Pioneers Lyrics
It's all under control
If it can be lost then it can be won, if it can be touched then it can be turned
All you need is time
We will not be the first, we won't
You said you were going to conquer new frontiers,
Go stick your bloody head in the jaws of the beast
I'm shaking hands with a hurricane
It's a colour that I can't describe,
It's a language I can't understand
Ambition, tearing out the heart of you
Carving lines into you
Dripping down the sides of you
I think it's meaning is more general than a specific war or person.
I think it's about all the idealists in the world.
The title sums up the song very well, because pioneers are idealists. They're settlers who are hoping for a better future in a new place.
"If it can be broke then it can be fixed, if it can be fused then it can be split It's all under control If it can be lost then it can be won, if it can be touched then it can be turned All you need is time" Is basically the idealist's theroy that everything can be fixed; all you need is time, motivation, and will.
"We promised the world we'd tame it, what were we hoping for?" Is I think a reflection on a time when the song writer was an idealist, and how he made all these promises to change the world for the better, but he realizes now that he was hoping for too much.
"You said you were going to conquer new frontiers, Go stick your bloody head in the jaws of the beast" Is about how idealists are trying to accomplish all these huge tasks that are far too big for one single person to accomplish.
"I'm shaking hands with a hurricane" I think is about how being an idealist is like trying to shake hands with a hurricane. Because a hurricane is so big and you're just one single person. You can't destroy every problem.
"Ambition, tearing out the heart of you Carving lines into you Dripping down the sides of you We will not be the last." Is about how much ambition idealists have to change the world, but in the end their dreams just get squashed by the world, and their hearts get torn out. But still, it will keep going, and there will always be idealists in the world who want to change things.
@Televised I have a different take. I think the song is about the illusion of progress. It’s a commentary on our failed culture that over-estimates an ability to conquer problems and tame the world with ambition, science, and tech. It’s a view of our culture as a Huxley or Ralston Saul kind of dystopia.
@Televised I have a different take. I think the song is about the illusion of progress. It’s a commentary on our failed culture that over-estimates an ability to conquer problems and tame the world with ambition, science, and tech. It’s a view of our culture as a Huxley or Ralston Saul kind of dystopia.
the line "we promised the world we tame it, what were we hoping for?" got me hook on to this song.. for me it seems like we try so hard to fix this world but never seem to know where to begin due to the numerous problemsthat exsists, like war, overpopulaiton, natural disasters etc.
this song is soo important to me. i even have some lines from it tattoed on me "Ambition Tearing out the heart of you Carving lines into you Dripping down the sides of you.." like obviously, it's talking about how something can tear you down to the point of insanity or in the lyrics wise, cutting / suicide, but i dont really think Kele was trying to make the song about that but its just so true how something can tear you apart, like someone's ambition... its fucking nuts the reason i got it tattoed into me is because my ambitions tore me apart to the point Kele writes about... awesome song...:)
Time fixes everything.
@WikedAbib it doesn’t, though. And that’s the point.
@WikedAbib it doesn’t, though. And that’s the point.
i am in love with the video
I have to agree with exsaga.. there's so many problems to be fixed and we dont know where to start. "We promised the world, we'd tame it..." - isnt that what politicans always do? not just Bush and Blair..
In the last verse they mention some of the problems we are facing nowadays.. eg.hurricanes & racism.
kick-arse-song anyways
brilliant song!
i used to hate bloc party but then i heard the line "we will not be the last" in this tune and now i'm hooked on them...it's gotta be something to do with politicians or the problems in the world. "if it can be broke, then it can be fixed..." seems to be hopeful, like someone saying "so what the worlds messed up?! the next generations can fix that"
the line "so here we are reinventing the wheel" are they saying that to right the wrong things we are going to have to start all again from scratch?
maybe the best song of bloc party :)