Next TBP - Sweet Little Lady (live acoustic version) and the lockdown version…double feature please!! 🙏🏼

Meaning of the lyrics:

“What do you see with the eyes in your head?
Pitiful struggle, or are you content?”

(Are you seeing what’s happening around you? Are you paying attention to the struggle or are you ignoring it?)

“Fear and anger so garishly clothed, resignation and ignorance tied up in bows”

(Picture fear and anger all around you as a scary, ominous figure [garishly clothed]. And people either resigned to the situation or completely ignoring it)

“A king to a pauper, a sad wizened clown
A joke an' a punchline, people all 'round”

(We started off great but now we’re all screwed, left looking like sad clowns - what a joke we all are!)

“Rose-tinted glasses and no-one is sane”

(So now we pretend everything’s OK, like we’ve gone mad)

“A big waltzing blindfold, we are what we play
We are what we play, and nothing is sane”

(It’s like we’re dancing around blind to the situation - our actions define who we are…it’s madness!)

“What can he hear with his ears in his hands?”

(“He” is mankind. Mankind is covering up his ears and choosing not to listen)

“Her silently weeping, his head in the sand
Patiently lurking in water in wine, he'll drown by her tears, or choke on his time”

(“Her” is Mother Earth. She’s crying over what we’re doing to her while we’ve got our heads buried in the sand. It’s like we’re drunk, waiting to either to be drowned by Earth’s tears or destroy ourselves in our own time before she’s destroyed)

“For what we've forsaken and taken too soon
Before murdering old mother, we'd dance on the moon
Deaf to the thunder that silently cracks, we're holding our breath until her collapse”

(We’ve raped and pillaged Earth before killing her. “Dance on the moon” - the Latin for moon is “Luna”, it’s where the word lunatic comes from. We’re dancing like lunatics. And we’re not listening to the warnings but holding our breaths for what’s going to happen - like an act of self harm)

“What do you feel with your heart in your chest?
Some few thousand years, could soon come to rest”

(We’ve been on this earth only a few thousand years and even if we’re choosing to not look and listen, we know in our hearts that our actions will bring it to an end)

“Do you feel the butcher? The bullet that bores
With corkscrewing chaos and mighty a roar”

(The butcher is war. Bullets and artillery corckscrew when they fly through the air. Can you feel it and hear the roar of war?)

“On the shoulders of man and his bag full of bombs
Bell tolling destruction our final swan song”

(It’s on us and our warring ways that the final bells, marking our end will ring, telling us our time is up. The sound of those bells being our final swan song)

“The final musical piece at the end symbolizes our final swan song before it’s all over.”

Believe it was written by Gorran (guitarist) …. Loved the smile on your face when Ren whipped out the melodica and well done on the Brit award ❤

This one was all Gorran , but the three of them really make it come to life.

This was the first live video recording they made together and they sat on it for two years before releasing it in 2020 (?)  I love it, ❤ it probably is the most 'Un Big Push' thing I have heard 😂 but shows the level of talent they share.......they can do anything.....and do it well ❤ Thanks for this one x

"murdering old mother, we will dance on the moon"..Mother=earth.  I took this as a song about what we are doing to the environment- Mother Earth.  With Ren and also the Big Push, the lyrics are critical so I'm glad you are one to dig in

I love when "reactors" (content creators) do what they themself enjoy doing, so I loved hearing you talk about the lyrics. And good music often have good lyrics so it's always good to highlight it.

When the ones that create the content start adapting to much to what they believe the audience wants instead of doing what they themself want to do, the content starts loosing it's genuine feel. Create what you want to create and the audience that like what you do will join and stay. This is true for all creative disciplines I think; music, movies, dancing and youtube creators.

Thank you for a really good reaction video to a different and unusual but very good The Big Push song. I don't listen to it often, but every time I do I enjoy it a lot.

If you haven't heard it yet, you should watch Romain Axisa (the french Big Push guy) perform his song "Time after Time" live at St Augustine's Chapel. It's in some ways very similar to this one and really beautiful, thoughtful and sad.
It's also one of those songs you wonder why you're not listen to it more often, everytime you hear it.

Thank you for reading our recommendations and taking the time to react to this song! It's so gorgeous, and you're the first person Ive seen to go back through the lyrics which I really enjoyed ❤
All three of them take lead vocals at times. Ren the most often, Gorran quite often (as in this song), and Romain periodically. But they also split whole pieces into three equal parts as well to share and share alike.
A tremendous band.

Love the kitty kitty, enjoyed the reaction and attention to the lyrics, Ren has guided me to different music genres I never thought I’d enjoy listening to more than once

Romaine is French. Ren has a song on the Freckled Angels  album, with Romaine,  called French Song.
Gorran wrote the song.

This performance is such a great vibe.

One of their most underrated songs. Just beautiful

I remember reading that Goran wrote this song.

I think you would enjoy " Precious " lyric video by The Big Push. Gorran I was told wrote this one, he has some amazing solo tracks, and so does Romain.

7:01 nobody expects the Renish inquisition.

Renegade present ❤ one ofmy favo,s. Love the harmony ❤

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You'd probably enjoy some "baby Ren" just search "Ren, Trick the Fox" and enjoy the ride.

I think you would also really love both Romain and Gorran’s music.

Listen to Precious, the video is great too.

Enjoyed your reaction. Goran wrote this.