| Karnivool – Deadman Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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My response would have to be in your words Mephitica and I think you've nailed it: "It is a journey in which the audience are able to insert themselves into the very fabric of the music. Thus, everything becomes identifiable after close inspection of the songs". Each of us will make what we will of it and therein lies the genius of the CD - we can all make something of it if we take the time. New Day, for me, has become an anthem - it says it all. Enjoy Davegd1 |
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| Karnivool – Deadman Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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First, I agree - Karnivool's lyrics are designed for personal interpretation. Secondly, I think your interpretation of the song makes sense in terms of the "overlaying subject" within the context of the song "Deadman". What I find fascinating, however - perhaps even brilliant in its own way - is that the CD as a whole carries a message about tomorrow. Each song, for me, alludes in some way to the need to move forward in a new and different way - out of the shadows to a new day. And in that sense, I find each song carries or presses or pushes a message of hope. The last stanza (chorus - who knows - they don't write in a traditional way) of Deadman - "Still I remind myself, how I define myself, I needed to know") emphasises two things: 1. That all experiences are worthwhile, because in the end, we are who are because of what we've done 2. I am me, I know better now what that means, and I can face tomorrow with more optimism. In that context, even the Gregorian chant at the end of Deadman can be seen as the death of the past, which then brings into context the hope of tomorrow. And the music is moving too! |
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| Karnivool – New Day Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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It means what it means to you but to me it's about hope as long as you are prepared to take the step, whatever it takes to create a new day. "Awake in this new light, I'm alone in this room" means there is no one with me, but I'm not coming back to where I was. And then there's the following line - "are we waiting, for the saviour, I'm so sick of waiting, I've been waiting, my whole life" which says I'm not waiting any longer,I'm going to change what is and if I have to do it myself, I will. Inspirational. |
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| Karnivool – All I Know Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I interpret as sawyejr has done in the sense of systems and structures that either metaphorically or in more realistically "rape" society. I'm don't see the song as necessarily focussing on religious systems and structures although they may be included. My interpretation of the album as a whole is that there are systems and structures that are in place that do harm and degrade socity and they are in place for the sole reason that we allow them to be. The way forward is for us each to be responsible for what we allow to happen, not only to us but to others - to form an alliance of like minds to confront and reject the things that do harm and degrade. For this reason, I see and hear New Day as anthemic in terms of the futre. | |
| Karnivool – Change (Part 2) Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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It's a song that each of us must make sense of in our own way, which is something I love about Karnivool's lyrics - they allow that space. For me, Change Part 1 was about reflection - in the original, an older man being interviewed by a child in English can just be heard in the background, and the lyrics suggest reflection on the way things were. It feels like Change Part 2 is a call to action and part of the purpose of the voice speaking in terms of Sound is to challenge us to think about our world in different ways - is gthe way things are the way they have to be? The song profoundly moves me because of experiences I have had with Indigenous peoples and their search for self-advancement, self-actualisation, self realisation ... Musically, the song commences with a profoundly tribal sound, including the didgeridoo. So when I hear the haunting chant of "Hello, Hollow, Halo" I think of all the well-meaning, well-intentioned efforts by non-Indigenous peoples to improve the lot of Indigenous peoples, and so often, so little comes of it - it's like, "here come those whitefellas again with their broken promises". Other lyrics that suggest the same futility and wasted effort: "Lay here, Maybe the damage has been done. As we float away like embers, Beneath the fire still it burns And I don't, I don't know why, Question who we are and then we die" And again, futility if the following words are seen as an Indigenous reflection on non-Indigenous efforts to help "When we collide, Some say goodbye, Some say the words, Leaving no resolve" But finally, I hear hope in the final verse: "There's a break in the wall, You can feel it, It's letting us all escape So people tell me you need A waking day, to fall asleep Light your way, find your place - in here" My belief is that the break in the wall in terms of the future for Indigenous peoples is that things need to be done differently from the way they have been - Indigenous peooples need to "light your way" and non-Indigenous people need to support them to do it. Most politicians won't agree - but then look at the policies designed to improve things over the past 100 years, and ask who put those policies in place? It's a profoundly moving song for me and I deeply appreciate it. |
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