Looking for Astronauts Lyrics

Lyric discussion by Ultraboris 

Cover art for Looking for Astronauts lyrics by National, The

To me, this song is about dreaming your life away.

"We're out looking for astronauts, looking for astronauts" This one means that we're stuck in searching for unreal, abstract meaning of life, for something greater than us, something godlike above us, like astronauts. We dream about better things which are unreachable for us. "Are we gone Come on, yeah we know we're gone bye bye bye bye bye bye we know e're gone" Those verses mean that we are perfectly aware that we waste our lives on imagination & dreaming thins, that we're gone in this dreamworld, but we don't care about it, because we like the situation we're in. We're comfortable with dreams.

And finally, the best lyrics in song: "They all run together and never make sense But that's how we like it, and that's all we want Something to cry for, and something to hunt." Last lyrics are about our wishes - all we want from life & arts is that they give something we could cry for, something romantic & heartbreaking, something what we'll hunt down in our memories for a long time.

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