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 Post subject: Amity lyrics
PostPosted: 02 Apr 2008, 14:27 
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i always think the lyrics in Amity seem to be about euthanasia. but they could be about anything.

does anyone know what the lyrics where acutally written about or does anyone have their own ideas about it?

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 Post subject: Re: Amity lyrics
PostPosted: 03 Apr 2008, 05:54 
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Mmmm i remember it is about a solitaire , shy guy , not too fast. "in search and need of a friend"

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 Post subject: Re: Amity lyrics
PostPosted: 04 May 2008, 18:10 
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I have no idea where I put my message!!

BUt I just saw a Duch tv programm 'House Vision' and they played a song from TG 'Amity'! Really, how cool is that!! I got goosebumps ALL OVER!! It almost started me to cry,not that it was on a tv programm, but that song is like beyond amazing!! :flower:

Well, that's it!! I wanted this to share with you guys haha :green:

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PostPosted: 05 May 2008, 18:22 
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jajaj, that's great Mariska, I completly understand your enthusiasm.

And about the lyrics, I dunno, I'll study this song and I'll write here my interpretation, ok?


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 Post subject: Re: Amity lyrics
PostPosted: 06 May 2008, 16:24 
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Oh yeah Mariska, I saw that too! It was great, I don't even remember what the guy said at that moment haha. It was mean to play such a small part though, I wanted more! :)

But to Neil27, here's a quote from Anneke about the meaning of the Amity lyrics:
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A lonesome boy is craving for a social life but for him that is very difficult because he is not smart and not very fast. The world is going too fast for him. He decides to accomplish a social life on his own way but finds out that life is hard and that he has to go trough it.


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 Post subject: Re: Amity lyrics
PostPosted: 08 May 2008, 20:17 
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I had never thought about euthanasia for this particular one, but it's an interesting interpretation.
I always took it as the cry of someone desperate, withdrawing into oneself, unable to bear what's outside (while euthanasia would rather be about what's inside), when everything, every contact, is painful and the mark of failure. And it is so tragic and sad because he's a sensitive being and being made so much more with all the monolith of pression falling on him. It's one of the crushing pieces by TG (with Jelena and A Noise Severe as the other most obvious examples, would be interesting to make comparisons), and certainly one of the saddest. It's a vague interpretation and it doesn't work so well with every part, I take it as a general feeling, almost near mood.
Unfortunately for the euthanasia perspective, amity means friendship and it works the best with a dashed one (with the shy person alone and hurt and depressed).

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PostPosted: 14 May 2008, 16:56 
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Thanks for that quote Kim. Thats what it is most probably about, still i cant help feeling they could easily be about euthanasia and acceptance/bowing down of death or a loved ones choice of death over suffering/floating. "I lay in the hands of my maker" could mean dying a completely natural death.

although... i am completely over analyzing it and i am probably way off.



You heed the glance of a smile
Was it impossible to float for a while?

Restless is carrying fever
burning you to pieces
In search and need of a friend
Will I bow down to this in the end?

I lay in the hands of my maker
and I want to spend the rest of it awake
Why do I get the feeling they'll brake it
It's a fight...it's a fight...

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PostPosted: 19 May 2009, 22:07 
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Something else about this song, has anyone of you noticed the synchronic whispering voice?!?

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