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...and the sky is filled with light.

  • Mar. 13th, 2008 at 9:19 PM
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I do try not to post lyrics very often, but I've had NIN's "Zero-Sum" stuck in my head for two days, and then this afternoon [info]wolven said, of the song — "It's just so winter-cold and desolate. It may just be personal associations, but I get this moments-before-Ragnarök-stretched-to-infinity kind of feel from it." Which I think was pretty dead on. Anyway...

They're starting to open up the sky.
They're starting to reach down through,
And it feels like we're living in that split-second of a car crash,
And time is slowing down.
And if we only had a little more time,
Then this time is all we have.
Do you remember the time we
And all the times we
And should have
And were going to...?
I know.
And I know you remember.
How we could justify it all.
And we knew better.
In our hearts we knew better.
And we told ourselves it didn't matter,
And we chose to continue.
And none of that matters anymore,
In the hour of our twilight.
And soon it will be all said and done,
And we will all be back together as one.
If we will continue at all.

Shame on us,
Doomed from the start.
May god have mercy
On our dirty little hearts.
Shame on us,
For all we have done.
And all we ever were,
Just zeros and ones.

...and you never get away,
And you never get to take the easy way.
And all of this is a consequence,
Brought on by our own hand,
If you believe in that sort of thing.
And did you ever really find,
When you closed your eyes,
Any place that was still,
And at peace?
And I guess I just wanted to tell you,
As the lights start to fade,
that you are the reason
That I am not afraid.
And I guess I just wanted to mention,
As the heavens will fall,
We will be together soon if we
Will be anything at all.

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[info]wolven wrote:
Mar. 14th, 2008 02:01 am (UTC)
I've been meaning to re-read these lyrics, all day, and not doing so, for various reasons. Thank you for posting them.
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[info]castironlocust wrote:
Mar. 14th, 2008 04:02 am (UTC)
Aside from "In This Twilight," this is my favorite track off of "Year Zero." I think that there's a lot to be said for the melancholy and regret that saturates this track, obvious not only in the lyric, but also in the somewhat minimalist approach taken with the music in comparison to the rest of the album's tracks.

It's one thing to write and sing about how we've written our own death warrants, stomped on our own collective dicks and, essentially, guaranteed a biblical destruction for ourselves as a species. Bands do this all of the time with their music. An apocalyptic perspective isn't hard to find, regardless of the genre to which you find yourself drawn.

It is, however, a horse of a different color to understand the completeness of our destruction, and in those final moments preceding said destruction, have a clarity of vision that allows for something other than panic and the survival instincts that may or may not actually kick in.

I dunno. The image of Trent sitting in his studio, looking out over the city as the hands reach down to tear the world apart, and understanding the completeness of it all... the propriety and righteousness of it all... and accepting it all, almost serenely, in fact, is touching on more than one level.

That's just me, though.

All the best.

SWH
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[info]songsofautumn wrote:
Mar. 14th, 2008 11:19 am (UTC)
Its a beautiful, haunting song. Its been with me since I first heard the album and it will be with me for a long time to come.
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[info]wolven wrote:
Mar. 14th, 2008 09:33 pm (UTC)
Off-topic and not:
Speaking of the Apocalypse, it looks like the DVD will contain the full alternate theatrical version:

http://www.dvdtown.com/news/i-am-legend-on-dvd-hd-dvd-and-blu-ray/5129

Very pleased by that.
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[info]chris_walsh wrote:
Mar. 15th, 2008 04:26 pm (UTC)
Checking In
Hi. Checking in to make sure you a Spooky are fine after last night's cells of severe weather (I saw the news reports of the damage at the Georgia Dome and CNN Center). [info]aoniedesade from the old forum is all right, also; I talked to her this morning. She slept through the storms when they moved through Mississippi before hitting Atlanta.

Anyway, hoping you guys are fine.
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