"Dark Matter" Lyrics (Official)

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  • MM70435MM70435 Posts: 284
    BF25394 said:
    MM70435 said:
    BF25394 said:
    "DARK MATTER"

    Steal the light from our eyes
    Drain the blood from our hearts
    In all of this dark matter
    Take the breath from our chest
    Break the thoughts in our mind
    We're losing time, dark matter

    Denounce the demigods
    King diamond to discard
    Deploy the dialogue
    Your word against the law

    It's strange these days
    When everybody else pays
    For someone else's mistake
    This blame takes shape
    Still everybody else pays
    For someone else's mistake

    Eroding away
    We're pulling apart
    In all of this dark matter
    I once heard it said
    And it stuck in my head
    Arrested the press
    No one knows what happened next

    Renounce the demagogues
    King diamond to discard
    Deploy the dialogue
    Your word against the law

    It's strange these days
    When everybody else pays
    For someone else's mistake
    This blame takes shape
    Still everybody else pays
    For someone else's mistake

    No tolerance for intolerance or
    No patience left for impatience no more
    No love lost for
    Lost loves
    No sorrow for
    The unaccountable

    It's strange these days
    When everybody else pays
    For someone else's mistake
    This blame takes shape
    Still everybody else pays
    For someone else's mistake

    (Thanks, LizJ.)
    The lyrics now show up on my I-phone when I stream it on Apple music and the above is 100% correct.  Nice job!  Now what does this song actually mean?
    Yes, if you look above in the thread, you'll see that the final lyrics came from Apple Music when LizJ pointed out that they had been published there. My final draft was not anywhere near 100 percent correct. Once the official lyrics were available, I replaced my draft in the original post with the actual lyrics. I deserve no credit for actually deciphering them. I still had them saying "lick the dirt off Olajuwon's feet." :)
    lol!  Yes I see that now.  Shame on me for not reading the entire thread.  She posted the lyrics from Apple music on 2/13 but I did not actually see them until yesterday 2/17.  I would press the lyric button and nothing would show up until 2/17.  At least I thought I was pressing the lyric button.  Who knows what I was doing wrong.  I was like how in the world did he figure all of that out?  This all took me back to the pre-internet days of the early 90's when some of the lyrics were provided in the cassette tape but a lot of them you were on your own.
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  • SpunkieSpunkie Posts: 6,672
    Getting the lyrics would be the main factor in purchasing previously!
  • SpunkieSpunkie Posts: 6,672
    MM70435 said:
    BF25394 said:
    "DARK MATTER"

    Steal the light from our eyes
    Drain the blood from our hearts
    In all of this dark matter
    Take the breath from our chest
    Break the thoughts in our mind
    We're losing time, dark matter

    Denounce the demigods
    King diamond to discard
    Deploy the dialogue
    Your word against the law

    It's strange these days
    When everybody else pays
    For someone else's mistake
    This blame takes shape
    Still everybody else pays
    For someone else's mistake

    Eroding away
    We're pulling apart
    In all of this dark matter
    I once heard it said
    And it stuck in my head
    Arrested the press
    No one knows what happened next

    Renounce the demagogues
    King diamond to discard
    Deploy the dialogue
    Your word against the law

    It's strange these days
    When everybody else pays
    For someone else's mistake
    This blame takes shape
    Still everybody else pays
    For someone else's mistake

    No tolerance for intolerance or
    No patience left for impatience no more
    No love lost for
    Lost loves
    No sorrow for
    The unaccountable

    It's strange these days
    When everybody else pays
    For someone else's mistake
    This blame takes shape
    Still everybody else pays
    For someone else's mistake

    (Thanks, LizJ.)
    The lyrics now show up on my I-phone when I stream it on Apple music and the above is 100% correct.  Nice job!  Now what does this song actually mean?
    It's gonna mean something different to all of us. Now that I have added my perspective of meaning to the words, I like the song more. Question is: What does it mean to you?
  • Vedd HeddVedd Hedd Posts: 4,598
    Seems the lyrics on Amazon Music are different than the ones on Apple. 
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  • BF25394BF25394 Posts: 4,503
    Vedd Hedd said:
    Seems the lyrics on Amazon Music are different than the ones on Apple. 
    Uh oh. What are the differences? (I don't have access to either of these things.)
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  • Sometimes my Echo Show gets lyrics wrong. I should check it out. 
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  • Vedd HeddVedd Hedd Posts: 4,598
    BF25394 said:
    Vedd Hedd said:
    Seems the lyrics on Amazon Music are different than the ones on Apple. 
    Uh oh. What are the differences? (I don't have access to either of these things.)
    According to Amazon

