The song lyrics were written by the band Van Halen, as they were asked to write a song for the 1979 movie "Over the Edge" starring Matt Dillon. The movie (and the lyrics, although more obliquely) are about bored, rebellious youth with nothing better to do than get into trouble. If you see the movie, these lyrics will make more sense. It's a great movie if you grew up in the 70s/80s you'll definitely remember some of these characters from your own life. Fun fact, after writing the song, Van Halen decided not to let the movie use it.
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This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
Cajun Girl
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Overall about difficult moments of disappointment and vulnerability. Having hope and longing, while remaining optimistic for the future. Encourages the belief that with each new morning there is a chance for things to improve.
The chorus offers a glimmer of optimism and a chance at a resolution and redemption in the future.
Captures the rollercoaster of emotions of feeling lost while loving someone who is not there for you, feeling let down and abandoned while waiting for a lover. Lost with no direction, "Now I'm up in the air with the rain in my hair, Nowhere to go, I can go anywhere"
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Holiday
Bee Gees
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@[Diderik:33655] "Your a holiday!" Was a popular term used in the 50s/60s to compliment someone on their all around. For example, not only are they beautiful, but they are fun and kind too ... just an all around "holiday".
I think your first comment is closer to being accurate. The singer/song writers state "Millions of eyes can see, yet why am i so blind!? When the someone else is me, its unkind its unkind". I believe hes referring to the girl toying with him and using him. He wants something deeper with her, thats why he allows himself to be as a puppet (even though for her fun and games) as long as it makes her happy. But he knows deep down that she doesnt really want to be serious with him and thats what makes him.
Amazing
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran tells a story of unsuccessfully trying to feel “Amazing.” This track is about the being weighed down by emotional stress despite valiant attempts to find some positivity in the situation. This track was written by Ed Sheeran from the perspective of his friend. From the track, we see this person fall deeper into the negative thoughts and slide further down the path of mental torment with every lyric.
This song is a backing track for 10,000 Days along with Wings for Marie.
It's an easter egg of sorts. The added lengths of Wings for Marie and Viginti Tres are equal to the length of 10,000 Days.
Try playing 10,000 Days from a separate source such as another music player, while playing Wings for Marie immediately followed by Viginti Tres from another source. You'll find that the songs add up nicely and make for an even greater listening experience.
I have researched and found that there is a lot of mathematical, cosmic, and occult reference to the number 23
One seems to include a carillon, which by definition is an instrument which consists of at least 23 cast bronze, cup-shaped BELLS.
OK i'm afraid you don't get it.the 1st question is: why use latin (a dead language)? I searched in Roma history but found nothing... the 1st time. So I listen the track again and again... I m a sound engineer and I absolutely sure that the voice in the track is pitch down, and perhaps slow down too. Take the track in cubase or pro-tool (or what u want) reverse the track and speed up(x2) then... OOOooooo the "voice" i' ve heared is in fact voice and a sound. the sound was a clue very pitch down that u can hear it's a pitch. the voice is 2 syllable very clear now: CEASAR (exactly "César" the roman prononciation...) It' s match.let's go back to History:
"Abominatio Nascitur Autumno"
october -45: Ceasar win civil war and came back to Rome, he observe a "triumph" and change politic laws. you can look on web for more details but it' s the beginning of his own death! He take total power but his opposant were now radicals
"hic est tuum temptamen quod temptat tua potentia"
during the end of -45 and the begining of -44 a plot born in Roma including the Julius Ceasar' son (Brutus).
"viginti tres gradus ad summam potestatem"
march 15th -44: Ceasar his killed by 11persons(including his son) 23 STABS killed him (you can check, it' s historic)the last stab was give by Brutus his son. For numerologists 23 is relied to the death,if tou ask why, they reply by historic exemple (about templar knights etc...)they always talk about the death of Ceasar.
P.S:scuse my french,I don't speak good english,sorry...
I don't hear any Latin sentences in this song!!! the only thing I hear is "Ceasar" played backwards and some terrifying sounds!!! I'm wondering where are these sentences???!!!
I doubted the hidden track, but i really began to research it. This track fits into the hidden track without a dought. Right as Maynard says "your going home" God's voice says ascisco, which means im receiving you in latin. That is the only thing the song says. I heard it the first time i listened to track.
I think by the same way. its a song made for being part of an easter egg, and it fits well. Totaly agree with the ascisco theory.
Also, I flipped it around. Just me, but the voice didn't really sound any more distinguishable.
Its been suggested that 10,000 Days is the follow-up album to Lateralus. If it is "Disc 2," as has been suggested, Viginti Tres (Latin for twenty three) is literally track 23 of the total album. I don't believe that Faiip de Oiad was ever specifically stated to be track 13 on the Lateralus packaging, so assuming we leave it out, this makes sense. I can't imagine that that would be a coincidence, since it doesn't seem that there is any other real meaning to this song.
Does anybody have an idea what the voice says?
They're trying to take us somewhere in this track. It's best to stop analyzing here, the electromagnetic spectrum is infinite. I look at this in terms of what enviroment this is. A breathing, swinging sound. An utterance. Twentythree is unknowable. Possibly a lost key.
10,000 Days cannot possibly be 'disk 2' to Lateralus... as Maynard's mom (immortalized in Wings for Maire and 10,000 Days) died shortly before APC released 13th Step...
it's hard to write about things that haven't happened...
i've heard the voice says Viginiti Tres backwards... but it's hard if not impossible to be sure...
oh dear... it seems the word is in from the auzzies and kiwis... the album is selling fast...
10,000 DAYS IS THE REAL DEAL... THE LEAK IS NOT FAKE... THE FAKEOUT IS FAKE
Hey TREXOR ... 'foot in mouth and head up ass, so whatcha talkin' bout'... eh?
WIKIPEDIA-
Skepticism that 10,000 Days is the actual title has become void since the album has already been released in some European countries.
It's real. I got it about two or three days ago in the US from a source I won't name. But the packaging is amazing, and how the songs flow and everything is perfect. It's great, but it's very true that it wasn't a leak.
And this whole album isn't about Maynard's mother. I think the two albums just sort of follow some themes, I'll expound a bit later.