| Eluveitie – Brictom Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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These lyrics are essentially a rearrangement of the words inscribed on a lead tablet recovered from Larzac in France. The language is Gaulish, specifically Helvetian Gaulish which would have been spoken in the area of Europe that is now Switzerland by the Gallic tribe known as the Helvetii. Parts of the tablet are illegible (understandable after the better part of two millennia) but those sections that are legible have been translated thusly: "Send back the charm of this women against their own names which are down there written. This is a cursing charm cursing witches. O goddess Adsagsona, turn your eye twice on Severa Tertionica, witch of wire and witch of writing, may they release the one they have cursed, with a bad cursing charm on their names, please do a bewitching in their names (...) May this women here named and curse be powerless about him (...) Any man serving as a judge, that they would have cursed, may he be freed of this curse, and may it be no witch of wire, no witch of writing, ni giver witch among those women who solicit Severa, the witch of wire, the witch of writing, the foreigner (...) And may she not escape the illness of the bewitched" |
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| Eluveitie – Slanias Song Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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Reading a translation from Gaulish to English makes the meaning of this song clear - it's a salute to the Helvetii, the Gallic tribe that inhabited what is now modern Switzerland (and the root of the word Helvetia, the national personification of modern Switzerland). Incidentally, the band name comes from a piece of ancient graffiti found on a vessel from Mantua in Lombardy, which in Etruscan lettering reads 'eluveitie', and is believed to be the Etruscan rendering of the Celtic word '(h)elvetios' meaning 'the Helvetian', perhaps referring to a man of Helvetian origins living in Mantua at the time. |
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| Halestorm – Here's To Us Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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If ever there was an encore song, this is it. Those first three lines can be interpreted allegorically as referring to the whole encore: "We could just go home right now Or maybe we could stick around For just one more drink, oh yeah" As a whole, I've always seen this song as a shout out from Lzzy, Arejay, Joe and Josh to the fans, the ones who have made their success possible, who have stuck with the band through thick and thin, and among whom I am proud to count myself. |
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