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AENT - the concept album

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afterimage	AENT - the concept album	Lead	[-]
Space Saviour Posts: 2448 (04/17/2002 16:37) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Tags : None Remove this ad Now I just want to toss some ideas about regarding AENT and the meanings of the songs... for some reason these thoughts just won't leave me alone, so if I put them down her for you all to rummage through and comment on, then maybe I can rest easy. Over the course of the last few days, I noticed a few little connections between songs on AENT and was wondering if anyone else had noticed these or knew of others. I normally don't worry about song meanings too much, I just put my own meanings in them and if they fit with what the band had in mind then thats a bonus!! To begin with, I know the album is about death and loss, that much has been given through interviews... 1. Numbers - a war?? 2. After Everything - a man dies and realises what his life has come down to. 3. The Awful Ache - a women deals with the death of her partner. So this is what I am going with... is it a narrative of a man's death and then in "The Awful Ache", we hear from the other side of the story, where the woman is facing life without that same man? The other thing I noted is that in "After Everything" there is a line about "here comes the train to take you away, it all goes round and round and goes back to the start" then I thought about "Invisible" having the train noise in the background. Could this be a link? Is this the same train bringing the man round to his new reincarnation? If anyone else has pieces to this puzzle... please help me!! And yes, it could all just be coincidence... *Amanda
Altres	Re: AENT - the concept album	#1	[-]
Faith Healer Space Saviour Posts: 1857 (04/17/2002 17:42) Faith Healer Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I too have been filling my head with "candy" tonight Amanda and feel night friends is about linking with those beings in the next room. You know the scenario, "when you are day, and your partner is night, rejoice and make love at dawn and dusk". Alt
afterimage	Re: AENT - the concept album	#2	[-]
Space Saviour Posts: 2448 (04/17/2002 18:47) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	"Numbers" begins with the lyrics, "your one and only life, ripped from the earth with these bare hands" Which is death... so the story begins with the person actually dying? Are the numbers recounting his last moments? Did our hero die in a war/battle? I need to give "Night Friends" a really good listen, but my intuition tells me its about ghosts and crossing over... is this what you mean about "other room", Brian? And then that breathing in "Invisible" is that heading to the rebirth in a new life? More questions... *Amanda
Svencha	Re: AENT - the concept album	#3	[-]
Posts: 27 (04/18/2002 05:15) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Remove this ad I bonded instantly with Night Friends. I feel its a song about mourning, a lonely, wounded soul seeking refuge in darkness with only his mystical night friends for company. Perhaps willing a deceased partner or friend to reappear from the gloom? Its definitely otherworldly, cyclic maybe indicative of reincarnation as Amanda suggests with After Everything. Chromium decadence, superficiality, social decay amongst luxurious trappings Faded memories Songs to sing to when you were young Its a very atmospheric, emotive piece of music which fits well with the death/loss theme of other songs but on a social level. Similar to Radiance in that it seems to be a social observation/comment unlike the other songs, which seem more personal. As to whether the songs fit together it would be amazing to discover a link. Itll take some more concentrated listening from me to discover it however! Malcolm
Resonator	of circuses,curtains, gardens and trains	#4	[-]
Columbus Posts: 814 (04/21/2002 22:12) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Alt, that sounds like Ladyhawke. 'pull on your shoes,' AE, pull on a shoe, She Never Said as Boyde pointed out. and yeah, Amanda, here comes the train (invisible) to take you away...... i think of Authority, where the curtain comes down (Under the Milkway) the circus leaves town (Metropolis) leaves begin to fall ( Kings), as a reflection of sorts on the prior 3 albums to SA, but maybe i am a wee bit too engrossed. maybe it's just a circus, curtain, garden, train type of lyrical palette. I wonder, yes, I really do sometimes. And how exactly does Naomi call down the crows ? oops, that's another pulls on her shoes, reference....should i cut and paste this to the recycled lyrics thread ? ah, there's muddy shoes outside the door' $:\$
cjnoyes		#5	[-]
Maven Posts: 38 (08/21/2009 20:46) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	afterimage wrote: 2. After Everything - a man dies and realises what his life has come down to. 3. The Awful Ache - a women deals with the death of her partner. After Everything to me is a Performer feels like a fraud, and has stage fright Awful Ache, A woman is suffering with relationships and her only way of understanding it is the crucifixion
fandorin		#6	[-]
Posts: 5900 (08/22/2009 03:09) Faith Healer Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Remove this ad > After Everything to me is a Performer feels like a fraud, and has stage fright i think After Everything is about Gordon Ramsay's way of preparing pea soup ...because strange is what we need The Fandorin Foto Files

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