| Gorillaz – DARE Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Well, i think to understand this song, you have to look at the album as one song with multiple movements. (well at least that's helped me understand it better) At the beginning your stranded in a terrible place, people everywhere are dead, children need guns to protect themselves, everything is bleak, no nature is left. I'm not really sure how to explain dirty harry to all alone, but i guess i'll just make an (kinda) educated guess. The use of children in dirty harry is to signify the same message as in kids with guns, and it's kinda a representation of your own innocence, while still needing an immoral sort of protection (a gun). The use of a choir instead of just one child may also be used to signify that your in a group of sorts. Feel good inc. might represent how people are telling you to change yourself because bad is the new good (So all you fill the streets it's appealing to see | You wont get out the county, 'cos you're bad and free), and how you change so much, your group (being summer? cuz i mean summer is a nice warm season, and i guess being with a group of your friends and family is a warm sensation right?. ) can barely recognize you (el manana [summer don't know me no more]). You and your band travel around, finding everything you come across dead. (every planet we reach is dead) Then you do something really bad (november has come) and you find yourself all alone (guess what song!). I think i kinda understand all alone and the rest of the album from here though. Then you see two paths, one delving deeper into the darkness, and one heading into the light (white light). The DARE is when you're deciding which path to follow. The explanation of DARE: So the way I see it, the "protagonist" of the album has chosen the path to absolution, but he's still feeling the urges of his old, bad self (it's coming up,...). But he's trying to repress those urges (You've got to press it on you). And he's trying to think of a way to quell his urges, so he thinks about it, and creates the sensation he got from it (you just think it, thats what you do baby. hold it down DARE [which is supposed to be there, as i've heard{there as in, deep inside your soul}]). Then his evil side saying, it never did anything bad. (never did no harm). And the songs basically him fighting it out with himself. Fire Coming out of the Monkey's Head is either a flashback, or another, more apocalyptic catastrophe that occurs, in which the protagonist reaches the site where it's happening. Then he realizes that he's really been living in a hell, and he can either choose to stay in the hell or fling himself in the volcano to get out of it. His evil side tries to tell him to stay (Don't go over the edge, you'll make a big mistake). He decides to jump in the volcano and ignored his evil side (i took a line but it wasn't with you). Then he goes to heaven and is greeted by a choir of angels who absolve him of his sins and let him into heaven. At least thats my interpretation, and i am only a teenager, but i hope it strikes a chord with some people. |
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