Dark Horse

Other Lives

""I'm on top of the world And you can't bring me down I'm on top of the world With masses by my side I have a dream Eternal reign I have godly power You think you have a choice I have godly power Democracy has died I have a dream Eternal reign I am darkness I'm black light Not an angel but the devil in disguise I am darkness I'm black light Not an angel but the master of your lives I'm back alive God is not on my side It's only make-belive God is not on my side The funds is what I need I have a dream Eternal reign On your knees I'm your god You don't know it yet On your knees I'm your god You just don't know it yet I have a dream Eternal reign I am darkness I'm black light Not an angel but the devil in disguise I am darkness I'm black light Not an angel but the master of your lives I'm back alive""


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    The lyrics on this one are pretty hard to understand in the album version. And I'm pretty sure some lines are different in their live playings of it. Great song, either way
    NyarSothothon July 21, 2014   Link
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    Youtube channel Auroborus hit on this connection but there is an absolutely hideous effigy of a Horse in front of the Denver International Airport. Despite enforced popular consensus about conspiracy theories: The way that place is set up, it might as well be a Bond villain base. It gets more and more chilling the deeper you look into it. Not just the Horse but murals that were inside the place before being altered or painted over so as not to overly alarm the public. Anyway, bringing down the Dark Horse, takes on an interesting meaning if we look at in this light. Not so much as the monument in front of DIA itself but if we consider that what it symbolizes is ultimately an attempt to subvert positive energies, associations and archetypes of the Human consciousness. This is being bought down as more and more people realize what is really of value in their lives and reject that level of false-hood and cruel trickery. The narrator speaks of how the older generation made mistakes in abetting those in power who erected the dark horse. Pledging to learn from previous mistakes and to bring down that system. Not something out of the norm for Other Lives, Don't let the Get away with this has a very similar message. Other Lives is with what they are able to articulate and express, not just lyrically but musically. Some of the songs in their latest -Rituals, someone find or post the lyrics for that one please- I can barely make out the lyrics too but I can actually feel exactly what they are singing about despite not being able to understand them perfectly.
    Tindaloson November 22, 2015   Link

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