| Seventh Wonder – The Great Escape Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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You're welcome. I'd recommend reading the poem itself if you want more. It can be difficult with so many made-up words and complex imagery but definitely helpful in understanding the song. https://www.scribd.com/doc/238998252/Aniara |
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| Seventh Wonder – The Great Escape Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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Based on my reading notes of Harry Martinson's Aniara. Given how much detail there is in the original poem, Seventh Wonder would really have needed at least a whole album to cover the entire plot, with all its secondary characters and other events that aren't mentioned here. I: …And the Earth Wept After years of nuclear warfare and ecological devastation, the Earth speaks in a motherly voice, forgiving humanity for its sins and urging it to move on to a better home. III: Leaving Home The narrator, known as Mimarobe in the poem, boards the colony ship Aniara to tend an AI called Mima. Many people are leaving Earth for other colonies throughout the solar system in order to give the planet time to heal. IV: Take-Off Aniara lifts off from Earth and begins its journey to Mars with 8000 refugees. V: A Turn for the Worse Aniara swerves to avoid the previously undiscovered Hondo asteroid, taking it so far off course that it can’t turn back toward Mars. It’s now pointed toward the constellation Lyra, which it will reach at subluminal speeds after thousands of years and the deaths of all its passengers. VI: A New Balance Six years after launch, the passengers “still feign dawn” in celebrations of Midsummer’s Eve in an effort to maintain a part of their old lives. Mima becomes their only guiding light and is worshipped as a god. VII: Death of the Goddesses Mima receives news from Earth that the refugees’ home city of Dorisburg has been destroyed and kills herself in grief. Frightened, the passengers rush to the Mimadrome and begin to panic. VIII: The Age of Confusion: Despair The passengers mourn for Mima, seeking for someone to blame but not realizing that they can only blame themselves. IX: The Age of Confusion: Lust Fertility cults arise throughout the ship as the passengers turn away from science and logic to carnal pleasures, believing that scientists are the cause of all their present griefs. In the poem, Mimarobe and others are imprisoned by a dictator named Chefone but is later released in a futile attempt to repair Mima. As mentioned in the next part, the passengers’ fixation on sexuality over reason caused their language to shift toward demonizing intellect while elevating words for sexual organs over anything else. X: The Age of Confusion: Reason The power of the fertility cults subsides and reason returns. XI: The Aftermath Mimarobe mourns for his home and Mima, who -- along with both God and Satan -- abandoned humanity to its fate. XII: Dining on Ashes Twenty years after launch, the passengers have finally begun to see the truth about themselves and their helpless situation. XIII: The Curtain Falls Mimarobe remains alive while the last of the refugees die. |
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| Coheed and Cambria – Mother Superior Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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"You're frightened of leaving this truly gone fishing amalgam" Another Pink Floyd reference, this time to lyrics from the song "The Trial", where the main character describes himself as "crazy, truly gone fishing". |
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| Marillion – Gaza Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| @[Aniland:1118] The band have explained in interviews that it's not so much a pro-Palestinian song but more anti-conflict in general. As they say, "there are grieving mothers on both sides of the wire". The perspective change in the lyrics is interesting too, following a kid who grows up to hate the conditions he's in and the people who put him there, and then asks us the question if we can blame him for doing so when it's really all he's known. | |
| Adele – Skyfall Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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"You may have my number, you can take my name But you’ll never have my heart" This is the character of James Bond in a nutshell: we know his number (007) and his name but no one will ever have his heart, i.e. he'll never allow anyone to get close enough to him for true love. Every time he's allowed himself to love a woman, she's killed shortly afterward (Goldfinger, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Casino Royale, etc). The same goes for everyone he's cared about. For his own safety and for the safety of others, James Bond can only ever be a fleeting affair or an easily forgotten face in the crowd. |
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| Frank Zappa – Inca Roads Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| The lines "carve up the hill" and concept of Inca roads in general are supposed to be references to the Nazca Lines in Peru, which some believe to be runways for UFOs. | |
| Blind Guardian – And Then There Was Silence Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| When it talks about revenge to be taken by Rome, the lyrics refer to the Aeneid by Virgil, which tells the story of Trojan refugees led by Aeneas who flee to Italy, fight the Latins, and eventually found the city of Rome. The implication was that the Roman emperors were legitimate heirs to the glory of Troy. | |
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