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It really is a fantastic song,but can anybody tell me what he is singing about.?
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yes,thats the song,but I can not make out what its about.
Famous quote by a famous journalist 
..."America is raising a nation of dancers..."
Yeah, the quote is something like that...implying that...these dancers aren't readers or thinkers, they just want to dance mindlessly. When you look at Beyonce, Katy Perry, Kylie, etc. and X-Factor sh1t you can see what the song is about -- really, the choreography is more important than the music.
..."America is raising a nation of dancers..." Yeah, the quote is something like that...implying that...these dancers aren't readers or thinkers, they just want to dance mindlessly. When you look at Beyonce, Katy Perry, Kylie, etc. and X-Factor sh1t you can see what the song is about -- really, the choreography is more important than the music.
It's on Wiki ya lazy bassa dancer...! 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_%28The_Killers_song%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_%28The_Killers_song%29
"There remains confusion and debate over the line "Are we human, or are we dancer?" in the song's chorus due to its grammar. Debate raged across the Internet over whether the lyrics said "dancer", "dancers" or "denser", a misunderstanding which elicited conflicting interpretations of the song's meaning. On the band's official website, the biography section states that Flowers is singing "Are we human, or are we dancer?" and also says that the lyrics were inspired by a disparaging comment made by Hunter S. Thompson, where he stated America was raising "a generation of dancers". " WIKI LYRIC DUMP - ALL QUOTED.
Are you handing this in for tomorrow's Media Studies homework??
I think its an American soldier in war and has giving up and he thinks he is about to die.thats what I thought it was about.i was thinking this because who else would be nervous of an open door.
Ok - I can see I'm going to have to actually read the lyrics now...
The open door could be the door Brandon Flowers goes through before the start of a concert...and the song could be about a kind of disassociation that takes please when he performs.
but if you change dancer to dencer you can get your own meaning of it.
But it's obviously DANCER...! Aaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!
In fact...it's freakin' DENSER to think it's NOT dancer! 
yes,my spelling gone to pot,someone else wrote under the song that the word dancer should be cancer.
And Brandon Flowers has another brilliant song called crossfire.i will have to investigate that and see is it worth a thread.
A guy on YouTube posted this... this is a good answer IMO...
by Omar Germen
"Are we human, or are we dancer" was taken from a journalist Hunter S. Thompson before he committed suicide, Flowers said this is where he got that line, and the deeper meaning behind that line is this:
In this song, dancer is used as a metaphor for an orchestrated, rehearsed act. Something without individuality. Without emotion i guess, like a hollow act. A dancer has no room for individuality when in groups(like a person in society) they have to follow an exact pattern that everyone else does.
If you've ever seen a dancer screw up, it's very noticeable. so when he says are we human or we dancer, he is comparing someone who is human(not as a species, but as a quality, human means emotional and individual; able to think for oneself). Then the word dancer in this song is also used as a quality, not as a noun. Which is why there is no 's' at the end, because he wants to stress that he doesn't mean a bunch of dancers, but rather that he's asking if the world is full of the dancer quality. It's the same reason there is no 's' at the end of human, because he could've said "Are we humans, or are we dancers" but that doesn't bring about his deeper meaning, which is why he is using 'dancer' and 'human' as qualities, or adjectives. "
by Omar Germen
"Are we human, or are we dancer" was taken from a journalist Hunter S. Thompson before he committed suicide, Flowers said this is where he got that line, and the deeper meaning behind that line is this:
In this song, dancer is used as a metaphor for an orchestrated, rehearsed act. Something without individuality. Without emotion i guess, like a hollow act. A dancer has no room for individuality when in groups(like a person in society) they have to follow an exact pattern that everyone else does.
If you've ever seen a dancer screw up, it's very noticeable. so when he says are we human or we dancer, he is comparing someone who is human(not as a species, but as a quality, human means emotional and individual; able to think for oneself). Then the word dancer in this song is also used as a quality, not as a noun. Which is why there is no 's' at the end, because he wants to stress that he doesn't mean a bunch of dancers, but rather that he's asking if the world is full of the dancer quality. It's the same reason there is no 's' at the end of human, because he could've said "Are we humans, or are we dancers" but that doesn't bring about his deeper meaning, which is why he is using 'dancer' and 'human' as qualities, or adjectives. "
I remember when Oasis released that pile of dogshiite third album and some cretin tried to deconstruct it, looking for hidden meanings behind Noel's profound lyrics when in reality he was so coked up it was all he could to even write words which rhymed.
Feeling a bit nihilistic today, so I should point out that The Killers were, are and always will be Yank 'indie-by-numbers' wannabees who will never 'get it' if 'it' was standing right in front of them, begging for a French kiss.
No idea when Hunter S Thompson made the remark but my father often called people a 'dancer' or more than one 'a bunch of dancers' as a derogatory comment in the 60s and 70s.
I've grown up with 'a dancer' being a term for a foolish person.
I've grown up with 'a dancer' being a term for a foolish person.
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