Editors – No Sound But the Wind

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  General Comment:I have a feeling, as if I was going throug the forest, everything around are covered with the fog, when I look down I cant see my legs, because of the fog...
  
  
  the feeling of mystery is filling my mind..
  
  I'm not anymore worried, not anymore tired..
  
  It's a new start, an unplowed field...
  
  And there is no sound..no sound, but the wind...

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  General Comment:According to Wikipedia, several of the lyrics were changed for the New Moon version of the song. Also, the original version was heavily inspired by Cormac McCarthy's "The Road."

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    I've never heard the original version, but I did hear the new version before I read _The Road_. After I read _The Road_, I heard the new song again, and it all came together. It's less specific, but still recognizable! Just because he says "carry the fire" so many times, I guess. It's so good. I wish I could write like that.

    Flag aloyon June 15, 2011  
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  General Comment:My son came to me with his summer reading list for school. One of the books was The Road by Cormac McCarthy. He had to do a project on the book...one choice was a music playlist for the book. He asked for my help in choosing songs because my tastes tend to be rock/indie/alternative and that would fit better than anything else. So I began reading the book to know good songs to suggest. Within the first IDK...15-20 pages, I saw the "There was no sound but the wind.." line. Made me think of this song as a possiblity. I made a mental note. I later listened to the song specifically to listen closely to the lyrics (this was The New Moon version that I had). After reading more of the book....I knew it was TOO much of a coincidence between the song and book. Which is why I researched more about his inspiration for it. One of the other songs we settled on for his project was a cover Editors did of a Talking Heads song "Road to Nowhere"...it's accoustic and not upbeat like the original. It's more idk...somber or quiet. Makes me wonder if he was still inspired by The Road novel. I haven't seen the movie...but the book gets under your skin and never leaves you. Other songs we've included for the playlist is Muse-Apocalypse Please, The Dead Weather-Will There Be Enough Water?, The Black Keys-So He Won't Break, & Radiohead-Videotape among a few others. Now he just has to write his paper on the relevance of these songs to the book.

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  General Comment:This is an amazing song.I didn't watch the movie "the road" but i will,in a short period of time.I didn't find this song from the film "New Moon",I found it totally accidentally,and i am so lucky that i did... Everybody should listen to this song.PERFECT.

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  General Comment:This song actually reminds me of Roland and Jake, from the Dark Tower series... dont know why.

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  General Comment:Okay, this is just my interpretation of the New Moon version.. This song doesn't refer necessarily to New Moon but the story in general, if you read the books, you'll get what I'm talking about
  
  I think this song refers a lot to Breaking Dawn when Bella goes vampire.. so here's my interpretation.. It's much like a conversation between her and Edward and vampirism itself.
  
  We can never go home // she can never go back.. she'll have to leave everything behind, friends,
  family.. everything
  We no longer have one // they'll be nomadic, moving from place to place, never staying too long
  I'll help you carry the load // but he promises he'll be there to make it easier, since she'll be a
  newborn, thirsting blood and being pretty much violent
  I'll carry you in my arms
  The kiss of the snow
  The crescent moon above us
  Our blood is cold and we're alone
  But I'm alone with you // pretty clear.. it's a love song
  
  Help me to carry the fire //this is from Bella's point of view. The books says the turning is like
  We will keep it alight together fire burning and she has to endure it, she asks Edward to help her
  Help me to carry the fire through the process, but she also sees it as the means to her and
  It will light our way forever Edward being together forever
  
  If I say shut your eyes
  If I say look away
  Bury your face in my shoulder
  Think of a birthday //This is significant, as birthdays are a horror to Bella, as it
  The things you put in your head makes her older than Edward, and yet he believes that it's special,
  They will stay there forever as her human life contains precious memories, that is very easy to
  Our blood is cold and we're alone, love forget when she becomes a vampire. So he says he'll always be
  But I'm alone with you there and asks her to wait, to savor life.. but the end shows
  she made her decision.
  The rest is pretty self explanatory.
  I think a lot of people doesn't see the significance of these words because they only watched the movie which is a shame, cuz the books are magnificent and no movie can have the amount of time to cover the whole story.
  

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    First of all, I doubt Tom Smith (hes the lead singer and songwriter by the way) has even read Breaking Dawn, let alone wrote the lyrics for it. I'm a twilight fan (of the books mainly) but even I'm getting sick of people referring to it all the time.
    
    Secondly. The birthday part is significant to the book The Road, which the original version of this song is about. Big stuffy movie directors (the same directors who miss out brilliant parts of the twilight books) probably asked Editors to make it more "vampiery" so they threw in stuff about blood, and cold, and moon. Anyway in The Road, a father is fighting to look after his son. Hence "Think of a Birthday" birthdays were so much better when you were a kid, hes basically telling the kid to think happy thoughts.
    
    Thirdly, theres a reason the song dosnt refer to new moon, because its not about new moon. Read the book The Road, and you'll develop a new understanding for this truly remarkable song, and hopefully get over this twilight thing, because although the twilight books are good, there are MUCH better ones out there. Trust me.
    
    You are saying people arent seeing the significance of these words. Well nor are you.

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    I love this :')

    Flag cherrycolaaxoon September 05, 2010  
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  My Opinion:I'm pretty sure that this song is about a book called "The Road" by Cormac Mccarthy. It's about a father and his son making there way south in a post apacolyptic world. No sound but the wind is a quote from the book, as Help to carry the fire. It a pretty good read

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  General Comment:Ok then. Before any more twilight fans who don't even know who Editors are keep spamming this page because they feel so clever, let me get this straight: YES, WE KNOW THESE ARE NOT THE LYRICS FROM THE NEW MOON SOUNDTRACK. Now let me explain.
  
