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Silver Rider Lyrics
At times I see you
You silver rider
Sometimes your voice is not enough
Your face in windows
Outside forever
Nobody dreamed you'd save the world
Nobody dreamed you'd save the world
La la la la etc
The march is over
The great destroyer
She passes through you like a knife
Oh take me with you
You silver rider
Sometimes you voice is not enough
Sometimes your voice is not enough
La la la etc
You silver rider
Sometimes your voice is not enough
Outside forever
Nobody dreamed you'd save the world
Nobody dreamed you'd save the world
The great destroyer
She passes through you like a knife
You silver rider
Sometimes you voice is not enough
Sometimes your voice is not enough
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I've thought for awhile it's about Morgan Freeman. But that kind of contradicts my belief that he will save the world somehow......
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I don't know what Low means, but this song speaks to me of God. There are times in life when I need more than just His voice, when I long to go with Him because even prayer won't let me fully commune the way I want to with Him.
I only own two of their albums, this one and The Things We Lost in the Fire, so I don't know if Low does this a lot, but this song quotes its melody from Closer on the other album (...hold me closer than that). They both share a common motif of unfulfillment. I think they use the same melody to encode those same feelings into the current song.
I don't know what Low means, but this song speaks to me of God. There are times in life when I need more than just His voice, when I long to go with Him because even prayer won't let me fully commune the way I want to with Him.
I only own two of their albums, this one and The Things We Lost in the Fire, so I don't know if Low does this a lot, but this song quotes its melody from Closer on the other album (...hold me closer than that). They both share a common motif of unfulfillment. I think they use the same melody to encode those same feelings into the current song.
This song speaks obviously about a clash between Galactus and his long-time loyal servant, the Silver Surfer. Galactus (the Great Destroyer) wants to obliterate the Earth, and sends the Silver Surfer to our planet to act as a spearhead. Despite his initial loyalty to Galactus, the Surfer changes his mind (because his love for the human race) and tries to stop him. Galactus 'passes through him like a knife', but still the Silver Surfer somehow manages to save the world, something that, given the tremendous threat posed by the cosmic power of Galactus, 'nobody dreamed'.
The song is a mourn to the Surfer, who is gone.
Circuitry - yes, but surely you realize the Silver Surfer is a barely-disguised Christ figure?
hehe, tis true. tony the tiger would say GRRRREAT SONG and then kick someone in the head slowly headbanging to it durng the loud parts
great song...
The galactus theory occurred to me too, and I had forgotten the detail about the Silver Surfer saving the world in the original comic book. That part makes sense, but there's plenty of the song that it doesn't explain. For example, in "The great destroyer / she passes through you like a knife", the great destroyer would be Galactus, but Galactus was male.
I also think it's more than a coincidence that the sung vocals sound so much like: "Nobody dreamed you'd say the word / love, love, love" That's the way I always heard it, and I was surprised to read different lyrics here. Maybe there's a double meaning. The "say the word / love" version suggests an ordinary human relationship. Maybe the "silver rider" is an old person with gray hair. In that case, the great destroyer would be Time, or Death ("the march is over"). Time and Death aren't usually represented as female either though.
Alan has said that Silver Rider is a song about a Duluth superhero... This was in 2006 or 2007 at the Fourth Fest at Park Point, before it was moved to the Bayfront Festival Park.