its amazing how far music can come.. 24 years after it released and its one of the most heartfelt songs ive heard
Your class, your caste, your country, sect, your name or your tribe
There's people always dying trying to keep them alive
There's bodies decomposing in containers tonight
In an abandoned building where
The squatters made a mural of a Mexican girl
With fifteen cans of spray paint in a chemical swirl
She's standing in the ashes at the end of the world
Four Winds blowing through her hair
But when Great Satan's gone... the Whore of Babylon...
She just can't sustain the pressure will displace
She caves
The Bible's blind. The Torah's deaf. The Qu'ran is mute.
If you burned them all together youd get close to the truth
Still theyre pouring over sanskrit under Ivy League moons
While shadows lengthen the sun
Cast on a school and meditation built to soften the times
And hold us at the center while the spiral unwinds
It's knocking over fences, crossing property lines
Four Winds cry until it comes
It's the Sum of Man slouching towards Bethlehem
A heart just can't contain all of that empty space
It breaks. It breaks. It breaks.
Well I went back by rented Cadillac and company jet
Like a newly orphaned refugee retracing my steps
All the way to Cassadaga to commune with the dead
They said, "You'd better look alive"
And now its off to old Dakota where a genocide sleeps
In the Black Hills, the Badlands, the calloused East
I buried my ballast. I made my peace.
Heard Four Winds leveling the pines
But when Great Satan's gone, the Whore of Babylon
She just can't remain with all that outer space
She breaks. She breaks. She caves. She caves.
There's people always dying trying to keep them alive
There's bodies decomposing in containers tonight
In an abandoned building where
The squatters made a mural of a Mexican girl
With fifteen cans of spray paint in a chemical swirl
She's standing in the ashes at the end of the world
Four Winds blowing through her hair
But when Great Satan's gone... the Whore of Babylon...
She just can't sustain the pressure will displace
She caves
The Bible's blind. The Torah's deaf. The Qu'ran is mute.
If you burned them all together youd get close to the truth
Still theyre pouring over sanskrit under Ivy League moons
While shadows lengthen the sun
Cast on a school and meditation built to soften the times
And hold us at the center while the spiral unwinds
It's knocking over fences, crossing property lines
Four Winds cry until it comes
It's the Sum of Man slouching towards Bethlehem
A heart just can't contain all of that empty space
It breaks. It breaks. It breaks.
Well I went back by rented Cadillac and company jet
Like a newly orphaned refugee retracing my steps
All the way to Cassadaga to commune with the dead
They said, "You'd better look alive"
And now its off to old Dakota where a genocide sleeps
In the Black Hills, the Badlands, the calloused East
I buried my ballast. I made my peace.
Heard Four Winds leveling the pines
But when Great Satan's gone, the Whore of Babylon
She just can't remain with all that outer space
She breaks. She breaks. She caves. She caves.
Lyrics submitted by Saints47, edited by Mellow_Harsher
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did they cover this or sth?
yeah, they covered it. its on the Spaceman EP (available on German iTunes)
Firstly - excellent cover. I think it's more about the importance of faith rather than the futility of organised religion - at least in the killers version. The added "you'd better look alive" i think lends to this: maybe it is faith which helps us look alive in hard times. Great song.
"you'd better look alive" is in the bright eyes version, and it seems to be the dead warning the speaker to revel in life because there is nothing afterwards, and religion is a lie. you burn all religions, that is the truth. conor oberst is an ex-catholic, and this is why he has such a strong voice in his songs for modern atheism. thats also why its so ironic and unbecoming to hear flowers the hardcore conservative mormon destroy that notion by singing it in a techno song
oh... this song is really really trying to make me fall out of love with the killers... even more so than half the songs on Day and Age :(
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really i am so sad about this i could cry... they were soo amazing before.. but now... well lets just say theyre on the twilight soundtrack.
:( :( :(
but i have to add.. not all of their covers have been awful and uneccessary.<br /> <br /> in their defence Romeo and Juliet was amazing and i thought better than the original.<br /> and Shadowplay i liked.. again better than the original.<br /> <br /> but this one and Hotel California were uneccessary and awful.
I think your dumb. & that is so not true. Ok , they are still and will be forever an AMAZING band. So what if they are on the freakin twilight album ? Like you can do any better ? Jeez
I SO SUPRISING ON THE NUMERS OF THE COMMENTS .A SONG LIKE THAT NEED A LOT OF COMMENTS .THE BIBLE BLIND I QUESS IS TRUE BECOUS THE SAINTS MAKE HIM BLIND BY WRITING ANS PLUSING THEIR OWN OPINION .THE TOARAH DEAF IS TRUE CUZ THE JUIF KILL THE POOR PALESTINAN THT ALL
Please learn how to talk, moron...
THE CURAN IS MUTE MEAN THT THE MUSLIM4S TODAY ARE MUTE ENSUED THEY DONT FOLOW THE one god's instuction .i rread the 3 books and i found the curan is the best
THE CURAN IS MUTE MEAN THT THE MUSLIM4S TODAY ARE MUTE ENSUED THEY DONT FOLOW THE one god's instuction .i rread the 3 books and i found the curan is the best
This is another one of the Killers amazing songs that has been lost in the shuffle! So many people would love to hear this!! Amazing B Side!!
The more I listen to this song, the more confused I become. This is an epic cover! The Killers should be proud. I don't think they have ever even performed this live! Why are people always ripping their amazing covers! They shouldn't take them back! They should cover tons of songs and make them better! They always do!
wtf?? never heard either