Track Listing and Song Title Meanings
" is a word puzzle, as so many other titles and phrases on the album. It derives from a combination of China (for fragility and beauty, but also man made) and Messiah (for saviour but also the notion of something in which we, humanity, put our faith for salvation). Other puzzles on the same theme is Machinassiah (as above but with the adding of Machine symbolizing industry, artificial and a moving system), Machinageddon (as above but replacing Messiah with Armageddon for destruction and a negative spiral) and Machinauticus (as above but replacing Armageddon with Nauticus for searching, quest, lost and the creation of the probe). - Daniel Gildenlöw
The Latin errors are on purpose on behalf of Daniel. In a letter to a fan, which was posted on the Remedy Lane forum, he wrote:
"I'd say the trick is not to see the titles as pure Latin, but a connecting thread woven by words in Latin. Thus, Lilium Cruentus is formed by the words for lily and stained by blood and is preferably interpreted as a loss of innocence and virginity, see? There are no rules here, just triggers to the mind. Deus Nova - a god (male to its form but in a poetical value I simply wish to underline the paternal role in the act of creating the world) and the sense of novelty and beginning - the new. A new god on the rise. I was aware of the fact that the Latin was not correct (though sometimes it should be, like the very long chapter title, which is more of a sentence than the remaining puzzle) and for many of the titles I was left to choose between the erred one and the linguistically correct. In all cases I went for the poetically correct and/or most versatile in interpretation. The title with most errors in relation to its meaning would probably be Nihil Morari - for that one you have to make a two-step translation. Nihil meaning nothing is pretty simple, but then Morari is something like left-overs or corps as I recall it, but if you use the word remains for that same notion you have a words with two different meanings - and there's the magic, see?
I should probably make clear that I didn't do this to puzzle people or make them feel stupid, it's just a way of naming your children, sometimes they need a whole world - the naming being some sort of magical process like a baptism of some sort, affecting the song emotionally whether the receivers will understand the titles or not. I don't know if this makes sense at all, but... it's like doing the right thing even if no one's watching you know? Very non-meta-physics in a way I guess..."
With that said, here are the rough translations for the song titles.
Prologue
- 01. Animae Partus ("I Am") - A God Is Born ("I Am") 1:48
"BE" (CHINASSIAH)
I Animae Partus
- All in the Image of
- 02. Deus Nova - New God. Note that 'Deus' is masculine and 'Nova' is feminine, so it should have been either 'Deus Novus' (masculine) or 'Dea Nova' (feminine) if it were to be grammatically correct. However, this is intentional. 3:18
- 03. Imago (Homines Partus) - Imago (Man Is Born) 5:11
- 04. Pluvius Aestivus - Summer Rain 5:00
- Of Summer Rain (Homines Fabula Initium) - Of Summer Rain (The Story of Man Begins)
II Machinassiah - See above.
- Of Gods & Slaves
- 05. Lilium Cruentus (Deus Nova) - Blood Stained Lily (New God). Note that it should have been 'Lilium Cruentum' if it were to be grammatically correct. 5:28
- On the Loss of Innocence
- 06. Nauticus (Drifting) - Nauticus (Drifting). Note that 'Nauticus' is Latin for Sailor, which directly applies to Nauticus' role in the concept. 4:58
- 07. Dea Pecuniae - Goddess of Money 10:09
- I Mr. Money
- II Permanere
- III I Raise My Glass
III Machinageddon - See above.
- Nemo Idoneus Aderat Qui Responderet
- 08. Vocari Dei - Messages to God 3:50
- Sordes Aetas - Mess Age
- 09. Diffidentia (Breaching the Core) - Mistrust (Breaching The Core) 7:26
- Exitus - Drifting II
- 10. Nihil Morari - Nothing Remains
- (Homines Fabula Finis) - The Story of Man Comes To An End 6:21
IV Machinauticus - See above.
- Of the Ones With no Hope
- 11. Latericius Valete - If You Are Strong, Be Strong 2:27
- 12. Omni - Everything 2:37
- Permanere?
- 13. Iter Impius - Wicked Path 6:21
- Martius, son of Mars
- Obitus Diutinus
- 14. Martius/Nauticus II - Martius/Nauticus II 6:41
V Deus Nova Mobile
- ...and a God is Born
- 15. Animae Partus II 4:08
Concept, research, original stories, lyrics, narrations and texts by Daniel Gildenlöw. All music by Daniel Gildenlöw, except "Iter Impius" by Fredrik Hermansson. All orchestral arrangements by Daniel Gildenlöw, except "Imago" by Jan Levander and Daniel Gildenlöw and "Iter Impius" by Fredrik Hermansson. News casts, fake interview and other "snipplets" written by Kim Howatt, Jim Howatt and Daniel Gildenlöw.
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