In regards to the meaning of this song:
Before a live performance on the EP Five Stories Falling, Geoff states “It’s about the last time I went to visit my grandmother in Columbus, and I saw that she was dying and it was the last time I was going to see her. It is about realizing how young you are, but how quickly you can go.”
That’s the thing about Geoff and his sublime poetry, you think it’s about one thing, but really it’s about something entirely different. But the lyrics are still universal and omnipresent, ubiquitous, even. So relatable. That’s one thing I love about this band. I also love their live performances, raw energy and Geoff’s beautiful, imperfectly perfect vocals. His voice soothes my aching soul.
God save the queen
The fascist regime
They made you a moron
A potential H bomb
God save the queen
She ain't no human being
And there's no future
And England's dreaming
Don't be told what you want
And don't be told what you need
There's no future
No future
No future for you
God save the queen
We mean it man
We love our queen
God saves
God save the queen
'Cause tourists are money
And our figurehead
Is not what she seems
Oh god save history
God save your mad parade
Oh lord god have mercy
All crimes are paid
Oh when there's no future
How can there be sin
We're the flowers
In the dustbin
We're the poison
In the human machine
We're the future
Your future
God save the queen
We mean it man
We love our queen
God saves
God save the queen
We mean it man
There is no future
In England's dreaming
No future
No future
No future for you
No future
No future
No future for me
No future
No future
No future for you
No future, no future for you
The fascist regime
They made you a moron
A potential H bomb
God save the queen
She ain't no human being
And there's no future
And England's dreaming
Don't be told what you want
And don't be told what you need
There's no future
No future
No future for you
God save the queen
We mean it man
We love our queen
God saves
God save the queen
'Cause tourists are money
And our figurehead
Is not what she seems
Oh god save history
God save your mad parade
Oh lord god have mercy
All crimes are paid
Oh when there's no future
How can there be sin
We're the flowers
In the dustbin
We're the poison
In the human machine
We're the future
Your future
God save the queen
We mean it man
We love our queen
God saves
God save the queen
We mean it man
There is no future
In England's dreaming
No future
No future
No future for you
No future
No future
No future for me
No future
No future
No future for you
No future, no future for you
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God Save the Queen Lyrics as written by Stephen Philip Jones Paul Thomas Cook
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there's a lot of comments about sid vicious here. i find this a bit odd as he wasn't with the band when they wrote this (matlock/rotten mainly wrote it).
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@Tanz32 there's no future...and england's dreaming...
This song makes me want to dust off my Dogtown skateboard with Tracker trucks/Bones wheels and skate an empty pool. You would have had to lived it to understand the late '70's. But today's youth will soon get their chance as the global economy is eerily similar.
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i want refering to u in paticular, im just annoyed at people thinking that they need to be all clued up in old punk bands, then name drop sid vicous and jonny rotton and think they no all. I wasnt a fan of vicous at all, i still stand by my statedment that vicous was a gimmick, he was put in the band to look "punk", to wear the clothes, and to act the part. He cannot play bass at all, as i understand he couldnt play bass when he was put in the band and on most of the songs its glen matlock playing bass.
ok but dont hold me to any of this informationcoz its all second hand from mother and father who passed it onto me
I think you are spot on with your info... Sid couldnt play bass, he played drums with Siouxsie and the Banshees before joining the Pistols but even then, some would suggest he was merely holding the beat. He was just an attempt to generate more cash by the master of mis managers Malcolm Mclaren. IMO Sid wasnt exactly someone I would like the kids to look up to.. He was a troubled little boy with a drug habbit.
@aynz_the_short_chick Sid was a waste of space. McLaren took one look at Sid and said "That's how the band should look". He had no talent, he couldn't play bass, was off his head on smack for 99% of the time and made no attempt to get off the drugs or learn to play, and don't get me started on that that revolting cock-leech Nancy Spungen.
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The song was released May 1977. QE2's Silver Jubilee was in June 1977. Coincidence? I know first hand it didn't seem so then.
This song probably was written before the Queen's silver jubilee but was definitely released to coincide with it, that's why it became #1 that year. It's about the political landscape at the time and the hopelessness that a lot of young people felt. Funny reading comments from all these teen try-hard wannabe punks. Punk is not an image or fashion, it is a state of mind, and you would have been eaten alive by a real punk in the 70's. As for Sid, he died young, in his prime and became an icon much like James Dean. Johnny and Glenn were the backbone of the Sex Pistols. Well thats my 5cents worth!
"It's about the political landscape at the time and the hopelessness that a lot of young people felt. "<br /> <br /> And its quite sad how that is still true today, this song still holds some relevance in terms of the right wing regime that we are held against today.
a near perfect song that makes you feel young when you close your eyes. not to sure I like them being angry at my poor dear queenie but I hear even she likes it.
i think this song rocks. The pistols are fuckin legends man
great song. not much to it, but still great.
@1399 <br /> Slow response I Know but.... Isn`t that the reason (in part) it is great? Anyway not much too it could mean a whole lotta things. I think there is a lot in it!