Spending some time listening to Gojira's The Flesh Alive (double live DVD + live CD) (until I get my hands on their new album in a digipack version) and the track From The Sky especially.
There are many reasons to love this song: the deep and noisy riff beginning at 0:36, the epic growl beginning at 4:54... or the lyrics, perhaps? Either way, I found myself checking out what others are saying about it - songmeanings.com and Google debates search - and found out about all anyone says is it's about "Creation".
I have to object, I'm sorry. It's not so much the fact that this is only partially true, it's more that when shortening it that much you also give the song a religious connotation that I don't think it has. Remember: Gojira is an environmentalist band and From Mars to Sirius is a kind of thematic album about a journey from one world to another (better world).
Alright, the first verse is about something Creation-like. But come on, "sound... light... storm... time and space...". I'm thinking Big Bang rather than Creation here! Then...
"Forced to look to the sky
And wonder why
We cannot face the fact that
We're all scared now
Of mysteries of life"
Already I'm getting non- or even anti-religious images here. They could also simply be referring to somewhere else than here "on Mars". Then Gojira looks to biology for answers, right?...
"I go for a quest
I have to give myself the answer
Enter now this place in the wild"
Fast forward and I almost get an image from 2001: A Space Odyssey...
"Lost, I found there a stone
Erected in line
With one the brightest stars
Of all the night sky vault
And I took my time
Took off the moss
Washed away the dust
And gave a new lease of life
Its' mystical force
I grab it now
And praise this lord
Of earth and stone"
Remember: This is about some Gojira-persona on a journey from Mars (the planet of our system traditionally symbolizing masculinity and war) to Sirius (the brightest star in the night sky).
Simplifying this song to the degree of simply saying it's "about Creation" is wrong. In my opinion.
There are many reasons to love this song: the deep and noisy riff beginning at 0:36, the epic growl beginning at 4:54... or the lyrics, perhaps? Either way, I found myself checking out what others are saying about it - songmeanings.com and Google debates search - and found out about all anyone says is it's about "Creation".
I have to object, I'm sorry. It's not so much the fact that this is only partially true, it's more that when shortening it that much you also give the song a religious connotation that I don't think it has. Remember: Gojira is an environmentalist band and From Mars to Sirius is a kind of thematic album about a journey from one world to another (better world).
Alright, the first verse is about something Creation-like. But come on, "sound... light... storm... time and space...". I'm thinking Big Bang rather than Creation here! Then...
"Forced to look to the sky
And wonder why
We cannot face the fact that
We're all scared now
Of mysteries of life"
Already I'm getting non- or even anti-religious images here. They could also simply be referring to somewhere else than here "on Mars". Then Gojira looks to biology for answers, right?...
"I go for a quest
I have to give myself the answer
Enter now this place in the wild"
Fast forward and I almost get an image from 2001: A Space Odyssey...
"Lost, I found there a stone
Erected in line
With one the brightest stars
Of all the night sky vault
And I took my time
Took off the moss
Washed away the dust
And gave a new lease of life
Its' mystical force
I grab it now
And praise this lord
Of earth and stone"
Remember: This is about some Gojira-persona on a journey from Mars (the planet of our system traditionally symbolizing masculinity and war) to Sirius (the brightest star in the night sky).
Simplifying this song to the degree of simply saying it's "about Creation" is wrong. In my opinion.