's shooting something, or it's a shot like the injection. I think it is the latter because that would explain Penetratonaut. The shot is penetrating him. Anyway, its a shot of genesis or the beginning of something, and catharsis or the release of his repressed instincts. Genesis is the beginning or cosmology of lust, lust for power. I think this another spot where sexual urges are implied, because of penetrate and lust. The subterrenean creature is another metaphor for the instincts, but I dont know why they would be proudly shown to heaven. Maybe he is proud to have it sucked out of him finally. With one slight wave of his hand describes how quickly his stars dissolve. Stars mean intelligence and basically the good parts of the human mind, just as they were used in the hive "to disarm the stars within us." His brain (intelligence, logic, sense) is dissolved. His lungs are blocked, he is slowly dying from the animal inside. The final line, "when locked in such a perfected now", I think is the moral, or why the animal inside has been triggered. I think that he's trying to say that when people live in a utopia where there are no wars, the animal inside is repressed and dies to be let free. My theory on how this fits into the overall Whoracle story, is that not only are the cyborgs destroying the humans (Jester Script Transfigured), but also other humans that have gone wild in an anarchy, as will be described in Worlds Withing the Margin. |
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| In Flames – Morphing Into Primal Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I think some of you may be right in that it implies sex, but tha's not what the whole thing is about. The song is about giving into natural 'primal' instincts. Maybe its the kind of basic instincts humans developed before they were civilized and were just a bunch of neanderthal types. I think the main message Anders and Niklas are trying to get across is how monstrous and stupid humans are when they give in to their instincts of war and sex. First stanza is the detonation of his instincts. Fireworks i think are a metaphor for the insticts that are being detonated. Not certain about alchemy, maybe it refers to the chemistry of our genes, or maybe the fireworks. Genes means they are our natural instincts encoded in us. The X and Y chromosomes are split when sperm are made, so that's what spliced means, then they are triggered in her organic cave or vagina. The genes are also passed on to the child, and will be triggered in the future. Seismorgasmic omnipotence: Seismo-earthquakes, orgasmic-pleasureful, omnipotence-power. His power is really orgasmic, or as pleasureful as earthquakes. Scenes of magma describes how chaotic he feels, and relates to eruptions, and basically takes over his body system. The chorus relates to the theme and what I said at the beginning: Animal instincts that blocks the daylight, or any logic or sense. He is morphing into his animal side. I'll cover every particle from there to Andromeda means he's going wild and is going to destroy everything everywhere, and not going to forget a single location. From the throat of Ibis to the co-ordinate of Matterhorn are just fancy words that further describe how he's going everywhere. My shot either means his weapon like he's shooting something, or it's a shot like the injection. I think it is the latter because that would explain Penetratonaut. The shot is penetrating him. Anyway, its a shot of genesis or the beginning of something, and catharsis or the release of his repressed instincts. Genesis is the beginning or cosmology of lust, lust for power. I think this another spot where sexual urges are implied, because of penetrate and lust. The subterrenean creature is another metaphor for the instincts, but I dont know why they would be proudly shown to heaven. Maybe he is proud to have it sucked out of him finally. With one slight wave of his hand describes how quickly his stars dissolve. Stars mean intelligence and basically the good parts of the human mind, just as they were used in the hive "to disarm the stars within us." His brain (intelligence, logic, sense) is dissolved. His lungs are blocked, he is slowly dying from the animal inside. The final line, "when locked in such a perfected now", I think is the moral, or why the animal inside has been triggered. I think that he's trying to say that when people live in a utopia where there are no wars, the animal inside is repressed and dies to be let free. My theory on how this fits into the overall Whoracle story, is that not only are the cyborgs destroying the humans (Jester Script Transfigured), but also other humans that have gone wild in an anarchy, as will be described in Worlds Withing the Margin. |
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| In Flames – Jester Script Transfigured Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I'm using the ideas of other people on this list, but i want to piece together the whole thing line by line from my interpretation. Cre-age-aeon means an 'age' or 'eon' of creation. Notice how it looks and sounds like creation. New beginnings are the beginnings or births of cyborgs. Im not certain about infinite vacuum, but i think it just means scientific vacuum tubes or that kind of thing. Biotronic test worlds are again, scientific labs where the creation happens. Free of inscription and devoid of the echoes of man both mean this test world and the creations don't have the weaknesses and 'idiotic' qualities. Noble savage is an oxymoron describing the cyborgs. Noble because they have every perfect attribute, yet savage is a foreshadow to later in the song. Cold ceremonial perfection; again this talks about the scientific creation of the cyborgs. Cold is another foreshadow, and implying how evil technology is. Ceremonial perfection, because these are perfect beings and created without flaw. More radiant than the sum of suns i think just describes the briliant light of the explosions and fusions of the creation. With each and every attribute of animal machine and man again describes how the cyborgs were created to be perfect, yet we see how the cyborgs are so perfect that they try to eliminate us. Dystopia ElectroHeart are the cyborgs, because they bring a dystopia with them, and their hearts run on electricity. The grotesque describes their cruelty to the humans, and the linear describes their emotionless thought processes. Took one final giant blow into the Ram of what is us, means they totally destroyed all trace and memory (Ram) of the human race. The restoration of unsequenced chaos is the return to the kind of natural chaos there was before humans controlled everything. The cyborgs are installing it by getting rid of humans, and awaiting because they want it. Finally, probably the most poetic and meaningful verse. It describes how unimaginable and horrific this end of the world will be. We've only seen the outlines of the beginning tells how much more there is to come. The next line is confusing, i really have no idea how the word core relates, but from the other lines i think its some metaphor for the cyborgs. The slowly moving raptor is a metaphor, its like a raptor slowly closing in on the prey (us). They will make the very notion of hell seem celestial in comparison, means that what is to come is something much much worse than hell. I think this is because not only will we be dead, but our race and the memory of us will be dead. It is something to think about, that to die and not be remembered is the worst kind of hell. That's it, sorry for the length. My favorite song from this album. |
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