"Gold Lion" as written by and Nick Zinner Karen Orzolek....
Gold lion's gonna tell me where the light is,
Gold lion's gonna tell me where the light is,
Take our hands out of control,
Take our hands out of control
Now, tell me what you saw,
Tell me what you saw,
There was a crowd of seeds,
Inside, outside,
I must have done a dozen each
It was the height I threw, the weight,
The shell was crushing you,
I've been around a few
Tell me what you saw,
I'll tell you what to...
Ooh ooh, ooh ooh, ooh ooh, ohh ohh
Ooh ooh, ooh ooh, ooh ooh, ohh ohh
Gold lion's gonna tell me where the light is,
Gold lion's gonna tell me where the light is,
Take our hands out of control,
Take our hands out of control
Outside, inside,
This is the moon without a tide,
We'll build a fire in your eyes,
We'll build a fire when the cover's getting brighter,
Cold as I, makes the moon without a tide
Tell me what you saw,
I'll tell you what to...
Ooh ooh, ooh ooh, ooh ooh, ohh ohh
Ooh ooh, ooh ooh, ooh ooh, ohh ohh
Ooh ooh, ooh ooh, ooh ooh, ohh ohh
Ooh ooh, ooh ooh, ooh ooh, ohh ohh
Gold lion's gonna tell me where the light is,
Take our hands out of control,
Take our hands out of control
Now, tell me what you saw,
Tell me what you saw,
There was a crowd of seeds,
Inside, outside,
I must have done a dozen each
It was the height I threw, the weight,
The shell was crushing you,
I've been around a few
Tell me what you saw,
I'll tell you what to...
Ooh ooh, ooh ooh, ooh ooh, ohh ohh
Ooh ooh, ooh ooh, ooh ooh, ohh ohh
Gold lion's gonna tell me where the light is,
Gold lion's gonna tell me where the light is,
Take our hands out of control,
Take our hands out of control
Outside, inside,
This is the moon without a tide,
We'll build a fire in your eyes,
We'll build a fire when the cover's getting brighter,
Cold as I, makes the moon without a tide
Tell me what you saw,
I'll tell you what to...
Ooh ooh, ooh ooh, ooh ooh, ohh ohh
Ooh ooh, ooh ooh, ooh ooh, ohh ohh
Ooh ooh, ooh ooh, ooh ooh, ohh ohh
Ooh ooh, ooh ooh, ooh ooh, ohh ohh
Lyrics submitted by Botman4y2k
"Gold Lion" as written by Karen Lee Orzolek Brian Chase
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What goes on in Vegas, goes into a Yeah Yeah Yeahs song.
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I think gold lion represents the "zero" who descends into nothingness, only to see the light that illuminates us all and climb, climb back up. Gold lion sees the crowns of seeds that causes everything to manifest in this world. Gold lion sees beyond the epoch of slavery, domination, division, and false ego within which we are living. Our true selves are moons without a tide, as we who have seen it have not reached a tipping point quite yet, causing the love, the pole reversal, to reverberate throughout the world. The outside moon without a tide represents how the current order of things does not resonate deeply; it is an irritant, a blockage. Gold lion says do not have faith in the deceptive image, do not fear, do not become vain over your false self in realtion to that fear, leading to narcissism, then leading to lust. This reduction to robot/animal status allows the slavemasters (who are really slaves themselves, to the false ideology) to continue to plant poisonous seeds of hate, division, war, strife, domination, manipulation. Ceasing our judgments of others and ourselves is key, as we really only judge others based on aspects contained within ourselves, whether we are are, looking within, or not. Forgiveness of self and others must follow. A keen awareness of the grand interconnected design becomes profoundly and movingly apparent, and we love. The echoes of hate, bouncing along in our false selves, that beast masquerading as divine, these echoes of hate dissolve into the ether. We find our true nature. We are joyous, we love, and we transcend the stifling control. This is what one gold lion says. Of course, this is only my interpretation, but I think it is something they were getting at, almost like a high form of communication to others who see what they see, saying you are not alone. They are also saying it is the time to shine for those like us. Shine, the world needs it. It is our destiny, if we want it to be. It is our destiny regardless. We will allow color to be free of its shackles, as color needs no shackles in the coming world.
I think the "to" is supposed to be "too", because that'd make the song make a little more sense (not that there's much of THAT in any YYYs song).
I love Modest Mouse And I LOVE The YYY's.
Soo cooool...
someone told me it was about ecstasy, cause "gold lion" is a type of ecstasy. of course, the las vegas thing seems far more likely.
Gold Lion and the Nick Zinner remix are insane songs, possibly among the most catchy imaginable. The Nick Zinner remix is MAD! Gold Lion totally sets the pace for the re-invented Yeah Yeah Yeahs that create the mature and totally amazing “Show Your Bones”!
"tell me what you saw, I'll tell you what to..." and the "ooh ooh"s are like the word "do"
I read here that it's about ecstasy, that gold lion is a certain type of ecstasy. this song is pretty much obviously about that drug.