| Florence + the Machine – Which Witch Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| This is clearly about Inquisitor Lavellan at the Exalted Council. :/ | |
| UB40 – (I Can't Help) Falling in Love with You Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| This is an echo heard in the Fade, a song barely remembered, a tale of the elven mages Solas and Lavellan. | |
| Margot & the Nuclear So and So's – Broadripple Is Burning Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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Oh. Yes. Another song reflecting the thoughts and feelings of Staff Commander Alenko, not too long after his time on Horizon in 2185. He's ruminating on the how he's lost her: to getting spaced (If my woman was a fire, She'd burn out before I wake, And be replaced by pints of whiskey, Cigarettes, and outer space.) and also to Cerberus (And when a woman that you loved was gone, She was bombing East Japan.) He is mourning what he has imagined he has lost, in losing her (And everything that I had loved has turned to stone/turned to shit), and he is imagining, in his grief, confusion, and anger, that she has probably forgotten everything they were, when they were together (We've got a lot. Don't you dare forget that.). Still, I don't feel sorry for him. Humans are too pushy. They will bring nothing to the Council species; nothing. |
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| Phoenix – Love Like a Sunset (Part 2) Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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This song is about the loss of something beautiful. Beautiful and ephemeral. But perhaps the beautiful is always ephemeral - or perceived as ephemeral - in the anticipation or moment of its loss. It could be about a relationship, romantic or otherwise, or childhood, or innocence, or any number of things. Personally, it makes me think of life itself, and particularly the moment you realize you still have a chance for redemption even in the last breathes of your life. |
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| Stellastarr* – Lost in Time Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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This is about Dr. Liara T'Soni and regards what she was doing on Omega about a month after the attack on the Alliance SSV Normandy SR1, as well as the events that followed. "I'll stop the day You'll rise again Don't count the news man to signal the end 'Cos you can trust your farthest friends across the world" In other words, the news vids say the Commander is dead. But Dr. T'Soni is doing everything she can to make sure that won't remain true. Even though she's not sure she's making the right decision. But even in death, the Commander can trust her. "We'll take the car You're in the room but your head's in the stars You can run, but you can't hide who you are" They take the taxi on Illium but there's distance between them, and Dr. T'Soni realizes the whole Cerberus thing is making the Commander unlike herself. But Liara also knows the Commander is still who she always was, and that she'll realize it herself eventually. "We're lost in time We're lost in time We're losing time Time..." There's only so much time before the Reapers come. |
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| The Sea and Cake – So Long To The Captain Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| Staff Lieutenant Kaidan Alenko's guilt, circa 2183. | |
| Gnarls Barkley – No Time Soon Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| I can confirm that this song is about Commander Shepard reflecting upon the meeting on Horizon. | |
| Florence + the Machine – Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up) Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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This song is clearly about Commander Shepard after Cerberus successfully completes its two year "Lazarus Project." The gift is her life, but it comes with a price - she is isolated from the Alliance and her former squad, and alienated from her identity support network. The love of her life thinks she's a traitor, or an imposter. She agrees to help Cerberus despite how much she hates them because she feels as though that is her only option, with the galaxy once again at stake (hence going through "the looking glass"). But she knows she can't just compartmentalize her mission to stop the Collectors from the other deeds Cererbus has wrought and continues to wrought: she is entangled in their networks of effects. Despite her tough demeanor, the situation she finds herself in frightens her deeply (being involved with Cerberus; the Collector attack; the looming threat of the Reapers; etc.). She feels she has a rabbit heart. And she feels as though she's given everything already: not only her life, but now her death too. At least before she was 'rebuilt' and brought back to consciousness, the love of her life could remember her as a valiant hero, rather than a traitor and imposter willingly acting as the hands of the devil. The question of who is the 'lamb' and who is the 'knife' plague her throughout her missions; nothing is clear anymore. Sometimes it's easy for her to feel like a victim, a sacrifice, but she is also a killer, and those close to her often remark about the destruction and chaos that follow in her path. She tries not to cut corners, tries to leave herself a way out, but sometimes there seem to be no exits at all. She has to learn to let go of a romanticized notion of herself as a sufferer and hero, someone their to help. Though she has suffered and she does offer aid, she has to let go of her need for others to recognize this. She has to do the same work, even while others think her a turn coat or gun for hire. Cerberus is Midas, converting everything to capital/military-political power, holding her tight by showering her with resources and intel on the one hand and quietly threatening the lives of those she loves. Shepard once again has to take on a 'lion heart' and try to take hold of the situation, even if it means giving up at least a part of who she used to think she was. Just as other events in her life have changed her, she has to let this new world and new life change her too. She has to figure out who she needs to become now, rebuilt, working with (not for) Cerberus, cut off physically and/or emotionally from those she was closet to. She knows this new life she has is a gift, one not afforded to any other casualty of unfolding events in the galaxy, and one she should value even with its price - but can she accept it, and embrace it? Or will she fail to find a reason to return from the other side of the relay? |
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