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| | Name     = The Renaissance | | Name     = The Renaissance | ||
| | Cover    = AG Purple Demo.jpg | | Cover    = AG Purple Demo.jpg | ||
| | Type     =  | | Type     = Demo | ||
| | Artist   = Avant Garde | | Artist   = Avant Garde | ||
| | Album    = The Purple Demo | | Album    = The Purple Demo | ||
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| "'''Renaissance'''" is  | "'''Renaissance'''" is a song by [[Avant Garde]]. It appeared on the band's second and third demo tapes, ''[[The Purple Demo]]'' and ''[[Somethin' Different!]]'', respectively. | ||
| == | ===Appearances=== | ||
| *''[[The Purple Demo]]'' (1988) | |||
| *''[[Somethin' Different!]]'' (1989) | |||
| ==Overview== | |||
| {{Expand section}} | |||
| ==Personnel== | |||
| *[[Kevin Ridel]]: vocals | *[[Kevin Ridel]]: vocals | ||
| *[[Rivers Cuomo]]: guitar | *[[Rivers Cuomo]]: guitar | ||
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| ==Lyrics== | ==Lyrics== | ||
| <poem> | <poem> | ||
| A weary traveler  | A weary traveler upon days of journey travels across the forest's edge | ||
| Sweat breaks his brow and like a salt wound continues to scar his flesh | Sweat breaks his brow and like a salt wound continues to scar his flesh | ||
| Strips himself of  | Strips himself of adventure's garments and eyes the great castles beyond | ||
| He slowly ascends the sun brazen hillside whistling the death merchant's song | |||
| Infinite iron gates allow no entrance for this mortal man | |||
| He bitterly refuses to let go and blood paints the pain upon his hands | |||
| Relative artistry on the dungeon stone as it crumbles with age | |||
| As  | As the era must become ashes and dust there's a skeleton of a fool who remained | ||
| His step recedes from the sculpture of bones | |||
| One before him who attempted to face the unknown | |||
| Beyond the grim artwork of a priceless mold | |||
| This masterpiece has already been sold | |||
| Trapped in his own time | |||
| He's just medieval man and you know what he wants | |||
| But this is not your time | But this is not your time | ||
| Try to understand | Try to understand the gates of the Renaissance | ||
| A man unsheathes a form of suicide escape | |||
| His lifeline severed reveals a final stain | |||
| This world leaving the shell of a dream broken | |||
| With his fatal wound the infinite gates open | |||
| Trapped in his own time | |||
| He's just medieval man and you know what he wants | |||
| But this is not your time | |||
| Try to understand the gates of the Renaissance | |||
| Trapped in his own time, yeah | |||
| Trapped in his own time | |||
| </poem> | </poem> | ||
| ==See also== | ==See also== | ||