At the starting of the week
at summit talks, you hear them speak
It's only Monday.
Negotiations breaking down
see those leaders start to frown
it's sword and gun day
Tomorrow never comes until it's too late.
You could be sitting taking lunch
the news will hit you like a punch
It's only Tuesday
You never thought we'd go to war
after all the things we saw
it's April fools day.
Tomorrow never comes until it's too late,
tomorrow never comes until it's too late.
You hear a whistling overhead
Are you alive or are you dead?
it's only Thursday
You feel the shaking of the ground
A billion candles burn around
is it your birthday?
Tomorrow never comes until it's too late,
tomorrow never comes until it's too late.
Make tomorrow come, I think it's too late.
at summit talks, you hear them speak
It's only Monday.
see those leaders start to frown
it's sword and gun day
Tomorrow never comes until it's too late.
the news will hit you like a punch
It's only Tuesday
after all the things we saw
it's April fools day.
Tomorrow never comes until it's too late,
tomorrow never comes until it's too late.
Are you alive or are you dead?
it's only Thursday
A billion candles burn around
is it your birthday?
Tomorrow never comes until it's too late,
tomorrow never comes until it's too late.
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I don't wana dash anyone elses thoughts, but I interpret this song very bluntly and simply. Follow the lyrics...
Summit talks= U.N. Negotiations
Negotiations breaking down= hostility increasing between ppl.
The News will hit you like a punch= Surprise, the country is going to war
Never thought we'd go to war= after cold war, ppl thought there would be peace (Also, there is no Wednesday because he says it's april fools day- Apr 1st, the next time a wednesday will be on apr 1st is in 2009.)
Whistling overhead, shaking of ground, candles = bombs.
Tomorrow never comes until it's too late.
SHADOW WANTS US TO INTERPRET THIS SONG LITERALLY. TAKE ACTION NOW AND STOP THE VIOLENCE!!!!!!!
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Actually there is a Wednesday in the Colonel Bagshot verson. The song is specifically about the Israel's Six Day War, but also a general anti-war song (as it was released in '71 when Vietnam was raging).
Actually there is a Wednesday in the Colonel Bagshot verson. The song is specifically about the Israel's Six Day War, but also a general anti-war song (as it was released in '71 when Vietnam was raging).
DJ Shadow did cut that part of the lyrics, possibly because in that case the song starts being about the plight of everyone (including the foot soldiers, who usually didn't want to go to war themselves either), whereas Wednesday, Friday and Saturday drive home the "women and children in the shelters" angle of the song.
DJ Shadow did cut that part of the lyrics, possibly because in that case the song starts being about the plight of everyone (including the foot soldiers, who usually didn't want to go to war themselves either), whereas Wednesday, Friday and Saturday drive home the "women and children in the shelters" angle of the song.
I am assuming that with his...
I am assuming that with his editing out parts of the lyrics, DJ Shadow wanted to include the, as I said, usually an unwilling warrior, the conscript foot soldier, in the list of the victims of the war. Thus with the summit-to-war flow of the story you get a tale how old men throw young men to be connon fodder to feed their own insanity.
Wednesday: We'll all go running underground And we'll be listening for the sound Its only Wednesday
In your shelter dimly lit Take some wool and learn to knit Cos its a long day
Friday: Although that shelter is your home A living space you have outgrown It's only Friday
As you come out to the light Can your eyes behold the sight It must be doomsday
Saturday: Ain't it funny how men think They made the bomb, they are extinct Its only Saturday
I think tomorrow's come I think its too late I think tomorrow's come I think its too late
Make tomorrows come I think it's too late
So basically, as DJ Shadow cut it, it's equally, or even more so about the foot soldiers. Without Wednesday, Friday and Saturday the song is devoid of it's feminine/civilan angle (knitting, being in the shelter, "how men think") and Thursday becomes a very vivid image of a soldier in a trench that was just hit by a bomb, shell or granade and who is recovering from the shock.
it's about war, more specifically the six day war you emo cunts.
hi there... it is great song, and it talks 'bout six days war where Israel won new teritories, like Gaza strip, Sinai peninsula, and many more... this is remake of song by Shadow, in originally Colonel Bagshot is band. they record whole album, "Oh that lovely war" and it is all about this war...that's true meaning of song, and you can analyze some parts of it... cheers
I'm pretty sure it's sampled from a song about the Six Day War, which helped establish Israel. I wonder what happened to Wednesday..?
What's funny is that this song always reminds me of lazy summer days, mostly because that's when i got the album.
@THT That's what I thought too Israel's "war of 1967"
@THT That's what I thought too Israel's "war of 1967"
@THT wednesday=odin's day. Odin was god of wisdom,of death and war. Perhaps by saying that he is going to war he means that it is Wednesday without referring directly to the day
@THT wednesday=odin's day. Odin was god of wisdom,of death and war. Perhaps by saying that he is going to war he means that it is Wednesday without referring directly to the day
This song + vanilla incense= Nirvana! Thanks DJ Shadow.
this song is awesome. this album is awesome. dj shadow is a_w_e_s_o_m_e. i cannot find words enough. will awesome suffice?
I think you messed up a tad, the first lines should read as follows:
At the starting of the week at summit talks you'll hear them speak It's only monday
Awesome shall suffice, and 'GAR!' to the cock-up, how the hell did I do that?
It sounds like 'at summit', but that wouldn't make sense
Oh, noticed another mistake :D
now I gotta find out how to edit it...
-- rm
i agree that dj shadow owns
sorry, it is "at summit talks, you hear them speak." because its at the UN summit, where the world leaders go. also, it isnt "and so did monday" it's "it's sorting gun day" because they're sorting guns for war. lastly, its "after all the things we saw, its april fools day." not say.