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 TITLE: End of the World (feat. Billie Beckett)
BY: Vile Hour (N. Fischer and C. Drake) & B. Beckett
WRITTEN BY: N. Fischer
GENRE: Dark cabaret, piano rock, alternative rock
LABEL: Chaos RecordsThe second to the last song is here, and it’s a duet between Nichole Fischer and Reported Failure’s Billie Beckett. The song is another very Vile Hour song, with the subject matter being very dark and depressing (the end of the world, the death of all), but with a very upbeat and happy tune. Both Nichole and Billie's voices are jumpy and happy, as well as the music being childlike and upbeat, as if they were taunting the world and daring it to end. Each verse starts off with "When the end of the world came..." and then uses a statement to describe how it was, using "It passed like an awkward remark," "We thought they were just crying-wolf again," "Everyone swore they had seen it coming," and "We all were sort of relieved." Each of the sentences to describe the end of the world is a different stage of grief (Denial, anger, depression, and acceptance - the stage of bargaining is left out).
The first sentence used, "It passed like an awkward remark," is the stage of depression as Nichole goes on to mourn all the unanswered questions that she, and everybody else in the world, had about the world. The ending that she describes seems pretty bleak and meaningless as if, when the end of the world came, there was nothing to be happy about - or to even be sad about - everything just was. Like an awkward remark, the world happened, and then it passed on, never to really be thought about again. Despite the depressing lyrics, and the intended depressing meaning, those feelings are lost and mixed in with Nichole's upbeat piano and singing.
The next verse, "We thought they were just crying-wolf again," is a verse about the denial. Billie sings that nobody saw it coming, or if they did, they pretended that they didn't. Nobody had time to forgive anybody for past wrongs, but also nobody had time to accuse anybody of new wrongs. Their denial over the end of the world was both good and bad for them because it meant that, in the back of their head, they knew that it was going to end soon, so they didn't want to do anything wrong, but accepting the fact that they were all going to die soon meant that they would all have to take actions towards that inevitable end, and that would be too emotionally taxing on them. So, instead, the people stayed in denial of the end of the world, and when it happened, they left the world with the same amount of hurt that they came into it with.
The third verse, "Everyone swore that they'd seen it coming," is the anger verse. As the world comes to an end, everybody begins to blame everybody else for the reasons, be it God or be it their fellow man. Nobody is safe from blame from the group of angry people who don't want anything more than somebody to be furious at for the fact that they have to die. The frustration of people desperately wanting not to die is intense, and the people who lived their last days with hatred in their hearts probably went out in worse ways than the people with in denial or depressed over the end of days.
The last stage is, finally, acceptance: "We were all sort of relieved," Billie sings. Acceptance is probably the best way to go about the end of the world, and this verse is probably the most peaceful out of the other verses and their ways of dealing with the end. The people who accepted their death for what it is sat around, looking at pictures and remembering what they had accomplished in life rather than thinking about all that they didn't accomplish instead. All their troubles - be them in finances or even personal problems - were about to go away in a matter of minutes, so everybody stopped worrying and actually started living. Their acceptance helped them live their last few days more fully than if they were angry, depressed, or in denial about the whole thing. Acceptance was the best way to go.
The music slows down considerably as the song nears its last verse, as the song starts to sound the way that a song about the end of the world should sound: Slower, more melancholy, but with a sense of achievement and finality. Nichole sings softly, "When the end of the world came / I sat and sipped my Earl Grey." Then Billie joins in, singing, "No one was gendered or violent / Or straight or gay / No one afflicted / By war or religion / We all turned to dust." And finally, almost like a whisper, both of them sing together: "And the dust was beginning / To bundle together / To start the whole story again." Although the last verse of the song could be considered totally unnecessary, it's a nice closure to the song, explaining that the end of the world - and just death in general - comes for everybody, and when it does come, it won't discriminate. So, when the time comes, you can be angry about it, or upset about it, or even deny that it's happening, but no matter what, it is going to happen, so the acceptance of it is the best route to go.NicholeBillieBothWhen the end of the world came
It passed like an awkward remark
No light for believers
No scientists left in the dark
And no one proved right
And no one was wrong
We weren't left alone
And we didn't belong
When the end of the world came
It passed like an awkward remark
When the end of the world came
We though they were just crying-wolf again
No time for forgiveness
No time fo the meaningless blame again
And the sound, it was soft
And the weather was warm
The sky had forgotten
To put up a storm
When the end of the world came
We thought they were just crying-wolf
We knew we were the fortunate ones
We'd always been right and we knew all along
That if there is a hell, it's a heavenly song
Sung by those we'd always labelled as wrong
When the end of the world came
Everyone swore that they'd seen it coming
No matter their creed or conviction
They knew they had seen it coming
That'd seen the pattern
In scriptures or Saturn
In beakers of Latin
Dan Brown's anti-matter
The end of the world came
And everyone swore that they'd known
When the end of the world came
We all were sort of relieved
We looks at our pictures
And saw what we'd finally achieved
No need for regret
And forget all the need
All of our assets
Were frozen or freed
When the end of the world came
We all looked kind of relieved
We knew we were the fortunate ones
We'd always been right and we knew all along
That if there is a hell, it's a heavenly song
Sung by those who'd always labelled us as wrong
When the end of the world came
I sat and sipped my Earl Grey
No one was gendered or violent
Or straight or gay
No one afflicted
By war or religion
We all turned to dust
And the dust was beginning
To bundle together
To start the whole story againSOUNDS LIKE:
The Dresden Dolls - Coin-Operated Boy
Edited by user 28 July 2013 12:24:58(UTC)
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