blue grey Posted June 16, 2008 Share Posted June 16, 2008 This essay so resonates with Any Other World, sure many here will appreciate it: This sordid American drama, the one I am calling a Dark Age, will in all likelihood not be completed until well into this century or the next, with a slew of increasingly nasty episodes along the way. Everyone here in the hotel lounge will say goodbye to this world long before America says the Big Goodbye. Until then, we are left to play out the game day by day. That being the case, we should elect to play it out with the best among us, the ones on humanity's side, that hidden and unheralded aristocracy -- those quiet lamp lighters making their way through the deepening dusk of American civilization. E. M. Forster described them as, "Not an aristocracy of power, but an aristocracy of the sensitive, considerate and the plucky. Its members are to be found in all nations and classes and through the ages, and they know each other when they meet. ... Authority, seeing their value, tries to net them and to utilize them. ... But they slip through the net and are gone; when the door is shut they are no longer in the room; Their temple is the Holiness of the Heart's Imagination, and their kingdom, though they never possess it, is the wide open world." In this they are deathless. Like periwinkles. Joe Bageant, The Audacity of Depression Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keti Posted June 16, 2008 Share Posted June 16, 2008 This essay so resonates with Any Other World, sure many here will appreciate it: This sordid American drama, the one I am calling a Dark Age, will in all likelihood not be completed until well into this century or the next, with a slew of increasingly nasty episodes along the way. Everyone here in the hotel lounge will say goodbye to this world long before America says the Big Goodbye. Until then, we are left to play out the game day by day. That being the case, we should elect to play it out with the best among us, the ones on humanity's side, that hidden and unheralded aristocracy -- those quiet lamp lighters making their way through the deepening dusk of American civilization. E. M. Forster described them as, "Not an aristocracy of power, but an aristocracy of the sensitive, considerate and the plucky. Its members are to be found in all nations and classes and through the ages, and they know each other when they meet. ... Authority, seeing their value, tries to net them and to utilize them. ... But they slip through the net and are gone; when the door is shut they are no longer in the room; Their temple is the Holiness of the Heart's Imagination, and their kingdom, though they never possess it, is the wide open world." In this they are deathless. Like periwinkles. Joe Bageant, The Audacity of Depression This is really amazing...yes,it really resonates with "Any Other World"...the sentences I 'bolded' are the ones which are absolutely magnificent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DerMoment1608 Posted January 9, 2010 Share Posted January 9, 2010 Could someone help me with a line in "Any other world"? Does Mika sing "And let it all unfurl into broken remnants" or "And let it all unfurl into broken ruminants"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naectegale Posted January 9, 2010 Share Posted January 9, 2010 Could someone help me with a line in "Any other world"? Does Mika sing "And let it all unfurl into broken remnants" or "And let it all unfurl into broken ruminants"? Tht would be "remnants":thumb_yello: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DerMoment1608 Posted January 9, 2010 Share Posted January 9, 2010 Tht would be "remnants":thumb_yello: Well, in a literally meaning "ruminants" would make sense. Do you pronounce "remnants" "rem-a-nants"? Because I hear 3 syllables. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naectegale Posted January 9, 2010 Share Posted January 9, 2010 Well, in a literally meaning "ruminants" would make sense. Do you pronounce "remnants" "rem-a-nants"? Because I hear 3 syllables. "ruminants" are animals which have two stomachs and chew the cud - like cows, sheep, bison, gnu and yaks. "Remnants" has two syllables when spoken, but Mika does seem to separate the m and n so that you hear an extra one - that's what I've always assumed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christine Posted January 9, 2010 Share Posted January 9, 2010 Do you pronounce "remnants" "rem-a-nants"? Because I hear 3 syllables. This adding of extra syllables is typical in Mika's phrasing. He does it a lot in Good Gone Girl too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mika4Life13 Posted January 9, 2010 Share Posted January 9, 2010 This adding of extra syllables is typical in Mika's phrasing. He does it a lot in Good Gone Girl too. It's a cruuu-eee-lll cross that i have to bear. /toyboy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fmbm Posted January 9, 2010 Share Posted January 9, 2010 It's a cruuu-eee-lll cross that i have to bear. /toyboy. That is what I would call "skill." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
