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Each shade of blue
Is kept in our eyes
Keep blowing and lighting
Because we own the sky
Secrets from the winds
Burnt stars crying
Soft, soft or cruel
Can't we change our minds?
We kill what we build
Because we own the sky
Secrets from the winds
Burnt stars crying
So many moons here
Lost wings floating
It's coming, it's coming now!
It's coming, it's coming now!
What's coming? What's coming now?
What's coming? What's coming now?
It's coming from the sky
It's coming from the wind
Is kept in our eyes
Keep blowing and lighting
Because we own the sky
Secrets from the winds
Burnt stars crying
Soft, soft or cruel
Can't we change our minds?
We kill what we build
Because we own the sky
Secrets from the winds
Burnt stars crying
So many moons here
Lost wings floating
It's coming, it's coming now!
It's coming, it's coming now!
What's coming? What's coming now?
What's coming? What's coming now?
It's coming from the sky
It's coming from the wind
Lyrics submitted by tuffxghost
Track duration: 05:03
"We Own the Sky" as written by Yann Gonzalez, Anthony Gonzalez
Lyrics © EMI Music Publishing
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"Each shade of blue is kept in our eyes."
Many times, as the sun begins to set, because of the fading illumination of the sun on this side of the planet, the world begins to take on a constantly deepening shade of blue. Morning to noon to evening to night is often used to metaphorically connect to aging of our lives. I believe it's a metaphor for the beginning of the earth, the adolescence stage, the adult stage, and the ending stage. And how we've seen every sun set, every time the sky turns into a darker and darker shade of blue, someone has seen it, and it's burned in our memories through our eyes.
This is however, just my interpretation and I could be way off. :)
The lyrics of “We Own The Sky” are very cryptic. The album’s title is “Saturdays=Youth” and the artist himself is a big fan of John Hughes movies such as “Sixteen Candles” and “Pretty in Pink” so drawing from this, I concluded that the song is about teenagers. It seems as if the teenagers in general are not afraid to dream big with “Each shade of blue…kept in [their] eyes,” even if they fail, represented by the weather which “Keep[s] blowing and lightening.” Teenagers continue to dream because they have a sense of invincibility, “because [they] own the sky.” The next part of “Secrets from the winds/Burnt stars crying” represents how easily teenagers can be inspired or influenced to do something new. The “winds” and “stars” are each romanticized with a personifying quality. It links the way teenagers romanticize situations, not realizing what is completely realistic or unrealistic. However, as quick as teenagers get an idea, they can abandon it even quicker – “We kill what we build.” The juxtaposition of “soft and “cruel” exemplify how young minds can suddenly adjust to the abandonment of an idea once so firmly set. “Can’t we change out minds?” is a question to all the adults who cannot remember back to their youth and understand why sudden droppings of aspirations can occur out of the blue without needing reason, only to move on to new aspirations. When it is night -“So many moons here” - time for sleeping, which comes dreaming - “Lost wings” – the “wings” represent dreams that are from one’s rarely used subconscious. The subconscious surfaces lost thoughts, giving meaning to conscious thoughts, hence “floating me.” The last few lyrics indicate that something is “coming… from the sky…from the wind.” These words, in addition to the song building up, exaggerates the unearthly power that teenagers think they wield, the essence of invincibility. It is as if there is something rising within which feels right, natural, and calming. This moment in the song seems to assert that this is the moment a teenager has been waiting for all throughout life. It may be a painting of how falling in love for the very first time feels. Though the whole song is electronic, there is not a feeling is superficiality.
within this song lies what we have all felt before, our teenaged years of invincible sentiment.
"Each shade of blue
Is kept in our eyes
Keep blowing and lightning
Because we own the sky"
The sky as a metaphor for our higher selves/soul/universal oneness, whatever you'd like to call it. I think these lines mean that we're all "pieces" of the same larger puzzle of creation (not in a religious sense but a spiritual one), which we perceive as divisible into our individual entities. However, just as we can see the sky, feel the winds blowing, we're equally a part of it. Observer as well as equal, collective participants.
