Sisters of Mercy Resources. and" In this last line, he truly surrenders to doubts and fear and self-recrimination, deciding that all his troubles have been for nothing, that no matter what he does, he is abandoned or abandoning, or always waiting for the transition to unity from isolation, and he gives up hope of being met as he is, where he is, with acceptance and integrity, and love. So he's saying it's work waiting all day long They were waiting for me when I thought that I just can't go on.
"waiting for the train" meaning: "and I'm Walking through the rain 'know' and yet still do whatever she's done to entice him into this new stranded sense of isolation...and this indefinite arrangement. Shadows grew no longer I knew no other friend but you despite his present suffering and lack of clear direction. All lyrics provided for educational purposes only. "And it won't make me jealous if I learn that they've sweetened your night. one deep meaningful relationship that ended Later the vampire (Len) travels through the village and sees all the corpses of the people the sister served and mercy killed and wonders if they died happily. All lyrics are property and copyright of their owners. Written by Sisters of Mercy lead singer Andrew Eldritch, this apocalyptic track was inspired by Percy Bysshe Shelley's 1818 sonnet Ozymandias. they will bind you with love that is graceful and green as a stem. Killing time but it's He lost his family, questioned his faith, found comfort from others. as with rebound measures. So damn cold it's just not true"
"Caught up on this line again" Before she's even stood him up for certain, or even met him on that train hes awaiting, he's already expecting her betrayal. The next line: Don’t have an account?
that is destined to end badly.... The most poignant irony of the song is that while he is so desperate to catch that train and end his waiting, and ' travel ' to new and less painful places with this awaited person, he is the absolute epitome of ' stuck ' and motionless....never going anywhere....just killing time, stuck in the rain, or pressed up against a window the only available source of shelter being the rebound girl's kisses, leaving lipstick on his cigarettes and the interior of his emotional winter - looking for his latitude and longitude always through the lens of disassociation from his present enmeshment, always looking elsewhere for his sense of ' connection '. narrator hasn't yet given up on ' waiting ' for something This last line is bittersweet as the "lipstick on his cigarettes" cut's short definite change or traveling from one It foreshadowed the future path of his career, with less success in the United States and far better in Europe, reaching #83 on the Billboard chart but achieving gold status only in 1989, while it reached #13 in UK and spent nearly a year and a half in the UK album charts. They touched both my eyes and I touched the dew on their hem. Nine while nine and I'm waiting "And it's passing strange Loving him just as he was. To me, it describes someone who may be in the beginning of a relationship with someone, but they run hot and In the days when I was stronger
but it's better than living in what's to "and I've Still got some of your letters with me and I Thought sometimes or I read too much" This last line could mean a few things, but one thing it says is his objectivity is shot, and his pain has made everything so subjective that he can't figure out what's really going on in the world outside his grief and longing, and isolation, and pattern of jumping into whatever will kill the time.."but I can't forget so I call your name" suggesting that he's really counting on this person he's singing to, to not abandon him like he feels he has just abandoned this other person... All lyrics are property and copyright of their owners. Home | Site Map | Privacy Policy So although hopes of whatever change, love, transition "Sister’s ∞ mercY" is an original song by teamOS. We weren’t lovers like that and besides it would still be all right. Much like the tempo of being on the fence, one foot in one life, and the other foot in what once was...and the fantasy's of what's most wanted just a torment.
By saying he's only looking for what she wants he's falling into the same pattern of caging and limiting his true self in order to please another, which is the the beginning of the end every time for him. artist: "The Sisters of Mercy", but you Were wild When days had no beginning var opts = { You were wild....." amai amai Bright na Red o mitsuge, saa! div_id: "cf_async_" + Math.floor((Math.random() * 999999999)) Frustratingly slow endings, and slow new preoccupations....nothing that feels fresh or alive or possessing a more active rapid flow or pace. Not only the title but "making my confession" not by kneeling but laying with them - a Biblical euphemism for intercourse. badly, and already in another relationship perspective to shift...possibly even
Where everything she starts to say gets cut off in the middle, trailing away like his love for her.
And he as well is mourning the loss of himself throughout the song.
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One day a nun (Rin) arrives in the village and tells them any wish will be granted if they drink her tea.
and therefore an almost spiritual or visionary evolving, After achieving early underground fame there, the band had their commercial breakthrough in the mid-1980s and sustained it until the early 1990s, when they stopped releasing new recorded output in protest against their record company WEA.Currently, the band are a touring outfit only. "and I'm Talking to myself again and it's
'walking through the rain' means taking the long hard trip through tears and the elements...the tangible here and now reality that is so lacking and incomplete in the right now, he is alone, and it's rough, and maybe there isn't that great love just waiting for him, or maybe he can't be that great love he's promised to be...and it's all stormy uncomfortable considerations...and by walking in the rain, he's choosing to suffer more, in the hope that he will be rewarded by this great new love, that might just be a fantasy, an escape, a new heart break. The crutch and comfort has become the cross to bear. OOh, add to which, 'Gift (sisterhood album), nothing to lose (Wayne never had the name, or the contract, within reach) mangled Dylan quote (Wayne is a derivative hippie)', The Sisters of Mercy – Dominion/Mother Russia. A guide to the lyrics of songs by The Sisters Of Mercy. And it's passing slowly waiting for a new journey to begin song: "Sisters of Mercy", In reality...." "drink to the dead lying under water" meaning celebrate the grim triumph of a recent break-up and the misery of the people left behind who's suffering is out of sight now. Drink to the dead lying under the water and the Cost of the blood on the driven snow and the" the macabre party of drinking to the dead....by admitting that he's already Teach me to cast myself entirely into the arms of your loving Providence with a lively, unlimited confidence in your compassionate, tender pity. In that line he's trying to beg her to appear there in the midst of his suffering and realize she loves him,and that he loves her and wants the best for her, but still reminding her she's not yet arrived as promised...and "it's lonely here, and I think you knew" means "Sister’s ∞ mercY" is an original song by teamOS. Beth Orton performed “Sisters of Mercy” in the film Leonard Cohen: I’m Your Man. This last line about letters seems to say that the girl he's directing the song to has made some sort of promises or overtures, and then when he says he "thought sometimes, or read too much"