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Every house on the street
Will get on their feet
Carry the sleepers out into the weather, from the violet cities
The violet cities
They'll turn on their lights and open their eyes
Drop to their knees and they'll drink from the river in the violet cities
The violet cities
On and on they'll lead us on and
On and on they'll lead us on
We'll all get high and walk off
Into the country, ridiculous country
Where the blue sky will smother us
Believe me, believe me, believe me
The blue sky will smother us
They'll open their doors and they'll sing to the sun
We don't know anymore how to glitter we come
From the violet cities
The violet cities
If we stand there and stare and everyone's come
They may never find out that we came here at all
From the violet cities
The violet cities
On and on they'll lead us on and
On and on they'll lead us on
We'll all get high and walk off
Into the country, ridiculous country
Where the blue sky will smother us
Believe me, believe me, believe me
The blue sky will smother us
Believe me, believe me, believe me
Will get on their feet
Carry the sleepers out into the weather, from the violet cities
The violet cities
Drop to their knees and they'll drink from the river in the violet cities
The violet cities
On and on they'll lead us on
We'll all get high and walk off
Into the country, ridiculous country
Where the blue sky will smother us
Believe me, believe me, believe me
The blue sky will smother us
We don't know anymore how to glitter we come
From the violet cities
The violet cities
They may never find out that we came here at all
From the violet cities
The violet cities
On and on they'll lead us on
We'll all get high and walk off
Into the country, ridiculous country
Where the blue sky will smother us
Believe me, believe me, believe me
The blue sky will smother us
Believe me, believe me, believe me
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It's kind of a pitty this song probably wouldn't fit on the High Violet album (though they still could have put it as a hidden bonus track), because it could give some meaning to the album title.
I don't know what it's about, a version of heaven, or maybe just a better place we'll visit when let go.
This is one of the songs from this band (and this band is just... my band... i listen to them every day... its ridiculous how religiously i put the vinyle on the turntable every day... because they mean so much to me...) that i like the least. i dont know why. the lyrics, i can feel them. but in a kind of way i think this song is weird. but it's also the conclusion to the name of their last album "high violet". the violet cities means the modern world for me. the suburbs, the people getting on and off their house to the work. i dont know the meaning of the song but i see the morning and the young day rising shy in the sky. i like the song but far less than others (my favorite EVER could be Slow Show, story of my life...) but i feel quiet when i listen to walk off. maybe one day that song will be my favorite. sorry for my english. i am french, and i am drunk. i was listening for the twelve time that song tonight. it was a really bad and sad night and that song fells good right now.
God, the vocals on this are breathtaking.
With respect to the "violet" that color is that which results from a 50/50 mix of red and blue (as in States?). The song could be read as a hope/plea for a utopia/heaven that's either apolitical or political, but regardless where humans care more about each other as humans, rather than their political persuasion.
To my mind this is commenting about the atrocities of war and the attacks that the west are raging elsewhere in the world. The people in the houses are asleep in bed at night. They are attacked, open their eyes, turn on the lights, carry their dead ‘sleepers’ into the street, drop to their knees.
The citizens of USA are led by government propaganda, believing the blue sky dream that they’re being sold by their ridiculous country. Which will eventually smother them.
It’s difficult to differentiate Violet from Violent when Matt sings it.
It’s a very sad song.