In regards to the meaning of this song:
Before a live performance on the EP Five Stories Falling, Geoff states “It’s about the last time I went to visit my grandmother in Columbus, and I saw that she was dying and it was the last time I was going to see her. It is about realizing how young you are, but how quickly you can go.”
That’s the thing about Geoff and his sublime poetry, you think it’s about one thing, but really it’s about something entirely different. But the lyrics are still universal and omnipresent, ubiquitous, even. So relatable. That’s one thing I love about this band. I also love their live performances, raw energy and Geoff’s beautiful, imperfectly perfect vocals. His voice soothes my aching soul.
Come with me to a place no likes I've ever seen
A million miles from here where no one's ever been
God-given rays and a holy heaven phase [?]
I'm on the edge of something shadowy
I'm coming through
"Ok, let's fly," she says, "this carpet's made for two"
This room be [?] a little box, no place for me and you
Our carpet falls on a dew-fresh daffodil plain
Take a look around, there's something happening
All the colors fade
I don't want you now, bang bang bang gone
Oh I don't need you now, the seeds are sown
Oh bang bang pretty pretty, bang bang
I don't think so, no no
I don't think so, no no
Bang bang, bang bang
Out below the country rolls like a mighty boiling sea
The warm red sun gives up and sinks into the tree
But I've no pill [?] I can't stand here betrayed
Take a look around there's something happening
All the colors fade
I don't want you now, bang bang bang gone
Oh I don't need you now, the seeds are sown
Oh bang bang pretty pretty, bang bang
I don't think so, no no
I don't think so, no no
Bang bang, bang bang
A million miles from here where no one's ever been
God-given rays and a holy heaven phase [?]
I'm on the edge of something shadowy
I'm coming through
"Ok, let's fly," she says, "this carpet's made for two"
This room be [?] a little box, no place for me and you
Our carpet falls on a dew-fresh daffodil plain
Take a look around, there's something happening
All the colors fade
I don't want you now, bang bang bang gone
Oh I don't need you now, the seeds are sown
Oh bang bang pretty pretty, bang bang
I don't think so, no no
I don't think so, no no
Bang bang, bang bang
Out below the country rolls like a mighty boiling sea
The warm red sun gives up and sinks into the tree
But I've no pill [?] I can't stand here betrayed
Take a look around there's something happening
All the colors fade
I don't want you now, bang bang bang gone
Oh I don't need you now, the seeds are sown
Oh bang bang pretty pretty, bang bang
I don't think so, no no
I don't think so, no no
Bang bang, bang bang
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its about going on a picnic with a girl and shooting her because she betrayed (cheated) on him
I'm pretty sure it's "I'm on the edge of something shattering"... Not shadowy...
Awsome tune, not enough people have commented on these tunes. Song probably about an acid trip or something.
this song live sounds amazing
all i know is that this song has the greatest last 1¼ minutes ever. everyone is at the top of their game and the guitar solo to fade is one of the most uplifting and heartbreaking i have ever listened to. i wish they extended it as john squire was going somewhere with it. i would have loved to have been in the studio when they laid that one down to hear it in its entirety. slipperytone if you're reading please give us an extended where angels play from the master tapes.
Agree with the comment above
The song is about Adam and Eve and Adam's feelings towards eve after he feels that she betrayed him for eating the forbidden fruit and getting kicked out of the Garden of Eden.
This breaks it down quite thoroughly: pdmcauley.co.uk/Analysis/WAPanalysis.htm
Bang on This is obviously about the Garden of Eden and the downfall of mankind, with God ejecting Adam and Eve from paradise - "I don't want you now, the seeds are sown" - referring to the seeds of mankind's downfall after consuming the apple from the tree of knowledge. Well spotted!
It could be about a personal romance and how he felt when being told the love wasn't mutual ( him being on the wrong end ). Also maybe a book or article he'd read where the besotted lover couldn't deal with being rejected so killed his/her partner. Whatever it is about it's the most beautiful song of all time.
This is my interpretation of the ‘where angels play’ lyrics. I have put in depth lyric descriptions beside various lines, and have left a detailed description at the bottom.
“Come with me to a place no eyes have ever seen A million miles from here where no one's ever been” - a guy is being asked to take acid and trip with for the first time, with his lover. He is told that they will go to place where know-one has ever been and is millions of miles away, where they can be free unlike where they live just now.
“God-given grace and a holy Heaven face I'm on the edge of something shattering I'm coming through” - this is him being told of the feeling of being on this trip. He agrees to ‘come through’.
“Ok, let's fly", she says, "this carpet's made for two" - she tells him that the trip was meant for the two of them, as they will experience love, truth and pain together.
“This ugly little box, no place for me and you” - this is them talking a out where they come from wether it be home, Britain, or earth as a hole. They are saying that it is a worn out prison like place (ugly little box) and that they deserve better and should escape.
“Our carpet falls on a dew-fresh daffil plain” - this is them beginning to trip, the carpet falling is them breaking through into this ‘magical place’
“Take a look around, there's something happening All the colors fade” - this again is them breaking through into this new place.
“I don't want you now, bang, bang, bang, gone Oo, I don't need you now, the seeds are sown Oo, bang-bang, pretty-pretty, bang-bang I don't think so, no, no I don't think so, no, no Bang-bang, bang-bang” - this is him now seeing her home for what it really is like and realising that she can live without it. He doesn’t want to be there anymore and doesn’t need to be there anymore. The seeds are sown relates to him discovering how wrongly they were treated in her home and this was the final straw for them...they dont want to return.
“Far Below, the country roads like a mighty boiling sea The warm, red Sun gives up and sinks into the trees” - like the sun rises and falls, a trip comes up then fades to an end.
“But I'm no fool, I can't stand here betrayed” - he isn’t a fool as he can now see his home for what it is really like, he feels betrayed by it and doesn’t want to go back to a place where he has been betrayed.
“Take a look around, there's something happening All the colors fade” - the colours are fading again but back to normality this time.
“I don't want you now, bang, bang, bang, gone Oo, I don't need you now, the seeds are sown Oo, bang-bang, pretty-pretty, bang-bang I don't think so, no, no I don't think so, no, no Bang-bang, bang-bang” - this time, the chorus has the same meaning however the bang-bang ending of the chorus can this time be interpreted as suicide, as they cant face returning to a world of lies.
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The whole song is a metaphor for an acid trip, however the acid trip itself could be a metaphor for running away from there home to a place where they can be free. The trip coming to an end could relate to the two running away from there homeland and getting caught from authorities. To avoid returning to there home they take there lives. Why they would be running away I’m not sure, perhaps they committed a crime or were just treated badly.
The acid trip metaphor throughout the song is backed up by the lyrics ‘all the colours fade’.
Wether the acid trip is a metaphor for running away, or if the song is actually about an acid trip...what we can see from the lyrics is it is about two people who just want to get away and be free. CJT
I just bought "Time is my Everything" by Ian Brown the other day purely because it has a version of this tune on it. I have to be honest, 15 years on he doesn't do it so well AT ALL. And he's changed the lyrics and made them, frankly, rubbish. How the mighty have fallen.
In it's original form it's a top tune, like everything they did before the fairly average One Love. I think I like them mainly cos they kind of blew it anyway.