So this has been.my favorite song of OTEP's since it came out in 2004, and I always thought it was a song about a child's narrative of suffering in an abusive Christian home. But now that I am revisiting the lyrics, I am seeing something totally new.
This song could be gospel of John but from the perspective of Jesus.
Jesus was NOT having a good time up to and during the crucifixion. Everyone in the known world at the time looked to him with fear, admiration or disgust and he was constantly being asked questions. He spoke in "verses, prophesies and curses". He had made an enemy of the state, and believed the world was increasingly wicked and fallen from grace, or that he was in the "mouth of madness".
The spine of atlas is the structure that allows the titan to hold the world up. Jesus challenged the state and in doing so became a celebrated resistance figure. It also made him public enemy #1.
All of this happened simply because he was doing his thing, not because of any agenda he had or strategy.
And then he gets scourged (storm of thorns)
There are some plot holes here but I think it's an interesting interpretation.
I need your love
I need your love
I need your love
I need your love
I need your love
I need your love
I need your love
I need your love
I need your love
I need your love
You, give me light
So tonight, take me there
I feel your sun
Start to glow and I know it
Let me show you that
I want your love
I need your touch
For the rest of our time together
Baby, come fly with me, eternally
You and me
We were meant to be
Yeah, hey
Alright (right now)
We'll spend the night together
Wake up and live forever
Yeah, hey
Alright (right now)
We'll spend the night together
Wake up and live forever
Yeah, hey
Ooh-hoo-hoo
It's alright now
I see your eyes
Hold the key, to my paradise
Summer in your smile
Well it makes me feel, so real
You tell me things
And my heart sings to the world
From islands in the sky
Take my hand
As one we will stand
You know it's now or never
To say hello to forever
Yeah, hey
Alright (right now)
We'll spend the night together
Wake up and live forever
Yeah, hey
Alright (right now)
We'll spend the night together
Wake up and live forever
Yeah, hey
Alright (right now)
We'll spend the night together
Wake up and live forever
Yeah, hey
Alright (right now)
We'll spend the night together
Wake up and live forever
Yeah, hey
I need your touch
I want your love so much (ooh)
I need your touch and
I want your love, so much
I really need it
Oh now, tonight
We'll spend the night together
Wake up and live forever
Yeah, hey
Alright (right now)
We'll spend the night together
Wake up and live forever
Yeah, hey
Alright (right now)
We'll spend the night together
Wake up and live forever
Yeah, hey
Alright (right now)
We'll spend the night together
Wake up and live forever
I need your love
I need your love
I need your love
I need your love
I need your love
I need your love
I need your love
I need your love
I need your love
You, give me light
So tonight, take me there
I feel your sun
Start to glow and I know it
Let me show you that
I want your love
I need your touch
For the rest of our time together
Baby, come fly with me, eternally
You and me
We were meant to be
Yeah, hey
Alright (right now)
We'll spend the night together
Wake up and live forever
Yeah, hey
Alright (right now)
We'll spend the night together
Wake up and live forever
Yeah, hey
Ooh-hoo-hoo
It's alright now
I see your eyes
Hold the key, to my paradise
Summer in your smile
Well it makes me feel, so real
You tell me things
And my heart sings to the world
From islands in the sky
Take my hand
As one we will stand
You know it's now or never
To say hello to forever
Yeah, hey
Alright (right now)
We'll spend the night together
Wake up and live forever
Yeah, hey
Alright (right now)
We'll spend the night together
Wake up and live forever
Yeah, hey
Alright (right now)
We'll spend the night together
Wake up and live forever
Yeah, hey
Alright (right now)
We'll spend the night together
Wake up and live forever
Yeah, hey
I need your touch
I want your love so much (ooh)
I need your touch and
I want your love, so much
I really need it
Oh now, tonight
We'll spend the night together
Wake up and live forever
Yeah, hey
Alright (right now)
We'll spend the night together
Wake up and live forever
Yeah, hey
Alright (right now)
We'll spend the night together
Wake up and live forever
Yeah, hey
Alright (right now)
We'll spend the night together
Wake up and live forever
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A friend of mine thought some of the lyrics in the song sound quite vampirish:
"We'll spend the night together, wake up and live forever... Come fly with me, eternally, You and me..."
However, the lines: "You give me light So tonight take me there I feel your sun Start to glow" ...kinda put that theory to rest don't they!
@Disco Patrick ...actually...now that you make me think about it...<br /> <br /> If someone had been turned into a vampire, he'd have previously experienced the sun, and enjoyed a summer's day...and now he can't - it'd destroy what he's become...but then he meets this person, and THEY give him those summery feelings again; their gaze gives him a sunlike warmth, "summer in your smile".<br /> <br /> If anything, I think all this STRENGTHENS this 'vampire theory' O_o<br /> <br /> <br /> ...oh crap, how I'm wondering about the children's lullaby "You Are My Sunshine"!!! =80
I know, I know, I'm a little bit late to the comments on this song. I've always taken this song a little differently...maybe it's because I got into this album long before I was happily married with two wonderful kids, but it always seemed more like a song about picking someone up at a club.
Smooth talking the girl into coming home with him. "Aw yeah, alright (right now) we'll spend the night together, wake up and live forever.".
Knowing the type of person Jay Kay was (party animal, lover of women) it just always seemed obvious the meaning of this song was about club lust.
@jblazer21883 yeah, that's been my take, too - maybe not so negative in the connotations, but that 'Ms Right Now' - that passion and joy and excitement you feel for someone for an evening, a happiness that FEELS LIKE this one night WILL LAST FOREVER.<br /> <br /> Of course, I still serenade my wife of about twenty years with it (because all of it is true for me and what she does for me), so YMMV. ;)
I love this song!It reminds me of Jose....my first love!He's got the same sexy thing that Jamiroquai does!!HOT! And the song is sooo cute!
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this is definately one of their best songs ever, i'd just love to have jay kay sing this to me, lol the words are so... wonderful and beautiful and ;__; just paradise to my hears XD
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There's something about this song... It makes me not want to give up on my current relationship and still hold on to love. Because like what the title of this song says, everything will be "alright". Fights and arguments always happen and the high-strung emotions attached to these moments often die down overnight whereupon when you wake up in the morning after spending the night together with that person, everything is "alright" after all. You do live forever.
I swear. Jay is a genius sometimes.
I think it's about a guy that wasn't ready for a commintmenr until this woman came in and then he realizes that he is in love with her and that isn't that bad and he wants to spend the rest of his live with her.