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Beauty and destruction
Pride and honour
Freedom, elimination
Speak out loud, hide!

Now enter!
Here is our dreamworld, view the splendid sides
You can always tell we never learned
We'll never learn

Blindness and silence
No one dares
Action and reprisal
Raise your voice, die!

Now enter!
Here is our dreamworld, view the splendid sides
You can always tell we never learned
We'll never learn

Now enter!
Here is our dreamworld, view the splendid sides
You can always tell we never learned
We never will

Oh, how will the earth be, seen for the first time?
Oh, how will the earth feel, touched for the first time?

Entwine and iconise
Passion ignites
Suspicion and betrayal
The voice of violence speaks again

Now enter!
Here is our dreamworld, view the splendid sides
You can always tell we never learned
We'll never learn

Now enter!
Here is our dreamworld, view the splendid sides
You can always tell we never learned
We never will
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Cover art for Attendance lyrics by After Forever

Hm... are you sure it's "splendid sides?" "Splendid Sights" makes more sense to me.

Cover art for Attendance lyrics by After Forever

Well, I suppose 'splendid sights' would make more sense, but this is how the lyrics appear in the booklet.

I think this song is about school. Mainly because of the title and how it relates to the content in the lyrics. The verses speak about the violence and fear in school, possibly from bullies or even teachers, "Speak out loud, die!"

The chorus describes daydreaming during classes, "Here is our dreamworld.. You can always tell we never learned."

Cover art for Attendance lyrics by After Forever

Thinking this song is about school is stupid... sorry...

Obviously it's all about HUMAN RACE. destructing ourselves and our surroundings, using the two opposites:

"beauty - destruction / freedom - elimination." and clear violent statements: "raise your voice - die" / "the voice of violence speaks again"

Moreover, the song speaks of having different cultures among us that teach violence and hate towards others, meanwhile decaying and having tyrants against the people on different nations/religions (like Islam):

"pride and honor (tyrants) / speak out loud - hide (people)" "blindness (tyrants) and silence (people) / no one dares (people)" "action and reprisal (tyrants)" / "raise your voice - die (people)".

And, after every grunts verse, comes the chorus which is CYNICAL, of us, having a "dreamy world, with splendid sights", which of course, referring to our bad, cruel world of hate, destruction and decay towards ourselves and our environment -

such as the earth itself, which mentioned in the C Verse - how would our planet feel and be when it was created back in the days and clean of humans destroying and hurting it.

And finally, every chorus sums and concludes everything up, including the song ITSELF - we, humans, never learned from our mistakes, and will never learn how to stop hurting everything, even ourselves.

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