"I dream in darkness. I sleep to die. Erase the silence. Erase my life. Our burning ashes blacken the day. A world of nothingness, blow me away..."
Thank you for your time.
went on his ng, only thing he did was done 2 years ago
Five bucks says they're lyrics to a Paramore song.
Quote from: pop-tart on August 27, 2020, 09:53:43 AM
Five bucks says they're lyrics to a Paramore song.
You owe me five bucks, apparently it's Evanescence.
Now, as a form of mental exercise, I will
assess these terrible lyrics.
I dream in darkness.Alright enough start, Lovecraftian. Probably should have said "In darkness, I dream." Would that make it an actual quote? Can't recall.
I sleep to die.Die of what? Bedsores?
That's an awful lot of talk of "I" by the way. Me, me, me, me. Who's the fucking nihilist here?
Erase the silence.What does that mean? Perpetual sound? Welcoming tinnitus? Alternatively, how does one wipe up a non-stain?
Erase my life.Does it have to be right now? Time will do so naturally in due course.
Our burning ashes blacken the day.So now it's plural? I doubt ash can burn, it being the end product of something having been burned previous, but it sure as hell can't blacken a day. Day is just a name for time spent facing the sun. Believing such a construct capable of being affected by anything betrays a mind still firmly ensconced in the sentimental trappings of infantile human vanity.
A world of nothingness, blow me away...
Quote from: GreyClock on August 27, 2020, 01:17:27 PM
Quote from: pop-tart on August 27, 2020, 09:53:43 AM
Five bucks says they're lyrics to a Paramore song.
You owe me five bucks, apparently it's Evanescence.
See with Paramore you identify them by more standard highschool relationship woes. The standard Paramore album is 10 different angstier iterations of the song Sk8r Boi by acclaimed singer songwriter Avril Lavigne. If I don't pronounce that "la-vig-neigh" in my head I can't spell it right.
paramore is angsty but its still like lighthearted i dont mind them
I work at a grocery store. They come on the speakers all the time.
so are we talking a dental dam or
Quote from: GreyClock on August 27, 2020, 01:17:27 PM
assessment
I believe your interpretation has been clouded by your bias in assuming that this song is meant to be taken negatively. I see it very different. Here is my interpretation.
I dream in darkness. This is meant to be taken literally, as a complaint by the singer than his night light is broken. This can be very annoying, as it leaves you open to being scared by spooky shadows in your room.
I sleep to die. Die is the plural of dice. Clearly this singer is making a gambling analogy, saying that his sleep is left up to "the die"; in other words, every time he sleeps is a gamble, because he has no night light to keep the boogieman away.
Erase the silence. In order to ease his troubled mind, he decided to erase some horror movies from his hard drive so he wouldn't be tempted to watch them again; specifically silence of the lambs.
Erase my life. He also erased My Life as a Teenage Robot since it can be pretty scary at times.
Our burning ashes blacken the day. As a replacement for a night light, he decided to just sleep during the day and rub ash on his windows to keep the light out.
A world of nothingness This is the least literal passage, being a metaphor for getting a good night sleep finally
blow me away..."He finishes with a clever name for a sailing boat he just came up with
Overall, I see this as the song about struggle and overcoming adversity with ingenuity that we can all relate to
I stand corrected.
At least we got this sentence out of it:
Quote from: GreyClock on August 27, 2020, 01:17:27 PMBelieving such a construct capable of being affected by anything betrays a mind still firmly ensconced in the sentimental trappings of infantile human vanity.
Now that's a motherfucking sentence. To toot my own horn and everything.
paramore grew up a lot
and hayleys new album is pretty great
I know 3 paramore songs
The Only Exception, which used to play at my place of work and is an aggravating repetitive doleful emotionally manipulative piece of shit that makes me want to drill a hole in my skull
and Ain't It Fun and Hard Times, which are easily among the best pop singles released in their respective years? :shrug:
Pressure was some good catchy 00s teenager music. The lyrical quality of their stuff is...eh I liked the songs off that first album well enough but the second wasn't as memorable so I eventually forgot about them. Apparently after the first one the singer's parents went "our baby is gonna be a pop star and make us some god damn money fuck you band geeks" and took over as managers, kicked out the band, and then the second album happened and I barely remember the singles off it. Except CrushCrushCrush because it was hardcoded into this dumbphone I had. Smartphones have undeletable NFL bloatware, dumbphones have undeletable Paramore songs about stalkers. This is the natural order of the world. But yeah I had no idea they had anything past that until I didn't recognize the singles in Slurpee's post. Also I just remembered Holy Roman Empire was a thing that kinda sounded like Paramore. They made one album and disappeared. Probably. I liked em! An Alliance of Thieves and Undeserving You are super duper 00s I remember those especially.
Neon Genesis Evanescence lost the band after the first album too, but I think that's just because she was fighting with the guitarist and he was the only other relevant part of the band. I also barely remember anything after that. I have the same deal with the lyrics too. But I just checked and I'm pretty sure I still like So Close. The lyrics aren't bad and I just like the song in general. I keep telling myself lyrics don't matter only vocals do but aaaaaaaaaaaaa can't tune it out. Everything should use invented languages with random real words thrown in like the theme song to Zone of the Enders 2: Yeah The Robots Still have Dicks. Then it's just raw damn emotion.
Also also Nobody mentioned this particular angsty poppy 00s chick lead singer band but The Birthday Massacre was my favorite in the genre. I even kept listening after the second album! Everything they do is purple. Overwhelmingly purple. I'll listen to a song by them and think "this 'video kid' song is purple as fuck wow" and then holy shit the next one is also purple and it's either about murder, relationship-sad, or that vibe you get from those 80s fantasy movies where they're kinda dark but whimsical and adventurous at the same time. They've all clearly seen the Neverending story and Labyrinth forty times a piece. They even covered the Neverending Story. I like it as much as the original song.