I don't wana dash anyone elses thoughts, but I interpret this song very bluntly and simply. Follow the lyrics...
Summit talks= U.N. Negotiations
Negotiations breaking down= hostility increasing between ppl.
The News will hit you like a punch= Surprise, the country is going to war
Never thought we'd go to war= after cold war, ppl thought there would be peace
(Also, there is no Wednesday because he says it's april fools day- Apr 1st, the next time a wednesday will be on apr 1st is in 2009.)
Whistling overhead, shaking of ground, candles = bombs.
Tomorrow never comes until it's too late.
SHADOW WANTS US TO INTERPRET THIS SONG LITERALLY. TAKE ACTION NOW AND STOP THE VIOLENCE!!!!!!!
Actually there is a Wednesday in the Colonel Bagshot verson. The song is specifically about the Israel's Six Day War, but also a general anti-war song (as it was released in '71 when Vietnam was raging).
Actually there is a Wednesday in the Colonel Bagshot verson. The song is specifically about the Israel's Six Day War, but also a general anti-war song (as it was released in '71 when Vietnam was raging).
DJ Shadow did cut that part of the lyrics, possibly because in that case the song starts being about the plight of everyone (including the foot soldiers, who usually didn't want to go to war themselves either), whereas Wednesday, Friday and Saturday drive home the "women and children in the shelters" angle of the song.
DJ Shadow did cut that part of the lyrics, possibly because in that case the song starts being about the plight of everyone (including the foot soldiers, who usually didn't want to go to war themselves either), whereas Wednesday, Friday and Saturday drive home the "women and children in the shelters" angle of the song.
I am assuming that with his...
I am assuming that with his editing out parts of the lyrics, DJ Shadow wanted to include the, as I said, usually an unwilling warrior, the conscript foot soldier, in the list of the victims of the war. Thus with the summit-to-war flow of the story you get a tale how old men throw young men to be connon fodder to feed their own insanity.
Wednesday:
We'll all go running underground
And we'll be listening for the sound
Its only Wednesday
In your shelter dimly lit
Take some wool and learn to knit
Cos its a long day
Friday:
Although that shelter is your home
A living space you have outgrown
It's only Friday
As you come out to the light
Can your eyes behold the sight
It must be doomsday
Saturday:
Ain't it funny how men think
They made the bomb, they are extinct
Its only Saturday
I think tomorrow's come I think its too late
I think tomorrow's come I think its too late
Make tomorrows come I think it's too late
So basically, as DJ Shadow cut it, it's equally, or even more so about the foot soldiers. Without Wednesday, Friday and Saturday the song is devoid of it's feminine/civilan angle (knitting, being in the shelter, "how men think") and Thursday becomes a very vivid image of a soldier in a trench that was just hit by a bomb, shell or granade and who is recovering from the shock.
I don't wana dash anyone elses thoughts, but I interpret this song very bluntly and simply. Follow the lyrics...
Summit talks= U.N. Negotiations
Negotiations breaking down= hostility increasing between ppl.
The News will hit you like a punch= Surprise, the country is going to war
Never thought we'd go to war= after cold war, ppl thought there would be peace (Also, there is no Wednesday because he says it's april fools day- Apr 1st, the next time a wednesday will be on apr 1st is in 2009.)
Whistling overhead, shaking of ground, candles = bombs.
Tomorrow never comes until it's too late.
SHADOW WANTS US TO INTERPRET THIS SONG LITERALLY. TAKE ACTION NOW AND STOP THE VIOLENCE!!!!!!!
@Gypsy5
@Gypsy5
Actually there is a Wednesday in the Colonel Bagshot verson. The song is specifically about the Israel's Six Day War, but also a general anti-war song (as it was released in '71 when Vietnam was raging).
Actually there is a Wednesday in the Colonel Bagshot verson. The song is specifically about the Israel's Six Day War, but also a general anti-war song (as it was released in '71 when Vietnam was raging).
DJ Shadow did cut that part of the lyrics, possibly because in that case the song starts being about the plight of everyone (including the foot soldiers, who usually didn't want to go to war themselves either), whereas Wednesday, Friday and Saturday drive home the "women and children in the shelters" angle of the song.
DJ Shadow did cut that part of the lyrics, possibly because in that case the song starts being about the plight of everyone (including the foot soldiers, who usually didn't want to go to war themselves either), whereas Wednesday, Friday and Saturday drive home the "women and children in the shelters" angle of the song.
I am assuming that with his...
I am assuming that with his editing out parts of the lyrics, DJ Shadow wanted to include the, as I said, usually an unwilling warrior, the conscript foot soldier, in the list of the victims of the war. Thus with the summit-to-war flow of the story you get a tale how old men throw young men to be connon fodder to feed their own insanity.
Wednesday: We'll all go running underground And we'll be listening for the sound Its only Wednesday
In your shelter dimly lit Take some wool and learn to knit Cos its a long day
Friday: Although that shelter is your home A living space you have outgrown It's only Friday
As you come out to the light Can your eyes behold the sight It must be doomsday
Saturday: Ain't it funny how men think They made the bomb, they are extinct Its only Saturday
I think tomorrow's come I think its too late I think tomorrow's come I think its too late
Make tomorrows come I think it's too late
So basically, as DJ Shadow cut it, it's equally, or even more so about the foot soldiers. Without Wednesday, Friday and Saturday the song is devoid of it's feminine/civilan angle (knitting, being in the shelter, "how men think") and Thursday becomes a very vivid image of a soldier in a trench that was just hit by a bomb, shell or granade and who is recovering from the shock.