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The Day After The Revolution Lyrics
The dust has settled,
Replaces the bulbs in all the lights.
I guess I'll get no sleep tonight.
A revolution happened.
Oh, sorry, you haven't heard?
We are the children of the new world.
If you're quiet you can watch if you like.
They say the future's beginning tonight.
Whole empires will crumble.
Civilisations will fall.
Lie on the bed, hear the sound of it all.
No anger, no guilt and no sorrow,
It sounds unlikely, I know, but tomorrow
You will wake up to find that your whole life has changed.
Although nothing looks different
A revolution took place.
I love the way you do it.
I love the way you put them on.
You know the answers but you get it wrong. (Just to confuse things).
Why did it seem so difficult to realise a simple truth?
The revolution begins and ends with you.
Now all the breakdowns and nightmares look small.
Now we decided not to die after all.
Because the meek shall inherit absolutely nothing at all.
If you stopped being so feeble you could have so much more.
The answer was here all the time, you see.
Just how I missed it is a mystery to me.
I have waited and waited for this day to arrive.
The revolution was televised.
Now it's over, bye bye.
It's over, bye bye.
Yeah, we made it.
Just by the skin of our teeth.
Perfection is over (The Rave is over)
Sheffield is over.
The Fear is over.
Guilt is over (Please leave the building quietly)
Bergerac is over.
The hangover is over
Men are over.
Women are over.
Cholesterol is over.
Tapers are over.
Irony is over.
Bye bye.
Bye bye.
Replaces the bulbs in all the lights.
I guess I'll get no sleep tonight.
A revolution happened.
Oh, sorry, you haven't heard?
We are the children of the new world.
If you're quiet you can watch if you like.
They say the future's beginning tonight.
Whole empires will crumble.
Civilisations will fall.
Lie on the bed, hear the sound of it all.
No anger, no guilt and no sorrow,
It sounds unlikely, I know, but tomorrow
You will wake up to find that your whole life has changed.
Although nothing looks different
A revolution took place.
I love the way you put them on.
You know the answers but you get it wrong. (Just to confuse things).
Why did it seem so difficult to realise a simple truth?
The revolution begins and ends with you.
Now all the breakdowns and nightmares look small.
Now we decided not to die after all.
Because the meek shall inherit absolutely nothing at all.
If you stopped being so feeble you could have so much more.
The answer was here all the time, you see.
Just how I missed it is a mystery to me.
I have waited and waited for this day to arrive.
The revolution was televised.
Now it's over, bye bye.
It's over, bye bye.
Just by the skin of our teeth.
Perfection is over (The Rave is over)
Sheffield is over.
The Fear is over.
Guilt is over (Please leave the building quietly)
Bergerac is over.
The hangover is over
Men are over.
Women are over.
Cholesterol is over.
Tapers are over.
Irony is over.
Bye bye.
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To me this means that everything we've believed is wrong, religion, and our revolutions, they were just putting us on. Whoever ultimately runs the world knows that everything is meaningless, they know all the answers but they get it all wrong just to confuse things.
The meek won't inherit anything, if you want change you have to do it for yourself, and all the revolutions are in the end meaningless because everything will still be the same afterwards.
I like stephsays interpretation, but to me this song is about getting old and one day realizing your life has passed you by. The revolution came and went, but you don't feel any different; you still have the same problems.
Surely this song is about Blair and New Labour?
Yeah, I'm pretty sure that this is really an amazingly sarcastic dig at New Labour and the UK election of 1997, or at least that that was one of several intended interpretations. This was from the same period during which Jarvis wrote "Cocaine Socialism", after all. That the last line is "irony is over" is telling.