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Modern architecture
Already left to decay
You don't know what you're breathing in
What it is, I couldn't say
We'll meet in russian literature
For floode day
Travel in transpenines
She said she'd wait
More empty buildings
For invisible men
No market vaule to justify the price of the rent
Ignorance isn't bliss
Familiarity still enters contempt
We're going to need sometime
But she said she'd wait for me
(Wait for me)
(Wait for me)
Are you hopeful or just gullible?
Are you hopeful or just gullible?
She won't be saved
We can't be saved
I can't live my life being nervous about tomorrow
I already knew her name!
I already knew
Well I knew her name
There's a news blackout
'Cus it just got worse
Status depends, on the size of your purse
There it is again that lock of hair that won't sit still
Our earthly pleasure distract us against our will
(Against our will)
Are you hopeful or just gullible?
Are you hopeful or just gullible?
We won't be saved
She can't be saved
I can't live my life feeling nervous about tomorrow
I already knew her name
I already knew
She won't be saved
We can't be saved
I can't live my life feeling nervous about tomorrow
I already knew her name!
I already knew
Well I knew her name!
Already left to decay
You don't know what you're breathing in
What it is, I couldn't say
For floode day
Travel in transpenines
She said she'd wait
For invisible men
No market vaule to justify the price of the rent
Familiarity still enters contempt
But she said she'd wait for me
(Wait for me)
(Wait for me)
Are you hopeful or just gullible?
We can't be saved
I can't live my life being nervous about tomorrow
I already knew her name!
I already knew
Well I knew her name
'Cus it just got worse
Status depends, on the size of your purse
There it is again that lock of hair that won't sit still
(Against our will)
Are you hopeful or just gullible?
Are you hopeful or just gullible?
She can't be saved
I can't live my life feeling nervous about tomorrow
I already knew
She won't be saved
We can't be saved
I can't live my life feeling nervous about tomorrow
I already knew
Well I knew her name!
Song Info
Submitted by
woulduhvtheguts On Mar 11, 2007
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Yeah I share the idea that it about regret for a lost soviet society. The title itself is interesting because Russian Literature is about failed romances, and shows how suffering eventually leads to redemption. And I think it works on both levels. The romance being the political situation of communism which eventually failed. However the song reinforces how this failure did not redeem the people from suffering but did the opposite (not ignoring the suffering that took place under Soviet Union.) Capitalism is not the redemption it should be though. And this old political situation exists only in novels: in Russian Literature; this romance with Communism. Although there's of course a lot more to the song.
"Our earthly pleasures distract us against our will" Materialism controls us in our capitalist society
We'll meet in russian literature For floode day
Doesn't make sense, it's:
We'll meet in russian literature Forth floor, mid-day
yeah its definitely "fourth floor, midday"
a few subtle references to crime and punishment? "forth floor" where raskolnikov murders his two victims "nervous about tomorrow" raskolnikov's anxiety and guilt after his murders "size of you purse" raskolnikov steals the old lady's bulging purse - besides, money is a lot of the motivation behind his murder.
perhaps?
perhaps?
transpenines - is that a train service in the North-East?
The guy that wrote the lyrics down is an idiot it seems.
The guy that wrote the lyrics down is an idiot it seems.
The Pennines are a set of mountains which spread from northern Europe to a large section of mountains in Russia (and it has a stop in Siberia I believe the well known spot where pre-communists sent people and where the communists sent people. Trans-Pennine is a train service that travels across many points in this mountain range.
The Pennines are a set of mountains which spread from northern Europe to a large section of mountains in Russia (and it has a stop in Siberia I believe the well known spot where pre-communists sent people and where the communists sent people. Trans-Pennine is a train service that travels across many points in this mountain range.
god this song. is. stunning. The way Paul Smith's voice curls round some of the notes just highlights how talented he is, i think.
Transpennine is a rail company in the North East, yes. http://www.tpexpress.co.uk/ I've been on it when travelling to Durham.
I don't exactly get the rest of the song though.
"There's a news blackout 'Cus it just got worse Status depends, on the size of your purse"-
Oh Paul, you kidder
isnt it "Travelling transpennine" and not "travel in transpenine", which is of course a train but the way i understood it he meant, travelling transpennine as in travelling across the alps please dont crucify me if thats rubbish, just the way i understood it
about communist dictatorship in russia and what happened to it once it left.and how communism was still a better choice(marginally) than autocracy, in my opinion.very heavily political for paul,yet again partially disguised as a love song.
There's a news blackout 'Cus it just got worse Status depends, on the size of your purse There it is again that lock of hair that won't sit still- this is about communists censorship of news.how precommunism power depended on your money. and how communism was seen as a problem that needed to be controlled or destroyed,like a lock of hair that can't sit still,either cut or controlled. not sure if girl is meant to be a spy or something.
DEAD ON there I think.
DEAD ON there I think.