Okay, here it comes, my long-ago-promised interpretation about Nether Novas -lyrics. The original thread seems to have dropped too far away, so I made a new one for this (happy, Misanthrope?).
Nether Novas
Lyrics: Stanne
What late forgotten night
To emptiness has given
And now November morning
Will be taken asunder
The shovel stained with dirt in the hours of belonging
Dug into the undiscovered
Of a life, a pest, a plague
Falling back into the arms - no, never
Admitting to a life alone - no
There are sparks inside
Outside looking back - no
The lie never stopped
Cling to the wave, it cried
And onward to the night
Expecting not and nothing
In the presence of a lie
The deeper that it dug, the more now had to go
Surrender was a fact and the room was decorated
No, no, no - the lie never stopped
What late forgotten night
To emptiness has given
The strangers
Oh, may they come
In ignorance's disguise
So in the dark walking
To leave the last of times
Knee-deep in desperation
To fill the gap behind
Boldly tread the night forever
November thoughts are right - oh, never
Taken from the fall - no
Frightened by the key, but the trail behind the house
Felt compelling and new - the lie never stopped
Found at loss for words, now words aren't enough
Someone told
A vacancy was open
Someone laughed
The silence here was broken
Dug up to make room
The room which you furnished and graced
There is no vacancy
The least can fill the fountain
The most will flood the mold
Okay, my interpretation given here is very staggering at best, but I'll try to enhance the weakest spots with educated guesses
. To me the song is definitely about relationships, or rather about a certain unfortunate relationship. I hereby assume the "I" of the song is a male (=he) and the other half of the relationship a female (=she), although there are no clear indicators of their sexes (I find it hard to imagine that Stanne would have written the lyrics from the viewpoint of a woman or of a homosexual ).
There are certain metaphors that are vital to be understood "right" (relative to this interpretation, of course). I take:
-"night" = a memory of their relationship (the dream?)
-"emptiness" = he, alone in his loneliness
-"the lie" = his self-deception that he does not miss her (I'm pretty sure)
-"the room" = their relationship (?)
-"vacancy" = she, "a place in her heart" (uh, not too sure of this)
The opening of the song is him waking up from a dream, a dream about her and their intimate, almost forgotten relationship. The memory of it hurts him, takes him asunder. "The showel stained with dirt in the hours of belonging" is a memory of them having sex (perhaps he masturbates?), and the more he recalls of her, the more ill he feels. The rest of the song is possibly only his thoughts and memories, as he desperately tries to find refuge from the longing he feels.
For a moment he then thinks about returning to her - which he doesn't want to. Neither does he want to live alone. Although he feels the longing for her within his mind, he doesn't show it outwards, and even denies it from himself.
Then he goes back in time, letting the painful memories to come to his mind in (false) hopes that he can prove to himself that he really does not miss her. Yet it all goes worse and the more he remembers her, the more he misses her. What late forgotten night to him has given is a painful memory he can't get rid of.
He hopes to meet (in his imagination? not sure) strangers, people unknown to him and thus unknowing of him and her - hoping perhaps that with them he could forget her. Inside his own darkness, he first tries to leave the past behind, but soon with desperation realizes the gap ( = the denial of his own feelings) needs to be filled, ie. he must go through it within his mind.
He goes back into the memory, trying to clear it up to himself, why it went like it went with her. At first he couldn't describe his own feelings, now a mere description is not enough.
Finally the barriers are broken and he accepts the end of their relationship and his own longing for her - which at that point becomes insignificant, as he realizes his chances are long gone and someone else (representing "the least" - the wording hinting about his mocking and despise of that other guy) has taken the place on her side. For him there's now only the way of the regular people - down into the mold.
There. I'm probably off by more than lightyears, but this is the conclusion of mine - unless someone else (Rahvin, awaiting for your shot) presents a better interpretation, I'll stick with this.
-Villain (who likes Nether Novas a lot)
Nether Novas
Lyrics: Stanne
What late forgotten night
To emptiness has given
And now November morning
Will be taken asunder
The shovel stained with dirt in the hours of belonging
Dug into the undiscovered
Of a life, a pest, a plague
Falling back into the arms - no, never
Admitting to a life alone - no
There are sparks inside
Outside looking back - no
The lie never stopped
Cling to the wave, it cried
And onward to the night
Expecting not and nothing
In the presence of a lie
The deeper that it dug, the more now had to go
Surrender was a fact and the room was decorated
No, no, no - the lie never stopped
What late forgotten night
To emptiness has given
The strangers
Oh, may they come
In ignorance's disguise
So in the dark walking
To leave the last of times
Knee-deep in desperation
To fill the gap behind
Boldly tread the night forever
November thoughts are right - oh, never
Taken from the fall - no
Frightened by the key, but the trail behind the house
Felt compelling and new - the lie never stopped
Found at loss for words, now words aren't enough
Someone told
A vacancy was open
Someone laughed
The silence here was broken
Dug up to make room
The room which you furnished and graced
There is no vacancy
The least can fill the fountain
The most will flood the mold
Okay, my interpretation given here is very staggering at best, but I'll try to enhance the weakest spots with educated guesses
. To me the song is definitely about relationships, or rather about a certain unfortunate relationship. I hereby assume the "I" of the song is a male (=he) and the other half of the relationship a female (=she), although there are no clear indicators of their sexes (I find it hard to imagine that Stanne would have written the lyrics from the viewpoint of a woman or of a homosexual ).There are certain metaphors that are vital to be understood "right" (relative to this interpretation, of course). I take:
-"night" = a memory of their relationship (the dream?)
-"emptiness" = he, alone in his loneliness
-"the lie" = his self-deception that he does not miss her (I'm pretty sure)
-"the room" = their relationship (?)
-"vacancy" = she, "a place in her heart" (uh, not too sure of this)
The opening of the song is him waking up from a dream, a dream about her and their intimate, almost forgotten relationship. The memory of it hurts him, takes him asunder. "The showel stained with dirt in the hours of belonging" is a memory of them having sex (perhaps he masturbates?), and the more he recalls of her, the more ill he feels. The rest of the song is possibly only his thoughts and memories, as he desperately tries to find refuge from the longing he feels.
For a moment he then thinks about returning to her - which he doesn't want to. Neither does he want to live alone. Although he feels the longing for her within his mind, he doesn't show it outwards, and even denies it from himself.
Then he goes back in time, letting the painful memories to come to his mind in (false) hopes that he can prove to himself that he really does not miss her. Yet it all goes worse and the more he remembers her, the more he misses her. What late forgotten night to him has given is a painful memory he can't get rid of.
He hopes to meet (in his imagination? not sure) strangers, people unknown to him and thus unknowing of him and her - hoping perhaps that with them he could forget her. Inside his own darkness, he first tries to leave the past behind, but soon with desperation realizes the gap ( = the denial of his own feelings) needs to be filled, ie. he must go through it within his mind.
He goes back into the memory, trying to clear it up to himself, why it went like it went with her. At first he couldn't describe his own feelings, now a mere description is not enough.
Finally the barriers are broken and he accepts the end of their relationship and his own longing for her - which at that point becomes insignificant, as he realizes his chances are long gone and someone else (representing "the least" - the wording hinting about his mocking and despise of that other guy) has taken the place on her side. For him there's now only the way of the regular people - down into the mold.
There. I'm probably off by more than lightyears, but this is the conclusion of mine - unless someone else (Rahvin, awaiting for your shot) presents a better interpretation, I'll stick with this.
-Villain (who likes Nether Novas a lot)
