| The Sisters of Mercy – Lucretia, My Reflection Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Okay, I'm going to give this a shot. I'm not a superb Sisters fan, but I do have all the albums, and I love this song in particular. Why? Because its just good. "I hear the roar of a big machine Two worlds and in between Hot metal and methedrine I hear empire down..." Is a part of the text, everyone keeps forgetting, and maybe it holds the key of unraveling it all. The big machine could mean the system, the endless drag we all live in. The program we are all runing week after week, year after year. Stand up, go to work, fall asleep... and try to have some fun in the middle. Methedrine, is a halluciogenic amphetamine. Wich is pretty rare sort of dope. You start hallucinating and get a psychodelic revelation, but you are also verry active because of the amphetamine part. These types of drugs ussually end up in aggresive behavior like its also found in PCP cases. Hot metal : Methedrine is injected like heroine, so you need to heat up the spoon. The Two worlds, and the in between, cleary points out to the psychodelic experience. You can see the real world, the dream world and its all in between... inside your own head. A sort of revelation also found when taken psilocybin (magic mushrooms) you can see visions but these come from toughts in your own head. You can see everything but also the "in between". "Love lost, fire at will Dum-dum bullets and shoot to kill, I hear Dive, bombers, and Empire down Empire down" Okay going for a long shot here, but still. The early eighties and the late 70s in music where going to a big frustration. The flower pot people had lost, love was gone, there was still war and peace isnt in reach. The new generation failed to change the world. Love is lost, and bullets are still flying around, the people also got back to there old routine. The peace movements where loosing, war won. "I hear the sons of the city and dispossessed Get down, get undressed Get pretty but you and me, We got the kingdom, we got the key We got the empire, now as then, We don't doubt, we don't take direction," I think the lines that have biggest meaning in this part of the song are the last 3 lines: "We got the kingdom, we got the key We got the empire, now as then, We don't doubt, we don't take direction" The guy is telling us, we have the power. Its our job to change direction, but we dont do it. We can change the world if we all say : STOP, but we are too lazy, too hooked up in our own routine. "We look hard We look through We look hard to see for real Such things I hear, they don't make sense I don't see much evidence I don't feel. I don't feel. I don't Feel." The most of us are searching for the answers: Why? When? What are we doing here? And how should we continue? The singer doesn't see it for real, what he wants is not happening, there is no evidence that it ever will. We just keep making the same stupid mistakes, we go on and on and on on bettering ourselves but we keep shooting the guns. The methedrine gives him an insight, but he doesnt feel anymore, his hearth is pounding like crazy. He's fucked up. "Lucretia, my reflection, dance the ghost with me" Lucretia, the woman of a Roman nobleman who got raped, told the people abouth it and afterwards killed herself. He sees a reflection of Lucretia in himself. He sees that he must change, that world must come to a better place. But he doesnt do it, cause no one else is. He's stuck just as we all are. "Dance the ghost with me" , He still admires the tought, the vision of peace. But its a ghost who doesnt seem to get real. And we are all dancing too the same music. We beleve in peace but we are not doing anything abouth it. So we all dance the ghost with him. Now for some people this may seem far fetched. For others it may seem realistic. annyway, its a diffrent opinion :o) let me know what you think. Grtz kwèk |
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