racinghorse83 Posted January 10, 2010 Share Posted January 10, 2010 is this seriously any other words thread? why is it so short? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mika4Life13 Posted January 10, 2010 Share Posted January 10, 2010 is this seriously any other words thread? why is it so short? Seeing as it was created in 2008 and not 2007, it deffinitely isn't <I hope> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yuna Posted March 16, 2010 Share Posted March 16, 2010 is this seriously any other words thread? why is it so short? cant believe only 10 posts are here AOW lyrics are the hardest to understand for me.....totally unable to translate it...hardest of all Mika Songs..!!! seems like it has many hidden stories... hidden meanings.. Cannot even understand basic things... the singer keep saying 'Say goodbye to the world you thought to lived in'... but what's the 'world' that he want to say goodbye exactly?? plz help... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CazGirl Posted March 16, 2010 Share Posted March 16, 2010 cant believe only 10 posts are here AOW lyrics are the hardest to understand for me.....totally unable to translate it...hardest of all Mika Songs..!!! seems like it has many hidden stories... hidden meanings.. Cannot even understand basic things... the singer keep saying 'Say goodbye to the world you thought to lived in'... but what's the 'world' that he want to say goodbye exactly?? plz help... I see it as letting go (or saying goodbye) of what you thought you had, what you thought was there. For example, people might have had happy lives, happy where they lived etc...and then a war started so they had to go. They had to say goodbye to the world they thought they lived in, because it changed or it wasn't what it seemed. Make sense? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yuna Posted March 16, 2010 Share Posted March 16, 2010 I see it as letting go (or saying goodbye) of what you thought you had, what you thought was there. For example, people might have had happy lives, happy where they lived etc...and then a war started so they had to go. They had to say goodbye to the world they thought they lived in, because it changed or it wasn't what it seemed. Make sense? well...why 'thought' they lived in? not really lived in there but imagined or considered to live in there? owwwww and can you plz tell me who is the speaker in that lyrics? Mika himself or other woman(the narrator at the end of the song) .. and who is the bitter man? Mika himself or the woman's ex husband? sounds like.........oww such a stupid I am.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CazGirl Posted March 16, 2010 Share Posted March 16, 2010 well...why 'thought' they lived in? not really lived in there but imagined or considered to live in there? owwwww and can you plz tell me who is the speaker in that lyrics? Mika himself or other woman(the narrator at the end of the song) .. and who is the bitter man? Mika himself or the woman's ex husband? sounds like.........oww such a stupid I am.... Well they thought they lived in a nice place, I guess. (place can be environmentally, emotionally, mentally...) But things happened, and it all got tarnished. It was ruined. The speaker is a woman called Raffa (Not entirely sure of the spelling) who is a Lebanese lady. Basically she was about to get married but her fiancé left her for another woman at the last minute, and then a month later in Lebanon a bomb hit her place and she lost one of her eyes. "Cos it's all in the hands of a bitter, bitter man...say goodbye to the world you thought you lived in." I saw the "man" as someone who was in charge of the war, the one who was ruining people's lives for his own selfish pleasure, or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yuna Posted March 16, 2010 Share Posted March 16, 2010 Well they thought they lived in a nice place, I guess. (place can be environmentally, emotionally, mentally...) But things happened, and it all got tarnished. It was ruined. The speaker is a woman called Raffa (Not entirely sure of the spelling) who is a Lebanese lady. Basically she was about to get married but her fiancé left her for another woman at the last minute, and then a month later in Lebanon a bomb hit her place and she lost one of her eyes. "Cos it's all in the hands of a bitter, bitter man...say goodbye to the world you thought you lived in." I saw the "man" as someone who was in charge of the war, the one who was ruining people's lives for his own selfish pleasure, or something. Ohh I see so she moved to London (or paris? I don't know the story exactly ) and the new place is the 'Any other world' then, trying to get all over bad memories ..? so many questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christine Posted March 16, 2010 Share Posted March 16, 2010 Yuna they are not stupid questions. Honestly if he hadn't told the story of Raffa in the war I wouldn't have the first clue what this song was about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soaring Simpson Posted March 16, 2010 Share Posted March 16, 2010 I don't think they had organised lyrics threads in 2007- I think Christine said. So this might as well be it now, I've been wanting to talk about LICM lyrics for ages Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Create an account or sign in to comment
You need to be a member in order to leave a comment
Create an account
Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!
Register a new accountSign in
Already have an account? Sign in here.
Sign In Now