Warehouse parrallels

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Postby Phaze » Mon Nov 01, 2004 7:16 pm

Dave Matthews Band is the best thing to ever happen to music. It should be obvious I'm a fan of them, I've made numerous references to them in my posts.

Anyway, while listening to the song "Warehouse," I realized how many parrallels the lyrics seemed to have to Evangelion. If not a bit more optimistic then Evangelion ever got.

Read the lyrics, see if you can see the similarities. You may not spot them at first, but as the song continues, it should become pretty obvious, if you look at the song on a metaphorical level. Particularly the ending, which I could easily compare to that of End of Evangelion's ending. I'll post my own interpretation after I get some comments. Anyone else is also welcome to post their interpretations.

See I'm leaving
This warehouse frightens me
Has me tied up in knots
Can't rest for a moment
Soon I'm going I'm slippin' slow away
Hoping to find something better than
I've got inside of here
The warehouse slips away
Hey reckless mind
Don't throw away your playful beginnings
You and I will fumble around in the touches
And be sure to
Leave all the lights on
So we can see the black cat changing colors
And we can walk under the ladders
And swim as the tide turns you around and around
Hey we have found
Becoming one in a million
Slip into the crowd
This question if found in a gap in the sidewalk
Keep all your sights on
The the black cat changing colors
And you can walk under ladders
And swim as the tide choose to turn you
And here is it
Life goes on, end of tunnel, tv set
Spot in the middle
State fade, statistical bit
And soon I'll fade away, I'll fade away
This I admit
Taste so good, hard to believe an end to it
Smell touch feel
How could this rhythm ever quit
Bags packed on a plane
Hopefully to heaven
Shut up I'm thinking
I had a clue now it's gone forever
Sitting over these bones
You can read in whatever you're needing to
Keep all your sights on
Yeah man, the black cat
Changing colors
When it's not the colors that matter
But that they'll all fade away
This I admit
Seems so good
Hard to believe an end to it
Warehouse is bare
Nothing at all inside of it
Walls and halls have disappeared
My love I love to stay here
My love I love to stay here
In a corner was wondering
If a change could be better than this
And then I worry
Maybe things won't be better than they have been
Here in the warehouse
At the warehouse
How I love to stay here
At the warehouse
Every man and woman
Get alive
That's our blood down there
Seems poured from the hands of angels
But trickle into the ground
Leaves the warehouse bare and empty
My heart's numbered beat
Still echoe in this empty room
Fear wells in me
But nothing seems enough to defend
So I am going away

To anyone who hasn't heard Warehouse, I recommend it. It's a good song.
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Postby sadsadshinji » Mon Nov 01, 2004 7:24 pm

hmmm...it does seem somewhat related to eva...its funny how we draw everything to eva now...

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Postby Dark FireStar » Tue Nov 02, 2004 2:34 pm

Yeah I guess it has some Eva simulatry......But anything can be related to Eva now-a-days.
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Postby coff » Tue Nov 02, 2004 3:58 pm

Hmm, I'm not seeing a whole lot of parallels. It seems pretty generic to me.

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Postby Dark FireStar » Tue Nov 02, 2004 4:49 pm

Aww come on Coff I was trying to hurt his feelings!! :evil: LOL
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Postby the_seventh_child » Wed Nov 03, 2004 6:24 am

Dark FireStar wrote:Aww come on Coff I was trying to hurt his feelings!! :evil: LOL

:?:

anyway..i don't see a lot of parallels too.."Chop Suey"has more for example...
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Postby Dark FireStar » Wed Nov 03, 2004 2:31 pm

the_seventh_child wrote:
Dark FireStar wrote:Aww come on Coff I was trying to hurt his feelings!! :evil: LOL

:?:

anyway..i don't see a lot of parallels too.."Chop Suey"has more for example...


"Chop suey"?? :?
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Postby the_seventh_child » Wed Nov 03, 2004 2:48 pm

Dark FireStar wrote:
"Chop suey"?? :?

yeah,one of the most famous songs of System Of A Down!!!don't you know it?
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Postby Dark FireStar » Wed Nov 03, 2004 2:56 pm

I know the songs but not the titles (lyrics lady I need lyrics!). The only band I bother to know the titles of the songs of is Likin Park.
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Postby the_seventh_child » Wed Nov 03, 2004 3:01 pm

Dark FireStar wrote:I know the songs but not the titles (lyrics lady I need lyrics!). The only band I bother to know the titles of the songs of is Likin Park.

alright i'll pm you the lyrics cause we're going off topic so badly...
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Postby Dark FireStar » Wed Nov 03, 2004 3:06 pm

Dont we always? LOL
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Postby coff » Wed Nov 03, 2004 10:20 pm

I wasn't trying to hurt his feelings either, just being honest. I don't think Phaze is so sensitive that me disagreeing with him would hurt his feelings anyway.

