Gorillaz: Kids with Guns Meaning
Kids with Guns Lyrics
Kids with guns
Kids with guns
Taking over
But it won't be long
They're mesmerized
Skeletons
Kids with guns
Kids with guns
Easy does it, easy does it, they got something to say no to
Drinking out (is she real, is she)
Pacifier (is...
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#1 top rated interpretation:It's not about any of that. In the Gorillaz interview, "We are the Dury," Noodle says that the song is about how kids are being taught that compassion is a weakness and desensitized by violent images seen in the media.
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#2 top rated interpretation:I am a diehard Gorillaz fan, the only band that I like better is The Beatles. I read "Rise of the Ogre," and from what the fictional members of Gorillaz said about "Kids With Guns," I believe that I can safely conclude that I understand what this song is about.
To understand why this song is about what it is about, you must first know that the entire album of Demon Days is about mainly how the general public respects false icons and about what humanity has done, the chaos that we rose out of and recreated ourselves. Damon Albarn, the actual mastermind behind Gorillaz, has a history of writing songs about what has been going on around him. "Girls and Boys," one of his best songs with Blur, his original band, was about how he was disgusted yet fascinated after he learned that people who went to his concerts would get drunk or high on drugs and have sex with each other, despite being total strangers.
Anyways, onto the point.
What Albarn is trying to say in the song is that the recent generations that have determined the fate of the world have created a future in which people will have to arm their own children with guns so that they can protect themselves from the chaos and terror that will surely erupt throughout the world if we continue to prosper, as we are too smart for our own good, so to speak. Albarn is trying to say that, now that we have the ability to destroy our entire race (nuclear technology, etc.), and have the resources and equipment ready, we will surely use it, whether we should or should not.
"Kids with Guns
Kids with guns
taking over
why won't they run?"
Here, Albarn is saying that in this inevitable chaos this is the future, the generations that begin in that chaos will not know that there was a safer past, an oasis of happiness that their own ancestors destroyed (Why won't they run?). The line, "Taking Over" means that this generation of people who know no safety, no happiness, will then be in control of the human race, so they will continue to feed the chaos that is humanity.
"They mesmerize
skeletons
Kids with guns
kids with guns"
The line, "They mesmerize/ skeletons" means that they will kill others, for they know no other, safer, better life. Therefore, the generation who will take charge of humanity will have been convinced by the generation that was in charge before them that they must kill others, so therefore, they are all already dead, as everyone will try to kill everyone else. So, this means that everyone is a "mesmerize skeleton" who will convince the next generation the same.
"And they're turning us into monsters (repeats)"
This line is pretty self- explanatory. It means that each generation turns the next generation into monsters to kill, as the older generation was never taught otherwise because of the inevitable chaos.
"Drinkin' out
Push it real"
This is probably just gibberish. But catchy gibberish, nonetheless.
This song is Albarn trying to tell the generation of people who are the next in line to take control of humanity that they can't continue what their predecessors started, and try as hard as they can to keep the said chaos from arising. I support this, and I hope that this interpretation meets your needs! -
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#3 top rated interpretation:This song is about compounding (taught) psychopathy affecting kids younger and younger.
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I didn't have a very indeapth idea in my head about this, but my thoughts were more the brutality of war progressing through generation, and the violence only fighting on. But, what was said made more sense than that. Who knows :]
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Along with most of you, I believe that "Kids With Guns" is about the younger generation learning that guns are the only thing to keep them safe, and that with all the violence going on in the world, it only makes sense to carry one.
"If my neighbor has a gun, why shouldn't I?" It may also be a part of conforming. -
This must be about how the people in Generations are making bad choices, making them the monster.
I have to say that
"And they're turning us into monsters
Turning us into fire
Turning us into monsters
It's all desire"
The "Fire" part is about how they will not be put out and they will keep going to fight for how they think they are right with their choice
The "Monsters" part is showing us that because of the bad choices people put them as a bad person or monster for making something different from what it was before -
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"kids with guns, kids with guns taking over'' means,the kids with guns are taking over.Terrifying.Thats all I know.
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I think that Damon's talking about all of the school shootings that have happened in North America, and this song has captured the zeitgeist of what's happened in recent years.
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i think it has to do with how kids can make so many choices.
"Kids with guns
Taking over
But it won't be long
They're mesmerized
Skeletons
Kids with guns
Kids with guns
Easy does it, easy does it, they got something to say no to"
- they can say no to all of these things. we have created children into believing that good people do thesethings, which "mesmerizes" them into false personas, "skeletons".
"And they're turning us into monsters
Turning us into fire
Turning us into monsters
It's all desire"
- this relates to how all these choices are turning our new generations into monsters. -
For those of you who have read Rise of The Orge, you should know the song is about the state of war being so bad that you even have to arm innocent children to protect themselves.
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This song is about the negative influences that kids are given today. Not only that but children soldiers.
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Hmm
these are good interpretations but I personally think gorillaz is more deep than that
I think they're talking about government
like everyone in the white house is just a kid with a gun
they have a lot of power but don't know what to do with it -
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I think it's about how kids are fuckin' shootin' up schools
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Um I would agree that it is about the bad influences on kids these days... But also I belive the children in africa idea is a possibility, such as the invisable children of uganda, africa where the children are being stolen an forced to fight and such... Although uganda is a beautiful country in which I visited for 3 weeks.
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I think it's about how kids these days are being influenced very badly by things.
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