Anniversary Review 3

Elysium Rain – Soil & Eclipse

Elysium Rain

(click the button and the song will play)

You know who I haven’t talked about in a while? Soil and Eclipse and guess what world! My birthday just passed and I got Itunes cards… guess what I brought with some of the money? That’s right, Soil and Eclipse songs because they’re amazing and I needed more songs and I brought their album The Mirror because I wanted to.

Also Archetype is apparently back up on Itunes I don’t know when that happened, it’s kind of expensive compared to other albums on Itunes, but it’s okay because it’s amazing and you should all go buy it now that it’s available for purchase.

Before I decided to buy the whole album of Mirror, I was previewing songs and Elysium Rain was one of those songs that I loved the second I heard it. It might end up turning into another Whispering Trees which is always a good thing. Anyways, The Mirror came out in 2008 and it’s track number two on the album. There’s also a random switching of languages towards the end of the song. However there are no lyrics for this song on the internet… that’s awesome… There’s also no YouTube video so I’m shit out of luck.

If you can hunt down The Mirror I recommend buying this song (as well as the album but I’ll hype that up in another review) the song flaunts Soil and Eclipse abilities to right a kick ass chorus and an overall amazing electronic song. The chorus was the easiest part lyric wise.

Chorus:
“Lights of Elysium rain down

Into this shattered soul

Lights of Elysium Rain down

Elysium Rain

Lights of Elysium rain down

Into this hollow hole

Lights of Elysium rain down

Elysium Rain”

I wasn’t sure what Elysium meant in any way shape or form until I Googled it and the definition means:

1.      The place at the ends of the earth to which certain favored heroes were conveyed by the gods after death

2.      A place or state of perfect happiness

Wikipedia says “Elysium is a conception of the afterlife that evolved over time and was maintained by certain Greek religious and philosophical sects, and cults. Initially separate from the realm of Hades, admission was initially reserved for mortals related to the gods and other heroes. Later, it expanded to include those chosen by the gods, the righteous, and the heroic, where they would remain after death, to live a blessed and happy life, and indulging in whatever employment they had enjoyed in life.” And suddenly the song makes so much sense… sort of… the second verse is a little confusing. It explains the chorus and the overall tone of the song and that’s good enough for me. The general gist of the song (most likely) is doing your best to please a god or higher being of sorts and being rewarded,

“I fought the battle high up on the hill …” Verse one

I could be completely wrong because there’s clearly a conflict depicted in the verses. Maybe it’s about a religious figure contemplating their fate during a time of some kind of religious battle… something along those lines. 

“Was I not a good man for my time?

Paying every debt for every crime

Consecrating vestments in his Holy name

And shall my life be taken on this day

Let the soul be spirited away

I will see the sunset with a battle cry” Verse two

“Lights of Elysium Rain down

Into this shattered soul…” Chorus

And then verse three states all the religious and war overtones

“I walked a thousand miles to fall today

At your alter here now where I pray

That you bring my army strength to beat this pearl

And as the grey skull knight returns to Gail

I can see them through the shifting bail

As their armies gather in the fields below”

See there’s a fight going on and I might have Assassin’s Creed on my mind because I just got a new copy of Brotherhood but that game is all I can think of while listening to it. It fits that whole time period the first game was set in. If I was technologically smart I would totally make a video with this song set to it and it would be awesome but I’m not that good at making game music videos.

Looking at the song from another perspective without any religious overtones, it could be about a person who tried to live their life by the rules and might have messed up along the way, and towards the end of their life they hope nothing bad happens to them once they die… Or it has nothing to do with death and someone just wants to have a good life after going through a really dark time in their life. That works as well. I personally like the idea of the doubt filled religious figure caught up in a war and praying for forgiveness even though they might not deserve it.

That’s all I have to say about Elysium rain at the moment until I get a response back from Soil and Eclipse about lyrics and theme of the song I’m surprised I made this as long as I did.

Part three of my anniversary review concluded.

~Pugsly~