Andain - Beautiful Things: What does the lyrics mean?

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Posted by T_2199 on Oct-17-2003 22:05:

quote:
Originally posted by Mr.Mystery
That's the beauty of lyrics that you don't get an explanation for - they mean just what you want them to mean.

That�s the great thing about electronic music.

Posted by diffusion on Oct-17-2003 22:36:

quote:
Originally posted by Mr.Mystery
That's the beauty of lyrics that you don't get an explanation for - they mean just what you want them to mean.

I think that's art you're talking about.

And yes, suicide.

Posted by Shook1 on Oct-17-2003 23:44:

it kindas sounds to me that someone had something in their life that they adored dearly, but have been living w/o it for sometime and is still trying to fulfill the emptiness. Now it seems that they're realizing its time to move on & to stop dwelling on the past & focus on the beautiful things that CAN happen in the future without it!

Posted by Cobalt on Oct-17-2003 23:52:

I'm almost positive it's about a person who has just committed suicide and can't go back. She's reflecting on the fact that she forgot so many things she might see in life, but as the overdose takes effect or the blood drains without end she can't turn back.

This is the best fit for the lyrics that I've found, and it means very much to me. I'll go through a more explicit analysis of the lyrics sometime, but not right now.

Posted by Luke Terry on Oct-17-2003 23:54:

who does the andain vocals? they really are immense in beautiful things

c'est la tres beau

Posted by starstarman on Oct-18-2003 00:38:

quote:
Originally posted by whiskers
not really :-/

can you elaborate a bit more? i sense you have a very good point, but i fail to grasp it.

"Beautiful Things" - What is actually the "Beautiful Things" inside? e.g. One might feel the cerulean sky is beautiful, but another one might feel evil faces in a gothic town is beautiful.
[I forgot that I might see,
So many beautful things.
I forgot that i might need,
To find out what life could bring.]
When "beautiful things" is not an absolute optimistic term, "to find what life could bring" could be mysterious/psychotic.

From what I got, the first person in the lyrics did never actually "die" or "kill her/himself", but "she/he" is meaningless already because...

Try to imagine her situation now, her past and what's her point of her future from the words

[Take this happy ending away, it's all the same.]

Posted by Owen on Oct-18-2003 08:44:

http://www.andain.com

I believe Mavie Marcos done the vocals in this track.... i wonder what the lyrics would mean to her.... I wish there was someway of asking her...

Posted by Mr.Mystery on Oct-18-2003 08:48:

quote:
Originally posted by T_2199
That�s the great thing about electronic music.

Not just electronic music, I think it applies to any music with lyrics.

Posted by n0bben on Oct-18-2003 13:14:

gotta say, those are the best lyrics in a long time

Posted by Asperge on Oct-18-2003 17:02:

quote:
Originally posted by n0bben-
gotta say, those are the best lyrics in a long time

Have to agree with you, a trance vocal song with a message

Posted by ASOT100 on Oct-18-2003 20:41:

quote:
Originally posted by Mr.Mystery
Not just electronic music, I think it applies to any music with lyrics.

unless it's commercial cheeeeese

but yea, beautiful thing has so much depth

Posted by INDY on Oct-18-2003 21:05:

"i forgot, that i might see...so many beautiful things"
"i forgot , that i might need, to find out what life could bring"

omfg! these lyrics was such an inspiration to me when i was going thru a hard time in my life in the middle of this year!!!....i had the song on repeat for a whole day...just blasting my radio and me sitting there and just going thru life and what it is all about....and thru these lyrics with the beautiful voice of the lead singer of andain...compiled with the amazing production of gabriel and dresden...my mind opened up....inspired me to move on and see what other "beautiful things" life is offering me...

Posted by Trancer85 on Oct-19-2003 01:17:

Andain - Beautiful Things (Josh Gabriel Tech Mix) owns all other remixes because the tune is soo catchy.

Posted by Occasu on Oct-19-2003 03:13:

heh, it's kinda funny. I was coming home from a long day of work tonight, feeling a bit down. Then I look outside the window at the setting sun piercing through the grey clouds and think "wow beautiful". At that moment Andain - Beautiful Things pops into my head. Suddenly my mood changes for the better .

To me the meaning is to take the time from your ordinary routine to enjoy the simple pleasures of life. Whether it would be to pause just for a second to smell a flower, or enjoy a sunset etc.

