KASABIAN // Glass
This song enters Orajin Music Group for one.. Kasabian are just great. and for two.. We obviously love a song with meaning and a protest edge to it.. You must simply listen to the spoken words at the end of this song from the poet Suli Breaks..
This was the main inspiration for the song written by Serge Pizzorno and performed so well by him too.. In an acoustic version performed Live @ The Edge in 2014 you can capture the amazing vocals he has.. Yet this version supplies the message in full..
We also love a quote too and here is one from Serge (NME, 18 January 2014)
"This comes from the idea that if the people joined as a collective we could do so much damage. It's like when they blocked the petrol stations and we didn't have petrol for three days. There's power in that."
Glass is from The Album 48:13 (2014)
LYRICS:
We are going nowhere fast
Are we made of glass?
No one knows, no one knows
Play out at the highest levels
Sunken leather sofas
Stop all human interaction
Keep them in their corners
We can start and turn off everything
It’s only then you’ll see your life begin
Save me
Oh, come on and save me
From this world
Tell me
‘Cause I need to know
I’m not alone
We are taught to watch the puppets
Not the hands controlling
Do you think if we pull out the rug
The world would stop revolving?
We can start and turn off everything
It’s only then you’ll see your life begin
Save me
Oh, come on and save me
From this world
Save me
Oh, come on and save me
From this world
Tell me
‘Cause I need to know
I’m not alone
We are going nowhere fast
Are we made of glass?
No one knows
No one knows
No one knows
A wise man told me that we are born with wings
But never taught to fly
Doesn’t that make you wonder why?
Is it to prevent us from falling out of the sky
Or is it to stop us from soaring too high?
So let me ask you this
Are you running around in a circle, going nowhere fast?
‘Cause when you look at the man in the mirror
He’s made of nothing but glass
You’re never aware that mountains don’t move themselves
Tectonic plates take something to make them shift
That all it took was a staff to part the Red Sea
All it took was a bus to Montgomery
A single woman who refused to give up her seat
We fought an entire army with a bouquet of flowers back in the ‘70s
But now you’re taught to remain a hamster on a wheel until you run out of energy
Afraid that if you strive for an ideal you end up like a Kennedy
It’s like being on a treadmill every day but never losing any weight
‘Cause to see success the food before you digest has to change
We’re stressed and high, get depressed and die
But still afraid to question why
One of the biggest criminals I ever met wore a suit and tie
When did we stop believing?
When did we stop marching?
When did we stop chanting?
This was the main inspiration for the song written by Serge Pizzorno and performed so well by him too.. In an acoustic version performed Live @ The Edge in 2014 you can capture the amazing vocals he has.. Yet this version supplies the message in full..
We also love a quote too and here is one from Serge (NME, 18 January 2014)
"This comes from the idea that if the people joined as a collective we could do so much damage. It's like when they blocked the petrol stations and we didn't have petrol for three days. There's power in that."
Glass is from The Album 48:13 (2014)
LYRICS:
We are going nowhere fast
Are we made of glass?
No one knows, no one knows
Play out at the highest levels
Sunken leather sofas
Stop all human interaction
Keep them in their corners
We can start and turn off everything
It’s only then you’ll see your life begin
Save me
Oh, come on and save me
From this world
Tell me
‘Cause I need to know
I’m not alone
We are taught to watch the puppets
Not the hands controlling
Do you think if we pull out the rug
The world would stop revolving?
We can start and turn off everything
It’s only then you’ll see your life begin
Save me
Oh, come on and save me
From this world
Save me
Oh, come on and save me
From this world
Tell me
‘Cause I need to know
I’m not alone
We are going nowhere fast
Are we made of glass?
No one knows
No one knows
No one knows
A wise man told me that we are born with wings
But never taught to fly
Doesn’t that make you wonder why?
Is it to prevent us from falling out of the sky
Or is it to stop us from soaring too high?
So let me ask you this
Are you running around in a circle, going nowhere fast?
‘Cause when you look at the man in the mirror
He’s made of nothing but glass
You’re never aware that mountains don’t move themselves
Tectonic plates take something to make them shift
That all it took was a staff to part the Red Sea
All it took was a bus to Montgomery
A single woman who refused to give up her seat
We fought an entire army with a bouquet of flowers back in the ‘70s
But now you’re taught to remain a hamster on a wheel until you run out of energy
Afraid that if you strive for an ideal you end up like a Kennedy
It’s like being on a treadmill every day but never losing any weight
‘Cause to see success the food before you digest has to change
We’re stressed and high, get depressed and die
But still afraid to question why
One of the biggest criminals I ever met wore a suit and tie
When did we stop believing?
When did we stop marching?
When did we stop chanting?