Casablancas, Julian - Father Electricity Lyrics

MY FAVORITE song
Boi father Rock

2:36 & 4:59 Golden

I swear there's a different ending every time I listen to this song

One of the most forward thinking bands of the 2010s, just behind Death Grips.

irretocável

This song is deep

Ungh ungh ungh ungh unnnnngh ungh ungh ungh unnnnnnnnnnngh!!

Fuuuuuck yes

I saw crunch punch on a @DannyMullen video. It was dope

Your lyrics are wrong -
You are everything I see, every time I beg - despair
You are everything I see, every time I beg in despair. I will take what I can grab, but I, I don't want your money back, there's a few other parts wrong too. Like happy meal, that's supposed to be have a feel? Or I think lol it does sound like happy meal

This is the official lyrics since it is posted from Cult so i don't think they are wrong :P

Who wants to have a feel?

Kto slucha Casablancas'a?

Kno-kno-kno-knooowwww

Best band of our generation hands down

sean lennon julian casablancas collab pls

Why was this not in my playlist

Like harmonies, locks in keys,

2:35 and 4:57♥

Parece uma música do calipso KKKKKKKKKKKK muito bom

i love all.. to much

Mother Nature, Father Electricity?

Also HeatMan father fucked mother

Somethinggoodcanworkanditcanworkforyou ;)

And u know that it will

FK Yheaaa!!!

Quem do Brasil está ouvindo da um like pra mostrar q tbm amamos a música do Julian

if you have a chance to see them live...DO IT!

I remember one day that I had an anxiety attack and the only thing that made me feel better was this song on repeat mode. Never stop making music, Julian.

Damn you Julian...this was stuck in my head and I had to listen to it.

SIEMPRE UN ADELANTADO MI QUERIDO JULIÁN

Getting some Mars Volta vibes.

What an amazing song

This song is fucking grooooving, my heart and desire be excused!

this is such a fucking jam though. i love this album. but especially this song. and business dog lol

I think jc and the voidz got sucked into a black hole and came back to record the sounds they heard on the other side

AMAZING

interesting

Tesla???

Alessandro Volta

what else can i say, tonite

Amazing album, amazing sound...

sounds great slowed-down to 0.75.. especially from 2:35

I first listened to this song live, I was more excited about Julian than the song itself, but I have to admit the song and the album are good, really good!

tu sei tutto ciò che vedo
ogni volta che batto le palpebre
angoscia

con intimissimo sentimento

joanna Frini così inalterato da tutto e tutti

https://78.media.tumblr.com/6646a0a364a429057f82e45ea32e537c/tumblr_mvppq5JJ4y1sdb3pfo5_r1_250.gif

joanna Frini oh

still to this day, great song!

This song gets better & better. The outro is haunting.

He's definitely mixing all good types of sounds, lyrics are crazy good too

Julian and this album with the voids are so underappreciated

What an unbelievable development....absolutly gorgeous!

latin new wave

5:04 simply magic

«born out of electricity, I'll wait for u in a second life»

qua·li·a

ˈkwälēə/ (noun) -- PHILOSOPHY

the internal and subjective component of sense perceptions, arising from stimulation of the senses by phenomena.

Julian dont stop these solo projects, are amazing.

Миновал 2014... и 2015... и 2016, а я всё не наслушаюсь.

♡ YOU ARE EVERYTHING I SEE, EVERYTIME I BLINK; DESPAIR ♡

Julian grew on me big time. I love him.

When I first listened to this album I didn't like it at all, (except for Human Sadness).
Now I'm really beginning to love it!

Me too. Dare I care and 'the Eagles' start to grow on me

seems like Mr Casablancas had some inkling of the electric universe theory

the guitar at 1:03 gives me life. Sounds like an alarm going off in a factory

I love this song and ill try to explain why. This song is like the son playing incoherent music in the garage, when one day his father comes in at the 1min mark with a beautiful electric guitar of sorts and just makes so much sense and turns it into a masterpiece. This kind of theme perpetuates this song and thats why its called father electricity. The struggle to make great music sometimes results in things all over the place but certain moments it all resonates perfectly when the father guitar comes in. Kind of like Jazz music when you can hear the members of the band work together through how they are feeling at that exact moment. Its just feels so right.

Best album ever. Glad they don't sound like the Strokes. What's the point of being in a band that sounds like the other band?

zubair *cough* CRX *cough*

the egg shots fired.
But I agree.

"You promised you would never ruin it with sequels."

I love this album, though. It's up there with Is This It as my favourite albums of all time.

Exactly!

BEST ALBUM EVER

"Born outtalala elictricilalalalala, wait for youlala in the second life"

Never change, Julian :)

You are everything I see, Everytime I blink, despair. Those lyrics 👌

The beginning reminds me of the Donnie Darko soundtrack

trippy @_@

🇲🇦🇩🇷🇪
🇲🇮🇦
🇬🇺🇮🇱🇱🇾

Madre
Mía
Guillermo
:v

esse eh o meu bonitao

what key is this song in?

more than one.

