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lotte sang, ‘I see a world in anger, I see a thunder’. In Chrysalis – The Last Breath’ something that we really wanted to do, and
world in pain, each day a different story, but she sings ‘Don’t you remember me, your wanted to think outside the box. And we
still the message is the same’. It seems like oldest friend’. ‘Suckerpunch’ begins ‘His were just thinking, we’ve been here for ten
the message today is the same as it was ten frost performed its art and it has stained my years and we owe it all to the people who’ve
years ago. Charlotte didn’t write the lyric tainted heart’ – although Charlotte tells us supported us over the years and let’s turn
back then – ‘The Gathering’ was written by that only ‘The Hurricane’ is about a relation- to those people directly and see if we can
Guus Eikens, but Charlotte says, “I do feel ship. “It’s about the violence that you can make it happen. If they like the idea we can
like, especially that first verse is something do to each other in a relationship and then and if they don’t, we don’t. And it turns out
that many of us can relate to looking around deciding that the foundation of the relation- we can. I think that’s one of the examples
at the world today, and yeah, not a lot has ship itself is stronger than the troubles that where even though you feel sometimes that
changed, even though those were not my you have. And that all sounds very deep your hands may be tied, if you’re passion-
thoughts at the time.” and profound but it’s actually about make- ate about something, and if you think cre-
up sex! But the other songs, ‘Suckerpunch’ atively, there is so much more you can do
harlotte has said that if she reads and ‘Chrysalis – The Last Breath’, they dig than you think. So, yeah, in a way I’d say
Cold lyrics it’s like reading old diaries a little bit deeper, beneath the surface, and that yeah, we are holding all the cards, be-
and seeing what she was up to at that time. for me, the shape of telling the story as a cause we don’t easily take no for an answer.
She says with more recent songs it can be story between two different entities is just We put in so much time and energy to
harder to talk about them. “There’s always another way of kind of reconciling these dif- achieve the things that we want to do and
a point to addressing things that I’m going ferent voices that one might have within even if we don’t reach them we don’t get
through through lyrics and one of the ideas themselves.” discouraged easily. In 2012 when it looked
behind doing that and not actually writing a With Charlotte singing ‘You are holding like our album wasn’t even going to be re-
diary is the fact that I can make things as all the cards’ in ‘Fire With Fire’ we end by leased, that was ‘We Are The Others’ back
cryptic or close to fictional as I want and asking if she feels like they’re holding all then, because of all the label trouble that we
that’s often because the things that I write the cards with Delain at the moment. went through, we found a way to make that
in the lyrics are things that are not neces- She thinks for a while. “I do think that happen after all. I think it was the biggest
sarily easy to talk about in a normal way, whatever the situation you’re in, even if you bump in the road that we’ve hit so far and
whereas it gets easier and easier for me to feel like you’re not holding all the cards, if we had to work hard to get back to the level
talk about things on old records. “Oh, I was you’re not happy with the situation you can that we wanted to be after that, but I’m so
going through that back then,” I think it’s a always change it by always making unex- happy now that we didn’t get discouraged,
bit harder on more recent events.” pected decisions. For example, with the that we went through all of that, and we
Songs like ‘The Hurricane’, ‘Sucker- Pledge campaign, I think that’s a good ex- came out more determined. So yeah, I do.”
punch’ and the previously mentioned ample, this is something that we really Visit www.delain.nl for more info.
‘Chrysalis – The Last Breath’ are all songs wanted to have a celebration. We really
where it seems like Charlotte is talking to wanted to have the DVD. It’s not something Words By Shari Black Velvet
someone or it involves a relationship. In that we had budgeted. It’s not something
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‘The Hurricane’ she begins ‘Your voice is that we had planned extra time for but it’s
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