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How hungry we've become;
like animals naked in shame
fed with the hooves of apocalypse t
hat galloped down,
disordered worlds behind
From word to a word I was led to a word
that spanned over cultures in rage
Crimson masses, steeped in decadence
holding our tongues to the thirsty sun
So, is the future still open?
Then enter, hornet, from our hive-dark hearts
to draw down the end from within
We need not the horns
that emanate
from our warty, haunted bodies
Nihilist, hedon
the priceless art of their lives
sorrow is a wing laid atop their heads.
skin deep, we carve our immeasurable sorrow i
n the fold of your shivering arms
Hedon,
Your children wild and filled with death
Jupiter in our unforgiving eyes:
a pandemonium of bodies and gold
eager, as a part of your face
and the sickness attached to your skin (stone)
as the wine-rush, charging from androgynous wombs
to open free the lid of pain
Hedon,
rinsed in post-human shadows
a monument scorned by the teeth of time
stale-faced keeper of secrets,
loaded with implosive fire
the whore that carried the apostle
to the mating point on the graves of giants
We look at you, afraid
to see what we really are.
like animals naked in shame
fed with the hooves of apocalypse t
hat galloped down,
disordered worlds behind
that spanned over cultures in rage
Crimson masses, steeped in decadence
holding our tongues to the thirsty sun
So, is the future still open?
Then enter, hornet, from our hive-dark hearts
to draw down the end from within
that emanate
from our warty, haunted bodies
the priceless art of their lives
sorrow is a wing laid atop their heads.
skin deep, we carve our immeasurable sorrow i
n the fold of your shivering arms
Your children wild and filled with death
a pandemonium of bodies and gold
eager, as a part of your face
and the sickness attached to your skin (stone)
as the wine-rush, charging from androgynous wombs
to open free the lid of pain
rinsed in post-human shadows
a monument scorned by the teeth of time
stale-faced keeper of secrets,
loaded with implosive fire
the whore that carried the apostle
to the mating point on the graves of giants
to see what we really are.
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A hedon is a unit of pleasure in utilitarianism, and one who is motivated mainly by personal pleasure is called a "hedonist." Pretty clearly, the song is about humanity's hedonistic struggle for pleasure and the trouble caused by it.
Man, what the heck, bands like Fall Out Boy have thousands of people discussing their songs on this site, but when it comes to real music you got 3 replies???
Anyway, love this song, the first part of the song, up to the tempo change gives me like this feeling of hopelessness. And that part where Anders Friden screams : "So tell me, Tell ME!!!!" Makes it all really awesome.
Also i agree with the poster above me, we fail to realize that pleasure is temporary, so we spend our lives chasing it.
hmm, Dark tranquility songs are liek tools it seems. There up for interpritations. THis one seems to be about the 4 horsemen and appocolypse, and how we dont need a supernatural catastrophy, we can do it our selfs.
four horsemen?
how do you figure?
Anders was not in the recording of this song. The vocalist on "The Mind's I" was Mikael Stanne
@Noahgoode I know it's 11 years later, but Hedon actually does have Anders in it for that one vocal guest part. You can tell it's him just by the voice difference. Anders has a much deeper voice. He does "Hedon, Hedon!" in the background growls and then, possibly the spoken part that's kind of distorted around 4:40
@Noahgoode I know it's 11 years later, but Hedon actually does have Anders in it for that one vocal guest part. You can tell it's him just by the voice difference. Anders has a much deeper voice. He does "Hedon, Hedon!" in the background growls and then, possibly the spoken part that's kind of distorted around 4:40
@kyuss80 That wasn't Anders in the background. And Anders' voice was at no point much deeper than Mikael Stanne's. By the accent in his language, you can tell it's a digitally manipulated track of Stanne's voice. Anders was on Skydancer (1993), and left Dark Tranquillity soon after.
@kyuss80 That wasn't Anders in the background. And Anders' voice was at no point much deeper than Mikael Stanne's. By the accent in his language, you can tell it's a digitally manipulated track of Stanne's voice. Anders was on Skydancer (1993), and left Dark Tranquillity soon after.
He had a cameo on Hedon.
The apocalypse i think is used here as a metaphor of the anxiety for the time that is passing. This anxiety lead to the constant seek for pleasury ("hedoni" in greek), leads the "cultures in rage".