Ode to Delerium
Delerium--my favorite group until Within Temptation nudged it out recently--was the gateway drug to so much great music: Enigma, Frontline Assembly, Conjure One, Balligomino, Sleepthief, Blue Stone. One of the first groups who's I gobbled up everything they did and wore holes in thier CDs. It was the soundtrack to my college years, and you could hear it blarring away in my car and suite for hours on end. It was the soundtrack to stories I wrote and books I read. Mystical, magical, other-worldly, with a beat you could jig to, poetic lyrics to relate to, and voices to screech to in the shower. Still, love them deeply.
Things I love about Delerium:
1. Multi-layered electro-pop music and stringed insturments with
2. Funky and varied loud beats and
3. Eretheral and intriguingly emotional vocals
4. Poetical and bizarre lyrics
5. Very fantasy feel
Favorite Albums (in order):
Favorite Songs (in order):
1. Poeme for Byzantium
Unbidden shadows of you formed yesterday
I ran away to a room here on the bay
Interrupted life again, another new beginning
Where the silence echoes you're no longer with me
Here and now, I feel that I’m embracing freedom
Even though I may be alone, but that's ok
Through the darkness I would walk in the streets
Confessions never seemed to provide me with a release
Held me down and tried to cure me tried to give me reason
But nothing could separate this burdened mind from me
Here and now, I feel that I’m embracing freedom
Even though I may be alone, but that's ok
And looking out to a different sky will disengage me
Absence is never the answer, I know, but it serves as my shade
I do not seek and do not intend to find
A calmer ocean or a sun that will never rise
My world will never change and time will bring you to my thoughts
And I’ll move on and then forget you all over again
Moving on, I can forgive you all over again
Here and now, I feel that I’m embracing freedom
Even though I may be alone, but that's ok
And looking out onto a different sky it seems so easy
Absence is never the answer, I know, but it serves as my shade
2. Run For It (listen)
I can’t fight the fighter, I keep losing ground
And I can’t hide the hider with you hanging around
I can’t and I won’t
You better run for your life, love, I’m walking I’m walking
I can’t love a hater, it’s a losing game
Never love a quitter, you’ll get left in the rain
I can’t help the helper when my feet are bound
I can’t feel you near me if you’re not the only sound
How do you like the way it feels when I leave you?
You better run for your life, love, I’m walking I’m walking
You better count up your reasons
3. Wisdom (listen)
To others the pain was obvious
The colors of shame a bruise unjust
Abuse of trust can’t be wiped
I can’t remember why I chose to say goodbye
I’m terrified of what I might have severed
I tried to forget the drowning truth
Lashing inside my sea of youth
Life seemed a fair sacrifice for peace
I can’t remember why I chose to say goodbye
I’m terrified of what I might have severed
I ended up too high, but never learned to fly
So coming down I’m very thankful you were there
4. Flatlands (listen)
5. Myth (listen)
“I’m living in your dreams, I’m where you cannot be, I’m way out of your reach…I’m where you cannot see. Is it in you or is it in me? Now I live behind your eyes, you recognize me as only a memory that comes through.”
6. Stopwatch Hearts
“Realtors arrive with numbers over their eyes. Stopwatch hearts. Good God, I love the party-starved businessmen with stopwatch hearts. They don’t beat; they tick.”
7. Incantation (listen/watch)
“Don’t get too close. This shore is cavernous and cold. You’re collecting empty shells. Too late to scribe alive on my soul. I’d rather hide, than fight you stealing my soul.”
8. Paris
“Je me suis ouverte, je me suis offerte a vous mon amont, vous mon courtesan. Nous liaisons sont dangereous… mais je sorte tous les danges quand vous deux main ce sont possee, et tous mon cour vous disee oui…”
9. Enchanted
“Whenever you steal, my punishment’s real. You gave me sorrow.”
10. Underwater
“Shed you armor, spin your web, hypnotize me with your longest stare, make your promise, or maybe it’s a threat, because when you look, you look right through me… we’re flesh and bone, together and alone, and we’re looking for a home… silver moonlight invades the sky, evening tide, you’re unfolding, right before my eyes… calling gently to fingertips so gently on my skin, I’m underwater, I feel the flood begin.”
11. Twilight
12. Serenity
13. Just a Dream (listen)
14. After All (listen/watch)
15. Fallen
“I’m caught between two different worlds. I pray for one more night on Earth. Do you believe in dreams? That’s how I found you.”
16. Returning
“Where will I be when I wake up? Will I be returning to the questions burning?”
17. Innocente
“Darling, when did you fall? When was it over? Marching through my door, now, the stony cold of lonesome… I suppose that’s the price of falling in love.”
