Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space

I've always loved this song. I listen to it when I needed to remind myself that beauty still exist in the world, but today I had an "I HATE THE WORLD" episode and on the way home this song came up on shuffle and I ended up listening to it on repeat for over 2 hours (about 50+ times) repeating the line

"All I want in life's a little bit of love to take the pain away"

And all that time I had this overwhelming, gut-gnawing feeling of sorrow that I'll never truly know such beauty in my life ever. of love. of loving. of life. of living.

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I sat in an airplane leaving someone who i really loved behind- and than a voice said: "LADIES AND GENTLEMEN WE ARE FLOATING IN SPACE"- and i just cried, thinking about propabbly never seeing that person that i could´ve imagine spending my life with again,wanting the pain to go away... maybe in a parralel universe? Peut-etre c´est un reve, les nuages, toi....

I was actually reading "Sophie's World" when this song came out... Great book! Fantastic song! By an unbelievable band!

A little search for meaning: Imagine, if you will for a moment, that living on the surface of the earth was like living among the fur on the back of a rabbit. The majority of us would probably prefer to nestle into the warmth and security of the fur, living out our days comfortably, naive and relatively unscathed. It is the responsibility, however, of the philosopher to make that treacherous journey out to the end of the fur, climbing higher and further, clutching desperately to each increasingly thinning stock of hair as they swing and sway wildly. The reward for all this peril, for the philosopher and for the people wiling to indulge him/her is the sight of the “great magician” as he pulls our rabbit of his hat, to be witness to the great magic trick that IS the universe and for the ability to yell back to the surface, “Ladies and Gentlemen, we are floating in space!”… For at that moment, once we’ve distanced ourselves from the safety nets of our everyday lives… Only then can we see the true nature of our surroundings and ourselves.

Something very magical is happening in this song… The truth.

What he is saying is that "I don't believe" that "fools rush in". The line "I don't believe" is referring to the line above. The line "I could still fall in love with you" stands by itself.

Overall, a very good song. Very good. It's sad that songs like this don't get much attention, and aren't produced much these days.

at ~ 2:27

"all i want in life's a little bit of love to take the pain away"

becomes

"all i want in life's a little bit of dope to take the pain away"

he sings it this way twice before going back to "love"

am i the only one who noticed?

Its the beep! This song is obviously brilliant but it would be nothing without the genius beep.

Beep.

Everyone here is talking a lot about how great this is as a love song, stating that the "I can't believe" is a statement of disbelief, basically saying "I can't believe how lucky I am."

But what people seem to be missing is that he's saying "I don't believe I could still fall in love with you," saying that, basically, if it were to happen today, he doesn't think he could do it again. The rest of the song is extremely sweet, but remember, people: that voice who delivers the very first line is the woman who inspired, legend has it, the drug/alcohol fueled maelstrom that preceded and coincided with the making of the record.

Or, as the sticker on my copy says, "A psychedelic gospel album full of songs about heartbreak and drug abuse; a flat-out masterpiece"

The song is extremely dreamlike, but that dream is interrupted, violently, by the drum beats at the beginning of "Come Together." Because that's all it is: it's a floating dream, and like all dreams, if you don't accept that they're going to end, reality is going to, as they say, fuck your shit up.

if anyone cares to be a reader, i think they got this song title from the book, SOPHIES WORLD. ( a novel about the history of philosophy, AMAZING by the way) in one chapter of the book is says exactly.. "they yell, 'LADIES AND GENTLEMEN WE ARE FLOATING IN SPACE!' but no one down there cares." such a great song and book.

This was the song my daughter played as she committed suicide. :o(

this song makes me teary-eyed and causes me to stare off into space and daydream. it DOES have a feeling of floating. the way the three different themes all flow together is just amazing to me.

and then there's the fact that almost everyone on this earth can relate to the lyrics "all i want in life's a little bit of love to make the pain go away" ... the feeling that if you could somehow get your grasp on just a bit of the love that seems to be everywhere, just there for the taking, you'd be ok and complete and enough ... that's a feeling that I know so well.

...representin'....midWESTSIDE. heh.