Language from Rise & Fall by LIONLION
LIONLION’s single ‘Language‘ is about talking at cross-purposes even though you speak the same language.
The music video of the single stylizes the band’s regular every-day madness of a day on tour. It also shows communication in all its aspects: out of the shared great plans trouble is brewing and leads to non-verbal escalation. Finally, the tension eases when the brothers reconcile the conflict in an act of musical self-therapy.
The twins Matthias & Michael Rückert are in a cold war. On the one side, they are united as bandleaders and team up in the creative process of songwriting. On the other side, aiming for their goals leaves them estranged. That culminates in a conflict between brotherly telepathy and the hankering for individuality. It’s a highly explosive mixture, their bandmates André and David can tell you a thing or two about it.
The video is set in the ‘Haus des Volkes’, the “people’s house”. It is the largest Bauhaus ensemble in Thuringia, built in 1927 as a palace of culture by Alfred Arndt, who was a Bauhaus Master, teaching interior design, illustrative geometry and perspective.
The Bauhaus school and its architecture embodies functionality and thought-out design. In the video, this rational and clear visualisation is juxtaposed with the brothers’ emotional turmoil. The straight and stringent use of forms and colours contrasts with their conflict and reconciliation.
Not only the modern architecture matches the electric lyrics of the song: situated within the restricted zone of the inner-German border, the Bauhaus Hotel is a symbol of the conflict within Germany and the front between West and East in the times of the Cold War.
At the end of the day, LIONLION manage to overcome their differences and talk things out. Communication starts nonverbally because when there is real trust some things are better left unsaid. Words are powerful, best not take them all at face value.
Tracklist
| 4. | Language | 3:32 |
Lyrics
a late call is better than none, you turned off your phone
I don't know the cloud you're on, but it's far from home
give it a try
don't you pass me by
now that all has not been said and done
this heart of mine is losing time
are you scared to find this heart of mine?
what I say is not your language
another word will cause you anguish
what I know is not your wisdom
another thought will beat your system
you grab your parachute when more is said than done
free fall, you break away, liberty at once
give me a try
don't you pass me by
now that all we share is hard won
this heart of mine is losing time
are you scared to find this heart of mine?
what I say is not your language
another word will cause you anguish
what I know is not your wisdom
another thought will beat your system
will beat your system...
Credits
Music Written By LIONLION
Text Written By Michael Rückert / Matthias Rückert
Recorded At MOS Recording Studios
License
All rights reserved.
LIONLION is a four-piece indie rock band based out of the south of Germany, centred around the Rückert twins. After the release of their critically acclaimed debut album 'The Atlas Idea', the follow-up EP ‘Rise & Fall’ gave a foretaste of their second album ‘Perspective’, with which LIONLION have found the sweet spot between poetry and objectivity, motion & rest, grand gestures and quiet nuances.