"Pareidolia" is a song by British progressive metal band Haken. It is the eighth song from the band's third album, The Mountain.
Despite not being released as a single, the song was uploaded to InsideOut Music's YouTube channel on 5 August 2013, just under a month before the album's release.
Basis
The term "Pareidolia" is defined as a psychological phenomenon involving a stimulus wherein the mind perceives a familiar pattern of something where none actually exists.
Production
Little is own about the production of "Pareidolia"
Lyrics
| "Pareidolia" lyrics [Click here] |
All my kingdom's gone
It's burned to the ground
Reason leaves me
As future sits upon a solitary throne
A treasure is sinking
Seems now long gone
The desert takes away
Our fears and dreams but they
Always will return
Be the moon and sun
Be the wind and cross the storm
See the stars begin to swarm
Read the writings in the stone
Be the moon and be the sun
Be the wind and cross the storm
See the stars begin to swarm
Read the writings in the stone
Seeking patterns
Envisaging pictures of a dying dream
Fallen prison
The façade of wisdom in old scars
Be the moon and sun
Be the wind and cross the storm
See the stars begin to swarm
Read the writings in the stone
Be the moon and be the sun
Be the wind and cross the storm
See the stars begin to swarm
Read the writings in the stone
Breathe in the air (Breathe deeper)
Don't lose the stars (Keep sinking)
The old spirit ware's (Perceiving)
Speaking within (Conceiving)
Show me the way (Old spirits)
Uncertainty (Deceiving)
Feelings arise (Believing)
Take what is mine (Retrieving)
Breathe in the air (Breathe deeper)
Don't lose the stars (Keep sinking)
The old spirit ware's (Perceiving)
Speaking within (Conceiving)
Show me the way (Old spirits)
Uncertainty (Deceiving)
Feelings arise (Believing)
Take what is mine (Retrieving)
As I've been forsaken
My veins feel unshaken
In the skies a secret lies
Well disguised before my eyes
The Uni is all around us kept in motion
Alleviate our pain and fear test our devotion
Breathe in the pain (Keep breathing)
You won't break these chains (Keep digging)
For what you've foreseen (Believing)
Was only a dream (Deceiving)
Give me what's yours (Retrieving)
You've dug your own tomb (Keep digging)
Your kingdom is gone (Keep grieving)
It's burned to the ground
All my fears have drowned
All my fears have drowned
Seems now long gone
The ocean took away
My fears and dreams but they
Never returned
Be the moon and sun
Be the wind and cross the storm
See the stars begin to swarm
Read the writings in the stone
Be the moon and be the sun
Be the wind and cross the storm
See the stars begin to swarm
Read the writings in the stone
The uni is all around us
Read the writings in the stone
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Personnel
Haken
- Ross Jennings - vocals
- Richard Henshall - guitars, keyboards
- Charlie Griffiths - guitars
- Diego Tejeida - keyboards
- Thomas MacLean - bass
- Raymond Hearne - drums
Trivia
- "Pareidolia" is the only Haken song to use a Bouzouki, a traditional instrument native to Greece and Turkey.
- It is also the longest Haken song to be written by Diego Tejeida.
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| "Pareidolia" |
The thumbnail from the song's music video |
| Song by Haken |
| Released |
5 August 2013 |
| Album |
The Mountain |
| Genre |
Progressive Metal, Progressive Rock |
| Length |
10:51 |
| Live Plays |
121 (#8 [tied]) |
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