The Fall
The Rapture Lyrics


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I see it's time again
As the night's cold sneaks in the day
And here we lay down
In this purest white

Impervious grey
As summer lay dying
Falling, falling
And leaves us alone in this grey

A silent season
The falling year
This coldest of feelings
A sound that creeps over me

The thirsty earth
A fevered slumber
Creeping over me
Forever circle

Forever it creeps over me
As the year decays




And I fall
Again

Overall Meaning

The lyrics of The Rapture's song The Fall allude to the experience of the arrival and inevitable end of the fall season. The singer perceives the night's cold sneaking into the day and the pure white that covers the ground. The scene around them is grey, as if the summertime is dying, falling away from them as leaves do from trees. They are left alone in this grey, silent, and cold season, and the singer expresses that it brings about the coldest of feelings, a sensation that creeps over them as they witness this season's arrival. The thirsty earth is in a fevered slumber, as if waiting to receive the falling leaves and snowflakes. The season forever circles like the passage of time, and the singer expresses that even though it happens every year, it still creeps over them, as their world falls apart, and they experience the discomfort it brings.


The song seems to speak to the natural yearning for a stable and steady world, as the seasons change and everything falls apart, suggesting this song's universal appeal. The lyrics have a poetic quality, expressing an understanding of the lyrics where a listener can imagine, like the singer, the falling leaves and the changing seasons' colors, and feel the crux of emotion that accompanies the scene.


Line by Line Meaning

I see it's time again
I am aware that the same situation is occurring once more


As the night's cold sneaks in the day
The coldness of the night is gradually taking over the day


And here we lay down
We are settling down in our current state


In this purest white
We are in a state of innocence or purity


Impervious grey
A color that is immune to change, possibly symbolizing a stagnant state


As summer lay dying
As the season of summer comes to an end


Falling, falling
Things are rapidly deteriorating or declining


And leaves us alone in this grey
The situation has left us isolated and hopeless


A silent season
A time without any excitement or activity


The falling year
The year is coming to a close or coming to an end


This coldest of feelings
A deep feeling of emptiness, loneliness and sorrow


A sound that creeps over me
A feeling of distress or unease slowly taking over


The thirsty earth
An earth that is deprived of water and life


A fevered slumber
A state of feverish sleep or delirium


Creeping over me
Slowly taking over one's senses or consciousness


Forever circle
A continuous cycle of events that seem never-ending


Forever it creeps over me
The feeling of distress or unease always seems to take over me


As the year decays
As the year comes to an end or deteriorates


And I fall
I succumb to the feelings of loneliness or despair




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Silent_Stalker

The main issue Rapture fell wasn’t much more than restriction— the very same Andrew fled, not much more in my opinion.

First he falsely advertised to workers— because he wanted more workers for it to be made faster.

He then was controlling who entered and what they could do to some degrees which made people wonder if it was a free market— especially since it’s locked up and isolated from other trade… mercantilism (probably spelling it wrong, it’s what Canada has ‘the market is to serve the state and ‘zero sum’ fallacy belief restrict it)

Now they could also leave if they so wished.


As for charity being labeled parasites, not really charity is the best and vibrant version of the free market, however in Gary’s Gulch ‘give’ ‘can I have’ something like that isn’t quite allowed; a reverse of ‘Athem’ a pretty good dystopian novel by Ayn Rand.

It was a powder keg, with Atlas being thermite to light it



- No free market trade.
- Controlled mercantilism (auto correct corrected it)
- no export for people who are discontent (Mexico has this along with most western nations)
- Anti charity (free market)



Silent_Stalker

@FX Morin mercantilism basically became known now as protectionism and they practice the same policies pretty much.
Discouraging imports, and so on ‘to save our jobs’ and to tax people to subsidize them- ‘too big to fail’

The link would go here but youtube hates it.


Canada is more free market than what America is.

We can get everything we get from China- for less of a price if we get it from Mexico due to shipping costs…this would also solve the illegal immigration problem by making Mexico a lot better in theory, or not depending on actions… we have free money to China and the USSR and choices taken didn’t improve much, if anything.

Ironically Canada is more free market than America.

Sri Lanka, Botswana and Rwanda are three countries.
Sri Lanka is the most free market of the world, the other two are up and coming; promoting free markets in Africa and are the fastest growing economies in Africa- if I can remember… this was before 2020’s pandemic panic.



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Brandon Lyon

I recommend reading the novel: “Bioshock: Rapture”, it’s prequel book that goes into more detail on how Ryan developed Rapture, how it was before the games time, and how it was doomed from the start even before the discovery of Adam.

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Maksymilian Ziele

Read this book. Very fantastic.

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