Rapture Rapes the Muses Lyrics
Like a Wong Kar Wai beginning
I'm exploding in smiles
My equilibrium is spinning
But you don't notice until it's kissing you
Rapture rapes the muses
And the void that's left confuses
It's confusing
But one always reveres what one's bound to destroy
All of them dancing like flames and the sad enmity
I wonder if I understand
Am I too young to understand?
with each of montreal song i listen to, my apparent illiteracy is only further proven
1q2w3e4r, when I hear this song I don't think of romance. I think of the day when I saw both the bands The Rapture and Muse, and how much fucking better The Rapture was. Man, that day Rapture truly did rape the Muses.
Please quit using the word rape in a positive way. Rape is not a great thing, I saw a couple of other comments that said yours was awesome, and I was looking forward to finding it so I could see your analysis of this song. Then I saw it and just realized that all you had to say was that one band was better than another. As someone who has been greatly affected by rape, I would really REALLY appreciate it if you would not associate rape with dominance or superiority in general, especially of mundane things, such as which band is...
Please quit using the word rape in a positive way. Rape is not a great thing, I saw a couple of other comments that said yours was awesome, and I was looking forward to finding it so I could see your analysis of this song. Then I saw it and just realized that all you had to say was that one band was better than another. As someone who has been greatly affected by rape, I would really REALLY appreciate it if you would not associate rape with dominance or superiority in general, especially of mundane things, such as which band is better than another. You may think that I'm nitpicking, or overly sensitive, but please know that I and other rape victims really appreciate it when people don't contribute to rape culture. There are other ways to express what you are trying to say. Please utilize them. Thank you. Now, on with the music!
I think its pretty obviously about a girl. Literary references aside, "rapture rapes the muses" pretty directly means "happiness destroys creativity/wild inspiration"
In other words, hes so happy hes dumb, in a sense.
"sometimes i wonder if this song isn't just a haughty lash for verbose insanity" As do I.
lots of nerdy allusions here. Wong Kar Wai is a Chinese film director. Antediluvian means really old, so antediluvian Troy is Troy as it appeared in the Iliad and the Odyssey, a budding superpower city-state. Erebus, the son of Nyx (night) and Chaos (chaos), embodied primordial darkness. in that last stanza, I think he's talking about how Erebus' presence is insulting to how bright he (the narrator) is shining, and of course he's shining (like ancient Troy) because of this girl he's in love with.
kevin says, "...other songs are just kind of like wordplay, because I have a lot of fun just letting my mind wander and doing a stream of consciousness style of writing. And so there are songs like "Rapture Rapes the Muses," I don't really know what that means... It just came to me."
from a glorious noise interview in 2004
regardless, wong kar wai is bad ass
At the of Montreal concert, they started with this song.
I think what yall said is interesting... but maybe it is just nonsense... either way, I still really like the song
it's one of the most beautiful love songs i know ! :)