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.