In Flames: Sounds of a Playground Fading Meaning

Sounds of a Playground Fading Lyrics

You can find all you need
The message is in the silence
Whisper words to calm your mind
Reach inside, numb the pain
Come around with answers

We are ghosts of the concrete world
Genetic codes of a dying breed
Will I be left...

1. anonymous

   • 1
   • 2
   • 3
   • 4
   • 5

   click a star to vote

   Oct 4th 2012 !⃝

   I think that anders got the idea from the movie " children of men "its a futuristic movie about the end of the world,(not in a nuclear disaster).but in short- the women can no longer give birth ,so the human race is slowly dying.one actor even says the words- " sounds like a playground fading "
2. anonymous

   • 1
   • 2
   • 3
   • 4
   • 5

   click a star to vote

   Apr 11th 2012 !⃝

   The songs is about the fall of humanity and how we are slowly moving toward our doom "We are ghosts of the concrete word; generic codes of a dying breed".
   "Staring into bright lights" may be a metaphor comparing us (humanity) to a deer or other animal when confronted with the lights of a vehicle becoming stunned and paralysed as they are in awe of the bright light not knowing that death awaits them. Can be compared to this; blinded by the world we create around ourselves blinded by the light of our goal to conquer rape and pillage and destroy.
   “Sounds of a playground fading” may refer to humans, as compared to children losing their sense of innocence or compassion and how we are becoming robots to society and thus are the reason behind the inevitable fall of our own civilisation.
   “We are running out of time. Can’t seem to realise. What put us here in the first place. Counting down the days. Beginning of the end”.
3. anonymous

   • 1
   • 2
   • 3
   • 4
   • 5

   click a star to vote

   Nov 26th 2011 !⃝

   I think its about a nuclear accident or bombing, and that the kids that were playing on the playground dies and therefore the sound of the playground is fading... "genetic code of a dying breed" is also indicating that it has something to do with a nuclear explosion of somekind.. but im not completely sure about this though just a thought.
4. anonymous

   • 1
   • 2
   • 3
   • 4
   • 5

   click a star to vote

   Jul 10th 2011 !⃝

   Maybe a response to may 21st? lol

Latest Articles

• 
  Anime to watch for the soundtracks… and other reasons you’re undateable
• 
  Dolly, we need you
• 
  The Stranger Things Effect: How new media is drawing Gen Z and Alpha's attention to aging media
• 
  The most underrated soundtrack of the early 2000s
• 
  Buy the Soundtrack, Skip the Movie: Brainscan (1994)
• 
  Let’s Go to the Hop - Ignore That Door’s Four Bunnies and a Beatbox