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[ByeByeBye 1,747]

 

 

Great song...great artist...he is missed.

 

With a myriad of lyric interpretations, here is mine (which seems patently obvious to me...but, art and all...)

 

In the villa of Ormen, in the villa of Ormen

Stands a solitary candle, ah-ah, ah-ah

In the centre of it all, in the centre of it all

Your eyes

 

In the house of Men, there is a single life/flame in the center of everything/universe (ah-ah ooooo) and that is you seeing through your eyes.

 

As a kid I called this phenomenon "looking out through your eyes".  Now I just call it "perspective", or central-perspective. I refer to it many times in my writing.

 

In the spolier is a poem from TS Elliot that I think Bowie was refering to with the crucified scarecrows.  The super famous lines from this poem are:

 

This is the way the world ends,

Not with a bang but a whimper.

 

The Hollow Men - T. S. Eliot

 

 

Mistah Kurtz - he dead.

 

A penny for the Old Guy

 

I

We are the hollow men

We are the stuffed men

Leaning together

Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!

Our dried voices, when

We whisper together

Are quiet and meaningless

As wind in dry grass

Or rats' feet over broken glass

In our dry cellar

 

Shape without form, shade without colour,

Paralysed force, gesture without motion;

 

Those who have crossed

With direct eyes, to death's other Kingdom

Remember us—if at all—not as lost

Violent souls, but only

As the hollow men

The stuffed men.

 

II

Eyes I dare not meet in dreams

In death's dream kingdom

These do not appear:

There, the eyes are

Sunlight on a broken column

There, is a tree swinging

And voices are

In the wind's singing

More distant and more solemn

Than a fading star.

 

Let me be no nearer

In death's dream kingdom

Let me also wear

Such deliberate disguises

Rat's coat, crowskin, crossed staves

In a field

Behaving as the wind behaves

No nearer—

 

Not that final meeting

In the twilight kingdom

 

III

This is the dead land

This is cactus land

Here the stone images

Are raised, here they receive

The supplication of a dead man's hand

Under the twinkle of a fading star.

 

Is it like this

In death's other kingdom

Waking alone

At the hour when we are

Trembling with tenderness

Lips that would kiss

Form prayers to broken stone.

 

IV

The eyes are not here

There are no eyes here

In this valley of dying stars

In this hollow valley

This broken jaw of our lost kingdoms

 

In this last of meeting places

We grope together

And avoid speech

Gathered on this beach of the tumid river

 

Sightless, unless

The eyes reappear

As the perpetual star

Multifoliate rose

Of death's twilight kingdom

The hope only

Of empty men.

 

V

Here we go round the prickly pear

Prickly pear prickly pear

Here we go round the prickly pear

At five o'clock in the morning.

 

Between the idea

And the reality

Between the motion

And the act

Falls the Shadow

For Thine is the Kingdom

 

Between the conception

And the creation

Between the emotion

And the response

Falls the Shadow

Life is very long

 

Between the desire

And the spasm

Between the potency

And the existence

Between the essence

And the descent

Falls the Shadow

For Thine is the Kingdom

 

For Thine is

Life is

For Thine is the

 

This is the way the world ends

This is the way the world ends

This is the way the world ends

Not with a bang but a whimper.

Edited August 18, 2018 by ByeByeBye

[smokeyh2 1,512]

OMG this is amazing

 

[smokeyh2 1,512]

don't try this at home you will hurt yourself lol

plays quicker than my brain works

 

Edited August 18, 2018 by smokeyh2

[D_A_R_K_F_I_N 7,457]

[ByeByeBye 1,747]

The clips are the 10th Doctor and Rose Tyler.  This is not really very good fidelity, but the official video posted on YTube is so horribly compressed it almost sounds like a different song.  The 10th Doctor and Rose was the best incarnation anyway :)

 

[Hancho 3,902]