4:25 perfect

This song gives me a Nação Zumbi vibe. With a much harder edge, though. Love that sound!

fela kuti + Julian + voidz = awesome kuti

Untill the 5min mark I have no idea wtf is going on 0_0
Like when a painter just splashes a canvas with random colors and says "that shits good... Right?"

I wait for you in the second life

i shouldn't be listening to this stuff right now as my mind is collapsing and i'm fighting just to stay alive, but it's just that i can't stop... it's so beautiful.

Hope you're still alive. Thist shit is chaotic!

I SURVIVED BITCHES AND NOW I'M FINE YESSSS

This is a pretty good song. The bass line is so good, and the drumming too.

Never stop, dear Julian.

fucking love this fucking song,fuck.

Who wants a happy meal?

David ;_;

lmao i was just at that part of the song when I read this

the contrast between the funky fuzzy sounds of west Africa to around 5:00 hits your heart like divine love, which is obviously something Julian's talent channels

Patrick Grant really awesome

I really want this to have a claymation video featuring a small sauropod visiting a city looking for friends under an orange sky.

So no ones gonna admit this song sounds like cold play's clocks on a bunch of acid?

la da da da dat daaaa

How funny will it be if these guys are one day the "cool band to listen to" with the kiddies at school in say, 2050? Takes awhile for people to catch on to a lot of shit on a massive scale, just look at the Velvet Underground.

YouTube Account Im one too

if we even make it there but i like your point of view, this civilization is going insane

Has he ever released any songs that contain Spanish lyrics?

@phototransductioN rhodopsiN in méxico we listen english musicmostly for the melody instead of the lyrics. Lyrics its a second thing

@Joseph Quezada yeah I think Casablancas can probably hold a conversation in Spanish, (i haven't seen an interview), but his language medium is mostly English. Being a Manu Chao isn't for every song writer. I'd like to see Casablancas write and sing a song in Spanish though, it would be interesting.

But at the look at this, he'd probably struggle.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mq95h5ise0U

I mean my relatives are from 7 different countries and I can only speak English, so i get it.

2:36-3:04 is godly. Love the bass line so much.

this song is amazing my favorite part goes from 5:00 and on, it just speaks to me! You go jules

Stop acting

THE BEST SON OF TYRANNY! I LOVE IT ♥

omg...I can't stop listening to this song!!!

this song made me sooooo happy

perfect song

amazing Jules !

I maybe wrong but this song seems to me to have one of the deepest meanings from all songs on the album.

I think the title already suggests that it is about energy we share, relationships between people, something that is relevant to every single person on Earth.

Mother-Earth, Father-Electricity. I maybe wrong. But it's my interpretation.

I think the song could be about the choices we make and it describes how most of the people, like puppets, are controlled by their own ignorance and unconsciously follow their instincts and without thinking go to the places that make them feel strong without slightest consideration whether it is right or wrong what they do, they just create an illusion that it makes them feel powerful and satisfied. "Oh, man, what are we going to do now? All I know are i-i-i-instincts".

While if you consciously consider what's happening and you have strong morality and you are honest to yourself you crash and don't fit in society filled with inhuman, inconsiderate, profit/money driven people , "You are everything I see - every time I blink - despair".

I think this song has a very similar meaning to River of Breaklights from Phrazes for The Young. Which is I believe is about loss of energy, exhaustion. That song is on of a few that Casablancas performs almost every gig with Voidz. As well as Ize of The World. That one must have something in common too.

I wonder what impressions other people get?

Emilis Lupeikis I think you are right in a way. I think it’s partially on how we depend on electricity. We have ease with living not knowing all the shady stuff going on behind it. That’s kinda like the happy meal reference. It also kinda reflects on how we worry about all these little things even though it’s nothing compared to real problems across the world. places like Africa literally fight to survive. Which gets its inspiration in the sound.

When I listen to this song, I feel as if I travel around the world.

That's called _astral projection_ and is a supernatural ability.

I like the world music vibe. The drums and guitars, the way he sings.
Best lines "You are everything I see, everytime I blink - despair " and "Born out of electricity, I wait for you in the second life" &
Who's asleep at the wheel? Who likes that bad idea? Who wants a happy meal? oooh"  Reminds me of Benjamin Franklin lol

I believe listening to this live would be 1000% so much better..

It's 1001% better

This was their opening song at FYF. It was unreal..

I will admit the first time I heard this album I hated it. Now it's the only thing I've been listening to for the past 3 months

@carlos enrique 9 months for me

+Carlos ETC96 fuckin 67895436579 months suck me dry losers

thats great 

I´ve been listening this album for mmmm about 15 years really... HA! TAKE THAT!

Same I’m going to see them in September at the house of blues, I’m too exited

after taking it all in , this is the best song on album. 

the end of Take Me In Your Army takes the cake though

I thought I was the only one who thought the ending was sav lol

Samba, Drip Rock, Style Jules.

The World Isn’t Ready for Julian Casablancas + the Voidz... great song.!

One day i will tell my grandchildrens about this

It is definitely not ready, this is way too ahead of its time, goddamn!