Atomic Playboy

VNV Nation played live at the University yesterday. Muchos great music. I hardly ever dance, but yesterday I danced. My hips are hurting today. I hope Magnus and Erika didn’t mind me grinding my crotch against their butts for the first three songs, but I didn’t exactly have anywhere else to put it. Quite a crowd on the dancefloor. Good thing my boots can take a bit of punishment without my toes hurting, since the girl in front of me bounced on them for the next two songs.

I think I’ll make a mixed CD with VNV songs and give to my mom for Christmas. I’m not expecting her to flip head over heels over the EBM/futurepop style of VNV Nation, but I think she’ll like some of the slower VNV songs like Airships, Solitary, Standing, Solitude, Carbon and Beloved. I’ll fill the rest of the CD with songs by Assemblage 23.

Ronan must really have liked the audience, since they played four extra numbers. First Beloved, then Standing and Joy, and finally Electronaut.

And here, your your enjoyment, are the lyrics to Carbon. It was incredibly powerful to experience it live.

A million points of light
Ascending to the sky

Monuments in darkness

Standing watch until the sun will rise

Screaming to an emptiness

How we deified ourselves

With our hands over our eyes

Claiming all of creation

What inspires in us this madness
That our existence should be defined

By a light that can’t be seen by anyone

What inspires in us this madness

That our existence should be defined

By a light that we can’t see

By a light that can’t be seen

A million points of light
Ascending to the sky

Monuments in darkness

Standing watch until the sun will rise

I can’t see this all as progress

How did we come this far?

When we see ourselves as deities

Claiming Nature for ourselves

By our actions we betray

The instincts in our race

By our blindness and stupidity

We kill everything

We kill… everything

Can someone see our self destruction?
Are we reminding ourselves

That our existance is

So delicate

That without this light we are no more

That without this light we’ve made we are no more

A million points of light
Ascending to the sky

Monuments in darkness

Standing watch until the sun will rise

We torch the earth until it bleeds

Rain ashes from the sky

Just to make a light that no one can see

We cut the earth until it bleeds

Rain ashes from the sky

Just to make a light that no one can see

Just to make a light

Just to make a light

We kill everything

By our blindness and stupidity

We kill… everything

In 1000 years what will be our legacy
a million lights that no one can see

a million points of light

Birthday party at Puh’s place tomorrow. She’ll be 23. Haven’t found a gift yet, but I’m sure she won’t mind me being a few days late with it.