Because we're young, because we're gone,
We'll take the tide's electric mind, oh yeah?, oh yeah,
We're so young and so gone, let's chase the dragon, oh,
Because we're young, because we're gone,
we'll scare the skies with tigers eyes, oh yeah? oh yeah,
We're so young and so gone, let's chase the dragon, oh
Let's chase the dragon...
...from our home high in the city where the skyline
stained the snow, I fell for a servant who kept me on the boil
We're so young and so gone, let's chase the dragon from our home!
The first line in the song goes like this: "She can start To walk out If she wants"
I think I read that in an intervue in a magazine with Brett Anderson.
I'm with davros its about heroin not coke.
You are right with both drug references. Cocaine is referenced in this song, with the "skyline stained the snow". Heroin is not only referenced with "chase the dragon", but also "a servant who kept me on the boil" (both describing the same action.)
Not all Suede songs are blatantly about drugs, which is what I've seen on here. Maybe these references were not intended and are coincidental, but they do sing about drugs legitmately in other songs.
The piano in this song is just amazing! I already knew about the "chasing the dragon" thing, but the reference to cocaine I didn't know. I think is beautiful and tragic the way he sees youth: "So young, and so gone..."
references to drugs are evident, but the prime meaning of the song is just YOUTH - drugs only relate to youth of then-youngs and Brett´s surround, so this must be there, it´s connected; important is the fact that the youth corresponde to fatigue ("we´re so gone") and there is some desire too - for some escape the video to this song is excellent and proves it I think it´s one of the best songs at all
I thought "chasing the dragon" was inhaling the vapour from heroin that is on tinfoil and heated with a fag lighter. I learned that from Grange Hill and Zammo McGuire.
The best one I've heard is that he says "Seek a" followed by "Star", but I'm not sure what he says after that.
Rebelcat, you just answered a question that has been eating at me for ten years. Thank you.
well, I finished reading Christiane F the other day when I noticed she said somthing like "so young, and so gone".. shame I just lend the book to a friend so I can't quote. anyway, the song just might be partly about it. I mean, drug using, waste of youth and so and so.. maybe a conection, and maybe not.
"stained the snow" is not about coke, rather about losing one's innocence