This song to me is about someone who only does and says things because they think it's what's cool now.
"Raise high monolithic statues so fragile as they fall
I am ever enthralled
Gaze, lie and smirk in time, your arrogance will suit you well
'Til fashion is dispelled"
Someone dresses and acts in such a way to be considered "cool. They think they are so high and mighty and that they don't care for others but when they fail they suddenly become so needy and vunerable. They can act as conceited and as invinceable as they like but that feeling of power will end as soon as that particular fad they are trying to follow does.
"As waves of plastic fame go out of fashion
You're going out, going out forever unknown
These waves of plastic fame go out of fashion
(These waves of plastic fame are drying up and I smile)
You're going out, going out forever unknown
(Because you're dying to become forever unknown, unkown)"
As soon as this fad ends, this person will once again end up as no one. And Davey will smile because he saw it coming all along.
"From above a rain of ashes descends
Anathema I will remain, forever will remain
From below, in my seclusion
Look up to the sky to see paper wings and watch them burn"
He will stand and do nothing as this person fails because they brought in on themselves by pretending to be someone they're not.
"Without habitation, you'll never find a soul inside
No life, but nothing's died
No lights, but quite the show (Just as long as no one ever knows
All motion is pantomime)"
Without sticking to one kind of persona no one will ever find out who you really are. You cannot die because you've never truly lived. You have no knowledge of what you are doing but you pretend you do and exagerate everything you think that particular fad is about, ending up looking quite stupid. It doesn't matter as long as no one finds out, you can just happily do what everyone else is doing to be cool.
"Dancing in the rain of descending ash
Dancing on your grave, I'll see you all falling
Dancing in the rain of descending ash
Dancing in your dust, I'll see you all falling
I'd stop it, had you a heart
I'd stop it, had you a heart"
This is how Davey feels about that person's failure. He's happy enough to "dance" on the metaphorical "grave"(the old fad they swore to live by). The last part is like him saying that they should just try to be who they are instead of someone completely fake if they actually cared about themselves.
This is a great, upbeat song and I really think that it has nothing to do with 9/11 but maybe he did use that incident as a metaphor for something completely different. Oh, and shame on you people who thought that Davey was sadistic enough to dance on the graves of the 9/11 victims simply because you don't know him. That's really dispicable to hear coming from fans of his music.
This song to me is about someone who only does and says things because they think it's what's cool now.
"Raise high monolithic statues so fragile as they fall I am ever enthralled Gaze, lie and smirk in time, your arrogance will suit you well 'Til fashion is dispelled" Someone dresses and acts in such a way to be considered "cool. They think they are so high and mighty and that they don't care for others but when they fail they suddenly become so needy and vunerable. They can act as conceited and as invinceable as they like but that feeling of power will end as soon as that particular fad they are trying to follow does.
"As waves of plastic fame go out of fashion You're going out, going out forever unknown These waves of plastic fame go out of fashion (These waves of plastic fame are drying up and I smile) You're going out, going out forever unknown (Because you're dying to become forever unknown, unkown)" As soon as this fad ends, this person will once again end up as no one. And Davey will smile because he saw it coming all along.
"From above a rain of ashes descends Anathema I will remain, forever will remain From below, in my seclusion Look up to the sky to see paper wings and watch them burn" He will stand and do nothing as this person fails because they brought in on themselves by pretending to be someone they're not.
"Without habitation, you'll never find a soul inside No life, but nothing's died No lights, but quite the show (Just as long as no one ever knows All motion is pantomime)" Without sticking to one kind of persona no one will ever find out who you really are. You cannot die because you've never truly lived. You have no knowledge of what you are doing but you pretend you do and exagerate everything you think that particular fad is about, ending up looking quite stupid. It doesn't matter as long as no one finds out, you can just happily do what everyone else is doing to be cool.
"Dancing in the rain of descending ash Dancing on your grave, I'll see you all falling Dancing in the rain of descending ash Dancing in your dust, I'll see you all falling I'd stop it, had you a heart I'd stop it, had you a heart" This is how Davey feels about that person's failure. He's happy enough to "dance" on the metaphorical "grave"(the old fad they swore to live by). The last part is like him saying that they should just try to be who they are instead of someone completely fake if they actually cared about themselves.
This is a great, upbeat song and I really think that it has nothing to do with 9/11 but maybe he did use that incident as a metaphor for something completely different. Oh, and shame on you people who thought that Davey was sadistic enough to dance on the graves of the 9/11 victims simply because you don't know him. That's really dispicable to hear coming from fans of his music.