Upside Down
No Smoking Orchestra Lyrics

The No Smoking Orchestra's song "Upside Down" tackles the complexity of life's ups and downs through its lyrics. The song starts by stating that life is a simple game and revolves between up and down. This suggests that life is not very complicated, but it goes through many ups and downs. The next lines explain the reversal of fortune by stating that what was up should go down, and what is up must come down. The song uses a visual metaphor to explain this point by saying that God first showed us the endless sky and then the underground.

The chorus repeats the concept of life being a simple game, and it makes things go around. The lyrics suggest that the world goes in circles, and everything that goes up must come down. The song then goes on to explore the idea that sometimes, heaven covers us, while other times, it can be hell. This suggests that there is a sense of unpredictability in life, and one can never know what to expect.

The song's bridge is where the lyrics take an interesting turn by stating "The head is up and the ass is down." This seems to be a metaphor for the imbalance in the world, where some people are in privileged positions while others are not. The song suggests that sometimes, instead of the head being up, it should be the other way around. The song then repeats its earlier metaphor of God showing us the endless sky and the underground, emphasizing the cyclical nature of life.