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On a Tuesday Lyrics
I was born in this building
It was the first Tuesday I had ever seen
And if I live to see tomorrow
It will be my Tuesday number: 2119
How life has its way of turning your best suits the wrong way
As if to smile and say:
"I feast on the irony my friend
I'm come-what-may
And it might just be, my friend
That this is your unlucky day
Will you change?
What would you give to stay?"
Will I change?
I honestly can't say
I have no promises to trade
For the Lord of come-what-may
To provide me with another day
Every promise that I make
Is a promise I might break
The things we humans say to survive
The promises we make
The lies we tell
The vows we take
The battles we all win to survive
Prices we will pay
Though we all know
We will lose one day
Life is a ride, they say
But there are tickets I will never pay
I'm afraid there'll be no vow today
For any God of come-what-may
You let me live
You let me die
For what I am right here and now
Nothing more than all I am today
I close my eyes...
I do not pray
Promises, they tempt me too
Will I change?
I won't be that fool
Maybe for a day, a week
Maybe two
I'm a dreamer physicist
A manchild escapist
The face of death won't make me an evangelist
I close my hands
Not in prayer
Not in prayer
Into fists
I lost the will
The things we humans say to survive
The promises we make
The lies we tell
The vows we take
The battles we all win to survive
Prices we will pay
Though we will lose
Either way
(x3) I lost the will
I lost the way
I haven't lost the faith
It's just lost in me
I lost the will...
The things that we must say
To pretend
This passing light of day
Is not the end
Is not the end
The things
That we all say
To be saved
The things that we will trade
Just give away
For one more day
We'll smile and tell
Sweet lies
To chase away
The shadows that play
Cast
By the passing light of day
It was the first Tuesday I had ever seen
And if I live to see tomorrow
It will be my Tuesday number: 2119
As if to smile and say:
"I feast on the irony my friend
I'm come-what-may
That this is your unlucky day
Will you change?
What would you give to stay?"
Will I change?
I honestly can't say
I have no promises to trade
For the Lord of come-what-may
To provide me with another day
Every promise that I make
Is a promise I might break
The promises we make
The lies we tell
The vows we take
The battles we all win to survive
Prices we will pay
Though we all know
We will lose one day
But there are tickets I will never pay
I'm afraid there'll be no vow today
For any God of come-what-may
You let me die
For what I am right here and now
Nothing more than all I am today
I close my eyes...
I do not pray
Will I change?
I won't be that fool
Maybe for a day, a week
Maybe two
I'm a dreamer physicist
A manchild escapist
The face of death won't make me an evangelist
I close my hands
Not in prayer
Not in prayer
Into fists
The promises we make
The lies we tell
The vows we take
The battles we all win to survive
Prices we will pay
Though we will lose
Either way
I lost the way
I haven't lost the faith
It's just lost in me
To pretend
This passing light of day
Is not the end
Is not the end
That we all say
To be saved
The things that we will trade
Just give away
For one more day
We'll smile and tell
Sweet lies
To chase away
The shadows that play
Cast
By the passing light of day
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Daniel in a close encounter with dead holds his ground and says he wont make any promises to any god to live one day more.
A plena aceitação de que tudo e qualquer coisa pode acontecer, a qualquer momento, o passo final do auto-luto que ocorre após uma longa batalha, e que tem chances iguais de sucesso e derrota. A percepção de que tudo o que é dito e pensado durante as fases anteriores (negação, revolta, barganha, depressão) culmina numa aceitação plena de o que tiver que ser, será. Uma das letras mais profundas e poderosas de DG, com um doloroso refrão cantado de forma quase infantil por Ragnar, onde se admite que a fé pode falhar apenas em si, e não no todo.
@luciana113 The full acceptance that anything and everything can happen, at any time, is the final step of self-grief that comes after a long battle, and that it has an equal chance of success and defeat. The realization that everything that is said and thought during the previous phases (denial, anger, bargaining, depression) culminates in a full acceptance of what has to be, will be. One of DG's deepest and most powerful lyrics, with a heartbreaking refrain sung in an almost childlike way by Ragnar, where it is admitted that faith can only fail itself, not the whole.
@luciana113 The full acceptance that anything and everything can happen, at any time, is the final step of self-grief that comes after a long battle, and that it has an equal chance of success and defeat. The realization that everything that is said and thought during the previous phases (denial, anger, bargaining, depression) culminates in a full acceptance of what has to be, will be. One of DG's deepest and most powerful lyrics, with a heartbreaking refrain sung in an almost childlike way by Ragnar, where it is admitted that faith can only fail itself, not the whole.