All along I was searching for my Lenore
In the words of Mr. Edgar Allan Poe
Now I'm sober and "Nevermore"
Will the Raven come to bother me at home

Calling you, calling you home
You, calling you, calling you home

By the door you said you had to go
Couldn't help me anymore
This I saw coming, long before
So I kept on staring out the window

Calling you, calling you home
You, calling you, calling you home

I am a natural entertainer, aren't we all
Holding pieces of dying ember
I'm just trying to remember who I can call
Who can I call

Home, calling you, calling you

I run a secret propaganda
Aren't we all hiding pieces of broken anger
I'm just trying to remember who I can call
Can I call

[Repeat: x2]
Born in a war of opposite attraction
It isn't, or is it a natural conception
Torn by the arms in the opposite directions
It isn't, or is it a Modernist reaction

Is it like this
Is it always the same
When a heartache begins, is it like this

Do you like this
Is it always the same
Will you come back again

Do you like this
Is it always the same
Will you come back again
Do you like this

Do you like this
Is it like this
Is it always the same
If you change your phone number, will you tell me

Is it like this
Is it always the same
When a heartache begins, is it like this

If you like this
Will you remember my name
Will you play it again, if you like this



Lyrics submitted by chibinezu

"Kremlin Dusk" as written by Hikaru Utada

Lyrics © EMI Music Publishing

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    My Interpretation:I'm going to do a wildly different interpretation here. Radically different. Trying to make sense of the title, of course, with a crazy outcome. I am choosing to interpret this song as Operation Barbarossa, the betrayal of the non-aggression pact, by Nazi Germany when it invaded the Soviet Union.

    OKAY, so the beginning doesn't make much sense... but it gets a little easier to interpret later into the song.


    "Born in a war of opposite attraction
    It isn't, or is it a natural conception
    Torn by the arms in opposite directions
    It isn't, or is it a Modernist reaction"

    The struggle of ideologies... Communism V Fascism.

    "Is it like this
    Is it always the same
    When a heartache begins, is it like this...." (through the rest of the song)

    Eerie taunting on Russia's behalf, shadowing Napoleon's invasion of 1812 through Prussia. Asking if defeat always feels the same, if the invaders want any more, if they'll keep in touch after running away . . .
    Okay I don't have anything else to share. Truly a far-fetched interpretation of the more repetitive half of this song.
    Flag ComradeTikion April 29, 2010   Link
  • +3
    My Opinion:This is my fav song on "Exodus," it's the one most like the songs she does in Japanese.
    Flag songofsongson November 27, 2009   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:somehow it seems to me that this possibly could be about Utada's relationship with her ex-husband Kiriya? awp..just a thought...but it seems most of her songs are addressed to only one person...don't cha think...and how much emotion she just put into her songs when she sings them...^_^
    Flag rubystoneon May 05, 2009   Link
  • +1
    General Comment:This song is amazing, the best song of Hikki in my opinion as well, but, after read these comments and know more about Edgar's "The Raven", I have one question... Why "Kremlin Dusk"?

    I know Kremlin (Russian) = Fortress in English, or, also, could be Moscovo's Kremlin, the Russia's Government seat, but I can't understand why "Kremlin Dusk" the name of this song.
    Flag InvincibleDragonon April 05, 2009   Link
  • +1
    General Comment:I've always thought that Kremlin Dusk was about moving on after a breakup or something like that. This is why I think so:

    The first part makes sence, since "Lenore" is a lost love, and the person in the text is drinking because - let's say it's a he, just like Poe; he actually had drinking issues too - misses the lost love. 'The Raven' is a symbol of his madness and self-torture. But then the person realizes that his love isn't going to come back, and he has become sober.

    In the first part he says that he never will be haunted be the past, but in fact... it's a fight...
    he is talking to himself. He can't decide whether he'll move on, or wait for the person who's not going to return to him.

    He is a natural entertainer, so he makes it through the day, it's easy to pretend like everything is fine, but like he says, he's holding pieces of dying ember (in 'The Raven' the dying ember is memories of the lost love). He runs a secret propaganda (and that's my favourite line). He acts like he's fine, but if you look closely, there is so many signs that shows that he isn't, and he is actually calling for help.

    The last part is about how he wants to move on, although he wants to stay because he still loves 'Lenore'. He is torn by the arms in opposite directions, and asks himself if it's always like that, when you lose someone you love.
    Flag Afterthebattleon January 25, 2009   Link
  • +1
    General Comment:While I was doing a project on E.A.Poe I let my mom listen to this. ^^

    This song - Kremlin Dusk - is beautifully written. Why aren't there more comments for the better songs in the world? To me it's about a mourn for someone dearly beloved and the loneliness within yourself, very similar to Poe's grief for his wife Virginia. and in song form if whoever that Hikki misses happened to listen to this song, she asks him if he finds any personal feelings from it too..
    Flag Nahiki_Multion November 29, 2008   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:She is simply amayzing, I love this song, it has so much meanings and its just great. No alot of people appereate J-Pop but I love her for this. And as I sing her other songs people look at me funny cause its Japaneese, but that adds beauty. If you listen to her songs there are actual meaning and its not talking about hoes and pimps like most music today. I think UH should be a role model for what songs should be.
    Flag Carricrisson November 19, 2008   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:This is such a beautiful song. It wraps around my heart and fills it. If that makes sense.
    Flag xmoonlilyxon December 15, 2007   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:hey HaRuKa, it is both! there are two parts anger and ember. dying ember is a poem too. but not by poe. it goes i run a secret propaganda arent we all hiding pieces of broken anger. and the part before it is i am a natural entertainer arent we all holding pieces of dying ember. this song is pretty much about a lost love read both poems. the raven and dying ember and you will see! its that simple ^_^. by the way im mellisa.
    Flag hikaru_fan17on July 17, 2007   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:This is THE best song on the whole stupid planet!!!!!!!! Although, most of the lyrics were wrong. See, if you listen closely, you can hear "pieces of broken 'anger'" not 'ember.'
    Flag HaRuKaon May 19, 2007   Link

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