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ARTIST: Thrice
TITLE: A Living Dance Upon Dead Minds
ALBUM: The Illusion Of Safety
GENRE: Post-Hardcore
by Luke Charman
Yep, I know Thrice don't normally use Drop D, but it's easy enough to move each note
down a couple to get to your Drop C tuning. I didnt wanna retune my guitar just to get this.
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B|---------------------------9-10-9----9--------
G|------------9-9-9-11-11-11--------11---11-9---
D|---11-11-11-----------------------------------
A|----------------------------------------------
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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques
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John Wanna Be |
#1 by John Agopian at Jul 1, 1970 at 10:22 PM EST |
| good post holkseye ps someone obviously isnt l337 [deadbolt] but its ok ur down with thrice so its ok :D | |
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Musical Genius |
#2 by oh.... THAT guy at Nov 18, 1971 at 5:16 AM EST |
| seems to me the first part describes love as a volatile thing, which can cause explosions at any minute. Maybe it's just a coincedence, (I doubt it) but notice how "mines" sounds so much similar to "minds." An example comes to mind of a pack of bullies "dancing" (beating up on) a "dead mind" (a mentally retarded kid). Someone sees this, and out of love for their fellow man, "explodes" and puts the bullies to justice. "disdains the trivial labeling of punctual brains" I'm not sure, but it could have something to do with scientists trying to classify a really smart person (punctual brain; they can solve problems or the like really fast or something) or someone with an extraordinary or miraculous ability into something that just doesn't fit them; they're way too complex to be described like that. Notice that it talks about dancing on "dead" minds and later about death and the grave. Dancing on graves? I dunno. One thing I think, though, is that the "poem huger than the grave" is love. Who wields love? Could it have something to do with God (from the Christia perspective, like Dustin [although he didn't write it]) is described as the essence of love, or is it that every human being loves something or someone? It just occured to me that that's just the song... I might try to analyze the actual poem later. | |
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Kyle Rhythm Player |
#3 by Kyle Wait I Aint Telling You at Jun 24, 1972 at 4:06 AM EST |
| my friend, nick, told me about thrice and i downloaded this song first because it sounded l3370...but i didn't realize until now how deep and meaningful, not to mention SMART these guys are! i never thought i would come across such a great band that actually uses their brains! | |
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Joe Average |
#4 by Joe Blurton at May 4, 1976 at 3:15 AM EST |
| hey deadbolt... this poem is by E.E. Cummings, "as the ruin falls" is by C.S. Lewis tho | |
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health risk Average |
#5 by health risk at May 11, 1980 at 11:47 PM EST |
| This is actually oringinally a poem buy a guy whos name alludes me at the moment | |
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David Rhythm Player |
#6 by David Bradley at Feb 18, 1982 at 6:12 AM EST |
| Yeah...This song is amazing. I think its about Love and how love is more powerful than anything even death. Even though you die your love will still live kind of like that. I don't know I think I'm talking out of my ass. | |
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Average |
#7 by Fig at Jul 29, 1983 at 5:34 AM EST |
| i love this song | |
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Terence Average |
#8 by Terence Taylor at Aug 2, 1989 at 1:28 PM EST |
| hey drak...thanks... | |
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Laurence Average |
#9 by Laurence Alam at Mar 4, 1991 at 4:36 PM EST |
| i like the use of poetry in this song i like this song very much | |
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Bobby Rhythm Player |
#10 by Bobby McCorkle at Jun 26, 1991 at 6:59 PM EST |
| it's not C.S. Lewis, ee cummings. Org. Poem is as follows. but if a living dance upon dead minds why,it is love;but at the earliest spear of sun perfectly should disappear moon's utmost magic,or stones speak or one name control more incredible splendor than our merely universe, love's also there: and being here imprisoned,tortured here love everywhere exploding maims and blinds (but surely does not forget,perish, sleep cannot be photographed,measured;disdains the trivial labelling of punctual brains... -Who wields a poem huger than the grave? from only Whom shall time no refuge keep though all the weird worlds must be opened? )Love | |
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sebastian Average |
#11 by sebastian daalmeijer at May 28, 1994 at 5:51 AM EST |
| hey i was gonna buy a thrice cd which one should i buy | |
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Bye! Average |
#12 by Bye! at Sep 10, 1994 at 1:05 PM EST |
| start with illusion of safety merremus513 | |
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David Rhythm Player |
#13 by David Bradley at Sep 15, 1996 at 9:48 AM EST |
| Three words: Love Trancends All. "who wields a poem huger than the grave" Poem=love Grave=death | |
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Alyssa Professional |
#14 by Alyssa at Aug 20, 1998 at 3:30 PM EST |
| love everywhere exploding, maims and blinds a living dance upon dead minds could be about war. mines underground. and this is the message of love that we send to these victims. we say we try to save them and that we love them, but we blow them up instead. but surely does not forget(perish) sleep, cannot be photographed(measured) disdains the trivial labeling of punctual brains but surely does not forget(perish) sleep, cannot be photographed(measured) disdains the trivial labeling of punctual brains dont know bout this part. why its love but at the earliest spear of sun perfectly should disappear our "love" blocks out any shred of hope for them who wields a poem huger than the grave who wields a poem huger than the grave who wields a poem huger than the grave who wields a poem huger than the grave whos words are better than ours that they can cause death. but surely does not forget(perish) sleep, cannot be photographed(measured) disdains the trivial labeling of punctual brains but surely does not forget(perish) sleep, cannot be photographed(measured) disdains the trivial labeling of punctual brains but surely does not forget(perish) sleep, cannot be photographed(measured) disdains the trivial labeling of punctual brains but surely does not forget(perish) sleep, cannot be photographed(measured) disdains the trivial labeling of punctual brains dont know. thats my take on it. | |
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isaac Average |
#15 by isaac fritsch at Nov 15, 1998 at 3:05 AM EST |
| i'd have to disagree, an possibly incorrectly...i dont know what each author meant by it, but the song at least sounds to me like a kind of biting, depressing tone... a living dance upon dead minds? seems to me to mean an idea that is still very much still worshipped by people who aren't necessarily the smartest of us. something that explodes, maims, and blinds, is not good. love is this thing that we believe to HELP us, to be the one thing we can always look to happily...but maybe all of this so-called 'love' is really what's killing us i think it should be written why it's "love" but at the earliest spear of sun perfectly should disappear i use the quotes to mean that its is CALLED love, but as soon as true light is shone upon it, it is revealed to be empty, meaningless, not real. as for the other two parts, i'm kinda lost...i think i'd have to stare at the words a lot longer than i'm willing to do at 1:36 on a school night with a paper yet to do... | |
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Brennan Wanna Be |
#16 by Brennan unknown at Feb 23, 2001 at 11:56 AM EST |
| allllrighty just realized that someone already said that... my bad. well that poem kicks ass anyway and so does thrice | |
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ScumFucBondage Average |
#17 by ScumFucBondage bumsex at Jun 7, 2002 at 12:39 AM EST |
| This song is the best. I love this song. Thrice is sooo awesome. =) | |
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