Humans

i don't know all the lyrics, but it doesn't say "should we mumble lies?" it says "Should we mobilize?"

IT is "Rivers, and playgrounds"

and not "Happily alive", but "Not really alive"

Corrections, from liner notes:

a. The tree it fell on all the people who* gathered there to watch it topplee

b. should we mobilize, take them by surprise or let them have their way with us?

• young love's beat by old enemies it* broke my heart to see
• guess we got off to a bad start

c. hungry humans, we've got to eat some of them?*

d. and* the river's ran dry just when it was needed

e. it was* hard to breathe but we couldn't leave nowhere left to go almost everybody died we drank the tears from those who died and we shrivelled from the sodium then a map was found with an "X" on it we followed it there and what did we find? an underground design so we entered and to our surprise...

f. oxygen, rivers and playgrounds ... so we stumbled towards them

g. but we had to build a civilization and let the planet focus on the planet's rotation ... we tried we tried, we really tried but no one could do it we're not really alive never learned how to survive we were humans being useless

h. we fade into oblivion with no traces of civilized living breathing in dirt we fade into oblivion with no traces of civilized living

Nature's revenge.

This song's plot is really kind of similar to the plot of a book called City of Ember. And the sequel, whose name I cannot remember right now.

hm. all the lyrics to all the songs (spare track five) are in the cd booklet. all that aside, i'm real glad i discovered islands. i absolutely love them, though i suppose i still like the unicorns better. this was the first song i heard and it began to bother me that they sounded too much like the unicorns... until i found out they were the unicorns.

go figure.

i love it/

I'm the opposite of you. I wasn't a huge Unicorns fan, but I can't get enough of Islands. Anyway, this song seems like it's about a group of people trying to survive after some kind of cataclysm. It's pretty self-explanitory really, unless I'm missing some hidden meaning.

I'm with Wrapid. Unicorns were fine, but Islands are incredible. I love this song, especially the line "I'm not just their leader/I'm also one of them." Also, adding "We Built This City" to all of that apocalyptic imagery? Beautiful!

I love Islands and all, so don't get me wrong, they are my second favorite band. But The Unicorns were just so much better. Nick and Alden made such a good team. And this song, just like every other done by Islands, goes to show that Nick is still doing great without him.

Yeah, Islands are great. Unicorns were great too. Good stuff all around.

Saw Islands live last month and they played lots of new stuff. It sounded awesome, absolutely great.

Anyway, this song is clearly about some end-of-the-world situation. Seems like a recurring theme, what with "Volcanoes" and all.