Innocente - Delerium feat. Leigh Nash
May 26th 2008 15:35
Poem by Delerium
A broken acknowledgment of a dying love, a qualm of conscience, a brutal emotional truthfulness and a disheartened look at the approaching loneliness have been intriguingly expressed in Innocente by the Canadian electronica band Delerium. This is one last inner confrontation before closing your eyes and accepting the full blow of emotional seperation.
The backbone of Delerium is Bill Leeb, an Austrian-born musician who moved to Canada with his family when he was 13 years old. Showing great interest in the experimental corners of electronica, Leeb joined Skinny Puppy, an industrial band from Vancouver, only to part ways with them to form his own band Front Line Assembly with Michael Balch. Later joined by Rhys Fulber, they became an underground favorite with tracks such as Digital Tension Dementia and Virus. Soonafter, Leeb and Balch formed a side project which they called Delerium and released their debut album Faces, Forms & Illusions. When, Balch left the project, Rhy Fulber joined Bill Leeb and stayed with him until after the release of the internationally-cherished, Karma.
Delerium has been collaborating with many sophisticated artists some of whom include Julee Cruise (known for her performance in various tracks from Twin Peaks Soundtrack such as "Falling" and "Into the Night" with Angelo Badalamenti & David Lynch), Sultana (the first female Turkish rapper who made her debut back in 2000, in a time when hip hop/rap was totally barren soil for female vocals, with an instantly successful and highly provocative song, "Kusu Kalkmaz"), Sarah McLachlan (for whom Delerium provided an "enigmatic" remix of "Silence"), Kirsty Hawkshaw (also a singer for DJ Tiesto & Opus III) and Leigh Nash of Six Pence None the Richer.
Leigh Nash made herself internationally acknowledged when Six Pence None the Richer released their "Kiss Me" in 1999. The single doubled its fame when featured in the popular TV series Dawson's Creek and the romantic comedy "She's All That". Nash wrote the lyrics and performed the vocals of Innocente for Delerium's Poem and returned 3 years later to partner with the band for their 14th album (12th, if you don't count the re-releases) Chimera. In 2007, their latest work together, Fauxliage, was released.
Innocente opens with emotionally rich and ethereal lyres that instantly create a dramatic and fantastic atmosphere but strikes surprisingly with a bitter picture right afterwards,
"You can't see my eyes
And they don't see yours
Hear me when I say
They don't mind at all"
And they don't see yours
Hear me when I say
They don't mind at all"
The strangling honesty is the most difficult part when it comes to admitting feelings to oneself. At first, one tends to deny, suppress or ignore the fact that something is amiss and dysfunctional in their relationship. However, once the reality strikes, when the realization finally sets in, the truth is indubitable. No matter how drifted apart the pair might be, they actually don't mind it because they have already given up on each other. They just cannot admit it yet.
"It's the rain that I hear coming
Not a stranger or a ghost
It's the quiet of a storm approaching
That I fear the most"
Not a stranger or a ghost
It's the quiet of a storm approaching
That I fear the most"
The obvious is soon to materialize. There is no escape from it no matter how much one tries. There's an odd silence that has been lingering for sometime. The number of calls, the days spent together and the things that have been shared kept decreasing in number. So there comes that moment when one or the other picks up the phone to say, "I need to talk to you".
About?
"Well.. nothing I can explain on the phone. Can we meet in an hour/tonight/tomorrow if it's OK with you?"
So it begins... Although it is sensed, although it is unconsciously known, one faces oneself and ironically asks the questions in silent confrontation,
"Darling, when did you cry? I couldn't hear you
Darling, when did we fall? When was it over?"
Darling, when did we fall? When was it over?"
It does not matter whether these questions find answers for themselves or not. All that matters now are the good times overshadowed by the bad. The blissful memories are remembered with a faint smile, a merciful pain breezes through the heart and the door closes behind as one heads toward the inevitable, thinking,
"I suppose it is the price of falling in love"
Ink Blots
Browse music online at IMEEM
Buy Poem online from Amazon
Meet the artist Delerium at Deleirum.ca: The Official Fan Site
Meet the artist Leigh Nash at Leigh Nash Music
Read the entire lyrics at metrolyrics
Browse music online at IMEEM
Buy Poem online from Amazon
Meet the artist Delerium at Deleirum.ca: The Official Fan Site
Meet the artist Leigh Nash at Leigh Nash Music
Read the entire lyrics at metrolyrics
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And your writing is truly beautiful. I'm going to go catch up on some of your other posts now...
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I hope you find other phantasms enjoyable, as well. Welcome aboard...