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hey..anyone want to hear my song by song interpretation of how ME3 is like the Nin inch nails album Year Zero?
[spoiler/] going song by song
The Begining of the End - the reapers have arrived, we were not prepared..lyric: [b/]we think we've come so far [/b] we think we are the most advanced, we thourght we were amune from the aparent "cycle" we are just all the protheins and the races before...the cycle cant be broken
survivalism - perhaps just hysteria and chaos as the reapers attack, particually on earth
The Good Solder - a Cerberus Solder having second thourghts lyric: [b/]I am trying to see
I am trying to believe
This is not where I should be
I am trying to believe [/b]
Vessel - an induvidual going through the indroctrination/reaperfication process..complely delusonal lyric: [b/] I can leave all of this flesh behind
I can see right through the whole façade
I am becoming something else
I am turning into God [/b]
Me, I'm Not- somone going through indoctrination..again, not sure with this one
Captial G - although the tone suggests apathy and ignorance rather than determination, it does kind of remind me of the Illusive man or Saren Lyric: [b/]Don't try to tell me that some power can corrupt a person
You haven't had enough to know what its like
You're only angry 'cause you wish you were in my position
Now nod your head because you know that I'm right... alright!
Well I used to stand for something
But forgot what that could be
There's a lot of me inside you
Maybe you're afraid to see [/b]
My violent heart - this one can go eather way, on one hand it can apply to the reapers or cerberus
Lyric: [b/] Time will feed upon your weaknesses
And soon you'll lose the will to care
When you return to the place that you call home
We will be there, we will be there [/b]
on the other hand however, it can also apply to those fighting aginst the reapers (though not at first because the tone is rather omnivous and confidently agressive)
[b/]On hands and knees
We crawl
You cannot stop us all
you wear our bones
our skin
We will not let you in [/b]
The Warning - perhaps the warning the prothiens sent out..or the veiws that some races have to each other..or even what the reaper starchild has to say to shepard
God Given - the fanatical racism of Cerberus, and how "humanity" will be the ones ot controll the reapers
[b/]This you cannot win
With the color of your skin
You won't be getting into the Promised Land
This is just another case
You people still don't know your place
Step aside, out the way, wipe that look of your face
Cuz we are the divine separated from the swine
Come on, sing along, everybody now
God given [/b]
Meet your Master - again, perhaps mainly cerberus reltaed, I imgaine the things they dont to other races and humans, and of coarse the "humanitys dominance" thing... it could also be from the perspective of the reapers
[b/]You've left quite a mess here under your stewardship
You thought you figured it out but you'll learn your place in this
Might take some convincing for you to see the truth
There are so many things we've got in store for you[/b]
also the chorus
[b/]Count down to the end
Gotta make it come faster, faster
Right around the bend
Is a coming disaster
Count down to the end
And we're headed their faster
Come on down my friend
It's time to meet your master [/b]
that might also involve the reapers, this could also perhaps be applyed to saren too
The Great destroyer - could be interpated like vessal..indoctrination and being delusonal (in a way it could be about Kei Leng because that guy seemed delusional in regard to his own prowess) but then in a way it could also apply to shepard, particually if he/she chooses "destruction" interestingly this is the "turning point" in the album, there some great doomsday even has occured...in relation to the game when shepard makes his/her choice with the crucible
In This twilight (my favorite song) this I imagine occurs at the end...in the colured explosions..its an "end of the world as we know it: type song, but also a somwhat upbeat, "hopeful" since that word is used alot in ME3
[b/]And the sky is filled with light
Can you see it?
All the black is really white
If you believe it
As your time is running out
Let me take away your doubt
You can find a better a place
In this twilight [/b]
seeing the outcome as somthing posative
Zero sum - the last song on the album, its not quite as upbeat, as "In this twilight" its more regretful and cynical and even haunting, I imagine from the perspective of Cerberus
chorus [b/]Shame on us, doomed from the start
May God have mercy on our dirty little hearts
Shame on us for all we have done
And all we ever were. Just zeroes and ones [/b] <- in the grand scheme of things we were really nothing,
[b/] And I guess I just wanted to tell you, as the light starts to fade,
That you are the reason that I am not afraid.
And I guess I just wanted to mention, as the heavens will fall,
We will be together soon if we will be anything at all. [/b] still hope in away...preparing for whatever is to come [/spoiler]
(v)
