![]() ![]() “It starts with the sound of crows and they’re really important to the lyrics as well. Everybody has walls around them but if you never break them down, you’ll never make progress or grow. It’s the heaviest song on the album with some brutal parts and I think it’ll be another good one to play live. Mark: “This one isn’t really about the concept either. Here, our children are fed and they have a roof over their heads and I think we maybe take it for granted.” Tear Down Your Walls As a mother, I’m concerned about the well-being of children around the world. It’s the idea of children trying to enjoy their childhood in an unsafe environment they’re literally dancing in a hurricane and I find it very sad. The title comes from a line in Spectre and the lyrics were inspired by the current refugee crisis around the world. Simone: “This song breaks away from the concept as well. It’s like a computer game, once you know how to finish it, it’s over and it doesn’t make sense to carry on because you know how to win.” The message is that we shouldn’t know everything. Mark: “The lyrics deal with waking up and realising that everything is a hologram, but there is a danger that if you truly did find the key to unlock the mystery of the universe, everything would implode. People have always searched for the meaning of life, but the answers are always the same: love, family, friends and helping each other.” Ascension - Dream State Armageddon When you start seeing the algorithms beneath everything, you start to question: why are we here? What does it all mean? And these questions come up in the lyrics. Machines operate in numbers and code, and you can find similar algorithms in nature, so literally the whole universe as we know it is built on mathematical calculations. Mark: “These are the lyrics I’m most proud of and they’re about the man beneath the hologram. It’s symbolic of being stuck in a life without a happy ending and how our innocence is taken away from us as soon as we’re born. A lot of times, parents don’t take their children seriously, especially when it comes to seeing monsters in the closet so it’s a dark twist on fairy tales. I’m a big fan of classic fairy tales and the lyrics were inspired by a dark German tale about the Alder King, or Erlking, who steals children’s souls. Simone: “This isn’t a typical ballad it’s melancholic and has more of a themed vocal going through it than a chorus.
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