Songs
"Are You Shivering?" is about the drug MDMA, colloquially known as Ecstasy.
The song "Red Birds..." is based on the album Rubycon by Tangerine Dream. The name for this song was taken from Nostradamus book The Prophecies.
Piano on "Red Queen" is performed by Thighpaulsandra and is about the media spreading lies.
The spoken line on "Strange Birds" is taken from Aleister Crowley.
"The Dreamer Is Still Asleep" is about William Blake.
Read more about this topic: Musick To Play In The Dark Vol. 1
Famous quotes containing the word songs:
“The hills are alive with the sound of music, with songs they have sung for a thousand years.”
—Oscar Hammerstein II (1895–1960)
“How learned he bitter songs of lost Iambe,
Or that a cup-shaped breast is nothing vile?”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)
“Heaven has a Sea of Glass on which angels go sliding every afternoon. There are many golden streets, but the principal thoroughfares are Amen Street and Hallelujah Avenue, which intersect in front of the Throne. These streets play tunes when walked on, and all shoes have songs in them.”
—For the State of Florida, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)