LYRICS
CroworD were always seen as storytellers, they will take you behind the concept of every single song and its lyrical idea, root and heritage. If you want to dive deep into the meaning of the crow's word, here is your chance. Click songs y0u always wondered what they are about, or you've never noticed.
Crimson Gaze
Schoenbergs "Gaze", earlier "Crimson Gaze" shows us just a face in the moment, where fear turns to hate and bare brutality. Then scapegoat is what will be found. But will you cravenly be silent in this crimson gaze?
Isle of the Dead
Bocklin's sametitled picture shows a broken man which curse was to take every dying soul to this isle. His only wage was one soul he could save from this fate. What would you do, when you have to welcome this soul on this boat.
Death and the Maiden
The young Egons Schiele, while he was in service in the first world war, used this old tale, like Schubert and other artist did. From his view the Death comes as a starved priest and takes the girl in her innocence before war will strike this place and ravage but will she come with him?
Secession
Klimt's critic view on his assignment to picture the four faculties of Viennas University and its rejection and the public indignation asks us if art and inspiriation is going with the time or if art is the forger of doom.
Message of the Dead
Franz Kafkas' metaphor partly quoted and concluded to a hounding story about the kings power over his servents, and their blind obidience.
Progress from Discontent
Huxleys book "A Brave New World" from a different perspective. A wild one falls into a strange utopia where feelings and knowledge are gone just not to witness loss. Revolution or death in entertainment slavery?
Beyond Obsidian Gates
Deep in the neverending universe, a ship is lost in eternity but behind all lights of the stars hides a secret majesty - the great beyond.
The Mountain
A lonely king craves for the distance and as time doesn't matter for a cold stone the unknown glitter will reach him and will erase everything that divided them and himself too, cause what's a trice in a mountains eternity?
Spectre's Bride
Dvorak's libretto for his sametitled opera tells the topos of Agatha with an happy end for the moment. But when her beloved will not take her with him into the empire of dead, he will always follow her.
Wall of Blackness pt.I
The acustic Intermezzo drives you directly behind the meaning of "The Great Beyond". It is about the human desire of getting behind things, that never shows whats hide inside, but reveals a greater meaning of misery and doom.
Manifest of Mortal Sickness
Ende's "The neverending Story" tells about Gmork, that is sent to kill Atreju. Tired he lays down and talked to a stranger. He identify his colloquist and with his bite he hold him tight in the moment where Nothing reach this place.
A Stars' Eclipse
Quoted from Sachs' "Sternenverdunklung", where she spokes about the oblivion and dispelling of the Shoa, and the sorrow, which each descendant has to bare. it didn't start with the camps, it started with fear and hate.
The Longest Fall
Before man appeared on earth the trees wandered and talked and even two of them fall in love. But then man came and these trees ingrained and where seperated by a growing path that only envy will end their suffer.
A Crow's Word
The medieval sickness walks through the valleys so two brothers were sent to spread alarm in the next village. But the ascent is harder this time and as one of them falls and breaks his leg, a crow sit down before them.
Wall of Blackness pt. II
Saint-Exupéry "the little Prince" as a good conclusion to "The great Beyond". The journey to the desired is long and what hides behind is sometimes elusive, but one can see it clearly.