This song was originally written about girls and unrequited love- it was written for the soundtrack to a movie called Playing For Keeps, about girls lusting after three guys who were unaware of their affection to them, and the song was originally about lusting after girls who are unaware of your affection for them and what they really mean to you. The first line of the song was originally "Got to get a message to the girls we love, blowing kisses over oceans". But the filmmakers felt the lyrics did not really match the film since it was about girls lusting after men rather than vice versa, so the band had to change the lyrics to avoid contradicting the film's plot, and Andy McCluskey described the resulting lyrics as "absolutely meaningless drivel".
Nevertheless, I think that by changing the lyrics they unwittingly produced a very meaningful song, since at face value the lyrics seem to be about people's craving for something meaningful in life. It could easily be about religion or spirituality; people's desire to beleive in a higher power that gives their life some real meaning.
THAT is interesting! The video for this song has early-style CGI footage of the Voyager probe zooming past the near-Earth planets, totally making sense of
THAT is interesting! The video for this song has early-style CGI footage of the Voyager probe zooming past the near-Earth planets, totally making sense of
We've got to get a message to the stars above
Like radios in heaven hearing just enough
...
We got to get a message to the promised land
Like semaphores in motion so they'll understand
We've got to get a message to the stars above
Like radios in heaven hearing just enough
...
We got to get a message to the promised land
Like semaphores in motion so they'll understand
Making the whole song mean that the Voyager probe was really a cry for help from mankind. ...at least that's what it means to me.
Making the whole song mean that the Voyager probe was really a cry for help from mankind. ...at least that's what it means to me.
This song was originally written about girls and unrequited love- it was written for the soundtrack to a movie called Playing For Keeps, about girls lusting after three guys who were unaware of their affection to them, and the song was originally about lusting after girls who are unaware of your affection for them and what they really mean to you. The first line of the song was originally "Got to get a message to the girls we love, blowing kisses over oceans". But the filmmakers felt the lyrics did not really match the film since it was about girls lusting after men rather than vice versa, so the band had to change the lyrics to avoid contradicting the film's plot, and Andy McCluskey described the resulting lyrics as "absolutely meaningless drivel".
Nevertheless, I think that by changing the lyrics they unwittingly produced a very meaningful song, since at face value the lyrics seem to be about people's craving for something meaningful in life. It could easily be about religion or spirituality; people's desire to beleive in a higher power that gives their life some real meaning.
THAT is interesting! The video for this song has early-style CGI footage of the Voyager probe zooming past the near-Earth planets, totally making sense of
THAT is interesting! The video for this song has early-style CGI footage of the Voyager probe zooming past the near-Earth planets, totally making sense of
We've got to get a message to the stars above Like radios in heaven hearing just enough ... We got to get a message to the promised land Like semaphores in motion so they'll understand
We've got to get a message to the stars above Like radios in heaven hearing just enough ... We got to get a message to the promised land Like semaphores in motion so they'll understand
Making the whole song mean that the Voyager probe was really a cry for help from mankind. ...at least that's what it means to me.
Making the whole song mean that the Voyager probe was really a cry for help from mankind. ...at least that's what it means to me.