mary409

Well I think that this song Prospekt March is so depressed but I like it. The first line when he says "Smoke is rising from the houses" here I think that he believes they are in war, and they are burning houses. He feels destroyed inside. The second line "People burying in their death" i think he means that since there was a war, everybody is burying their people could be family, loved ones, with a feeling of such loneliness. When he says "I ask somebody what the time is, but time doesn't matter to them yet", I think he means that he is the only one who cares about time, like if he was different, he sees a war coming and everybody don't care about it, because when a person you loved dies, something inside dies with you, so they really don't care. In that moment they just want to spend time thinking and remembering the ones they loved, but someday they'll have to wake up because time never stops, a war is coming and they got to prepare. When he says "People talking without speaking, trying to take what they can get", I think here he refers that all the people is becoming insane. Everybody is talking, not for other people to hear them, but for them to bring out the feeling trying to get out of their minds the loved ones, and they really don't care if they are shouting or taking things away, they just want to go back to how they were before, but they can't find it. When he says "I ask you if you remember, prospekt how could I forget", here I think he is asking to a neighbor or person in a street in a nostalgic way if he or she remembers his/her loved ones and exactly what happened to them in that fire, and they respond to him that prospekt how could I forget, meaning that they will never forget. When he sings "Drums here it comes, yeah don't you wish that life could be as simple, as fish swimming around in a barrel when you've got the gun?" Here he refers that the war is getting closer, and when he watches all this people feeling sad, doing anything to go back to how they were before the war, he thinks to himself that life is never going to be easy or to be how we expected to be. There would be times in which for every single person in earth would have difficult times. There would be times in which control would not be in our hands. The next stanza "Oh and I run, Here it comes, We're just two little figures in a soup bowl Trying to get behind a kind of control, But I wasn't one" here he means that he runs with the rest of the people, trying to escape from the enemies. When he hides, he notice that all people were doing the same, trying to hide and take things to protect themselves, but at the same time he watches the enemies bigger than them. He saw how people wanted control and how they were fighting for their lives, but they just couldn't, and he was different from the rest. In the last stanza when he says" Now here I lie, On my own in a separate sky, And here I lie On my own in a separate sky, I don't wanna die ,On my own here tonight, But here I lie, On my own in a separate sky..." He means that he escaped and took another way different from the rest of the people, and now he's lost. He doesn't know if the enemies are still alive and if they are maybe they are going to find him alone and they are gong to kill him. He is scared to die alone. I just gave my opinion for this song. I think this song is great, well all of their songs are great. Every song has a good different meaning.:)