| Gorillaz – Every Planet We Reach Is Dead Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| I think there is too much getting stuck on the girl's feelings, of whether it is the narrator she likes or another guy, or nobody... That pretty much is irrelevant... the point is, more or less, that he likes her yet he isn't able to get to a level of confidence to approach her about it. When that level of confidence is finally reached, it has been too long so any feelings that could have been fostered in her will be gone because, again... it has been too long & humans are fickle. Therefore any hope of a sexual & intimate relationship is gone due to the passage of time, making the planet 'dead'. This also ties in with the planet & space allusion because planetary travel takes really long & by the time we go from planet to planet, life'll be dead (or we're that life... homecoming will be dead... hmm interal death because of outside failure mayhaps?) | |
| Gorillaz – El Mañana Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Could be a multi-lingual play on words :P The mourning But yes it seems more to be a tommorowish song, looking ahead |
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| Gorillaz – Fire Coming Out of the Monkey's Head Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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caves of Sincerity and Beauty The disjointing and capitalization... Beauty makes sensish... but Sincerity? The Strange folk find the truth, but they go out of their way and toil to bring this truth into their lives. Meaning, regardless of the evil of Truth, the strange accept it into their lives, welcome and force it in. Yet, when you delve too far into the seriousness involved in the True world, it'll wipe over you and make you a serious dull drab BLEH without an outcry against it Just shooting my fingers a bit more |
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| Gorillaz – Kids With Guns Lyrics | 20 years ago |
| Why the lack of (push it real, Push it) in the second stanza beginning with "drinking out"? | |
| Gorillaz – Every Planet We Reach Is Dead Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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I'm going to have to go against the Long-Distance relationship idea with this one mainly because of the line "Getting harder to see the sun coming through". The sun, *blatant* symbology of hope--sending my brain racing towards skwerl's idea, that the hope of hooking up is getting slimmer. However, this would be failure in the common shot down way, but instead in the 'never took the flight' style. The harshest. Yet the movement of the song from a monologue to an adress in interesting. In the begginning there is a description of events, but the third stanza (although stanza 1 &2 have the inclusive we in "But what are we going to do") The narrator sings to the 'you'. I see this more in the dream state, an imagination women... just the I wish. The we have the hope being strangled, and she 'goes down'. The best way I can think of this as a flame dieing down (going down) or a ship sinking (again, going down). The sick and selfless-- well my best shot at this is halfhearted--he is selfless trying to get her to love him, or even notice him. The days where he cares about one thing *building the relationship*. How that becomes sick, I'm not sure, don't want to go into the possibilitie of stalker-sick, nor do I think this belongs to the unhealthy sick. But selfless... yes that I think is evident. 'though I would love my ideas to be shot down and used as buidling blocks for you guys |
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| Gorillaz – Fire Coming Out of the Monkey's Head Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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I just want to take a note on the actual construct of the song, rather than the lyrics. The lyrics themselves speak very well, and you can construct your own thoughts on it with ease if you read them (as opposed to listening). Whether you chooes to tie the lyrics to certain political events or not is your own choice. Anyway, as I was going to say, notice the hymnic humming in the backround of the narrative. The artists could have just as easily used a instrument (cello) for this, but instead they choose to hum. This parallels with hymns--such as amazing grace-- which were written by slaves. This tought is incomplete but I wanted to pose the idea of tieing a sort of enslavement into this song, whether it be the happy people enslaved to their perceptions of the strange people to their greed, I don't exactly know... But there sure as hell is some bit of slavery in this |
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