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Rating: The irresolution in the face of the inexorable, the power that can never again become action: this is what makes us fragile in the face of death. Listening to Dreaming Neon Black means plunging into the most intimate pain: that of the suicide of a loved one. Anger, disbelief, and frustration—this is what you find in this concept album, considered by many one of the most important in recent years. The intro makes your heart leap into your throat, takes your breath away, and "Beyond Within" with its load of rage is a liberation... "welcome to the end my friend, The world is black, no turning..." "The Death of Passion" follows: loneliness makes its way into the soul and the sense of emptiness and helplessness of those faced with the death of a loved one "paralyzes" them... then arises the desire to end it all "I sit here waiting for the world to end but it never ends".
These are direct and painful words, like a stab to the heart, alternating with beautifully hermetic verses found in the stunning title track... a magnificent guitar riff accompanies the most intimate and desperate thoughts "Sometimes when I'm alone I still feel you... Your breath on my neck, you're still with me... And I'm still dreaming neon black... I wait for you, to taste your unknown world... The clock spins to time that must mean nothing" questions crowd the mind and heart, impressions increasingly lean towards desires and a female voice materializes " I am a child of light living in your mind... The pain, the unknowing washes away in time... Until then will you meet me whenever I call to you?" A truly poignant text and a passionate performance make this song the most successful of the entire album.
"Deconstruction" represents the fall of ideals, a deep accusation that spares no one, not even "God." Technically complex, it alternates rhythms and sounds, with notable splendid guitar solos. In "The Lotus Eater," Nevermore questions life, death, but above all the incurability of human suffering, awareness from which the title derives. A uniquely beautiful arpeggio opens "No More Will," incurably aching, Warrel Dane's voice once again interprets with great passion a song that, strong also of the emotional transport suggested by the music, sounds like a last cry of despair. "Forever" closes, and it is impossible not to be moved by such awareness "I know you’re dreaming, I know you’re at peace"
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
02 Beyond Within (05:13)
"Welcome to the fall"
Welcome millennium, the fall of planet hate
Welcome the end my friend, all the world's the stage
Welcome to the future, the world is black no turning
From the consequence of ignorance
Welcome to the fall
Beyond within, enact, enable
Create the past, non-existent fables
Welcome to the fall
Tension, delirium, drowing everyday
Another suicide shocks the world again, I watch in apathy
Bleed until tomorrow, whosoever does not believe in me
Welcome to the fall
Beyond within, enact, enable
Create the past, non-existent fables
Welcome to the fall
Can I bring you down again, can I make you feel?
Can I lift you up into the dreaming trip sureal?
Can I taste the future shock, spit out all the games?
Do you know my name, do you know my number?
Cracking under strange constrictions, Mr. Ordinary Visionary
[solo T.C.]
[solo J.L.]
Welcome millennium, the fall of planet hate
Welcome the end my friend, all the world's the stage
Welcome to the future, the world is black no turning
From the consequence of ignorance
Beyond within, enact, enable
Create the past, nonexistent fables
Beyond within, enact, enable
Create the past, nonexistent fables
Welcome to the fall of one man's sanity
04 I Am the Dog (04:15)
The darkwave came again last night.
I want it all to end, I want the world to end
Every night the dream is the same
I sit here waiting for the world to end but it never ends
And everything I used to be has spiraled into insanity
Every night I sweat and bleed in her name
The darkwave comes, sanity slips away
She screams from the alcove I am the dog
She was born in the year of the dog
She never would betray the world I never saw
Blinded eyes that never see shattered into infinity
Every night the dream is the same
The darkwave comes, sanity slips away
She screams from the alcove I am the dog
Every night the dream is the same
I suffer wading through the endless waves of empty disdain
And everything I used to be has spiraled into insanity
Every night I sweat and bleed in her name
The darkwave comes, sanity slips away
She screams from the alcove
The darkwave comes, sanity slips away
She screams from the alcove "I am the dog
05 Dreaming Neon Black (06:28)
Again it poured over me in waves.
When she left with them she said I must
break free from the dark. I tried to tell her
of their poison, she chose not to hear.
She was never seen again"
Sometimes when I'm alone I still feel you
Your breath on my neck, you're still with me
And I'm still dreaming neon black
I wait for you, to taste your unknown world
The clock spins to time that must mean nothing
Meet me in the dreamtime water, drown
Shifting shaping currents flow in memory
swim through me
Meet me in the drowning pool of tears
And wash away my innocence and fear
Sometimes I wonder where you are, can you feel my tears?
