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The song "This Is a Film" quotes a character from the novel Chevengur by a Russian writer Andrei Platonov: "He would show Zakhar Pavlovich the eyes of a dead fish and say, 'Look-there's wisdom! A fish stands between life and death, so that he's dumb and expressionless. I mean even a calf thinks, but a fish, no. It already knows everything".
The song is sung from the perspective of a man who has, temporarily, survived a mid-air collision.In his dying words, he describes in graphic detail what he remembered of the collision and his current condition: his arms have been severed, his co-pilot is already lifeless beside him, blood is rapidly leaving his body and pooling underneath him, and a paramedic indicates that no medical ...
Hazard (song) He Stopped Loving Her Today (He'll Never Be An) Ol' Man River; The Hearse Song; Heather's Wall; Heaven (Bryan Adams song) Heaven Can Wait (Michael Jackson song) Heaven Is a Halfpipe; Helena (My Chemical Romance song) Hello Central, Give Me Heaven; Here to Forever; Homura (song) Honey (Bobby Goldsboro song) How Can I Help You Say ...
Vier ernste Gesänge (Four Serious Songs), Op. 121, is a cycle of four songs for bass and piano by Johannes Brahms. As in his Ein deutsches Requiem , the texts are compiled from the Luther Bible . Three songs deal with death and the transience of life, while the fourth has an outlook of faith, hope and charity .
Here's a list of the best songs from the time, ranging from Toto to Michael Jackson. The 1980s produced chart-topping hits in pop, hip-hop, rock, and R&B. ... "Parents Just Don't Understand" by DJ ...
One of several songs that Bowie wrote about Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four; Bowie had also hoped to produce a televised musical based on the book. [31] "2112" 2112: Rush: Anthem: Ayn Rand: Song shares themes with the novel, such that Neil Peart recognized Rand in the album's liner notes. [32] "Abigail" Creatures: Motionless in White: The ...
According to psychobiographical critics Daghir and Al Masudi, "Mad Girl's Love Song" uses the recurring themes of darkness, light, and dreams to consider the divides between three realities: life, death, and dreams. [5] As the speaker closes her eyes and experiences darkness the world is said to "drop dead", while opening eyes is a rebirth. [5]
The song's lyrics center on experiencing life to its fullest, while also becoming a better person. Released in June 2004 as the lead single from the album, the song became an enormous success in the U.S. It spent seven weeks atop of the Billboard country music