18. Silence
19. All the World
20. Euphoria (Firefly) (listen/watch)
“I feel a stirring deep within… like a tide coming into shore, under and under… this feeling emblazed inside, every move like a firefly… I don’t want to lose what I have finally found. It’s telling me move forward and walk under a brighter sky.”
Things I love about Delerium:
1. Multi-layered electro-pop music and stringed insturments with
2. Funky and varied loud beats and
3. Eretheral and intriguingly emotional vocals
4. Poetical and bizarre lyrics
5. Very fantasy feel
Favorite Albums (in order):
Favorite Songs (in order):
1. Poeme for Byzantium
Unbidden shadows of you formed yesterday
I ran away to a room here on the bay
Interrupted life again, another new beginning
Where the silence echoes you're no longer with me
Here and now, I feel that I’m embracing freedom
Even though I may be alone, but that's ok
Through the darkness I would walk in the streets
Confessions never seemed to provide me with a release
Held me down and tried to cure me tried to give me reason
But nothing could separate this burdened mind from me
Here and now, I feel that I’m embracing freedom
Even though I may be alone, but that's ok
And looking out to a different sky will disengage me
Absence is never the answer, I know, but it serves as my shade
I do not seek and do not intend to find
A calmer ocean or a sun that will never rise
My world will never change and time will bring you to my thoughts
And I’ll move on and then forget you all over again
Moving on, I can forgive you all over again
Here and now, I feel that I’m embracing freedom
Even though I may be alone, but that's ok
And looking out onto a different sky it seems so easy
Absence is never the answer, I know, but it serves as my shade
2. Run For It (listen)
I can’t fight the fighter, I keep losing ground
And I can’t hide the hider with you hanging around
I can’t and I won’t
You better run for your life, love, I’m walking I’m walking
I can’t love a hater, it’s a losing game
Never love a quitter, you’ll get left in the rain
I can’t help the helper when my feet are bound
I can’t feel you near me if you’re not the only sound
How do you like the way it feels when I leave you?
You better run for your life, love, I’m walking I’m walking
You better count up your reasons
3. Wisdom (listen)
To others the pain was obvious
The colors of shame a bruise unjust
Abuse of trust can’t be wiped
I can’t remember why I chose to say goodbye
I’m terrified of what I might have severed
I tried to forget the drowning truth
Lashing inside my sea of youth
Life seemed a fair sacrifice for peace
I can’t remember why I chose to say goodbye
I’m terrified of what I might have severed
I ended up too high, but never learned to fly
So coming down I’m very thankful you were there
4. Flatlands (listen)
5. Myth (listen)
“I’m living in your dreams, I’m where you cannot be, I’m way out of your reach…I’m where you cannot see. Is it in you or is it in me? Now I live behind your eyes, you recognize me as only a memory that comes through.”
6. Stopwatch Hearts
“Realtors arrive with numbers over their eyes. Stopwatch hearts. Good God, I love the party-starved businessmen with stopwatch hearts. They don’t beat; they tick.”
7. Incantation (listen/watch)
“Don’t get too close. This shore is cavernous and cold. You’re collecting empty shells. Too late to scribe alive on my soul. I’d rather hide, than fight you stealing my soul.”
8. Paris
“Je me suis ouverte, je me suis offerte a vous mon amont, vous mon courtesan. Nous liaisons sont dangereous… mais je sorte tous les danges quand vous deux main ce sont possee, et tous mon cour vous disee oui…”
9. Enchanted
“Whenever you steal, my punishment’s real. You gave me sorrow.”
10. Underwater
“Shed you armor, spin your web, hypnotize me with your longest stare, make your promise, or maybe it’s a threat, because when you look, you look right through me… we’re flesh and bone, together and alone, and we’re looking for a home… silver moonlight invades the sky, evening tide, you’re unfolding, right before my eyes… calling gently to fingertips so gently on my skin, I’m underwater, I feel the flood begin.”
11. Twilight
12. Serenity
13. Just a Dream (listen)
14. After All (listen/watch)
15. Fallen
“I’m caught between two different worlds. I pray for one more night on Earth. Do you believe in dreams? That’s how I found you.”
16. Returning
“Where will I be when I wake up? Will I be returning to the questions burning?”
17. Innocente
“Darling, when did you fall? When was it over? Marching through my door, now, the stony cold of lonesome… I suppose that’s the price of falling in love.”
18. Silence
19. All the World
20. Euphoria (Firefly) (listen/watch)
“I feel a stirring deep within… like a tide coming into shore, under and under… this feeling emblazed inside, every move like a firefly… I don’t want to lose what I have finally found. It’s telling me move forward and walk under a brighter sky.”