  This is the ORIGINAL, LIVE version of the song, played in the summer of 2008 at Paredes de Coura (Portugal) This song was inspired directly by the book "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy. Is a post-apocalyptic novel in which a father and his son travel along a road surviving after what looks a nuclear disaster. The ashes surround everything and the dust is so dense the sunlight can't pass through it. The few human survivors succumb to primary instincts such as cannibalism. But it's also a touching and deeply emotional book because of the relationship between father and son. Like a tiny ray of light in the middle of hell. Tom Smith said that he read the book around the time he found out he was going to be a father himself, so the book affected him in a special way.
  
  And, for reasons I can't quite understand, they accepted to include this song in the New Moon soundtrack. But as you can see, the lyrics didn't fit, so they were asked by movie producers to change them *cough*damngreedymorons*cough* Anyway, the new version is still beautiful (because everything Editors do always is). Just too much of a song for such a crap movie.

  Flag elevenoclockticktockon October 21, 2009   Link

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    I'm so glad you said it was inspired by The Road, as I was looking at the lyrics then I was thinking 'this sounds very Cormac McCarthy'. Definitely prefer these lyrics to the altered version but I prefer the piano arrangement in the newer one.

    Flag Batesy_predatoron October 28, 2009  

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    I agree with you entirely. I also prefer the piano, but they completely killed the lyrics in the new version. They even removed the "no sound but the wind" line, for god's sake! Movie or not, there was no need to cut that verse.

    Flag elevenoclockticktockon November 21, 2009  

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    i was just listening to this and was like hmm. this is EXACTLY like the Road. im sure somebody else has had some insight on this, so i checked here. thanks.

    Flag abresinaon January 05, 2010  

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    I think youve covered my thoughts entirely. Thankyou.

    Flag lilbect121on July 01, 2010  
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  My Opinion:This is what I heard:
  
  We can never go home
  We no longer have one
  I'll help you carry the load
  I'll carry you in my arms
  The kiss of the snow
  The crescent moon above us
  Our blood is cold and we're alone
  But I'm alone with you
  
  Help me to carry the fire
  We will keep it alight together
  Help me to carry the fire
  It will light our way forever
  
  If I say shut your eyes
  If I say look away
  Bury your face in my shoulder
  Think of a birthday
  The things you put in your hands
  They will stay here forever
  Our blood is cold and we're alone, love
  But I'm alone with you
  
  Help me to carry the fire
  We will keep it alight together
  Help me to carry the fire
  It will light our way forever
  
  Help me to carry the fire
  We will keep it alight together
  Now, help me to carry the fire
  It will light up our way forever
  
  If I say shut your eyes
  If I say shut your eyes
  Bury me in surprise
  Where I say shut your eyes
  
  Oh, oh, oh
  Oh, oh, oh
  
  Help me to carry the fire
  We will keep alight together
  Help me to carry the fire
  It'll light our way forever

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  General Comment:Not a big fan of the Editors but I actually love this song!
  it's dark but with a beautiful meaning
  
  this lyrics are way off
  
  the correct lyrics...(or at least what i hear)
  
  
  We can never go home
  We no longer have one
  I'll help you carry the load
  I'll carry you in my arms
  The kiss of the snow
  The crazy moon above us
  Our blood is cold and we're alone
  But I'm alone with you
  
  Help me to carry the fire
  We will keep it light together
  Help me to carry the fire
  It will light our way forever
  
  If I say shut your eyes
  If I say look away
  Bury your face in my shoulder
  Think of a birthday
  The things you put in your heads
  They will stay here forever
  Our blood is cold and we're alone
  But I'm alone with you
  
  Help me to carry the fire
  We will keep it light together
  Help me to carry the fire
  It will light our way forever
  
  Help me to carry the fire
  We will keep it light together
  Help me to carry the fire
  It will light up our way forever
  
  If I say shut your eyes
  If I say shut your eyes
  Bury me in surprise
  Where I say shut your eyes
  
  Help me to carry the fire
  We will keep it light together
  Help me to carry the fire
  It will light our way forever
  

  Flag tns0359on October 15, 2009   Link

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    I'm quite surprised that this went on the New Moon Soundtrack as a bonus. It's overtly based off Cormac MaCarthy's novel, "The Road". Even down to the lyrics of the song many of the lines are dialogue from the book. What a great job conveying the book into music though. I really enjoy it.I don't want it to be in New Moon.

    Flag kmmiller2on October 18, 2009  

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    This is what I heard:
    
    We can never go home
    We no longer have one
    I'll help you carry the load
    I'll carry you in my arms
    The kiss of the snow
    The crescent moon above us
    Our blood is cold and we're alone
    But I'm alone with you
    
    Help me to carry the fire
    We will keep it alight together
    Help me to carry the fire
    It will light our way forever
    
    If I say shut your eyes
    If I say look away
    Bury your face in my shoulder
    Think of a birthday
    The things you put in your hands
    They will stay here forever
    Our blood is cold and we're alone, love
    But I'm alone with you
    
    Help me to carry the fire
    We will keep it alight together
    Help me to carry the fire
    It will light our way forever
    
    Help me to carry the fire
    We will keep it alight together
    Now, help me to carry the fire
    It will light up our way forever
    
    If I say shut your eyes
    If I say shut your eyes
    Bury me in surprise
    Where I say shut your eyes
    
    Oh, oh, oh
    Oh, oh, oh
    
    Help me to carry the fire
    We will keep alight together
    Help me to carry the fire
    It'll light our way forever

    Flag kconwhoaon October 21, 2009  

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