The Black Keys: Little Black Submarines Meaning
Song Released: 2011
Little Black Submarines Lyrics
Operator please
Put me back on the line
Told my girl I'd be back
Operator please
This is wreckin' my mind
Oh can it be
The voices calling me
They get lost
And out of time
I should've seen it glow
But everybody...
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#1 top rated interpretation:99% of the black keys' songs are metaphors about heroin addiction. .Under a microscope, heroin molecules in the bloodstream look like little black submarines. "Operator please put me back on the line" means he needs the fix. "Treasuremaps" is an old school reference for needle track marks, because they can resemble pirate- map type treasure maps in movies when they get bad., etc. There are always many interpretations, that what makes a popular song, but an experienced heroin addict can REALLY identify with these songs of depth and sorrow. The love and hate. The up and down. Figured I'd throw that out there. Appreciate the music but for the love of God stay away from heroin.
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I thought “black beauties” …. I grew up in the 70’s, and it was a stimulant in pill form.
So, I agree about the drug addiction, the depression and the attempt to deal with all that as well as loss of love and friends, with the use of drugs.
Don’t do drugs, kids! -
"Little Black Submarines" isn't about anything. The song, generally, is about lost love, heartache, etc. But the "little black submarines" line is probably a placeholder lyric that just stuck.
When songwriters are searching for a melody to the chords they're playing, they just fill in whatever words feel right, even if they're total nonsense. After the melody is set, then they go back over and smooth out the placeholders so the song makes more sense as a story. Here though, the guys just thought "little black submarines" was funny or unique and kept it in there. I love this song, but the rest of the lyrics aren't particularly engaging. Keeping those lyrics in the song, even if they don't make sense, gives the song character. -
"Under a microscope, heroin molecules in the bloodstream look like little black submarines" - heroin (C21H23NO5) has an atomic weight 370 so it is beyond the range of any normal microscope - it is possible to image at the atomic scale but "color" would be entirely at the discretion of the image processor. Carbon is often colored black in diagrams of atomic structure but you have to have a lot of imagination to see a black submarine.
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If you've never been dead and resuscitated then u might not understand the lines..Oh can it be
The voices calling me they get lost and out of time...in my personal experience you hear the voices of ppl you've lost in life when ur drifting between this plane and the next and they do gt lost and out of time (sync)..usually because you're in the process of being brought back to this one..I wish everyone finds some kinda love in this life and that you never have to delve so deeply into drugs or depression that u truly overstand this. Peace and Abundance all you beautiful humans out there -
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Always heard him say, "should have seen it go" as in his mind exiting following in pursuit his mind. A "glow" is comparable, however in that it is just as likely incomprehensible as the certian path of the said "broken heart."
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its about LOVE
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It's about a guy in a coma. The operator is God and he's asking him to patch him back to his mind... The "voices calling me" are people trying to talk to him in the hospital.
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It's about addiction
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