| The Presets – Are You The One? Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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No, they're definitely wrong. The start is clearly more like: I don't know why I got it so bad 'cause somehow I find I'm out out of the fryin' pan and into the fire ... Are the actual lyrics in the album? |
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| The Presets – Are You The One? Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| These lyrics are obviously very wrong. | |
| VNV Nation – Freude Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| There's only one version of Freude (Solitary EP - 05 - Freude (Schlachtfeld mix by Wumpscut)) and the lyrics posted here and on the official site are clearly wrong if you listen to it. | |
| VNV Nation – Requiem QCN Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I can't find the source right now, but the meaning of "si spiritus pro nobis, quis contra nos?" is that if the spirit [of the *people*] is with us, then who can oppose us? The context is that of a revolution or a constitution or something, I forget, but in a revolution, clearly nothing can stop the combined will of the people, and so they should have nothing to fear. If all the people want something or to live in a certain way, who or what is there to oppose it? | |
| VNV Nation – Carbon Lyrics | 23 years ago |
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In an interview somewhere Ronan said that he got the idea for this song while in a 50's diner (I think) and the 'million points of light' refers to the view of a city at night. I think he's saying that we're basing our values on trivial and futile things, and that we think that for some reason we're exempt from the laws of nature. Heh. The perfect metaphor for this is from a book I read... In the same way that a man wearing a coat of feathers, flapping his arms as he jumps off a cliff is flying and defying the laws of aerodynamics because, "So far so good," we believe that Civilization is the "best" way for humanity to live based on the fact that despite all the shit we've killed, we're still around. Not necessarily for long, though... |
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| VNV Nation – Further Lyrics | 23 years ago |
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I take it in more of a literal sense, as a view on humanity and civilization. As someone said in another post, If we were to vanish tomorrow, what would we, as humanity, have accomplished? "And in retrospect I'll say we've done no wrong. Who are we to judge what is right and what has purpose for us? With designs upon ourselves to do no wrong, running wild unaware of what might come of us." This whole stanza intrigues me. I think he's referring to how we make our laws and morals in an almost circular fashion, such that what the majority of people do, "right or wrong" is good. Therefore we, as a society/civilization, can "do no wrong" because everything we do is right, by default. |
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| VNV Nation – Honour Lyrics | 23 years ago |
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To get a better understanding of the line, "Cry havoc! and let slip the dogs of war," refer to this URL: http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/48.html Summary: This line is taken from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. It is spoken as part of a monologue by Caesar's friend, standing over his grave, prophesizing hurtin' onto Caesar's conspiritors. 'Havoc,' in that time, meant "a military cry to general slaughter without quarter." Caesar is to rise from the grave with Ate (the goddess of vengeance) and cry "Havoc!" and let slip the dogs of war. Yummy. I would also like to point out this song's relevance to the recent WTC events, and contrast its point of view to that of Solitary: 'Now' we are trying to destroy the Taliban and take vengeance for our loss: "Stand your ground, this is what we are fighting for ... Let slip the dogs of war." But we will eventually realize that this is completely futile, and we will "sever the line to the guilty past, to the ones who brought us nothing [the government and this revenge mentality] who spoke of futures brave and proud and brought only hate and war. Lined the streets with hollow praise, marked the land with paper statues [basically, the whole idea of being against the Taliban and that they're evil and we're the pillar of hope and justice in the world] Shadows fell on their futile ways, and then there was nothing more [us realizing that this 'war' is trivial and pointless, and simply dropping it.]" |
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