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Track #3 on “Get To Heaven” LP
On XFM (at 17:45), Jonathan Higgs explained that Get to Heaven expresses ‘horror in the everyday’, how terrorism desensitises people to feel that any day could be their last.
This song talks about an old man setting himself on fire, while people ignore it trying to ‘...
[Verse 1]
Out in the cold
There's an old man laying down in the flames tonight
Smiling to me
And he whistles as they're sweeping him up, alright
Like: *whistles*
[Pre-Chorus]
I hear them praying
[Chorus]
(We can get to that heaven)
There's bodies in the road
(We can get to that heaven)
Where nothing else will grow
(Lunatic in my bedroom)
I'm thinking, "What was my password?"
As the vultures land
[Verse 2]
Crushed under feet
How about we find some nice place to eat tonight?
Teeth on a wire
I made a necklace for you, just you and I, alright
Like ee-ee, ee-ee, ee-ee, ee-ee, ee-ee, ee-ee-ee-ee
Ee-ee, ee-ee, ee-ee, ee-ee, ee-ee, ee-ee
Ah-ah, ah-ah, ah-ah, ah-ah, ah-ah, ah-ah-ah-ah
Ah-ah, ah-ah, ah-ah, ah-ah, ah-ah
[Pre-Chorus]
I hear them burning
[Chorus]
(We can get to that heaven)
There's bodies in the road
(We can get to that heaven)
Where nothing else will grow
(Lunatic in my bedroom)
I'm thinking, "What was my password?"
As the vultures land
(We can get to that heaven)
As the tanks roll by
(We can get to that heaven)
Under a blood black sky
(Lunatic in my bedroom)
I'm thinking, "Where in the blazes
Did I park my car?"
[Instrumental Interlude]
[Bridge]
What was my password?
What was my password?
What was my password?
As the vultures land
[Chorus]
(We can get to that heaven)
As the tanks roll by
(We can get to that heaven)
Under a blood black sky
(Lunatic in my bedroom)
I'm thinking, "Where in the blazes
Did I park my car?"
Get to Heaven was written by Michael Spearman & Alex Robertshaw & Jeremy Pritchard & Jonathan Higgs.
Get to Heaven was produced by Everything Everything & Stuart Price.
Everything Everything released Get to Heaven on Mon Jun 22 2015.
“It has this central theme of ‘rising above’, and that’s really where the joy of it lies. The whole idea of it is that it’s slightly sarcastic, where I’m talking about really awful things happening – there’s an old man burning himself alive, the streets are filled with soldiers and tanks – and the n...