| Muse – Time Is Running Out Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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For me, the whole Absolution seemed like an atheistic catharsis, a man falling from the grace of God or rebelling against his tight grip, like when a child wants to break free from an overprotecting/controlling parent, but can't. The parent struggles to maintain power position by smothering their freedom, and the child hates them for it, provokes them, but is also at the same time dependent on them. I think it summs up the Nietzschean rebellion and lifelong struggle against God perfectly. It could also be about politics, but it seems much more intimate than that, there's just too much really personal emotions in there. It's more like the existentialist quest of an individual. |
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| Joy Division – Shadowplay Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I think the song is about alienation and helplessness, he wanted to move closer but something always kept him to the ground, like a ball and a chain. He searched everywhere within his closed world, but he knew it was just "moving through the silence without motion", he was tied up in another dimension, like there was a thick glass wall between him and the other people. He was a public person being a band frontman, often among crowds of people, but he felt as lonely as ever. People were dancing on the floor before him and he tried to connect even though they smelled as cold as steel. He reached out to them but they didn't get it, just as he opened up they left since it was nothing more than a show to them. He was entertaining them with his seizures, "acting out your own death". They didn't take him seriously, or, from his point of view, it wasn't what he was searching for. |
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| Joy Division – Passover Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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It's a very ambiguous song, it could have both positive and negative meanings. He could be talking about going through some sort of catharsis before he changes his life for the better, but I'm more inclined to believe the passover he's talking about is indeed death. He's reluctant about whether he should go on with it as he knows he has "duties" (a wife and a child). To kill himself would be liberating but it would also mean he'd bebacking out. To stay would only bring him more suffering, so either way he loses: "Can I go on with this train of events? Disturbing and purging my mind Back out of my duties, when all's said and done I know that I'll lose every time" He was determined to end his life, but then the crisis came which made him doubt. It's like a discussion between the two parts of his personality, the determined one and the hesitating one. The first one asks: "Is this the role that you wanted to live? " And the second one replies: "Can I go on with this train of events?" We know which won. Even if we didn't know anything about how he died, it would be obvious from the way the song ends. Pain, guilt and death are the wastelands he has to cross before he could finally feel free to go through the "next set of lives". |
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| Joy Division – Passover Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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It's a very ambiguous song, it could have both positive and negative meanings. He could be talking about going through some sort of catharsis before he changes his life for the better, but I'm more inclined to believe the passover he's talking about is indeed death. He's reluctant about whether he should go on with it as he knows he has "duties" (a wife and a child). To kill himself would be liberating but it would also mean he'd bebacking out. To stay would only bring him more suffering, so either way he loses: "Can I go on with this train of events? Disturbing and purging my mind Back out of my duties, when all's said and done I know that I'll lose every time" He was determined to end his life, but then the crisis came which made him doubt. It's like a discussion between the two parts of his personality, the determined one and the hesitating one. The first one asks: "Is this the role that you wanted to live? " And the second one replies: "Can I go on with this train of events?" We know which won. Even if we didn't know anything about how he died, it would be obvious from the way the song ends. Pain, guilt and death are the wastelands he has to cross before he could finally feel free to go through the "next set of lives". |
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| Joy Division – A Means To An End Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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In addition: he still loved that other person, but had to leave them. He couldn't believe they could exploit all the trust he had put in them. "Committed still I turn to go I put my trust in you" It might as well be about how he perceived the reasons for his failing marriage. |
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| Joy Division – A Means To An End Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I think this is a song about either a friendship or a relationship being exploited, as the title clearly suggests. To the other person it was just means to an end, but to him it was so much more. He was bitterly disappointed when he found out what the other person's real interests were. "Is this your goal Your final need Where dogs and vultures eat" And he believed their vision touched the sky. |
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