Lyrics
Who am I at night when my eyes are closed tight?
Who am I and where when I see far beyond?
Every border, every dream, every hidden memory
Every nightmare, truth or dare
Who do I see
Now
Look at me
Tell me what you see
Are we just being everyone?
Where am I?
Tell me, what should go, what should stay?
Where am I, where am I?
And where shall I go tonight?
Every night a different theme
Every time you’re in a different dream
Am I me there, what am I?
Who will I be
Now
Look at me
Tell me what you see
Are we just being everyone?
Look at me
Tell me what you see
Are we being everyone?
I cry, I fall
I love, I hate
I know many, though no face ever stays
I breathe, I fly
I kill, I die
Though there’s nothing that I know
No-one can recall where I have been or who I was
Look at me
Tell me what you see
Are we being everyone?
Look at me
Tell me what you see
Are we just being everyone?
Look at me
Tell me what you see
It’s me being everyone
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Since the birth of After Forever in 1995, the band has continually strived to innovate. Remagine, albeit featuring the trusted sound we have come to know as typically After Forever, still manages to sound vital and new. After Forever have been enormously influential with regard to other bands, and were there at the birth of what has now become known as ‘gothic metal’. But whatever influences were drawn from After Forever by subsequent bands, they all seem to miss the two characteristics that make After Forever particularly unique: the eternal desire to re-invent themselves and move forward, and of course the inimitable voice of Floor Jansen. Who later joined Nightwish.
Jansen seems to switch effortlessly between her usual singing voice and a sensitive soprano, as well as being the driving force behind the choral singing featured on the album, and writing the majority of its lyrics. She also came up with the album’s title. “The title is open to various interpretations, as are my lyrics”, Jansen disclosed. “Some people read into the word “remagine” as being a sign that we are re-inventing ourselves. For me, it’s combining dreaming with realism: a combination of ‘reality’ or ‘reflection’ and ‘imagination’. On this album, dreams and reality merge together.”
Remagine has emerged as After Forever’s most diverse and dynamic album, due to the band’s ever-present urge to innovate. On this album, the band members are exploring the outer extremities of metal’s borders, stepping outside them convincingly and with no qualms whatsoever at times, all the while retaining the unique identity that constitutes After Forever.
Transmission, the label that discovered and signed After Forever, re-releases Remagine as a double-CD, containing 23 bonus-tracks, 14 of which have never been released before versions. Included the single versions of Being Everyone & Boundries are Open and a touching piano version of Strong. The recordings have been dynamically remastered from the original masters and come packaged in a deluxe digi-pack, containing all lyrics, exclusive pictures and memorabelia and new liner notes by guitarist/composer Sander Gommans.
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