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| Woodkid – The Other Side Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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The end. The death he longed for in Iron comes, and his last thoughts are of the meaninglessness and futility of the life of a soldier. The glory and wealth he wanted was just a false promise. |
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| Woodkid – Iron Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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This is the soldier who has become numb to the world due to all of the fighting he has been doing, and he is now waiting for his death in battle to come. |
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| Woodkid – Ghost Lights Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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This is from the perspective of the woman, and she is lamenting that she had fallen in love with the soldier, who she now believes is not going to come back. She sees her world burn away metaphorically, the promise of excitement and adventure, and is now left with a dark and grim view on reality. |
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| Woodkid – The Shore Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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The main character has been at war across the sea, I also get the impression he might even be a pirate or buccaneer, or other naval soldier. He has won battles and made money, but all of those wins are meaningless to him, because he longs for the love he left behind. He wonders if she is thinking of him, and at the same time, as we later learn, she wonders the same thing about him. |
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| Woodkid – Where I Live Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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Where this song is placed on the album, and the album in general, I think is about a sort of soldier of fortune who in his youth falls in love with a girl, and before going off promises her great wealth when he returns. This song takes place years later, after he has been gone for a long time, and she has found someone else, had children of her own, and they have left her. This is her reflecting back on her life, and that soldier she fell in love with, and had attached feelings of excitement and adventure to. She is unaware that he never stopped loving her, and wanted to return, but, according to the final song, presumably died far away on another shore.
And yes, it is put before Iron to serve as a stark contrast of two worlds, the lover's, and the soldier's. |
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