Lyrics for Rapture Rapes the Muses as interpreted by tony_x

Rapture Rapes the Muses Lyrics
You hit me so hard
Like a Wong Kar Wai beginning
I'm exploding in smiles
My equilibrium is spinning

Rapture rapes the muses
But you don't notice until it's kissing you
Rapture rapes the muses
And the void that's left confuses
It's confusing

You keep me lit like antediluvian Troy
But one always reveres what one's bound to destroy

Gloomy Erebus is an anathema to me
All of them dancing like flames and the sad enmity
I wonder if I understand
Am I too young to understand?

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klsots
11-19-2004

Rated -1 
sometimes i wonder if this song isn't just a haughty lash for verbose insanity,
but i guess it kind of makes sense.
ONCE AGAIN, KEVIN BARNES, I LOVE YOU.

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testemunha
01-10-2005

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"sometimes i wonder if this song isn't just a haughty lash for verbose insanity"
As do I.

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yall
01-14-2005

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lots of nerdy allusions here. Wong Kar Wai is a Chinese film director. Antediluvian means really old, so antediluvian Troy is Troy as it appeared in the Iliad and the Odyssey, a budding superpower city-state. Erebus, the son of Nyx (night) and Chaos (chaos), embodied primordial darkness. in that last stanza, I think he's talking about how Erebus' presence is insulting to how bright he (the narrator) is shining, and of course he's shining (like ancient Troy) because of this girl he's in love with.

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mrs-mojo-risin
04-12-2005

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kevin says, "...other songs are just kind of like wordplay, because I have a lot of fun just letting my mind wander and doing a stream of consciousness style of writing. And so there are songs like "Rapture Rapes the Muses," I don't really know what that means... It just came to me."


from a glorious noise interview in 2004

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foo55
12-11-2005

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regardless, wong kar wai is bad ass

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lepidoptera3
02-14-2006

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At the of Montreal concert, they started with this song.

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mendeljg
02-24-2007

Rated +1 
with each of montreal song i listen to, my apparent illiteracy is only further proven

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PrEsLeYsBiGsIsTa
04-02-2007

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I think what yall said is interesting... but maybe it is just nonsense... either way, I still really like the song

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and_balloons
04-20-2007

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it's one of the most beautiful love songs i know ! :)

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colincsl
08-09-2007

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Has anyone heard them play this live? They always add this bit of lyrics that's spoken in this really deep voice during the opening bass line. It goes

"Oh my god are you all ready?
Okay then let's all get tight
and make some fucked up love together."

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1q2w3e4r
10-15-2007

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"because of this girl he's in love with."

.. jesus fucking christ.. how is it that people can come to the most random conclusions in lyrics that hint nothing of the topic. It seems like everyone always looks for romance to be the first meaning in every song, and they stick to that principle until it becomes painfully obvious it is not about romance.

What part of this would make you think that its about a girl that he has found happiness with? It's about happiness, but why come to the conclusion its about romance? The closest thing that could possibly be related would be "You hit me so hard"; that should not enough to make one think someone is enraptured with a girl. And apparently it would seem that is completely wrong; as someone said before, it just came to KB.

My exasperation is because I see this kind of analysis for tons of songs. Not every fucking song is about romance, we already have enough of those in the world, stop making up stupid meanings.

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1q2w3e4r
10-15-2007

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"because of this girl he's in love with."

.. jesus fucking christ.. how is it that people can come to the most random conclusions in lyrics that hint nothing of the topic. It seems like everyone always looks for romance to be the first meaning in every song, and they stick to that principle until it becomes painfully obvious it is not about romance.

What part of this would make you think that its about a girl that he has found happiness with? It's about happiness, but why come to the conclusion its about romance? The closest thing that could possibly be related would be "You hit me so hard"; that should not enough to make one think someone is enraptured with a girl. And apparently it would seem that is completely wrong; as someone said before, it just came to KB.

My exasperation is because I see this kind of analysis for tons of songs. Not every fucking song is about romance, we already have enough of those in the world, stop making up stupid meanings.

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DrMambo
10-25-2007

Rated +1 
1q2w3e4r, when I hear this song I don't think of romance. I think of the day when I saw both the bands The Rapture and Muse, and how much fucking better The Rapture was. Man, that day Rapture truly did rape the Muses.

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toastnuances
12-24-2007

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DrMambo, you have won at commenting.

Now regardless of lyrical content, the first thing that sprung to MY head was how much better depressed, fucked up writers are than joyous, rapturous ones.

Perhaps as a result of Rapture doing some muse-raping.

But again, that's without taking into account all the literary allusions in the lyrics.

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misanthroptk
01-17-2008

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I think its pretty obviously about a girl. Literary references aside, "rapture rapes the muses" pretty directly means "happiness destroys creativity/wild inspiration"

In other words, hes so happy hes dumb, in a sense.

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deathcabformel
10-16-2008

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dr mambo, comment of the year.

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chickenflop
11-15-2008

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inlove with his lyrics/tunes. they seriously stand out in the throng of our world's musical melting pot.

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wheelerlifton
09-23-2009

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The title "Rapture Rapes the Muses" to me suggests Barnes isn't inspired to write music when he's happy, only when he's sad or angry. Therefore happiness (rapture, joy) seizes or changes his Muses, tragedy, epic poetry, lyric poetry, dance, comedy, astronomy for instance. I think the song also calls into question wonders about life and death, which are recurring themes throughout the discography.

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