"Soft soft or cruel
Can't we change our minds?
We kill what we build
Because we own the sky"
Can't we change from this current cruel, dualistic society (much of the world, not just the western one, is governed by seemingly dichotomous political entities that ultimate serve the same greedy goals), stop building/growing things just to destroy them (i.e. people, nature, resources, etc.). We own it after all, as in, EACH of us, not just TPTB.
"Secrets from the winds
Burnt stars crying
So many moons here
Lost wings floating"
Secrets from the winds could mean, well, hints of what's about to change for us here on Planet Earth from advanced ancient civilizations, science, philosophical wisdom (i.e. Buddhism, Taoism, etc). Burnt stars crying = represents each one of us. A star dies when it runs out of fuel... so being poetic, a burnt star could be a star in which that process is accelerated (analogous to the rape and pillage of the earth and the effects it will inevitably have on human populations). We're crying, the state of the world causes deep pain within all of us. "Moon" as a verb means to "behave or move in a listless and aimless manner." See a pattern? We're all devastated by the atrocities around us, the separation we feel from the oneness of our origin, and we've lost our ability to connect to each other - "lost wings floating."
"It's coming!
What's coming now?
It's coming
It's coming now..."
The change is upon us... I believe when we die, our energy gets transferred. Ego death for sure, but our "spirit" (that is, the un-severable connection between all energy) gets dispersed and "lives" on. Eventually though, I feel humans will be able to transcend the separation between matter and energy (as perceived by us in our human form, a side effect our limited senses) that we experience currently, to a higher evolved conscious state of connectedness, unity, and love.
Just my complicated esoteric opinion, anyway :) Simply put, the dawn of a new age is upon us, one of love, compassion, and peace.
This is amazing.
"Keep blowing and lightning"
I believe it should not be lightning, but lighting, as in light - it brightens up. You said the sky is a metaphor for our higher selves, and I agree. Lighting could be seen as better understanding things (if one better understands something, it seems brighter to them, as such the lighting). This adds to your idea.
"Secrets from the winds could mean, well, hints of what's about to change for us here on Planet Earth from advanced ancient civilizations, science, philosophical wisdom (i.e. Buddhism, Taoism, etc)."
I love how you found this. I completely understand your thoughts on this and agree. Well found!
"The change is upon us... I believe when we die, our energy gets transferred. Ego death for sure, but our "spirit" (that is, the un-severable connection between all energy) gets dispersed and "lives" on."
Again, well found. The connection between the lyrics and your interpretation is wonderful.
I would ask though, what will happen to our "spirits" when humans can trascend the separation between matter and energy?
In the video there's a boy and a girl who is in love - or at least interested in each other. And the things (the flying cubes) in the sky are the reason the boy and the girl ends up holding hands.
So the part where: "It's coming, it's coming on! It's coming from the sky. It's coming from the wind" is sung, I guess is a thing that helps people become happy/dare to hold hands/love or something that's good.. So this part of the song is the hopeful part and the answer to the darkness in the first part of the song. Like: "Soft soft or cruel, Can't we change our minds?"
"Secrets from the winds, Burnt stars crying" indicate that there's something mystic who's sad that we can't be happy/do what's right. And I would like to see th tis small love-story as a symbol for the whole human race; so the mystic cubs (in the video) is helping and saving us. And m83 wont tell us what they believe it's because when they sing: "What's coming now?" He just answer: "It's coming from the sky, It's coming from the wind". So I would say the song is about a faith that can't be explained.
This analyse could be just utterly shit, but I hope someone can get something from it:P
one day itll all just crash on u
Is kept in our eyes
Keep blowing and lighting
Because we own the sky"
My interpretation here is someone talking about how we are always reminded of bad, sad (blue) memories thru things we see (kept in our eyes).
The second part seems like the person is brushing off the bad by saying we own one of the most vast things in the universe and just brush it off, "keep blowing and lighting" (like blowing out candles and lighting them again next year).
I love it.