    1. Steal the lights from our eyes
    2. Take my blood from my heart
    3. We're in all of this dark matter
    4. Take the breaths from my chest
    5. Take the pulse and I'm outta line
    6. We're losing time, dark matter
    7. Denounce the demagogues
    8. King diamond to discard
    9. Deplore the dialogue
    10. Your word against the law
    11. It's strange these days
    12. When everybody else pays
    13. For someone else's mistake
    14. This blame takes shape
    15. Still everybody else pays
    16. For someone else's mistake
    17. You're running away
    18. We're pulling apart
    19. In all of this dark matter
    20. I once heard a sin
    21. And now it's stuck in my head
    22. Or is it the press?
    23. No one knows what happens next
    24. Renounce the demigods
    25. King diamond to discard
    26. Deplore the dialogue
    27. Your word against the law
    28. It's strange these days
    29. When everybody else pays
    30. For someone else's mistake
    31. This blame takes shape
    32. Still everybody else pays
    33. For someone else's mistake
    34. No tolerance for intolerance, intolerance for-
    35. No patience left for impatience no more
    36. No love lost for lost loves
    37. No sorrow for the unaccountable
    38. ...
    39. It's strange these days
    40. When everybody else pays
    41. For someone else's mistake
    42. This blame takes shape
    43. Still everybody else pays
    44. For someone else's mistake
    Turn this anger into
    Nuclear fission
  • The Apple lyrics seem correct compared to Amazon
  • BF25394BF25394 Posts: 4,503
    It's almost as if Amazon took the lyrics from the early drafts we had in this thread.

    The only way to get to the bottom of this is that the Ten Club needs to overnight a copy of the album with the lyrics book to me, and I'll immediately report back to the group with what I find there.
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  • robbierobbie Posts: 883
    Spotify lyrics are different as well. They dave "denounce" twice whereas apple has, and I clearly hear "renounce" the second time. Spoitify also says "came down into discord". I don't think any of the 3 "official lyrics" are the official lyrics. Do they get  
  • KwienekeKwieneke Posts: 1,654
    robbie said:
    Spotify lyrics are different as well. They dave "denounce" twice whereas apple has, and I clearly hear "renounce" the second time. Spoitify also says "came down into discord". I don't think any of the 3 "official lyrics" are the official lyrics. Do they get  
    Spotify definitely seems off. There’s a few times I know what they have is wrong with certainty 
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  • SpunkieSpunkie Posts: 6,672
    BF25394 said:
    It's almost as if Amazon took the lyrics from the early drafts we had in this thread.

    The only way to get to the bottom of this is that the Ten Club needs to overnight a copy of the album with the lyrics book to me, and I'll immediately report back to the group with what I find there.
    I second this motion. 

    Where are the listening party people when ya need 'em?!
  • lastexitlondonlastexitlondon Posts: 13,875
    It definitely isn't king diamond
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  • Sounds so much like when they were against the “unvaxxed” and made a song. Yikes
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  • Vedd HeddVedd Hedd Posts: 4,598
    Yeah, the Amazon ones definitely seem off.  Once the album is released, I'm sure the official lyrics will either be posted here, or at least in the liner notes, so it will be good to see what they actually are.  It's fun trying to decipher, though. 
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  • SpunkieSpunkie Posts: 6,672
    Sounds so much like when they were against the “unvaxxed” and made a song. Yikes
    Good take, forgot about that!
  • BF25394BF25394 Posts: 4,503
    Sounds so much like when they were against the “unvaxxed” and made a song. Yikes
    What is this referring to? Did I miss a song somewhere?
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  • SpunkieSpunkie Posts: 6,672
    I think that's their take re:  "everybody pays for someone else's mistake".
  • Spunkie said:
    I think that's their take re:  "everybody pays for someone else's mistake".
    Lol, that's hilarious.
  • I'm hearing

    (1st Pre-Chorus)
    Denounce the demagogues
    Deny to discard
    Deplore the dialogue
    Your word against the law

    (Chorus)
    Estranged these days
    When everybody else pays
    For someone else's mistakes
    Display distaste
    Everybody else pays
    For someone else's mistakes

    The way Eddie sings "Estranged" and "Display" seems on brand for how he likes to stretch his syllables 


  • mattcozmattcoz Posts: 2,202
    robbie said:
    I don't think any of the 3 "official lyrics" are the official lyrics.
    Agreed, but Apple's does seem closest.


