Hope everything is alright
Hope everything is alright
What's that floatin' in the water?
Oh, Neptune's only daughter
I believe
In Mr. Grieves
Pray for a man in the middle
One that talks like Doolittle
I believe
In Mr. Grieves
Do you have another opinion? Yup
Do you have another opinion?
La la la la, la la la la
La la la la, la la la la
Got bombed, got frozen
Got finally off to finally dozin'
I believe
In Mr. Grieves
Do you have another opinion? Yup! Opinion
Do you have another opinion?
Do you have another opinion?
You can cry, you can mope
But, can you swing from a good rope?
Oh, I believe
In Mr. Grieves
Hope everything is alright
Hope everything is alright
Hope everything is alright
What's that floatin' in the water?
Oh, Neptune's only daughter
I believe
In Mr. Grieves
Pray for a man in the middle
One that talks like Doolittle
I believe
In Mr. Grieves
Do you have another opinion? Yup
Do you have another opinion?
La la la la, la la la la
La la la la, la la la la
Got bombed, got frozen
Got finally off to finally dozin'
I believe
In Mr. Grieves
Do you have another opinion? Yup! Opinion
Do you have another opinion?
Do you have another opinion?
You can cry, you can mope
But, can you swing from a good rope?
Oh, I believe
In Mr. Grieves
Hope everything is alright
Hope everything is alright
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Mr. Grieves Lyrics as written by Charles Thompson
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"It’s about the end of the world I guess. Mr Grieves is the Death character of mythology. The ‘man in the middle’ is Dr Doolittle, because if you could speak to the animals you would be the great link between mankind and the animal world. There’s this theory that if not smarter than us, animals are aware of what’s going on and if we could communicate with them, they could give us the answer of the future and make everything ok. But I’m assuming that a nuclear winter will mean that Mr Grieves is going to win in the end."
I like Mr. Grieves being a medium for the dead idea better, but whatever.
first verse is about how old neptuna's daughter is dead (duh).
donnu about the second one
third one implies that death is finnaly getting some rest
and last one says that yea yea, you can grieve, but can you kill yourself?
doesn't make sense...
and all that "hope everything is allright" is like this person who speaks to a griever, trying to comfort him, or see if everything is allright
I love the start, with the insane singing/laughter.
'what's that floating in the water
oh neptune's only daughter'
'got bombed got frozen
got finally off to a finally dozing'
Mr Grieves is about (among other things?) evolution.
"You can cry, you can mope, but can you swing from a good rope?"
Meaning "being highly evolved, we can feel and emote, but we had to give up physical bonuses (of our nearest ancestors) like the ability to swing between trees."
"Pray for a man in the middle; one that talks like Doolittle"
This expresses the desire to be able to talk to animals, praying for a human - to - animal translator AND/OR it refers to "the missing link" in the evolutionary chain.
"I believe in Mr. Grieves" must just mean "I believe man evolved from the sea (to apes)"
"Do you have another opinion" challenges creationists?
"What's that floating in the water? Old Neptuna(e)'s only daughter"
Tough one, but possibly something to do with Neptune/Poseidon being god (Father) of the seas and water and oceans, and his "only daughter" being our first multi-celled or otherwise complex aquatic ancestor.
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So would say I got kind of close, although I never thought about it as "end of the world". From that perspective, I think most of the above still works.
You might notice similar themes (comaraderie with non-humans +/or the sea) in TONs of his songs, such as "Wave of Mutilation," "ANA," "The Sad Punk," "Where Is My Mind," "Monkey Gone To Heaven," "Caribou," "Bird Dream of the Olympus Mons," "Palace of the Brine," "Oh My Golly!," "Velouria" and "All Over The World."
I also just literally found out last night that Peter Capaldi [he's a British actor, in case you haven't heard of him] is playing a character called Gaius Grieves a.k.a 'the Thinker' who can read people's & animal's minds! So wow!)
I'm thinking Neptune's daughter is the 'Doolittle' character in the song