Fall to your knees, accomplishing nothing.
Fall to your knees, only to exercise your schedule.
Abandon calendar.
What has come with such preaching is loneliness.
Profit: zero, achievement: zero.
Forward can't be stopped.
It just goes to show that some words are useless.
It just goes to show that some words are useless.
Take all your medals, take all your ribbons,
Take all your awards, take them, take them back to the ground. [ Lyrics from: http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/t/the_devil_wears_prada/dez_moines.html ]
Our youth is lost;
A product of the created circumstances.
All I can say is maybe
Maybe, maybe
All I can say is maybe
This is what I've been expecting all along, all along.
Now's the time of weakness, now's the time of blood.
Perhaps even the whole-hearted had wished for this.
Now's the time of weakness, now's the time of blood,
And still the time of lions.
Push everything, force everything.
We've all sung of the end, but who truly understands it?
All along, all along
Forward can't be stopped,
It just goes to show that some words are useless.
It just goes to show that some words are useless.
Take all your medals, take all your ribbons,
Take all your awards, take them back to the ground.
The meaning of this song can't be interpreted unless you wrote it. I'm not saying it can't mean anything to you. But just enjoy the music. This song is epic, and maybe one day you'll realize that analyzing stuff like this is just subject to your own opinion.
Dez Moines lyrics
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by Unregistered on Jan 29th 2012 1:51 am
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"if we have to ask what a song means, i'm not sure the author reached his goal of communicating a clear message. Anyone singing or sharing the gospel of jesus christ - the one and only true gospel - should strive diligently to send a clear and concise message with no room for question. "
Well, i see where you're coming from, but i think that people write songs like this because, there can be more than one meaning to it. And sometimes, if the meaning they are trying to send is upfront, out right obvious, then it kinda restricts you to find other meanings from the same text. Like, god could use this song to mean one specific thing to one person, and he could use it to mean somehting else to someone who's in a totally different situation. I mean, look in the bible, there are some stuff that are kinda abstract and u need to meditate on it to actually grasp the meaning. So in the lyrics, when they challenge you to think about it hard, then u learn even more stuff than you would have if the meaning had been given to you just like that.
by Unregistered on Jan 20th 2012 8:07 pm
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If we have to ask what a song means, i'm not sure the author reached his goal of communicating a clear message. Anyone singing or sharing the gospel of jesus christ - the one and only true gospel - should strive diligently to send a clear and concise message with no room for question.
by Unregistered on Jan 4th 2012 4:35 pm
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To me this song is telling us that our good deeds, words, and accomplishments are meaningless to god if we do not develop a sincere relationship with him. "fall to your knees, accomplishing nothing. " says that we can pray, but prayer without faith is just rambling a bunch of words and expecting your "wish" to fall out of the sky. "we've all sung of the end, but who truly understands it? " we all say that we know there will be an apocalyptic era, but who has actually read matthew 24, eziekiel 38 and 39, or even revelations? Very powerful song with some sick breakdowns! :d love prada
by Unregistered on Dec 20th 2011 9:11 am
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I love this song!! :d
helpt me through tuff times :)
by Unregistered on Dec 13th 2011 7:10 pm
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I think this website is biased... Arent i allowed to say god? I put a capital g in all my 'god's but afterwards, they were all lowercased... Anyways. U get wat im saying
by Unregistered on Dec 12th 2011 2:12 am
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I think its based on the bible chapter somewhere in the old testament (not sure where exactly - might be jeremiah) where he says everything is meaningless. Meaning, people strive for the wrong things in life and in the end we'r left with nothing. Ppl focus on shallow things and ignore the hardcore important things (like a sincere relationship with god, living for god, others and not just urself, reaching the rest of the world for god and stuff like that). So in the end, we find that we'v been living for the wrong things.. The things that dont matter. Sorry my typing kinda sucks but i hoped this helped
god bless
by Unregistered on Nov 2nd 2011 10:29 am
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I think it truly means that he was ignored as a kid and no one paid any attention to him and his acheviments and that everybody around is to blind to understand what it means to him but im saying what i think because im kinda realating it to my life but to everyone else its what you want it to be and if it works for you then dont take my meaning take whatever you want!
Apart from being a city in iowa, des moines is actually a translated as 'of monks' in french. This song has a lot to do with prayer and how many people try and fake their way through it because the don't truly believe in god. They only pray for show and not out of want to feel connected to god. This accomplishes nothing and demonstrates the point that some words are useless. People that do this have more earthly values than divine ones and mike (i believe that's who wrote this song) is trying to show them their earthly possessions mean nothing. He's also saying how fake people are and how our innocence is lost because of it. The cycle goes on and there's nothing that can stop it... But back to my original point, monks obviously spend a lot of time praying and the title is saying that's really cool. I figure this because of the 'z' at the end of des instead of a 's', which makes it seem cooler. They also live with very meager possessions and are the epitome of the ideal person as far as this song goes.
I hope this review helps out everyone who reads it...
I think the lyrics are trying to tell us that we are going through life without really accomplishing anything, we get medals and ribbons for achievements but they go to the ground in the end. Along with us. "we've sung of the end but who truly understands it? ". This makes me think that there's an apocalyptic sense to the lyrics, and parts of it relate to the bible, so i think they are trying to say "open your eyes you blind fucks". I'd like to explain more of the meanings to the song but i'm not wasting time telling people who sleep through life what they don't wanna know.