| Hercules and Love Affair – This Is My Love Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| First off this is my favorite song off the album and I don't know if anyone hears this also but at the end of this song I always start singing Bob Marley and the Wailers "Could You Be Loved". I wish they could try that live. | |
| Hercules and Love Affair – Wonder Woman Lyrics | 17 years ago |
|
Andy Butler said another song on Hercules and Love Affair's self titled full length album was a tribute to Nomi but i think this is truly a more fitting tribute. The melody is so beautiful and the lyrics are simple but magical. I feel like the song is about how although Nomi has always felt a woman (and she totally is I mean look at her and her accomplishments) she has pondered about her intergalactic origins i.e. women are from Venus, men are from Mars. I saw a documentary about sexual taboos dealing with sexual identity where they talked about how people in India believed transgendered people were the third sex and they also talked about other cultures that have always believed transgenders to hold great mystic power. So yeah maybe wonder women or wonder people aren't from Jupiter, Saturn, Venus or Mars maybe we have a galaxy all our own. I also think it's for all the outcasts and rebels out there who feel stranded on the wrong planet sometimes. I love Hercules and Love Affair so much! |
|
| Hercules and Love Affair – Raise Me Up Lyrics | 17 years ago |
|
to me the song is a story about rejection from people around someone because of who they might be and how ignorance and intolerance can cloud peoples vision of love. it's a very angry song with a tragic theme set to a very joyful backdrop. specifically i think it's a gay youth who is experiencing gay love but has to keep this side of himself secret fearing his family's rejection. his lover is not closeted and can be more open with his sexuality than he can yet is still victim to society's violent intolerance. this inspires the gay youth to be honest with his family about his homosexuality seeking protection, support and acceptance for his lover and himself but is unfortunately met with the same skewed views on homosexuality the rest of the world has and runs away, living on the streets sleeping where ever he can but very happy to be finally free and loved. his family begins to blame his lover for the youth's behavior and for leaving. so the angry father decides to avenge the shame brought on his family by killing who he believes to be the cause of his family's misfortune and his son's ruin in the process also ending his son's life though not physically but ending his possibilities to be happy, to love, to dance, to be with his family instead turning his life into bleak loneliness, bitterness and spite because now he can't be with the one he loves and has contempt for his father and his family. a sad recount of something a lot of runaway gay youths face. |
|
* This information can be up to 15 minutes delayed.