Portugal. The Man

Everything You See (Kids Count Hallelujahs)

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Everything You See (Kids Count Hallelujahs) Lyrics

Everything you see
Everything you see
Can be measured, weighed, or gauged
Just like the one's who will keep you company
All of the things that you'll ever be
All of the things that you'll ever be

When all the kids count hallelujahs
We're seven miles high
Climbing up laser beams
That light the electric seas
All the kids are the rubber souls
The kids are just fine
Kids are just fine
Kids are just fine

There's nothing you can do
Nothing to know that you always knew
So will all live on and just celebrate the end
With all of the things that have come to pass
(All of the things that have come to pass)
(All of the things that have come to pass)

All the castles they command
They'll come sink their teeth in
And all the waves are crashing down
We'll just sink our toes in

The kids are just fine
Kids are just fine
Kids are just fine

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maxwe11 On Jul 23, 2011

AKA M80 The Wolf

How The Leopard Got Its Spots

Elephants

My Mind

1989

Everything you see
Everything you see
Can be measured, weighed, or gauged
Just like the one's who will keep you company
All of the things that you'll ever be
All of the things that you'll ever be

All the castles they command
They'll come sink their teeth in
And all the waves are crashing down
We'll just sink our toes in

The kids are just fine
Kids are just fine
Kids are just fine

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by Serum

12y ago

To me, this song is about lucid dreaming. The idea of "climbing up laser beams that light the electric seas" sounds like the sort of thing you'd see in a dream. Like, "everything you see can be measured, weighed or gauged," I think is a slam at Freud, who was really a total fraud, a pervert and overall terrible person who tried to simplify the spirituality of dreams into cold science regarding sexuality.

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