In regards to the meaning of this song:
Before a live performance on the EP Five Stories Falling, Geoff states “It’s about the last time I went to visit my grandmother in Columbus, and I saw that she was dying and it was the last time I was going to see her. It is about realizing how young you are, but how quickly you can go.”
That’s the thing about Geoff and his sublime poetry, you think it’s about one thing, but really it’s about something entirely different. But the lyrics are still universal and omnipresent, ubiquitous, even. So relatable. That’s one thing I love about this band. I also love their live performances, raw energy and Geoff’s beautiful, imperfectly perfect vocals. His voice soothes my aching soul.
We dreamed of golden shining towers
Of lazy days and thrilling hours
Fields of wonder, streets so fair
Of amber ships which sailed, through the air
Dreamed of steel and glass and wire
Of days of wine and nights of fire
Dreamt of dogs that talked like boys
Of girls who flew, of unnamed joys
And now our dreams are true
We don't know what to do
For we don't like it here
There's nothing for us to fear
Bored mindless in Utopia
Silver machine
I just took a ride
In a silver machine
And I'm still feeling mean
I got a silver machine
Do you want to ride
See yourself going by
Other side of the sky
Well I got a silver machine
It flies sideways through time
It's an electric line
To your Zodiac sign
It flies out of a dream
It's anti-septically clean
Turns everything green
You're gonna know where I've been
In my silver machine
Of lazy days and thrilling hours
Fields of wonder, streets so fair
Of amber ships which sailed, through the air
Dreamed of steel and glass and wire
Of days of wine and nights of fire
Dreamt of dogs that talked like boys
Of girls who flew, of unnamed joys
And now our dreams are true
We don't know what to do
For we don't like it here
There's nothing for us to fear
Bored mindless in Utopia
Silver machine
I just took a ride
In a silver machine
And I'm still feeling mean
I got a silver machine
Do you want to ride
See yourself going by
Other side of the sky
Well I got a silver machine
It flies sideways through time
It's an electric line
To your Zodiac sign
It flies out of a dream
It's anti-septically clean
Turns everything green
You're gonna know where I've been
In my silver machine
Lyrics submitted by ButNeverOutgunned
Arrival In Utopia Lyrics as written by L. Steele Dave Brock
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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sorry but these lyrics are all off. okus this is technically by space ritual but i suppose it can go under HW
here are the complete lyrics:
We dreamed of golden shining towers of lazy days and thrilling hours of Fields of wonder, streets so fair of amber ships which sailed, through the-air
And now we see its true we don’t know what to do and we don’t want it now we're here and now our dreams are true we don’t know what to do we'll never know what to do
We Dreamed of steel and glass and wire of days of wine and nights of fire we Dreamt of dogs, that talked like boys of girls who flew of unnamed joys
But when we dreamed, we always knew that if our dreams came true we wouldn’t know what to do
We're sitting in utopia, Don’t like it now were here, We hate it now were here
We dreamed of prizes, dreamed of goals dreamed of deeds and fixed on roles we've driven to utopia, and we don’t like it now were here our dream at last reality, but reality is you and me it's individuality
We're sitting in utopia, but were mindless now were here we hate it now were here reality is you and me, utopia is you and me it's individuality (it's individuality) it's individuality (it's individuality) it's individuality (it's individuality)
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Thanks for the lyrics, thehiddenmeaning. Hard to find. To me the song denies the silly static concept of utopia, a heavenlike endstate, which is really just wishful thinking by those who have problems accepting the constant change we are all experiencing.