post-punk band f… Read Full Bio ↴Surji is the moniker of a vocalist of Peaches2Bitches,
post-punk band from Moscow.
If you try to analyze Surji’s works, you would recollect a lot of genres: minimalism, post-punk, post-rock, ambient and post-industrial. In spite of the fact that Surji doesn’t lack for his own ideas, his music has an association with a gloomy atmosphere and detachment of Joy Division, heartfelt melancholy and emotionality of The Cure, minimalistic songs of DAF and Suicide.
Discography:
Like in 1983 EP (2011)
Existentialism (2012)
Frozen Head (2013)
Links:
Last.fm
Bandcamp
SoundCloud
Passing
Surji Lyrics
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While the days go by
Since when I've started to rhyme
Only destroyed lines
The days are like the crowds
And the crowds are the days
They've come to round me
They're passing, they're passing
Fading lights won't lie I want to be right
Stunning and loud
Everything goes down
I stop pretending I'm fully alive
What if I've started to die
When the words have done
What if I've started to sigh
When the Earth goes down
One more rainy day beforу life's passing
I'm passing, I'm passing
I'm leaving like the drained blood
Fading lights won't lie I want to be right
Stunning and loud
Everything goes down
I stop pretending
I'm fully alive, fully alive
In "Passing," Surji questions the meaning of existence and reflects on her experiences of feeling like time is slipping away. The opening lines, "Since when I've started to run/While the days go by/Since when I've started to rhyme/Only destroyed lines" suggest that she feels like she's in a constant state of motion, yet also feels like she's not making progress. She then compares the passing of time to a crowd of people, "The days are like the crowds / And the crowds are the days," further emphasizing the overwhelming feeling of being swept along without control.
Surji then moves to questioning the purpose of her life, asking "What if I've started to die/When the words have done / What if I've started to sigh/When the Earth goes down." The imagery here implies that she feels like her creative energy is waning, and that she is losing hope in the world around her. She then acknowledges that she is also "leaving like the drained blood," suggesting that her own life force is ebbing away.
The chorus repeats the lines "Fading lights won't lie / I want to be right / Stunning and loud / Everything goes down / I stop pretending / I'm fully alive." Here, Surji ultimately faces the reality that with time comes change, and that everything will ultimately come to an end. She accepts her own mortality and seeks to live life on her own terms while she still can, rather than pretending that everything is perfect.
Overall, "Passing" is a reflective track that meditates on the meaning of life and the inevitability of death, with Surji embracing the impermanence of existence and learning to appreciate the present moment.
Line by Line Meaning
Since when I've started to run
Since when did I begin to move forward with purpose?
While the days go by
Despite the passage of time?
Since when I've started to rhyme
Since when did I begin to create poetry?
Only destroyed lines
But my efforts only result in ruined verses?
The days are like the crowds
The days are reminiscent of a bustling mass of people?
And the crowds are the days
The crowds represent the experience of daily life?
They've come to round me
They've gathered around me, enclosing me in their midst?
They're passing, they're passing
They continue to move on, leaving me behind?
They're leaving like the drained blood
Their departure is like the loss of vitality from my body?
Fading lights won't lie I want to be right
Dimming lights cannot hide the truth; I desire to be correct?
Stunning and loud
Overwhelming in their awe-inspiring nature?
Everything goes down
Eventually, all things come to an end?
I stop pretending I'm fully alive
I'm no longer feigning being fully alive?
What if I've started to die
What if I've begun the process of dying?
When the words have done
Once I've exhausted all my vocabulary?
What if I've started to sigh
What if I've begun to express sorrow?
When the Earth goes down
When the world crumbles and falls apart?
One more rainy day before life's passing
One final period of gloom before the conclusion of my existence?
I'm passing, I'm passing
I, too, am departing from this life?
I'm leaving like the drained blood
I'm leaving like the lost essence of life force?
Fading lights won't lie I want to be right
Dimming lights cannot hide the truth; I desire to be correct?
Stunning and loud
Overwhelming in their awe-inspiring nature?
Everything goes down
Eventually, all things come to an end?
I stop pretending
I cease attempting to pretend?
I'm fully alive, fully alive
I'm indeed alive, present and aware?
Contributed by Maria B. Suggest a correction in the comments below.