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<i>instrumental - liner notes list the following :</i>
17 seconds of compassion
17 seconds of peace
17 seconds to remember love is the energy behind which all is created
17 seconds to remember all that is good
17 seconds to forget all your hurt and pain
17 seconds of faith
17 seconds to trust you again
17 seconds of radiance
17 seconds to send a prayer up
17 seconds is all you really need
17 seconds of peace
17 seconds to remember love is the energy behind which all is created
17 seconds to remember all that is good
17 seconds to forget all your hurt and pain
17 seconds of faith
17 seconds to trust you again
17 seconds of radiance
17 seconds to send a prayer up
17 seconds is all you really need
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I really like the idea of instead if suicide every 17 seconds, do something possitive, awesome. But I am in a hurry so that's all I can say.
to samREDmonstalker:
this song is 17 seconds long because every 17 seconds someone commits suicide. it's symbolic. or so i was told. oO;
A person commits suicide every 17 minutes NOT seconds.
A person commits suicide every 17 minutes NOT seconds.
Imagine if the song was 17 minutes of just haunting piano. Jesus.
Imagine if the song was 17 minutes of just haunting piano. Jesus.
In general, all you truly need is 17 seconds to feel it all..
I just wanted to add to the voices that have mentioned 'Blissed and Gone'. Anyone who has mentioned this has been downvoted but there really does seem to be a connection there. The melody in 17 follows Corgan's vocal line in Blissed and Gone. It would match with the opening lyrics:
"The sun has blessed The rays are gone And all the kids have left their tears and gone home"
Also, the next line is "sweet 17"
Also, the next line is "sweet 17"
I always felt like maybe this way of kind of including Blissed and Gone on the album. It seems like a very personal song to him, so although it didn't fit (perhaps literally, seeing as Adore is already a long album) he wanted some kind of a nod to it at the end.
I always felt like maybe this way of kind of including Blissed and Gone on the album. It seems like a very personal song to him, so although it didn't fit (perhaps literally, seeing as Adore is already a long album) he wanted some kind of a nod to it at the end.
Then again, was Blissed written before or after the Adore album? Another explanation is that 17 came first and he liked the melody so much that he reused it.
Then again, was Blissed written before or after the Adore album? Another explanation is that 17 came first and he liked the melody so much that he reused it.
Zerpens is right, this was a poem Billy Coragan wrote for the Adore album. I found it to be the most inspirational part of the album. And in truth all anyone really needs is 17 seconds . . .
I love this poem... "17 seconds to remember all that is good 17 seconds to forget all your hurt and pain" It's amazing
all I have to say is fuck,why couldn't it have been 20 secs long, it was way to beautiful to be such a constricted short piece. but corgan does that tyope of stuff. I remember at the end of the song before stumbaline (i think thats how you spell it) on melon choly theres a little piece he did at the end there and i wish that melody could go on forever because its such a beautifully composed piece of music that I could spend the rest of my life listening to,but unfortunatly its only 30aprox
Is it me or is this an early version of "Wound" from Machina?
The song does sound very...archaic...a perfectly disquieting way to end a haunting album. The song sounds old, with an air of sadness, coldness, and loneliness conveyed by an ancient-sounding piano over a short 17 seconds.
i was listening to blissed and gone as i read these comments and i must say 17 sounds nothing like it.