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When you're smoking tinfoil in the morning
It's gonna be a cold day
When you're keeping everything inside you
It can only hurt you
Unrelated sounds
The sun will shine again
You hold it in your hands
This young land is a young land let it stay that way
Its pollution only turns you into something you don't want to see in the water
A reflection of them that you receive
You don't own the sun
And the sun won't shine again
So maybe you're all in love
With Aluminum
The cling and a clang
Is the metal in my head when I walk
I hear a sort of, this tinging noise
Cling clang
The cling clang
So many things happen while walking
The metal in my head clangs and clings as I walk
Freaks my balance out
So the natural thought
Is just clogged up
Totally clogged up
So we need to unplug these dams
And make the the natural flow
It sort of freaks me out
We need to unplug the dams
You cannot stop the natural flow of thought
With a cling and a clang
And wake me up again until
We're Aluminum
You hold it in your hands
The sun will shine again
It's gonna be a cold day
When you're keeping everything inside you
It can only hurt you
Unrelated sounds
The sun will shine again
You hold it in your hands
This young land is a young land let it stay that way
Its pollution only turns you into something you don't want to see in the water
A reflection of them that you receive
You don't own the sun
And the sun won't shine again
So maybe you're all in love
With Aluminum
The cling and a clang
Is the metal in my head when I walk
I hear a sort of, this tinging noise
Cling clang
The cling clang
So many things happen while walking
The metal in my head clangs and clings as I walk
Freaks my balance out
So the natural thought
Is just clogged up
Totally clogged up
So we need to unplug these dams
And make the the natural flow
It sort of freaks me out
We need to unplug the dams
You cannot stop the natural flow of thought
With a cling and a clang
And wake me up again until
We're Aluminum
You hold it in your hands
The sun will shine again
Lyrics submitted by forgetmyname
Track duration: 05:39
"Stop the Dams" as written by Damon/hewlett Albarn
Lyrics © EMI Music Publishing
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It's a brilliant comparison. Why does everyone have to make it one or another? Damon is kinda a genius after all...
"Its pollution only turns you into something you don't want to see in the water"
Human beings need nature. Pollution stifles nature. And so what would happen if the world was a large cloud of smoke and debris? We'd adapt into hideous little things that you'd surely not want to see in the water.
"You don't own the sun"
We don't own nature, hell, we don't own this world. We borrow it from our children and when we're done, we go back to dust. So, is it fair to change something you don't own? How would you like it if you had a guest over that broke your tables because they weren't "pretty" enough?
"We need to unplug the dams, you cannot stop the natural flow of thought, with a cling and a clang"
Pretty much, stop industrialization. Stop the clinging and the clanging of hammers as they peg iron houses to take the place of trees.
"You hold it in your hands"
It's our decision whether we're going to let our world become a huge pile of aluminum, or if we're going to let the natural flow of thought continue.
It's a great song, and no matter how many meanings there are out there, it doesn't stop the fact that this is an extremely haunting story with a beautiful melody.
It can only hurt you"
The "We're Aluminum" line seems to say that if we go on bottling up our emotions/stop expressing ourselves, we'll end up becoming robots- aluminum.
I think it's a beautiful song with a great message even if it's not easily understood.
And there's a difference between putting up dams to increase livable space or generate power instead of just being able to build aluminum refineries seems like a poor use of resources, it's going to suck when you have to go to a museum to see trees and wildlife b/c we destroyed all their habitats. so yea maybe they are in love with aluminum.