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Slow it down some
No split clown bum
Your old hit sound dumb
Hold it now, crown 'I'm
Where you found them at
Got 'em 'round town
Coulda drowned in it
Woulda floated bloated
Voted sugar coated
Loaded hip shooter
Draw for the poor
Free coffee at the banks
Hit through the straw
None more for me, thanks
That blanks the raw
That dang sure stank lit
Sank passed the pit for more hardcore prank spit
Crank it on blast
Roll past front street
Blew the whole spot
Like some old ass with skunk meat
These kids is too fast
Juiced off a junk treat
Who could get looser off a crunk or a funk beat?
Something is starting today
Where did he go why you want it to be?
Well you know November has come
When it's gone away
Something is starting today
Where did he go why you want it to be?
Well you know, November has come
When it's gone away
Baha
Can you dig it like a spigot
My guess is yes you can
Like, can I kick it?
Wicked
Liquor shot
If you happy and you know it
As you clap your hands to the thick snot
Of a poet flowin'
Broke a pen and I'm in cope hymen
Dope or rhymin all worth it then
The Hope Diamond
Required off the blackmarket
Or wire tappin'
Couldn't target a jar of spit
The rapid fire spark lit
Zzzz!
A rapper bug zapper
And it don't matter after if they's a thug or a dapper
Plug yer trap or it's maximum exposure
The beast got family in numbers asking 'em for closure
Aw, send 'em a gun and tell 'em clean it
Then go get the nun who said her son didn't mean it
She wore a filled-in thong
A billabong
And said, nah, fo'realla
The Villain on a Gorilla jawn?
Something is starting today
Where did he go why you want it to be?
Well you know November has come
When it's gone away
Something is starting today
Where did he go why you want it to be?
Well you know, November has come
When it's gone away
No split clown bum
Your old hit sound dumb
Hold it now, crown 'I'm
Where you found them at
Got 'em 'round town
Coulda drowned in it
Woulda floated bloated
Voted sugar coated
Loaded hip shooter
Draw for the poor
Free coffee at the banks
Hit through the straw
None more for me, thanks
That blanks the raw
That dang sure stank lit
Sank passed the pit for more hardcore prank spit
Crank it on blast
Roll past front street
Blew the whole spot
Like some old ass with skunk meat
These kids is too fast
Juiced off a junk treat
Who could get looser off a crunk or a funk beat?
Something is starting today
Where did he go why you want it to be?
Well you know November has come
When it's gone away
Something is starting today
Where did he go why you want it to be?
Well you know, November has come
When it's gone away
Baha
Can you dig it like a spigot
My guess is yes you can
Like, can I kick it?
Wicked
Liquor shot
If you happy and you know it
As you clap your hands to the thick snot
Of a poet flowin'
Broke a pen and I'm in cope hymen
Dope or rhymin all worth it then
The Hope Diamond
Required off the blackmarket
Or wire tappin'
Couldn't target a jar of spit
The rapid fire spark lit
Zzzz!
A rapper bug zapper
And it don't matter after if they's a thug or a dapper
Plug yer trap or it's maximum exposure
The beast got family in numbers asking 'em for closure
Aw, send 'em a gun and tell 'em clean it
Then go get the nun who said her son didn't mean it
She wore a filled-in thong
A billabong
And said, nah, fo'realla
The Villain on a Gorilla jawn?
Something is starting today
Where did he go why you want it to be?
Well you know November has come
When it's gone away
Something is starting today
Where did he go why you want it to be?
Well you know, November has come
When it's gone away
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'Where'd you get 'im at?' - probably another policeman at the station.
'Got him round town' - Doom replying.
'Then go get the nun who says her son didn't mean it'. - Maybe the convict's mother pleading for his release?
I don't know, but I've always seen the story as PC Doom going round the bank to pick up on the free coffee, then watching a gang shoot out that escapes him. Then he sees them dealing, he gets one and locks him up.
*despite only being aware of the other's presence
I thought the idea was strange, the first time I heard of the month November being symbolic of Death. I had never thought of it in that way before. My high school English teacher explained to us when we were analyzing poetry that November, being the month before December, then January (when the New Year begins) symbolizes Death. The death of old habits, a lifestyle, a loved one, precedes the birth of a new year and a new beginning.
I think in 'November Has Come', Gorillaz are referring to the death of a gangster, whose violent life is essentially doomed from the outset, and therefore a metaphor for Death being inevitably close by. Perhaps Death has already come for him, and the song is a jaded reflection on ghetto life in general.
