Oh, oh
Oh, green world
Don't desert me now
Bring me back to fallen town
Where someone is still alive

Fighting for something new in this
When no one needs the heart of me and I'll
Get out somewhere other than me before

(Than me before)

O green world
Don't deserve me now
I'm made of you and you of me
But where are we?
Oh no

Sells to lie
Phone with talk, you stars
Suppose you
Down when you're in fast
'Cause it seems so little to you

But now you're in love, you know
You know, me too
You know, me too
I hope sex and drugs rust into my self, holy
It feels holy
It feels like you're with your father in the place you love


Lyrics submitted by RTBRAND1, edited by Woot100, MattsUK

O Green World Lyrics as written by Brian Joseph Burton Damon Albarn

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    I think this is a big ironic song.

    The song is called O Green World, but the way the music plays as well as the lyrics, suggest nothing but technology and how its taking over.

    "Bring me back to fallen town. Where someone is still alive" is like saying, take me back to the country/farmlands b/c the city streets run rampant with soulless zombies.

    "I'm made of you and you of me. But where are we?" is like saying how technology is connected with our lives but it'll never be the same as human contact

    "Sells to lie. Phone to talk...Cause it seems so little to you". is like talking about how commercialism ruins us. This particular stanza makes me think of big business and really rich people who can lie and make huge profits off the crap they sell. Phones w/ talk you stars are like cellphones. Cause it seems so little to you i think refers to life w/o technology.

    "but now you're in love, you know..I hope sex and drugs rust into myself, holy. It feels holy...it feels like you're with your father in the place you lave..." is saying how technology has finally become a part of us. Maybe the greatest human contact, sex or even drugs will some how end up as part of technology. It feels holy is like saying, it feels like we're in heaven just b/c we have all of our stuff.

    At least, thats what I'm thinking.

    RTBRAND1on May 25, 2005   Link

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