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01 - Line Of Thoughts
02 - Beneath
03 - My Choice
04 - Glorifying Means
05 - The Evil That Men Do
06 - One Day I'll Fly Away
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Chronique de l'album
Exordium est un mini album "apéritif" permettant de nous faire patienter avant la sortie
d'Invisible Circles. C'est le premier album sans Mark Jansen. Le livret est magnifique,
c'est un plaisir pour les yeux.
L'EP commence par "Line of toughts", une chanson instrumentale, qui est la reprise du
thème de "Beneath", le morceau suivant. Ce dernier est heavy et entraînant. Vient "My
choice", une jolie ballade. "Glorify means", avec Sander au chant, est le titre le plus
agressif de l'album, c'est une chanson efficace et énergique.
Ensuite nous avons droit à deux reprises.
"The evil that men do" d'Iron Maiden est réussie et donne la pêche (idéal pour mettre
de l'ambiance en concert).
Sur "One day I'll fly away", After Forever a apporté à cette reprise de Randy Crawford
sa touche personnelle (on reconnaît immédiatement le son caractéristique du groupe).
Cette chanson est assez heavy par moment. Personnellement, je préfère la version douce
que l'on peut entendre dans le film Moulin Rouge. Je trouve qu'une ambiance calme est
plus adaptée à la chanson.
Exordium ne va pas marquer l'histoire de la musique mais nous permet de
passer un bon moment avec notre groupe favori.
A propos du DVD :
Exordium est accompagné (sur certaines versions) d'un DVD.
On peut voir le clip de "My choice" qui n'est pas terrible et assez kitch.
Le "Making of…my choice" nous montre le tournage du clip. Ce documentaire est en
hollandais non sous-titré. C'est sympa sans plus.
Dans "studio recording" le groupe est en studio en train d'enregistrer Exordium, les
images sont très sombres, de mauvaise qualité et si on ne parle pas néerlandais on
ne comprendra rien de ce qui est dit (aucun sous-titre n'est disponible).
Il y a également une galerie photos, un scan du livret (??) et une
vidéo live de "The evil that men do" qui fait penser à un bootleg de mauvaise qualité
(l'image n'est pas très bonne et la chanson est en version studio).
Aurélie (Arwen)
Line of Thoughts
Music: Sander Gommans
Beneath
Music: After Forever
Lyrics:
Bewildered by silence
Stuck by its questions and lucid ways to make us aware
I did not know how cruel that could be
That so many cases will never be solved
That so many stories will never be told
I did not know how cruel that could be
Fighting a war that rages inside
The world can't see the hate that burns in there
How can we face what lies beneath,
If we just fear and don't fight back?
How many questions left unanswered?
How many tears and inner strength shall we need?
How any times can we encounter this again and again?
How many things exist that blind us?
How many forms of brutal violence can we see?
How many images of pain will make us numb
So hard, so cruel, we fail to see, we fail to feel?
So afraid, even without thecourage of despair?
Fighting a war that rages inside
The world can't see the hate that burns in there
How can we face what lies beneath,
If we just fear and don't fight back?
Afraid of ourselves, arfaid to stand up
I did not know how cruel that could be
We failed to see, we failed to feel
Still afraid, what if you love someone?
What if this happened to your loved ones?
What would you do if you were there at that time?
What makes you act like nothing happened?
Nothing's wrong, you're doing fine?
What makes you think you are immune to this?
What drove us so far to the edge of tolerance?
If judging and accusing is so easy, then why
Why still?
Fighting a war that rages inside
The world can't see the hate that burns in there
How can we face what lies beneath,
If we just fear and don't fight back?
My Choice
Music: After Forever
Lyrics:
Is it not the choosing that makes the life we live so
intricate?
Are the options we have too endless to control?
Can we oversee the offers and their demands and their
goals?
Can we oversee our own needs if we don't know
What it is we really want?
Our minds, instead of our hearts
What we feel confuses our thoughts
Security, an ancient quest
Standing alone, the ultimate test
Still we search for warmth in the materialized
luxuries in life
The times have changed but we are still the same
Another choice 'cause we still don't know
Chorus:
Let me see where I belong
Let me be a little part of it
Can I choose my way in life?
Can I dream, can I feel, could I know my choice?
A choice without the illusion that luck is for sale
'cause I have all that money can buy!
Choir:
A choice means freedom
And endless options
Can we survey that?
Can freedom be controlled?
The options's bitter
It leaves a part of you behind the borders of your
choice
Chorus:
Let me see where I belong
Let me be a little part of it
Can I choose my way in life?
Can I dream, can I feel, could I know my choice?
Let me see where I belong
Let me be a little part of it
Can I choose my way in life?
Can I dream, can I feel, could I know my choice?
Glorifying Means
Music: After Forever
Lyrics:
Fantasy, misery came together
in the world of guilt and pain
A neverending game
Do not reject me. I was better off without
But in my agonized existence I needed to be free
Free my mind, free my soul.
I do not need to feel no more.
Feel no more. I'm better off this way
Alone, far from the past and its brutal face
I still feel the disgust and pain
Let me be free
Chorus:
This is my life today, this is the way it went out of control
I cannot do without these glorifying means, my remedy.
These amazing illusions, fantasies
Fantasy, not for me, like another miror of reality,
another point of view
Don't disbelieve me. I really tried to do without
But with sadness as a companion it's hard to do
Without the seduction, to become someone I'm not
But in this beautiful deception I'll overcome the night
Another day, another week, I'll overcome time
Colors seem to flow, they seem to come alive
While the sound of life is stronger than before
It's more than a dream, this is so real
I swim and I fly. I never feel more than I need, than I fear
I roam, I cry, I am paralyzed
I can fight the world
The sense of time is not important now
Just like the past, just like right now
There's no illusion that this is for real
Observe me, control me
Tell me what is best, what's good
Tell me how it worked for you
Tell me how to find myself, find respect, find the strength
Facing life so pure and clean, mean and hard
All these words can't cure nor heal.
The Evil that Men Do
Reprise d'Iron Maiden
Love is a razor and I walked the line on that silver blade
Slept in the dust with his daughter, her eyes red with
The slaughter of innocence
But I will pray for her
I will call her name out loud
I would bleed for her
If only I could see her now
Living on a razors edge
Balancing on a ledge
Living on a razors edge
The evil that men do lives on and on.....
The evil that men do lives on and on.....
The evil that men do lives on and on.....
The evil that men do lives on and on.....
Circle of fire my baptism of joy at an end it seems
The seventh lamb slain, the book of life opens before me
But I will pray for you
And some day I may return
Don't you cry for me
Beyond is where I learn
One day I'll fly away
Music: After Forever
Lyrics:
I may get along, when love is gone
Still, you made your mark, here in my heart
One day I'll fly away
Leave your love to yesterday
What more can your love do for me?
When will love be through with me?
I follow the night
Can't stand the light
When will will I begin
My life again?
One day I'll fly away
Leave your love to yesterday
What more can your love do fot me?
When will love be through with me?
Why live life from dream to dream
And dread the day when dreaming ends
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