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Post by NESFantasy on Jan 24, 2007 21:30:45 GMT -5
If nobody has anything to add, we can move on to "Stronger Than Life".
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Post by NESFantasy on Jan 25, 2007 17:35:38 GMT -5
Then so be it!
Stronger Than Life
No weak ones - Life goes on - Here I am - There's no end - This is life No p*ssies squeak - When life gets tweaked Stay straight be strong - Stay tight live long Stronger than life Pain creates strength - Motivation the growth of all Now I'm whole I have all the faith I need Strength through adversity is mine Pain creates power it motivates us all The life you make and what you create Stronger than life you'll be this I can say for me now I won't backdown - In your face I'll be I won't backdown - Stronger than life All weaknesses gone and I am the one Living my way Through time the mind grows strong Leading my way No pain - No gain - One way - Full strength No pain - No gain - One way - Insane Shaping my world for my own way Who are you to say anything No pain - No gain - One way - Full strength No pain - No gain - One way - Insane No weak ones - Life goes on - Here I am - There's no end Stronger than life
Edit: Ah...it editted "p*ssy" to "girl thingy".
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Post by vashts80 on Jan 25, 2007 18:46:08 GMT -5
I think basically the song is the anthem for people who don't need a crutch to get through life, they use their minds and their own personal strength to develop their own personalities and characters. They go through tough times in their lifes, maybe alone or maybe not, but it makes them a strong person and they won't back down. That's just my personal interpretation.
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Post by NESFantasy on Jan 26, 2007 6:53:29 GMT -5
Yeah, I think this one is fairly straight forward. Only thing that gets me is the fact that it says there aren't any weak ones, no p*ssies to complain about life's difficulties. But, don't people complain about how hard life is all the time? Unless it's saying that "You won't hear me complain. I'm not a p*ssy."
But I agree about your previous summarization. I guess you have to be stronger than life. If you aren't, you probably won't live for long.
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Post by joarel666 on Feb 3, 2007 7:32:03 GMT -5
Pain creates a seemingly inpenetrable wall. Your anger, denial, frustration intensify with the size and scope of each new mistake. Once the realization of this pain and it's origins becomes clear, it allows you to gain a foot hold to dig, kick, pull, and scratch your way out of it. "Strength through adversity is mine".
Through "Stronger Than Life", the Sadudes are tellin it like it is!
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Post by NESFantasy on Feb 3, 2007 16:19:34 GMT -5
The penultimate song of the penultimate album.
Unreality
Questions arise from the unknown Confusion brings curiosity Whispers come as many regrets they've buried in the past To witness the unreal... the unreal A vision unfolds before my eyes A vision of cold and pale gray skies Minutes seem like hours Alone we sit and stare and wait for them to come To witness the unreal... the unreal What's false - What's real - Truth is unknown Serious - Mysterious - Are we alone Voices from the black call to me The eyes up in the void watching me There lies in the skies secrets we seek They're lies to mystify to keep us week Echoes of the past reminding me The lights up in the sky... unreality
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Post by NESFantasy on Feb 5, 2007 22:37:34 GMT -5
Inside the EoA booklet, it's easy to see that this song is about the possible life from beyond our world. The beginning makes me think of when the spaceships started ripping through the clouds in "Independence Day" that many people must have started mumbling their confessions and regrets of life as they feared the end was near. We find things that we can't hold onto fascinating. A dash of illusion, a veil of mystery, and we can't help but want to rip it all down and find out what's behind it. Maybe that's the appeal of lingerie. Is it egocentric to think we're the only planet filled with life? Sure. But you know what worries me? If we're the smartest that the universe has to offer. I could also readily see this as a question of faith. There's a lot of trust given in faith, and those lies later mentioned I could see as the preachers here on Earth (not all of them, mind you) feeding us bullshit. Yet, there's still a pull there. Honestly, I feel that we need some kind of high being...some higher purpose. Because if this is all we've got, I don't know what matters.
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Post by joarel666 on Feb 11, 2007 13:39:21 GMT -5
Unreality.
Great track. I often wonder if . . .
Do I see what others see? Or is my reality's view different from others . .
Then again, it could be the reality's view of horror/sci fi author Whitley Strieber, who's real life account of alien abduction and visitation defies logic. But not impossible? Communion focuses on the supposed phenomenon of Alien kidnapping of human beings. In this film for one man and his wife, and child they have always known "them." The chief character in the film is played by Christopher Walken. He finally decides to go through hypnosis to try and determine just what causes the many nightmares and fears he has. The movie uses a most unique series of sequences to tell the story. The story focuses on things mainly from his perspective. But his wife is also a major element in the story. For the wife it appears they can come through the walls and get her and they come get her wherever she may go. The encounters she doesen't recall at first , but with time she recalls them even more vividly. In the movie's more horrific scene a dark almond eye shaped alien looks right at Christopher Walkin's character and then he reaches for its face. He removes what was a mask, as underneath now present to the world is a very insect like face and jaw. The movie toys with manipulation techniques, and creates scenes meant to shock as well as puzzle.
