Foals – Spanish Sahara

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So I walked through to the haze
And a million dirty waves
Now I see you lying there
Like a lie-low losing air, air
Black rocks and shoreline sand
Still dead summer I cannot bear
And I wipe the sand from my arms
The Spanish Sahara
The place that you'd wanna
Leave the horror here

Forget the horror here
Forget the horror here
Leave it all down here
It's future rust and it's future dust

Forget the horror here
Forget the horror here
Leave it all down here
It's future rust and it's future dust

Now the waves they drag you down
Carry you to broken ground
Though I'll find you in the sand
Wipe you clean with dirty hands
So god damn this boiling space
The Spanish Sahara
The place that you'd wanna
Leave the horror here

Forget the horror here
Forget the horror here
Leave it all down here
It's future rust and it's future dust

I'm the fury in your head
I'm the fury in your bed
I'm the ghost in the back of your head

'Cause I am

I'm the fury in your head
I'm the fury in your bed
I'm the ghost in the back of your head

'Cause I am

I'm the fury in your head
I'm the fury in your bed
I'm the ghost in the back of your head

'Cause I am

Forget the horror here
Forget the horror here
Leave it all down here
It's future rust and it's future dust

Choir of furies in your head
Choir of furies in your bed
I'm the ghost in the back of your head

'Cause I am

The choir of furies in your head
Choir of furies in your bed
I'm the ghost in the back of your head

'Cause I am

Choir of furies in your head
Choir of furies in your bed
I'm the ghost in the back of your head

'Cause I am

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Track duration: 06:50

"Spanish Sahara" as written by Yannis Barnabas Emanuel Philippakis, James Smith, Jack William Bevan, Edwin Thomas Congreave, Walter James Morrison Gervers

Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group

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  • +1
    General Comment:It's clearly about depression. And he's trying to carry on, but it's stronger than him.


    "Cause I am

    I'm the fury in your head - mind illness, bad thoughts, anxiety
    I'm the fury in your bed - insomnia, bad thoughts
    I'm the ghost in the back of your head - something that never goes away"

    Forget the Horror!
    Flagged gabrielfmbon February 04, 2013   Link
  • +1
    General Comment:it's about the persistence of trying to forget someone. its hard, and when it succeeds, there's always fragments of memory haunting inside.
    Flag RAriffinon January 21, 2013   Link
  • 0
    My Interpretation:I see the lyrics "it's future rust, and it's future dust" as just a negative point, because everything (over time) will simple disintegrate The over all sound of this song is filled with negativity, but there are lyrics that contradict this theory. It's a beautiful song in it's own way.
    Flag ChiliPepperedKidon February 01, 2012   Link
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    General Comment:I'm sure people have already commented, but I first heard this song in an episode of Misfits during a love scene between Simon and Alisha. I feel like Misfits always finds a song to capture a moment absolutely perfectly and this specific track carried through so strongly to me. Really beautiful, very nostaligic.
    Flag Elusineon January 17, 2012   Link
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    General Comment:youtube.com/…
    Flag rr11on September 26, 2011   Link
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    General Comment:oh wow- I didn't notice someone already did that...I just created an account for nothing!
    Flag rr11on September 26, 2011   Link
  • +2
    General Comment:In the video posted by dressgirl ( youtube.com/… ), where Yannis talks about what the song means to him, he says:

    It has no real relevance to the real Spanish Sahara, where none of the band members have actually been to. It's more of an imaginary place that's something that's quite nightmarish and ravaged. It's like a film cell of some desolate landscape. The whole song in a way is like getting over a trauma that you see there. But the trauma doesn't go away and it multiplies from one into a bunch of furies at the end which is to do with the Greek myth of the Furies (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/…) which would haunt families and generations.

    Flag Soveon August 16, 2011   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:i think the song is about Yanis finding a dead dog washed up on the beach in spain, the video kind of showes this but the lyrics also describe it if you read closely

    Flagged chazzdaspazzon July 27, 2011   Link
  • 0
    General Comment:See the video:
    youtube.com/…
    This song is about suicide. He is the person lying on the beach. He picks himself out of the sea. The singer and the person walking through the Spanish Sahara is the ghost at the back of his own head, "the fury" delivering him from the "horror here". Furies are "the embodiment of the act of self-cursing" - see wiki. He is talking to himself from the dead. Absolutely haunting, absolutely brilliant.
    Flag QuintessODon June 10, 2011   Link
  • +1
    General Comment:instead of "Quiet the fury...."
    It's "Choir of furies..."
    Flag MiniBoboson March 06, 2011   Link

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