| VNV Nation – Honour Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Quote from a VNV Nation interview with Ronan Harris. "I mean there have been songs since I feel like a victory, but here I go using militaristic terminology, but the album was not about war and the people saw it like that, it’s like people who took Honor as a war song. Honor’s an anti-war song, it’s about a veteran if you will, because it’s a long dissertation. I didn’t ever want to write a simplistic album. It’s a long dissertation to explain to people what that metaphor, how it was being used. Like, one track, track 11 is a minute’s silence, it’s a symbolism of remembrance, because when on the 11th of November at eleven minutes passed eleven in most allied countries, there was a minute’s silence to remember the dead. It was called Schweigeminute because Germans, that's what they call a minute’s silence, they don’t have it at eleven minutes passed eleven on 11th November because they're, you know, dissuaded from honoring the war dead. To me it was a parallel between all the people I know who have struggled to be who they are and lost and failed." |
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| VNV Nation – The Farthest Star Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I think this song really comes across as carrying the same underlying meaning as nearly all of VNV Nation's songs. I see it as a testament to undying truth and justice, a sort of innate human light that can permeate from all of mankind so long as they permit that light to exist within them. It's about a sort of humanistic spirituality, to live is enough of a religious experience in itself and filled with infinite wonder. VNV's song are filled with the full spectrum of this humanly religious experience, from rage at the darkness to persisting hope. This particular song focuses on the power of that human spirit. The world and mankind's existence is delicate and tenuous, but we have the wisdom to protect it. Nothing is beyond our grasp. |
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