This is the beautiful thing about this track, it means so many different things to different people, as all great art does .

Posted by djeternal on Oct-19-2003 03:37:

yeah...suicide...just on different lvls depending on the listener. could be anywhere from suicide of a fun life and falling into a pattern of work, eat, sleep...all the way up to literal suicide. u pick your meaning.

Posted by davedresden on Oct-19-2003 09:07:

there is no suicide in "beautiful things" only regret.

: )

- dave

Posted by Lover Boy on Oct-19-2003 11:35:

I believe this song is about her regrtting something she has done, not moved on from and her believing her only option is suicide.

"Got up early, found something's missing
My only name.
No one else sees but I got stuck,
And soon forever came."

That imo is about her losing her identity, she's been waiting to get oevr her regret but she never has.

"What's done is done, this life has got it's hold on me.
Just let it go, what now can never be."

Her regret is strangling her life away from her but she knows she can do noting to change it, she has to let go of the regret.

"I forgot that I might see,
So many beautful things.
I forgot that i might need,
To find out what life could bring."

She's been narrow minded with her regret that she forgot that life could be beautiful and different from what she is experiencing now.

"Take this happy ending away, it's all the same."

She can't see her life getting any better though no matter what.

"Now what do I do?
Can I change my mind?
Did I think things through?

It was once my life
It was my life at one time."

This last part of the vocals seems to imply she's about to take her own life imo. Can I change my mind about suicide? Did I plan everything for it properly? The last two lines strengthen my point. It was her life, it used to be her life hence it isn't anymore, there is no point her living as whatever happened has taken her will to live away and left her wanting only peace and escape from the regret which destroyed her life.

This is a brilliant piece of vocal work & brilliant lyrics, they're so deep and meaningful it makes such a change to hear somthing dealing with such strong negative feelings instead of your usual everyone is always hppy, the world is great shite you hear all the time.

Posted by djkeenetik on Oct-19-2003 13:58:

quote:
Originally posted by kr00t0n
suicide makes the most sense to me, and if it is, makes the track that much more moving

yeah i mean at the end it kinda sounds like shes dying from pain

Posted by Puuhis on Oct-19-2003 14:09:

quote:
Originally posted by Mr.Mystery
That's the beauty of lyrics that you don't get an explanation for - they mean just what you want them to mean.

Well spoken!

This song gives me such a positive feeling and I couldn't connect it to suicide before reading the lyrics and others comments. As said, it can have multiple meanings and what does this song means to me is not suicide, more like finding the joy of living again.

Posted by netw3rkd on Oct-19-2003 16:01:

it is a song about suicide, and regretting doing it..hence the 'i forgot that i might seeeeeee so manyyyyyy beautiful things'

kthx

Posted by Occasu on Oct-19-2003 18:53:

I don't agree about suicide. I do think (as others have said) Regret about her past. I think those last 2 lines has to do with a "death" of her past life and she has since moved on ready to enjoy the beautiful things life has to offer.

"It was once my life,
It was my life at one time."

simply states that is the way she used to be.

Well whatever the true meaning is behind the lyrics it is a kick ass song, that much I think can be agreed on .

Posted by whiskers on Oct-19-2003 18:58:

way to overanalyze it.

shall we write a communal essay? and maybe create a "lyrics discusson" club?

Posted by Zenchowdah on Oct-20-2003 02:47:

quote:
Originally posted by whiskers
way to overanalyze it.

shall we write a communal essay? and maybe create a "lyrics discusson" club?

essay? ill consider that a challenge.

Posted by Starfyre687 on Oct-20-2003 03:37:

I don't think it's about suicide... Though it could be taken as such. I think it's more along the lines of regret, and closing the mind to any possibility of redemption or happiness. It's losing that which makes one unique.

"Who am I this time, where's my name? I guess it crept away."

A name is what makes one unique from everything else. It creates the identity associated with everything else created by one's character and personality. It is what seperates the one from the many. Without a name, one just fades away.

"Take this happy ending away, it's all the same"

She doesn't believe that it matters whether she's happy or not. She thinks that it will all end the same: in misery and regret. No matter how things go, it will run full circle and end in the misery she is already in.

Well... that's my take, at least.

Posted by Dj Dreamer on Oct-20-2003 08:36:

Thanx alot all of u guys for ur thoughts. U helped me understand this song alot more.

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