I'm Alive

Dear friends

This song it's about a BOOK, not a game or something. the book is "The Sunset Warrior" written by Eric Van Lustbader It's about a underground-society where are diferent level Basicaly the whole song describes the novel level 99 is the depest level and is where the main character has to go.

Yes, I also think it's about being vicious by a videogame or something.

But do you really think he regrets being alive? I thought it was the opposite xD

Well, I actually thought he says "I'm alive" because he , after all, realizes there's something more besides playing this game, there's a real life that he should face.

Wikipedia says it's about the Death Gate Cycle book series. It sort of fits the description of the labyrinth, and runes are an essential part of the series. It might be, though if it is, it seems a little vague. They should have stuck a name like "Haplo" or "Chelestra" in there so that fans would know they were talking about the series, just like they did with their LOTR stuff.

You are absolutely right Sabazeus, this song is about the death gate cycles Labyrinth and the Patryns imprisoned there. Epic book series and epic song.

You are absolutely right Sabazeus, this song is about the death gate cycles Labyrinth and the Patryns imprisoned there. Epic book series and epic song.

How could somebody think it was about Diablo...!? This song was recorded in 1995, neither Diablo nor Diablo II did exsist yet...

The opinion about Haplo and company sounds right, except for... LEVEL 99??? NEON LIGHT????? C'mon people... Anybody can write anything on wikipedia. I always thought this was a cyberpunk song about hacking and netrunning. It all kind fits: modern and new images versus ancient vocabulary, you have all there, the system can represent anything as any sort of icon or avatar... also, ICE!! Did anybody read W. Gibson (Neuromacer and so on)? And "I'm alive" can be easily referred to a hacker whose brain was fried but he's still alive on the net or simply vegetal in an asylum while his mind is still functioning.

Anyway, I'd love Hansi and the band explianing it!

It may be about the Death Gate cycle, but I don't think so due to the references to 'level 99' and just doesn't quite seem to fit.

I think it's about a book called This Time Of Darkness by HM Hoover. It's about an eleven year old girl who lives on the ninth level of an underground city governed by your typical dystopian Big Brother-like government, supposedly the only habitable location after some sort of apocalypse that happened hundreds of years ago. She's learned to read, which is something discouraged by the government, who instead use pictures and animated signs('magic runes'). Because she can read, she's watched more closely than others.

They are told every level of the city is identical, but she meets a boy who claims to be from 'outside', which he describes as sunny, habitable, and otherwise pretty damn nice. She begins dreaming and thinking about it all of the time('dream forever, sunlight instead of neon light'). They decide to attempt to escape, first to level 80, then level 99. The book describes what they find, their attempts to avoid capture, finding better conditions as they go up, discovering the government's terrible secret, etc.

Actually, I'll ignore the facts and I'll keep interpreting it like people playing D&D. :D "I run through the dark fields of the plains reach level 99" "sunlight instead of neon light"

uh,no it isnt. jsut because they might have some sort of similarity doesnt mean in any way that one is based on the other.