towards the same goal)- ending world hunger, space exploration, whatever. The hope is that we can learn togetherness as a species and walk side by side down the same road (i.e. The hope is that we don't end everything in World War 3 and blow ourselves off the face of the planet. Will you be there by my side?' - Nobody knows what's going to happen in the future of the species. The first verse discussed our history as a species, and the second looks at our future, which is why the first 3 lines are all questions (future = unknown) 'All around the wind blows, we would only hold on to let go.' - This is a fancy metaphor, the blowing wind referring to the psychological need for exploration pushing and blowing humans to conduct their migration out of Africa, when they 'let go' of their homeland. 'We were bold and young.' - As before, humans have only just become a thing.
'But the night was warm' - Remember that we are in Africa. 'Innocent, remember? All we did was care for each other.' - The first humans had no nationality and no religion, and thus very few reasons to go to war with each other. We were one of the first species to walk on two legs. 'We would walk on the sidewalk' - Humans probably originated in Ethiopia/Kenya- on the side of Africa. 'Do you recall, not long ago' - Human life originated about 200,000 years ago- in cosmological terms, that's yesterday. If I were to push this theory further, I could say that the whole song slots into this definition pretty neatly: It sounds a lot to me like the chorus is referring to the evolution of man. Bear in mind that the music video takes place in India- one of the birthplaces of civilization and culture. Where the song steps into its own is with the next line 'we need someone to lean on.' This follows the line about sex and death, remember, and it suggests that on their own, blowing a kiss and firing a gun are not enough- to quote Star Trek, 'Survival is insufficient.' Something else is needed too: companionship. Throughout history, one of the main guarantees of the survival of many species has been the little electric signals firing in the brain whenever death is around- there's fight or flight, sure, but there's also the command to make more babies- death is around, procreate, do it quickly. Sex and death- and those two things are without doubt intrinsically linked. My InterpretationSo on a purely practical level the first line of the chorus refers to two seperate things: 'Blow a kiss'- an act of romance, and 'fire a gun'- an act of violence.
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