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Postby Olin of Xephon » Thu Nov 04, 2004 2:00 pm

Evangelion is about the human mind, thus when I hear a song talking about human feelings and struggles (which what most of them are about) something clicks in my head and I'm thinking about Evangelion all over again.

There are so many songs that put me in mind of Evangelion, it's getting pretty bizarre!

Good, catch Seventh!

System of a Down's Chop suey has a refrian that goes "I, Cry, When Angels Deserve to Die!" Instant Evangelion connection.

The song also has Jesus's famous words to his father while on the cross.
"Father! FATHER! Why have you forsaken me? In you eyes forsaken me?"

And everything about Christianity (or Judaism) remind me of Evangelion now.

Oh my God! Anno has reconditioned my mind!
I asked "And where would you take me?"
At this the beast laughed, tears made of my mother's blood leaked from his eyes.
"I will take you to every place you never wanted to be, and you will hate it."
"Then I will take you to every place you've already been, and you will hate that also."
"Last I will take you to the places you have always dreamed of, and that you'll hate worst of all."

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Postby Dark FireStar » Thu Nov 04, 2004 3:21 pm

I think "Numb" by Likin Park is a good one also. :wink:
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Postby the_seventh_child » Thu Nov 04, 2004 4:01 pm

Olin of Xephon wrote:Good, catch Seventh!

System of a Down's Chop suey has a refrian that goes "I, Cry, When Angels Deserve to Die!" Instant Evangelion connection.

The song also has Jesus's famous words to his father while on the cross.
"Father! FATHER! Why have you forsaken me? In you eyes forsaken me?"

And everything about Christianity (or Judaism) remind me of Evangelion now.

Oh my God! Anno has reconditioned my mind!

yeah exactly..maybe SOAD watched Eva and decided to write a song about it..if you see the lyrics it's like it's written about it..you never know..

and i have not noticed about the "father"part on the song..good thought Olin..
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Postby Dark FireStar » Thu Nov 04, 2004 4:06 pm

the_seventh_child wrote:
Olin of Xephon wrote:Good, catch Seventh!

System of a Down's Chop suey has a refrian that goes "I, Cry, When Angels Deserve to Die!" Instant Evangelion connection.

The song also has Jesus's famous words to his father while on the cross.
"Father! FATHER! Why have you forsaken me? In you eyes forsaken me?"

And everything about Christianity (or Judaism) remind me of Evangelion now.

Oh my God! Anno has reconditioned my mind!

yeah exactly..maybe SOAD watched Eva and decided to write a song about it..if you see the lyrics it's like it's written about it..you never know..

and i have not noticed about the "father"part on the song..good thought Olin..


How did you froget that part? Its like one of the biggest bible quotes in the....... bible!
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Postby Dave » Thu Nov 04, 2004 7:18 pm

Olin of Xephon wrote:And everything about Christianity (or Judaism) remind me of Evangelion now.

Oh my God! Anno has reconditioned my mind!


Welcome to the club. I can't even read the bible without thinking, "...so where's Tabris?".
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Postby Hexon.Arq » Thu Nov 04, 2004 7:34 pm

VIRTUALLY ANY SONG CAN BE RELATED TO EVA (.) <---period

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Postby Dave » Thu Nov 04, 2004 9:17 pm

Hexon.Arq wrote:VIRTUALLY ANY SONG CAN BE RELATED TO ANYTHING (.) <---period


Bolded for accuracy. We all know this Hexon, but some songs seem to have more in common with Evangelion than others.
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Postby Phaze » Thu Nov 04, 2004 10:28 pm

VIRTUALLY ANY SONG CAN BE RELATED TO ANYTHING (.) <---period

Virtually anything can be related to anything, that is not the point here.
The song I posted, basically, is about humanity's struggles to overcome obstacles, told by leading us through one person's life. Perhaps I'm looking to hard, probably not, considering I heard the connections just by listening to the song, not studying the lyrics intently, but if I am, it's because Evangelion explores much of the same issues as the song, not because my mind has been warped by Evangelion.

This wan't a serious discussion, that's why I posted it in the "Chit-Chat" section.
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