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The Right Place Lyrics
do you like where you're living?
do you like what you do?
do you like what you're seeing...
when you're lookin at you?
do you like what you're saying...
when you open your face?
do you got the right feeling?
are you in the right place?
stealin a tusk from an elephant must make one feel creepy inside.
and although you'll boast around the fire at night...
that ghost will kick up a fight.
"be gone! be gone!" you scream...
you're just some elephant dream...
i needed you like you needed me...
people, they need piano keys.
if you like where you're living...
if you like what you do...
if you like what you're seeing...
when you're lookin at you...
if you like what you're saying...
when you open your face...
then you got the right feeling.
you're in the right place.
"is this right? is this right?"
c'mon god answer tonite!
is there some fee that you'll charge me...
for doin what you thought i might?
once you've thought long and hard about it...
tell me if heads will roll.
once you've thought long and hard about it...
tell me cuz i need to know...
cause i like where i'm livin...
and i like what i do...
and i like what i'm seein...
when i'm lookin at you...
i still like what i'm saying...
when i open my face.
i think i got the right feeling.
i think i'm in the right place.
i think i got the right feeling.
i think i'm in the right place.
do you like what you do?
do you like what you're seeing...
when you're lookin at you?
do you like what you're saying...
when you open your face?
do you got the right feeling?
are you in the right place?
and although you'll boast around the fire at night...
that ghost will kick up a fight.
"be gone! be gone!" you scream...
you're just some elephant dream...
i needed you like you needed me...
people, they need piano keys.
if you like what you do...
if you like what you're seeing...
when you're lookin at you...
if you like what you're saying...
when you open your face...
then you got the right feeling.
you're in the right place.
c'mon god answer tonite!
is there some fee that you'll charge me...
for doin what you thought i might?
once you've thought long and hard about it...
once you've thought long and hard about it...
tell me cuz i need to know...
and i like what i do...
and i like what i'm seein...
when i'm lookin at you...
i still like what i'm saying...
when i open my face.
i think i got the right feeling.
i think i'm in the right place.
i think i got the right feeling.
i think i'm in the right place.
Song Info
Submitted by
lxyt On Sep 22, 2009
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This song is pure genius.
It's about an elephant poacher, his inner struggle with the guilt about what he does, and his fear about what he'll face in the afterlife.
The chorus is sarcasm...obviously he's far from being in the right place.
Entirely accurate. I love Jim James for writing this, for composing this...its just irony and brilliance in the form of creativity that only Jim James could give us.
Entirely accurate. I love Jim James for writing this, for composing this...its just irony and brilliance in the form of creativity that only Jim James could give us.
It is such a cheery song musically, but the meaning and purpose behind it is anything but. To me, this is music. This is just pure art. I truly cannot get enough of Jim James, or any of the MoF members who are all so talented in their own little niches.
It is such a cheery song musically, but the meaning and purpose behind it is anything but. To me, this is music. This is just pure art. I truly cannot get enough of Jim James, or any of the MoF members who are all so talented in their own little niches.
Why would they have Blasphemy in their Lyrics? Yim Yames is a Christian and believes in God.... soo i dont think they would sing blaphemic lyrics and why would they sing about an elephant poacher? that makes no sense
They just keep doing it again and again. Can't wait to buy this!
What do you think the line: "do you like what you're saying / when you open your face," means?
its entirely simple, do you like what you are saying and do you approve of what you are vocally expressing. what people feel and think can be on an entire different wavelength as what they say. that's why there's so many liars and people full of crap in the world.
its entirely simple, do you like what you are saying and do you approve of what you are vocally expressing. what people feel and think can be on an entire different wavelength as what they say. that's why there's so many liars and people full of crap in the world.
turnmyheadintosound: I think it means do you like the things you say/talk about.
I just love this song. Especially this line: "i needed you like you needed me... people, they need piano keys."
I'm seeing them live in 3 days! I really hope they play this. It's beautiful. Who is singing on this song? Is it M. Ward?
Jim James is the one singing.
Jim James is the one singing.
what does the lyrics, " i needed you like you need me" mean?
what does the lyrics, " i needed you like you need me" mean?
this song makes me so happy :)
Great song. Contradicts it's own chorus with it's verses.
Inner struggle, conflicting thoughts, moral crisis. This is what this "happy" song is all about.
Bad man (elephant poacher) doing bad things, feeling guilty and bad about it but not changing anything because he's in the "right place" (irony, he's not as the chorus contradicts JJ's verses). Instead, he fears his future punishment or fate.
Great tune. Very catchy. But containing self-righteous, and blasphemous lyrics. The very idea that a creature (and a fallen one at that) would demand an answer from his Creator (see the book of Job for when a comparatively righteous man calls God to the table, and observe the necessary and humbling results), and not only to demand an immediate answer, but to suggest that God might (or rather does, and needs to recognise in himself) have some unjustness in Him, and then to suggest that God (you know, the omnipotent Creator?) needs to "think long and hard about it"; and then, to top it all off, to say the he (the singer/writer) is able to find goodness in what he does and says is the empitome of insanity, self-righteousness, delusion, laziness, and stupidity. If he wants an answer from God, he'll have to go about getting the answers via the means that God has provided -- through the prayerful, humble, and diligent use of the reading, and the hearing of the preaching, and submissino to His Word (the books of the Old and New Testaments, and them alone!). Other than that, the only "immediate" answer he can expect from God is going to be the face-to-face rebuke he'll incur at the Last Day. He won't be opening his face to the Lord on that Day, I can assure you of that.
how do we know that he isn't basing this off of the belief that god and the devil are one, life is death, pain is pleasure, etc.