A morbid beauty Glows in resonation Mercurial signs they read Make real our minds True fascinations For now we're rolling And kinda golden As time keeps folding We're old when our poor souls depart Whereas cold cruel jokes now make you cry One day you'll take them in your stride All of the time we've resided here You'll see our chalices rise With ever endless tears And illusions they fly But someday soon will clear Just sit back and recline I'll guide you through the years Through the future years As they'll soon appear Someday all too near Now the distance clears Bad ways which rule all the ways we go Through black and the gloom Consecutive days and plain afternoons The things in life They pass the time While those all around are bored Though we come down in real demise Trek through all of the feelings with no tears in eyes Kept fear veiled so it hides Life's never forced or dry So there's nothing inside me I just seem alive To the future years As they'll soon appear Dressed in slacks as we will So its stars they steer Just tie a silk sheet round your neck And twist it till your face turns cherry red All of the time we've resided here You'll see our chalices rise With ever endless tears And illusions they fly But someday soon will clear Just sit back and recline I'll guide you through the years



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"Future Years" as written by Renn Hawkey Elijah Blue Allman

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    My Interpretation:DeathRockBoy is right. This song is about changing as time passes.

    "We're old when our poor souls depart"
    This isn't death in the literal sense; it is referring to loosing who are as we grow. When you suffer as a youth, it is a verification of your life. You are alive when you bleed... so to say. Being young or old is not a matter of your age; it is whether you still feel or not.

    "Whereas cold cruel jokes now make you cry
    One day you'll take them in your stride"
    When you have no soul, nothing will make you cry.

    "Though we come down in real demise"
    I think this refers to coming down from the 'high' of youth.

    "Trek through all of the feelings with no tears in eyes"
    This rings back to the first stanza about taking cruel jokes in your stride. You are old when you loose your ability to feel, even if it is only to feel pain.

    "Kept fear veiled so it hides
    Life's never forced or dry
    So theres nothing inside me
    I just seem alive"

    'Life's never forced' refers to suicide as an ever present option, but people's fear of death or punishment in the afterlife restricts them from taking their own life. Even though they cannot kill them self, they are essentially dead.

    It is a good song.
    Flag StarVeilon July 01, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:i honestly could be wrong, but my interpretation of this song is that its from one persons point of view ( maybe a close friend ) looking on to someone younger and seeing how they are maturing and going through the same things they did, definately maturity through age and how people change through expierience
    Flag Commiion January 18, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:"one day you'll take them in you're stride."

    omg, deadsy's lyrics seem so meaningful that you could take one line and make an entire song of what it could mean, not only that, the freaking emotion, or lack of, beaming yet quelching from a point of space in your soul to a point of time in space. "i'll guide you through the years." this is my favorite deadsy song as of this go around. If given the off chance that I could say a couple of things to the things in this band I don't think I could tell them I love them or their music even though I do. I couldn't tell them hawkwind is my favorite band and they (the apt ones) are second if not one in the same. I wouldn't tell them i love them. i wouldn't tell them i love them for their contribution to music and creating/summoning a "style" that will die with them but live on in us their prodgeny.
    i just don't know what I would tell them. I probably wouldn't say anything, my face would say it all i'm sure.
    jAy

    ps. sike out you muther fuking bitchettes I do Love you! AHAHAHHA MMWAHAHAH
    Flag bannor216on March 17, 2005   Link
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    General Comment:Haven't any of you ever been to a nursing home or know anyone who is a NA? It's a place where you put someone to forget about them...kind of like the oubliette. I named my python cruella by the way...
    Flag bannor216on June 11, 2004   Link
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    General Comment:Haven't any of you ever been to a nursing home or know anyone who is a NA? It's a place where you put someone to forget about them...kind of like the oubliette. I named my python cruella by the way.../
    Flag bannor216on June 11, 2004   Link
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    General Comment:I listened to this song again today and I suppose I gained a new perspective on it. To me, it seems he's talking about how people change as they get older. Right now, the person he's talking about cries at other people's cold, cruel jokes. However, he says that in time she'll learn to take them in her stride. So, as people get older, they become colder to other people's feelings and their own. Somehow, this as seen as "growing wise" by many people. In reality, they're becoming hollow and ignorant, empty and selfish. They learn to disgard the pain other people feel. He's talking about aging as a process of becoming colder. And maybe this person is trying to escape all of that through suicide, hence the tying of the silk sheet around their neck.

    Okay, I hope that made sense. Even if it doesn't, or even if it's not what the song is about at all, at least this is a testiment to Deadsy's music that it makes you THINK and people can discuss it to no end. A truly great, forward-thinking band that's making amazing music.
    Flag DeathRockBoyon September 25, 2002   Link
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    General Comment:I think this song is about fate guiding us through the future. "mercurial signs they read, make real our minds true fascination". Mercurial spirits are said to rule the Tarot, a system of cards used to tell a person's future. Also, fate alone dictates our future, "Just sit back and recline, i'll guide you through the years", meaning that we should just 'sit back' and accept the future that fate deals us no matter what because we can not change it.
    Flag mouseyon September 10, 2002   Link
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    General Comment:the song is awsome..but its talking about the future.........yes jay gordon sings with Elijah in a couple songs!
    Flag deadsyluveron July 31, 2002   Link
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    General Comment:Note: The guy singing with P Exeter Blue I is Jay Gordon from the band Orgy.
    Flag PExeterBlueDon July 23, 2002   Link
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    General Comment:This song is an awesome song just like all of Deadsy's songs...
    Flag DeadsyRuleson July 08, 2002   Link

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