they've always been personal, however the older are more like epic poems and, if you will, quite pretentious. since projector, though, they're more down to earth and introspective.Blitzkrieg Pajo said:
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unus spiritus est
I raise my fist to hold the line
Against those who set themselves on high
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Look at the shell that is you
Empty fragile weak
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Our frail structures can't keep up with the pace
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Going to break it down
Against those who set themselves on high
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Look at the shell that is you
Empty fragile weak
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Our frail structures can't keep up with the pace
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Going to break it down
Dafne
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do you really think?which lyrics are you talking about?Delirious said:
i have never noticed epic in dt lyrics...
pretty much everything really old. at least to me, being swedish, epic as a direct translation of our word "episk" feels like a perfectly normal way of describing it.Dafne said:do you really think?which lyrics are you talking about?
i have never noticed epic in dt lyrics...
anyway, just taking two examples out of the blue, i would be most surprised finding something like...
chanting the odes of magonia
a soulstream in flight to the otherworld
(nightfall by the shore of time)
...or...
come, fly afloat on a wave of emotions,
of crestfallen scorn
oh, this my whirlwind of darkness
a tide i once lulled but alas now withdrawn
now, hand in hand with sorrow
towards the still, perpetual seas
into the tranquil depths of solitude
in bliss my spirit flees
(my faeryland forgotten)
...in any of the dt lyrics of today.
generally, just compare the amount of historical/mythological references now/then, not to mention the sheer lenght of the lyrics (which of course in itself doesn't have to mean anything, but here it makes perfect sense, i think.).
as for skydancer, they seem very, very, very, very ( yes, a lot
) influenced by old poetry. to me it feels like it'd be shelley and other "romantic era" people around the 18th-19th century or so(?), but since i'm really not at home with old (or new) poetry i might be on very thin ice here.it's more held back at the gallery, no doubt about it, but there's still things like "lethe", "edenspring", "bacchi gates", the heaven/hell concept and so on. and then the mind's i turns more to downright philosophy and scientific stuff, so there's peobably where i wouldn't want to call it "epic" anymore. and nowadays, of course, it's pretty much what comes out of stanne's head, be it computer terms or literary references...
phew, this turned out a bit longer than expected. hope it made at least some sense.
(edit: typo...)
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