There are two protagonists in the song, which leads me to think that one (MF Doom) is a gangster, currently (in the song) immersed in the ghetto lifestyle, made flippant and blasé by his desensitization to violence. It is something he sees everyday, so he treats it with savage amusement, much like a teenager playing a violent video game.
"Baha, can you dig it like a spigot
My guess is: yes you can like, can I kick it?
Wicked"
His language, which seems at times bemused and even condescending, seems to indicate that despite the violent nature of his 'work', he enjoys it, despite having come to find certain aspects of it banal with time and experience.
"Aw, send 'em a gun an tell 'em 'clean it'
Then go get the nun who said her son didn't mean it"
Furthermore, his thinly veiled contempt for the series of events that lead to the death of another gangster suggests that Death is something he has come to view as mundane, due to the regularity with which it occurs.
The second protagonist (2D) seems more omniscient and ephemeral. He is less preoccupied with the details of ghetto life and death, instead focusing more on its consequences, giving the impression that he is not a person, but more the spirit of remorse.
"Something has started today
Where did it go? Why you want it to be?
Well you know November has come
And it's gone away
It's...
It's gone away"
2D's repetition of these lines serves to hammer home that on this day, gang warfare was set into motion by MF Doom's persona.
"Well you know November has come
And it's gone away"
The finality within these lines insinuates that 2D's persona has witnessed Doom's persona either kill a man, or lose his life as a result of gang warfare. If this is the case, Doom's character's death (or the death of his rival) will kick-start further altercations and war between those that murdered him and his own gang, and this is the 'Something' that is being referred to so ominously. The time for Doom's character to lose his life has arrived, and gone away again.
All in all, a portentous, even sorrowful song, maybe intended both as a lament, and a warning that with a violent way of life often comes a great price; one's own life. I like the way the two different characters voice their messages throughout the song, seemingly without ever being aware of one another's presence. It gives the impression that one is but a ghost of the other's past, trying to communicate the inevitable truth. Maybe Doom's character manages to evade Death, but I believe that the loss of a life is mentioned in the song, be it his own or that of a fellow gangster.
(Hard to explain in words but basically "We have a newfound freedom")
Where did it go? Why you want it to be?
(What happened to said freedom?)
Well you know November has come
(November in this song refers to the month itself and also the month that we vote in)
When it's gone away
(When November comes, what happened to our so-called freedom? It comes back when it's too late)
In my view this song is about how we fall for political lies and when we realize how bad things have gotten we figure out that it's too late to do anything which is explained by the line "Well you know November has come and it's gone away"
by FacUtSciam on 09-09-2005 @ 06:29:35 AM
I think this song is about drugs losing their ability to make it all better. I think the line is "that dank sure stank lit", not "dang sure". Also, I think it's "dope or rhymin' more worth it" not "all worth it". Finally, I think it's "Where did it go--All you wanted to be?" not "why you want it to be?". So that being said, here's my opinion: A kid (not the person rapping in this song--It's a third person commentary) gets into a hip-hop lifestyle because (s)he enjoys writing rhymes. But when (s)he makes it, (s)he gets wrapped up in drugs, too. Pot (dank), coke (hit through a straw), and crack rocks (Where you found them at? Got 'em around town) are all referred to in this song. The kid likes the drugs at first (more worth it than the hope diamond), maybe even starts dealing. However, the kid's art suffers (Your gold hits sound dumb) and the kid follows many other users down the path of least ambition, but eventually realizes (s)he has made a huge mistake and lost his/her way (Something has started today. Where did it go--All you wanted to be?). But by this time, it's too late ("November has come" --November being towards the end of the year). And the drugs lead to the kids early death (It's gone away). The part about the nun makes me think of the mother of the thug that shot the kid, defending her absolute angel of a child.
So yeah... Drugs are bad, m'kay? ;-D
That makes perfect sense to me, and also likes me like the song more with it having a "story" behind it. I think it is a relaxing song, I listen to it sometimes before I go to sleep.
(That wasn't a serious attempt at the meaning of the song, I just thought it was kinda funny... come on people! November comes before December!)
I have something to say about Green Day Rules. First of all, the only GOOD Green Day songs are Brain Stew, St. Jimmy, and Holiday really. Second of all the Gorillaz are ORIGINAL. They did not copy off a SINGLE song off Green Day. Why? Because Green Day sucks.
"I lost my mind.."- El Manana
November Has Come says "Free coffey at the banks". Its how Peter got free coffey when he hit the coffey machine.