  • lastexitlondonlastexitlondon Posts: 13,875
    I've just seen the greatest and cutest thing ever. My 6 year old was in the front room on her YouTube watching . Pearl jam dark matter lyrics video. My heart skipped a beat
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  • BSullyBSully Posts: 1,213
    I've just seen the greatest and cutest thing ever. My 6 year old was in the front room on her YouTube watching . Pearl jam dark matter lyrics video. My heart skipped a beat
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  • mattcozmattcoz Posts: 2,202
    edited March 2
    If these are official, then my ears are terrible because I keep hearing this:

    Steal the light from our eyes
    Drain the blood from my arms (definitely my and sounds more like arms than hearts, and you give blood from your arms)
    We're in all of this dark matter (definitely says we're first)
    Take the breath from my chest (definitely my)
    Break the thoughts in our mind
    We're losing time dark matter

    Denounce the demagogues (demigods makes no sense in context, demagogues absolutely does, and it rhymes with dialogue, kinda)
    Came down to destroy (definitely saying destroy here, really don't think it's king diamond)
    Deplore the dialogue (dialogue isn't something you can really deploy, but in context it's definitely deplorable)
    Your word against the law

    It's strange these days
    When everybody else pays
    For someone else's mistake
    Display takes shakes (not sure about this, definitely hearing dis-play, and it sounds like shakes, not shape, but that makes no sense)
    Still everybody else pays
    For someone else's mistake

    Eroding away
    We're pulling apart
    In all of this dark matter
    I once heard it said
    And it stuck in my head
    Arrested the press
    No one knows what happened next

    Renounce the demagogues (sounds the same as the first time)
    Came down to destroy (this one sounds a bit more like king diamond, but I just can't accept that, lol)
    Deplore the dialogue
    Your word against the law
    It's strange these days
    When everybody else pays
    For someone else's mistake
    Display takes shakes
    Still everybody else pays
    For someone else's mistake

    No tolerance for
    intolerance or
    No patience left for
    impatience no more
    No love lost for
    lost loves
    No sorrow for
    the unaccountable

    It's strange these days
    When everybody else pays
    For someone else's mistake
    This blame takes shakes (well crap, this time it sounds like this blame, but I'm still hearing shakes, heh)
    Still everybody else pays
    For someone else's mistake
    Post edited by mattcoz on
  • mattcoz said:
    If these are official, then my ears are terrible because I keep hearing this:

    Steal the light from our eyes
    Drain the blood from my arms (definitely my and sounds more like arms than hearts, and you give blood from your arms)
    We're in all of this dark matter (definitely says we're first)
    Take the breath from my chest (definitely my)
    Break the thoughts in our mind
    We're losing time dark matter

    Denounce the demagogues (demigods makes no sense in context, demagogues absolutely does, and it rhymes with dialogue, kinda)
    Came down to destroy (definitely saying destroy here, really don't think it's king diamond)
    Deplore the dialogue (dialogue isn't something you can really deploy, but in context it's definitely deplorable)
    Your word against the law

    It's strange these days
    When everybody else pays
    For someone else's mistake
    Display takes shakes (not sure about this, definitely hearing dis-play, and it sounds like shakes, not shape, but that makes no sense)
    Still everybody else pays
    For someone else's mistake

    Eroding away
    We're pulling apart
    In all of this dark matter
    I once heard it said
    And it stuck in my head
    Arrested the press
    No one knows what happened next

    Renounce the demagogues (sounds the same as the first time)
    Came down to destroy (this one sounds a bit more like king diamond, but I just can't accept that, lol)
    Deplore the dialogue
    Your word against the law
    It's strange these days
    When everybody else pays
    For someone else's mistake
    Display takes shakes
    Still everybody else pays
    For someone else's mistake

    No tolerance for
    intolerance or
    No patience left for
    impatience no more
    No love lost for
    lost loves
    No sorrow for
    the unaccountable

    It's strange these days
    When everybody else pays
    For someone else's mistake
    This blame takes shakes (well crap, this time it sounds like this blame, but I'm still hearing shakes, heh)
    Still everybody else pays
    For someone else's mistake
    Maybe Ed was influenced watching a lot of Shakes the Clown
  • iOnlyownMymindiOnlyownMymind Posts: 2,810
    It's strange these days when Ed's vocals are the weak link in a song (kind of been that way for awhile imo).  Listened to the instrumental today and damn it is good! I just don't get why he can't sing so it's understandable what he's saying. Mumbles along.  I expect the song to kick ass live though and looking forward to it (hopefully put MYM and Superblood to rest for awhile, I'm good on those songs lol). 
  • BF25394BF25394 Posts: 4,503
    It's strange these days when Ed's vocals are the weak link in a song (kind of been that way for awhile imo).  Listened to the instrumental today and damn it is good! I just don't get why he can't sing so it's understandable what he's saying. Mumbles along.  I expect the song to kick ass live though and looking forward to it (hopefully put MYM and Superblood to rest for awhile, I'm good on those songs lol). 
    Funny-- I think this is one of his better vocal performances.

    I still think the lyrics in the original post, from Apple Music, are correct. Some of those lines came from the listening party, and the Apple Music version matched them. They also synched up with the isolated vocals that were posted (and have since been taken down).
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  • Jimmydean55Jimmydean55 Posts: 1,358
    It would be nice if Ed would just sing clearly and then we wouldn’t have a ton of guessing on his lyrics. But who am I kidding? I’ve had to follow along with the cd booklet since 7th grade. 
  • spankyMPspankyMP Posts: 1,854
    writing credit incoming........ =)


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