“Young Giants” is a caustic repudiation of petty Internet trolls and cyber-bullies and an empowering anthem against them, with references a-plenty to tracks from Au/Ra’s 2018 EP X Games. On the track, Jamie belts a defiant refrain, rising to challenge cyber-bullies' anonymity and towering above them...
[Verse 1]
Where's the party at?
The saints and the vandals
Pyro with a candle
They’re all comin' out tonight
Bring their body bags
'Cause that’s where they want you
Down deep with the worm food
Yeah, they'll bury you alive (Bury you alive)
[Pre-Chorus]
They take their bites just like piranhas
Sharpen their smiles, kill me with kindness
We turn our backs, they're talking trash right there behind us
They'll do anything at all to fill the silence
[Chorus]
Go ahead and hide behind your screens (Young giants)
We're just fresh meat on your feed (Young giants)
Step to us, you're gonna see (Young giants)
We're ten feet taller than you'd have us believe
[Verse 2]
In their dark bedrooms
They swim in the blue glow
Kill, kill with a keystroke
With words they would never say
See us on the street, their lips will be sealed shut
What’s that? I don’t hear much
With no username, you see, we're the same
Now that we’re face to face
[Pre-Chorus]
Steppin' on us to make you tall
Do you know that's what makes you small? So
[Chorus]
Go ahead and hide behind your screens (Young giants)
We're just fresh meat on your feed (Young giants)
Step to us, you’re gonna see (Young giants)
We're ten feet taller than you'd have us believe
[Bridge]
(Young giants)
(Young giants)
(Young giants)
We're ten feet taller than you'd have us believe
[Pre-Chorus]
They take their bites just like piranhas
Sharpen their smiles, kill me with kindness
We turn our backs, they're talking trash right there behind us
They'll do anything at all to fill the silence
[Chorus]
Go ahead and hide behind your screens (Young giants)
We're just fresh meat on your feed (Young giants)
Step to us, you're gonna see (Young giants)
We're ten feet taller than you'd have us believe (Young giants)
Go ahead and hide behind your screens (Young giants)
We're just fresh meat on your feed (Young giants)
Step to us, you're gonna see (Young giants)
We're ten feet taller than you'd have us believe (Young giants)
Young Giants was written by Au/Ra & Gabriel Benjamin & Andrew Frampton & Max Farrar.
Young Giants was produced by Andrew Frampton & Max Farrar.
Au/Ra released Young Giants on Fri Aug 27 2021.
“Young Giants” is about cyberbullying and how people feel like they can say anything online without consequence because they don’t have to the consequences for it and how rude people get because of it.
—via Instagram Story on September 3, 2021