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| Burzum – Lost Wisdom Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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You're getting half the point, silentl, but his own writings on Burzum.org point to a significantly less open-minded approach. Varg has commented in his essays that the last Norse pagan initiates were burnt at the stake, and the last passage is a clear reference to this itself, not simply to paganism as a whole. It doesn't take more than a passing glance to see Varg views Germanic beliefs as the only true ones, all others being inferior in some way or in many ways. Of course, the meaning, to me, transcends this simple reference, dealing more broadly upon the topic of ideological degeneration itself and in praise of older, more heroic beliefs. (one could make this case for many Burzum songs...) |
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| VNV Nation – Entropy Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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The song isn't a war song, it's a song for society. Entropy, as quoted, referrs both to chaos and to "a process of degradation or running down or a trend to disorder". The passage quoted by Higurashi is best applied when added to the subsequent statement, 'scream to the tune of the backgroud noise'. References to social decay, a disillusion with society, run throughout the song. Lines such as those mentioned and the image of a person self-inflicting pain reference to a system in which people are publicly happy but privately miserable, where material and externality have replaced the content of one's actions, and where order and values are degrading into , well, entropy. |
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