Chorus

This song is about taking care and being kind to mother earth.

well,as Andy said, a lot of his lyrics meant nothing,they just made them up on the spot to fit the music.But there is something of a theme here.

This song was inspired by television footage of the burning oil fields in Kuwait during the first Gulf War. As a result, it can be assumed that the feeling is of killing your environment in which also sustains you. (You better watch that you don't cut your hands) I essentially agree with Sergioutfox.

if you look at the pictures by the lyrics that come with the album 'Chorus', the one opposite chorus lyrics is of a skyscraper with some surveyors standing in the foreground, suggesting that they have built this monstrosity in a landscape where you can see trees in the background, but which have been covered by the building. There is another picture of a white beach with turquoise water and blue sky-very idyllic, and then one of some business people, which may symbolise man taking over the world and it ends with a mother and daughter riding bicycles down a path through a park, showing how man and nature combine.

I wonder if it's to do with geo-engineering and the current 'solar-shield' program they tell us is to prevent global warming. It really started to kick off around the time this was released. Try and see the sunrise or sunset even on a clear day and the majority of the time it's veiled in 'cloud'. Even through the day when the sun appears to be shining down - look up, more often than not there's still a thin veil of cloud over it.

I wonder if they were really into the environment and saw this stuff coming. Shame as if we had such pollution in the streets we'd be banning cars, but the airplanes seem to have a free hand to 'save the earth'!

According to the remastered album's booklet, Andy Bell said "It was about consumerism, materialism and also feeling swamped by everything but not thinking about the consequences." The lyrics may look random and lacking of much meaning but apparently that's not the case, nice.

There’s a clear message. Everytime i hear the chorus of Chorus, tears well up in my eyes. All the species of animals we have killed, all the ruin. Eventually if human beings can survive after mass ecological collapse, they will be living in a time when there are no bird songs, and no fish in the seas. The song is a warning, and asks every listener to think about what it will be like for future generations after we have killed most everything but ourselves. And it draws the direct line from our consumerist behavior (‘shop at home’) and these consequences.

The ending part, that ends ‘for a time when no-one’s cheating’ is about all the people in the world who desperately want to live in a world where corporate profit isn’t destroying our planet. I’m one of them.

At the end, the dawn chorus (the sound of birds in the morning) is just a memory. In the hearts and minds of mankind, who have to live with having destroyed God’s perfect creation.

[Edit: Precision]