Futures

I had a completely different impression of the song from the first time I head it. The song is about the environment and how we are destroying our future.

Each verse makes the historical links between science, capitalism, and consumerism. In each there is an act through which we take possession of something. But the aggregate of our individual actions is destroying the planet. And at the same time we have and idea, a myth of some future, the futures holidays, where things will still be able to continue much as they have been.

The narrator questions, "Just let me know, where we go after the fall." The narrator doubts the myth. The the narrator states, "Where you go, nobody knows.' But like many of us the narrator continues to believe that there can be a way out. "Just let me know, Where to go, Where you go after the fall"

When I saw the video I was convinced that I had it. I never even thought about it the way that others are. Now I begin to doubt.

"Made a note of it" a political idea resonated with you "Did you write it on your hand?" on a protest poster, or social media "Put a name on it" a Party, candidate, or other key figure "To help you understand" the association to complete the programming "Well do you see" consider a different perspective "The futures holidays are for me" I'm looking beyond the struggle to a future without it, where all are holidays "Just let me know "Where we go "After the fall" I'll be still be with you then, when this whole system crashes "Like the sound of it" the appeal of the slogans, the vision "Gonna hang it on your wall" a poster, flag, bumper sticker "Turn and run with it" motivated to action, spread the meme "For the sake of one and all" going to save the world with a vote "Where you go nobody knows" susceptible to suggestions, you could believe anything

The character sees most accepting a binary political landscape; it consumes them and controls their behavior and relationships. They don't see it all crumbling. The character, however, does and so imagines a hopeful peace in futures without that manufactured struggle.

is this the guy from the shins playing?

it's Jose Gonzalez.

Interesting lyrics, if does in fact have meaning I'd like someone to tell us what they think it means.

Jose Gonzalez sounds very identical to Jose Feliciano (famous for Faliz Navidad) on this track, so much so that I thought it was him before looking it up. This is a great track, very clean eclectic rock tune, not too trippy, not too electronica, it's just right.

its aboot fleeting fame

this song rocks...jose gonzalez is awesome and is voice works perfectly for this song. its got a great groove too which usually works for songs. hell yeah

oh yeah..i think its just about dissappearing for the winter to a nice place and forgetting the world for a spell while the world does the same about you. i think it involves 2 people on the vacation

Maybe its about a relationship between a boy and a girl that was good but some circumstance forced them to split...perhaps she had to move far away for college or work or just because her family is moving.

This song could be about false hopes...he presents to her that he wants to go wherever she is going to hide from the truth...that deep inside he knows he will have to let her go...and it will burn like hell.

Whatever this song means...from the tone of the music...I get a very melancholy vibe. There's nothing happy about it.