Future Love Paradise

I always thought it was "writers" not "riders" As in the writers/media of people saying: You're crazy... you're on drugs. And Seal's response is that the writers won't stop us because our "drug" is Love.

I realize I am way late on posting this, but here are my 2 cents:

The song is obviously about racism. Who were the first riders that we might associate with racsim? Soon after the Civil War there were hooded riders that would come out of the night and burn the houses of the recently freed slaves as well as lynch any that they deemed a threat to their way of life - we all know them as the KKK. I feel that the symbology of the riders in this song is derived from the original Klan midnight rides and is used as imagery to represent all racsim and discrimination. In the 60's it was a common Klan claim that the black population was inferior because of the rampant rate of heroine addiction in many of the ghettos. It was an excuse the racists used as a justification for their atrocious behavious. Many of the points in this song can be viewed as turning the tables on racism: another example - if you ask a racist why he hates blacks, or Jews, or Asians, the politically correct answer you might hear is that they don't hate them - they just "love the white race. What is wrong with that?" So in light of this interpretation - "The riders will not stop us, cause the only love they'll find is paradise" can be expanded to clearly mean - The racists will not stop us because the only love there truly is, is the love of an equal and free world.

Or I might be completely wrong.

Possibly, writers not riders. Writers/ media trying to hold us back, but they can't because love will allow us to win. It's a positive song about the strength of love overcoming racism.

Gr8 one. I think its about Anti-racism and spreading "love" rather than hate, as well as teaching future generations to LOVE rather than HATE based on race, etc... Don't you love simple songs that sound GREAT! Seal has this one very well done! :D :)

yay seal! i jus like the song jesus wept there are a ton of lyrics what he said^

Well if you listen to it, you can hear that he says (in the 'doing drugs' verse) 'Blue Riders'. So I'm pretty sure the 'riders' he's talking about are cops, and seeing how this song has pretty heavy racism overtones, I think the chorus is generally about cops discriminating against black people... though I feel the meaning of the song overall is more along the lines of a vision of the world without prejudice. It's a nice song. :)

I think this song is about the endgame between the forces that would hurt us and enslave us and control us and destroy, and the forces that would love and accept us and help us create. I think we are poised between these two forces - we see incredible creations, in music and technology and art, and incredible destructiveness and hatred, often for the dumbest of reasons, all playing out in the world we're experiencing.

If you accept the idea that there are angels - call them what you will, beings who have accepted love as a way of life - and devils, again use whatever words you like, who are deeply into the idea of power and shame and control and guilt and selling you the concept that you are inherently sinful and weak and bad and worthless - then I think this song is about the place where the devils (the riders) and the angels (the queens he talks of in the beginning, spreading love and unity so we can be found) collide

I think each of us can choose which side we would like to be with, and that if you consistently choose love, you will find yourself in a future love paradise. I really do think that we don't die to get to heaven - we live instead. I think Seal knows this - I gesture you to 'Crazy', where he talks about how 'in a sky full of people.. in a world full of people.. in a heaven of people there's only some want to fly, isn't that crazy?'

It's about the originators of the acid house movement in the summer of love in the late 80s in the UK. A really special time.

There is so much optimism and hope in Seal's music, and this song along with several others both on this album and its follow-up "Human Being" is truly indicative of that.

I always like to imagine he sees things to come that most do not, similarly to how Nick Drake did 💙💙.