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The Killing Moon Lyrics
Under blue moon I saw you
So soon you'll take me Up in your arms, too late to beg you Or cancel it though I know it must be The killing time Unwillingly mine Fate up against your will Through the thick and thin He will wait until You give yourself to him In starlit nights I saw you So cruelly you kissed me Your lips a magic world Your sky all hung with jewels The killing moon Will come too soon Fate up against your will Through the thick and thin He will wait until You give yourself to him Under blue moon I saw you So soon you'll take me Up in your arms, too late to beg you Or cancel it though I know it must be The killing time Unwillingly mine Fate up against your will Through the thick and thin He will wait until You give yourself to him
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07-28-2002
04-12-2009
First verse: the vocalist is the killer, somehow cursed to commit a murder every blue moon ("the killing time/ unwillingly mine) and is talking about how he met a girl (i'm just assuming its a girl: he could be gay...) who will fall for him, yet he knows that it is the time for him to kill again, and though the force of their love draws him to her, he realizes that the love cannot last because of his curse. 'Too late to beg you' suggests that the killer plans to go through with the romance anyway, meaning that he is willing to kill the girl in return for a brief love.
chorus: this is tricky, and is open to at least two interpretations. In one, the vocalist is taking the perspective of an observer looking in on the fateful romance, saying that the killer is always fated to kill, even when he doesnt want to ("fate up against your will"). it is suggested that the curse is the dominating component of the killer's life ("through the thick and thin"). He also seems to give an ominous opinion of the killer. Whereas in the first verse, the killer seems to be torn whether or not to love and kill or never love at all, in the chorus the vocalist tells us that the killer had always resolved to wait, have the romance and perform the murder.
In the alternative interpretation, the killer could be talking about the girl's fate being against her will (although she may not know this). Then, "through the thick and thin" might mean that her whole life was always fated to end with the murder. "he will wait until..." could refer to a third party who also loves the girl, who doesn't yet have a chance with the girl and possibly never will.
the second verse is about the romance the killer experiences with the girl, and about how magical and rich it was. They kiss "cruelly" because the killer knows that the more he loves her the more it will hurt him when he kills her. "The killing moon/ will come to soon" shows that the killer doesn't want the love to end, though he knows it must.
presumably, the third verse (which is the same as the first) is supposed to be reinterpreted as the moment of the kill. instead of the beginning of the romance, this is the last moment of their love: the killing time has come, and the killer holds the girl in his arms as he murders her. "Too late to beg you" might mean that he is already to close to the kill to beg her to leave, and gives a sense of fatefulness and finality.
this is the first meaning that occured to me as i listened to the song, and after seeing it used in donnie darko, i think it relates to the movie really well with this interpretation. for example, donnie can be said to 'kill' gretchen because she dies in the tangent universe that he started, whereas in the normal universe that he chooses for her and everyone else at the end of the film, she lives. it could also be said that the 'killing time' came for donnie at the end, that it was his fate to die, which he escaped at the start of the movie.
i know there are other interpretations but i like this one :)
04-12-2009
First verse: the vocalist is the killer, somehow cursed to commit a murder every blue moon ("the killing time/ unwillingly mine) and is talking about how he met a girl (i'm just assuming its a girl: he could be gay...) who will fall for him, yet he knows that it is the time for him to kill again, and though the force of their love draws him to her, he realizes that the love cannot last because of his curse. 'Too late to beg you' suggests that the killer plans to go through with the romance anyway, meaning that he is willing to kill the girl in return for a brief love.
chorus: this is tricky, and is open to at least two interpretations. In one, the vocalist is taking the perspective of an observer looking in on the fateful romance, saying that the killer is always fated to kill, even when he doesnt want to ("fate up against your will"). it is suggested that the curse is the dominating component of the killer's life ("through the thick and thin"). He also seems to give an ominous opinion of the killer. Whereas in the first verse, the killer seems to be torn whether or not to love and kill or never love at all, in the chorus the vocalist tells us that the killer had always resolved to wait, have the romance and perform the murder.
