"Dark Matter" Lyrics (Official)

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  • AllNiteThing
    AllNiteThing Posts: 1,115
    Pretty sure after 'Denounce the demagogues' it's 'Came down to destroy'.
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  • BrandiM
    BrandiM Winnipeg, Canada Posts: 22
    I definitely feel like demagogues fits better than demigods. 

    I’m struggling with this one so kudos to everyone who has figured parts of it out. A friend said this one is harder to figure out than Yellow Ledbetter and I tend to agree. I don’t normally have issues figuring out an entire song. 
    I’ll ride the wave where it takes me

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  • sweetlew33
    sweetlew33 Sun's Trapdoor Posts: 83
    jlindgren2 said:
    It will always be No Love Lost for Lost Dogs, for me
    Thank you. I was beginning to think I was the only one. 
  • PresentlyAlive
    PresentlyAlive Posts: 247
    EH14457 said:
    smysteryman said:
    kmcmanus said:
    “Arrested the press, no one knows what happened next” end of second verse, but I have no idea what the line before it is
    I’ve added this to my file. Sounds right on the isolated track. 
    Yup. "Arrested the press" sounds like a winner.
    A couple lines up from this isn't it "I once heard a saying" instead of "heard her sing"??? Seems to fit logically with the next couple lines. 

    I once heard a saying
    and it stuck in my head
    Arrested the press
    No one knows what happened next
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  • EH14457
    EH14457 Orlando, FL Posts: 413
    PresentlyAlive said:
    EH14457 said:
    smysteryman said:
    kmcmanus said:
    “Arrested the press, no one knows what happened next” end of second verse, but I have no idea what the line before it is
    I’ve added this to my file. Sounds right on the isolated track. 
    Yup. "Arrested the press" sounds like a winner.
    A couple lines up from this isn't it "I once heard a saying" instead of "heard her sing"??? Seems to fit logically with the next couple lines. 

    I once heard a saying
    and it stuck in my head
    Arrested the press
    No one knows what happened next
    Yep. That sounds right and makes more sense. 

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  • Bob Mayo on the keyboards Bob
    Bob Mayo on the keyboards Bob Carmel, IN Posts: 574
    Is it this blame to shake in the chorus? 
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  • LizJ
    LizJ Posts: 369
    They just added these lyrics to Apple Music:

    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
  • BF25394
    BF25394 Posts: 4,957
    edited February 2024
    Original post updated. Thanks, LizJ.

    I was right about there being one "demigods" and one "demagogues," but I had them backwards!

    Kudos to JR86440 who figured out "king diamond to discard."
    Post edited by BF25394 on
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  • Spunkie
    Spunkie i come from downtown. Posts: 7,095
    Thanks U2! Et al. Esp. Apple 😆 
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    Animals were hiding behind the Coral 
    Except for little Turtle
    I could swear he's trying to talk to me 
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  • pdalowsky
    pdalowsky Doncaster,UK Posts: 15,288
    pdalowsky said:
    i swear to god he says cannibal in there somewhere 
    well i need to clean my ears out, as I went from cannibal, to carnival and understand its in fact accountable.......yet i still hear cannibal LOL
  • DeLukin
    DeLukin Posts: 2,757
    lastexitlondon said:
    Everybody loves pears, they're hidden under the stairs.....is my wife and kids take 
    I just spit coffee on my keyboard. Nicely done, LOL.
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  • spankyMP
    spankyMP NY to NC to NH Posts: 2,119
    "Or is it depresh?" Need to wait and see if Gary Gulman got a writing credit.
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  • BF25394
    BF25394 Posts: 4,957
    edited February 2024
    spankyMP said:
    "Or is it depresh?" Need to wait and see if Gary Gulman got a writing credit.
    Gary Gulman is the best. I saw him do nearly two full hours on consecutive nights at Largo here in L.A. a month ago. (That's two hours each night, mind you.) Amazing as always. It was especially interesting to see how he approached the material differently from one night to the next, and how his digressive style meant that there were some jokes that either got told or didn't get told depending on where his stream of consciousness (and the audience response) took him.
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  • spankyMP
    spankyMP NY to NC to NH Posts: 2,119
    BF25394 said:
    spankyMP said:
    "Or is it depresh?" Need to wait and see if Gary Gulman got a writing credit.
    Gary Gulman is the best. I saw him do nearly two full hours on consecutive nights at Largo here in L.A. a month ago. (That's two hours each night, mind you.) Amazing as always. It was especially interesting to see how he approached the material differently from one night to the next, and how his digressive style meant that there were some jokes that either got told or didn't get told depending on where his stream of consciousness (and the audience response) took him.
    He is one of my favorites since seeing the Depresh special and how much he went into detail about his past.
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  • BF25394
    BF25394 Posts: 4,957
    Did you see his latest special that went up on Max right before Christmas, Born on Third Base? Unfortunately, it is cut down to a little over an hour from the two hours of material he was doing live that was all killer. But it's still great.

    And his book that came out in October, Misfit, is also excellent.
    I gather speed from you fucking with me.
  • spankyMP
    spankyMP NY to NC to NH Posts: 2,119
    BF25394 said:
    Did you see his latest special that went up on Max right before Christmas, Born on Third Base? Unfortunately, it is cut down to a little over an hour from the two hours of material he was doing live that was all killer. But it's still great.

    And his book that came out in October, Misfit, is also excellent.
    In my queue
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  • BF25394
    BF25394 Posts: 4,957
    spankyMP said:
    BF25394 said:
    Did you see his latest special that went up on Max right before Christmas, Born on Third Base? Unfortunately, it is cut down to a little over an hour from the two hours of material he was doing live that was all killer. But it's still great.

    And his book that came out in October, Misfit, is also excellent.
    In my queue
    Newspapers matter not to you... yeah
    I gather speed from you fucking with me.
  • spankyMP
    spankyMP NY to NC to NH Posts: 2,119
    🤣
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  • MM70435
    MM70435 Posts: 309
    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?
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  • BF25394
    BF25394 Posts: 4,957
    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." :)
    I gather speed from you fucking with me.

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