| Cunninlynguists – The Gates (feat. Tonedeff) Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Overall wonderful song, will never grow sick of it. I really enjoy listening to it in all circumstances, the bass loop is beautiful and the vocal and spanish guitar thrown on top are guaranteed to stimulate. My mate who showed this song to me described what it made him think and the effect it had on his body: "I feel like this big sphere of colored light is growing in my upper chest, obtaining different memories and thoughts i have had since i was a child. As this ball becomes larger and larger my body slowly starts to rise off the ground, flying into the greyish-white sky. As i am about to enter eternal happiness and achievement, I start to think about a mistake i made, something i wish i could change. As this red strip of light is entered in the composition of good things, the ball becomes impossibly weightless and i sink at an unimaginable speed." This song I have found is very mood changing (sometimes for the worst) and almost everyone has something nice to say about it. Something that is hard to do these days, relate lyrical content to sampling. All verses are backed with incredibly powerful imagery, confessions and thoughts about how you act in the first life affects your second life. Things like "I walk towards the figure that's standing, extending its hand I move to enter past the gates yet I'm met with it's grasp..." impose the imagery of a big, strong, bouncer-like judge-angel jabbing his arm across the entry to heaven as this man tries to fly in. He sits the man down in a cloud chair and questions him with an all-knowing smile. The responses to Deacons lines are so instant and realistic- he gets very defensive when just he word vanity is brought up. Although the man knows that his racist thoughts are wrong, he tries to hide it but gives in and admits his thoughts about his daughter's teenage pregnancy with a black man: "split these genes with his sick seed." Plantmiester, I think you are right in saying that it is a metaphor for all types of hypocrisy. Lastly, if the man on the beat on this song, Deacon or Tonedeff ever reads this I invite you to congratulate yourself on creating such a meaningful and beautiful song. |
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