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This Is No Rehearsal Lyrics
How many children did I bring into this world?
How many did I lose in the shopping arcade?
This is no rehearsal - play it back
and throw things at the screen
This is no rehearsal - somebody
interpret this for me
And still I remember how I dressed him this morning
And then he was gone - stolen, my only one
How many did I lose in the shopping arcade?
and throw things at the screen
This is no rehearsal - somebody
interpret this for me
And then he was gone - stolen, my only one
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Submitted by
ministry On Jun 21, 2002
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This was at the Wikipedia entry for this song:
Steven Wilson said of "This Is No Rehearsal": "This song was directly inspired by a tragic UK event a few years ago. A child was taken from a shopping mall while his mother was momentarily distracted and was later found dead and tortured near a railway track. The most disturbing thing about the story was that the two abductors/murderers turned out to be children themselves."
this may not be wrong... but would not be the first song that's made up like this look at some tracks of in absentia for example
@bluuu - this is excatly what i thoght it to be... and i'm quite convinced its about the murder of child incidence.. but the subtlety of the music should be well understood.. that's the reason Sir Steven says..in one of his songs he doesn't make music amass ..
@bluuu - this is excatly what i thoght it to be... and i'm quite convinced its about the murder of child incidence.. but the subtlety of the music should be well understood.. that's the reason Sir Steven says..in one of his songs he doesn't make music amass ..
I believe, according to what I've heared and get from this song, that its a bit stuck up. Yet so PT. But since they rock, it's OK. It's about all those semi-rock: punk bands, and all those teenage american movies theme musicians. That all they do is just "making a lot of noise" and messing around with their instruments like little children, that don't really know what they're doing - yet they're still popular, "making art" and being cool. So this is PT version or statment, that they can be "cool" like that as well. This is way the lyrics are talking gernerally on silly childish/adolescent behavior. In a peranty VS rowdy kid.
Yeah, I read that but I don't believe it's really about that. You can interpret it in other ways, even when Steven Wilson said it's about that child abducted and murdered.
With only reading the lyrics, you think "oh, it's clear - it's about that child murdered" but the music sounds far too happy. I mean, there are so many sad PT songs, but this one isn't one of them.
Said in another way:
Musically, it's quite uplifting. Lyrically, it's quite dark.
this may not be wrong... but would not be the first song that's made up like this look at some tracks of in absentia for example
reptile: As for you thinking that the music sounds far too happy to be about the child being murdered; it's called musical irony. This song is a perfect example of it.
Well my interpretation of this song is he refers to his music as a child. How many children did he create and how many were lost in a mall (record shop?)?