Let Forever Be

I LOVE this song, its video, everything about it. Its lyrics are really simple; it's probably the best Chemical Brothers song out there...

I'm pretty sure the correct lyrcs are "scream a symphony", and "to be a crystalline". Yes the grammar sounds weird, but I think it's part of the overall psychedelic wording such as "How does it feel like" and "to make it happening".

Overall, this seems like the majority of all Chemical Brothers songs, to be about the psychedelic experience and mind altering hallucinogenics. As many have pointed out, it bears some resemblance to the Beatles psychedelic classic "Tomorrow Never Knows", a song that the Chemicals often used to play during DJ sets.

I sincerely doubt it's about meth, and not just because I don't think the line is "crystal fiend" (and definitely not Cristophe, whatever that's supposed to refer to.) It's just not keeping in character for the Chemicals to be that sardonic and cynical with a single lyric during what's otherwise a beautiful kaleidoscopic soundscape. And as the British poster above noted, Noel Gallagher probably wouldn't add that kind of lyric himself.

Many of the important lyrics as written here are wrong. The lyric is "How does it feel like to be a Crystalline". And "Scream a symphony" A gutter might have a negative connotation and Im not sure what they mean there but a gutter doesn't have to be negative, it could be a reference to "Turn off your mind relax and float downstream" (see below) People hearing crystal meth addiction are projecting your own ideas on the lyrics (which is fine), but just because its used in a movie (salton sea) 3 years after the song was released during a drug scene doesnt make it about crystal meth. It could be about anything. People saying its about meth or addiction, I feel like you are missing the point of the song. I feel like its alot more about feeling one with the universe (which could be an acid trip, or meth, or a sober person connecting with everything and just being conscious that they exist that they breathe with everything that they are a crystalline, turtles all the way down, etc etc beginning to the end to the beginning infinite and infinitesimal etc etc) As someone noted, refer to The Beatles Tomorrow Never Knows, the similarities between the two songs are undeniable, even down to the drum beat, listen to 00:25-00:28 in Let Forever Be and then listen to 00:05-00:08 in Tomorrow Never Knows. The lyrics are extremely similar and convey the same idea, in my opinion: The Beatles - "Tomorrow Never Knows Turn off your mind relax and float down-stream It is not dying, it is not dying Lay down all thought surrender to the void It is shining, it is shining That you may see the meaning of within It is being, it is being That love is all and love is everyone It is knowing, it is knowing That ignorance and haste may mourn the dead It is believing, it is believing But listen to the color of your dreams It is not living, it is not living Or play the game "existence" to the end Of the beginning, of the beginning Of the beginning, of the beginning Of the beginning, of the beginning Of the beginning" Source: LyricFind Songwriters: John Lennon / Paul McCartney

Many of the important lyrics as written here are wrong. The lyric is "How does it feel like to be a Crystalline". And "Scream a symphony" A gutter might have a negative connotation and Im not sure what they mean there but a gutter doesn't have to be negative (see gutter definition). It could be a reference to "Turn off your mind relax and float downstream" (see below). People hearing crystal meth addiction are projecting your own ideas on the lyrics (which is fine), but just because its used in a movie (salton sea) 3 years after the song was released during a drug scene doesnt make it about crystal meth. It could be about anything. People saying its about meth or addiction, I feel like you are missing the point of the song. I feel like its alot more about feeling one with the universe (which could be an acid trip, or meth, or a sober person connecting with everything and just being conscious that they exist that they breathe with everything that they are a crystalline, turtles all the way down, etc etc beginning to the end to the beginning infinite and infinitesimal etc etc) As someone noted, refer to The Beatles Tomorrow Never Knows, the similarities between the two songs are undeniable. Extremely similar drumbeats (if you dont think so, talk to a drummer, Let Forever Be is just Tomorrow Never Knows with a bit more snare hits and broken beats) listen to the similarity between 00:22 - 00:30 in Let Forever Be and 00:00 - 00:11 in Tomorrow Never Knows, could be a coincidence, maybe not. The main similarity between the two is the lyrics, which convey extremely similar ideas and use alot of the same language and imagery ("let forever be"/"surrender to the void", "shine on everyone"/"it is shining...love is everyone", "sail in on the breeze"/"relax and float downstream", "breathe with everything"/"the meaning of within: it is being...love is all and love is everyone", "let forever be"/"to the end of the beginning" The titles, alone, of each song convey extremely similar ideas "Let Forever Be" and "Tomorrow Never Knows": flow with existence and dont try to shape time, you never know what tomorrow, or forever, will bring, so leave it be. Exist now and be conscious of your "little lifetime" as a (infinitely big or infinitely small) part of a giant crystalline (repeating , symmetrical) structure (see official music video for "Let Forever Be", there are several references to the crystalline, repeating structure of our world (google "turtles all the way down" (not the song, the concept) if you havent taken LSD before or have never perceived the infinite repeating structure of the universe and all beings and that we are all a fraction and a whole of one giant/small organism/universe) The Beatles - "Tomorrow Never Knows" "Turn off your mind relax and float down-stream It is not dying, it is not dying Lay down all thought surrender to the void It is shining, it is shining That you may see the meaning of within It is being, it is being That love is all and love is everyone It is knowing, it is knowing That ignorance and haste may mourn the dead It is believing, it is believing But listen to the color of your dreams It is not living, it is not living Or play the game "existence" to the end Of the beginning, of the beginning Of the beginning, of the beginning Of the beginning, of the beginning Of the beginning" Source: LyricFind Songwriters: John Lennon / Paul McCartney

[Edit: ...of the beginning...to the end of the beginning...to the end...]

the video for this song is really awesome

i agree it was insane but in a good way

Psychedeilc Video - Noel Gallagher is still King! I think Noel and the Bros. were trying to imitate Beatle's Tommorow Never Knows

about the extremes you may encounter in your life.

on the one path: you wake up in the gutter. how did you get there? your little life is fucked.

on the other path: you wake up with the sun. in this glory you make it, you shine on, you breathe. live forever, be.

i like the music video it's so trippy & acid inspired

A song meaning site and all you all can talk about is how trippy the video is... so sad...

This is actually a very beautiful song when you realize the symbolism of it... Jom tanks is right, it is meant to be crystal fiend, but I feel his meaning is way off. The crystal part refers to crystal meth...

If you notice, every line has beautiful imagery, followed by negative imagery. EXCEPT THE LAST LINE, also the only one that doesn't follow the same verse length... here you have negative imagery with negative energy.

I was watching the movie the salton sea and heard this song in it, then listened to the song lyrics... that's when the true meaning clicked. This song is part of the reason I personally packed up all my stuff and checked into rehab to kick my own meth addiction.