@[Diderik:33655] "Your a holiday!" Was a popular term used in the 50s/60s to compliment someone on their all around. For example, not only are they beautiful, but they are fun and kind too ... just an all around "holiday".
I think your first comment is closer to being accurate. The singer/song writers state "Millions of eyes can see, yet why am i so blind!? When the someone else is me, its unkind its unkind". I believe hes referring to the girl toying with him and using him. He wants something deeper with her, thats why he allows himself to be as a puppet (even though for her fun and games) as long as it makes her happy. But he knows deep down that she doesnt really want to be serious with him and thats what makes him.
We are here to save your life
The fool, the drunk, the child and his wife
We won't let the sun go down
We're gonna chase the demons out of town
Sing it when you feel alone
Backwards through the megaphone
Sing it to the ones you love
And the ones you'd like to be rid of
(Cue the revolution)
We are here to take the blame
To tak the taunts
And live the shame
We are here to make you feel
It terrifies you but it's real
It will keep you up all night
And in the flood of morning light
Spilling out across your room
You'll say the words
We'll get there soon
(Cue revolution)
The revolution wasn't bad
We hit the streets
With all we had
A tape recording of the sound
Of the Velvet Underground
A K-way jacket torn to shreds
And a dream inside our heads
And after changing everything
They couldn't tell
We couldn't sing
They couldn't tell we couldn't sing
And that changes everything
The fool, the drunk, the child and his wife
We won't let the sun go down
We're gonna chase the demons out of town
Sing it when you feel alone
Backwards through the megaphone
Sing it to the ones you love
And the ones you'd like to be rid of
(Cue the revolution)
We are here to take the blame
To tak the taunts
And live the shame
We are here to make you feel
It terrifies you but it's real
It will keep you up all night
And in the flood of morning light
Spilling out across your room
You'll say the words
We'll get there soon
(Cue revolution)
The revolution wasn't bad
We hit the streets
With all we had
A tape recording of the sound
Of the Velvet Underground
A K-way jacket torn to shreds
And a dream inside our heads
And after changing everything
They couldn't tell
We couldn't sing
They couldn't tell we couldn't sing
And that changes everything
Lyrics submitted by geekusa
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i saw the video that came with In Our Bedroom After The War and in it he said "the OLD world underground" being a shout-out to fellow Canadian indie band Metric with their album "Old World Underground, Where Are You Now?"
i got excited when i heard that reference, with Metric being my favourite band ever and all : )
its a music revolution. the music is coming to save you. im not sure on the details... so i wish there was more feed back on this song.
i think this song is amazing... both conceptually and musically. soo good.
This is definitely my favorite Stars song of all time. I love the soft....fast paced hush of this guys voice. And at the end when the music stops and he leads into the last verse.
Beautiful
In the end I actually think that me be the subtle meaning of this hushed song. "Soft Revolution" the way he sings the song doesn't require you to be a great singer and it still sounds damn damn good. "And after changing everything, they couldn't tell, we couldn't sing"
I always thought this song was about the Velvet Revolution the Czechoslovakia that ended communist rule in 1989. According to urban legend said that the name came not only from the fact that it was bloodless, but because many of its organizers were artists who passed around contraband tapes of the Velvet Underground to one another. Listening to subversive western music and filled with idealism, the youth culture forced a totalitarian state to its knees. It’s a fun myth, and based upon what I know of Stars it would fit perfectly into their delusions of revolutionary grandeur.
Canadians are SO cute.
i think you're right about the 1989 thing, they have a couple of similar references in other songs in their album. set yourself on fire is one of them.
i think it is about a revolution of love, to free people from their inner demons this is one of the most beautiful songs i have ever heard. considering the music for sure, and lyrically, if my interpretation is right, too.
I had always believed this song to be about the transition in ideals that comes with growing up. In the beginning of the song, the lyrics are confident and powerful: the narrator has a mission. To me, this represents exactly what every young person thinks: that they can and will change the world.
If the first part of the song is about youth, then I believe the gorgeous last lines are about growing older and coming to terms with what your revolution really was. The narrator doesn't sound regretful--but he does admit that "it wasn't bad", as opposed to "we totally won." (Which, granted wouldn't sound as good.) He now realizes that he was young and idealistic, that maybe the revolution wasn't as greaat as he had thought.
I had heard theories about the song being about the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia too, Ukobach. However, I saw Stars in concert last night and they did a word change which baffled me (and others in the audience): instead of singing "Velvet underground," they sang "Digital underground." Maybe because it's more modern? Or maybe just because they felt like it? Either way, great song, and they are EXCELLENT live.
what a beautiful song; I agree with ohpioneer's idea that it's about music saving you, but that's just me.
Pomaceous- I'm definitely agreeing with your thoughts. As a sort of side note, you may in fact know this, the Digital Underground was a alt-rap group of sorts in the early nineties, which most people would probably know either by the famous Humpty Hump character or for the fact that they were largely responsible for the early career of Tupac. What it has to with this song is beyond me.