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Running to Babylon
Run all the way to Babylon
Meet you there in Babylon
Meet you there in Babylon
Running to Babylon
Run all the way to Babylon
Meet you there in Babylon
Meet you there in Babylon
Marooned again, you were the one that threw me into life
Marooned again, you were the one that looked through the sadder light
I liked the way we slept on rooftops in the summertime
If we were all marooned again, I'd give my soul to save you
Marooned again, you were the one that put me in defense
Marooned again, you were the one that took my confidence
I liked the way we slept on rooftops in the summertime
If we were all marooned again, I'd give my soul to save your life
Oooooooooohhhhhhhhh.....
Oooooooooohhhhhhhhh.....
Running from Babylon
Run all the way to Babylon
Meet you there in Babylon
Meet you there in Babylon...
Babylon...
Run all the way to Babylon
Meet you there in Babylon
Meet you there in Babylon
Run all the way to Babylon
Meet you there in Babylon
Meet you there in Babylon
Marooned again, you were the one that looked through the sadder light
I liked the way we slept on rooftops in the summertime
If we were all marooned again, I'd give my soul to save you
Marooned again, you were the one that took my confidence
I liked the way we slept on rooftops in the summertime
If we were all marooned again, I'd give my soul to save your life
Oooooooooohhhhhhhhh.....
Run all the way to Babylon
Meet you there in Babylon
Meet you there in Babylon...
Babylon...
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its about his family in Iraq when the war started he was worried about them
It is indeed. I'm glad to see someone else understands. They even told us this when we were in Al Asad and they came out for a concert for us last year.
It is indeed. I'm glad to see someone else understands. They even told us this when we were in Al Asad and they came out for a concert for us last year.
to me it sounds like a junkie couple and when they were marooned they were high. his partner may has died and babylon is some kind of heaven and he wants to meet him/her there again. awesome song!
Babylon can be interpreted in a few ways, Babylon was the land conquered by Alexander the great, however, in rastafarianism, Babylon is the opposite of natural, almost percieved as evil. I'd like to think that Darron is open minded enough to understand this. Running to Babylon, people come to America and Britain seeking better lives for themselves and their families, but the way these places are run almost completely go against nature (Capitalism). Running to Babylon, meet you there in babylon, almost like they are going to go live their dreams. Marooned again, I think shows the humanity and simplicity...
Babylon can be interpreted in a few ways, Babylon was the land conquered by Alexander the great, however, in rastafarianism, Babylon is the opposite of natural, almost percieved as evil. I'd like to think that Darron is open minded enough to understand this. Running to Babylon, people come to America and Britain seeking better lives for themselves and their families, but the way these places are run almost completely go against nature (Capitalism). Running to Babylon, meet you there in babylon, almost like they are going to go live their dreams. Marooned again, I think shows the humanity and simplicity of the folk who live there, and you can be happy... for a while. But when the system chooses to spit you out, your on your own and no one cares, your marooned. But then the song changes its tone. When he says Running from Babylon it gives me chills. After seeing all this corruption and stepping on the little guy, a lot of people that wake up cannot believe how evil the way of life is and wish to escape. The irony of trying to run from Babylon, is that now it is everywhere, the corruption has literally infested all that was good and beautiful in the world, and slanted it, turning it into systems based on greed, prejudice, extortion, MURDER and human rights violations. Darron is a genius, thats why SOAD kicked arse and thats why scars kick arse, they know the truth.
I think you're right about it being about a junkie couple, they were both addicts, but than I think that one of them sobered, and only daron was left "marooned again", so I guess babylon would mean you're on the wagon. or off the wagon. I forget.
Isn't the lyric "If we were on the roof again I'd give my soul to save your life" instead of "If we were all marooned again"? This song owns.
This song is epic !
It's definitaly all marooned again, not on the roofs again Raspo.
He says Running FROM Babylon in one of the last verses. I think that's a key but I can't see what it means.
marooned is stoned or hight and babylon is there state of mind.
It is a junkie couple,
Then someone gives up the drug adiction
and he wants to be in babylon stoned/high with the person again
I don't have a clue what this song is about...
I think daron had a girlfriend that btoh of them had something very special. They used sleep on roof on the warm summer nights to gaze at the skies (you know the whle romantic thing) but then something happened and both them where marrowened and somehow his love gave her life to save his but know he dreams about everynight and wishes it was him that died not her. (We can tell this by the line i'd give my soul to save to your life). As for babylon the bible states that babylon was a place of sin so a possible hell were his loved ones is waiting for him to join her.
Ok well first marooned is a word that is used to describe a disposition such as exile or being abandoned. Second Babylon is either a place of great rich, sometimes considered as Eden or paradise, or a place of exile.
So my take on the song is that it’s obviously about someone he loves/ed, more then likely a girlfriend. The “running to Babylon” thing to me is like their escape from whatever maybe abandonment. “You were the one that threw me into life//you were the one that looked through sadder light” suggests that, first it was because of her that he lives or because of her he understand life. And second that she stood by him during bad time. The recurring “I liked the way we slept on rooftops in the summertime”, I’m taking as, the “good times”. Then the line “If we were all marooned again, I’d give my soul to safe you”, is to me like saying if were abandoned again, I’d give my life to safe yours.
Then the lines change “you were the one that put me in defense//you were the one that took my confidence” is saying that she hurt him. But he is still willing to give his life up for hers. The ending lines “ Running from” instead of “to” suggest that their escape/paradise is no more.
While I don't discount any of the "druggie" theories, I have my own personal belief based on the rest of the album and a few key phrases from the song.
While I don't discount any of the "druggie" theories, I have my own personal belief based on the rest of the album and a few key phrases from the song.
While reading the book "The 12th Planet" by Zecharia Sitchin, he explains that Babylon was supposedly a sort of resting place for the gods... these gods are in reality a space-faring extraterrestrial race that have genetically manipulated the species of earth in order to create a working class to harvest for them precious minerals, in our case, humanity being create in the image of the gods to do...
While reading the book "The 12th Planet" by Zecharia Sitchin, he explains that Babylon was supposedly a sort of resting place for the gods... these gods are in reality a space-faring extraterrestrial race that have genetically manipulated the species of earth in order to create a working class to harvest for them precious minerals, in our case, humanity being create in the image of the gods to do their bidding.
Babylon could be one of two things in this instance. First, it's an Earth location in which these "gods" would land and be waited on hand-and-foot until their business would be attended to... much like a hotel. OR Babylon is the name of the ship that took them from their mothership to Earth... the shuttle or "bus" to our planet.
In either case, the line "marooned again" which is repeated several times throughout the song is clear and distinct. Marooned, meaning "left behind" or "abandoned" as adombomb suggested, could mean that these "gods" were left on Earth by their people... for what reason, I am unsure at this point, but further investigation of the album may easily tell me this. But the narrator of the story (this "marooned" god) has experienced this abandonment more than once... as he was "marooned AGAIN".
I only suggest these off-the-wall ideas because of some of the other overtones throughout the album... such as in the song 3005 or Enemy. "I'll be in my spaceship still alive, shooting up your world."
Just a few thoughts.
You guys are looking at this all wrong. Even though he is ethnically Armenian Daron's parents immigrated to L.A. from Iraq. He has Family there and has spent summers there as a little boy. Babylon is the ancient name for Iraq. He has also written about his childhood visiting family in Iraq in the SOAD song Soldier Side.