The song Centuries by Fall Out Boy has many similarities to Delirium. The band sings:
Some legends are told...
But you will remember me
Remember me for centuries
And just one mistake
Is all it will take
We'll go down in history
This relates to Delirium because once someone has the disease of love or escapes to the Wilds, they are remembered forever as legends by society. The "one mistake" of falling in love is all it takes to change a live forever.
The kids are all wrong
The story's all off
The government in Delirium censors movies and books and changes history. One example is the story of Soloman (government censored version):
Once upon a time, during the days of sickness, two women and an infant went before the king. Each woman claimed that the infant was hers. Both refused to give the child to the other woman and pleaded their cases passionately, each claiming that she would die of grief if the baby were not returned solely to her possession. The king, whose name was Solomon, listened to both their speeches, and at last announced that he had a fair solution.
“We will cut the baby in two,” he said, “and that way each of you will have a portion.”
The women agreed that this was just, and so the executioner was brought forward, and with his ax, he sliced the baby cleanly in two.
And the baby never cried, or so much as made a sound, and the mothers looked on, and afterward, for a thousand years, there was a spot of blood on the palace floor that could never be cleaned or diluted by any substance on earth...
In the original version, the true mother of the child would rather give up her child than have it cut in half. The moral of the story was loyalty. Hana, Lena's best friend, recalls her reaction to the story: "I remember feeling just like that baby: torn apart by feeling, split in two, caught between loyalties and desires. That’s how the diseased world is." After Lena realizes what the real story was, she feels betrayed, hurt, and lied to.
Cause I, I am the opposite of amnesia...
You look so pretty, but you're gone so soon
After receiving the Cure, a person forgets their past and life prior to the Cure.
We've been here forever
And here's the frozen proof
I could scream forever
We are the poisoned youth
A person in Delirium's society prepares their entire life for the Cure, which seems like forever. "We are the poisoned youth" could mean that the Cure is a poison and whoever receives it has been poisoned and drained of all life.
Some legends are told...
But you will remember me
Remember me for centuries
And just one mistake
Is all it will take
We'll go down in history
This relates to Delirium because once someone has the disease of love or escapes to the Wilds, they are remembered forever as legends by society. The "one mistake" of falling in love is all it takes to change a live forever.
The kids are all wrong
The story's all off
The government in Delirium censors movies and books and changes history. One example is the story of Soloman (government censored version):
Once upon a time, during the days of sickness, two women and an infant went before the king. Each woman claimed that the infant was hers. Both refused to give the child to the other woman and pleaded their cases passionately, each claiming that she would die of grief if the baby were not returned solely to her possession. The king, whose name was Solomon, listened to both their speeches, and at last announced that he had a fair solution.
“We will cut the baby in two,” he said, “and that way each of you will have a portion.”
The women agreed that this was just, and so the executioner was brought forward, and with his ax, he sliced the baby cleanly in two.
And the baby never cried, or so much as made a sound, and the mothers looked on, and afterward, for a thousand years, there was a spot of blood on the palace floor that could never be cleaned or diluted by any substance on earth...
In the original version, the true mother of the child would rather give up her child than have it cut in half. The moral of the story was loyalty. Hana, Lena's best friend, recalls her reaction to the story: "I remember feeling just like that baby: torn apart by feeling, split in two, caught between loyalties and desires. That’s how the diseased world is." After Lena realizes what the real story was, she feels betrayed, hurt, and lied to.
Cause I, I am the opposite of amnesia...
You look so pretty, but you're gone so soon
After receiving the Cure, a person forgets their past and life prior to the Cure.
We've been here forever
And here's the frozen proof
I could scream forever
We are the poisoned youth
A person in Delirium's society prepares their entire life for the Cure, which seems like forever. "We are the poisoned youth" could mean that the Cure is a poison and whoever receives it has been poisoned and drained of all life.