In the alternative interpretation, the killer could be talking about the girl's fate being against her will (although she may not know this). Then, "through the thick and thin" might mean that her whole life was always fated to end with the murder. "he will wait until..." could refer to a third party who also loves the girl, who doesn't yet have a chance with the girl and possibly never will.
the second verse is about the romance the killer experiences with the girl, and about how magical and rich it was. They kiss "cruelly" because the killer knows that the more he loves her the more it will hurt him when he kills her. "The killing moon/ will come to soon" shows that the killer doesn't want the love to end, though he knows it must.
presumably, the third verse (which is the same as the first) is supposed to be reinterpreted as the moment of the kill. instead of the beginning of the romance, this is the last moment of their love: the killing time has come, and the killer holds the girl in his arms as he murders her. "Too late to beg you" might mean that he is already to close to the kill to beg her to leave, and gives a sense of fatefulness and finality.
this is the first meaning that occured to me as i listened to the song, and after seeing it used in donnie darko, i think it relates to the movie really well with this interpretation. for example, donnie can be said to 'kill' gretchen because she dies in the tangent universe that he started, whereas in the normal universe that he chooses for her and everyone else at the end of the film, she lives. it could also be said that the 'killing time' came for donnie at the end, that it was his fate to die, which he escaped at the start of the movie.
i know there are other interpretations but i like this one :)
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08-19-2002
really great song. but it has somthing to do with love ..like 90% of all songs.
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10-11-2002
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10-17-2002
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03-28-2003
i just love the music, the way it creates an atmosphere and the words are just wow. whatever they really mean, they could mean anything.
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05-04-2003
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05-07-2003
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05-07-2003
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04-24-2004
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05-08-2004
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06-24-2004
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10-13-2004
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11-24-2004
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11-28-2004
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12-02-2004
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12-11-2004
Anyway, I think the song is about predestination; how everything that occurs in our lives, particularly death-is innevitable. The singer is exppressing the futility of trying to deny the cosmic plan ("fate up against my will") and how no one ever escapes death ("the killing time"). This aspect of the song reminds me a little of "Don't Fear the Reaper" by Blue Oyster Cult, another extremely awesome song.
The last line of the song ("you will give yourself to him") implies that our own actions will conspire against us to push us into our predestined fate; no matter what we do, we are trapped in a self-fulfilling prophecy.
P.S: Donnie Darko is the best fucking movie ever made!
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12-15-2004
It is on the compilation AN 80'S cover album.... its pretty amazing... if you like this song and u like Eva.....
I think the song meaning is quite open... not so specific.... tho clearly vears around the notions of death and doom...
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12-21-2004
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01-15-2005
tuvia, I agree with you. A sensible interpretation. I just wanted to reafirm it.
This song is obviously about death. Not only about passing away, but about the death, as character (you may call it god, fate or, preferably, the KILLING MOON), taking people away. In this case, the singer.
Many of you did talk about death, but nobody realized that the whole song is about it and there's no one else on scene: only the singer and death.
"Under blue moon I saw you / so soon you'll take me". It's obvious that He saw the death coming to take him in its arms. Now it's too late to beg. He will die anyway: its his killing time. Doesn't it fit perfectly?
The rest goes like that. He doesn't want to die, but fate acts against his will.
"He will wait until you give yourself to him". It is talking about fate. That's the only part of the song which is not very clear for me because if fate acts against your will, you should die anyway. So, fate won't wait anything: will just take him away. It's a little contradiction of these lyrics, which doesn't affect this song's beauty.
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01-17-2005
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01-27-2005
I think the song is about temptation, and taking paths in life that you know are bad but you do anyway. Its like relaxing into sin..
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01-31-2005
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02-19-2005
I'm in this really messed up relationship right now and I can relate to this song.
'fate up against your will, through the thick and thin, he will wait untill you give yourself to him' - is just like the guy im going out with. He waited till I gave myself to him by fate, and now he's stretching me thin. Like the lyrics 'up in your arms too late to beg you or cancel it though I know it must be' which would be the way he took me in and i would beg him not to hurt me, and i know we have to break up even though I even hate the idea. 'The killing time unwillingly mine' would be the time that I have to break up with him, even though I majorly don't want to. but things could be better so.
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03-16-2005
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03-22-2005
I love that song too, but Killing Moon fit much better into the whole vibe of the scene
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