Simone: “This isn’t a typical ballad it’s melancholic and has more of a themed vocal going through it than a chorus. 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. 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. 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. Mark: “These are the lyrics I’m most proud of and they’re about the man beneath the hologram.
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. 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. 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.
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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.
Simone: “This song breaks away from the concept as well. The title comes from a line in Spectre and the lyrics were inspired by the current refugee crisis around the world.
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