The Next Day Lyrics

Lyric discussion by jtstanley7 

Cover art for The Next Day lyrics by Glen Phillips

I love this song. I can't pretend to know what Glen was thinking and I would hate to be socio-political about things; but this song makes me think of the progression of marxist communism. That, to me, being the "nobelest experiment".

It sounds like the story of Jefferson's democracy and the promise of life liberty and happiness turning into numb consumerism. We'd like to wake up and shake ourselves out of it, but it's way easier to stick another potato chip in your mouth than it is to try to recreate society. But, despite ourselves, it's likely we'll change. Underneath our society, there's still the priceless natural world.