"Join Me in Death" is a single by the Finnish band HIM, taken from their second studio album Razorblade Romance.
It was also released as "Join Me", since they were not allowed to
include "Death" in the title for the US version. The song is the band's
best-known song in Europe. It was featured in the end credits of the European version of the sci-fi movie The Thirteenth Floor (The US version featured The Cardigans' Erase/Rewind instead.)
Four versions of the song's video
exist: three "lazer versions", two of which include different scenes
from the Thirteenth Floor movie, and the fourth being an "ice version",
with a vague Romeo and Juliet
theme also attributed to the song. This has met with controversy
regarding its subject matter. "A couple of people blamed me for a
suicide someone committed over here saying that 'Join Me' is an
invitation to kill yourself," HIM frontman Ville Valo told the European magazine Metal Hammer in 2003. "What I was trying to do was sort of rip-off 'Don't Fear the Reaper' by Blue Öyster Cult, making a rock track of Romeo And Juliet."
Lyrics such as "Would you die tonight for love?" have contributed to
the misconception that the song is about suicide, which Valo denies,
claiming the lyrics refer to giving things up for the sake of love.
"It's not about suicide, that song. It's about giving it all away," Valo
told the magazine Modern Fix.
In addition to its release on Razorblade Romance and in the film The Thirteenth Floor (though not on its soundtrack), "Join Me" was included on the Resident Evil: Apocalypse soundtrack in 2004. The band Gregorian covered "Join Me" with Sarah Brightman on their album Masters of Chant: Chapter III and on Brightman's Limited Edition The Harem Tour album. Another Gregorian version exists with vocals performed by Amelia Brightman.
HIM performed this song for the first time in Ilosaarirock, Finland on the 12th of September, 1998, which featured an extra verse not included in the studio versions.
HIM - Join Me in Death Lyric
Baby join me in death
Baby join me in death
Baby join me in death
We are so young
our lives have just begun
but already we're considering
escape from this world
and we've waited for so long
for this moment to come
we're so anxious to be together
together in death
Won't you die tonight for love
Baby join me in death
Won't you die
Baby join me in death
Won't you die tonight for love
Baby join me in death
This world is a cruel place
and we're here only to lose
so before life tears us apart let
death bless me with you
Won't you die tonight for love
Baby join me in death
Won't you die
Baby join me in death
Won't you die tonight for love
Baby join me in death
this life ain't worth living
this life ain't worth living
this life ain't worth living
this life ain't worth living
Won't you die tonight for love
Baby join me in death
Won't you die
Baby join me in death
Won't you die tonight for love
Baby join me in death
The Finnish band HIM remade this song, first using it in their demo This is Only the Beginning, then on their EP 666 Ways To Love: Prologue, followed by another recording of it on their first album Greatest Love Songs Vol. 666, and lastly on the British and American versions of their second album Razorblade Romance. The last recording they made of it then reappeared on their compilation album And Love Said No: The Greatest Hits 1997–2004. With "Wicked Game" on their EP and first album, HIM gained fame in their native Finland. HIM frontman Ville Valo had this to say about "Wicked Game": "I went to Pasila's library and borrowed the soundtrack-vinyl of Wild At Heart
and recorded it on tape. So with Linde we tried to 'learn' the song
from the tape. It was kind of funny, that we learnt the song a bit
wrong. We did not hear the guitar parts well enough from that 'bad
quality' tape. We also heard the lyrics wrong, and when the song was
later recorded to our first EP, there were a few funny mistakes in the
lyrics.
HIM - Wicked Game LYRIC
World was on fire, no one could save me but you
It's strange what desire will make foolish people do
I'd never dreamed that I'd need somebody like you
And I'd never dreamed that I'd need somebody like you
No, I wanna fall in love
(this world is only gonna break your heart)
No, I wanna fall in love
(this world is only gonna break your heart)
..with you
(this world is only gonna break your heart)
What a wicked game to play
To make me feel this way
What a wicked thing to do
To let me dream of you
What a wicked thing to say
You never felt this way
What a wicked thing you do
To make me dream of you
No, I wanna fall in love
(this world is only gonna break your heart)
No, I wanna fall in love
(this world is only gonna break your heart)
..with you
World was on fire, no one could save me but you
It's strange what desire will make foolish people do
No, and I never dreamed that I'd love somebody like you
I'll never dream that I lose somebody like you, no
No, I wanna fall in love
(This world is only gonna break your heart)
(No, I wanna fall in love
(This world is only gonna break your heart)
..with you
(This world is only gonna break your heart)
No, I...
(This world is only gonna break your heart)
(This world is only gonna break your heart)
Tears on Tape is the upcoming eighth studio album by Finnish band, HIM. It was confirmed by Ville Valo
on the band's official Facebook page that they will be "...entering the
studio in early September with the producer Hiili Hiilesmaa to work on
our eighth full-length album, entitled Tears On Tape, to be mixed by Tim Palmer and released early 2013....".
"And Love Said No" is a song by the Finnish rock band HIM. It was released as a single in 2004. The music video for the song, directed by skateboarder Bam Margera with CGI by Vincent Haycock and André Stringer, was filmed at Fonthill
LYRICS
."And Love Said No"
And love's light blue
Led me to you
Through all the emptiness that had become my home
Love's lies cruel
Introduced me to you
And at that moment I knew I was out of hope
Kill me
I begged and love said no
Leave me
for dead and let me go
Kill me
I cried and love said no
Kill me
I cried and love said no
Love's icy tomb
Dug open for you
Lies in a cemetery that bears my name
Love's violent tune
From me to you
Rips your heart out and leaves you
bleeding with a smile on your face
Kill me
I begged and love said no
Leave me
for dead and let me go
Kill me
I cried and love said no
Kill me
I cried and love said no
And love said no
And love's light blue
Took me from you
And at that moment I knew I was out of hope
Again
Kill me
I begged and love said no
Leave me
for dead and let me go
Kill me
I cried and love said no
Kill me
I cried and love said no
