Chairlift - Planet Health video free download

video by Caroline Polachek

from album 'Does You Inspire You', 2008 Kanine Records

LYRICS:

When i arrived on planet health

in the state of being well

surrounded by self consciousnesses

and body images

i visited the food pyramid

in the desert of vitamins

i found a desired heart rate

and a mouth-to-mouth rescussitate

i'm feeling great tonight

i'm feeling great tonight

i was trained in diversity

in the garden of puberty

where they heimlich maneuvered me

and they showed me how to make a baby

i found my friends in a forest of lungs

where we just said no to drugs

our intercourse was well protected

we made love with each others' eyes

we're feeling great tonight

we're feeling great tonight

then i found out where you're sent

when you're sick and sad and old

they kick you off of planet health

into a universe of cold

stop drop and roll

stop drop and roll

stop drop and roll

stop drop and put out the fire

we're feeling great tonight

we're feeling great tonight...

"Like the plot to a lost dystopian sci-fi, the song outlines life on "Planet Health" -- a place where body-image has become a tyrannical philosophy. Here, advice on healthy diet and sexuality has become law and the food pyramid has become a church. Of course non-attendance means eviction from Planet Health.

Planet Health is Mount Olympus sans the fun; a place where David Cameron and Gillian McKeith make out into eternity, never aging, never putting on weight. It's the other side of Radiohead's 'Fitter Happier', where the new caring conservatives have slapped lippy on the pig on antibiotics and called it 'sexy'. "

NME 8/5/08