Overall about difficult moments of disappointment and vulnerability. Having hope and longing, while remaining optimistic for the future. Encourages the belief that with each new morning there is a chance for things to improve.
The chorus offers a glimmer of optimism and a chance at a resolution and redemption in the future.
Captures the rollercoaster of emotions of feeling lost while loving someone who is not there for you, feeling let down and abandoned while waiting for a lover. Lost with no direction, "Now I'm up in the air with the rain in my hair, Nowhere to go, I can go anywhere"
The bridge shows signs of longing and a plea for companionship. The Lyrics express a desire for authentic connection and the importance of Loving someone just as they are. "Just in passing, I'm not asking. That you be anyone but you”
White man went to Africa
With rifles and Bibles
Came back in the 80s 'cause he's
Spiteful with a new recital
A vaccine, he spread it all around
Every hut in every village every
School in every town
But they didn't get cured, they just got AIDS
I said they didn't get cured
They just got AIDS
And soon it magically appeared in every
Place a poor person was
So watch your smirking cause
Ain't you wondered who's been merking us?
Who put the crack in the ghetto?
Who put that crap in netto?
Why charge that much for lego?
Why can't we let go?
They give us Pepsi, crack or
Coca Cola so we settle, get me
So get the right bus
The right bus is priceless
Unite despite they vices and show
This world who's the nicest
Yo, we're the nicest, ask Dildo's Rollo
If I was your Skygod I might smite Bono
Thank for all the AIDS
(And the bums and the nuns and the
Guns and the bombs on the trains)
Thank for all the AIDS
(And the lies and wives of the
Guys who've been dying in spades)
Thank for all the AIDS
(And the crap TV, and for me
And for bringing on the plague)
Thank for all the AIDS
So what you do is you get
Some shit white rock bands
With trite white wristbands
Outside are Mormons, a fright
Of Christians the drool in the corners
Of their mouths is glistening
You can't hear shit for the whistling
Above all the people and undead Beatle
A hair transplant and a junkie word
Come friendly bombs and rain on Keane
And anyone that's ever been like
Featured in the NME and that includes me
See the world bank don't do shit for free
So read debt dropped read they see thee
And thee owe they and they own thee
So they got all your water mate
Yo they decide your daughter's fate
You can't turn piss into wine
You can't rub pennies in a wound
And expect it to be fine
There are no diamonds in the mines
'cause we teefed the lot
So I'm a be on top of the pops singing
Thank for all the AIDS
(And the bums and the nuns and the
Guns and the bombs on the trains)
Thank for all the AIDS
(And the floods and the blood and the drugs
And the banning all the raves)
Thank for all the AIDS
(And the Asian flu, and for you
And for making us slaves)
Thank for all the AIDS
Oh pray for me Methodist 'cause
I fear the rapture
Coming atcha like Cleopatra
Oh you could never capture
The Donovan's stature
I'm evil on the mike like Margret Thatcher
Ook, made you look, bombs like a nuke
I'm truer than the gospel according
To my mate Luke
It says here that the Skygod wants
To kill you if you're queer
Or If you're a Jew or you're an
Arab a miner in a hole
Or if you are a dog because
You haven't got a soul
Or if you are a dead baby (Ha, ha)
You should count your stems and
See how lucky you are
So if your kids are on Ritalin you are
Twelve times worse than the worst crack whore
I can say this 'cause I'm sure
You ain't shit we've been advised
To quit but we ain't taking
The piss when we say
Thank for all the AIDS
(And the bums and the nuns and the
Guns and the bombs on the trains)
Thank for all the AIDS
(And the lies and guys with no
Lives who've been dying in spades)
Thank for all the AIDS
(And the crap TV and for me
And for making us slaves)
Thank for all the AIDS
Thank for all the AIDS
(And the bums and the nuns and the
Guns and the bombs on the trains)
Thank for all the AIDS
(And the floods and the drugs and the bloods
And the banning all the raves)
Thank for all the AIDS
(And the avian flu, and for you
And for making us slaves)
Thank for all the AIDS
With rifles and Bibles
Came back in the 80s 'cause he's
Spiteful with a new recital
A vaccine, he spread it all around
Every hut in every village every
School in every town
But they didn't get cured, they just got AIDS
I said they didn't get cured
They just got AIDS
And soon it magically appeared in every
Place a poor person was
So watch your smirking cause
Ain't you wondered who's been merking us?
Who put the crack in the ghetto?
