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Where The Wild Things Are Lyrics
So wake up, sleepy one
It’s time to save your world
Steal dreams and give to you
Shoplift a thought or two
All children touch the sun
Burn fingers one by one, by one
Will this earth be good to you?
Keep you clean or stain through?
So wake up, sleepy one
It’s time to save your world
You’re where the wild things are
Toy soldiers off to war
Big eyes to open soon
Believing all under sun and moon
But does heaven know you’re here?
And did they give you smiles or tears?
No, no tears
Will this earth be good to you?
Keep you clean or stain through?
So wake up, sleepy one
It’s time to save your world
You’re where the wild things are
Toy soldiers off to war
You swing your rattle down
(Hand puppets storm the beach
Fire trucks trapped out of reach)
Call to arms, the trumpets sound
(Hand puppets storm the beach
Fire trucks trapped out of reach
All clowns reinforce the rear
Slingshots fire into the air)
Toy horses start the charge
(All clowns reinforce the rear
Slingshots fire into the air
Stuffed bears hold the hill 'til death
Crossfire from the marionettes)
Robot chessmen standing guard
(Stuffed bears hold the hill 'til death
Crossfire from the marionettes
We shall never surrender)
All you children touch the sun
Burn your fingers one by one
Will this earth be good to you?
Keep you clean or stain through?
So wake up, sleepy one
It’s time to save your world
You’re where the wild things are
Toy soldiers off to war
Off to war
Off to war
So close your little eyes
Song about today's youth and how they should stand up for what they believe in.
ya i agree with you on this one. The children are our future...but doesnt mean they cant ruin all our fun.;)
ya i agree with you on this one. The children are our future...but doesnt mean they cant ruin all our fun.;)
The song is based upon the short story "Shadow Over Innsmouth" by H.P. Lovecraft which has been written in 1936. "Shadow Over Innsmouth" was Lovecraft's sole story which has been released as a book when he was alive. His further short stories only appeared in his lifetime in a magazine called "Weird Tales
There´s no relation at all between this song and "shadow over innsmouth", probably you was refearing to "The thing that should not be" that makes obvious references to the Lovecraft work, maybe not "shadow over innsmouth" in specific, but the whole Cthulhu mythos... by the way, I love Beans.
There´s no relation at all between this song and "shadow over innsmouth", probably you was refearing to "The thing that should not be" that makes obvious references to the Lovecraft work, maybe not "shadow over innsmouth" in specific, but the whole Cthulhu mythos... by the way, I love Beans.
its about not preparing our kids for the harshness of the world..."toy soldiers off to war"...as soon as you are 18, you can go off and kill people in a war...most 18 year olds these days are no where near ready for the "real world"...i think this is mostly about boys, not so much girls...with so many fathers absent, we have thirty year old "boys" walking around, never being taught how to be men...
This song is one of my top 5 favorite Metallica songs. I believe it is talking about how young kids grow up and when they get out on there own, they get a huge slap in the face with reality and they come to the real world. The real world is there the wild things are. They don't have parents watching their every move and they don't know how to react in it. The kids or toy soldier are off to war because they must learn how to fight in this world to be something.
I agree with sting06.I love this song.Ace bass playing,i just cant get enough of Jasons playing at the moment.This is one of the top 10 songs for sure.
And I still believe it.
Beans, have you ever actually read Shadow Over Innsmouth? Because only a minute few of the lines in this song could ever be tentatively related to it. In any case, I agree with sting. Pretty good song, though not one of my favourites.
Beans, how does this song, or any song with this lyrical tone for that, have anything to do with Shadow Over Innsmouth?
There's actaully a children's book called "Where the wild things are" The song could have something to do with the book as it's a story about a boy who goes to bed and goes to the land of the wild things and had to fight them. So where the song says "So close your little eyes" could be meaning the children to go to the land of the wild things and save their world. Which is all just a dream and in it the little boy is using his "toy soldiers" and "robot chessmen£ to help him.
James sounds awesome on this track. Also its about a wildlife park and hookers