The song "Dance!" Splin's group became part of the second part of the album "Resonance" of 2014. Many fell in love with a catchy melody, heartfelt words were remembered, but few people know that this composition already appeared in an earlier album of rock musicians, "Optical illusion." Initially, it was released under a different name - “Bucket”, in a different arrangement, consisted of only two verses, it lacked a refrain refrain, and there was not a single mention of a call to dance.
Unlike its original version, “Dance!” more melodic, gentle, and when listening, an inspired, melancholy mood is created rather than sad. Understanding the history of the song, its words, one can understand that Alexander Vasiliev pays great attention to this composition: it was not for nothing that she underwent such a difficult path of metamorphosis.
The more you listen to this song, the more details you notice, and they subsequently add up to closely related semantic motives. It is known that often songs of Spleen permeate motives, one way or another connected with religion. Here you can distinguish three main ones, which in turn are built into a fairly clear hierarchy: from base desires, which are able to at least slightly bring the state of the human soul to heavenly enjoyment through liberation, to reunion with a soul mate and, in the end, “return to primitive ”, which is paradise itself.
- The first motive is the motive of intoxication. Throughout the song, the lyrical hero is intoxicated, does not part with the “bottle of whiskey,” which takes him to a blissful world in which such an alluring calm reigns. The author gives the impression that not only the hero is drunk, but everything around him: “The wave is running and something is raving”; "Time, measuring sips"; "The bucket in the sky is upside down." Despite the fact that alcohol is called poison several times, it is able to transfer people to this amazing, previously inaccessible and impossible “upturned” world in which they can be together and alone: “We were so strangely close, / Taking one potion with poison. "
- Since all the motives are closely related, we are smoothly approaching why this world, into which the characters of the song are transferred, is so amazing and attractive to them. The seashore becomes a place of reunion of kindred souls, which is precisely the second motive. The lyrical hero tells his companion that some forces beyond his control contributed to their meeting: “We were attracted like a magnet.” Life takes on completely different colors, the world becomes endless, merging with the starry sky and, accordingly, with the Universe: “There are so many interesting things with you / Around is not at all close ...”
- The third motive that permeates the entire composition is “a return to the primitive,” the heroes reaching a possible paradise. It is worth paying attention to the landscape. It is perfect, its description pacifies: the seashore, waves, starfall (“And the stars fall behind the gate ...”) There is no one around the couple, only “water, sand and stones”, which is a bit like the world of primitive Adam and Eve, who were also made for each other. The lyrical hero several times utters very mysterious lines: "Burn with your fire the Third Rome." What does that mean? The Third Rome can be interpreted not only very directly, like Moscow, but also like any other big city that identifies civilization, which is the antipode of the primitive clean world that the heroes of the song comprehended. Also the main appeal is “Dance!” - suggests the special state of the soul, which is in absolute happiness and freedom.
Thus, all three motives reveal the meaning of the song “Dance!”.
