Westworld

Great song. I'm not particularly sure what the Westworld is though.

well The Westworld (in my opinion) is the western area of the US and "a chance to expand" was the Manifest Destiny. when America was finally settled as it's own country they thought it was there destiny to expand the US so they explored and expanded.

(continued) she could be saying that the settlers were power hungry/crazed.

so she could be singing about the settlers but in first person...? i don't know. that's my take on it.

This is from the Valley of the Giants website:

"We sat on the couch watching Yul Brynner all in black, with lifeless eyes and jingling spurs strutting across the mechanized psycho-desert landscape. Diedre pulled out a pen and began to write lyrics based on the lonely murderous robot cowboy."

The movie the band was watching is called Westworld, where Yul Brynner plays a robot cowboy in a Disneyland-inspired theme park. One of the sections of the park is called "Westword" (just as Disneyland has Adventureland, Tomorrowland, etc.) and contains animatronic cowboys with whom a visitor can engage in duels and (should) win. Something goes wrong, though, and the park's robots actually being killing guests.

Anyway, Brynner's character in this movie may have inspired the song, but I have a hard time imagining the incredible soundscape produced by Valley of The Giants to be modeled after a faux-Western theme park attraction. It's too real sounding.

begin, not being.

The song is from the point of view of the weaker tourist character in the film. Not the robot.

..despite what the entirely fictitious record company bio says. d.s.