Got any interesting thoughts on a set of lyrics? Any that don't involve the word "indeed"? Find yourself struggling to decipher all those obtuse references Von makes? Read "1959 And All That" and still no clearer? Nope, us neither. Postcards found lying in a skip around the back of the Chemists can be found here... Don't say you weren't warned.
lazarus corporation wrote:just in case they disappear:
Had a sense it couldn't last
Watched the wonder wander past
Held it briefly, set it free
There is a space above me
Everything will come and go
There is a thing that I don't know
Wouldn't wish it otherwise but
No-one reads the book of lies and
No-one looks into the void as anything but paranoid and
Anything that you would be will
Swerve and hurt eventually
And I'm ungood if I can't shout
Without the vowels or the label out
Escorted from my desk
Unable to unheed
From heroine to heroin
Cash out and head on in to
Burlesque and snake-oil charm
Flashing lights and fakir calm
Shine your knives and sinecures
Red-top wives and feckless poor
As ye sow so shall ye find your
Car is burning at the mine
Decent men and women form a line and dance in time - it's a far parade
The ghost of war, the painted whore, dial up one nine one four - it's a far parade
Distant men and women form a line and dance in time - it's a far parade
Everything will come and go, there is a thing that I don't know - it's a far parade
Distant men and women form a line and dance in time - far parade
Decent men and women form a line and dance in time - far parade
Distant men and women form a line and dance in time - far parade
I think the proactive approach to posting the lyrics before the song being played is to hopefully remedy the fans spending hours on misinterpreting and hearing the lyrics.
Knowing how many times I've listened to the other songs to decipher the lyrics, I could not imagine having to decode the lyrics to Far Parade!
Hello... just clued in to the site update and lyrics posted...
So there is still some life left in the old bastard yet!
This is bodes well for a possible new album... but I do not want to
get too excited until I hear the official word... although I am still
rather excited every time I hear Arms!
There's a lot to uncover here and I have learnt quite a bit in the five mins I've spent looking into this already (about 'fakir' for example). It's partly about fear again I guess. One for the Israelis? Von wore a Fear Factory hoody in Hamburg and I doubt it was because he's a big fan of the band.
I like 'heroine to heroin' (Afghanistan possibly?) and 'dial up 1914' (remember what happened in 1914?). 'Ungood' is from 1984 obviously. 'Decent men and women form a line and dance in time - it's a far parade' is brilliantly creepy.
I can't say where I got this information, but I'm reliably informed that the music for Far Parade starts with a drum intro and is in the key of A Minor.
! The phone number of the Spahn Ranch.
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