Hi all, thanks so very much for all your comments/feedback. Much appreciated.
At this present time the song has been listened to 2293 times on myspace, streamed 735 times on Napster and an indetrminate amount of times on several other sites (accounting systems for them doesn't come through just yet).
The video has been viewed 301 times for version 2 (which is the version I linked you all to) and 126 views on version 1 which was a different edit - now removed because of quality/edit issues. Generally the feedback is highly positive. Only 2 people (Paravion here and someone else on Facebook) made any remarks that would be considered 'Rude' as such, but I sincerely hold no ill feelings towards either...
As I think I said in my original post - this song isn't really expressive of my bands overall sound, I'll try and get some audio of our original style for you to listen to and that would allow a fairer assessment of the band. Much of the material we use now is much more 'mainstream', but it is still within the identity of the band and seems to have been a natural progression for our writing.
We have spent 2 years re-evaluating, rewriting and reducing our sound. Our producer often comments on the epic scale of our tracks and many of them were of a length that was sometimes unbearable. 'Rapture' is one of our first songs that bridges the gap between our old and new format. It has a structure of Verse to Pre Chorus to Chorus, much more in line with commercial sounds.
The song can be interpreted in a few different ways:
- A song about 2 people falling in love at first sight 5 minutes before the end of the world and trying to make the best of it.
- A song about the end of a relationship.
- A song about a death.
Paravion, you commented on some of the lyrics - allow me to explain:
Mentioning about 'Waiting for the sun to fall down' and commenting that 'Sun set' would be much more approachable - writing the song, I felt that the sun falling down would be a much more sudden and unnatural event than the gradual sunset which seems to include the possibilty of a sunrise... The general tone of the song I want to achieve is that the centre of someones universe is coming crashing down without hope. A sunset, I feel, would be more cliche and loses poetic potential as it is a commonly used phrase. Imagine if Shakespeare wrote 'Should I?' instead of 'To be or not to be?' - I'm sure his work would have not been as thought provoking...
'Fading like the light, faster than the speed of night' - is just a play on the two phrases that it derives from. Night doesn't fall fast at all, it's just saying that 'darkness' (as an ending or finality) is occurring much faster than it should be...
'Just a little bit, one more little bit, just a little bit more life' is just what is known as a 'Hook' in writing terms... It's one of those little bits of a song that stick in your head because it is repeated so often, though typically the 'hook' tends to be the chorus of a song when it is placed at the start of a song. I'm just gratified that whenever people meet up with me - that's the part of the song that they sing at me.
As for mentioning that the sun is an entity which is incapable of 'falling' - you may wish to re-evaluate that thought... ALL gravitational and attractional effect is based on the idea of 'Falling'. The Moons orbit around the Earth is actually described as a fall, as the Earth around the Sun is a all too. The Sun 'Falls' around the gravitational centre of the galaxy and so on... BUT - it's my brother that is an Astronomer, I studied Psychology instead and I only understand it from it's most popular sense.
Thank you all so very much though, I will check out some other posts here cos I like a bit of Floyd and Dream Theater.
You all seem very nice (even you Paravion)
Regards,
Mark & Elysium
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