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... in the words of Ville Valo
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Deep Shadows and Brilliant Highlights
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Salt in our wounds:
"This song was taken as the first song because of the weird intro. We wanted to scare the people a bit and irritate them, when they listen to the CD. There are Indian influences in this song, for which Migé has a big faible."
Heartache every moment:
"The piano is a tribute to John Carpenterīs Halloween. There the most work in this song, and Kevin Shirley added a lot to it. The text contains parallels to our last album Razorblade Romance. Itīs my fave of the rocksongs."
Lose you tonight:
"We impudently stole the drum rhythm of Cathedralīs Voodoo. The guitar solo is a tribute to John Fruciante."
In joy and sorrow:
"This is our next single and the last song Iīve written for the album (in December 2000). The song has beautiful strings-arrangements which were done by John Fryer (I guess he stole them from Massive Attack). The idea of the lyrics arose from an Indian wedding oath."
Pretending:
"This was our first single, but it was not our first choice. We rather saw the song as an albumtrack. The record company sent us to an amusement park to shoot the video, which was very funny. This song is our sentimental version of Iggy Popīs Mask."
Close to the flame:
"The song has a beauiful christmas-melody and is the sequel of Gone with the sin in a way. We intended to create a great sound with minimal instrumental usage." Please donīt let it go:
"This title originally was planned to be a tribute to the Stooges. When we recorded the acoustic version with Kevin Shirley, we all liked it so much that we decided to use this version. The track is the light at the end of the tunnel."
Beautiful:
"This song caused the most problems with the record companies, because nobody liked it. Itīs obviously too sentimental for the cold business hearts. I never buy flowers on Valentineīs day, so I dedicated this song to a very special person."
Donīt close your heart:
"This song is sung by someone who tries to save the one who sung Join me (grin). Itīs the most organic song of the record."
Love you like I do:
"Itīs the first song that I mixed myself, and I tried to imitate the sound of Elvis Presley. When I recorded the demo for this, I was completely drunk and wanted to finish it as fast as possible, to get drunk even more. The outro is a tribute to Black Sabbath." 
I love you [Prelude to tragedy]:
1) "A song that we first played in the Soundgarden of Dortmund, two days after I wrote it. It worked at once and it opens the album. You may laugh, but for me it sounds like a mix of D:A:D and the Sisters of Mercy. The lyrics are about love, just as the most of mine. But it has an unusual point of view, just as if David Lynch would do a romantic movie."
2)"This is the song on the album, that I dislike most. Itīs too hard and loud in my older-growing ears. Still I like the lyrics... I always wanted to name a song "I love you", kitschy, isnīt it? "
Poison girl:
1) "Really no hate-song, even if some people said so. I specially like the lyrics, theyīre about a girl whom I like and whom Iīve treated in not such a nice way. I have posioned her in a figurative way."
2) "Some people misunderstood the lyrics of that song as a "hate-song". Actually itīs the real opposite: a desperate cry for forgiveness. Musically this song is an example for what we are going to in our new material."
Join me [in death]:
1) "A quite old and in a pessimistic way optimistic song. The main melody was done in a some hours, but it too about half a year to do the whole arrangement. The lyrics are a modern adaption of the story of "Romeo and Juliet". Two people in love who feel misunderstood by their family and all the world. Many mistook the song and said, it would be about suicide. But thatīs just wrong. Itīs more a melancholic hymn, like "When love and death embrace" of the first album. And I really didnīt think of vampires, though you had that interpretation when we last met. The lyrics arenīt that gothic at all."
2) "Original the song was written in the early year 1997 and because of this itīs a song we already played to death before we recorded it. Itīs a song about trust and its loss." Right here in my arms:
1) "Somehow reminds of Billy Idol and even of Bon Jovi. The song was done after finishing the first album. That was in the year 1997. The eighties-feeling is very obviously. Something like a gothic-party-hymn."
2) "Our hommage to the eighties. An easy, Billy Idol-esque lovesong about being feeling sad for such a long time, so that you are afraid to experience happiness ever again."
Gone with the sin:
1) "The song was finished very fast, so were the lyrics. They are about a pretty strange lovestory. A definite statement to the person I loved in that time. A basic, nice pop-ballad with gothic influences."
2) "My favourite song, so warm, minimalistic and fragile. Itīs the most sincere and real song Iīve ever written. Iīm proud of it"
Razorblade kiss:
1) "A good live song which exists for some years. We arranged it many times again until the last version was done. The guitars remind me of the newer albums of the Swedish band Entombed. The lyrics are quite dark."
2) One of the more straight forward songs of the album. Original titled "Razorbalde Romance", which later became the titel of the album. A good live-song.
Bury me deep inside your heart:
1) "The keyboard sound little like Depeche Mode. The song also contains influences of Kyuss, the Smashing Pumpkins and even of Roxette. A great rock ballad with lyrics, that contain many old memories."
2) "The "melagonamic stadium"-ballad with a change. If youīd been buried under a mass of shit for a long time, youīll start to like it someday. Well, itīs like this for me." Heaven tonight:
1) "Shouldnīt be mixed up with the songs of Hole or Yngwie Malmsteen. Again a strong eighties-feeling and in a certain way a simple message to someone I like very much. By the way, the last song Iīve written for the album."
2) "A pure pop-track. A story about love thatīs so strong that you canīt let go, not even, if you wanted."
Death is in love with us:
1) "The original title was "Six Six Six Revisited". We wanted to have a quite short and rough song beside "Heaven Tonight"".
2) "A gothic-hymn. Still a little stoner rock is is in it, too. The song is part of our environment-campaign "Save the Goths". Black lipstick is cool."
Resurrection:
1) "Another old song with eighties-influences. Sound like Bon Jovi had mutated to a gothic band. But the comparison relates to the original version of the song. This comparison lead to another album title, that we finally didnīt use: "Slippery when dead""
2) "This song was written in the same time as "Join me". Imagine Bon Jovi in Cradle of Filth-Make-up, singing a song about love that has been dead for a long time." One last time:
2) "The last cry for forgiveness. Actually, what happened after this song was written, was no happiness, but deepest despair - thatīs why there wonīt be any "shiny happy people" on the next album."
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