Everything Is Cool
Everything Is Cool
Written by Tommy Shaw
Lead Vocals by Tommy Shaw
It's coming on like a fever
Burning deep inside of your brain
Have you become a believer?
Have you gone a little insane?
Tonight your life is a party
Let the celebration begin
Turn on the lights and let's start it
Find out what condition your condition is in
Check in
Check out
No one needs to know
What you're thinking about
In the here
In the now
You can take it in
while you're working it out
'Cause you're into it
when you're out of it
Everything is cool in the land
of the brave new world
Hail to the new corporation
Fulfilling every need and desire
Come take a mental vacation
The reservation never expires
I say we make it a holiday
bigger than the 4th of July
Declare a new Independence Day
Yeah, there's nothing to it
You can do it if you try
Time is always on our side
Love is there to be our guide
We are spirits pure and free
And all our dreams are meant to be realized
But if we were granted just one minute
to choose a dream and stay there in it
How could we decide?
We are a sea of tranquility
We are the new golden age
History is a mystery
We will start it over on
a blank new page
Check in
Check out
No one needs to know
What you're thinking about
In the here
In the now
You can take it in
while you're working it out
'Cause you're into it
when you're out of it
Everything is cool in the land
of the brave new world
And life is good
Interpretation
An invitation to join the brave new world.
It's coming on like a fever, burning deep inside of your brain. Have you become a believer? Have you gone a little insane? Tonight your life is a party. Let the celebration begin. Turn on the lights and let's start it, find out what condition your condition is in.
At a concert, this intro serves to draw the crowd into the brave new world that Styx is describing.
Check in, check out. No one needs to know what you're thinking about. In the here, in the now. You can take it in while you're working it out. 'Cause you're into it, when you're out of it. Everything is cool in the land of the brave new world.
In many ways, we're making this up as we go along, so we need to experience life even while we work out our own path through life.
Hail to the new corporation, fulfilling every need and desire. Come take a mental vacation. The reservation never expires.
The consumer culture we live in is driven by marketing and technology that makes life easy. With smartphones and the internet, you no longer even need to remember things.
I say we make it a holiday, bigger than the 4th of July. Declare a new Independence Day. Yeah, there's nothing to it. You can do it if you try.
Just as the 4th of July (Independence Day in America) is a holiday with big celebrations, joining the brave new world is something to celebrate. It's not hard to join in.
Time is always on our side. Love is there to be our guide. We are spirits pure and free, and all our dreams are meant to be...realized. But if we were granted just one minute to choose a dream and stay there in it, how could we decide?
We have time to work toward reaching our dreams. If we allow love to define our path to reaching those dreams, we can reach them. We have many dreams to pursue. If we had to pick just one dream right now and never change it, that would be an impossible choice.
We are a sea of tranquility. We are the new golden age. History is a mystery. We will start it over on a blank new page.
The Sea of Tranquility is the region on the moon where the Apollo 11 mission landed in 1969. There may be a play on words here, as it is an apt symbol for the new age of technology we have entered. We have entered a new golden age and have the opportunity to influence that future.
Check in, check out. No one needs to know what you're thinking about. In the here, in the now. You can take it in while you're working it out. 'Cause you're into it, when you're out of it. Everything is cool in the land of the brave new world.
And life is good!
Welcome to the brave new world!
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