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| Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Watching Alice Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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I agree with you. By the way, zippers were not invented until 1913, and Alice Liddell was born in 1852. Nick Cave would not have slipped such a mistake. My guess, she's a girl in some catholic boarding school or such. |
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| David Bowie – Where Are We Now? Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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Dunno. I don't think this has a lot to do with mankind, people, humanity. This is very, very personal. It's rather "where am I now?", "what's happened to me between 1976, when I was in Berlin, and today?", "how have I, David Robert Jones, evolved?". But, of course, the world's in the back picture: the wall has fallen, music has changed, the dream of the seventies is over, etc. |
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| David Bowie – Where Are We Now? Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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Dunno. I don't think this has a lot to do with mankind, people, humanity. This is very, very personal. It's rather "where am I now?", "what's happened to me between 1976, when I was in Berlin, and today?", "how have I, David Robert Jones, evolved?". But, of course, the world's in the back picture: the wall has fallen, music has changed, the dream of the seventies is over, etc. |
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| VNV Nation – Requiem QCN Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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Well, Kanis got it. It's as simple as can be. Yes, these are the opening lines of the constitution of Fiume. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Regency_of_Carnaro for more information. This was a very peculiar moment in recent european history. Very particular forces were acting there, both cultural and political: dada, futurism, proto-fascism, anarchism, feminism, eastern philosophies, a certain interpretation of bolchevism as well. If things had gone a different way back then, in Fiume, probably there wouldn't have been fascism, in Italy, as we've known it. Thus probably the whole XXth century would have happened in a very different way. From Ronan's point of view, Fiume was probably some sort of utopia: a state where art and philosophy mingled with politics, action, courage, nationalist and internationalist pride. Where intellectuals and artists were soldiers and soldiers were dreamers dreaming an entirely different world. |
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| Dead Can Dance – Anywhere out of the World Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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The title is taken from a poem by Baudelaire (he wrote the poem in french, of course, yet the title is in english, a language he spoke quite well, as he translated Poe into french). |
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| Death in June – C'Est Un Rêve Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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Probably the most straightforward lyrics by DIJ, imo. I've heard this sung live with slightly different words which make it even clearer: "il est dans votre coeur", (he is in your heart), instead of "il est dans le coeur". It's a concept that runs through all their work: evil is in everyone's heart, and we are all, at the same time, victims and torturers. And, of course, "we are all jews and germans". There's no such thing as a good person. |
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