This is one of my favorite songs. https://fnfgo.io
So where do we go from here?
Just about anywhere.
Disorientated but alive.
Boredom won't get me tonight.
Let's bring this city to life - to light - tonight.
There is no destination
but with a goal in mind we can all be realistic and demand the impossible.
Let's bring this city to life - to light - tonight.
Just about anywhere.
Disorientated but alive.
Boredom won't get me tonight.
Let's bring this city to life - to light - tonight.
There is no destination
but with a goal in mind we can all be realistic and demand the impossible.
Let's bring this city to life - to light - tonight.
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loads of this song is missing.... Tannhauser is some ancent legendary poet, but I don't know what derive is...anybody?
Tannhauser was a German knight/singer/poet from the 13th century who apparently gave into his sinful lusts one night (i don't know the details) and later sought absolution for his sins. To derive is to trace to a source. Perhaps Dennis has a similar story, and wants to know exactly what made Tannhauser give in, so he can find out why HE did whatever he did. Even the scarce lyrics here support this theory. "Boredom won't get me tonight" "Let's bring this city to life - to light - tonight"
This song makes me wish that I learned how to play violin
Derivé is a situationist term. A lot of refused/t(i)nc lyrics borrow from situationist writings.
Theory of the Dérive by Guy Debord: bopsecrets.org/SI/2.derive.htm
Introduction to the Situationists: the next badge of intellectual elitism: crimethinc.com/library/english/situa.html
Spectacular Times: cat.org.au/spectacular/
Situationist International on-line: cddc.vt.edu/sionline/
i agree clicheguevera. and i love your name as well.
thanks for the links
lol ClicheGuevara, i can play the violin but not well, this violinist is amazing.
lol ClicheGuevara, i can play the violin but not well, this violinist is amazing.
I believe they were inspired by the situationists, and "Dérive" is a concept of that movement that seems to match the lyrics, here's an excerpt from the wikipedia article on "Dérive": "Dérive is an unplanned journey through a landscape, usually urban, on which the subtle aesthetic contours of the surrounding architecture and geography subconsciously direct the travellers, with the ultimate goal of encountering an entirely new and authentic experience." Seems to match lyrics about "bringing the city to life" and "there is no destination". Don't know about Tennhäuser tho, but it always makes me think of the "tears in rain"-speech given by Rutger Hauer at the end of blade runner.