Who put that crap in netto?
Why charge that much for lego?
Why can't we let go?
They give us Pepsi, crack or
Coca Cola so we settle, get me
So get the right bus
The right bus is priceless
Unite despite they vices and show
This world who's the nicest
Yo, we're the nicest, ask Dildo's Rollo
If I was your Skygod I might smite Bono
Thank for all the AIDS
(And the bums and the nuns and the
Guns and the bombs on the trains)
Thank for all the AIDS
(And the lies and wives of the
Guys who've been dying in spades)
Thank for all the AIDS
(And the crap TV, and for me
And for bringing on the plague)
Thank for all the AIDS
So what you do is you get
Some shit white rock bands
With trite white wristbands
Outside are Mormons, a fright
Of Christians the drool in the corners
Of their mouths is glistening
You can't hear shit for the whistling
Above all the people and undead Beatle
A hair transplant and a junkie word
Come friendly bombs and rain on Keane
And anyone that's ever been like
Featured in the NME and that includes me
See the world bank don't do shit for free
So read debt dropped read they see thee
And thee owe they and they own thee
So they got all your water mate
Yo they decide your daughter's fate
You can't turn piss into wine
You can't rub pennies in a wound
And expect it to be fine
There are no diamonds in the mines
'cause we teefed the lot
So I'm a be on top of the pops singing
Thank for all the AIDS
(And the bums and the nuns and the
Guns and the bombs on the trains)
Thank for all the AIDS
(And the floods and the blood and the drugs
And the banning all the raves)
Thank for all the AIDS
(And the Asian flu, and for you
And for making us slaves)
Thank for all the AIDS
Oh pray for me Methodist 'cause
I fear the rapture
Coming atcha like Cleopatra
Oh you could never capture
The Donovan's stature
I'm evil on the mike like Margret Thatcher
Ook, made you look, bombs like a nuke
I'm truer than the gospel according
To my mate Luke
It says here that the Skygod wants
To kill you if you're queer
Or If you're a Jew or you're an
Arab a miner in a hole
Or if you are a dog because
You haven't got a soul
Or if you are a dead baby (Ha, ha)
You should count your stems and
See how lucky you are
So if your kids are on Ritalin you are
Twelve times worse than the worst crack whore
I can say this 'cause I'm sure
You ain't shit we've been advised
To quit but we ain't taking
The piss when we say
Thank for all the AIDS
(And the bums and the nuns and the
Guns and the bombs on the trains)
Thank for all the AIDS
(And the lies and guys with no
Lives who've been dying in spades)
Thank for all the AIDS
(And the crap TV and for me
And for making us slaves)
Thank for all the AIDS
Thank for all the AIDS
(And the bums and the nuns and the
Guns and the bombs on the trains)
Thank for all the AIDS
(And the floods and the drugs and the bloods
And the banning all the raves)
Thank for all the AIDS
(And the avian flu, and for you
And for making us slaves)
Thank for all the AIDS
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Great song! my interpretations the first verse is about the imperialism in africa "White man went to Africa with rifles and bibles" and then returning and giving africans AIDS virus, and americanizing products "They give us Pepsi, cack or Coca Cola so we settle"
the chorus is all the things the white man brought to africa religion, weapons, terrorism, drugs, disease, making the africans into slaves, lies, the women of the dead miners and most stressed AIDS
second verse refers to Live Aid "You get some shite white rock bands, With trite white wristbands" and how the chump change isnt helping "You can't rub pennies in a wound and expect it to be fine" im guessing the part about the diamonds is referring to blood diamonds
third verse refers to Margret Thatcher the once prime minister of Britain during the 80's, and i believe how it shows the flaws in religion such as just because your gay, of a different religion, species, or an unbabtised baby{not sure about miner in a hole could be meaning a prostitute or again the blood diamond miners in africa not sure} your not going to heaven "That the Skygod wants to kill you if you're queer, Or If you're a Jew or you're an Arab, A miner in a hole, Or if you are a dog because you haven't got a soul, Or if you are a dead baby" parents who put their kids on Ridalin {a drug to calm, used mainly for people who have ADD or ADHD} are doing a horrible thing because they are not letting the children be themselves and calming the children to help themselves and that nobody has died from either disorder its just a personality trait, no matter who you are your not more important then ANY other human {whether from a different country, race, creed, gender, sexual orientation, or ocupation}"I can say this cos I'm sure - You Aint Shit"