| Awolnation – Knights Of Shame Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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If you read this song like a movie plot, it is based on the idea of an apocalypse and what’s running through everybody’s minds the entire time. The intro is fairly calm, but then there’s the voice in your head telling you that when your life is going to end and you know it, that “this is who you are” and what you all boil down to. “Walkin around with your head cut off” is how everybody knows that they’re going to die, so they decide to cause chaos and then other people just flip out. The softer voice of reason comes in again, “til then we pray”, alluding to how maybe all is not lost in the end. The whole rapping portion is about the events of the apocalypse just wrecking the world. The part starting with “we can dance like the world’s over” just means that if you’re gonna die, might as well go out having a good time, so the entire section is about an omega party to go out with, popping shots, getting down with your lady, and all of that. Sounds kind of like a party speech too when all the voices start to join in on “let’s start today”. The next section starts with “The Queen’s heart” is just a last little prayer. “It’s no fun waiting for the fall” is saying how the end is there, like it’s just the very last few minutes and there’s one last chance to prove who you are. He may very well be talking about somebody he’s had trouble with in their relationship, and just has to tell them how he truly loves her. HE WOULD RATHER DIE WITH HER THAN LIVE WITHOUT HER, making this my favorite part of the song. The whole waiting on a heartbeat part I have trouble with, but that’s likely just as he knows he’s going to die, like as if the meteor or whatever is just about to hit Earth. “Can anybody hear me!?!” is him kind of questioning his own purpose. The instrumental part following I think symbolizes an explosion like the world itself just blows up, like from the meteor thing, because it gets oddly calm just after, like there’s nothing left to say because everybody’s gone. The very end, after the long period of silence when they say; “It's been a long time, waiting on your call, It's been a long time, waiting for you all, It's been a long time, waiting for you, But I can. This may be again about how he had trouble with the girl and how she finally got back to him just at their last minutes. The other idea is that maybe it’s about Aaron Bruno himself, and how he went through the really hard period in his life, but then he’s very thankful for what everybody’s given him in the long run. Over all, lots of ways to interpret, but an amazing song nonetheless. Just makes you think of whom you really would be, or rather become, if you knew you were to die. ~B~ |
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