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this song is great, when i listen to it, i feel so depressive and happy at the same time, it's complicated to explain. it's so magical, i like archive very much too.
After listening to this many many time over the years (in all different states of minds) I've always puzzled over a meaning that really fits the song.
I've just realised that it fits perfectly for addiction (whether that was the intention is something else). Up until the lyrics is just a repetition on the same riff just getting more intense with more noisy processed elements trying to unsustainable add to it.
Lyrics fit nicely with an addiction where stopping is hell and not stopping is hell. Addicts can't moderate usage so they have to "turn it off forever" to recover. Then as you go on living in recovery you start off with the same simple repetition but slowly as you heal you find new elements, new ways to enjoy life and then as you die you end back where you started.
The "ever blind" bit, I'd say it's saying you have to always be blind to the joy that the addiction brought you to find the new possibilities.
i think it's a good song, though i'd like it to progress farther, and to different places (main riff going on all the song). but i could say almost the same about "again", though he does progeress in some way. i guess i ecxpect them to be to much close to ping floyd (i think they really took a lot from the songs 'dogs' and 'pigs' by pink floyd in 'again').
anyway.....i like archive very much and think they are good. i like this song very much aswell, it feels like suffering...
I could be off here but this is what I think the song is about:
The song slowly builds and builds. You can hear and feel the frustration, anger, pain.
The lyrics come in lamenting:
Everything hurts
It hurts to feel
It hurts to hide
It hurts to remember
It hurts to wake up.
Like he's trying so hard to be numb and escape the pain but its obviously impossible. Everything hurts. The hurts relentless.
The hurt is killing me.
Turn my head off.
The music changes. It becomes somehow more optimistic, consigned to his fate, but still sad, still with the same undertow of pain, as he decides to end it all, to turn his head off.
Turn it off forever. Finally the pain is going to end. Finally he will escape the pain. He will be able to forget, to hide, to sleep, to be ever blind.
It slowly fades down to a simple beating tone on the piano, like the fading of a beating heart.
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this song is great, when i listen to it, i feel so depressive and happy at the same time, it's complicated to explain. it's so magical, i like archive very much too.
@rh:31754
@rh:31754
@rh:31755
@rh:31755
It's hell of a song, Damn it i love it so much Archive is one of the best bands out there...
After listening to this many many time over the years (in all different states of minds) I've always puzzled over a meaning that really fits the song.
I've just realised that it fits perfectly for addiction (whether that was the intention is something else). Up until the lyrics is just a repetition on the same riff just getting more intense with more noisy processed elements trying to unsustainable add to it.
Lyrics fit nicely with an addiction where stopping is hell and not stopping is hell. Addicts can't moderate usage so they have to "turn it off forever" to recover. Then as you go on living in recovery you start off with the same simple repetition but slowly as you heal you find new elements, new ways to enjoy life and then as you die you end back where you started.
The "ever blind" bit, I'd say it's saying you have to always be blind to the joy that the addiction brought you to find the new possibilities.
Ok, first the a sentence:
I can\'t believe no one has posted to this amazing song before!!
I think this song is about all kinds of frustration.
i think it's a good song, though i'd like it to progress farther, and to different places (main riff going on all the song). but i could say almost the same about "again", though he does progeress in some way. i guess i ecxpect them to be to much close to ping floyd (i think they really took a lot from the songs 'dogs' and 'pigs' by pink floyd in 'again'). anyway.....i like archive very much and think they are good. i like this song very much aswell, it feels like suffering...
I totally agree with rh(~). I couldn't have said it better myself :-P
I could be off here but this is what I think the song is about:
The song slowly builds and builds. You can hear and feel the frustration, anger, pain.
The lyrics come in lamenting: Everything hurts It hurts to feel It hurts to hide It hurts to remember It hurts to wake up.
Like he's trying so hard to be numb and escape the pain but its obviously impossible. Everything hurts. The hurts relentless.
The hurt is killing me.
Turn my head off.
The music changes. It becomes somehow more optimistic, consigned to his fate, but still sad, still with the same undertow of pain, as he decides to end it all, to turn his head off.
Turn it off forever. Finally the pain is going to end. Finally he will escape the pain. He will be able to forget, to hide, to sleep, to be ever blind.
It slowly fades down to a simple beating tone on the piano, like the fading of a beating heart.
The pain ends forever.
As he walks into the lights.
@SZanzibar Agreed
@SZanzibar Agreed
Its about losing something you love too much and the feelings that follow.
I unfortunately can relate to this amazingly beautiful song too much I Jst don't want to turn it off Forever It's getting hard tho.