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Language City Lyrics
Language City is a bad, old place
We all know Where eyeballs float in space We all know We're tired, we can't sleep It's crowded here, none of us leave Language City don't mean a thing to me Audiences, the same program is always on When I interfere, it's best to avoid the law When your wife wakes up and sees Shut the blinds and block out the street Language City don't mean a thing to me All this working Just to tear it down All this working Just to tear it down Language City is a bad, old place We all know Eyeballs float in space We all know We're tired, we can't sleep It's crowded in the street Language City don't mean a thing to me I been here so long my heart is a parking lot Hollow feet rooted to the spot But the fields are beyond belief From the tower out to where I can see Language City don't mean a thing to me All this working Just to tear it down All this working Just to tear it down On the telephone On the telephone On the telephone Someone's counting the hours In a paper room In a paper room In a paper room Somebody's counting the hours Know I know it's true From above this room Somebody's counting the hours The hours The hours The houuuuurs Oh the long bitter road Let us down Oh the ringing telephone There's no one around We are not at home We are not at home We are not at home We are not at home We are not at home We are not at home We are not at home We are not at home We are not at home We are not at home We are not at home We are not at home Hang on the telephone Hang on the telephone Hang on the telephone Hang on the telephone
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05-26-2008
"When I interfere, it's best to avoid the law"
But...it's really hard to tell with Dan. Oh, and this song is dealing with the same hate of modern cities that Dan is always talking about. Modern World, Soldier's Grin, Handsome Furs Hate this City, etc.
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05-31-2008
But I have been full of shit before so I don't know. :)
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06-04-2008
Amazing.
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06-09-2008
The most apparent theme seems to be the observation of the repitition and meaninglessness of the modern life.
Lines like "All this working Just to tear it down" demonstrate the perpetual cycle of building and rebuilding finite structures who's greatness never seems to last. This contributes to the sentiment among the workers that they're just "counting the hours" watching the clock go by at their unsatifying job.
This brought me back to wondering what Language City was, we know it is a "bad, old place" "Where eyeballs float in space."
I'm thinking it is the tower of Babel he is referencing - the biblical fable where man set out to build a structure to reach the heavens as a testiment to man's greatness but where God confused their common language in to many dialects to prevent them from completing the project. Eyes float in space might be referencing man's ambition to build into the stars and certaintly the biblical babel was "old and bad" in God's eyes.
Not saying this song has a Christian meaning or that the band is religious. but I think he is taking God as representing objective good and man's ambitious and perpetually failing effort to build the greatest city as being an empty pipedream that attempts to defy that objective good.
So the song traces the evil/pointless/unfulfilling nature of modern life back to biblical time saying we've come nowhere and gained nothing despite the civilization we believe we have built.
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06-09-2008
"Language City is about a coke party, where 'language city' is a metaphor for the pointlessness of staying up all night talking about nothing, and there’s also a bit of my trip to Russia in there too because there’s a pretty heavy party scene in Russia – something I found pretty terrifying…and fun."
Source:
http://www.nightlifemagazine.ca/magazine/view/1108
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06-10-2008
Frank Booth just got owned.
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06-11-2008
Oh well, wild stab, I prefer my metropolis version.
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07-06-2008
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07-19-2008
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08-17-2008
which makes sense. 'We are tired, we can't sleep' (coked out and talking pointlessly, and always about the same garbage)
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03-08-2009
dumb parties everyone is at because there is nothing else
"We're tired, we can't sleep
It's crowded here, none of us leave
Language City don't mean a thing to me
Audiences, the same program is always on
When I interfere, it's best to avoid the law
When your wife wakes up and sees
Shut the blinds and block out the street
Language City don't mean a thing to me"
or sitting in tbell parking lot when there is no party to go to
"I been here so long my heart is a parking lot"
HA
but there has to be more out there...once i can leave
"Hollow feet rooted to the spot
But the fields are beyond belief
From the tower out to where I can see
Language City don't mean a thing to me"
everyone hates it here
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06-17-2009
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