A Certain Shade of Green Lyrics

Lyric discussion by yuroga 

Cover art for A Certain Shade of Green lyrics by Incubus

i believe the part about a certain shade of green could be interpreted as grass, like what shade of green are you waiting for before its gone, to do something about it fading away. in reference to something like global warming or degradation of the planet. thats what i thought of first. didnt even think about the green light thing.

Actually I'm impressed you got the global warming reference. Most people do not. I agree with you, but think it's more than just global warming. He's talking about money, greed, and all the nasty things in the human race that push our society to kill each other and destroy the natural world. He's saying we are WAY over do for a make over. The people that made the systems we STILL use today are long dead and gone, and other people are just taking their place and raping the world with their greed. So...