一张反战专辑
最初听这张时，第一首欢快的旋律根本没有让我把它跟反战联系在一起。后来为了理解歌词，查了些资料。有一段话写得很好，搬运过来给大家。
The first three songs on here are about the creation, and explosion of the atomic bomb. The scientists they are speaking of are the dudes involved in the Manhatten Project. The atomic scientists even have a publication called "The Atomic Bulletin" , this is where the doomsday clock comes from.
Anyways..."Race for the Prize" pretty much chronicles the creation of the bomb while "Spoonful Weighs a Ton" is totally obvious in its imagery of nuclear power.
And though they were sad (they were sad they created such a destructive force)
They rescued everyone (ended the war)
They lifted up the sun (the atom bomb had the power of the sun)
A spoonful weighs a ton (atomic warheads are super small with enormous power)
Giving more than they had
The process had begun (allusion to tremendous pressure and sacrifice that was a result of the project including radiation exposure to the scientists)
A million came from one
The limits now were none
Being drunk on their plan, they lifted up the sun (obvious allusion to atomic explosion)
The last song in the trilogy is "The Spark That Bled". To anyone who has studied the Hiroshima/Nagasaki incidents the lyrics pretty much describe someone who is on the outside peripheral of the explosion.
I accidentally touched my head
And noticed that I had been bleeding
For how long I didn't know (Everything happened in a flash and survivor accounts are just like this, there was a flash and nobody even knew what the f happened)
What was this, I thought, that struck me?
What kind of weapons have they got?
The softest bullet ever shot (totally obvious....a single bomb dropped from one plane, slowly making its way down to the ground)
The rest of the song goes on to allude to the end of the war and even the "atom- mania" that swept the nation in the late 1940s/1950s even using phrases such as "chain reaction". The end simply says that "in reality, there was no reaction" which if you have ever read the book "Hiroshima" pretty much sums it up.
Additionally, if you are really not convinced by now, listen closley to the beginning and ending of the song as it pitter/patters in the sound of a Geiger Counter, which is a tool used to measure radiation.
The rest of the album, I don't know if any of that is in reference to the atomic bomb, but it seems like it might be more about the world shifting under foot.
来源于 http://songmeanings.com/songs/view/138600/
这张专辑的聆听过程也非常奇妙，开始时觉得除了第一首外其他的都有点索然无味，再听两遍又发现整张的鼓点与贝司声线都太美妙了，后来觉得歌词也好，越听越沉迷的趋势。循环三天了，大年初一去看他们的现场过年。
“Love is the place that you're drawn to”
The first three songs on here are about the creation, and explosion of the atomic bomb. The scientists they are speaking of are the dudes involved in the Manhatten Project. The atomic scientists even have a publication called "The Atomic Bulletin" , this is where the doomsday clock comes from.
Anyways..."Race for the Prize" pretty much chronicles the creation of the bomb while "Spoonful Weighs a Ton" is totally obvious in its imagery of nuclear power.
And though they were sad (they were sad they created such a destructive force)
They rescued everyone (ended the war)
They lifted up the sun (the atom bomb had the power of the sun)
A spoonful weighs a ton (atomic warheads are super small with enormous power)
Giving more than they had
The process had begun (allusion to tremendous pressure and sacrifice that was a result of the project including radiation exposure to the scientists)
A million came from one
The limits now were none
Being drunk on their plan, they lifted up the sun (obvious allusion to atomic explosion)
The last song in the trilogy is "The Spark That Bled". To anyone who has studied the Hiroshima/Nagasaki incidents the lyrics pretty much describe someone who is on the outside peripheral of the explosion.
I accidentally touched my head
And noticed that I had been bleeding
For how long I didn't know (Everything happened in a flash and survivor accounts are just like this, there was a flash and nobody even knew what the f happened)
What was this, I thought, that struck me?
What kind of weapons have they got?
The softest bullet ever shot (totally obvious....a single bomb dropped from one plane, slowly making its way down to the ground)
The rest of the song goes on to allude to the end of the war and even the "atom- mania" that swept the nation in the late 1940s/1950s even using phrases such as "chain reaction". The end simply says that "in reality, there was no reaction" which if you have ever read the book "Hiroshima" pretty much sums it up.
Additionally, if you are really not convinced by now, listen closley to the beginning and ending of the song as it pitter/patters in the sound of a Geiger Counter, which is a tool used to measure radiation.
The rest of the album, I don't know if any of that is in reference to the atomic bomb, but it seems like it might be more about the world shifting under foot.
来源于 http://songmeanings.com/songs/view/138600/
这张专辑的聆听过程也非常奇妙，开始时觉得除了第一首外其他的都有点索然无味，再听两遍又发现整张的鼓点与贝司声线都太美妙了，后来觉得歌词也好，越听越沉迷的趋势。循环三天了，大年初一去看他们的现场过年。
“Love is the place that you're drawn to”
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