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Oh You, Old Thing Lyrics
Oh you, old thing.
Still got vibrations in your streets.
They move me to come down from the chandelier
I have been watching you from.
Bon soir, bon soir ma ville.
I’m gonna leave you now in the arms of babes.
I’ve got a new way to live through the storms you’re so famous for
Oh, that’s the sound of some new rocket upon the door.
Who’s gonna steam up all your dancehalls?
Who’ll put your lilies in a vase,
when all the good men have had all their daughters, and
all the other men have fallen in with daises?
I don’t want to be the last one standing,
I don’t want to reach the bitter end.
As much as I have always loved your dancing,
I hate the sounds that come from crowds
that just don’t get my moves.
From here, in the sky,
I see rows of lights as as violent web.
And I will miss the way I got caught up in you.
Oh you, old thing.
I’m gonna leave you now in the arms of babes.
I’ve got a new way to live
In the storm, in the storm
In the storm.
Still got vibrations in your streets.
They move me to come down from the chandelier
I have been watching you from.
I’m gonna leave you now in the arms of babes.
Oh, that’s the sound of some new rocket upon the door.
Who’ll put your lilies in a vase,
when all the good men have had all their daughters, and
all the other men have fallen in with daises?
I don’t want to be the last one standing,
I don’t want to reach the bitter end.
As much as I have always loved your dancing,
I hate the sounds that come from crowds
that just don’t get my moves.
I see rows of lights as as violent web.
And I will miss the way I got caught up in you.
I’ve got a new way to live
In the storm, in the storm
In the storm.
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I believe its "bonsoir ma belle" meaning Good evening my lovely
No, he clearly says "bonsoir ma ville" which fits perfectly because he's talking about a city.
No, he clearly says "bonsoir ma ville" which fits perfectly because he's talking about a city.
I believe this song is about Montreal as the band is moving back BC.
I think this song is to the sun or maybe the earth, near the end of days on earth, "when all the good men have had all their daughters, and (no more humans reproducing) all the other men have fallen in with daises? (died, decomposed in the ground) I don’t want to be the last one standing, (lonely apocalypse) I don’t want to reach the bitter end.
There will be no one to steam up dancehalls, and no one to put the earths flowers in vases
He is leaving earth's atmosphere in a rocket to live in a space colony "I’ve got a new way to live through the storms you’re so famous for (weather or natural disaster on Earth) Oh, that’s the sound of some new rocket upon the door" (advances in technology/living in space to escape)
looking from space at the sun thinking, "From here, in the sky, I see rows of lights as as violent web. And I will miss the way I got caught up in you."
Maybe its a stretch but its cool imagery to think about pared with the sweet sounds of wolf parade
This ties in well with Yulia, in which the narrator is in space, being the next track on the album
This ties in well with Yulia, in which the narrator is in space, being the next track on the album