Burning Neon - Naveed

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Naveed
Naveed cover

NOTE: Not all of the songs have explanations as Raine usually intends for the listener to make their own interpretations of the lyrics - everyone can perceive them differently.
Each song title is a link to its lyrics.


  1. The Birdman

    • is about a man Raine once saw on the street
    • The Birdman was the nickname of a serial killer who was once imprisoned at Alcatraz
      "I assumed he was some kind of politician that lost it and was living on the streets and just going nuts all night. It was strange; I just caught a few words as I passed by him, and he was one of the most intelligent people I have ever heard speak. Right then I had this enlightenment. I did not give him a chance and there are probably times where you miss opportunities because you form opinions so quickly."
      -Raine
      "I was in Kansas city a while back and there was this man on the street. I was in my hotel room and I couldn’t sleep ‘cause this guy was just yelling through a megaphone and he was yelling about a bunch of propaganda and stuff but the next day when I went down from the hotel and he was outside still, I had a chance to pass by, read his booklet and stuff and I heard him talking to some other people and the song encompasses the thing were it’s kinda like a serial killer where on the surface he’s just a ruthless, kinda no conscience, no remorse killer but underneath the serial killer there’s obviously a really intelligent, very calculating kind of person and that’s is what I wanted to get in the lyrics of the song. There’s so many different ways and so many different perspectives to look at somebody.This thing, the birdman is just that in itself, that there’s always something deeper when you look into it."
      -Raine, in a MusiquePlus interview, 1994
    • The video - what it's about

  2. Supersatellite

  3. Starseed

    "It was based on this book by Ken Carey, The Starseed Transmissions, about a channelling experience he had. The whole chorus is about if you have had a channelling experience and during this experience you find something you believe and trying to convince everybody else is not always an easy task. I'm into a lot of meditating. My dad was Catholic and he tried to school me in that, but I never really agreed with him. I've always been interested in religion and the way it affects society. The Starseed thing is about going on a meditaion journey and coming back with something tangible. Something you actually believe in. Something that means something to you. It is hard to convince people of my father's generation of anything other than the religious values instilled in them."
    - Raine Maida
    • someone told me that a starseed is a person from another planet who has an earth name and family but who also has a family and another name somewhere else in the galaxy
    • yet someone else told me that a starseed is an alien hybrid - i.e. someone with one human parent and one alien parent

  4. Hope

  5. Naveed

    "It's named after a friend of mine. His name is Naveed. He is Iranian and one day he told me the background (of the name) was a person referred to as a bearer of good news. The album title Naveed kind of ties in all the lyrics. 'Naveed' talks about someone scared to die, but at the same time interested in it. Naveed was playing with a gun and was unaware that one chamber within the gun contained a bullet. We took the concept of Naveed and placed it in the dark optimism of our music. We have forced Naveed to travel the distance between mysticism and bitter reality.."
    -Raine Maida

  6. Dirty Walls

  7. Denied

  8. Is it Safe?

  9. Julia

  10. Under Zenith

  11. Neon Crossing


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