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Everyone's Gone to the Moon Lyrics
Streets full of people, all alone
Roads full of houses, never home
Church full of singing, out of tune
Everyone's gone to the moon
Eyes full of sorrow, never wet
Hands full of money, all in debt
Sun coming out in the middle of June
Everyone's gone to the moon
Long time ago
Life had begun
Everyone went to the sun
Cars full of motors, painted green
Mouths full of chocolate-covered cream
Arms that can only lift a spoon
Everyone's gone to the moon
Everyone's gone to the moon
Everyone's gone to the moon
Roads full of houses, never home
Church full of singing, out of tune
Everyone's gone to the moon
Hands full of money, all in debt
Sun coming out in the middle of June
Everyone's gone to the moon
Life had begun
Everyone went to the sun
Mouths full of chocolate-covered cream
Arms that can only lift a spoon
Everyone's gone to the moon
Everyone's gone to the moon
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I think it could be a song about SOLDIERS IN WARTIME
"Streets full of people, all alone" can be an army base where the newly arrived soldier knows no one, OR, a street that has many families living on it that have a serviceman, and the families miss their young heroes.
"Roads full of houses, never home" can be the barracks where the soldiers stay, which provide physical shelter but not the emotional kind
"Church full of singing, out of tune" can be a military chapel, and the solider can't pay attention to the service because he's thinking how stupid war is, OR it can be the family of a soldier praying in church for the safe return of their boy.
"Everyone's gone to the moon" The soliders are stationed somewhere so far flung that they might as well be on the moon
"Eyes full of sorrow, never wet" The soldiers want to cry over the tragedy of war and their loneliness for their loved ones, but they don't dare cry because they were told to "toughen up" and "be men"
"Hands full of money, all in debt" The soldiers earn good money but are paying their debt to Uncle Sam
"Sun coming out in the middle of June" The hope that the war will end soon
"Long time ago Life had begun Everyone went to the sun" -- time before the war started
"HEARTS full of motors, painted green" -- The soldiers being forced to care about nothing but where they're headed in their tanks and their jeeps
"Mouths full of chocolate-covered cream" The soldiers are cheered up by gifts of candy (boxed chocolate assortments) from loved ones back home
"Arms that can only lift a spoon" Possibly a reference to wounded or disabled soldiers
"Everyone's gone to the moon Everyone's gone to the moon Everyone's gone to the moon "
Awesome insight.
Awesome insight.
@CuteSparkina I saw this interpretation of yours in another forum and thought it was an lovely one. I honestly think King kind of free associated the lyrics so you can make what you want of them and I think your interpretation 'works' especially as the song is melancholy and oddly suggestive and moving. It also gets that sense of alienation and unreality which soldiers often feel.
@CuteSparkina I saw this interpretation of yours in another forum and thought it was an lovely one. I honestly think King kind of free associated the lyrics so you can make what you want of them and I think your interpretation 'works' especially as the song is melancholy and oddly suggestive and moving. It also gets that sense of alienation and unreality which soldiers often feel.
I personally always saw it as a science-fiction dystopia: a bit like the song 'in the year 2525' but sad rather than scary and grim. In this future, humans are kind of weak and...
I personally always saw it as a science-fiction dystopia: a bit like the song 'in the year 2525' but sad rather than scary and grim. In this future, humans are kind of weak and pathetic, possibly fed nice things by carer machines, their organs replaced by artificial parts, and everything is just a bad imitation of what it used to be like when humans were in charge (houses/homes, church/singing). Yes, people are living on the moon, but is it really living?
The 60s were a golden era of science fiction, and hippie culture referenced SF extensively: there was almost a grab-bag of futuristic ideas that anyone could access and which turn up in a number of songs. In modern times this could be taken further and seen as a future in which we are divorced from nature, and from our own true natures.
I suspect though, that the appeal of the song is in it's strange ambiguity: the nursery-rhyme lyrics make no literal sense and so it's left to the listener to make the song work. That's true with all music to an extent, but the power of this song is that it says so little but feels like it's saying a lot!
Horrible people can still make good music