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Genre: Music
Date of upload: Aug 17, 2023 ^^
Rating : 4.99 (20/7,601 LTDR)
RYD date created : 2024-05-05T00:21:28.035741Z
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After listening to the full album, I feel this is the song that epitomizes its themes the most - while individual high points are reached in songs like I, Carrion, and Eat Your Young, listening to this feels like a dream. Closing one's eyes, one can imagine floating on an infinite lake, hearing the distant waves lap against a shore you'll never reach - and, in a sense, beyond even water and night, loss and the passage of time, the theme that pervades Unreal Unearth is that of dreamlike reality.
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This piece also contains the "themes" of all the other songs in the album, I'm far from having found them all but these are the ones I did find so far:
- 0:45 and 2:20 you can hear "See how it shines" from Abstract/Psychopomp
- 2:10 you can hear "It's who we are" from Who We Are
- 0:49 I think it's the melody from First Light's chorus (but I could be wrong)
- 2:50 there's some of the backup vocals from "Damage Gets Done"
Let me know if you spot any more
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The start of this song is so eerie, it feels like the birth of her children, and the fear of what they are as they form, and then it shifts to the beauty of what they are as it crescendos. Creating this image in my mind of the joy of death and dreaming, and that at the end you will not cross the river alone.
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@carinap
8 months ago
the meaning for this song; Hozier: “That's a collaboration because for the actual melody, that piano that you're hearing at the beginning is my wonderful musical director and longtime friend and bandmate Alex Ryan. He sent me this beautiful piano piece, and it was at a very difficult time, and his father's name is Nick, so I asked him if I could call it "Son of Nyx," as a sort of play on words that would also honor his father, and I was delighted to have his work on it because, to me, it's such a beautiful piece. And Nyx is a Greek goddess, and one of Nyx's sons is Charon, the boatman in Greek mythology. So the song, to me, really felt like a crossing, and it reflected on that river crossing or that sort of crossing over. So that was a wonderful example of opening up the process, of opening the door to a new experience of sharing in the creation of something. And I think the result is beautiful - it's one of my favorite pieces on the album, and I am so proud of that.”
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