The Strokes - Ize Of The World

12th track of The Strokes' album 'First Impressions Of Earth', 2006

lyrics
I think I know what you mean but watch what you say 'cause they'll be trying
to knock you down in some way. Sometimes it feels like the world is falling asleep.
How do you wake someone up from inside a dream?
Your mind would wander and search for its place in the night.
Your body followed this feeling like following light.
Once that your music was born it followed you 'round and then it gave
your activities meaning and let you be loud. You're sad but you smile.
It's not in your eyes. Your eyeballs don't change.
It's the muscles around your eyes.
An egg to fertilize,
A pulse to stabilize,
A body to deodorize,
A life to scrutinize,
A child to criticize,
Young adults
to modernize,
Citizens to terrorize,
Generations to desensitize.
Your dreams are sweet and obsessed and you're overworked.
You're overtaken by visions of being overlooked. How disappointed would
D.(ead) I.(dealistic) D.(esperate) I.(inventor) P.(ioneer) P.(hilosophers) be to see
such power in our hands all wasted on greed?Am I a prisoner to instincts
or do my thoughts just live as free and detached as boats to the dock?
Just like when music was born and detached from your heart.
Is your free time to free minds or for falling apart?
Night after night you turn out the light.
You don't fall asleep right away.
"Are we... are we done?"
A desk to organize,
A product to advertise,
A market to monopolize,
Movie stars to idolize,
Leaders to scandalize,
Enemies to neutralize,
No time to apologize,
Fury to tranquilize,
Weapons to synchronize,
Cities to
vaporize.

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[justinecunanan]

@coisinhasbanais @C454BL4NC45 Oh, okay. Thanks for telling me. :)

[coisinhasbanais]

@justinecunanan It's always a pleasure helping others to understand how the strokes lyrics are awesome, weather it is the nonsense ones or the meaninful ones like IOTW.

[justinecunanan]

Does the ending really sound like that? It sounded like it was cut off. Either way, it was a really awesome song. I kept listening to it for hours.

[coisinhasbanais]

@justinecunanan Yes, it really sounds like that. He doesn't finnish to say "Ize" and that has a meaning. The fact that the song is called "ize of the world" is not random. It's up for the listeners to make their own interpretations.

[pbandjsamich4]

"How do you wake someone up from inside a dream?" Lyrics that were clearly written before Inception! Ha ha

[coisinhasbanais]

@pbandjsamich4 Haha, that also crossed my mind. Btw, weird coincidence, I just rewatched inception, like 30 seconds ago.

[HiThereImKester]

FIOE is so underrated it's unbelievable, people are too busy comparing it to Is This It to actually listen to it.

[coisinhasbanais]

@HiThereImKester If this comment isn't the most rated, I'll delete this video. Well said!

[wildbrownhorses]

try 'a dream a nightmare' by Red House Glory if you're into lyrics with social commentary / good tunes

[elrbtARG]

@minunandplusle123 ¬_¬ you dont know nothing about the spirit and your soul? the human body is just a recipient and the world is an illusion. Sorry for my english, soy latino ._.

[alfredtheawesome]

@AnGeeLiiCaa100 now you say that, its all the song is going to remind me of

[minunandplusle123]

to bad this is the world we live in

[Iggynopolis]

the guitar is epic.

[angilupix]

This song is pure gold

[kindrafoster]

Philip Brophy is a pumped up piece of shit.

[tinett15]

The Strokes brought me here, not FIF... Oh wait, is this song on a FIFA game?