From Arthur Rimbaud's "Une Saison en Enfer/A Season in Hell":
"I am a widow... - I was a widow... - ah yes, I was really serious once, and I was not born to be a skeleton!... - He was hardly more than a child. His mysterious delicacies had seduced me. I forgot all my duty to society, to follow him. What a life! Real life is absent. We are not in the world. I go where he goes, I have to. And often he flies into a rage at me, me, the poor soul. The Demon! He is a demon, you know, he is not a man."
And a few passages later...:
"He says: 'I do not like women: love must be reinvented, that's obvious. A secure position is all they're capable of desiring now..."
It's obvious that they're paying homage to Rimbaud/Une Saison en Enfer. I think this really alters any interpretations of the song - you've got to look at Rimbaud and the way he lived his life, as well as the content of Une Saison. Etc, etc...
I think this is very likely due to Panic! tending to be very literate. Also, this contains the line "Love must be reinvented" which could tie into "Mad As Rabbits"'s line "We must reinvent love"
I think this is very likely due to Panic! tending to be very literate. Also, this contains the line "Love must be reinvented" which could tie into "Mad As Rabbits"'s line "We must reinvent love"
From Arthur Rimbaud's "Une Saison en Enfer/A Season in Hell":
"I am a widow... - I was a widow... - ah yes, I was really serious once, and I was not born to be a skeleton!... - He was hardly more than a child. His mysterious delicacies had seduced me. I forgot all my duty to society, to follow him. What a life! Real life is absent. We are not in the world. I go where he goes, I have to. And often he flies into a rage at me, me, the poor soul. The Demon! He is a demon, you know, he is not a man."
And a few passages later...:
"He says: 'I do not like women: love must be reinvented, that's obvious. A secure position is all they're capable of desiring now..."
It's obvious that they're paying homage to Rimbaud/Une Saison en Enfer. I think this really alters any interpretations of the song - you've got to look at Rimbaud and the way he lived his life, as well as the content of Une Saison. Etc, etc...
I think this is very likely due to Panic! tending to be very literate. Also, this contains the line "Love must be reinvented" which could tie into "Mad As Rabbits"'s line "We must reinvent love"
I think this is very likely due to Panic! tending to be very literate. Also, this contains the line "Love must be reinvented" which could tie into "Mad As Rabbits"'s line "We must reinvent love"