After The Fall Lyrics

Lyric discussion by Sowieso 

Cover art for After The Fall lyrics by Klaus Nomi

I agree with Zabasaz. Total Eclipse and After the Fall go together it seems. The end and the beginning.

It's a song about hope. A new beginning, it isn't great, but we're still alive at the very least.

"We'll build our radioactive castles out in the radioactive air"

I really like the quoted lines. I think they mean a lot to the song and to the listener. "We'll build our radioactive castles" Radioactive most likely because of the nuclear war of Total Eclipse. Pretty much everything will become radioactive after the fallout.

Also why castles? Castles were built for communities to live in, under protection. Like a fort. So, if we build these castles, there must be some kind of attack going on. Otherwise we wouldn't need the protection of them.

"Out in the radioactive air" I think that we build them there because we can't inhabit our own world.

It's a depressing song. We lose the earth, we are still fighting, still in radiation but yet we have hope.