| Rush – A Farewell To Kings Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| I feel that this song means people are not willing to work as hard as they used to in order to complete tasks. The castles mentioned represent hard work, it took a lot of people many years to complete a castle. But now we do not want to work hard for a living and instead rely on the easiest possible way to make money. That usually means doing something illegal or just not right, relying on the government to help get us out of our problems, and corrupt government officials only concerned with making money for themselves. | |
| Kansas – Byzantium Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I just learned about the fall of the Byzantine Empire (western Roman Empire) which happened on May 26, 1453 when The capital of Constantinople fell. When i came across this song i immediately thought of the fall of Constantinople. The song talks about walls which relates to the walls of Constantinople which withheld sieges for thousands of years. The song also says that this is where the emperor's once reigned; the last emperor led the final defence of the city before he was killed. The empire was reduced to the size of Constantinople and used to be the entire mediterranean sea; this is shown in the lines "Only shadows of the glories remain" and "Once your borders had no end". The biggest hint to this song being the fall of Constantinople is the beginning and the end of the song where you can here cannon fire behind the church-like quire singing. |
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| Rush – Entre Nous Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Rush has the greatest lyrics of all time, and this is the very best of their poetic writing. I personally think this song is about people are connected to each other and how they interact with one another. "We are secrets to each other Each one's life a novel No-one else has read. Even joined in bonds of love, We're linked to one another By such slender threads." This means that we all have different lives and everybody has different experiences and go through life differently. And no matter what you do, you will never thoroughly know another persons life. Also, even if you ave a strong connection to someone, your relations with them can be cut. "We are planets to each other, Drifting in our orbits To a brief eclipse. Each of us a world apart, Alone and yet together, Like two passing ships." People are all different, other people's lives are so foreign it's like being on another planet. We only see a fraction of other people's lives it is about as rare as seeing an eclipse. "We are strangers to each other, Full of sliding panels, An illusion show. Acting well-rehearsed routines Or playing from the heart? It's hard for one to know." Again, we don't know everything about other people. People have so many layers (like sliding panels) that most of the time we only see an illusion of who that person really is. We all have been taught how to act in public that we rarely show who we really are, and when people do, there is no way to tell if they are showing their true selves or another illusion. "We are islands to each other, Building hopeful bridges On a troubled sea. Some are burned or swept away, Some we would not choose, But we're not always free." We are all separate beings, and have connections to people like bridges. And like bridges, connections can be destroyed. Some of those connections we are forced into (work, school, family, etc.) because we are forced into contact with these people. |
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