Please explain to me—in 25 words or less—exactly what this lyric means: “Are we human, or are we dancer?”
Judging by the drum machines in the song, I’d have to say he’s dancer. Actually, no, Dancer is Dancer, but, well, he’s a fictional reindeer.
Add one more lyric to my list of stupid lyrics, which include even Carole King: “Snow is cold, rain is wet.”
Uh-huh.
CCR:
sun is cold and rain is hard
Tom Petty
And the rocks might melt, and the sea may burn
I love this stuff.
No explanations. Just stupid lyrics. But they sound good in the songs.
:-)
Comment by Soccerdad — 10/16/2008 @ 12:26 pm
“Oh, Sinner Man, the sea’ll be a-boilin’….”
(Couldn’t resist.)
Comment by Rahel — 10/16/2008 @ 1:46 pm
Interesting. Mary Chapin Carpenter has the exact same lyric as Tom Petty in a song called “10,000 miles.”
Comment by Meryl Yourish — 10/16/2008 @ 2:23 pm
‘I heard you’re workin’ for the C I AY, Cuz they wouldn’t take you in the MAF FYE AY.”
AAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!
Comment by annoying little twerp — 10/16/2008 @ 4:07 pm
I should’ve said that the above noise pollution comes courtesy of _WAR__.______
Comment by annoying little twerp — 10/16/2008 @ 9:27 pm
“when ice burns and passions melt”
from a poem I wrote
Comment by Pamela — 10/16/2008 @ 9:37 pm
My wife and I saw the “Killers on Saturday Night Live TV show here in the US, performing that song.
We had to look up the lyrics. Turns out, some lyrics site have it:
“Are we human?
Or are we denser?”
Makes a little more sense.
See http://www.metrolyrics.com/human-lyrics-the-killers.html
Comment by Judah — 10/18/2008 @ 1:17 am
Oh, but I see you linked to the “lyrical confusion” part, so I guess you already know that. :-p
Comment by Judah — 10/18/2008 @ 1:18 am