| Emilie Autumn – Across The Sky Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I see what you're saying in context with the song, but the poem at the beginning is Shakespeare's Sonnet 53. The poem basically is saying 'how is it that everything has but one shadow while you reflect everything, everything beautiful looked upon you will see some essence of you' or something to that effect. The rest of the poem goes on to say if one painted adonis or Helen of Greece they would inadvertently paint 'you' and that the only difference between the beauty of the world and the beauty of you are the only consistent beauty. But also given the mystic nuances of the "Enchant" album I do think this song had a supernatural feel much like you suggested. |
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| Emilie Autumn – Across The Sky Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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The poem at the beginning of this song, which is not in these lyrics is Shakespeare's Sonnet 53. What is your substance, whereof are you made, That millions of strange shadows on you tend? Since every one hath, every one, one shade, And you but one, can every shadow lend. Essentially saying; "What are you made of that causes you to be reflected in millions of ways? Everyone else has only one shadow, but you, though you are only one person, are reflected in everything." This is a beautiful way of starting a song about devotion. |
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| Emilie Autumn – Ghost (Poem) Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I haven't been through all the comments, so I dont know if this has already been said, but I interpret; With her history of mental health problems, and her affinity to the Victorians, both a incorperated into this poem. The boy she has fallen in love with, this ghost, seems to appear only to her. Her desiring him to be able to interact in day to day life, but his inability because he does not exist can be seen in; "but when I'm stuck in conversation with stuffed shirts whose adoration hurts my ears, where are you then can't you cut in when I dance with other men" Those lines also suggest that she is unsatisfied with real men, so she has dreamt up her own. "taking my hand come and remind me who you are have you traveled far are you made of stardust too are the angels after you" But her own anxieties have worked into her dream lover "you tell me that you never leave and I am almost afraid to believe it" "will you always attend my midnight tea parties as long as I set your place if one day your sugar sits untouched will you have gone forever" "tell me what I am to do" Another suggestion that he is a figment of her imagination is; "is it enough for you to steal into my mind filling up my page with music written in my hand you know I'll take the credit for I must have made you come to me somehow" Her delusion goes so far that she believes she has made love to him, a sexual fantasy manifested; "it's too late not to interfere with my life you've already made me a most unsuitable wife for any man who wants to be the first his bride has slept with" Basically she is so desiring for a man to love her that she has created one, but her anxiety of being abandoned has not disipated, for he is still a man. That's what I see, I relate to this poem quite a bit <3 Maxx |
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