[smokeyh2 1,512]

what a band this was

roxy music should be in everyones collection

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8DJP6XYGDQ

[Zak 2,532]

[smokeyh2 1,512]

was never a big duran duran fan but this is excellent

 

[Condensation 478]

Edited August 19, 2018 by Condensation

[I.Love.YouUU 39]

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Edited August 19, 2018 by I.Love.YouUU

[ByeByeBye 1,747]

When one first listens to this song, it might seem that Marina and the Diamonds (her stage name) seems like just another shallow disco queen, but it couldn't be farther from the truth.  When the entire body of her work is looked at, I think she stands out as one of the most creative and insightful artists of the 10s and although she is kinda famous, I feel she is still underrated.  Especially, since much of her work has gone virtually unnoticed.  Catchy tunes, unique chord progressions. poignant and insightful lyrics, great production, flash videos...she is a brilliant artist of our modern times.

 

Edited August 20, 2018 by ByeByeBye

[BRO0088 1,724]

lol makes it why don't we?

 

 

[thunderousrailgunner 1,934]

[Defender 1,337]

[D_A_R_K_F_I_N 7,457]

The new one from:

 

D I S T U R B E D    :wub: 

[BRO0088 1,724]

Use headphones

 

 

 

Lyrics

 

 

 

 

[Verse 1: Tomine Harket]

We're not in love

We share no stories

Just something in your eyes

Don't be afraid

The shadows know me

Let's leave the world behind

 

[Chorus: Tomine Harket]

Take me through the night

Fall into the dark side

We don't need the light

We'll live on the dark side I see it, let's feel it

While we're still young and fearless

Let go of the light

Fall into the dark side Fall into the dark side

Give into the dark side

Let go of the light

Fall into the dark side [

 

Verse 2 - Au/Ra]

Beneath the sky

As black as diamonds

We're running out of time

Don't wait for truth

To come and blind us

Let's just believe their lies

 

[Pre-Chorus - Au/Ra]

Believe it, I see it I know that you can feel it

No secrets worth keeping

So fool me like I'm dreaming

 

[Chorus]

Take me through the night

Fall into the dark side

We don't need the light

We'll live on the dark side I see it, let's feel it

While we're still young and fearless

Let go of the light Fall into the dark side

Fall into the dark side

Give into the dark side

Let go of the light Fall into the dark side

 

 

[Chorus]

Take me through the night 

Fall into the dark side

We don't need the light

We'll live on the dark side I see it, let's feel it

While we're still young and fearless

Let go of the light Fall into the dark side.

 

 

Edited August 21, 2018 by BRO0088

[Condensation 478]

Not a Bad song :)

[smokeyh2 1,512]

allison krauss

what a brilliant singer she is

 

[smokeyh2 1,512]

this is an absolutely beautiful performance from alison

 

breathtaking music

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swOLCLrqBn8

[CooperO 7,956]

When one first listens to this song, it might seem that Marina and the Diamonds (her stage name) seems like just another shallow disco queen, but it couldn't be farther from the truth.  When the entire body of her work is looked at, I think she stands out as one of the most creative and insightful artists of the 10s and although she is kinda famous, I feel she is still underrated.  Especially, since much of her work has gone virtually unnoticed.  Catchy tunes, unique chord progressions. poignant and insightful lyrics, great production, flash videos...she is a brilliant artist of our modern times.

 

 

 

I love her songs! She has a very interesting voice and indeed very catchy tunes.

 

[babyofRosemarysbaby 256]

Starting to get Autumn feels a month early. Impatient for the beautiful gloomy atmosphere after this overly long and heated summer.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited August 21, 2018 by babyofRosemarysbaby

[Tifa 2,110]

[monkeyburn 13,564]

 

  

[NANOBOT77 22]

anybody listens to xxxtentacion?maybe scarlxrd or ghostemane?lil pump,6ix9ine,migos,drake?

Edited August 22, 2018 by NANOBOT77