In 1990 the band won two Brit Awards: Best British Group, and Best British Album for "The Raw and the Cooked" which also reached number one in the US album charts. It was re-packed as a remix album ("The Raw & the Remix" and spawned six singles over three years; "She Drives Me Crazy","Good Thing", "Don't Look Back", "I'm Not the Man I Used to Be", "I'm Not Satisfied" and "It's O.K. (It's Alright)".
The trio split in 1992, though they recorded a new track in 1996 to promote their The Finest compilation. Gift soon reactivated the brand and toured in the 2000s as Roland Gift and the Fine Young Cannibals.
Fine Young Cannibals appeared as the house band in the 1987 film comedy Tin Men, peforming some of the songs that ended up on The Raw and the Cooked. Steele and Cox had previously recorded under the moniker Two Men A Drum Machine and a Trumpet.
Don't Let It Get You Down
Fine Young Cannibals Lyrics
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And my girl is out of town
I come home to empty house
The telephone is all I have
When my plans don't work out
Mama says, don't let it get you down
Don't let it get you down
There's a club I can't get in
Every week it's the same damn thing
I get mad, I want to cry
It's my skin they don't like
When my plans don't work out
Mama says, don't let it get you down
Don't let it get you down
Now my world don't look good
Not the way I know it should
And my time is running short
I didn't do all I ought
When my plans don't work out
Mama says, don't let it get you down
Don't let it get you down
When my plans don't work out
Mama says, don't let it get you down
Don't let it get you down
In "Don't Let It Get You Down," Fine Young Cannibals' lead singer Roland Gift sings about how he copes with disappointment and frustration. The song touches on themes of isolation, rejection, and feeling "less than" due to circumstances out of one's control. The first verse speaks to Gift's loneliness when he comes home to an empty house and has only the phone to keep him company. The second verse expresses his frustration with being excluded by a local club, where he is presumably turned away because of his race.
Despite these setbacks, Gift's mother offers him words of encouragement, telling him not to let it get him down. The song doesn't offer any solutions or advice beyond this, but the message is clear: sometimes life doesn't go as planned, but it's important to keep your chin up and not let it defeat you.
One interpretation of the song's chorus is that elements of racism and prejudice are at play in Gift's difficulties. The repetition of the phrase "don't let it get you down" is a message to persevere in the face of bigotry and systemic disadvantage.
Line by Line Meaning
When no friends can't be found
When I am alone and have no one to talk to
And my girl is out of town
When my girlfriend is away
I come home to empty house
I enter an empty and quiet house
The telephone is all I have
The only thing that can provide me some human interaction is the phone
When my plans don't work out
When things don't go as I had hoped
Mama says, don't let it get you down
My mother reminds me not to feel discouraged by setbacks
Don't let it get you down
Don't allow yourself to feel defeated by failures
There's a club I can't get in
I am excluded from a particular social establishment
Every week it's the same damn thing
The situation repeats itself every week and it's frustrating
I get mad, I want to cry
I feel angry and upset
It's my skin they don't like
My skin colour is the reason why I am not welcome
Now my world don't look good
I feel like nothing is good in my life
Not the way I know it should
Things are not going the way I expected or anticipated
And my time is running short
I feel like I am running out of time to achieve my goals
I didn't do all I ought
I haven't done everything I could have done to succeed
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
Written by: DAVID STEELE, ROLAND GIFT
Lyrics Licensed & Provided by LyricFind
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