"Grey like new day leaks through the window and some old song comes on the alarm clock radio. You walk the forty blocks to the middle of the place. We heard where everything would be and there was barracades to keep us off the street, but the crowd kept pushing forward until they swallowed the police. Yeah, they went wild.
We left before the dust had time to settle and all the broken glass swept off the avenue. On the way home I held your camera like a bible, wishing so bad that it held some kind of truth. And I stood nervous next to you in the dark room, you dropped the paper in the water and it all begins to bloom. Yeah, they go wild.
Just when I get so lonesome I can't speak, I see some flowers on a hill side, like a wall of new TVs. Yeah, they go wild. "
I'm not really sure how to explicate this song, but I'll damn well take a guess.
The first verse- He talks about the new day (a recurrent theme throughout the album), then overpowering the 'controlling force', the police (I think this has to do with the other theme on the album, that war is stupid and childish. Maybe. ). They just got tired of being repressed.
Second verse- They leave the place when it's all still a mess. I think the think about the camera and the bible is somewhat of a mockery of religion. He knows that the camera will hold something that really happened, where as the bible is all BS. So his longing for truth is fulfilled in the darkroom where "it all begins to bloom"- the photos coming up on the paper. I really think that verse is all about losing religion, and him knowing that truths are found in concrete evidence and not in faith.
Third verse- Not much there, but it's lovely. He says he's "so lonely [he] can't speak", but then he sees flowers on a hillside, symbolizing hope.
As for the choruses of "they go wild", I think it's just all about being released (from the government, religion, and depression [stated in the verses, respectively]) and finally being free.
"Grey like new day leaks through the window and some old song comes on the alarm clock radio. You walk the forty blocks to the middle of the place. We heard where everything would be and there was barracades to keep us off the street, but the crowd kept pushing forward until they swallowed the police. Yeah, they went wild.
We left before the dust had time to settle and all the broken glass swept off the avenue. On the way home I held your camera like a bible, wishing so bad that it held some kind of truth. And I stood nervous next to you in the dark room, you dropped the paper in the water and it all begins to bloom. Yeah, they go wild.
Just when I get so lonesome I can't speak, I see some flowers on a hill side, like a wall of new TVs. Yeah, they go wild. "
I'm not really sure how to explicate this song, but I'll damn well take a guess.
The first verse- He talks about the new day (a recurrent theme throughout the album), then overpowering the 'controlling force', the police (I think this has to do with the other theme on the album, that war is stupid and childish. Maybe. ). They just got tired of being repressed.
Second verse- They leave the place when it's all still a mess. I think the think about the camera and the bible is somewhat of a mockery of religion. He knows that the camera will hold something that really happened, where as the bible is all BS. So his longing for truth is fulfilled in the darkroom where "it all begins to bloom"- the photos coming up on the paper. I really think that verse is all about losing religion, and him knowing that truths are found in concrete evidence and not in faith.
Third verse- Not much there, but it's lovely. He says he's "so lonely [he] can't speak", but then he sees flowers on a hillside, symbolizing hope.
As for the choruses of "they go wild", I think it's just all about being released (from the government, religion, and depression [stated in the verses, respectively]) and finally being free.
I think it's absolutely wonderful.