Apparat – Black Water

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  General Comment:you could be right about the lyrics, it's so hard to tell sometimes :)
  
  but "surgency" is indeed a word. it's a term associated with the Big 5 framework of personality traits - "surgency" specifically being a trait of positive emotional reactivity/affect (put simply, an optimistic, happy outlook).
  
  personally, i hear "into a loss of surgency," based on a definite "s" sound right before "of surgency," or "surging sea" as you hear it.
  
  i mean, it doesn't matter really of course. i'm not here to be right, everyone hears songs in their own way and develops meanings that are personal to them :)

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  Lyric Correction:Jewdiful has it mostly right except for the last lines, it goes exactly like this:
  
  Shapes still melt into the smoke
  
Looking down at scattered bones
  
I used to keep a slender hope
  
'Til they spread above the stone
  
'Til they spread above the stone


  
  I pulled the trigger by mistake
  
Floundering at the aftermath
  
Slowly recognize the scale

  We will be ephemeral
  
We will be ephemeral
  
  

Fact Isn't what you see
  Not anymore
, what it used to be

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  Fact isn't what you see
  Not what it used to be
  
  I'm flowing in blackwater,
  to another surging sea
  to another surging sea

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  Lyric Correction:surgency isnt a word but insurgency (rebellion/revolt) is; which makes more sense...i think

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    Surgency is in fact a word. It basically means cleverness.

    Flag worldofdraculason June 09, 2012  
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  Lyric Correction:these lyrics are all wrong. this is important, vastly so, for the context, symbology, and meaning of the song.
  
  corrected:
  
  Shapes still melt into the smoke
  
Looking down at scattered bones
  
I used to keep a slender hope
  
'Til they spread above the stone
  
'Til they spread above the stone


  
  I pulled the trigger by mistake
  
Floundering at the aftermath
  
Slowly recognize the scale

  We will be ephemeral
  
We will be ephemeral
  
  

Fact Isn't what you see
  Not anymore
, what it used to be

,
  Fact isn't what you see
  Not what it used to be
  
  I'm flowing with black water
  
Into a loss of surgency
  
Into a loss of surgency

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    oops, it's supposed to be "'Til they spread ABOVE the stone"

    Flag jewdifulon February 26, 2012  

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    you're more right then the original, but still wrong, the last part is:
    
    "I'm flowing in blackwater,
    to another surging sea"

    Flag mjc1423on May 24, 2012  

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