Firstly - excellent cover. I think it's more about the importance of faith rather than the futility of organised religion - at least in the killers version. The added "you'd better look alive" i think lends to this: maybe it is faith which helps us look alive in hard times. Great song.
"you'd better look alive" is in the bright eyes version, and it seems to be the dead warning the speaker to revel in life because there is nothing afterwards, and religion is a lie. you burn all religions, that is the truth. conor oberst is an ex-catholic, and this is why he has such a strong voice in his songs for modern atheism. thats also why its so ironic and unbecoming to hear flowers the hardcore conservative mormon destroy that notion by singing it in a techno song
"you'd better look alive" is in the bright eyes version, and it seems to be the dead warning the speaker to revel in life because there is nothing afterwards, and religion is a lie. you burn all religions, that is the truth. conor oberst is an ex-catholic, and this is why he has such a strong voice in his songs for modern atheism. thats also why its so ironic and unbecoming to hear flowers the hardcore conservative mormon destroy that notion by singing it in a techno song
Firstly - excellent cover. I think it's more about the importance of faith rather than the futility of organised religion - at least in the killers version. The added "you'd better look alive" i think lends to this: maybe it is faith which helps us look alive in hard times. Great song.
"you'd better look alive" is in the bright eyes version, and it seems to be the dead warning the speaker to revel in life because there is nothing afterwards, and religion is a lie. you burn all religions, that is the truth. conor oberst is an ex-catholic, and this is why he has such a strong voice in his songs for modern atheism. thats also why its so ironic and unbecoming to hear flowers the hardcore conservative mormon destroy that notion by singing it in a techno song
"you'd better look alive" is in the bright eyes version, and it seems to be the dead warning the speaker to revel in life because there is nothing afterwards, and religion is a lie. you burn all religions, that is the truth. conor oberst is an ex-catholic, and this is why he has such a strong voice in his songs for modern atheism. thats also why its so ironic and unbecoming to hear flowers the hardcore conservative mormon destroy that notion by singing it in a techno song