I still think it's: two thousand not two hundred. The number is important, because it clearly points towards religion.
But it's not about religion, it's more about love, about the loss of it. I love the first part of the song oozes with anxiety. Words paint you a view, of when the hurricane is about to hit, the lines about the storm bubbling up on the sea kinda hint this out, and those swaying stop signs, plus phone lines being down.
So with all that unrest, you feel that something bad is about to happen, lonliness possibly? It's coming. So what do you do in that sytuation? you doubt. You doubt in love, the worst part of it that you'll feel like that many times, because that's life: "driven by the strangle of veins". So you loose your will to live, yet biologically you still go on. That means you gotta go forward and look for something new. The idea of looking for ideal love, looks familliar to christianity doesn't it? where you struggle for faith for your entire life. That's why the two thousand might be the key to the song.
sbto,
I completely agree with you about the beginning of this song... It like its just trying to pull tears from your eyes...
Also I think this song is about the inevitable loss we all face... whatever it is...
sbto,
I completely agree with you about the beginning of this song... It like its just trying to pull tears from your eyes...
Also I think this song is about the inevitable loss we all face... whatever it is...
Yeah!!! me too!!! This is the first time I think of vampires. I also thought it was about loneliness, and how everything is spooky and down when you're feeling so low.
Yeah!!! me too!!! This is the first time I think of vampires. I also thought it was about loneliness, and how everything is spooky and down when you're feeling so low.
I agree with you. I think its possibly about losing faith - love. Especially after reading this:
I agree with you. I think its possibly about losing faith - love. Especially after reading this:
"Three brothers and a cousin, all aged between 16 and 23, they were raised as traveling Pentecostals and dragged from Memphis to Oklahoma City and just about everywhere in between by their defrocked preacher daddy, Leon Followill, who also happened to be an alcoholic. Along the way, they slept in cars, trailers and churches and were tutored by whoever was along for the ride."
"Three brothers and a cousin, all aged between 16 and 23, they were raised as traveling Pentecostals and dragged from Memphis to Oklahoma City and just about everywhere in between by their defrocked preacher daddy, Leon Followill, who also happened to be an alcoholic. Along the way, they slept in cars, trailers and churches and were tutored by whoever was along for the ride."
"Although the Kings of Leon have rejected their Christian upbringing, religion is ever-present - "The Lord's gonna get us back, I know, I know," Caleb rasps in "Holy Roller Novocaine"
In some pictures I see Caleb wearing cross necklaces. I think the song has a lot to do with his struggle of faith while simultaneously experiencing the pain of being brought up by a dysfunctional father who is also deeply religious.
I still think it's: two thousand not two hundred. The number is important, because it clearly points towards religion.
But it's not about religion, it's more about love, about the loss of it. I love the first part of the song oozes with anxiety. Words paint you a view, of when the hurricane is about to hit, the lines about the storm bubbling up on the sea kinda hint this out, and those swaying stop signs, plus phone lines being down.
So with all that unrest, you feel that something bad is about to happen, lonliness possibly? It's coming. So what do you do in that sytuation? you doubt. You doubt in love, the worst part of it that you'll feel like that many times, because that's life: "driven by the strangle of veins". So you loose your will to live, yet biologically you still go on. That means you gotta go forward and look for something new. The idea of looking for ideal love, looks familliar to christianity doesn't it? where you struggle for faith for your entire life. That's why the two thousand might be the key to the song.
sbto, I completely agree with you about the beginning of this song... It like its just trying to pull tears from your eyes... Also I think this song is about the inevitable loss we all face... whatever it is...
sbto, I completely agree with you about the beginning of this song... It like its just trying to pull tears from your eyes... Also I think this song is about the inevitable loss we all face... whatever it is...
Yeah!!! me too!!! This is the first time I think of vampires. I also thought it was about loneliness, and how everything is spooky and down when you're feeling so low.
Yeah!!! me too!!! This is the first time I think of vampires. I also thought it was about loneliness, and how everything is spooky and down when you're feeling so low.
You're right it is 2000 years. You could hear it clearly in the song:
You're right it is 2000 years. You could hear it clearly in the song:
youtube.com/watch
youtube.com/watch
I agree with you. I think its possibly about losing faith - love. Especially after reading this:
I agree with you. I think its possibly about losing faith - love. Especially after reading this:
"Three brothers and a cousin, all aged between 16 and 23, they were raised as traveling Pentecostals and dragged from Memphis to Oklahoma City and just about everywhere in between by their defrocked preacher daddy, Leon Followill, who also happened to be an alcoholic. Along the way, they slept in cars, trailers and churches and were tutored by whoever was along for the ride."
"Three brothers and a cousin, all aged between 16 and 23, they were raised as traveling Pentecostals and dragged from Memphis to Oklahoma City and just about everywhere in between by their defrocked preacher daddy, Leon Followill, who also happened to be an alcoholic. Along the way, they slept in cars, trailers and churches and were tutored by whoever was along for the ride."
"Although the Kings of Leon have rejected their Christian upbringing, religion is ever-present - "The Lord's gonna get us back, I know, I know," Caleb rasps in "Holy Roller Novocaine"
In some pictures I see Caleb wearing cross necklaces. I think the song has a lot to do with his struggle of faith while simultaneously experiencing the pain of being brought up by a dysfunctional father who is also deeply religious.