Lyrics for Endless Skies as interpreted by interface2x

Endless Skies Lyrics
How many years since you found yourself
Staring at an endless sky?

Unaware of yourself
Who you are and where you're going
Only living
Only breathing
Losing all sense of time

The most fragile of things
Captivates and embraces you
Surrender and be witness
To this rarest of moments

You live within the sense of the order of things
What is truth
What is important
What defines you

No need to fear
No need to worry
About years that passed
About time you lost

Live seconds as a lifetime
Time it does not matter
You live within the sense
Of the stillness of time

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_faye_
04-22-2005

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What this song means to ME - it is the way I live, or at least try to, as often as I can. To me it is about letting yourself live in the moment, even the simplest ones, and enjoying every aspect of it you possibly can, while it lasts. Also, not allowing the everyday stresses to get to you - solely feeling the joy and beauty of being alive. Live seconds as a lifetime, time it does not matter. Nope, sure doesn\'t. Time is an illusion, it\'s just numbers, all in our head. Forget it all :)

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xheartbreakerx
04-27-2005

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I agree with faye. I completely related to this song.

On an unfortunate side note.. this song, and "Colours of Rain" (the instrumental) were the only songs off the new CD that I was really taken with on my first listen. I just picked up the CD, so maybe it will grow on me. A few of the other tracks were okay.. but in general I was really surprized with this CD. Don't get me wrong, I love VNV Nation - but after the past 3 CDs being amazing, I've come to expect a certian greatness, and I was definatly dissapointed with this new CD.

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element_0013
05-08-2005

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To me it seems like someone who continues to live in the past of their memories, not really looking in the present, and letting things pass them by.

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_faye_
05-10-2005

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i think you have the right idea but from the wrong perspective - it's more speaking to those who DO continue to dwell on the past and not appreciate the moment that is happening now. it's a positive song, a positive outlook.

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Mikenno
05-29-2005

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It's not to be afraid, I feel. This especially matters to me right now because I'm about to graduate high school soon and I'm scared about not knowing what I'm going to do with my life.

But I agree that it's a positive outlook. Don't worry about where to go right away. Think about it because there's a whole world out there yet and you still have time to see it. So you've lost a few seconds to think about it. You have so many more to go and do it. :3

But, then again, there's always that fear. One day you're 18 then you turn around and you're 38. I would say, once again, it's telling you not to be afraid of that. Just live.

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iChune
07-24-2005

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This song is special to me for many reasons.

One of hte first times I listened to it I was with my sister after we'd taken a two-hour walk to the Starbucks 4.5 miles away from our home in San Marcos to see her boyfriend and get some coffee (except that we got there at 8.45, we still had something to drink. :]).

It also reminds me of when I'm alone, usually after school, and just staring off into the distance and contemplating everything I could possibly contemplate. I love to just sit, ignore the possibility that I may grow up and that maybe things won't last forever, and I think about how I actually fit into this world. It makes me think about who I really am inside, and makes me think about thinking about it. For the sake of petty confusion, thinking of this song for me is like thikning of thinking of thinking of me. O_O

But yes, I love it. It's very special. U_U

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Buto
08-06-2005

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Great song. It's yet another aspect of humanist philosophy VNV Nation has so expertly committed to song.

There is a Japanese philosophy that somewhat fits the theme going on here: "mono no aware". It is translated as "sensitivity to things", and while perhaps vague, it couldn't be more clear once you understand the importance of opening yourself up to the beauty of existence. This song asks us to recall when we last took notice of an endless sky, when we were last humbled and awed by the grandeur of existence. And to notice how captivating it is that this existence is weaved with transience, of the most fragile things. Done with frequency, these reminders can have a tremendous spiritual effect.

It truly is worth it to cultivate a sensitivity to things, no matter how busy you are.

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Kitsune_Tokkan
09-01-2005

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Emerson and Thoreau vibe comming from this song. DEFINATLY. This song is about living your life simply. Live by the moment. Be aware of your surroundings, be aware of detail. And once in a while... look up and stare at the endless sky. Nature heals.

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House Of Music
02-21-2006

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The song talks of how you should live your life, and how in the end, no matter what, it all makes sense and fits into place. Beautiful song.

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Whiteknightmm2
03-13-2006

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Anything can be started and it is never too late to become who or what you might have because time is past and present and future. The future is what we make. I just brought the future to the present by typing or breathing, or doing anything, it is always there and we have the potential to create anything and we live in a different sense or state of being. The speed of light will be our pace and heartbeats will be our rush and seconds will stop, therefore we will be able to and actually will accomplish much with divine help after we have overcome this life. John17:21-24. One with the ultimate power and thus part of it, inheriting and entitled to eternity. This sing reminds me of "beloved." Families and relationships can last forever, as far as endless skies reach, that is also characteristically matching the potential of love in families. There is a universe in an atom, and our light within breaks darkness, we wield the light well. Time changes as our frame of reference changes. We will change. We will know who we are and will be enhanced. There is more to be said and done and thought and even more to be typed... Be moved and moving, obeyed and obeying, exalted and exalting, believed and believing. Just be. The way to do is to be. Anyone can do honest things now and then but an honest person remains such by increasingly making effort to exponentially control, master, and wield his own self, thoughts, actions, and words. Remain. Be. Love. There is so much more...

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Stevo93
04-19-2006

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Its our journey in life.
Its what we all do, we learn, observe, experience, and try to understand within ourselves and within life itself.
It is with this perspective and understanding/awe that we forever live in a timless state because we take the time to marvel every moment.

This is what I feel. When you live in the moment. Death is nonexistent. I have overcome death.

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Stevo93
04-19-2006

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haha, why r people debating on this? This is what its all about. It means anything. some similar to others, but the reason why there are not perfectly the same is because we are not. and we all apply this beautiful piece to how it relates to our own unique life experience.

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Ag00n
06-18-2006

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Simplicity. Allowing yourself to just relax and view the natural beauties without worrying about the truly pointless things that the world today has made important.

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whennitecomesdwn
12-21-2006

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I want this song played at my funeral..

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LaLaLogic
02-05-2007

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This song means a lot to me, too, I'm glad to see others appreciate it as much as I do. In my own life it fits very well, because of my mental illness (it's a big part of my life so I don't mind saying it) I really did lose years and many people and I was often overwhelmed by all that was going on in my mind, so I feel it fits my situation well. I think the basic meaning of this song is: life is hard, but very beautiful and if you realize this and learn to let whatever happens happen, it'll never be too late to live.

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HorsesMouth
04-04-2007

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VNV NATION "SONG MEANINGS" INSIDE
15 page interview with Ronan Harris.

http://dancemusic.about.com/od/artistshomepages/a/VnVNationInt.htm

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lastlight
09-01-2008

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This is an amazing song, between the lyrics, vocals and music. I really am not sure what it really means to me as of yet. What I was wondering, though, is if the line "How many years since you found yourself staring at an endless sky?" means "How many years have passed since the person 'found themselves' while staring at an endless sky," or rather, asking "how many years have passed since the person last stared at an endless sky?"

I was just wondering what your opinion on the line is, if even either. I honestly think it could be both, or something completely different. Reply please =]

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Zensunni
09-26-2008

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What about this. I am reading the lyrics with out the music in my head, taking the words at face value and to me it speaks more of looking at the night sky and realizing how infinantly small we are and at the same time being able to see that you are one with the universe. there is no seperation from the atoms in your body to the atoms in the earth to those in space and so on.In that moment of "oneness" You live within the sense
Of the stillness of time

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