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We Live Again Lyrics
these withered hands
have dug for a dream
sifted through sand
and leftover nightmares
over the hill
a desolate wind
turns shit to gold
and blows my soul crazy
the end
oh the end
we live again
oh i grow weary of the end
oh hungry days
in the footsteps of fools
gazing alone
through sex-painted windows
dredging the night
drunk libertines
stink like colognes
from the newfangled wasteland
the end
oh the end
we live again
oh i grow weary of the end
love is a plague
in a mix-match parade
where the castaways look so deranged
when will the children learn
to let their wildernesses burn
and love will be new never cold and vacant
these withered hands have dug for a dream
sifted through sand and leftover nightmares
the end
of the end
we live again
oh i grow weary of the end
have dug for a dream
sifted through sand
and leftover nightmares
over the hill
a desolate wind
turns shit to gold
and blows my soul crazy
oh the end
we live again
oh i grow weary of the end
in the footsteps of fools
gazing alone
through sex-painted windows
dredging the night
drunk libertines
stink like colognes
from the newfangled wasteland
oh the end
we live again
oh i grow weary of the end
in a mix-match parade
where the castaways look so deranged
when will the children learn
to let their wildernesses burn
and love will be new never cold and vacant
sifted through sand and leftover nightmares
of the end
we live again
oh i grow weary of the end
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quite possibly one of my all-time favourite songs..
it's so outstanding in every way.. does a more catchy/lovely melody exist?
this is definitely one of my favorite beck songs ever!
"when will the children learn to let their wildernesses burn"
that's amazing. i love it!
yeah, who other than Beck could have come up with that line. and made it sound natural: neither contrived nor self-satisfied. (now I feel as if I've echoed the structure of "new: never cold and vacant" without having intended to)
yeah, who other than Beck could have come up with that line. and made it sound natural: neither contrived nor self-satisfied. (now I feel as if I've echoed the structure of "new: never cold and vacant" without having intended to)
This is about his artist grandfather, I have heard.
I don't know who wrote this: http://www.whiskeyclone.net/ghost/songinfo.php?songID=319
But it says it is about becks grandfather. The thing that confused me was the interpretation of the line "stink like colognes from a new-fangled waste land"
' but the line "Stink like colognes from a new-fangled wasteland," using a little wordplay, might point the song towards Germany. Back in the '80s, Al Hansen opened an art school in Cologne, Germany. '
This lyric to me has always been a metaphor for the popular world view of manhood, schmoozing personality projected from indiscriminate sex-drive, and how it is dreadful to go out and enjoy life at night and be surrouned by manifesters of this mass accepted illusion.
Another line "Gazing alone through sex-painted windows" is another metaphor or perhaps rhetorical statement of how evolving out of animalistic existence of fucking and carnal pleasure, looking for that "higher love" just puts you into a place where you are not with the program. Love has degnerated into sexual pleasure, fulfilling no one wholly. Dare to proclaim this and you are on the outside.
Which leads to the line:
Love is a plague in a mix-match parade Where the castaways look so deranged
Where "love" is not love anymore, and coming to this realization makes you feel deranged in lieu of the constant messages hounded on society of what and how status is obtained.
this is a beautiful song yes. his grandfather had died. and since he was an abstract painter he just wrote a song with imagery that he may have seen his grandfather use. or maybe he was just trying to capture the essence of abstractness into a song to pay homage to him. hard to tell.
"and love will be new never cold and vacant"
This line is so good. The entire song too but.. damn.
i think this song is about many failed dreams of trying to find true love. No matter how many times love is denied life still goes on.