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It's all good news now
Because we left the taps
Running
For a hundred years
So drink into the drink
A plastic cup of drink
Drink with a couple of people
The plastic creating people
Still connected to the moment it began
Because we left the taps
Running
For a hundred years
So drink into the drink
A plastic cup of drink
Drink with a couple of people
The plastic creating people
Still connected to the moment it began
Lyrics submitted by njikolai, edited by 23Tonality, Mbtravis99
Track duration: 02:32
"Pirate Jet" as written by Damon Albarn, Jamie Hewlett
Lyrics © EMI Music Publishing
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because we left the taps
running
for a hundred years
______________________
"It's all good news now" is the irony of that line.
I think it resembles overpopulation. The taps of oil & water have been running to support our society, and the fragile earth is having trouble supporting all of us. However, earth will have her day and we will inevitably be a fall. Which is the good news.... hah...
so drink into the drink
plastic cup of drink
drink with the purple people
the plastic creating people
_________________________
Do what you are going to do because our destiny is still our destiny. It only goes down from here, so enjoy your life. It doesn't matter if you drink with the plastic people, because in the end we will all go the same way that they are.
I also thing the plastic cup of drink resembles an alcohol cup and/or a plastic cup of kool-aid (Jonestown Massacre reference) which would be him referencing that we are all just blindly follow things anyway.
still connected
to the moment it began
____________________
Though we will ultimately fall, we are still connected to the universe and the beginning/creation of it all.
I have a lot of mixed feelings about this song. It makes me think about the truth that some people are too scared to face.
- Synth Faerie
Purple People Eater: youtube.com/…
plastic beach
I'm not sure if the song is optimistic so much as nihilistic - that perhaps it's already too late to really do much about global warming, soil degradation, oil shortages, over-fishing and pollution so we can and should all stop worrying about it and enjoy the (toxic) fruits of our plastic world before it all falls apart and the nature we've despoiled and corrupted revenges itself upon humanity. So we may as well drink from the plastic cup [the poisoned chalice?] now while we still can - we've already binged on oil via our fun fast cars, our cheap, superficially-clean electricity, our speeding jet planes (pirate or otherwise), our effortlessly microwaved mass-produced ready-meals and of course our fun disposable (but sadly extremely durable) plastic goods, so much so that we're now beyond salvation. Drugs, alcohol, gambling and bad, addictive relationships can all be seen both as symbols and, perhaps, as symptoms of the unnatural, superficially fun but somehow soulless existence we now lead in the modern world, wrapped-up in our plastic civilisation, knowing it's not sustainable but refusing to change our behaviour - just like any other kind of addict. So drinking from the plastic cup is both a metaphor and a literal action - party now to forget the future consequences. And because deep-down, many people feel this to be true, between periods of shallow, frantic fun the album is suffused by a sense of unease and mournfulness. For me, the whole thing is a kind of a requiem for the doomed modern world.
But perhaps things are not quite so bad - perhaps we will be 'forgiven' as it were, for our crimes against the planet. But maybe we never will.
This is not my real-life view of the world - at least not my logical one. But on an emotional level I do agree with a lot of what I draw from this song, and album. Feel free to comment away:
The song is basically about the world flooding, or that is what I believe atleast. It's saying how we've been so careless with our water and doing whatever we want with it that we're basically screwed now. That's when the "It's all good news now because we left the taps running for a hundred years." part comes in, it's a sense of sarcasm as if someone would just go "Well, we're all fucked now."
Then there's the second part of the song when it goes "So drink into the drink, a plastic cup of drink. Drink with the purple, the people, the plastic eating people." This is the part of the song when it's basically saying that most people are going to drown now and more will probably join over time. It's another play on words, where when someone would basically just go "Drink it up!"
Not to mention the ending part when it goes "Still connected to the moment it began." Think about it, now that the world is completely flooded, evrything that will ever happen from now on will be because of that one single moment. And people will be living in boats from now on.(Pirate Jet) =)
Plastic did not destroy our race, we're still human beings after all of this. We're still connected.
sort of nihilistic that there was so much pain the protagonist felt throughout the album, that he left the taps running which would flood the island and end his world. a very childish image but also quite dark and a bit of pathos