| "Choice Millionaire" | ||||
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| Single by Poets of the Fall | ||||
| from the album Jealous Gods | ||||
| Released | September 19, 2014 | |||
| Length | 4:50 | |||
| Label | Insomniac | |||
| BPM | 121 | |||
| Key | G | |||
| Producer(s) | Poets of the Fall | |||
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Choice Millionaire is the tenth track on Poets of the Fall's 2014 sixth full album Jealous Gods.
It was later released as a single on 14th August 2015 alongside an MV produced and directed by Saku Perintö. The MV featured an item of jewellery called Hopecatcher that was produced by Kultajousi. The original was given away in a competition and replicas sold as merchandise.
Single track listing
All tracks are written by Poets of the Fall
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Choice Millionaire (Single Mix)" | 4:49 |
| 2. | "Choice Millionaire (Short Version)" | 4:00 |
| 3. | "Choice Millionaire (Instrumental)" | 4:44 |
Lyrics
Cars in the night, cut through the mist
Baby suns for eyes, diamonds on your wrist
Twist in the scheme, a permeating theme
A violin crescendo
Dark violet skies over seas of lead
Hard violent fights, red sun will set
Like a rivulet, like a tear beget
A clear innuendo
Silence of the mind ever deafening
Rain on the roof ever prattling
Straddling truth for the pain you gain for pain
Some bill of rights
Daring getaways, steamy masquerades
Famine of all wars, whores and escapades
Jack of Spades in silk brocades
Velvet nights in city lights
It's a wide wide world out there
And life can be a love affair
Or a cage of sheer despair
You're a choice millionaire
It's a wide wide world out there
You can travel in your easy chair
So build your castles in the air
You're a choice millionaire
Because no one needs any more confessions
Shadows cast without a streak of fear
Moments past, held so dear
A lock of hair, a touch of lip
A lashing whip
Subliminal love for the ones you hate
LOL as I abbreviate
Alleviate if you can relate to the pink slip
Of love unzipped
Minutes burning till seconds pop
Silhouettes dancing till the curtains drop
Stop before you lose your mojo
Your fear of heights
Hot passion flares every pipe dream
Concussion, blindness of a regime
A scream incites, the air ignites
The city lights
It's a wide wide world out there...
So put a lacquer on your hunger
Parade the sky that you're under
Without heedless impressions
No one needs more confessions
x2
It's a wide wide world out there...
Trivia
- The lyrics in the outro are an altered quotation of Dying to Live's second verse.
- Choice Millionaire marked the first time that Poets of the Fall would call back to the 90s retro soundpallete of Captain's Amiga Mod tracks, with a heavy emphasis on synthesisers.
- The track may also similarly be referencing Marko's rap technique from 1999's Millennium of Insight.
- The music video for Choice Millionaire echoes that of Carnival of Rust as an inversion. For instance - the man in a box, the woman in a gas-mask, a transactional object of value, a dystopian setting and ending with walking away. The clothing styles of the protagonist and Marko are reversed. The cinematography of similar shots is mirrored, the protagonist's hair is light blonde instead of dark brown, the transactional object is received instead of given away, the gas mask is removed instead of worn, it appears to be day instead of night etc.
- The MV was filmed at Kattilahalli in Helsinki - the former boiler hall for the city's first major power plant.
- In Alchemy, "red suns" symbolise the final stage of the alchemical process - Rubedo (reddening). In context then, "baby suns" may refer to a sort of zeroth stage occuring before the alchemical process begins with Nigredo (blackening). This would coincide with numerous references to a primordial "playground" in the works of Marko Saaresto, including his band's name in the 90s.