VNV NATION FUC%$"* ROCKS

SERIOUSLY THIS IS THE BEST SONG I'VE EVER HEARD

Withouth even thinking about me i felt myself in that song before even listening at the words. The songs that makes you feel something withouth words are the BESTS !!!

I saw the video on YouTube, and I was FLOORED. A beautiful and haunting face looking @ a TV tube. She seems to be reaching, wishing, and longing for more, but is bound by the limitations of self. I wished I could tell the face how beautiful she is regardless of whether she wore makeup or not. Kinda silly, I know. I LOVE the song. The piano interlude @ the beginning is awesome.

This song was written in memory of Sophia Lancaster. She and her boyfriend were brutally attacked in a skate park by a mob of stupid teenagers. When her boyfriend was knocked unconscience, Sophie cradled him in her arms to try to sheild him from the blows. She died later on in Fairfield hospital. The attack was not provoked by anything other than that the couple was "Gothic". This shows how messed up society is, that teenagers, little more than children with adults' bodies, are so desensitized and intolerant. VNV nations wrote this song for Sophie, though I don't dispute anyone who would like to inturpret otherwise.

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they dedicated it to her, but they obviously didn't write it for her because she died in August 2007.

To me this song holds the meaning of all humanity. The lyrics tie us together in ways that are indescribable, and yet we all know how unique we each are. There are so many different meanings listed here, each one is personal and different.

"This feeling is not sadness, this feeling is not joy, I truly understand, please don't cry now."

How often have any of us felt that way? Not happy, not sad...just like we are here and we are not good enough for some unexplainable reason. Deep down inside we all understand, and here is this song...telling us that we all understand each other. There is someone out there who wrote this song, and sang it, to all of us, to the world. Everyone that hears this song understands it in some special and unique way.

This song is happiness, and sadness, it causes people to cry tears of joy, tears of pain. It causes people to reflect on all their emotions, their lives, their friendships. It makes people think, not about themselves...but about everyone around them.

When I first heard this song one of the people I thought about was my late grandmother, it made me cry very hard. Then I thought about my friends who are described by these lyrics perfectly. Then I thought about my mother, and her whole life. I thought about relationships I've had, lost, am still in. I thought of so many people that eventually I felt like I was holding the world in my mind.

To me, this song brings me closer to all of you.

That's what it means to me. This world is a messed up place and if we aren't true to ourselves we lose ourselves in that mess. So much of us are filled with hate, anger, despair, rage, and depression. So many of us feel like we have no control over our own lives, or that no one understands us or no one cares. So many of us live inside our minds afraid of the world outside, and yet so many of us are unwilling to admit that very fact.

This song to me is love, pure and simple love. Not greed, not love of things or stuff or anything in particular...just love. The love we are supposed to feel for everyone and ourselves...regardless of our little flaws and imperfections, religious differences, racial differences, cultural differences, differences in morals and values...we're still supposed to love each other and not change ourselves for any reason.

this song makes me cry...reminds me of someone i really love.....vil.......it reminds me of him.......we both believe in eachother.....we both understand eachother....and i love him without a question in sight.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pu-8wGbWMro
The song with the "Dollface" animation... it's very moving...

Yo amo esta cancion!!!

He dedicated this song to a girl named sophie lancaster who was killed for dressing as a goth.

it makes me feel hopeful of a brighter tomorrow. yet at that same instant, fearful of losing what i have had and never ever will be again.

it makes me think of who i am, and how i shouldnt ever change who i am for anything or anyone...

it makes me hate Mainstream Media and all its evil standards!

i cried to this song once... that in itself has an attachment.

it also has such broad strong lyrics that it can pertain to any meaning you want it to. if it impacts you even a bit his goal as an artist and musician was successful!

viva la VNV!

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It's about a relationship, weather it's Dating or just Friends, and one has a crappy life while the other understands. Basically the person who has the crappy life just doesn't understand how to handle a relationship because they have never felt it before because he could have been picked on, or bullied, while the other friend completely understands him/her and wants them to know that they care and love them and that they shouldn't care what other people think or say because as long as they have him/her they should be fine

I'm still young, but I've loved VNV Nation for several years now, and this one is my favorite of all of them.

As I am a fledgling writer, I like to listen for inspiration from my music. This song inspired me from the beginning to write a story. I haven't gotten too far yet, but I have faith in it and hope that people will like it as much as I do.

I only hope VNV Nation will continue to make more songs like this one. The world needs them.

Heh, first time talking about song lyrics.
To me, this song is about a friendship I'm in.
It's with a friend who has a physical 'disadvantage' similar to spina bifida, she was supposed to have died when she was five and has lived through more operations than she has years, being seventeen and having eighteen, I think, operations done to her. Most people that know us, seem to think we're in a relationship, but we're not, and I doubt we ever will be. We're more of a team, like Wallace and gromit.
But onto the point.
Then I started listening to this song, I couldn't stop. I found a connection between that song and the deeper conversations I've had with her. To me, it's not about love, it's about friendship and facing the aspect of losing it. The singer is clearly pleading with somebody, who may be considering taking their life (Yes, I'm stating the obvious) or maybe he is seeing a distance growing between them that he cannot make up for.
This song, to me, feels like the conversations I've had with this friend. Just the pure emotion in the wording, it doesn't make me want to cry, it gives me an overwhelming sense of kinship and it's almost like watching somebody cry and trying your best to restore them to their prior state and to keep them there.

I'm scared, constantly, that I'm going to lose my friend, but not in some dramatic way like suicide or anything. I'm scared that over time she'll replace me with somebody else, somebody better, so when I hear the line "Please don't go" it always brings thoughts about how I would live if she did decide to go.

Anyway, enough ranting.
If you read that, thanks.