IAMX - Bernadette

'Bernadette' from the IAMX album ‘Volatile Times’, released March 18, 2011

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Music written, performed and produced by Chris Corner
’Bernadette’ released on the IAMX album ‘Volatile Times’ March 18, 2011
© & ℗ IAMX Productions Inc. 2011

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Lyrics:

You and me in our playhouse
Living in a veil
We never need to go without
Memories bring no joy or peace
We are alone
And all we need
Tuning out of the poison
Every waking day
Intolerance to overcome
Fortunes won by the boys with the guns
We are alone
Nowhere to run

Bernadette
You are my liberty
I celebrate the day
That you changed my history
Life and death
Will always lead you into love and regret
But you have answers
And I have the key
For the door to Bernadette

Winding down our emotions
Family and friends
Becoming ghosts to dream of and pass on
Time will erase every face every name
We are alone
No-one to blame

Bernadette
You are my liberty
I celebrate the day
That you changed my history
Life and death
Will always lead you into love and regret
But you have answers
And I have the key
For the door to Bernadette

© & ℗ IAMX Productions Inc. 2011

[omohosp]

This song is how reading Edgar Allan Poe feels to me.

[idfk_________]

The song feels like a love song but with murderous intent and i love it

[maybeimight]

I got some weird ass nostalgia when I heard this song but Im sure Ive never heard this before

[thatoneguy]

I love the "distressful' feel of this

[explosivemuffin]

This sounds like a man tried to revive his deceased wife, but she woke up emotionless and with no memories of her past life. The man spent countless hours trying to get her to remember or to feel something, but at the end he accepts what he created and lets her pass on to the afterlife.

[DaveTheOrderly]

The distressing tone, yet mystical lyrics captivates me.... I kinda want to make a horror PMV to this song, which I think would fit. who agrees?

[yournamehere]

You and me in our playhouse
Living in a veil 
We never need to go without
Memories bring no joy or peace
We are alone 
And all we need

Tuning out of the poison
Every waking day
Intolerance to overcome
Fortunes won by the boys with the guns
We are alone 
Nowhere to run

Bernadette
You are my liberty
I celebrate the day 
That you changed my history of life and death
Will always lead you into love and regret
But you have answers 
And I have the key for the door to Bernadette

Winding down our emotions
Family and friends 
Becoming ghosts to dream of and pass on 
Time will erase every face, every name
We are alone 
No-one to blame

Bernadette
You are my liberty
I celebrate the day 
That you changed my history of
Life and death
Will always lead you into love and regret
But you have answers
And I have the key 
To Bernadette

[szczur]

listening to it isn't enough, i need this song inside me

[Arahabaki_luvr]

Welcome bsd fans.
I saw someone say sounds like something Poe would write and I agree.

[satchdraws]

this is the perfect song to listen to when walking outside at night with no clouds in the sky and when it just snowed or something tbh, gives me good weird feeling tbh

[macabreromance]

This reminds me of a vampire singing about his human lover who was murdered before he could turn her. Like people assumed she was a witch or something and he’s just in his dark castle singing longingly to the moon.

[AT--LOW]

That's a song i could listen to for hours without getting bored

[Ryulov]

Fyolai fans here, This song represents my life and fyolai. LOVE IT

[coinlockerbaby]

So, this song sounds like it's about a man and a woman living in a nuclear shelter alone. Of course, they have each other, but no one else.

[monniemai]

To me, this feels like an immortal falling for a mortal, trying to convince and manipulate them to join eternal life, cutting off the past, loved ones and memories as unnecessary, it's only the two of them. The mortal gives the immortal a reason to go on with living forever, they want to share it now.

[MrsNattieJB]

When I heard this this song for the first time I thought Bernadette was a woman... But now I think Bernadette is the "scape/exit" of depressed people. It could be anything, from a person to drugs, it is very subjective-
I love this song! <3

[live_laugh_lick]

From now on this is Fyolai's theme song-

[rukaito]

Crime and punishment/The overcoat vibes

[tylerarke]

So I found this song during a several day anxiety mess. This...hits different when your heart is racing for no reason and you feel like you're about to die.

[jen]

This song is the whole reason why I started loving this band/Chris.