In the film's conclusion one of the aliens tells the wife that "Its time to understand." She is then taken to meet a large humanoid like alien, and a small girl which apparently is a human/alien hybrid. This is her daughter. She then sees all of the aliens as her friends, as her family. The nightmares do not stalk her in the night anymore as it all makes sense now. Communion is in many ways a sadisticly horrifying retelling of Alice in Wonderland albeit with an alien twist. Alien's mesh the dream world with the world of reality into a single state of confusion. Acting like magicians; like masters of many proverbial masks, they command, control and manipulate in this film.
Only in the end does it begin to make sense. The movie presents the possiblity that evolving a specicies is the purpose behind all the intrique and manipulation. But with such a logical reason for alien pursuits why would a path of deceit and pschological torture be used to begin with? The movie really makes one think about the highest tests that the human mind can take before passing the threshold from sanity to insanity.[/color]
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Post by joarel666 on Feb 19, 2007 17:18:08 GMT -5
I'll post this one!Track #10~ In The End
Born in this world all alone - Can't even see I'm all alone Open my eyes to see the light - Cry out for help but no one's there Morning life - Craving light - Take in all - Watch me grow In the end - There's no end - In the end - Life begins One more is born - One more is gone Life is death - Regenerate and recreate One done life gone - You will be the one All you wanted to be trusting me In the end - There's no end - In the end - Life begins All you wanted to be trusting me Life is death - Regenerate and recreate
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Post by NESFantasy on Feb 20, 2007 7:06:37 GMT -5
The one line I don't understand in this song is: All you wanted to be trusting me.
The rest is understandable. People are born, grow and live, but once again they die just like countless before them. Another takes their place and resets the process. We're part of a cycle of life, and it can make us feel meaningless and insignificant.
Initially, I was thinking that the latter half of the first two lines was contrasting the birth with a death. For instance:
Born in this world all alone
This would represent a baby entering the world, not knowing what is happening and feeling isolated.
Can't even see I'm all alone
And while I can see this as a continuance of that, I could also see it as an old person whose sight has left them believing there is no one around to be with them in their final hours.
Open my eyes to see the light
The baby finally is able to open its eyes and realize there is a world out there, and from there begins to absorb and learn.
Cry out for help but no one's there
The old person feels himself/herself slipping away and cries out, but still sees no one has gone to their rescue.
Of course, I'm not sure that was what was intended. There is a sad little piece of information about that last one. It reminded me about a Romanian orphanage that my Political Science teacher told me about, where the children are so neglected that they're confined to their beds, sleep in their own waste, and babies as young as a few weeks old no longer cry, because they've learned nobody will come.
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Post by Darren Travis on Feb 21, 2007 1:58:52 GMT -5
one done life gone.. you will be the one.. all you wanted to be.. trusting me.. a little kinda ref. of mine, poking at the beliefs of the afterlife; and putting your whole life towards trusting in the things that people pound in your head.. their ideas ..become yours.. and you live by that belief.. your whole life.. i guess hopeing that in the end it will be real..
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Post by joarel666 on Feb 21, 2007 2:30:46 GMT -5
~Jeroen Van Valkenburg
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Post by NESFantasy on Feb 21, 2007 6:53:20 GMT -5
Thanks Darren! That helps to make things clearer.
Joa, I'm not sure I get that picture. Is that in relation to what Darren just said? Wrapped up in your own idea of what lays beyond and how you should be, only for it to be a desolate whatever that is?
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Post by joarel666 on Feb 22, 2007 3:44:56 GMT -5
Just when I was about to crawl off to sleep last night, I see Darrin's post. Jeroen Van Valkenburg is known for his album artwork with death/black metal bands in the Netherlands. His latest work compliments "In The End" quite nicely wouldn't you say? Ascension to Heaven, Paradise, The Magical Kingdom . . .is all but assured until the ultimate con is revealed. The truth becomes known. Some tend to close their minds from thinking objectively, seeking comfort and salvation by shackling themselves to fallow belief systems. . . . . . Thanks D for keepin it real~ Check it~ www.myspace.com/jeroenvanvalkenburg
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Post by NESFantasy on Feb 27, 2007 16:42:50 GMT -5
I suppose this wraps up the Anger series for the time being?
In a world where we grow Knowing what is spoken Never does life seem to go To dreams that are not broken
Are you ready for Out For Blood[/color]?!
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