| The Strokes – All the Time Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Well, maybe this song is actually talking about a relationship but I like to interpret it like this: When we need time, we rarely have/find it but it is there anyway and it is sufficient (i.e. We don't need more of it. We just need to learn how to spend it) We are influenced (but not explicit obligated) to live in a way in which everything is immediate. Everything must be instantaneous and accomplished "until yesterday". Because of that, we're always in such a hurry that we don't have time to look for other people's life/problems or even the /world's (worst) problems: wars (people killing each other for economical/political interests), corruption, people dying of hunger/starving while so much money is being invested in high advanced and ultra expensive (and some unessential, in part) devices or luxuries which intention is not to serve the people/consumers but the business and money itself, making the rich richer and richer, sustaining the corporations and business and not the mankind nor the other living beings or the nature. The (most but not all) humans are "flying too high" (they're living as if the universe is moving around them, not the opposite). But we don't see people (just some) questioning this lifestyle or trying to find and fight the causes of those problems. We're living a lie (and in a lie). We're just thinking we are the top in the list of this (and not "our") world and don't care for the rest/others ("Don't get on the phone" / "Don't reach for the door") if it/he/she are not on TV or if it doesn't have millions of views/likes... We're just the most important living being of this world 'cause we have all the solutions/answers/power to take control of this world (we "know [all] the answer that [we]'re looking for). |
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| The Strokes – Heart In A Cage Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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To me, this song might reach many different feelings and interpretations people might have. I think he is talking about everything he's been going through. He is living in a world where people are alienated "living" life (surviving) as someone taught them they should do, as the world works like this. They are just slaves of a few and powerful ones who are controlling the system running in our world. Days keep passing by and the powerful ones just keep getting more powerful ("Yeah, the sun will be shining") while the rest of the people...fuck all of them (then you have what you ask: "and my children will burn"). And that insight punched him so hard that all the fun activities he used to do are not fun anymore ("I don't feel better when I'm fucking around"). People makes so many stupid and ignorant comments about tragedies and problems banalized by the media that it starts to hurt him inside his head and heart because he notice people close to him, people he loves are alienated too and are saying those same stupid and ignorant things ("I don't want what you want I don't feel what you feel") and he starts closing himself in his shell and losing his trust in his family and friends or getting constantly irritated with them ("All of those you love you mistrust. Help me I'm just not quite myself. Look around there's no one else left") And the "steal your fire" thing....I think he has a friend (or met one) like him but the other person already lost his/her trust in everybody. I mean, this life became such a mess that no one is able to trust in each other anymore (people getting arrested in the streets, children being kidnapped, girls/women getting raped, workers competing agressively against each other for a position/money...). And understanding that, he tells his friend "And I'm sorry you were thinking I would steal your fire". And that is me right now... =((( I just wanna "LEFT, LEFT, LEFT, LEFT, LEFT, LEFT, LEFT"....'cause I have this heart beating in this cage (in which we're all in)......Would you help me out? |
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| The Strokes – Heart In A Cage Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Oh...and the "steal your fire" thing....I think he has a friend (or met a friend) like him but the other person has already lost his/her mistrust in everybody. Our life became such a mess that no one is able to trust in each other anymore. And understanding that he tells his friend "And I'm sorry you were thinking I would steal your fire". | |
| The Strokes – Heart In A Cage Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I'm from Brasil too and I'll try to explain it accordingly to my interpretation, if you let me. To me, this song might reach many different feelings and interpretations people might have. In my case, it fitted so right that I teared at some point of the song. That's because I think he is talking about everything he's been going through. He is living in a world where people are alienated "living" life (surviving) as someone taught them they should do, as the world works like this. They are just slaves of a few and powerful ones who are controlling the system running in our world. Days keep passing by and the powerful ones just keep getting more powerful ("Yeah, the sun will be shining") while the rest of the people...fuck all of them (then you have what you ask: "and my children will burn"). And that insight punched him so hard that all the fun activities he used to do are not fun anymore ("I don't feel better when I'm fucking around"). People makes so many stupid and ignorant comments about tragedies and problems banalized by the media that it starts to hurt him inside his head and heart because he notice people close to him, people he loves are alienated too and are saying those same stupid and ignorant things ("I don't want what you want I don't feel what you feel") and he starts closing himself in his shell and losing his trust in his family and friends or getting constantly irritated with them ("All of those you love you mistrust. Help me I'm just not quite myself. Look around there's no one else left") And that is me right now...(de verdade) =( I just wanna "LEFT, LEFT, LEFT, LEFT, LEFT, LEFT, LEFT"....'cause I have this heart beating in this cage (in which we're all in)......Would you help me out? |
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