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Human Lyrics
I did my best to notice
When the call came down the line Up to the platform of surrender I was brought but I was kind And sometimes I get nervous When I see an open door Close your eyes, clear your heart Cut the cord Are we human or are we dancer? My sign is vital, my hands are cold And I'm on my knees looking for the answer Are we human or are we dancer? Pay my respects to grace and virtue Send my condolences to good Hear my regards to soul and romance They always did the best they could And so long to devotion It taught me everything I know Wave goodbye, wish me well You've gotta let me go Are we human or are we dancer? My sign is vital, my hands are cold And I'm on my knees looking for the answer Are we human or are we dancer? Will your system be alright When you dream of home tonight There is no message we're receiving Let me know, is your heart still beating? Are we human or are we dancer? My sign is vital, my hands are cold And I'm on my knees looking for the answer Are we human or are we dancer? You've gotta let me know Are we human or are we dancer? My sign is vital, my hands are cold And I'm on my knees looking for the answer Are we human or are we dancer?
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09-23-2008
Not too bad of a tune, very upbeat.
02-08-2009
When I see an open door
Close your eyes, clear your heart
Cut the cord" suggest that he's nervous about growing up and making this decision, but it has to be done. he throws his morals away (And so long to devotion) and begins to live his life, deliberating man's natural insticts, whether they are good or evil.
05-16-2009
07-16-2009
will u become something else?
also sounds like someonw may have croncic illness with no way out
"sometimes i get nervous, when i see an open door" he has given up because he knows he will die but when hope comes along it keeps u holding on to life.
"are we human or are we dancer?"
meaning once we die would we even know what we are?
sounds a bit disturbing at first but as u read on it feels like all the people that are dying are given hope to hold on to and although its like he is giving up and wants to die soon, he believes there is more after death and would we know the difference if were alive or dead?
07-16-2009
someone wants him to enthansize them, he doesnt know whether it is right or wrong "human" "dancer" was it a good or bad?
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09-23-2008
07-16-2009
human/dancer , you can get on with life or try and stay the same which wont get u anywhere either way he is basically saying u can either live ur life or dwell away!
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09-23-2008
05-16-2009
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09-23-2008
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09-23-2008
I think the imagery speaks of 'dancers' as almost like 'puppets'. Brandon is speaking of letting go, "platform of surrender" "cut the cord" "close your eyes, clear your heart" This "letting go" is to cease to be "Human" because he no longer has life, (eyes closed, cleared heart) and he feels like a "Dancer", a puppet on strings.
The puppet versus human contrast is throughout. To be human is to have life and choice. To be dancer is to be controlled by strings or "cords"
He uses a play on words, instead of "vital signs" his "signs are vital" and "my hands are cold", i.e. lifeless, he is lifeless, and reading his signs are vital in knowing what he really is. He goes on to "say goodbye" to everything (soul and romance, etc), embarking into that "open door"
Like a slouched puppet, he's on his knees. Puppets have no strength in their legs. Yet he wants to "be let go" and to "cut the cord" could refer to losing his strings and being freed from control, no longer being a puppet. Or it could refer to no longer being human. If you "cut the cord", you pull life support on someone. In mythology, The Fates, "cut your cord" and you die, no longer with the life that makes one Human.
The great thing about this song is I can't figure out if he decided he is "human" or "dancer" and maybe he hasn't decided either, "Am I human....or am I dancer."
Great song after a couple of listens, gotta love the Killers.
12-02-2008
And I dont think he says whether we are "human" or "dancer" he says "you gotta let me know". So he is leaving it up to us to help him find the answer.
12-27-2008
12-30-2008
like you were saying, if his cords are cut [as a puppet/dancer] that would mean he gets his freedom, but he would be dead as a human as well...
so the song might also have allusions to Plato's Allegory of the Cave.. as a human he isn't truly free because he is bound by his senses and 'cords'
so dancers and humans are the same, in a way- as a puppet he isn't free and as a human he isn't free as well
lol. maybe I read too much into it
01-09-2009
It's the 'so long to devotion' thing that interest me i think...it's like he's spent his life in this dance, and at death he's almost aware of it (hence the end to his devotion to it) and is wondering possibly what his life was? I wonder who he's speaking to as well, in the second half of the song...
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09-23-2008
this song is abt euthanasia (mercy killing) as i understand frm these lines
"Close your eyes, clear your heart
Cut the cord"
"There is no message we're receiving
Let me know, is your heart still beating?"
maybe its about a man who is dyin with cancer or sumthn and he wants us to know if we are human enough to let him go and pull the plug and ease his sufferin
nice beat though more like hot fuss...
05-16-2009
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09-23-2008
as for the interpretation i think Icarus Fixius has it right, i think it is along the same lines as tranquilize in respect to the state of the world/our humanity.
anyway i can't wait for the album, if it is as good as this i'll be happy.
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09-24-2008
The first thing I thought was a Kundera's novel ("Slowness"), were the dancer is a person who constantly seeks the infinite and invisible audience that modern media offers.
More info on Wikipedia about the "dancer" in Milan Kundera's work at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slowness_(novel)
p.s. I'm not sure my english is perfect, but I think it's quite understandable.
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09-24-2008
"My sign is vital/My hands are cold" sounds to me like he knows he's still alive, but he thinks he's lost what makes a human being a human being. The same goes for the second verse.
As opposed to the puppet imagery, I feel that "And I'm on my knees looking for the answer" is more about questioning if this is all there is to life, like, if there's a God or not. I think that a big difference between normal animals and human beings is that humans search for things greater than themselves, and somehow, if there isn't a God, it makes us feel a little less human. He's praying maybe over whether he is human or not? The line "There is no message we're receiving" makes me think of this too.
