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The colors were burning up his eyes
The bright lights of the city fade
Taking the chase to cover up your eyes
The white moon cast in space
Ooh, something's not right
I can feel it inside
Something's not right
You, you, you, you
You will take the breath from my throat
And you, you, you, you
You will take the challenge, we go about our war
Come inside
You will be one of us painless, one of us brainless
Go to sleep, this won't hurt a bit
Shifting your shape to ourselves
Ooh, something's not right
I can feel it inside
Something's not right
You, you, you, you
You will take the breath from my throat
And you, you, you, you
You will take the challenge, we go about our war
And they will try to make us forget ourselves
One by one, one by one
Call me crazy but they are after us
One by one, one by one
They are after us, I swear
Do you believe it, I believe it too
The bright lights of the city fade
Taking the chase to cover up your eyes
The white moon cast in space
Ooh, something's not right
I can feel it inside
Something's not right
You, you, you, you
You will take the breath from my throat
And you, you, you, you
You will take the challenge, we go about our war
Come inside
You will be one of us painless, one of us brainless
Go to sleep, this won't hurt a bit
Shifting your shape to ourselves
Ooh, something's not right
I can feel it inside
Something's not right
You, you, you, you
You will take the breath from my throat
And you, you, you, you
You will take the challenge, we go about our war
And they will try to make us forget ourselves
One by one, one by one
Call me crazy but they are after us
One by one, one by one
They are after us, I swear
Do you believe it, I believe it too
Lyrics submitted by thursdaynight
Track duration: 03:37
"Invasion" as written by Stacy/dupree Dupree
Lyrics © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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Colorless words seem to me to be the empty sentimental, moralizing words of dead people. The bromides. I get the sense that this is a teenage / young adult struggle. And the band Eisley are all teenaged or 20-something. The bright lights of the city are fading as the narrator and her ally flee the colorless words burning their heels. The child could keep the lights of the city of childhood alight as there was less imperative to be individuated. Perhaps the lights going out are that of all the people the child once thought were bright people. Friends, etc.
But as she comes into adulthood people fall by the wayside, complete their melding into the borg mind of society. The empty, sentimental, moralizing of the parents are withstood as the child needs to be close to the parent. However, as the child gets older she is better able to see the emptiness, the colorlessness and flees it as well as she can, in her newfound ability to differentiate. But the bloodless moon, the dead thing, casts its face across the land as the moon does. The child cannot escape the totality of the moon’s dead light. I think the moon is the parents. And in the child’s fleeing she is trying to curb the fear by imagining there is an escape from all this emptiness, but there is no where to run. It’s everywhere.
In the first stanza everything that was wrong and dangerous was outside. In the next stanza, however, it’s now gotten inside. She’s lost or given up the fight. And her ally has become an enemy in the next stanza. Who was once her ally will now take her breath and her cherished people, all the empty, dead people who’s ranks she’s joined. This fact of her losing the battle shows up in the next stanza where she tells her old ally that they will be one of her people as well, and it won’t hurt to join this dead, empty world. The ally will adjust to the shape of their empty shells.
Now, who is she talking about in the next new stanza? Who is the enemy spoken of here? She has drawn her ally, turned enemy, turned ally into the empty, dead fold. Who is she speaking of now that will take them away from their borg mass? I think it’s the people who’ve escaped the death of the city, the sick light of their moons. Now she’s projecting her and the masses actions onto these free people. And again the merging of the characters here shows up in the lines stating that if you believe it, she will believe it.
ps: alpha718-- well put. chill!
I can see both the alien and government interpretations clearly, but one that stands out even more clearly to me (and hasn't been mentioned yet) is cyborgs and artificial intelligence, the increasing interaction between humans and machines, etc. and possible takeover of humans by the computers as they become increasingly smarter and more human-like. In a way, they would be like alien body snatchers.
i have always loved this song but i love it even more after seeing the movie.
And Yeti22 is right, it is simply based on the book Invasion of the Body Snatchers.