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Running to Babylon
Run all the way to Babylon
Meet you there in Babylon
Meet you there in Babylon
Running to Babylon
Run all the way to Babylon
Meet you there in Babylon
Meet you there in Babylon
Marooned again, you were the one that threw me into life
Marooned again, you were the one that looked through the sadder light
I liked the way we slept on rooftops in the summertime
If we were all marooned again, I'd give my soul to save you
Marooned again, you were the one that put me in defense
Marooned again, you were the one that took my confidence
I liked the way we slept on rooftops in the summertime
If we were all marooned again, I'd give my soul to save your life
Running from Babylon
Run all the way to Babylon
Meet you there in Babylon
Meet you there in Babylon...
Babylon...
Run all the way to Babylon
Meet you there in Babylon
Meet you there in Babylon
Running to Babylon
Run all the way to Babylon
Meet you there in Babylon
Meet you there in Babylon
Marooned again, you were the one that threw me into life
Marooned again, you were the one that looked through the sadder light
I liked the way we slept on rooftops in the summertime
If we were all marooned again, I'd give my soul to save you
Marooned again, you were the one that put me in defense
Marooned again, you were the one that took my confidence
I liked the way we slept on rooftops in the summertime
If we were all marooned again, I'd give my soul to save your life
Running from Babylon
Run all the way to Babylon
Meet you there in Babylon
Meet you there in Babylon...
Babylon...
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"Running to Babylon
Run all the way to Babylon
Meet you there in Babylon
Meet you there in Babylon"
These lines could be suggesting that the narrarator is running to his addiction until it captivatates him in his own suffering- which appears prosperous and good when he's high, but remains only an illusion of his real fate- suffering and downfall.
"Marooned again, you were the one that put me in defense
Marooned again, you were the one that took my confidence
I liked the way we slept on rooftops in the summertime
If we were all marooned again, I'd give my soul to save your life"
So my take on the song is that it’s obviously about someone he loves/ed, more then likely a girlfriend. The “running to Babylon” thing to me is like their escape from whatever maybe abandonment. “You were the one that threw me into life//you were the one that looked through sadder light” suggests that, first it was because of her that he lives or because of her he understand life. And second that she stood by him during bad time. The recurring “I liked the way we slept on rooftops in the summertime”, I’m taking as, the “good times”. Then the line “If we were all marooned again, I’d give my soul to safe you”, is to me like saying if were abandoned again, I’d give my life to safe yours.
Then the lines change “you were the one that put me in defense//you were the one that took my confidence” is saying that she hurt him. But he is still willing to give his life up for hers. The ending lines “ Running from” instead of “to” suggest that their escape/paradise is no more.
While reading the book "The 12th Planet" by Zecharia Sitchin, he explains that Babylon was supposedly a sort of resting place for the gods... these gods are in reality a space-faring extraterrestrial race that have genetically manipulated the species of earth in order to create a working class to harvest for them precious minerals, in our case, humanity being create in the image of the gods to do their bidding.
Babylon could be one of two things in this instance. First, it's an Earth location in which these "gods" would land and be waited on hand-and-foot until their business would be attended to... much like a hotel. OR Babylon is the name of the ship that took them from their mothership to Earth... the shuttle or "bus" to our planet.
In either case, the line "marooned again" which is repeated several times throughout the song is clear and distinct. Marooned, meaning "left behind" or "abandoned" as adombomb suggested, could mean that these "gods" were left on Earth by their people... for what reason, I am unsure at this point, but further investigation of the album may easily tell me this. But the narrator of the story (this "marooned" god) has experienced this abandonment more than once... as he was "marooned AGAIN".
I only suggest these off-the-wall ideas because of some of the other overtones throughout the album... such as in the song 3005 or Enemy. "I'll be in my spaceship still alive, shooting up your world."
Just a few thoughts.