Chairlift - Planet Health

video by Caroline Polachek
from album 'Does You Inspire You', 2008 Kanine Records

LYRICS:
When i arrived on planet health
in the state of being well
surrounded by self consciousnesses
and body images
i visited the food pyramid
in the desert of vitamins
i found a desired heart rate
and a mouth-to-mouth rescussitate

i'm feeling great tonight
i'm feeling great tonight

i was trained in diversity
in the garden of puberty
where they heimlich maneuvered me
and they showed me how to make a baby
i found my friends in a forest of lungs
where we just said no to drugs
our intercourse was well protected
we made love with each others' eyes

we're feeling great tonight
we're feeling great tonight

then i found out where you're sent
when you're sick and sad and old
they kick you off of planet health
into a universe of cold

stop drop and roll
stop drop and roll
stop drop and roll
stop drop and put out the fire
we're feeling great tonight
we're feeling great tonight...


"Like the plot to a lost dystopian sci-fi, the song outlines life on "Planet Health" -- a place where body-image has become a tyrannical philosophy. Here, advice on healthy diet and sexuality has become law and the food pyramid has become a church. Of course non-attendance means eviction from Planet Health.

Planet Health is Mount Olympus sans the fun; a place where David Cameron and Gillian McKeith make out into eternity, never aging, never putting on weight. It's the other side of Radiohead's 'Fitter Happier', where the new caring conservatives have slapped lippy on the pig on antibiotics and called it 'sexy'. "
NME 8/5/08

• Category

  Music

[solitaire2000]

I played this for a friend who's staying over and we ended up having sex

[uhhhhmayyybeee]

im going to lose my virginity to this song.

[mozangel]

I made love with my eyes before. It's not as fun as it sounds. My eyes got preggo. Protect yo eyes.

[Dieu Nguyen-Hoang]

Hipsters make me giggle

[Monroidzor]

Unless your foreskin has been mutilated, you won't last 4 minutes and 22 seconds.

[osmoore88CFCc]

can we do this

[teecolah]

saw them live on my birthday at drunken unicorn 2009 and this song is amazing LIVE...feeling great tonight! I love how the vibe is like prom circa 1990. haha!

[StarAum]

(the episode, not your comment, though it is asalsotoowell)

[StarAum]

This comment reminds me of the Star Trek TNG episode Angel One. Creepy as fuck-all-outdoors.

[joimko2]

just discovered you, that is so refreshing, great, I enjoy it so much!

[Ben Berrevoets]

Don't you mean the video?

[adreamyxoxo]

fruit party!