How you feel powerful and glad but in reality you are someone on the bottom, someone enslaved to your materialistic desires.
"The future is not what you see,
It's not where you've been to at all" -> The real future is not what you see from the state you are.
"The future is not what it used to be, used to be" -> Future meaning here the present. The rest is selfexplanatory.
"They buried the gold, your ancestry's sold" -> This can mean the oil(which in fact literally is your ancestors buried deep in the ground), it can mean the history, the culture(for example indian), treason.">
Black Gold Meanings & Lyrics Discussion by Pithikos | SongMeanings
How you feel powerful and glad but in reality you are someone on the bottom, someone enslaved to your materialistic desires.
"The future is not what you see,
It's not where you've been to at all" -> The real future is not what you see from the state you are.
"The future is not what it used to be, used to be" -> Future meaning here the present. The rest is selfexplanatory.
"They buried the gold, your ancestry's sold" -> This can mean the oil(which in fact literally is your ancestors buried deep in the ground), it can mean the history, the culture(for example indian), treason." />
I think this is clearly about how we give such a big value to money. "black gold" except meaning oil can clearly mean any material that we overvalue. Black because valuing material is just blacking our thoughts and gold because we give it such a big value.
"Top of the world, bottom of the ocean" -> How you feel powerful and glad but in reality you are someone on the bottom, someone enslaved to your materialistic desires.
"The future is not what you see,
It's not where you've been to at all" -> The real future is not what you see from the state you are.
"The future is not what it used to be, used to be" -> Future meaning here the present. The rest is selfexplanatory.
"They buried the gold, your ancestry's sold" -> This can mean the oil(which in fact literally is your ancestors buried deep in the ground), it can mean the history, the culture(for example indian), treason.
I think this is clearly about how we give such a big value to money. "black gold" except meaning oil can clearly mean any material that we overvalue. Black because valuing material is just blacking our thoughts and gold because we give it such a big value.
"Top of the world, bottom of the ocean" -> How you feel powerful and glad but in reality you are someone on the bottom, someone enslaved to your materialistic desires.
"The future is not what you see, It's not where you've been to at all" -> The real future is not what you see from the state you are.
"The future is not what it used to be, used to be" -> Future meaning here the present. The rest is selfexplanatory.
"They buried the gold, your ancestry's sold" -> This can mean the oil(which in fact literally is your ancestors buried deep in the ground), it can mean the history, the culture(for example indian), treason.