Yay for disjointed analysis, if you can even call it that :P
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09-24-2008
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09-24-2008
we've focused mostly on the
"our we human or are we dancer"
line from the song. dancer is singular
because it's a play on words, the same
reason human is singular. and one of
us thinks it could mean that human
and dancer are different things entirely.
are we human OR are we dancers, you
cannot be both. i think that it's saying
that the word dancer describes us much
better as a species than the word human.
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09-24-2008
we've focused mostly on the
"our we human or are we dancer"
line from the song. dancer is singular
because it's a play on words, the same
reason human is singular. and one of
us thinks it could mean that human
and dancer are different things entirely.
are we human OR are we dancers, you
cannot be both. i think that it's saying
that the word dancer describes us much
better as a species than the word human.
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09-24-2008
meaning, are we just human like CaveDave the Human on the single's cover, or are we more than just human, w/ emotions etc...
dancer makes no sense :|
and dancer reminds me of brandon ronnie mark and cavedave ballet dancing :|
other than that line, i ABSOLUTELY LOVE THE LYRICS!
01-24-2009
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09-24-2008
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09-24-2008
But I would like to see the interview.
11-23-2008
I think the narrator is dying or is perhaps already dead and is now a ghost waiting to move on "you've gotta let me go".
Maybe he's dying and is wondering what is going to happen when he is dead. Will there be anything more or is this it?
"Are we human or are we denser?
My sign is vital, my hands are cold
and I'm on my knees looking for the answers"
Perhaps he is saying his final goodbyes to the world knowing that he will pass into whatever awaits us.
Pay my respects to grace and virtue
Send my condolences to good
Give my regards to soul and romance
They always did the best they could
And so long to devotion
You taught me everything I know
Wave goodbye, wish me well
You've gotta let me go
Well that's just the way I see it anyway but everyone will have their own opinion on the matter. That's why I love songs like this no one really knows the answer.
12-21-2008
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09-24-2008
I think the contrast between human is that a human is just a body but what would make it denser would be a soul and/or a spirit...possibly connected to God.
"I did my best to notice
When the call came down the line
Up to the platform of surrender
I was brought but I was kind
And sometimes I get nervous
When I see an open door
Close your eyes, clear your heart
Cut the cord"
I think this is about descending to heaven or making moral choices. You need to make them with a clear heart, don't let your eyes deceive you, and let go (maybe thus putting your faith in God. Or cutting the cord as we cut a baby's cord to bring it into life. He is being brought into the real world or a different one)
"Pay my respects to grace and virtue
Send my condolences to good
Hear my regards to soul and romance
They always did the best they could
And so long to devotion
It taught me everything I know
Wave goodbye, wish me well
You've gotta let me go"
I'm guessing that he is saying goodbye and going over the things that make him before he goes to this world.
"Will your system be alright
When you dream of home tonight
There is no message we're receiving
Let me know, is your heart still beating?"
I have no good idea about this. Possibly he is asking someone still on our world, someone who is JUST human (like a machine) whether or not he is alive...or okay. The world Flowers is going into maybe, being Heaven, the ultimate home. Being a human/computer it can't go because it's separated from God.
"Are we human or are we denser?
My sign is vital, my hands are cold
And I'm on my knees looking for the answer
Are we human or are we denser? "
This is basically Flowers approaching death asking whether there is a God or whether he is only a human and nothing more.
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09-24-2008
as for the lyrics though, instead of "hear my regards to soul and romance" i believe its "GIVE my regards to soul and romance" and in the chorus i dont think "dancer" is suppose to be plural. then again, thats just my opinion and what i hear when i listen to the song.
overall this song is great, i cannot wait to buy it on the 30th so i can finally put it on my iPod and listen to it anywhere :)
and i REALLY cant wait for the album to be released, im sure it'll be as fantastic as (and more likely, even better than) this one single alone :D
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09-25-2008
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09-25-2008
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09-26-2008
I think lostfanatic84 makes a very good point, too.
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09-26-2008
When I see an open door
Close your eyes, clear your heart
Cut the cord"
this part I took literal when it says cut the cord I think its the umbilical cord he is referring to, since he does have a baby,if that's the case the lyrics to this song would make a lot of sense to me. But its just a thought.
ps. dancers makes no sense I vote for denser.
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09-27-2008
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09-27-2008
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09-27-2008
I beg to differ. Denser is a word.
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09-27-2008
11-28-2008
im not trying to be "technical" or even right, I just see it that way.
12-13-2008
In contrast to almost everyone else(!)I thought dancer was a positive thing, the idea of dancing as symbolising freedom, art, something above the mundane drugery of life.
The idea of cutting the chord and letting go of material/earthly things and searching for something higher, even going so far as to say goodbye to devotion and good, which should "let him go"(very buddhist idea that one)
It's not made clear what, which is why he's on his knees looking for the answers.
I think it's beautiful anyway, and find it quite uplifting, but maybe that's just me!
12-16-2008
This is my interpretation of the song.
Wendy
09-08-2009
It's about soldiers. You become a soldier and you're stripped of your individuality and you become hardened since you are trained to kill: so long to grace, virtue, good, soul and romance but devotion "...devotion, you taught me all I know..." because you sign a contract and follow orders.
"...when you dream of home tonight" is a dead giveaway.
And of course "Dancers" as in the drills they perform everyday, they look like group dances.
I don't feel like analyzing the whole song but you get the picture
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