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Power generation
You live up your life and it feels like fire
Suspended in animation
A trick of the light and it drives you higher
Blind vision blind faith
You really can be sold
If you dare to disagree
It`s just not within the scheme of things
To give up your life so easily
That`s not the way you`re meant to be
What a waste of time and energy
It`s just not within the scheme of things(live your life)
To give up your life so easily, easily(I`ll be there)
Psychic celebration
Look up in the stars and see Venus rising
Rapture, fascination
You live for the night and your own desire
Blind vision blind faith
You really can`t rely
On what they tell you for effect
It`s not just within the scheme of things(live your life)
To give up your life so easily
That`s not the way you`re meant to be(I do care)
What a waste of time and energy
It`s just not within the scheme of things(live your life)
To give up your life so easily
That`s not the way you`re meant to be(I`ll be there)
What a waste of time and energy, energy
You live up your life and it feels like fire
Suspended in animation
A trick of the light and it drives you higher
Blind vision blind faith
You really can be sold
If you dare to disagree
It`s just not within the scheme of things
To give up your life so easily
That`s not the way you`re meant to be
What a waste of time and energy
It`s just not within the scheme of things(live your life)
To give up your life so easily, easily(I`ll be there)
Psychic celebration
Look up in the stars and see Venus rising
Rapture, fascination
You live for the night and your own desire
Blind vision blind faith
You really can`t rely
On what they tell you for effect
It`s not just within the scheme of things(live your life)
To give up your life so easily
That`s not the way you`re meant to be(I do care)
What a waste of time and energy
It`s just not within the scheme of things(live your life)
To give up your life so easily
That`s not the way you`re meant to be(I`ll be there)
What a waste of time and energy, energy
Lyrics submitted by circusjuggler
Joan Lyrics as written by Vince Clarke Andy Bell
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Well, he's talking about a young girl who tends to live her life without caring about the social impositions and I assume it's called Joan 'cos that girl is being compared to Joan of Arc's life, who also dared to defy the social conventions from her age.
"Power generation You live up your life and it feels like FIRE, woah Suspended in animation A TRICK OF THE LIGHT and it drives you higher, wo-ah
Blind vision blind faith You really can be sold If you dare to disagree"
He's showing to her on this verse and this bridge that she has been deceived by a specific event that happened on her life since that one simply made her believe excessively in her own force to beat the society where she lives for deffending some radical positions. I mean she's simply wrong about the importance of that event and now she's thinking everything will run according to her own will on her life, no matter what the society will think about it... But she's definitely wrong just because the society can simply get rid of her if she insists on this 'misbehaviour'...
"Psychic celebration Look up in the stars and see Venus rising, woah Rapture, fascination You live for the night and your own desire, wo-ah
Blind vision blind faith You really can't rely On what they tell you for effect"
On this 2nd part, he's telling her for not leaving herself to be impressed by a couple of exaggerated praises to her courageous posture...
In relation to its refrain, Andy just pretends to disapprove of the way how she leads her own life since he doesn't want she has a tragic fate just like Joan Of Arc...