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Concrete Jungle Lyrics
No sun will shine in my day today
(No sun will shine.)
The high yellow moon won't come out to play
(Won't come out to play.)
Darkness has covered my light (and has changed,)
And has changed my day into night
Now where is this love to be found, won't someone tell me?
'Cause life, sweet life, must be somewhere to be found, yeah
Instead of a concrete jungle where the livin' is hardest
Concrete jungle, oh man, you've got to do your best, yeah.
No chains around my feet, but I'm not free
I know I am bound here in captivity
And I've never known happiness, and I've never known sweet caresses
Still, I be always laughing like a clown
Won't someone help me?
Cause, sweet life, I've, I've got to pick myself from off the ground, yeah
In this here concrete jungle,
I say, what do you got for me now?
Concrete jungle, oh, why won't you let me be now?
I said life must be somewhere to be found, yeah
Instead of a concrete jungle, illusion, confusion
Concreate jungle, yeah
Concrete jungle, you name it, we got it, concrete jungle now
Concrete jungle, what do you got for me now?
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Submitted by
alitoc On Dec 03, 2001
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"No chains around my feet, but I'm not free"
I love that line
he is useing concrete jungle as a metaphor for we just need more love instead of worrying about other things
you could be right, but i think that its more of a figurative concrete jungle, like London or New York, and how hard it is to live and survive
you could be right, but i think that its more of a figurative concrete jungle, like London or New York, and how hard it is to live and survive
In the capital city of Jamaica (Kingston) there is a ghetto area that is (or at least was at one time) referred to as "concrete jungle". I'd say that the song is about escaping the ghetto and possibly also about making it in the music biz.
Incredible Song! Bob Marley is a legend and this is one of all the reasons.
wow bobmarleyfan90 got it rightttttttt
i think you guys are all right.all correct i mean not like your personalities or something cos i dont know you......whatever.mckinley is spot on and i also think marley is saying that in urban areas it is harder to enjoy REAL life.i like you anarchy, but like your name you had to interpret it as a fucking massive long worded serious organised attack at the world.marley was just a normal guy for gods sake and was pissed off at where he was living.i mean, come on, how many skyscrapers were in jamaica in the early 1970s?
he is also, i think, saying that he and his ancestors kinda thing have always been in some form of slavery in Jamaica.and that he suffahs the 'ardest and he may seem to be happy and laughing but thats just superficial - like a clown's laughter
jon8 stop thinking you are some kind of know it all mate chill the fuck out
This song, like most of Marley's music, is ambiguous and not specific on purpose. Therefore it can relate to any number of things as interpreted by the individual. I personally comprehend it as follows: Marley at some point begins to see the hidden darkness in the fallacies of the social world, which had previously given him a false sense of comfort, or light. He is searching for the only true essence, void of darkness, love; which too has gone missing. All he can find is this "concrete jungle," an overpopulated, over-organized society of people who carry their own cage with them through life unknowingly. All he wants to do is live an honest life out of a corporate-driven society but the "sweet life must be somewhere to be found" He has no chains around his feet, referring to slavery directly, but he is not free. he is bound in this concrete jungle, where the living is harder, in captivity. He's laughing like a clown because he either is smoking the reef, or he is referring to how even though life sucks at times, humor is its only remedy sometimes. At the very end of the song, he poses the question: [Concrete Jungle or Society] "what you got for me now?" - Why does he have no choice to live out of society? Does it make his life better or worse? Is it just a means to control a large population, increasingly making the lives of the individual worse to merely perpetuate natural selection and reproduction? - I'm not even fucking religious but if there were ever a prophet, Marley deserves the tag.
Has anyone noticed that Lauryn Hill used Concrete Jungle's bass line for her song Forgive Them Father? Nice shout out to her father-in-law.