When was the killers human release

Rather, you lead the way and become everything you want to be. No Replies Log in to reply. General Comment it's "dancer" they've said it in an interview. Awesome song, thank you!!! General Comment I don't know about being a puppet, but when I think of dancers, I think that they just do If that makes sense.

When someone is dancing, that's all they're doing, they're content with that, it's kind of almost I'm not sure if that makes sense in the way I'm explaining it, but when I think about it, I think that if you're human, you're warm, you're subjective, but dancers are almost mechanical and focused only on dancing I did ballet for 6 years when I was younger and I hated this! The same goes for the second verse. As opposed to the puppet imagery, I feel that "And I'm on my knees looking for the answer" is more about questioning if this is all there is to life, like, if there's a God or not.

I think that a big difference between normal animals and human beings is that humans search for things greater than themselves, and somehow, if there isn't a God, it makes us feel a little less human. He's praying maybe over whether he is human or not? The line "There is no message we're receiving" makes me think of this too. Yay for disjointed analysis, if you can even call it that :P sondralynn on September 24, Link. My Interpretation Ok, I'm going to attempt to give you a concise answer to the interpretation and meaning of this song.

First let me state that it's a very poetic and beautiful song, and that my interpretation and meaning may be correct, but it obviously has an amazing artistic duality that broadens it's lyrics to great depths. Let's start with the main line "Are we human or are we dancer?

What Thompson meant by that was that people are not stepping out of place and following their own beat. He was saying that people were only following the steps they were taught, and were also taught not to change them. I did my best to notice When the call came down the line Up to the platform of surrender I was brought but I was kind Here in the beginning of the song you get two elements of the songs main expression.

The first half makes the case that he did his best to notice, when the call, meaning the call of life, to make your own beat too, came down the line. Showing a sign of human quality. But the latter half is that of a dancer, where he is surrendering and being brought guided rather then going to the call.

And sometimes I get nervous When I see an open door Close your eyes, clear your heart Cut the cord Here being nervous when seeing an open door is being afraid of trying new things. Again if you here what Thompson was saying about Americans just dancing to the beat, you see how this line makes sense.

Cut the chord of you trained ideals, and open up. Are we human or are we dancer? My sign is vital, my hands are cold And I'm on my knees looking for the answer Are we human or are we dancer? This is self explanatory, and his sign is vital and hands are cold could mean a number of different things that are better left to your imagination. Pay my respects to grace and virtue Send my condolences to good Hear my regards to soul and romance They always did the best they could And so long to devotion It taught me everything I know Wave goodbye, wish me well You've gotta let me go here he is throwing a out a great level of cynicism.

This part is expressing everything human, this is what humanism is. And he's waving goodbye to it. Capturing the true essense of dancer. But the act of not noticing, which was expressed in the beginning of the song, is in its form, expressing a human quality. All which begs the question, Are we human? Or are we dancer? Will your system be alright When you dream of home tonight There is no message we're receiving Let me know, is your heart still beating?

Your system is your system of trained beliefs that you've been dancing to for so long. And he's saying were not getting anything beautiful from this, no message. So tell me, are you human??

Dmtking on January 19, Link. General Comment it is "dancer". Check this From Amazon. Thompson about how America was raising a generation of dancers. General Comment I think the enunciation of the chorus would be different if the word was "denser. I think lostfanatic84 makes a very good point, too. General Comment Hmm I like your analysis Sondralynn.

I agree the song like other Killers songs seems to explore the question of life's purpose and what else is out there, etc. At any rate, dancer is in contrast to human in this song. Icarus Fixius on September 24, Link. General Comment I've never heard anything but "dancer" for the lyric, and it fits the song and what's going on in the words when it's experienced as a spiritual song, questioning the relationship between our physical existence and our spiritual existence. In many Native and mystical traditions, life is seen as a dance, and the living of life is dancing to its rhythms.

Humans are seen as instruments played by the Divine, and our human lives are our unique expressions of the Divine dance. If we look at our lives as purely human, the "dance" makes no sense.

If we look at our lives as an expression of something greater, we can easily all be dancers, dancing in an intensly choreographed stage called Earth. It's a great song and really, my introduction to The Killers! Shane1 on September 30, Link.

General Comment He definitely, without any doubt says dancer. The vowel sound is definitely a long a, furthermore dancer rhymes with "answer. Are we human or are we denser? Denser than what? Denser than human? Does that make sense? No, it doesn't. Dancer makes much more sense and last I checked, denser has zero long a sounds in it so anyone who actually thinks it's denser needs to work on their English skills.

Kew on October 04, Link. Artists - K. Human is found on the album Live from the Royal Albert Hall. Rate These Lyrics. We do not have any tags for Human lyrics. The iconic song - which was the first track to be taken from the album - was released on 22 September and became an instant indie anthem. Over a decade later and it's still one of the most popular tracks during their live set, but what were the song's most famous lyrics inspired by and why are they still somewhat troublesome today?

Find out more here. The Killers' Human single is known for posing the immortal question: "Are we human or are we dancer? Flowers claims he "ran" with this idea in the song. Despite Flowers being inspired by the famous late author, he copped a lot of flack for the lyrics not being grammatically correct he intentionally uses the singular dancer rather than the plural dancers, which led to a lot of misquoting of the lyrics.

Though we imagine he's pretty philosophical about the whole thing now, the Las Vegas rocker was pretty salty about people's reactions to it at the time. I'll say it's a mild social statement and I'm leaving it at that.

I don't wanna be a preacher. The devotion part, I think of my parents being married for 45 years and how that's a dying thing and I'm trying to hold onto some of those things. I am very old-fashioned, I guess. And the older I get, the worse it is. But I dunno if that's what people want to hear! I guess it bothers people that it's not grammatically correct, but I think I'm allowed to do whatever I want. I hadn't heard that one.