I never knew what changed you
Did they paint your dreams in pale shades?
I wait for you, you know you cannot hide
Division from within invalidates suffering
Meet me in the dreamtime water, drown
Shifting shaping currents flow in memory
swim through me
Meet me in the drowning pool of tears
And wash away my innocence
I am a child of light living in your mind
The pain, the unknowing washes away in time
Until then will you meet me whenever I call to you?
I am a child of light living in your mind
The pain, the unknowing washes away in time
Until then will you meet me whenever I call to you?
Meet me in the dreamtime water, drown
Shifting shaping currents flow in memory
swim through me
Meet me in the drowning pool of tears
and wash away my innocence
I am a child of light living in your mind
The pain, the unknowing washes away in time
Until then will you meet me whenever I call to you?
Meet me in the dreamtime water, drown
Shifting shaping currents flow in memory
swim through me
Meet me in the drowning pool of tears
and wash away my innocence
I am a child of light living in your mind
The pain, the unknowing washes away in time
Until then will you meet me whenever I call to you?
Meet me in the dreamtime water, drown
Shifting shaping currents flow in memory
swim through me
Meet me in the drowning pool of tears
and wash away my innocence
Meet me in the dreamtime water, drown
Shifting shaping currents flow in memory
swim through me
Meet me in the drowning pool of tears
And wash away my innocence
Meet me
My only cure won't you meet me?
In the drowning pool of fate the moon and the sun still wait
Won't you meet me?
I suffer silently for our love, the jester has lost his dove
07 The Fault of the Flesh (04:56)
Sometimes bitterness is all you can hold on to,
and within the bitterness I realized my weakness
To see the fault of unrequited love
There is no truth, there is no purity, there is no love
Flesh is the weakness, flesh is the fault
We are embodiment of all the world's wrongs
No time to look back we are gone
No time to regret the seeds we've thrown away
Man is the parasite, man is the cause
We are destroyers and creators, our precious flaw
We are the architects of fate
We are impure for we burn all we berate
We are but flesh and flesh is the weakness
We are born of blood sinew and bone
We're all just spinning in this useless hole in time
On our way into the black unknown
Man is the parasite, man is the cause
We are destroyers and creators, our precious flaw
Flesh is the weakness, flesh is the fault
We are embodiment of all the world's wrongs
No time to look back we are gone
No time to regret the seeds we've thrown away
We are but flesh and flesh is the weakness
We are born of blood sinew and bone
We're all just spinning in this useless hole in time
On our way into the black unknown
I am but flesh, and flesh is weak
I am but flesh, and flesh is weak
08 The Lotus Eaters (04:27)
"Why is this happening to me? Why have
I been forsaken? Nothing numbs the pain
any longer......please....I'm slipping away"
We fall into the spaces blind, the puzzle so unkind
The lotus eaters fly
we watch the random pattern form, insidious and cold
And bloom into the unknown
Please God why can't you hear us?
Please God why aren't you listening?
We take the hand of fate in vain, and wonder why your will
Seems cruel controlled and illogical
Do words fall on deaf ears, are we just too small?
Please make us understand
Please God why can't you hear us?
Please God why aren't you listening?
Please God why must we fear you?
Please God why did you take her away?
Please God why can't you hear us?
Please God why aren't you listening?
Please God why must we fear you?
Please God why did you take her away?
Are we your children?
Are we lost?
14 Optimist or Pessimist (03:37)
chaos, the rule of the game
spinning as optimist fades
confusion becomed law
eclipsing hope, the pessimist said
if you want to change the world, forget it
the future's not in our hands
if you want to change the world, forget it
the pigs already set in
freedom has bee stripped away
change it the corrosion fades
slowly we turn
as the pessimist sets these pointed words
if you want to change the world, forget it
the future's n ot in our hands
if you want to change the world, forget it
the pigs already set in
the optimist understands why the world's gone down the drain
the pessimist never bends, constricting thoughts in vain
from the pessimist's point of view there's nothing we can do
as I paint this picture gray and taste the pain
I'll play the optimist
The only world I know is the world I cling to
It's a world that I'd want to save
optimist or pessimist, what am I suppose to be
if you want to change the world, forget it
the future's n ot in our hands
if you want to change the world, forget it
the pigs already set in
the optimist understands why the world's gone down the drain
the pessimist never bends, constricting thoughts in vain
from the pessimist's point of view there's nothing we can do
as I paint this picture gray and taste the pain
I'll play the optimist
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