Mere Anarchy Lyrics
Caution for the world you said was over
Caution where we were
Caution where we were
O-o-oh
Caution for the world you said was over
Caution where we were
Caution where we were
O-o-oh
[Verse 1]
Caution cities
Raised by no one
Caution waits, we never find hope
Caution lifts, we did this wrong
Caution has the way and I don't feel this anymore
[Hook]
Caution for the world you said was over
Caution where we were
Caution where we were
O-o-oh
[Verse 2]
For a long time we stayed down
And all we said was sleep alone
Watch the city fall, the skies so low
Watch the sunlight, watch it go
Watch the storm rise
Watch the storm fall
Watch the storm rise
And watch the storm fall
Caution for the world you said was over
Caution where we were
Caution where we were
O-o-oh
Caution for the world you said was over
Caution where we were
Caution where we were
O-o-oh
About
“Mere Anarchy” was the second single released from Moby’s fifteenth studio album, Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt. As with much of the material on the album, the song is a midtempo electronic song anchored by cinematic synth strings and Moby speak-singing cryptically about the apocalypse.
The song takes its title from the William Butler Yeats poem “The Second Coming” (“Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; / Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world”), a piece which uses Christian apocalyptic imagery as a metaphor for the upheaval felt in the wake of the First World War. Moby also named “The Ceremony of Innocence” after a phrase found in the poem.
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