| Gorillaz – Last Living Souls Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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These lyrics are horribly wrong. Yeah it's hard to hear what he sings sometimes, but this is ridiculously off base. This is how I heard the lyrics: Are we the last living souls? x4 Take a gun or how you say? That’s no way to behave You’re so alone When you begin To sing a song That doesn’t sin And it grows Hey, you know Are we the last living souls? Are we the last living souls? Are we the last to get away To a song another day Or do we know what we know Or does it seem to be conveyed that way? Are we the last living souls? x3 If you’re the last living souls Get up, get up, get up, get up Lord, save me ‘Cause all I have sung I got it down wrong I’ve seen myself to get The Lord, seeing all now Can you take us in? The part that’s coming of The coldest man who doesn’t say it’s wrong When we go to the car I see you walk into the fog But when you get there, what do you see? You see the last, it’s you and me ‘Cause we’re the last living souls x4 This whole album is kinda like a journey through a post apocalyptic world. Especially this song. But rather than literally asking if we are the last living people, I think Albarn means if we're the last generation that feels happiness, joy, love. Because we are becoming more and more apathetic and angry and hateful. This is kinda like the thesis of the album, he asks "Are we the last living souls?", and the rest of the album is to find out if we really are the last living souls. When he talks about singing and songs, I think that's a metaphor for life. "You're so alone when you begin to 'live a life' that doesn't sin." If you try to live a good life, you're alone because nobody else does it, but then "it grows", and more and more people take after you. So someone has to be first to love. "If you're the last living souls, get up, get up, get up" is like a hopeful encouragement to people to live life with love instead of going under. "'Cause all I have sung" means like all he has done in his life, "I got it down wrong" he did the wrong things in life. "I see you walk into the fog, but when you get there what do you see? You see the last it's you and me, 'cause we're the last living souls" The fog is when you can't see love anymore, so you realize we are the "last living souls". |
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| Gorillaz – Intro Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I'm writing an interpretive essay on the Demon Days album and thought I'd share a bit of my reflections on some of the songs. This is like a depressive view on the real world, before they "enter the harmonic world". It's sirens in the background, an annoying voice displeased with being "put on the fresh end of the food chain", because today everybody's whining about everything. Everyone wants to get the best of everything and be first and are annoyed when anything is unfair to them, and when they aren't favorized. Then we enter the harmonic world and the album/journey begins. That's pretty much what I got out of this. |
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